Sentences with phrase «passing policies of governments»

Our commitment to human rights, if it is to be sustained, must depend not on practice, law, or the passing policies of governments (though we must be earnestly concerned about all of these), but rather on a promise that bestows dignity upon every person and demands of every person a respect — no, a reverence — for the dignity of all others.

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On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

The provisions in the bill must directly affect the federal government's spending or revenue — it's a way to restrict what policies can pass under the special privileges of reconciliation, which allows a bill to advance with only 50 votes instead of the usual 60.

In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL / Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe.

«Mr. Speaker, the responsibility of any government is to communicate with the population on plans and priorities and policies that are actually passed by this Parliament,» Mr. Clement explained.

If there is a silver lining to be found in any of this, it just might be that the legislative branch of our government might be compelled to stop passing the buck to unelected members of the Fed and reassert its policy leadership role on behalf of Main Street rather than just Wall Street.

The transition from monetary policy to fiscal policy has begun in the U.S., and the baton has now been passed to the executive and legislative branches of government, which are responsible for enacting policies that can carry growth further.

«Mass Audubon congratulates the legislature on passing important environmental legislation regarding Community Preservation and stopping a repeal of the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act last session,» added Jack Clarke, Mass Audubon's director of public policy and government relations.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

However, the party has also reiterated its belief in City Regions, a policy first mooted in the wake of the 2004 North - East regional assembly referendum defeat — stating that it will pass an «English Devolution Act» if elected into government, giving more powers to City and also County regions, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and regions to work as a forum for regional representation.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would sue the federal government over the just - passed tax bill, proposed major changes to the state's criminal justice system and introduced a suite of policies to combat sexual harassment in his annual State of the State address on Wednesday.

A shutdown of the federal government is preferable to Congress passing bad policy like the tax overhaul legislation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday told reporters in a conference call.

Your government is introducing innovative ways of payment methods using Information technology tools and policies to drive the strategy as seen in the Tax Amnesty Bill which has just been passed by the Legislature arm of government.

The Fiscal Policy Institute has long supported government transparency and accountability, especially in regards to New York's out - of - control economic development spending, and is pleased that the New York State Senate has passed these bills.

Andrew Lansley MP: «Last Thursday, the local medical committees, which are the statutory bodies required to represent GPs across the country, met in conference and passed a vote of no confidence in the Secretary of State and the policies of the Labour Government.

A Senior Law lecturer at the University of Ghana Law School, Dr. Raymond Atuguba, has asked the Akufo - Addo government to pass a legislation making the Free Senior High School policy binding on future administrations.

«ACEP recommends that the government should pass the promised Mineral Revenue Management Act to create additional sources of funds from solid minerals to finance the free SHS policy,» the policy think tank stated in a 10 - page document analyzing the 2018 budget with regards to oil and gas,» the think - tank said.

Last year the Welsh Liberal Democrats agreed to a two year deal, worth # 223m, to allow the Welsh Government's budget to pass in exchange for the implementation of Welsh Liberal Democrat policies.

The last Labour government passed several key pieces of legislation — including that introducing foundation hospitals and tuition fees — thanks to the votes of Scottish MPs whose constituents were unaffected, given Holyrood's control of health and education policy.

That came to pass on 11 October, when the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an arm of Congress, concluded in a report that those activities violated legislation banning scientific cooperation with China by NASA and by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which Holdren directs.

History lesson With the advent of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment came to pass.

In 1992, after it was noted that a flush toilet uses 40 percent of a household's water, the United States government passed the Energy Policy Act (EPAct), requiring all new toilets within two years to use only 1.5 gallons (5.5 liters) for each flush, when the average was an astonishing eight gallons (30 liters).

Passed in 1965, it created a clear role for the federal government in K - 12 policy, offering more than $ 1 billion a year in aid under its first statutory section, known as Title I, to districts to help cover the cost of educating disadvantaged students.

Julia Warth, League of Education Voters Assistant Director of Policy and Government Relations, and Jake Vela, League of Education Voters Senior Policy Analyst, will explain which school funding proposals passed in the 2018 legislative session and answer your questions.

Choice B: Young college grads with degrees in their desired career area — who complete 5 weeks of education training which includes teaching a class 1 hour daily and a small group 1 hour daily, pass the state required tests, continue basic education classes after they begin teaching, are hired with the district paying a minimum of $ 5,000 per teacher to a private organization, are paid salary and benefits negotiated by the district's union, are sought by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, after 2 years get discounts and benefits from grad schools and employers, after 2 years receive $ 11,000 toward further degrees in education or that initial career choice, and after 2 years are now «experts» in education seeking positions in government to influence education policy.

The policy solution that has garnered the most momentum to improve civics in recent years is a standard that requires high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship exam before graduation.6 According to this analysis, 17 states have taken this path.7 Yet, critics of a mandatory civics exam argue that the citizenship test does nothing to measure comprehension of the material8 and creates an additional barrier to high school graduation.9 Other states have adopted civics as a requirement for high school graduation, provided teachers with detailed civics curricula, offered community service as a graduation requirement, and increased the availability of Advance Placement (AP) U.S. government classes.10

But now the House has passed, and the Senate is preparing to pass, a bill that will rein in the federal government's overweening control of education policy and return much control to states and school districts.

The rest of the states eventually adopted reverse mortgage policies, though the Texas government would not pass a fully functioning reverse mortgage program until 2006.

Invoking GNH, his government passed a string of paternalistic laws and policies.

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The Supreme Court ruled in 1998 the government had a contractual obligation to put all of the high - level waste into a national repository because of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act that Congress passed in 1982.

Many positions of governments on climate change fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny yet ethics and justice issues are largely being ignored in discussions of climate change policies at least in the United States.

Just in time to make it home for the holidays, Congress passed an omnibus spending bill that keeps the government open for another year and included a number of policy priorities for both parties.

The new amendments come just a few months after the government passed Bill 122, the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act, that provided broad public access to hospitals» administrative and policy - related information for the first time by subjecting them to the freedom of information act.

It will remove over # 1 billion from the cost of providing motor insurance and the government expects the insurance industry to pass an average saving of # 40 to # 50 per motor insurance policy on to consumers.»

When open & direct access comes to pass as the default policy across all government bodies (and it will), only then will the next - generation ecosystem of Canadian legal innovators truly flourish.

If you're under 26 years old and venturing into freelance, you may still be able to stay on your family's health insurance policy — but once you pass that age, you'll need to get your own policy, or be hit with an annual fine from the government ($ 695 per person, or 2.5 percent of your income, whichever is greater).

In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL / Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe.

«In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL / Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe», Facebook said in a lengthy post by Paul Grewal, the company's vice president and Deputy General Counsel.

In the latest revelation, Facebook announced on March 18 that University of Cambridge psychology lecturer and St Petersburg university professor Dr Aleksandr Kogan «lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL / Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government, and military work around the globe».

As for the policy itself, the political arm of government's announced its policy and it's now up to ministers to decide how to deal with the fallout and ensure that the good elements of the package are passed.