Sentences with phrase «other lesser laws»

Not exact matches

«It would also likely be the catalyst for other countries to enact similar laws, paralysing multi-national corporations under the weight of what could be dozens or hundreds of country - specific laws,» Apple said, as well as making the personal data of millions of law - abiding citizens less secure by weakening encryption standards.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Laws regulating MLM typically 1) require that MLM companies explicitly permit their agents to cancel their agreements and to agree to repurchase inventories at not less than 90 percent of the original transfer price; 2) prohibit inducements under which the agent is told that he or she will earn a specific amount of money; 3) prohibit the purchase of a minimum inventory; and 4) prohibit operations under which agents are only paid for recruiting others.

While strict mortgage - lending laws were in place before he took office and they came at a cost — less home ownership and slower economic growth — the state's conservative rules, as WSJ notes, «largely prevented the state's residents from signing the types of dubious home loans written in other markets across the country.»

While Trudeau, Notley and other Kinder Morgan cheerleaders cite the Constitution for their claim that B.C. has no jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines, Canadian courts have been much less categorical about paramountcy (the doctrine that federal law automatically prevails when there is a conflict between provincial and federal laws).

(1) engage in the «Geographic Area» (as defined below) as an employee, agent, consultant, advisor, independent contractor, proprietor, partner, officer, director, or otherwise of a Competing Business (as defined below); (2) have any ownership interest (except for passive ownership of one percent (1 %) or less in any entity whose securities have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction of the United States) in a Competing Business; or (3) participate in the financing, operation, management, or control of a Competing Business.

Some parts can become more ordered while others become less ordered without any physical laws being broken.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

«We are,» Barth says, «no less truly summoned to listen to what the Bible has to say here in the form of saga than to what it has to say in other places in the form of history, and elsewhere in the form of address, doctrine, law, epigram, epic and lyric.»

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&raqLaw School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&raqlaw school.»

About myself, I know that I don't live up to my own standards, even less to those of others, or the moral law.

Athiests are not less likely to have lower morales, I have high morales and I don't believe in god but what I do believe in is civil society and the law, both make me live in civalization and prevent me from doing crimes that would get me in trouble and possibly hurt other people.

Making matters worse is that although natural law is widely (and somewhat misleadingly) considered a Christian doctrine, Christians often find it no less mysterious than others do.

21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise conflicts with the pattern of law which places human life above all other values save two: the sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.

So, Christ fulfilled the Old Testament's prophecy, the Old Testament's «lesser» dictates are obsolete (otherwise Exodus 22:18 has us all out killing sorceresses), but the Commandments remain divine law within a general stricture of «Be excellent to each other.»

On the other hand, God must so act in the interests of both the self and all others as thereby to establish the cosmic order of natural law that sets the optimal limits of all other action, where by «optimal limits» I mean limits such that, were they to be set otherwise than they are, the ratio between opportunities for good and risks of evil would be less rather than more favorable than it in fact is.

My thesis is that the many visions of perfection are more or less the same or at least analogical, and therefore if each Faith keeps its ethics of law dynamic within the framework of and in tension with its own transcendent vision of perfection, the different religious and secular Faiths can have a fruitful dialogue at depth on the nature of human alienation which makes love impossible and for updating our various approaches to personal and public law with greater realism with insights from each other.

Technically, the Pope didn't directly «remove» Finn, as the media has widely reported; rather, the bishop formally offered his resignation in accordance with canon 401, paragraph 2, of the Code of Canon Law, which reads: «A diocesan bishop who has become less able to fulfill his office because of ill health or some other grave cause is earnestly requested to present his resignation from office.»

In this regard as in many others, the laws of the English colonies in North America were much less harsh than those of the mother country.

Even though they're more or less the same as all the other demon phone companies that would lock you into a usurious contract if the laws allowed it.

For example, under federal tax law, a married couple pays less in total taxes if one spouse works outside the house and the other spouse stays home.

From even my second Mother's Day — when I had three babies all less than 20 - months - old — I spent most of the time taking care of the other mothers in my life — my mom, mother - in - law, sisters - in - law, etc..

Although this matters to a lesser degree to people in California, it's paramount for people going through the surrogacy process in other parts of the country with less progressive laws.

In Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers, Mohrbacher and Kendall - Tackett explain that human babies are born at less than 50 % of adult brain growth, while most other mammals are born with about 80 %.

Almost every Democrat in the Senate gets big, major support from the Teachers Union so expect the Democrats to add a ton of exemptions and get rid of the lesser of inflation or 2 % cap language then watch your school and other local property taxes begin to spiral out of control again which is why the tax cap law originally passed.

Less predictable innovations were never adopted, while other laws passed with great fanfare were carefully left aside.

Sadly this has the effect of deterring the types of people that will follow the laws and act responsibly meaning that the illegal immigrants are less likely to be concerned about following other laws.

The reason, he believes, is that fighting corruption is less important to Cuomo than other initiatives he appears to more readily spend his political capital on, like same - sex marriage and a $ 15 minimum wage — among signature accomplishments that Cuomo highlighted by having dozens of guests who benefitted from the laws.

The cap law, one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's major initiatives, limits school districts and other local governments to basic annual tax increases of 2 percent or the inflation rate, whichever is less.

Less cynically, the leaders of ISIS may sincerely think that the Western way of life exemplified in rock concerts, large scale commercial banking activity contrary to Islamic law, and government institutions of countries that advance a way of life contrary to Islamic law in the world, is evil and that it is their duty to take action, on behalf of God, to punish this evil in a public way that discourages others.

Almost everything that we value — individual worth, care for others less fortunate, the rule of law, personal freedom and so on — flows from that heritage.

That's the gist of a new law Governor Andrew Cuomo signed Friday, which targets those short - term rentals (apartments in multiunit residences leased for less than 30 days) that are technically illegal but still very often listed on Airbnb and other home - sharing sites.

The unexpended balance of each appropriation, less the commitments outstanding at the close of the fiscal year for which it was made, shall lapse at the close of such fiscal year; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to require the lapsing of appropriations which may be or are required to be made for an indefinite period or which include state refunds, allocations or grants applicable to said appropriations pursuant to any other provisions of law; and provided further that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the making of appropriations or contracts for the construction of permanent public improvements or works not to be completed during the fiscal year, or the acquisition of property therefor, or the establishment of bond or capital accounts, sinking funds or reserve funds, and each such appropriation, account or fund shall continue in force until the purpose for which it was made shall have been accomplished or shall have been abandoned by a two thirds vote of the County Legislature.

He added, «Saying that the SAFE ACT or any other law that was passed less than a year ago and hasn't been implemented is responsible for that drop in crimes is totally ludicrous,» King said.

Because of the huge conflict of interest of the 200 attorney law Firm, I'm of the opinion, Mr Breslin, 59th Senatorial District candidate Jim Domalagalski, State Assemblyman William Barclay and others in less prestigious law firms aren't even qualified to serve a single term, let alone have term limits.

In that elderly, minority and low - income groups are less likely to have these documents, they are correct in that voter ID laws will be more of a hassle for these groups than others.

The campaign started after the National Employment Law Project released a 2009 survey showing that restaurant workers, grocery baggers, household cleaners and other low - wage workers complained their bosses paid them less than promised, if at all.

The current state law says that towns, under the state's so - called «minimum budget requirement,» can not spend less money on public education than was spent during the previous year — unless special circumstances such as a sudden drop in enrollment or other problems.

Other lesser - known names statewide include new Lt. Gov. Kathleen Hochul, who some say is a force but doesn't have a broad enough fund - raising base and is considered too conservative to win a Democratic primary; Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner; and Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham law professor who gave Cuomo a surprisingly credible challenge in last year's Democratic primary.

But other good - government types said that as an elected law enforcement official DiFiore will still be raising fund - raising dollars — a less - than - ideal arrangement for a top ethics watchdog.

This compromise was a little less demanding than working full time (I was paid hourly, so when exams came around, I could choose not to work at all) and it allowed me to concentrate on some courses that exposed me to other issues, such as transgenic agriculture, biomedical ethics, even biological weapons and international law.

As these efforts are replicated in other communities, less money will be needed for law enforcement and incarceration, making more money available for education and healthy economic development.

Conclusions about other, more well - known laws, such as «right - to - carry,» are less convincing.

\ n \ nDivine Providence gives to all the free will to do whatever is desired and our system of law assures (more or less) that those desires can be realized so long as they don't infringe detrimentally on any other's rights.

The second law does state that the total entropy of a closed system can't decrease, but it does allow parts of a system to become more orderly as long as other parts becomes less so.

«It must rather be conceived,» he tells us,» as a quiescent form, comprising within its limits an indefinite magnitude of individual constituents, which, for aught we can tell, may be moving one among the other, each animated by its own inherent projectile force, and deflected into an orbit more or less complicated, by the influence of that law of internal gravitation which may result from the compounded attractions of all its parts.»

If an item is subject to sales tax, in accordance with state tax laws, the tax is generally calculated on the total selling price of each individual item, including shipping and handling charges, gift - wrap charges and other service charges, less any applicable discounts.

The Gov law conundrum is that others assistants (especially my MBA friends make twice as much as me — with 7 years less school and loans.

Yet, driven by Moore's Law and the rapid advancement of processors, screens and other commodity components coming out of the smartphone supply chain, VR and AR are finally poised for mainstream adoption with some calling them nothing less than a «new medium of human experience.»

There are a few new funny bits and in other cases, the film's rhythm and pacing seems mildly hindered by adding a less potent comedic coda or non-essential moment (like Doug being gifted the Mercedes from his new father - in - law, played by Jeffrey Tambor).