Sentences with phrase «of social legislation»

Policy Generally speaking, the legal framework for thinking about child rearing creates a strong presumption in policy that favors parents» rights to raise their children.6 This attitude is reflected in three major pieces of social legislation governing the nation's child welfare system: the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.7

The GI Bill became the most successful piece of social legislation Congress ever enacted.

Instead, the GI Bill became the most successful piece of social legislation Congress ever enacted.

It is an irreversible piece of social legislation.

Not exact matches

Not only does the internet enable great social, educational and cultural communication, it also provides a competitive platform for all sorts of services that no amount of regulation or legislation could ever hope to create.

WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.

This procedural tool would allow the chamber to pass certain kinds of legislation which affects the federal budget — including spending on programs like Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and Social Security — with a simple majority.

Democratic state Sen. Bob Hertzberg and Democratic State Assembly member Marc Levine have both introduced legislation that would require social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to identify automated accounts — essentially, a sort of sticker that says, «I'm a bot.»

Business leaders have set up social venture funds, started social entrepreneurship activities within their corporations, taken into account social innovations; and governments have passed legislation in favour of the creation of social enterprises

Plenty of proposals are floating around, including mandating new guidelines on transparency and data portability (the ability of users to essentially own their data, have it deleted, and take it from one platform to another), adjusting a law to hold social media platforms liable for users» content, and even potentially enacting comprehensive privacy legislation.

What are the rules about advertising on social media, monitoring and controlling the flow of data, copyright legislation, or customs and tariffs that can be added to products purchased through e-commerce?»

Although initially interested in agriculture he became increasingly involved in politics and social activism in response to federal regulation of the agriculture industry, including legislation relating to the Canadian Wheat Board.

This information is based upon RegentAtlantic's current understanding of Social Security legislation.

Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local of the Association for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation for Alberta schools and questioned the existence of human - influenced climate change.

Perhaps an all - party committee of the House of Commons could choose Senators, based upon non-political criteria: certain proven abilities and skills in analyzing legislation, for example, or experience in the area of social policy.

WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.

On Friday, Zuckerberg threw his support behind proposed legislation, known as the Honest Ads Act, that would require social media sites to disclose the identities of buyers of online political campaign ads.

Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»

Legislation without shared social mores will be no more successful than was the prohibition of alcohol.

The different governments lead by Mrs. Thatcher restrain the emission of the monetary mass, raise the rate of interest, reduce in a drastic way the taxes on the highest incomes, abolish the control of the financial flows, strongly raise the rate of unemployment, provoke strikes, put in place an anti-unions legislation and cut the social expenses.

It has built its legislation on the recognition that a man has a personality independent of his compatriots and his community, a personality which forms an element in the social structure.

Do we have in mind one in which the outer structure is changed by legislation and the realignments of social institutions?

Some people think that social or political solutions to these issues are impossible, and that the change of heart necessary for a real end to racism will not come about through legislation.

A social action project aimed at mobilizing congregational support of legislation to provide more opportunities for job training for the poor (primary prevention).

Many of the seasoned campaigners in the battles to change Ireland's legislation on social matters during the eighties and nineties were disturbed by the nature of this particular campaign.

The depth of the depression demanded a federal response, one that would establish a «permanent deposit of advanced social legislation.»

Many different considerations have to be taken into account: media ownership, legislation, professional rivalry, economic interests, social and cultural mores, the media as supermarket of religion, guidelines for commercial advertising as a communication criterion and many more.

This is, as the name happily indicates, a recapitulation — better, a revision — of the old social legislation of Israel.

In our highly complex Western society «social help becomes increasingly a matter of political - social legislation.»

State or local mental health associations can provide church social - action groups with current information concerning the problems and needs of their area, including mental health legislation which needs citizen support.

Like the national labor relations legislation of the 1930s, it represents a significant Congressional effort to find a path between laissez - faire and direct state intervention into social relationships.

It might be said that the failure of Prohibition legislation lay in our social class system, for the highest people socially did not taboo drinking and their social customs were stronger than legislative controls.

A good many of the issues that baffle us today have to do with the tension between individual liberty and social legislation limiting freedom of choice.

This witness and theology also played a significant part in the social, legal, cultural, and economic incorporation of the negative image of Jews and Judaism into the fabric of Christian culture from the time of the first anti-Jewish legislation at the Council of Elvira (306) until the time of the French Revolution (in the West)(see many of the above, especially FF).

• The aim of Islamic legislation is, as Shahid al - Sadr put it, to strengthen the social structure for the realization of mutual responsibility.

Over a quarter of a century ago he was editing a paper on race relations and social legislation.

It is now widely recognised that legislation, public opinion and other apparatuses of democratic machinery alone can not bring about the desired social justice for the weaker sections in India.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

For him it has absorbed positive law: the social and religious legislation of Israel rests upon, rather is identical with, universal principles, universally recognized wherever men pay heed to the leadings of wisdom.

In so far as men are men they possess common elements; and in their political and social life those elements inevitably emerge and are recognizable in custom and law... Such natural law represents the permanent portion of human law in general, and it is prior to and superior to positive legislation, which is only a supplement thereto.»

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

Also, the Book of Deuteronomy is, per se, eloquent testimony to the reality of the movement, for, though it purports to be a «second law,» it was in reality a revision of the ancient social legislation that in considerable part Israel had taken over from the Canaanites.

A campaign involving television, radio, print, the internet and social media would begin within seven days of the government announcing the final details of its scheme and «would run until the likely parliamentary consideration of the legislation in late 2011».

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Since DV is found across all social classes, a substantial percentage of the 5 - 6 % of men who use violence during their partners» pregnancies are already married to them (and so will have their names recorded automatically on the birth certificate anyway); or would have been insisting on it under the old legislation, due to their need for power and control within the relationship.

Implementation of the International Code into national level legislation provides opportunity to move towards comprehensive breastfeeding legislation that is pro-active in removing all obstacles; and holds social and economic actors accountable rather than the reactive status quo.

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