Sentences with phrase «policy stating your rights»

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Breitbart is known for supporting what some refer to as the «alt right» movement in the United States, a loose affiliation of politically conservative groups that include overtly racist organizations such as Richard Spencer's National Policy Institute, which advocates for something it calls «white nationalism.»

State court rulings are all over the map on this issue and policy makers are still trying to find the right balance between company and personal rights.

Transportation policy experts say that high - speed transit in the United States has been stymied not so much by technological challenges as by the challenges of acquiring rights of way and getting enough money for the required infrastructure.

Restricting ticket sales to certain states is a policy all sports teams have the right to exercise.

Based on wire headlines from Reuters, Xi made all the right noises when it came to the outlook for Chinese trade policy, helping to calm investor nerves that have been rattled over the past month as trade tensions between the United States and China increased.

And a 2010 survey by the Institute for Women's Policy Research revealed nearly half of US workers reported they were either «contractually forbidden or strongly discouraged» from discussing pay with coworkers (although, as of 2014, 10 states had passed laws protecting employees» rights to discuss salaries).

And in 2011, Wisconsin's governor decimated public sector unions by taking away state and local government employee rights to collective bargaining, reversing a policy in place since 1959.

Late last month, Facebook proposed updates to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and data - use policies that state, in part, that users effectively grant Facebook permission to use their personal information in advertising simply by being on the social network.

«I think states» rights is a mainstream issue and legalization advocates have found a clever way to fit their policy into states» rights.»

«He's been very clear that he thinks the risks on the jobs side are far greater right now than the risks on the inflation side and that policy should follow that obvious state of affairs.»

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

As in years past, recipients of Donors Trust cash include the biggest players in conservative politics today: the David Koch - chaired Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the Cato Institute, the FreedomWorks Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, and the influential State Policy Network.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Earlier this year, the then President of the Asia Development Bank, Mr. Haruhiko Kuroda on a visit to India stated «Asia is expected to contribute more than 50 % of global GDP by 2050, provided the right policies are undertaken.

The major challenge for the federal government in the budget expected this month is to maintain its commitment to progressive social and economic policies in the context of a major shift to the political right in the United States.

Lefever was the founding president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and was nominated by Ronald Reagan for the human rights desk in the Department of State but was not confirmed.

«I think Obama has the right course of action, the right policies for Israel's long term survival... as a democratic and Jewish state.»

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's 2010 Annual Report took note of the shift, stating, «This change in phraseology could well be viewed by human rights defenders and officials in other countries as having concrete policy implications.»

«In short, under his leadership US IRF policy can advance human rights and, at the same time, make substantial contributions to the national security of the United States at very low cost.»

due to some crazy religious beliefs out there in the world i.e. marrying off young children and marrying genetic kin, the government can't ever allow religion to dictate marriage policy, so have your ceremonies and deny same - gender couples to marry in your church but bluntly stated your crying and foot - stomping will accomplish nothing, marriage isn't a religious thing it is a civil rights and equality thing, thus if the religious win by denying same gender cuples their civil rights to equal treatment under the law, then don't be surprised when others use those same grounds to deny you your rights under the law.

The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy, a policy worthy of imitation.

This policy, called Josephinism, held that the state has not only the right to defend the Church, to reform it in the case of harmful activities, and to inspect it, but also to convene councils or synods, to end theological controversies, to censor theological books, and to tolerate other religions.

Britain does not enjoy his company, he has destroyed our democracy, our once centered BBC, rendered our politicians as corrupt, lied to the public on numerous occasions, denied the British public any say on the E.U, denied us the right to know anything of his secret mass immigration policy's, caused more racism and divide in different forms in communities, turned us into the most watched CCTV state in the world, not to mention the wars.

Since the Court found that state and local educational policy were in conflict with fundamental democratic rights as expressed in the Constitution, it ruled that local self - determination in respect to segregated schools must be overruled by national policy.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent legislation, executive policy, and judicial expansion mobilized the power of the state to effectively crush racist practices, especially in the South.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

Case in point is the civil rights movement the responsibility of the church is to fight for the equal treatment of all human beings in all places at all times no matter what policies the state has in place.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

Especially since the Carter administration, Elshtain notes, the United States has tried to embody in its international policy a commitment to human rights.

Alarmingly, the American Nursing Association adopted a policy in support of the right to commit VSED without intervention, stating, «A patient's decision regarding VSED is binding, even if the patient subsequently loses capacity.»

Examples found in its policies on civil and human rights, national health care, church - state issues and judicial appointments lead me to conclude that the administration uses any means necessary to gain the desired ends.

The only path available today is, either the domination of the majority religion or secular ideology as the established framework of the State suppressing the rights of others using State coercion or open democratic secularism in which a consensus is sought regarding the values and directions of the common life of society and the State policy related to that common life, through peaceful but active dialogue among religions and ideologies.

He supported the Freedom of Choice Act that would declare it a fundamental policy of the United States that a woman has a right to get an abortion.

Ukrainian policy - makers are eager to align their country with the West, so a number of times I pointed to the protections that these rights enjoy in the United States as a reason to include similar protections.

Shipton suggests this principle of freedom of thought, often believed to be state policy first in Virginia, whence it entered the U.S. Constitution as a «natural right,» may have been borrowed from Puritan New England.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shared just today what I think is their first policy statement specific to homebirth, and as one would anticipate, they concur «with the recent statement of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists affirming that hospitals and birthing centers are the safest settings for birth in the United States while respecting the right of women to make a medically informed decision about delivery» (2013, 1016, abstract).

Despite the fact that I stated my state's laws that I had the right to nurse there, they kept trying to tell me that I needed to move to the fitting room, that it was Target's policy; that they were trained to demand that we move to the fitting room despite how many times I stated law.

In addition to the restrictive criteria, a recently published National Consent Policy document clearly states that the HSE has the authority to deny a pregnant woman her inalienable right to refuse medical treatment due to the legal uncertainty inherent in Article 40.3.3 of the Irish Constitution, whereby the life of the unborn is equal to that of the mother.

But under a USDA directive, states and districts are in the process of evaluating and formalizing their meal debt policies right now, in advance of a July 1st deadline.

I think what would give flight attendants more power to do the right thing in these situations is if their employers provided them with a policy that stated that they will uphold human rights legislation, which includes not discriminating against mothers and babies, and therefore breastfeeding is allowed and mothers are free to breastfeed their babies in the manner that they feel is appropriate.

You have the right to refuse treatment, as stated in the hospital policy and Rhode Island law.

Overall, judging by the rapturous applause he received, Miliband was in sublime form: dynamic, incisive, intelligent (a man who can quote the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia and apply it to the current foreign policy debate between those who oppose liberal interventionism based on the principle of nation state sovereignty and those who support it based on the natural rights of individuals superseding that sovereignty certainly deserves this accolade) and even at times funny.

«The Right Honourable Gentleman's foreign policy is to object to and insult the democratically elected head of state of our most important ally.

Indeed, many right - wing and extreme right political currents display a nationalist ideology valuing the nation - State and its identity against any sort of supranational institutions and policies.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Cuomo's counsel, Alphonso David, said the Rensselaer County sheriff's decision to participate in a federal program designed to catch undocumented immigrants in county jails — a first for New York occurring right in the governor's back yard — is «contrary to the public policy and values of our state.»

If France owns a tradition of being socially liberal — and hails its leading role as the country of the 1789 Revolution and the Declaration on Human Rights — the workings of the state and its policies are not liberal.

«Right now, we're looking at what the state policies and practices are when something arguably really bad becomes evident.

Cuomo's office says it may be closing the gap on bail reform and other policy issues it has been pushing, including several women's rights issues, because he and other Democrats have moved closer to owning a majority of the state Senate.