Sentences with phrase «of meaningful laws»

Every year, SALDF chapters take part in Speak Out for Farmed Animals Week, a yearly event dedicated to raising public awareness nationwide about the lack of meaningful laws that protect farmed animals from cruel treatment.

Speak Out for Farmed Animals Week is a yearly event dedicated to raising public awareness nationwide about the lack of meaningful laws that protect farmed animals from cruel treatment.

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Sung - Yoon Lee of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University has doubts that North Korea is sincere about taking «meaningful action» on its nuclear weapons program.

As part of the launch of the S.O.S. Initiative, Schneiderman and Gascón commended New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli for urging the four leaders of the smartphone industry to protect consumers, and shareholder value, by working with law enforcement agencies and government officials to pursue a meaningful solution to the spike in smartphone thefts.

A theory of constitutional law that may be out of fashion in today's legal academy, but that fits comfortably within the modern conservative and the traditional liberal views of the courts, begins with certain basic premises: the existence of law and the possibility of meaningful rules of law.

We are always discovering anew a universal set of meaningful patterns, or «laws», that allow us to discern such explanations.

This «law», which necessarily transcends the individual parts that act and react according to its conditions, actually resolves to a simpler and more profound principle, a principle of intelligibility through ordered meaning and meaningful order.

Here the ethic, which in Buddhism is also identical with the teaching of salvation — perhaps even more than it had been in the Brahmanic system — has much more latitude; it has a task that is metaphysically meaningful — suspending at one point the cosmic law, unraveling it, as it were.

In the 1970s, the Jackson - Vanik Amendment (tying favorable trade status to human rights norms) and the Helsinki Final Act «resuscitated» the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at last gave religious freedom a meaningful place in international law.

A meaningful system of international and universal law requires organized machinery for adjudication — an international court system.

«Unlike the administration's useless gestures around the Johnson Amendment, these regulations signal meaningful enforcement of existing protections for religious liberty,» said John Inazu, a law professor at Washington University and a First Amendment expert.

It is a Law in Matter that is cosmic and all - inclusive, so that the entire universe is one equation of meaningful development in mutual relativity of part on part at all times and throughout all space.»

Iowa custody laws exist to ensure that children caught in the middle of a child custody battle are protected and that both parents are able to sustain a meaningful relationship with the child.

But the government in Kiev needs meaningful help from Brussels to restructure its debts, to prevent oligarchs from washing money in Western banks, to protect poor citizens from the harsh implications of reforms, and to enhance the rule of law and institutions of civil society.

«Our agenda matches the people's priorities, and without the contributions of our tax - cutting conference most of the meaningful taxpayer relief initiatives enacted into law over the last two decades wouldn't have ever seen the light of day.»

Assemblyman Bill Nojay (R - Livingston County) said one way for Flanagan — who voted for the gun control measure — to prove he is serious is to refuse to pass any extension of the rent regulation laws without agreement on «meaningful» SAFE Act changes.

Just minutes before the vote was due, justice minister Dominic Raab said the government would table its own amendment later during the bill's passage through the parliament to put into law the idea of a meaningful vote on the final deal.

«The recent wave of mass shootings is horrifying, and the federal government's failure to act on any form of meaningful gun safety laws is unconscionable,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Astorino criticized Cuomo for not taking meaningful steps to reduce taxes which he said has led to an out - migration of New Yorkers and the gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

@Josua Except in the legal sense, which is the only meaningful in a State of Law (think of Pres. of the USA who did lost the popular vote but were elected).

In a statement released Sunday, Republican Senate Leader John Flanagan of Long Island said any renewal of the laws «must include meaningful and systemic reforms which eliminate the abuses that exist.»

At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who publicly insists he wants meaningful ethics reform, is privately resisting one of Cuomo's key proposals, a requirement that all lawmakers disclose the clients they represent in their private law firms, legislative insiders said.

AAN is working to share the winning message of pro-growth tax reform, and will continue spending resources to spread that message until meaningful tax reform is signed into law.»

The mayor cited strict gun laws that are already on the books in New York City and state but said lawmakers here are «constantly challenged by the massive flow of guns from around the rest of the country and the lack of any meaningful regulation nationally.»

Since proposing the Erie County Theft of Valor Law, I have heard from numerous veterans who strongly support this law and shared their personal stories about why such a law is meaningful to them at the public hearing held on Oct. Law, I have heard from numerous veterans who strongly support this law and shared their personal stories about why such a law is meaningful to them at the public hearing held on Oct. law and shared their personal stories about why such a law is meaningful to them at the public hearing held on Oct. law is meaningful to them at the public hearing held on Oct. 24.

WHEREAS, the legislation fails to offer any meaningful solution to gun violence and places increased burdens where they do not belong, on the back of law - abiding citizens and as unfunded mandates for county governments; and

WHEREAS, this legislation fails to offer any meaningful solutions to gun violence and places increased burdens where they do not belong, squarely on the backs of law - abiding citizens; and

He advised Ghanaians to be law - abiding in the discharge of their duties since no meaningful development could take place in a chaotic environment.

Our engineers worked with them to determine what aspects of their control law we could test in a meaningful way on the F / A -18.

The researchers from Georgetown University and MedStar Health representing medical research, policy, and law, say their findings may provide timely and meaningful insight into what could result from the expansion of Medicaid, a state and federal program that provides health insurance for those with very low income.

No big deal — simply apply an adjustment the system by adding in another of the ten laws, or by adding any other such meaningful behavioral adjustment.

But Jimenez and his co-screenwriter, Audrey Diwan, tell a complicated story cleanly while drawing meaningful parallels between the two men on opposite sides of the law who take turns playing cat and mouse.

And yet, a series of recent studies have shown meaningful effects of the law on student achievement, which has done precisely zero to change public perception.

By simultaneously using litigation to challenge the laws and practices preventing students from obtaining a quality education, while influencing the tide of public opinion through a media and organizing campaign, Students Matter creates both the opportunity and the demand for meaningful and sustainable policy transformation.

If the SQSS indicators are important signs of school performance, as the law suggests they are, they should be accorded a meaningful weight in the process of identifying schools for support and improvement.

While parents can «trigger» one of the pre-selected options, the law does not provide for meaningful parent involvement in developing research - based strategies to address the challenges their schools face.

A proposed provision that declares that nothing in future education policy would prevent the passage of Parent Trigger laws or other Parent Power efforts would be meaningful if it also proposed a competitive grant program to encourage states to enact such laws; as is, there is nothing in federal law that restricts states from passing Parent Trigger laws or keeps families from using them.

To state the association's opposition to «parent trigger laws» and to offer recommendations to federal, state, district, and school leaders about how to ensure meaningful parent and family engagement in school reform efforts for the success of all students.

PEJ utilizes a variety of legal actions to achieve its mission, including pursuing impact litigation, amicus brief filings, Freedom of Information Act requests, and other law - related avenues that seek to achieve meaningful reforms of education laws or policies that fail to prioritize students» rights.

Moreover, in many sections of the new law, there are requirements for meaningful community and stakeholder engagement, which then requires state policy makers to reconsider the ways in which education policy has previously been developed and imposed on teachers, students and even parents.

The federal law that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act requires states» accountability systems to include at least one «nonacademic» indicator of «school quality or student success» that «allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» and «is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide» alongside academic data (Ujifusa, 2016).

Lawyers know the law, but may not be confident in the preparation and delivery of a meaningful and helpful presentation.

Join a former COSA Chair and honorary «dean» of School Law for an inspirational and thought - provoking session that will be meaningful for new and seasoned school attorneys alike.

What: A frank discussion of the unintended consequences of the current No Child Left Behind Act and presentation of the Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) recommendations to shift the focus of the federal law from penalties and compliance to a more meaningful framework for supporting improved learning and stronger school and district performance.

The «value added» — what instructors contribute to student growth on tests — is a more meaningful indicator of progress than the absolute numerical targets in the federal No Child Left Behind law, advocates say.

Ensuring that teacher licensure exams are a meaningful measure of readiness to teach can also allow the teaching profession to accrue the same level of respect as other professions, such as medicine and law.

Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture should provide local school boards with opportunities for meaningful input into emerging law and administrative policy.

While Connecticut law has a very narrow definition of what is considered a direct conflict of interest, it fails to provide any meaningful definition of what creates the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Eliminates current law requirement that school districts must use 60 percent of the grant funds to award classroom teachers and principals who effectively improvement student achievement as determined by meaningful, objective measures.

These enhancements, like those in the new CAEP standards, should go beyond independent accreditation into state law and policy that includes transparent data linkages of students with their teachers and the preparation program from which they graduated, and with meaningful «teeth» for accountability.