Sentences with phrase «of weak laws»

Because of weak laws, we continue to use ten of thousands of chemicals in everyday products that have been linked to illness and disease, even though green chemistry is providing safe alternatives.

«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» the executive summary says.

«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» says the report, which was released today at 6:05 p.m. by the Cuomo - appointed Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.

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This prompted the company to create a code of conduct for all its suppliers; wherever they were in the world, they would rise above weak labor laws.

The country has long enjoyed the economic zone's policies at the expense of its weaker neighbors, says Palvos Eleftheriadis, associate professor of law and fellow of Mansfield College at Oxford University.

The banking system was hyper - competitive and quick to take risks in pursuit of profits; policymakers aggressively pushed homeownership through measures such as tax breaks for mortgage interest payments; and weak recourse laws let mortgage defaulters off the hook.

As for what will become of its rumored inventor, one Scott Cawthorn — a weak play on the name of Five Nights at Freddy's developer Scott Cawthon — remains to be seen, potentially inside the court of law and out.

«It's hard to close the gap due to several reasons, mainly because of China's lack of innovativeness due to its weak intellectual property laws and government - led projects that focus on quantity over quality.»

Indian authorities face sustained criticism for not doing enough to address a weak system of law enforcement and policing that leaves women vulnerable to sex crimes.

Lahore and Karachi share a tattered public transport network (slightly less so in Lahore thanks to the Metro), weak rule of law, and high costs of vehicle ownership.

«The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our «Weak Laws» Border, had better be stopped before it gets there,» Trump tweeted.

The so - called made - in - Canada approach to intellectual property protection put us outside the mainstream for a number of years, with weak Canadian laws making Canada a favourite location for websites promoting internet piracy.

The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.

We teach skills such as crafting effective introductions, structuring win - win partnerships, evaluating and tracking existing relationships, and activating the law of weak ties.

Carl Cohen argues that the argument that civil disobedience implies contempt for the law is «among the weakest» of the arguments against civil disobedience:

And another 2016 report from the US Government Accountability Office found that most of the guns — as many as 70 percent — used in crimes in Mexico, which has strict gun laws, can be traced back to the US, which has generally weaker gun laws.

Amnesty, even in its weakest forms of non-enforcement of the law and deferred action, without corresponding action to tighten the border and control unlawful immigration, leads directly to the current human crisis as thousands of desperate children (and adults) attempt to enter the United States on the promise that the administration will take no action against them.

If Paul willing not to overtly offend those still under the 613 laws, wanted to gently and lovingly proclaim the Gospel of THE GRACE OF GOD, why not do it in a way that would not shake their conscience, weak as it may have been, before God could help them and show them The Truth revealed in Chrisof THE GRACE OF GOD, why not do it in a way that would not shake their conscience, weak as it may have been, before God could help them and show them The Truth revealed in ChrisOF GOD, why not do it in a way that would not shake their conscience, weak as it may have been, before God could help them and show them The Truth revealed in Christ.

The laws of physic requires that there be forces and objects that interact with each other, such as the four forces now known, of gravity, electro - magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces (and now there is possibly dark energy) that is interwoven within matter.

It suggests to them a form of law and order that is little more than the imposition of the will of the strong upon the weak, or of the majority upon the minority.

Stand firm, for it is you, and not your opponents, who are showing «active sympathy for the weak» (to borrow the Nietzschean phrase without adopting the Nietzschean critique); and you also, not your opponents, who are defending lawful law and the moral foundations of civilized society.

Furthermore, much like John the Baptist, Jesus was critical of some of King Herod, and I believe that if Jesus has been given the opportunity to vote for a new king, Jesus would have voted for someone who would do a better job of obeying God's law, upholding biblical values, and protecting the innocent and weak.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

A little thought about natural law makes clear that there is no other species than man so endowed with the possibilities of its own protection and thoughtful promulgation; no other species that can display such a reverence for life that it can fight against the dying of the light; no other that can so protect its weakest, most vulnerable members.

Even today, eye witness accounts of crime are very weak arguments in a court of law.

However cold or weak we may feel, belief and trust knows that the new heart is in us, that the love of YAHWEH»S Law is our very nature, that the teaching and power of the Spirit are within us.

If any of those laws were adjusted only slightly (such as the law of gravity being slightly stronger or weaker) we could not have the UNIVERSE we currently have, let alone the life we enjoy on this planet.

Weak antitrust laws enable large corporations to have the power of monopolies oligopolies, though such power actually tends to discourage innovation.

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community» those most in need of the law's protection» to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.

To the Jews I became like a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law (though I am not under the law), so that I might win those under the law; to those without the law, like one without the law (though not without the law, but under Christ's law), so that I might win those without the law; to the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak; I became everything to everyone, so that I might be sure of winning some.

For «what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh [that is, placed it under sentence of death], that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.»

It was Paul's most certain, most intimate, and most central conviction that God has brought deliverance, and that he has done so through Christ: «What the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin.

And no amount of restricting gun access to law abiding citizens will make the criminals weaker.

The laws of physics, the balance of matter and anti matter, the strength of the strong and weak atomic forces.

Thus, for instance, the philosophes of the secular Enlightenment (overwhelmingly male) frequently disparaged women as weak and emotional, and in seeking to restore an ancient, «classical» model of society undermined the rights women had enjoyed since the Middle Ages (a process which culminated in the laws of the Code Napoleon, promulgated in 1804).

Boycotters, sit - ins, freedom riders, demonstrators have for years been seeking to develop power in a weak minority to counteract the power of employers, local law - enforcement officers and state governments.

It declares in substance, «When the gods named me Hammurabi to cause righteousness to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from plundering the weak, to enlighten the land and to further the welfare of the people... I established law and justice in the land and promoted the welfare of the public.

Christianity asserts that men are weak and self - centered creatures who are unable to live up to even the milder demands of the Law, let alone obey the Great Commandment to «love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself.»

To begin with the elemental ethical level, the words of Amos denouncing those who would «make the ephah small and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit» (8:5) are set in formal legal language in both D and H. 17 All three codes under discussion have general laws against the perversion of justice.18 The principle of sympathy and consideration for the weak is expressed with astonishing variety.

If, after experiencing the best God has to offer, you reject it, and go back to the weak and miserable principles of the law, there is not much hope of returning to grace for you.

Because you fool, when weak - minded fools like you start disrespecting the laws of our land, and run and hide their misdeeds within their religion, they are, well, I would say they are mocking society.

For me, that was the going wage in the economic law of supply and demand, but in fact, that was part of the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.

There are easily recognized violations of social justice — failures to abide by the law, oppression of the weaker elements in society, the shedding of innocent blood.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all human endeavour, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

«Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.»

Bearing in mind that we are speaking not of isolated statutes, but of authoritative renderings of the fundamental law, such laws would be laws (1) that deny protection to the weak and the vulnerable, especially in matters of life and death, and (2) that systematically remove the legal and political ability of the people to redress the situation.

The singular statement «x caused y,» in other words, entails a particular law incorporating the predicates actually used in describing x and y. On a weak interpretation, there might be some true descriptions of x and y such that the sentence derived by substituting these descriptions for «x» and «y» in the singular statement «x caused y» follows logically from a true nomological generalization.

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community — those most in need of the law's protection — to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.