Sentences with phrase «over the rights of»

Her death sparked debate over the rights of transgender people, with an inquiry concluding that senior doctors at the hospital were responsible for «criminal negligence», and recommending that criminal charges be filed.

China's judicial and other dispute resolution mechanisms are expressly directed to protect the interests of the state and the Communist Party over the rights of appellants.

But the rights of the individual will take precedence over the rights of an organization.

We should not resort to nationalistic tendencies and ways of thinking which preordain our rights over the rights of newcomers.

It's pathetic that in today's day and age so many people still are so willing to give over their right of independent thought.

Let's not agree to disagree over the rights of women and the LGBT community, the Establishment Clause, the exploitation of misguided people by predatory clergy.

This was a win for the «rights» of a corporation over the rights of living, breathing individuals.

Our government is considered one of what they call «the evil three» in UN processes (along with the US and Canada) as it serves to protect corporate interests over the rights of the people.

Others take a more pragmatic approach, insisting that the ever - increasing demand for better medicines and more food should take priority over the rights of animals.

«County Executive Astorino, The New York Times, The New York Post, the New York Daily News, NOW New York State and dozens of others have called on Mr. Silver to step down, but Mr. Bramson continues to place partisanship over the rights of sex assault victims.

Construction work on the Lagos - Ibadan standard gauge rail has been suspended over right of way issues and a flyover bridge at Ijoko, Ogun State.

That would almost certainly touch off a high - profile legal battle over the right of a body created by the executive branch to probe the inner workings of the Legislature.

«When you elevate the rights of corporations to pollute over the rights of people to have a clean environment, then you get this pattern of unequal protection.

These exemption laws have provoked debate over the rights of parents versus the responsibility of government to protect public health.

A sidebar of drama roiled the Croisette - the seemingly never - ending dispute over the rights of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, scheduled to close the festival on May 19.

The opening of school has intensified battles being waged in a handful of communities around the country over the rights of aids victims in the classroom.

Yet, because of laws that favor powerful unions and «labor peace» over the rights of individuals, millions of public school teachers have lost their rights to free speech and free association.

So before you hand over your book to these so - called «vanity press» or POD publishers carefully research them to make sure they don't require you to empty your wallet and don't require you to hand over the rights of the book to them.

The heroine's war against a rich young man who thought he was entitled to ride roughshod over the rights of women had a true flavor of being from another era.

Whether it's minimum wage laws or Obamacare, most creative writers tend to favor progressive ideals over the rights of individuals to enter into voluntary business arrangements without government intervention.

In most cases, these services have various peculiarities, which put the rights of the service over the rights of the customer, not to mention that completed job is done far away from quality.

Over the last decade, the wind industry has ridden roughshod over the rights of law - abiding citizens to live peacefully in their very own homes.

«The World Bank, northern countries and big international NGOs, under the eyes of the United Nations, are creating carbon cowboys that trample over the rights of indigenous peoples, our land and our forests,» said Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, an international organizational working with indigenous peoples of the world.

The Commission report under Article 27 (2) Rome I will be based on a comprehensive study that has just been released titled «Study on the question of effectiveness of an assignment or subrogation of a claim against third parties and the priority of the assigned or subrogated claim over a right of another person».

Should a partner's rights under a settlement agreement take priority over the rights of unsecured creditors?

Around 100 customers came to watch debaters battle it out over the right of the Strasbourg Court to influence British judges and the impact of its human rights rulings on democracy and justice in the UK.

«It appears that the North Carolina State Bar has a pattern of favoring the business of its attorneys over the rights of its citizens,» said Rampenthal.

Another strength of this book is that it focuses on areas that have been given short shrift in previous works on Canadian copyright: users» rights (an area of increasing importance, since most public discourse about copyright focuses on what we can't do rather than what we can); aboriginal approaches to intellectual property rights (which emphasize the protection of the honour of clans, cultures, and nations over the rights of individual creators); digital rights management (and its spectacular failure to actually protect content); and public licensing systems (such as the Creative Commons licenses).

The group argued the school was motivated by a preference for concerns expressed by Jewish students over the rights of Palestinian students.

If the nominee and the person to whom proceedings are bequeathed in a Will are not same, then a priority is given to the provisions of the Will over the rights of the nominee.

Nicotine drug tests used during background screening have been challenged in court, the Southeast Missourian reports, but a federal court in Massachusetts ruled public policy favored a smoke - free society over the right of individuals to smoke on their own time.

This consideration is used in all family law courts in any custody dispute, and it prevails over the rights of either parent.

In practice, the principle of equality in the administration of native title rights requires that Indigenous and non-Indigenous interests are administered equitably without non-Indigenous interests being privileged over the rights of Indigenous groups.

Poelina says the TPP is a breach of Australia's constitution on land, water, and food sovereignty as it «enshrines the rights of transnational companies over the rights of Australian citizens, particularly if our livelihoods threaten the profit making of these companies».

That is because the probate courts also retain jurisdiction over the rights of unemancipated children — their parents can not contract away their rights.

Not exact matches

Enough that the brilliant minds behind Crispr - Cas9 — University of California at Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, her academic partner Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and rival Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientist Feng Zhang — and the various biotechs affiliated with them are embroiled in an ugly, global patent spat over the rights to the tech.

But to the apparent surprise of the Trudeau government, and, frankly, to some of us who pay attention to these things, the opposition and the business lobby have decided to take a stand over a business owner's right to squeeze as much as he or she can from the tax system.

«We still see around half a million veterans that are unemployed right now, and over a million veterans that are underemployed,» said Brian Stann, CEO of Hire Heroes USA.

One of the Germans «started off by saying that he thought it only right to come over and wish us a happy Christmas, and trusted us implicitly to keep the truce,» Hulse wrote.

I'm in the right lane, you flash by me in the left lane, dart over in front of me... and then brake hard so you can slow down enough to make the exit ramp, causing me to slow down, too.

Time to market is critical, but over the long haul, if we are to truly deliver an exquisite product experience that will delight our customers, it's of paramount importance the product has the right features and superb quality, all implemented in a manner that allows for a positive support experience.

«Right now you don't know if this is a pause that refreshes, and let me just say that's exactly what we've been seeing with this entire market over the past 24 months, advances, sideways consolidations that refresh and then another move higher, and that's kind of what Apple's been doing.»

Over the weekend, there were multiple headlines that MBS made recent comments in support of a U.S. peace plan for Israel, and reportedly was critical of Palestinian reluctance to accept a deal; earlier in April, MBS had said Israel has a right to exist and to its own land.

Star Trek actor and gay rights advocate George Takei wrote on Facebook there could be a boycott of Indianapolis» annual gaming convention, GenCon, over the law.

Over one - third of respondents (34.98 %) said they would «give up the right to vote in all elections for life» just to secure an extra 10 % in pay, while 9 % said they would «give up their child's or future child's right to vote» for the rest of their lives.

So some analysts and investors with long memories are wary of the promise of using the millimeter wave rights for business cases that sound eerily familiar, despite the obvious advances in technology that have occurred over the past 20 years.

Nor, for that matter, is he adept at the political stunt: When McConnell stood onstage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in March waving a flintlock musket over his head as a show of his support for gun rights, the senator was roundly mocked.

It's great to invent something new and be the first mover, but you've got to keep looking over your shoulder for the fast followers running right behind you and make sure that you have a plan to keep ahead of the pack.

Then, news broke over the weekend that a state senator in New York is introducing Kokito's Law, which is described as a «pet passenger's bill of rights.»

«The main issue with Bitcoin itself is that the community around it right now is kind of too polarized,» Karpelès says, citing the split between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash over a disagreement in how best to scale the digital currency.