Sentences with phrase «of substantive action»

BC has taken an alarming lack of substantive action to address multiple rights infringements experienced by women and girls in provincial prisons.

I am, however, cynical based on all these meetings and more meetings, committees and new committees and the absence of substantive action.

Not exact matches

Unlike earlier episodes, these actions will not be taken in the context of an overheated economy that requires a quick and substantive dose of policy tightening to dampen economic activity and inflationary pressures.

Please specify all substantive action taken by pro-life candidates to bring about the end of Roe v Wade.

Insofar as freedom can not be so defined, a proscription on external coercion requires a substantive principle or norm of social action.

We may also say that the distinguishing mark of a formative prescription is its explicit neutrality to all substantive ones; that is, asserting the former does nor explicitly affirm or deny the moral validity of any prescription whose prescribed action is partisan in some or other moral disagreement.

Leclerc picks up on how substantive can be (must be) the relations between physical existents, and furthers this by insisting that any such relations are substantive only insofar as they arise out of actions — the acting of entities upon one another reciprocally.

Hence, the principle of religious freedom also implies that constitutional stipulations should do nothing more than institutionalize the formative principle of communicative respect; they can not properly require of any citizen as a political participant explicit adherence to any substantive prescription for social action.

In other words, the outcome of an action sequence may be a specific idea or concept distinguished by explicit substantive content, or an underlying metaphor that influences ideas without becoming a key concept itself, or a formal structure that has to be inferred from the relations among ideas.

I challenge you to demonstrate any substantive difference between the actions of those at Baylor and MSU with the ones taken at UM.

MSU will take prompt action, if appropriate, in response to any policy violations or other substantive matters as a result of the investigation.

With this in hand, we can then ask which better explains the observable pattern of internal deliberations, official discourse, symbolic gestures, and even the nature and timing of substantive foreign policy actions in the case in question.

Relying on the precise statutory language of Section 201, McDonnell narrowed the definition of official act, holding that bribery requires the public official to agree to exercise government power or take substantive action on a particular matter or dispute.

With few new ideas, and without concrete examples of corruption to force legislative action, the report elicited praise from good - government groups (who no doubt hope for more substantive grounds for action in the commissions» follow - up reporting) but prompted most political stakeholders in New York to shrug.

«Our technical team is in the process of preparing more substantive detail about our corrective actions to meet the FDA's requirements.»

Greenpeace was reported to have offered to assist with the funding of relocation of residents of high radon homes, but no substantive action related to such an offers has been received by Priargunsky staff.

The annual event, this year part of the first Asia - Pacific Climate Week, is known for its substantive, comprehensive programme of plenary sessions, workshops, side - events and exhibits aimed at turning climate aspirations into climate action.

In the Fall 2014 issue of Education Next, Richard Epstein, a University of Chicago law professor, questioned the departments» action for forcing «school districts to comply with a substantive rule of dubious legal validity and practical soundness.»

We learned that meaningful student voice must: be inclusive, be woven into the daily fabric of school, target substantive issues, involve asking and listening by all parties, and lead to constructive action.

In the Fall 2014 issue of Education Next, Richard Epstein, a professor at the New York University School of Law, criticized the action of the two departments, averring that it «forces school districts to comply with a substantive rule of dubious legal validity and practical soundness.»

In sum, the ED and DOJ action forces school districts to comply with a substantive rule of dubious legal validity and practical soundness.

SQR includes substantive feedback in the form of findings and recommendations across critical school focus areas, leading to action plans for improvement and data for the district and stakeholders to inform future planning.

Meaningful Student Involvement can be an engine of this action, serving to embrace and empower students through deep learning and substantive outcomes that sustain their roles throughout time.

Factors considered important to the reform included the following: (a) meeting for 1 hour a week in study groups; (b) meeting in cross-grade groups; (c) reflecting on teaching in study groups; (d) considering research - based «best practices» in study groups; (e) completing action plans in study groups; (f) selecting substantive topics for study; (g) maintaining topics over time; (h) meeting as a whole faculty once a month to discuss reform efforts; (i) working on parent partnerships and making effective use of the external facilitator; and (j) making effective use of the internal leadership team.

For him, silence was a landscape of unintentional sounds experienced between intentional sounds; as such, it was absolutely substantive, inseparable from and interdependent with sound.22 By extension, we might expand our view of the White Paintings, considering them not as inert screens waiting to be activated by life's subtle projections but rather as provocative agents of activity and profoundly physical objects that link our actions and perceptions, making us aware of the same perceptual interdependency that was central to silence for Cage.

Regardless the substantive outcomes of Gore's role at Kyoto, Obama will inevitably be compared to this (perceived) heroic action.

The politicization of climate science is probably the single largest impediment to substantive action on GHG abatement, and while sites like Realclimate do their best to objectivize the topic, you can't expect to convince everyone.

If society ultimately decides to intervene in Earth's climate, any actions should be informed by a far more substantive body of scientific research, including ethical and social dimensions, than is presently available, the committee said.

However, corporate interests have stymied substantive action and are derailing genuine efforts of civil society to adequately address climate change.»

As we recommended in the paper, systematic investment in these strategies along with other recommended initiatives are likely to increase substantive news attention to various health threats associated with climate change, and thereby increase the capacity of communities to pursue mitigation and adaptation actions.

As solar, wind, and other forms of renewable energy continue to become cheaper and as more substantive local and private sector action is taken to reduce emissions, we will keep making progress.

grand visions of Brtain in 2050 with zero accountability at the next election), but substantive action not so much.

Despite claims by Minister Glen Murray that there few actual reports, and a promise of action on the ones he does have, little substantive action has occurred since the release of our report May 31, and the airing of a Global News investigative report in June.

They contain unique information, such as substantive annotations or comments included therein, that adds to a proper understanding of the agency's formulation and execution of basic policies, decisions, actions, or responsibilities.

Given this knowledge, failure to take prompt, substantive action would be an act of injustice to all children.

The annual event, this year part of the first Asia - Pacific Climate Week, is known for its substantive, comprehensive programme of plenary sessions, workshops, side - events and exhibits aimed at turning climate aspirations into climate action.

Perhaps the most important aspect of this move, and the 10:10 campaign in general, is the emphasis on immediate, substantive action.

As the director of a non-profit working hard to push the world's largest companies toward ever more substantive climate action, what I'm about to say may seem blasphemous.

Anjali engaged the crowd with a series of mic checks, reinforcing the youth position of solidarity with Yeb and his countries position on real substantive climate action now.

[1] Put differently, if, as the courts have repeatedly stated, [2] the class action is only a procedural device that does not alter the substantive law, has the payment of settlement monies to non-parties expanded the remedial choices normally available to a wronged party under either the common law or statute?

Mr. Miklave covered the laws» definitions of protected classes, the availability of remedies, time limitations on bringing actions, elements of claims, and substantive and procedural defenses.

This suggests that Member States may end up having to raise two distinct legal actions: a more procedurally - oriented action challenging the authorizing act and a more substantive challenge to the legality of the resulting legislative measure.

Indeed, the Act specifically states that» [t] here shall be no judicial review of compliance or noncompliance with any provision of this Act» and, moreover, «no provision of this Act shall be construed to create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any administrative or judicial action.»

The collective redress regimes around the world do not have to be identical but if they are designed to protect the same substantive and procedural rights of class members and are based on some of the same fundamental principles, it is more likely that class action judgments from one jurisdiction will be enforceable in another jurisdiction.

In a substantive action much of the work carried out by claimant's solicitors becomes necessary solely due to the manner in which the defendant conducts its case.

In the absence of a claim brought within the relevant period, the right of action was «extinguished», which suggested that there was a substantive bar (see Aries Tanker Corporation v Total Transport Ltd [1977] 1 WLR 185, [1977] 1 All ER 398).

If the plaintiff fails to satisfy the court as to the substantive merit of the plaintiff's case, the action should be dismissed with costs on a full indemnity basis.

«Because class proceeding legislation is procedural, and does not create substantive rights, a proposed class action must identify class members who individually have legal capacity to sue and assert a cause of action,» Garson wrote in her May 3 decision Kwicksutaineuk / Ah - Kwa - Mish First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General).

§ 3.1 If I could reduce the message of this book to one simple axiom, it would be this: «If you can bring your client's action in more than one jurisdiction, you should bring that action in the forum whose substantive law is most favourable to your client's claim, provided that you can keep the case there.»

Hold informal «lunch and learn» sessions to discuss topics of shared professional interest, e.g., substantive legal points, recent court decisions, legislative actions, case developments, or firm clients.