Sentences with phrase «on civil»

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On the environment, on civil liberties and on the mounting debt bubble, the Lib Dems were quietly but consistently ahead of the Westminster curve.

On civil liberty and criminal justice, they have remained true to liberal values and human rights in ways that the other parties, Labour more than the Tories in some respects, have not.

Speaking to politics.co.uk, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said opponents were trying to prevent religious officials from making their own decisions on civil partnerships.

A motion which would reintroduce a ban on civil partnerships in religious premises has been withdrawn by Baroness O'Cathain, following a debate dominated by opposition to her «prayer motion».

In March 2010, an amendment tabled by Lord Alli gained cross-party support to remove the ban on civil partnerships being held on religious premises.

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The second blast went off some 10 minutes after the first at around 10 a.m. (0800 GMT), inflicting casualties on civil defense workers who had gathered to tend to the casualties, the Damascus correspondent for al - Manar told the station by phone.

Yet Clegg and his team feel they get scant credit from activists for constantly battling to thwart Tory efforts to sneak through illiberal measures on civil liberties and immigration, within a coalition in which they're out - numbered five to one.

Alan Johnson launched a staunch defence of the Labour government's track record on civil liberties today, in a speech which all but removed him for the running for a shadow Cabinet job.

Launching his leadership bid, Mr Brown said he intended to strike a different note to Tony Blair on many key issues, including a greater safeguard on civil liberties.

Labour overstepped the mark on civil liberty issues, leadership candidate Ed Miliband has admitted.

Conservatives have been worrying about the pernicious effect that powers of entry have on civil liberties for decades.

The district attorney is solely responsible for decisions on civil liberties — such as signing affidavits, authorizing search warrants and wiretaps, dismissing cases when there is no evidence to support charges, or indicting someone despite his or her prominence or political connections.

Nixon's parents were politically involved; her father did an award - winning series on the civil - rights movement, she proudly recalled, and she remembered her mother taking her into the voting booth on Election Day and explaining that they were not only Democrats — they were liberals.

As part of this career fair, the Department of Civil Service is leading presentations to help job seekers connect with state employment opportunities focusing on the civil service exam and hiring process, as well as highlighting Governor Cuomo's hiring programs for veterans and internship opportunities for students.

This time, Dillon said, Daley had got a copy of a tape recording made by a private detective who had been working on a civil case being investigated by Dillon's office.

The Tories plan to do the right thing on civil liberties — scrapping ID cards, for example — and to do what Labour did not do on political reform: introduce an elected second chamber.

«In the City Council, we do a fair and balanced hearing,» said Councilman James Sanders (D - Laurelton), chairman of the Committee on Civil Service and Labor.

Abbott's speech on civil liberties, in the debate on the Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 [14] won The Spectator magazine's «Parliamentary Speech of the Year» award [15] and further recognition at the 2008 Human Rights awards.

Singas in 2015 charged Edward Korona Jr., Nassau's deputy commissioner of emergency management, with four counts each of felony perjury, felony offering a false instrument for filing and felony making a false sworn statement and misdemeanor official misconduct for lying on civil service applications.

Fellow backbencher Sir Roger Gale offered a more measured reprimand, regaling that when serving on the Civil Partnerships Bill committee he had received cast iron assurances from — amongst others — the MP for Rhondda [Labour's Chris Bryant] that the passing of the bill would definitely not lead to full - blown marriage; not the last to subsequently question the government's «iron clad» assurances.

DD could do immense good to David Cameron's cause over the next few weeks, if he can get maximum publicity for the debate on our civil liberties, because he could show Gordon Brown's actions for what they are - self - seeking and tawdry.

Most Labour members never signed up to the market fundamentalism of Tory and Labour Governments from Thatcher to Blair and Brown, nor to the Iraq war and the attack on civil liberties at home and abroad which followed.»

We call on all civil society organizations, professional bodies, faith - based groups, youth groups, the union movement, academia, and indeed on all citizens of Ghana to support the Center's call to the EC to avoid a potential constitutional crisis.

He pointed out that no federal judge has ever imposed a monitor on a police department based on a civil trial.

Grijalva received a 100 percent score from Americans for Democratic Action, Peace Action, the League of Conservation Voters, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Arab American Institute, and several other notable groups in recent years.

There are some arguments we've won, big arguments, on civil liberties issues and questions over Europe, where they have a different style, and didn't want to be distracted.

The Lib Dems argue that an alternative package of measures including the withdrawal of travel rights, more surveillance, unannounced home visits, and the use of intercept evidence to enable more prosecutions to go ahead would be more effective and have less impact on civil liberties.

Hawkins has a plank on Civil Rights and Racial Justice in his platform that addresses these issues in more detail at www.howiehawkins.org/platform.

At 9 a.m., NYC Council members Daniel Dromm and Vanessa Gibson speak at day one of the New York Advisory Committee's U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Square W., Queens.

Davis, who quit as shadow home secretary to run a by - election on civil liberties, accused May of trying to «assault the reputation of those who disagree» with her.

The Department for Transport has suggested replacing VED outright with a road user charge for all vehicles, but this is widely criticised on civil liberties grounds for the constant tracking of private vehicle movements it would require.

At 10 a.m., de Blasio testifies at a public hearing on civil legal services, Appellate Division Courthouse, 25th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the ouster of the U.S. Department of Education's top official on civil rights after comments she made about campus sexual assault and rape.

«If we go into the trenches in order to try to defend this then it would be seen as part of a lamentable history on civil liberties issues and it would do us terrible damage at this stage.»

It comes as Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude launched yet another public attack on the civil service, pushing Whitehall deeper into a bitter internal war now threatening to consume the government.

He's a natural Lib Dem, committed to winning over the «urban intelligentsia» and chasing the government on civil liberties, the Iraq war and other classic orange issues.

Warren was accused of impugning a peer when she condemned Sessions's nomination while reading a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor that criticized his record on civil rights.

«Oh, I think generally on civil liberties, the fact they are going to look at not putting children in detention centres, for instance.

It is believed from the words of Freddie Blay that, our Flagbearer's National Security detail Capt Koda and Dankwa Institute are colluding with ISIS to set our Nation on civil war, this does not augur well for our peaceful state of Nation.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

De Blasio defended the Rev. Al Sharpton amid questions over his unpaid taxes, emphasizing Sharpton's work on civil rights issues and adding that he knew «a lot of good people» who had struggled with tax troubles.

The use of summary justice and DNA data are «difficult» because of their impact on civil liberties but they are the only way to solve crime, Tony Blair has declared.

Also on the agenda at the summit will be protecting countries from cyber-attacks on their civil nuclear sites and preventing terrorists from obtaining the raw materials for a «dirty bomb».

At 11 a.m., parents hold a press conference on a civil rights complaint against Buffalo school district, CAO Masten Resource Center, 1423 Fillmore Ave., Buffalo.

Their one - year - on report on the civil service reform plan has been unusually honest about the areas where change is not taking place - in a bid to embarrass civil servants into getting on with the reforms.

Throughout his campaign Mr Clegg has used his position as home affairs spokesman to attack the government's record on civil liberties, as well as highlighting the blunders that have beset Jacqui Smith's Home Office.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, today won the support of TUC Congress in Brighton for its campaign to highlight and challenge the Government's attacks on civil rights.

Democratic Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant said Paladino's remarks served as a reminder there's still work left to do on the civil rights front, adding: «It sends a message that we have a got long way to go, we're not there yet.»