Sentences with phrase «position as legislature»

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I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

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.

The ultimatum handed down by Cuomo and the legislature on the prevailing wage issue in June 2015 — which put developers and construction unions in the position of having to agree on an extremely contentious issue — has been painted by some observers as doomed from the start.

PLATTSBURGH Clinton County Legislator Harry McManus (Area 1) was reappointed as chair of the legislature, the second time he will serve in that position since first taking office 10 years ago.

Knopp closely watched Clinton's eight years as president and then he switched from the legislature into an executive position in his hometown.

As an example of similar retoric I can point the position of some Russian legislature members.

Some would take a less charitable view of the supposed improvement in the position of the legislature in relation to the executive; Professor Bogdanor may feel, as he says in Chapter 11, that parliament has strengthened its role.

The budget, which includes the elimination of 70 positions and cuts to public health programs such as mosquito control and the county's breastfeeding initiative for new mothers, was presented in late October and has been going through detailed review in the legislature.

Dyer resigned from his seat on the legislature after securing a new position as Beekmantown Supervisor.

Stec, who has positioned himself as the state legislature's leading voice on stripping corrupted officials of their pensions, theorized something happened when three men went into a room on March 31, and hours later, the assembly opted against voting on their pension forfeiture bill.

This approach positions the Library well to make the case for future support from the legislature and the County Executive as additional help will be needed in 2010 and beyond.

Last week Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a man who appears determined to position himself in the national spotlight as a progressive champion and logical Democratic presidential contender in 2020, was asked whether New York would be better off with Democrats controlling both houses of the legislature.

Democrats have a greater opportunity to gain seats in 2016 due to their position as the minority party in most of the nation's state legislatures.

The Illinois legislature mandated the position last fall as part of a complex package of laws that kept Chicago's schools from financial collapse.

Republicans in the state legislature generally fell in line with this position as well.

And this applies to international politics just as much as it does to the legislative agenda of the U.S. Senate.I submit that asking an international Conference to sit around looking out the window for months, while one chamber of the legislature of one country deals with its other business, is simply not a realistic political position.»

Yet, even as advocates and clean energy business leaders in Virginia position our state to capture the benefits of offshore wind power development, influential decision - makers in Congress and in the Virginia state legislature are still pushing to bring us the risks of offshore drilling.

Rather they invoke the intention of the legislature as the authority for their position.

The party negotiating from a «weaker» position, such as the consumer of goods or services, or the recipient of credit, has found much aid from the legislature and from the courts who interpret the legislation.

I point out as an initial point that this is unlikely to take place, in any event, for two main reasons: first, the Charter of Values would have to be adopted by the legislature — not an easy task in light of the minority position of the PQ; second, even if it is adopted, Quebec could still invoke the Canadian Charter's section 33 notwithstanding clause, to shield the new provisions from judicial review.