Sentences with phrase «policy of a state ban»

Well, the science and policy of a state ban on hydraulic fracturing is easy compared to the complexities of understanding the global climate system.

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To truly bring more foreign talent into Canadian tech hubs — whether they're from the United States, one of the countries affected by the travel ban, or elsewhere — requires sweeping policy changes.

After openly supporting same - sex marriage and striking down the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy, the President of the United States also hopes to ban workplace discrimination based on employees» sexual orientation and gender identity.

Few states have ever provided a more cogent explanation for any public policy, and none has ever furnished a more coherent defense of the ban against assisted suicide.

Until it was banned during the most recent state of emergency, SACC published Ecunews, filled with thoughtful yet uncompromising denunciations of many government actions and policies, particularly the forced removals of blacks from newly declared white areas.

When the state of New Mexico banned the practice in April, the USDA announced it would begin requiring school districts to have written meal - charge policies.

The Assembly, Senate and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have proposed reforms to how the state handles sexual harassment cases, which include measures ranging from bans on confidential settlements as well as money for the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to review allegations and a goal of creating a uniform policy for handling cases.

A multi-pronged legislative package passed in honor of Earth Day aims to make New York State more environmentally friendly by banning the use of dangerous chemicals, setting clearer policies for disposing of hazardous waste and protecting New York's wetlands.

Currently, five states and Washington, D.C. ban the practice, and although this bill would only affect a small portion of the country, it represents a greater message to the incoming presidential administration that policies like those supported by Pence will not be tolerated in many places.

In a statement Sussman said that the project is «a past generation facility» and questioned Governor Cuomo's contradictory approval of the power plant given the official state policy banning fracking:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday released a package of measures designed to curtail sexual harassment in the workplace that include a uniform policy for state government employees, a ban on taxpayer funds for settlements related to sexual assault and harassment and require the disclosure from public and some private entities of harassment - related settlements.

Former Erie County and City of Buffalo elected official Joel Giambra, longtime State Senator John DeFrancisco and former Housing Commissioner for the Pataki Administration Joe Holland took turns criticizing Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion program, an energy policy that bans hydrofracking, the state's taxes and regulations, ethical troubles in Albany and education policies including the Excelsior proState Senator John DeFrancisco and former Housing Commissioner for the Pataki Administration Joe Holland took turns criticizing Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion program, an energy policy that bans hydrofracking, the state's taxes and regulations, ethical troubles in Albany and education policies including the Excelsior prostate's taxes and regulations, ethical troubles in Albany and education policies including the Excelsior program.

Earlier in the week officials had defended the policy — which required all packages to be ordered through a handful of state - approved vendors, and which banned goods like used books and fresh fruit and vegetables — as a necessary security measure in the face of increasing prison contraband.

Attorneys general for 21 states and the District of Columbia also have sued to block the repeal of the federal policy, which had banned companies from interfering with web traffic or speeds to favor certain sites or apps.

The State of New York recently introduced a policy banning taxpayer funding of settlements.

Trump also proclaimed that he will bring about more vigorous stop - and - frisk policing as a national policy, a ban on Middle Eastern immigration to the United States and the creation of a Muslim registry.

The sixth plank from Cuomo's 2017 policy agenda seeks to address that broader issue by giving the state Superintendent of Financial Services the ability to ban individuals from working in the banking and insurance industries in New York if they are found guilty of egregious wrongdoing.

Michele Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Atlantic Council Mikael Hagstrom, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, SAS Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State David Ignatius, Associate Editor, Washington Post James L. Jones, former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al - Masry Al - youm Newspaper Frederick Kempe, President & CEO, Atlantic Council Christopher A. Kojm, Chairman, US National Intelligence Council Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook George Lund, Chairman, Torch Hill Investment Group H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais Barry Pavel, Director, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics; Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush James Steinberg, Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times Christopher Williams, President, Christopher A. Williams, LLC

And the state of Hawaii, which challenged the revised ban, argued that the policy would harm the state by barring students who had been admitted to the University of Hawaii.

Our results build on prior research indicating that state same - sex marriage bans were associated with increased rates of psychiatric disorders19 and that health expenditures decreased following implementation of a same - sex marriage policy in Massachusetts.22 Our study contributes evidence on the association between same - sex marriage and mental health based on a robust analysis that controls for differences in state characteristics and for other state - level events that may affect suicide attempts, which are unlikely to systematically vary with the same geographic and temporal pattern as same - sex marriage implementation.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

Official Ohio Department of Education policy bans districts» use of flagging to harass the charter schools, but some charter operators complain that the state often looks the other way and insists that charter schools resolve the problem with the local districts.

And in 2013, the Board of Education, following Deasy's lead, banned suspensions for willful defiance, a policy that recently became state law.

Other popular education programs have put the age - old policy of banning state aid to religious K - 12 schools on increasingly shaky ground.

(Kan.) School administrators would have the option of banning less healthy snacks from fundraising events next year under a proposed wellness policy being considered by the state board of education.

The discipline policy shifts by a range of governments have yielded real change: In 2014, California became the first state in the nation to ban «willful defiance» suspensions for its youngest students — a category of misconduct that includes refusing to remove a hat, to wear the school uniform, or to turn off a cell phone.

There are mixed signs of success: the out - of - school discipline bans are associated with a 20 percent drop in suspensions across the country from school year 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, [1] but quick shifts in discipline policy have also had adverse effects such as high teacher turnover in Washington state, deteriorating school climate in New York, [2] or lower academic achievement for some students without prior suspensions in Philadelphia.

In that ruling the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals struck down Oklahoma City's policy of not adopting out pit bulls, saying it violated the state's ban on breed discrimination.

We actively campaign to: - Stop the commercialisation of our native wildlife, with present emphasis on the Kangaroo - Ban the use of 1080 poison - Ban the use of the steel jaw traps in Australia (we succeeded in having this banned in NSW and ACT in 1997)- Ban recreational hunting of all animals in NSW state forests and National Parks - Implement a no - kill policy in pounds and shelters to stop the killing of thousands of healthy cats and dogs every year - Lobby NSW councils to provide low cost desexing programs for low income carers - Abolish the farming of the Asiatic «Moon» bears in China cruelly milked for their bile - Abolish vivisection and the fur industry - Ban circuses with animals - Protect Australia's dingo by lobbying our government to recognise and protect it as a vulnerable species

Director of Policy and Enforcement for Xbox LIVE Stephen Toulouse has stated anyone cought using the Javelin glitch in MW2 will be susceptible to a ban of up to 2 weeks.

Steam has now clarified their policies, stating all of their developers can ban «disruptive» players from playing their games.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

Sharkwater, and the «fin - free» campaign that grew out of it, was a main driver behind shark fin soup bans, China's decision not to serve shark fin soup at state dinners, and various companies» (Air Canada, UPS, DHL, etc.) policies against transporting shark fins.

Yet despite eBay's announcement last year of a new global policy banning ivory sales across international borders, ivory sales in the United States appear to have drastically increased.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Indoor Tanning Association (ITA) representing thousands of businesses and the Hemp Industries Association's (HIA) 200 member companies received written clarification this week from the United States Air Force Surgeon General's Office that hemp skin care products are «not prohibited» under a policy dating back to 2001 that bans ingestion of hemp foods by Air Force personnel.

In an investigation published yesterday (March 8), the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR) found evidence of an unwritten policy that banned officials at the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from using specific terms related to climate change in official communications, emails or reports.

In 2012, North Carolina passed legislation banning the state from basing coastal policies on the latest predictions of sea level rise, ABC News reported.

But long before Florida unofficially banned these climate - related terms, other states passed laws attempting to limit the influence of climate change on land policies and education.

«The Court emphasized that respect for the conditions of «living together» was a legitimate aim for the measure at issue and that, particularly as the State had a lot of room for manoeuvre («a wide margin of appreciation») as regards this general policy question on which there were significant differences of opinion, the ban imposed by the Law of 11 October 2010 did not breach the Convention.»

All employers should continue to be mindful of other laws regulating criminal records checks and screening policies, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (a consistent source of class action litigation) and state and local employment and ban - the - box laws.

The claim itself seeks damages over the federal government's 2006 policy decision banning permits for the importation of packages of bees from the United States over long - standing concerns over the spread of the tracheal mite bee pest.

In some jurisdictions there was a difference in the time of banning between state (public) and private schools; an interesting anomaly is that corporal punishment is still legal in Northern Territory state schools but is prohibited by departmental policies - a teacher who used it could be sacked but not prosecuted.

I should have mentioned that clauses 12 and 13 of that CanLII policy state that CanLII publishes judgments as received «including the personal information they may contain» except where there's a publication ban.

Some states ban the sale of some types of burial insurance policies, because many policyholders paid more in premiums than they got back in their death benefit.

Ryan Hagemann, a civil and technology liberties policy analyst, addresses that the ongoing efforts of the state to ban encryption on smartphone set a riskier precedent.

Many of the substances listed in the specification are outlawed by specific international and United States regulation, but some of the restrictions go beyond governmental regulation and are banned via «Apple policy.»

On killer robots, the resolution calls on the European Union (EU) member states, the Council of Ministers of the EU, and the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, to «ban the development, production and use of fully autonomous weapons which enable strikes to be carried out without human intervention.»

Microsoft - owned LinkedIn, however, states in its privacy policy that it bans ads related to the «sale of virtual currency.»

After consulting with the tax agency, justice ministry and other relevant government departments, the FSC in a sharp U-turn of policy direction, stated that it was considering reversing the ICO ban.

Held responsibility of handling / serving all food items as per the policies of the state (as some items may be banned in particular states).