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It's worth acknowledging at the outset that these amendments, including the minimum wage indexing and other amendments which are beyond the scope of this post, would not have been won without the diligent efforts of grassroots organizations like the Workers» Action Centre and the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change.

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Were these provisions to become law, they could result in some states, legislatively, providing one level of care or protection to some of their citizens and a different level to others — which, could violate the equal protection and fairness requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

The Apple (aapl) executive also commented on the First Amendment, which protects free speech — adding that at the time the founding fathers established this idea, there were no app developers, modern content creators, and other new forms of speech, notes 9 to 5 Mac.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

In addition, the Department is delaying the applicability of amendments to Prohibited Transaction Exemption 84 - 24 until January 1, 2018, other than the Impartial Conduct Standards, which will become applicable on June 9, 2017.

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

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.

A number of issues were discussed including the impact of the proposed amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessment Board Act, which is currently before Parliament and which will among other things, remove set timelines for assessments as well as requiring re-assessments for large scale mining projects, where a full environmental screening has already been positively concluded.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Peers in the House of Lords are expected to vote later on an amendment which would pave the way for Britain to recognise Islamic State's treatment of Christians and other minorities as genocide.

the 1st amendment secures the right for me and others to do that which you hate.

The basic question the First Amendment raises is: To what extent are we willing to give up the value of absolute freedom of expression in order to protect society from expressions which might destroy other values in our society, or the society itself?

«I think our forefathers intended that we use the First Amendment so that we can speak our mind, not to piss off other people and other cultures, which is what you did.»

Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

Well, in terms of America, which is what I think your talking about, Hindus, Brights, Jains, and myriads of other religions aren't attempting to legislate their religion in direct opposition to the first amendment.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

A preacher is talking about Obama care to his members which is his first amendment right not covering poor in his state and other states Because they refuse honor it.

««Privacy,» «he said, «is a broad, abstract, and ambiguous concept which can easily be shrunken in meaning but which can also, on the other hand, be interpreted as a constitutional ban against many other searches and seizures [than those intended by the Fourth Amendment].»

Other amendments The Bill will also remove the distinction in the existing provisions between unconscionable conduct that affects businesses and that which affects consumers.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

The GOP has been a consistent advocate of the 14th Amendment, which they wrote and passed, that embodies such equal protection under the laws, and the other Civil War Amendments

«There is a serious defect in the amendment that has been presented to this House, because it would have the consequence - which I think is quite obvious when you look at it - that because of the discriminatory nature of the favour it gives to humanists, as opposed to other secular organisations, that it would have the consequence of making it incompatible with the [European] Convention [on Human] rights,» he said.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress

Trump asked, as senior administration officials, including Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, were attending the lavish event in the other Washington, which was billed as supporting the First Amendment.

Later today the government is set to override other Lords amendments relating to part two of the bill, which would limit the extent to which the coalition's reforms will make it harder for charities to campaign during election periods.

None of the amendments are likely to succeed, however, because of the fraught negotiations with other Commonwealth countries which have to be finalised before there can be any change to the constitutional arrangements around the monarchy.

Accordingly, conference, which is the highest decision making body of the party, passed a RESOLUTION instructing National Council to set up a n ad - hoc committee to streamline these amendment proposals together with other relevant considerations and present their report to conference at an extraordinary national delegates» conference to be organized at a later date.

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

The conference, among other things, considered the various proposals for constitutional amendments which were received from party members and made available to all stakeholders, at least one month to the national delegates» conference in fulfillment of Article 18 of the NPP constitution.

«They do not enable the other place to take into account the very careful and deliberate thoughts that have been given in this House, not least by the Right Reverend Lord Harries of Pentregarth and his very impressive Commission, which most people in here agree went in great detail into this bill, produced some excellent amendments.»

The government stepped in amid fears that an amendment designed to give straight couples the right to civil partnerships, planned by Tim Loughton, the former children's minister, and two other Tory MPs, could disrupt the equal marriage bill, which is opposed by many Conservatives.

«There is an amendment to the Electoral Act that President Jonathan signed a few days before he left office which legitimize the use of the card reader and other electronic systems for voting.

One such issue Pritchard and other Harrison Democrats have been vocal about is preventing the zoning text amendment that the town board passed in May, which allows for the building of large senior living facilities in residentially zoned areas, and has drawn petitions and protests from some Harrison residents.

The proposed constutional amendment doesn't fix the large, systematically engineered population variances between districts that are currently permitted, and which make it possible, among other things, for the Republicans to continue to hang on to the State Senate despite a massive statewide voter - registration disadvantage.

Promulgate an amendment to Part 54 and any other relevant regulations, which exclude seismicity analysis from the scope of safety review in relicensing proceedings, to specifically require the preparation of a public site - specific seismic analysis for the Indian Point and other reactors;

His words, «The attention of the Office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has been drawn to a purported investigative report by an online medium, which claimed that he and other members of the Committees on Constitution Review of the seventh National Assembly, comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, «pocketed» N8 billion in «failed» constitution amendment exercise.

The amendment would redirect funding for the bus program to a separate program controlled by the Department of Transportation, which Katko said would «wreak havoc» on the country's most used transit agencies without providing increased funding certainty to agencies in other states.

We regard it as confirmatory of a fundamental principle which applies as well to the government bonds in question, and to others duly authorized by the Congress, as to those issued before the Amendment was adopted.

It's probably worth making explicit that constitutional amendments aren't amendments in the Robert's Rules of order «motion to amend» sense of changing the text of other potential legislation under consideration, but new legislation which might have to pass special procedures in order to be enacted.

The Times, along with several other editorial boards over the weekend, urged voters to not approve the amendment next week, which would allow for up four casinos in the first round of construction.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

The change would almost certainly come through an amendment to section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which prevents the police forcing people to remove clothing other than headgear, foot wear, jackets or gloves once an authorisation has been made.

During the Equality Act 2010's passage through Parliament, we worked closely with a range of organisations as well as our supporters in Parliament to have amendments made to the Equality Bill which sought to increase protection against discrimination for humanists and others, and to minimise the exceptions from the law granted to religious organisations.

The codified constitutions of most democratic states specify mechanisms for constitutional amendment which are clearly separate from the mechanisms for enacting other legislation.

The circular, entitled: «Amendment of S4 Business Rules and Guidelines,» read in part, «With reference to Section 10.1 of the S4 Business Rules and Guidelines, which states among others that transaction with the CBN, any auction or two - way quote with the CBN must be settled.

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed Smart Schools Bond Act, Proposal 3, which would generate $ 2 billion to improve classroom technology and other elements of educational infrastructure, also saw approval, as did Proposal 2, the constitutional amendment that would eliminate the need for legislative bills to be printed and supplied to every lawmaker before being considered.

The defendants on the other hand can make no specific responses to them, which unfortunately makes them seem guilty even if they are merely invoking their fundamental Fifth Amendment right to remain silent so as not to prejudice their case while they are mounting their defense.

Katko and Deacon said they would support a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, which allows corporations, unions and other interests to spend unlimited amounts on elections.

The Collins amendment, which House leaders accepted late Monday, prompted an extraordinary political battle a day later, as Collins and Cuomo angrily assailed each other over the proposal.