Sentences with phrase «part of national law»

Some 135 countries have made it part of their national laws by ratifying the Paris Agreement, and therefore it is part of the base on which they design their climate policy and plans.

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The FDA's new rules, which are part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, set a national standard for restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets and will pre-empt the patchwork of state laws.

Savannah Law School professor Andrew Wright, former associate counsel in the Obama White House, said it is unusual for a president to turn to lawyers like Ekonomou who are untested on the national scene and not part of the elite white - collar bar.

In an editorial accompanying the new study, Dr. Wilson Compton of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues say policymakers need to understand which parts of medical marijuana laws are tied with positive and negative effects.

As one trade expert has noted, Canada is defined under American law as part of the US military - industrial complex for national security purposes.

«I began my career at a large national law firm where I was part of the commercial litigation group,» says Werner (pictured at left).

As part of her investigation, which went from November to May, Daniels interviewed more than 160 people, including USA Gymnastics leadership and staff, club owners, current and former athletes, national team coaches and law enforcement.

The Children, Schools and Families Bill is very likely to become law making sex and relationships education a statutory part of the national curriculum.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

National regulations like the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in the U.S. and international food laws and regulations like those that are part of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) are designed to prevent food safety problems before they become actual hazards to people.

QAI (Quality Assurance International), part of the NSF International family of companies, is a leading organic product certifying agency accredited to the USDA National Organic Program (NOP), the Canadian Organic Regime (COR) and Mexico's Organic Products Law (LPO).

Fathers Direct, the national information centre for fatherhood, today gave a cautious welcome to the Government's announcement that employers will be required by law to give serious consideration to requests from the parents of young children forflexible or part - time working.

As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted by President Obama, many breastfeeding employees are provided rights and protected by law, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).

Pakistan has recently passed legislation which made parts of the International Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes national law.

«This part of the law can be a burden,» Roumi was quoted as saying by the Emirati newspaper the National.

My interest in this whole issue comes from the fact that if our law courts especially the highest court in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a country?

Announcements relating to central taxation (income tax, national insurance, corporation tax etc) as well as matters of employment law (not Northern Ireland) and financial services regulation apply to all parts of the UK.

The applicants were praying the court to declare a violation of their human rights with the non-implementation of the law, and a subsequent order for them to take part in general elections and national referenda while residing abroad.

The coalition has already announced measures to limit tax credits, scrap the Child Trust Fund, for the part - privatisation of Royal Mail, to scrap National Insurance increases for employers but maintain them for employees, cut by 10,000 the planned extra university places, provide for a greater role for the private sector in «free schools» and a «review» of all employment law to «maximise flexibility» amongst other measures.

The parts of the Constitution cited by Sagay empowers the Senate or House of Representatives to direct investigation into the conduct of affairs of «any person, authority, ministry or government department charged, or intended to be charged, with the duty of or responsibility for executing or administering laws enacted by the National Assembly.»

The Roll Call of Heroes ceremony took place as part of National Police Week, proclaimed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 as a dedication to those members of law enforcement who died in the line of duty.

The funding is part of Gillibrand's School Asthma Management Plan Act and was included in the national education bill recently signed into law by President Obama.

Law enforcement agencies in Erie County today joined the Erie County Department of Central Police Services in an interfaith Law Enforcement Memorial Service at the Public Safety Campus in Buffalo, part of National Police Week events being held around the country in observance of the sacrifices made by law enforcement officeLaw enforcement agencies in Erie County today joined the Erie County Department of Central Police Services in an interfaith Law Enforcement Memorial Service at the Public Safety Campus in Buffalo, part of National Police Week events being held around the country in observance of the sacrifices made by law enforcement officeLaw Enforcement Memorial Service at the Public Safety Campus in Buffalo, part of National Police Week events being held around the country in observance of the sacrifices made by law enforcement officelaw enforcement officers.

Now, Dr. Kunbuor says that a crucial part of the reason for the unduly long delay in the legitimate disposal of the mortal remains of Capt. Zapata has to do with the fact that the country does not have Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) laws that stipulate the process or means by which the remains of foreign nationals whose relatives can not be located are to be disposed of.

«She had two bills signed into law last December as part of the (National Defense Authorization Act), and last May, she had her Pell initiative signed into law as part of a broader legislative package,» said Tom Flanagin, a spokesman.

Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Republican National Committee regional political director James Tobin and GOP consultant Allen Raymond «have been found guilty of criminally violating federal communications law» for their part in a 2002 Election Day phone jamming scheme in New Hampshire, according to the Washington Post.

If the amendment passes, the three laws will now be part of regular laws in the statute books and can be easily altered by the National Assembly.

President Nana Akufo - Addo, as part of the National Sanitation Campaign, has announced a National Sanitation Brigade to enforce sanitation laws nationwide.

«The National Assembly is not immune to the law that is applicable to anybody in this country but the anti-corruption agencies must respect the independence of the legislature and seek an informed opinion whenever they are delving into issues that concern the legislature because they are still seen as part of the executive.

The CPI project, led by journalists Dan Fagin of Newsday and Marianne Lavelle of the National Law Journal, in part analyzed 161 studies of four chemicals reviewed over the last 25 years: two pesticides — alachlor and atrazine — the industrial solvent formaldehyde, and the dry - cleaning agent perchloroethylene.

In 1990 as the Office of Scientific Freedom and Responsibility became the Program for Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law, the AAAS - ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists (NCLS) became a more integral part of the program's scope.

Charles Cuvelier, who referred to the border wall as «part of a suite of solutions» and who works for the U.S. National Park Service as chief of law enforcement, security and emergency services, said that about 70 countries worldwide have chosen to build border walls.

High seas are waters outside national jurisdictions, and are in part governed by the United Nation's 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea, which has been approved by 165 nations and the European Union (but not the United States).

A wunderkind of astronautical engineering during his 11 years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Edwards led the development of the world's first optical cryocooler, a breakthrough device that achieved supercold temperatures with no moving parts («It breaks two, if not all three, laws of thermodynamics,» he says), and designed missions to the moon and Jupiter's moon Europa.

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The requirement is one part of the amended law that went into effect Dec. 1 of last year to regulate dating sites, and comes under the rules of the National Public Safety Commission.

On Friday, July 26, Rep. George Miller (D - CA) took part in a media call with Ben Austin of Parent Revolution, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing parent trigger campaigns, and other parents to celebrate National Parents Day (July 28) and the efforts of parents to exercise their voice under parent trigger laws.

In the first part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne describes how environmental conditions in school may make students sick, yet no federal laws protect students from exposure to contaminants that pose potential health risks.

Federal law also mandates the periodic administration of tests in selected subjects to a representative sample of students in 4th and 8th grade as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called «the nation's report card.»

As part of a two - day national summit here on revitalizing native languages, three founders of immersion schools that are teaching children Cherokee, Ojibwe, and Native Hawaiian contended that some No Child Left Behind provisions present huge hurdles for language - immersion programs or schools and conflict with schooling rights spelled out in another federal law, the Native American Languages...

This past spring, Figueroa was part of the Harvard team — including students from the Kennedy School, Law School, and Business School — that took first place in the Public Schools Urban Education Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban education.

Pupils from Moorgate Primary School in Bolton recently took part in a brand new educational workshop with the National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL) at the Moot Courtroom at the University of Bolton.

This is a three part module designed for KS2 explaining democracy in straightforward terms, including: - what democracy means - how the system of voting and elections works in the UK - the way that local, national and European government works - an overview of how an idea becomes a law This includes a PowerPoint presentation and an activities sheet.

«I think it's ingenious on the part of the Obama administration... to get all of these states to change their laws» based on the chance to win a portion of the federal stimulus aid, said Mr. Wiman, whose union is an affiliate of the National Education Association.

«As emerging concepts and evolving law impact the topic of student data privacy, it is vital for school districts and communities to take part in state and national conversations as proposed laws and policies take shape,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Assonational conversations as proposed laws and policies take shape,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards AssoNational School Boards Association.

The federal lawsuit, which is also backed by the National Education Association and the Florida Education Association, says that some teachers» rights are being violated because they are being assessed based on students that sometimes aren't even in their classroom — a byproduct, critics say, of the law's requirement that test scores account for a part of educators» pay even if there are no state exams in that grade or subject area.

The shift toward accountability policies for schools over the past two decades — first introduced in some states, and made national under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into law in 2002 — has been an important part of these efforts.

Other national groups also propose parent trigger laws as part of agendas that favor charter schools, eliminating teacher tenure, and restricting teachers» unions.

The local students were part of the National School Walkout, joining their peers from thousands of school districts across the country to demand common sense gun laws and better school safety.

The Federal Transit Laws, 49 U.S.C. 5332 (b), provide that «no person in the United States shall on the grounds of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or age be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any project, program or activity funded in whole or in part through financial assistance under this Act.»