Sentences with phrase «placed on the act»

Given the many constraints the US Constitution places on the acts that simple majorities can take — like the extraordinary representation of small states in the Senate, and the power of the filibuster to thwart majorities — it strains credulity to argue that certain geographically concentrated interests require added protection from the majority of Americans.

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election that will take place on 8 June,» the prime minister said.

Members of Congress are allowed to actively invest in individual firms as long as it's not based on non-public information, even with ethics protections like the STOCK Act in place.

So put in place a formal approach to listening to customers all the time and acting on their input.»

Both Twitter and Facebook said Tuesday ahead of the hearing that they would support the Honest Ads Act, a proposed piece of legislation that would require tech firms that sell ads to disclose how much they are paid for placing political ads on their platform.

Keep in mind, if you are going to encourage and implement a mechanism that asks for feedback, you need to be equally enthusiastic when it comes to embrace that feedback and put a plan in place to act on common themes and trends that emerge.

The most successful people have adopted a set of habits that helps them attract opportunities, and then puts them in the right place at the right time to act on them.

The social networking site took down his account after the attack, saying in a statement Tuesday, «There is absolutely no place on our platform for people who commit such horrendous acts.»

The bad news is that the SBA, acting outside of the stimulus bill, has enacted a significant change to business acquisition loans by placing caps on goodwill financing.

«This may indicate that during the period of the 1970s and early 1980s too little weight may have been placed on inflation misses but in the more recent past we may have placed too little weight on unemployment misses — and if anything, we should have acted more aggressively to reduce the unemployment rate,» he said.

In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice recently released 130 pages of guidance on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has been in place since 1977.

Challenging limits of the Speaker's unwillingness to impose standards on this place and the extent to which viewers are willing to have their intelligence insulted, Conservative MP Blaine Calkins and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson used a scripted exchange on the Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act to criticize Mr. Trudeau's public speaking.

The proposed law would also adjust penalties according to the value of the cryptocurrency involved in a transgression, which would be determined based on a token's exchange rate with the Philippine peso at the time that the criminal act took place.

As the overall sentiment of the cryptocurrency ecosystem is centered on inclusion and decentralization, the humanitarian efforts of those who act as leaders and participants reflect a desire within the ecosystem to make the world a better place.

We're hearing this consistently from agencies and we're acting on it... our strategy is to get the base functionality in place first, then provide export capabilities (so you can build your own reports) and then deliver reporting capabilities in the product (including both custom reporting and white label reporting).

Trump has promised to dismantle the Dodd - Frank Act, which placed new regulations on the banking industry in 2010.

Decades later, when Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a Reagan administration initiative, the new legislation largely eliminated tax deductions on interest from personal loans, but kept the MID in place, with the justification that it was an important tool for encouraging homeownership.

Content Promotion — The act (and art) of sharing your content with new and current audiences on various places around the web in order to boost traffic, brand exposure, leads, and sales.

The act (and art) of sharing your content with new and current audiences on various places around the web in order to boost traffic, brand exposure, leads, and sales.

Also, there are a few different places online that act as Bitcoin faucets that hand out a few Millibits to new users on regular intervals.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by President Trump on Dec. 22 provoked confusion and protest in many places, particularly blue states like New York, the corporate breaks in the law provide sudden opportunities as well.

Based on what I have been told by members of the public and reviewed in publicly available documents, I believe violations to the Commodity Exchange Act have taken place in silver markets and that any such violation of the law in this regard should be prosecuted.»

The 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which was used to place sanctions on other countries after the Sept. 11 attacks, gives the president broad authority to respond to an «unusual and extraordinary threat,» including by halting incoming Chinese transactions, nullifying business deals and freezing foreign - owned assets.

The act bans the frivolous use of toxic pesticides on lawns and in other places where children play.

The threshold placed on issuers is too low to drive the investment desired with the bi-partisan passage of the JOBS Act.

For this traders, the binary option robot can act as a helping hand which allows them to place trades on several assets simultaneously so that they never miss an opportunity to generate profit in one underlying while they were busy placing a trade on another winning opportunity.

«We actually believe an ability to identify mistakes early and act on them is as or even more important in a portfolio than being right in the first place» Eric Marshall

Legally, the county's moratorium may violate a federal law — the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act — which makes it illegal for local governments to place a «substantial burden» on houses of worship and their function.

«As a magistrate, I have to act on the evidence before me and quite simply, I believe that there is not sufficient evidence to convince me that placing a child in the care of a same - sex couple can be as holistically beneficial to a child as placing them with a mum and dad as God and nature intended.

Because He can not force us to love or believe in Him, there must be a place separate from Him and His redeeming act on the cross for those who have sinned against Him.

Sye notes that a bill called the «No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,» which would place new restrictions on the healthcare law President Obama signed last year, was the third House resolution introduced this year, which he calls a testament to new GOP fervor on social issues.

No good act or thought by a human being is lost on God — God has a place for all of them.

Though she may place the same value on strength that Lorelai does, she has begun to believe the ability to be strong absolves her of the responsibility to act morally.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

In the hope of locating his father's lost asses, Saul and his servant have consulted the seer, Samuel, who has not only reassured them on the score of the animals but has also anointed Saul «to be prince over his people Israel» (10:1) As sign and token of the validity of Samuel's act Saul is informed in advance of what is to take place, and it happens precisely as Samuel has said it would:

I should wish, on the contrary, to say that the objective efficacy of the death of Christ lies in it being an act of God Incarnate directed towards man, placing him in a new relation to himself by a decisive act of acceptance.

«That chapel belongs to Yale,» he said firmly, «and I don't want illegal acts taking place on university property.»

Having been unable to see what God has placed before us, we now can not act on what we haven't seen.

So they put into effect a tax on molasses, a basic colonial commodity, and passed the infamous Stamp Act, which placed a tax on all newspapers and legal documents.

The emphasis tends to be placed on the reception of the act by the other person.

Though there may be areas of his life or his world which take on special sanctity for cultic purposes, these sacred acts and places only represent the whole of life, the whole of his world.

This statement, applied to the individual, does not autonomously fix the moment when this event takes place; but every man applies it to himself, not by reflecting on a certain empirical fact, but in the very act of faith and hope itself.

«The process of destructuring takes place irresistibly, just as water dripping steadily on a rock... this happens because gradually but irresistably the media bring everything - all acts of violence and all the opinions of the world - into the family or local circle... Everything... comes to us piece by piece, without any logical connection...»

It was a place where people dressed and acted the same on Sunday as they did the rest of the week.

Being in solidarity with our fellow Dalits of different faiths and ideologies is a demand which the God of the Bible, through his own act of incarnation, places on Dalit Christians.

But the succeeding acts of the drama must take place on another level; they must occur in a new world into which, at this moment, we are being born: a world in which each thinking unit upon earth will only act (if he agrees to act) in the consciousness, become natural and instinctive to all, of furthering a work of total personalization.

A deacon acts as usher, showing each believer to his or her place, men in the front, the women behind them, and the young on the side if there is room.