Sentences with phrase «of policy amendments»

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They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.

Even if following through on this promise is more difficult than Trump admits because of the First Amendment (as I explained in a recent post), the fact that he even talks about such policies and is cheered by his adoring fans for doing so is disturbing.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

Stack, who said he is a gun owner and a Second Amendment supporter, did not discuss the bottom - line impact of the company's new policies.

As the American Conservative's Matt Purple wrote, «Conservatives objected that leveraging kids in policy arguments was a lousy tactic — until they found a kid of their own: Kyle Kashuv, just as bright and eloquent as his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.»

Nix shows how psychographically categorized voters can be differently addressed, based on the example of gun rights, the 2nd Amendment: «For a highly neurotic and conscientious audience the threat of a burglary — and the insurance policy of a gun.»

Effective on June 16, 2015, the Corporate Governance Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company amended and restated the Code to, among other things, reflect the following amendments: (1) added a new Whistleblower Exception provision under the Confidentiality section; (2) modified the provision regarding Protection of Covered Persons to clarify that such protections apply to any Covered Person who provides information or makes other disclosures that are protected under whistleblower provisions; and (3) updated the policy reference to the Franklin Templeton Investments Social Media Guidelines Ppolicy reference to the Franklin Templeton Investments Social Media Guidelines PolicyPolicy.

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has notified an amendment to the angel tax rule that will bring some...

We require that these Outside Contractors agree to (1) protect the privacy of your personal information consistent with this Privacy Policy, or the Data Protection Amendment and (2) not use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than providing us with the products or services for which we contracted or as required by law.

Business associations have been generally very supportive of the policy changes under Bill C - 49, saying it goes much further than earlier amendments proposed in recent years.

Shoppers Drug Mart has updated its privacy policy to include its new retail store, Wellwise ™, and to reflect the recent amendments to Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act pertaining to the sharing of personal information in the context of a business transaction.

They can implement what policies they want; the First Amendment only protects us against government abridgement of free speech.

At the dawn of the 20th century, Catholics finally learned — as evangelical Christians had a century earlier — that the First Amendment gave the churches wide latitude to influence public policy.

If the Church had been part of Governance all of this time, we wouldn't have 3/4 of the insulting amendments and genocidal immigration policies we have today.

For this reason, we have examined the issues of censorship, regulation, and the First Amendment protections from a perspective which asks what is right, just, and equitable, not simply what is currently legal or stablished public policy.

The Consultation for Promoting British Values in School is a hastily thrown together set of amendments to the Independent School Standards (2013) which ensured all independent schools» activities and teaching be informed by the 2010 Equalities Act.The consultation proposes strengthening the Independent School Standards regulations and extending these to all schools (state and independent), emphasising that a school's «written policy, plans and schemes of work -LSB-... must] not undermine the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.»

The Government is committed to fixing Australia's competition policy and the amendment of Section 46 to deal with unilateral anti-competitive conduct is an important step to ensure Australia has the best possible competition framework to support innovation and boost economic growth and jobs.

European Parliament Agriculture Committee MEPs are making their final preparations ahead of a vote on proposed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform amendments — including the adoption of supply management measures.

«I believe that our action plan, combined with the broader reforms that are already in train to further strengthen competition policy, such as the amendments to the misuse of market power provision and the criminalisation of serious cartel conduct, will ensure that the grocery market remains competitive,» the Assistant Treasurer said.

The consent policy illustrates how the 8th Amendment takes away the rights of women to decide how or where they given birth — where they feel safest, what they decide to be best for themselves and their baby.

1978 Research and policy recommendations by FRAC play a key role in passage of the Child Nutrition Amendments of 1978, which greatly expand the WIC and School Breakfast Programs.

It is important that all women are aware of this Consent Policy and the legal ramifications of the 8th Amendment (Article 40.3.3 of the Irish Constitution) on their right to informed decision making in their maternity care.

Tuesday Questions - HM Treasury Ten minute rule motion - Food labelling (Halal and Kosher Meat) Motions: Relating to Section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993, EU directive on data protection in the areas of police and criminal justice Debate: General debate on the National Planning Policy framework Adjournment debate: Jobs at Group Lotus

The amendment to the civil liberties policy motion read: «The protection of freedom of expression, by reforming the libel laws in England and Wales to ensure a better balance is provided between free speech, responsible journalism, scientific discourse and the public interest on one hand and powerful corporations, wealthy individuals and vested interests on the other.»

LORDS Monday Questions - UK Equity Markets and Long - Term Decision Making, Incorporating social tourism policies in future tourism strategies, Enabling Eurostar to resume regular services between Brussels and Lille, Marking Workers» Memorial Day Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - Consideration of Commons amendments

«We will be looking for ways to pursue this issue further with national student bodies, national university bodies and public bodies - including the government - to seek whatever amendments to law and policy are essential to prevent this sort of interference with our members» legitimate activities.»

Flint has cleverly used the work of the public accounts committee to inform and promote her Finance Bill amendment on tax transparency, most select committee reports do not really change or initiate policy.

Klein's comments were a rebuke of the mainline Senate Democrats» earlier in the day referring to the eight - member IDC as «the rogue Democrats» while also challenging them to vote for «resistance» amendments — measures designed to bolster liberal policies in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election.

The tax returns bill has been derided by Senate Republicans as a «P.R. stunt» but Stewart - Cousins insisted the measure was part of a consistent set of policy proposals (a different, but similar bill that would link releasing tax returns to ballot access, was defeated as a hostile amendment on the Senate floor).

To give you an idea of just how unhappy lawmakers are with the governor's habit — like other governors before him — of stuffing non-budget policy items into the budget, Deputy Senate Minority Leader John DeFrancisco has suggested the Legislature move a constitutional amendment that would go before voters to outlaw anything other than spending from being put into the annual spending plan.

1.5 The day - to - day adoption and amendment of Party policy shall be the responsibility of the National Council.

«You would need an amendment for a policy in perpetuity,» said Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers» Campaign.

Proposing the amendment, Labour peer Lord Alli said it was in line with official party policy and was what the majority of its members wanted.

Hammond also theorized about the inclusion of New York City in the amendment and his conclusions are posted on the Empire Center for Public Policy's website.

One amendment that elicited a large number of responses in Glasgow was proposed by Evan Harris and Julian Huppert during the Equalities Policy Paper debate.

And Alexander today in a policy motion speech to conference certainly did his damnedest to defend the coalition, opposing an amendment to his «Generating Growth and Jobs in a Time of Austerity» motion to abandon the coalition's fiscal mandate.

The policy dates back to the federal Revenue Act of 1862, the country's first income tax, later confirmed with the ratification of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913, Cuomo said.

Every CLP is entitled to propose up to ten amendments, which National Policy Forum representatives can then choose to bring forward to a meeting of the NPF in July.

The prime minister accused Labour of tabling an amendment to the 50p tax rate decision which would actually reintroduce the 40p tax rate — 5p less than the government's policy.

The absence of a government amendment had led some Labour MPs to assume that the Tories and Lib Dems are still fighting behind the scenes over the policy and can not agree on a particular line to take.

This would be a better answer if you could demonstrate that SuperPAC donations have a significant influence on the creation of policy (not just a small influence on who gets elected), and that there is no other way to reduce corporate interference that doesn't involve the repeal of the first amendment.

They've had to vote for a wishy - washy amendment to avoid splitting the coalition, but it's at the cost of not voting for one of their manifesto policies.

The debate opens with an amendment put forward by the Social Liberal Forum (SLF), a left - wing pressure group, for a change of economic policy.

Lib Dem president Tim Farron has come out in support of the amendments, which happen to be in line with Liberal Democrat party policy passed last Autumn.

The division, which brought to a head weeks of mounting tension over the Conservatives» Europe policy, saw the government defeat John Baron's amendment regretting the absence of an EU referendum bill from the coalition's legislative agenda by 277 votes to 130.

Responding to MPs» rejection of the House of Lords» amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Commons today (Wednesday 1 February 2012), Liz Carroll, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care said:

Amendments would include requiring a witness to the self administration, restore the illegality of falsifying the death certificate require the posting of the poison applied in the medical record for the sake of good stewardship for future studies, register organ / tissue trafficking, reveal commissions and memorials paid to the corporate facilitators and keep all records for transparent public safety policy.

Although ministers offered a series of minor concessions intended to satisfy the many Labour MPs who signed an amendment attacking government policy, MPs voted by a majority of 21 to back a Liberal Democrat demand for «an equal right of residence for all Gurkhas».

SLF decided to table two separate amendments, one tailored to generating shorter - term economic growth this Parliament and the other looking to protect the distinctive and independent nature of Liberal Democrat economic policy into 2015 and beyond.

«closer examination found that nearly three quarters of government amendments had little policy substance — being purely technical, clarificatory, or «consequential» on other amendments.