Sentences with phrase «precedent for us not»

With the critics» trifecta (NYFCC / LAFCA / NSFC) plus the Globe for Drama, there is no precedent for her not to be Oscar - nominated at this point.

Not exact matches

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

«Even if the current minimum wage increase proposals don't affect your company, it sets a bad precedent,» Merrill Matthews a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas wrote in a recent article for NCMM.

There is precedent for this: Amazon didn't start breaking out AWS - only numbers until 2015, nine years into its existence.

And the Switch isn't just for any gaming but the type of gaming Nintendo is known for: big, precedent - setting, joyous gaming.

Shannon Minter, a transgender man who is legal director of the San Francisco - based National Center for Lesbian Rights, said many transgender civil - rights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly undone.

Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said in a letter released on Sunday night that the agency's request wasn't about setting legal precedent, but rather seeking justice for the victims and investigating other possible threats.

«Even though public universities are not affected by the endowment tax, they are very much opposed to it, for fear it would set a precedent that would be applied to them in the future,» Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education told NPR in December.

Singling out a power - hungry industry for rate increases isn't without precedent.

Alternative energy is not a vital resource for the US economy, but forms of funding for alternative energy projects have been extended many times, creating a precedent for funding in the near future.

«I don't think there's any precedent in the law for a security to transform to be something else,» Gensler told an audience at the MIT Technology Review's Business of Blockchain Conference last week.

He said he would accept the inclusion of «sexual orientation» in the Canadian Human Rights Act if it were «clearly defined, but not if it were used as a precedent for further benefits like marital status,» the magazine stated.

The stop imposed by President Trump to Singapore - based Broadcom's $ 117 billion dollar hostile takeover bid for US chip maker Qualcomm may not stop cross-border acquisitions but sets a precedent for foreign deals.

There is precedent for central banks offering credit to individuals, and infinite maturity loans with no interest don't have credit risk, so there is no need for collateral or government indemnity.

My argument is that China's growth model, which is not at all unique and for which there are many historical precedents, is usually wealth enhancing in its early stages, and then becomes wealth destroying once capital is systematically misallocated.

This is a good year to throw precedent out the window, so I don't imagine that Three Billboards» lack of a Best Director nomination hurts it any more than the relatively low number of nominations for Get Out or Lady Bird hurt them, or Dunkirk's lack of acting or writing nominations hurts it.

TORONTO STAR: Jagmeet Singh's Attachment to a Sikh Political Issue Not Without Precedent for Settlers Before Him (Opinion)

In November 2017, he achieved precedent - setting victories for investors, when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that direct evidence of price impact is not always necessary to demonstrate market efficiency to invoke the presumption of reliance, and that defendants seeking to rebut the presumption of reliance must do so by a preponderance of the evidence rather than merely meeting a burden of production.

Don't get me wrong, it's helping to maintain growth, but acceleration anywhere even close to historical precedent has remained elusive for the entirety of the current cycle.

When Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment 20 years ago, the Supreme Court set the precedent that a sitting president can't push off a federal case until after he leaves office.

Despite periodic banking crises around the world, there aren't a lot of precedents for the current Greek financial tragedy, according to Pew Research

Many pointed out this wouldn't set a good precedent for the head of the International Revenue Service.

We certainly aren't speculating because of any historical precedent (inflation has been non-existent for much of bitcoin's lifespan).

I'm not saying Christians are all Nazis, I'm pointing out that there is plenty of precedent for a minority group to bring an entire nation into submission.

If we manage not to lose sight of Scripture, if we remember that our relationship to Christ must take precedent, and if we recognize messages that are extraneous or contrary to Scripture for what they are, engaging with otherwise worthwhile media that has morally questionable content can be an acceptable — indeed, inescapable — part of inhabiting culture.

According to the source, the administration said it does not want the new definition used as a precedent for future policies and regulation, the source said.

In the Synoptics, for example, faith is the precedent condition of Jesus» miracles while in the Fourth Gospel faith is the consequence of Jesus» miracles — «Believe me for the very works» sake»; (John 14:11) «Though ye believe not me, believe the works»; (John 10:38) he «manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him,» after his first miracle; (John 2:11) and, when a nobleman's son was healed, he «himself believed, and his whole house.»

Those who pray collects are not likely to pray for God to do something for which no precedent can be found.

Any group that can manifest «hurt» can make a legal claim for special protection — again, racism (not the dignity of human nature) is the precedent:

Chief Executive Andrea Williams said: «This ruling sets a dangerous precedent not only for prison chaplains but for any minister who preaches the gospel.

Such a view requires adopting an ethical or political life that would not look to the past for its precedent, but to the future.

Pass the hat and pay for the thing with donations and don't let it set a precedent.

In regards to your more relevant points, The US is one to set an example, we shouldn't be waiting for other countries to set a precedent...

Therefore again I would argue that the» he will rule over you» with Adam over Eve is not a precedent for patriarchy as some would say, but something that happened as a result of «the fall» and therefore one should look to how it was like before that and see what was «good» in order to have an appropriate application of the bible.

However, the Church's theological discourse can not be so intimately bound to any one scientific theory, as «the final way» to explain something, that it becomes difficult to separate itself from such a theory, either because a theological doctrine itself can no longer be explained without it (which it can) or because a scientific theory has been superseded by a more coherent scientific theory (better able to explain reality) as is the nature of progress in science.There is a precedent for this in the Galileo controversy from the 1600s.

There may be precedent, it's just that in this case it looks pretty stupid because gay and lesbian adults know who they are and have biology and psychology on their side, so these backwards nuts won't get a lot of takers for their hollow «welcome».

And the truth is there just isn't any precedent for how this would be handled for a U.S. president.

It was no easy business then, any more than it is today, and the parallels between the attempts by various regimes, both reactionary and liberal, to get control of the Catholic Church suggest that today's battles for religious freedom in full are not without their 19th - century precedents.

The death of the Prophet [may God grant him Peace] hailed a new era in which Muslims would have to develop an open - ended system of interpretation for issues and precedents for which the Qur «an and Sunnah did not have explicit experience with!The other aspect of your argument is that you compact all unbelievers [kafiruwn] into the same box.

Its signals will not be picked up by a receiver wired only to accommodate that for which there are clear precedents.

Perhaps even more troubled about the bill than the anthropologists and curators are the gallery owners and antique dealers; though not directly affected, they fear that the bill, if passed, would set a precedent for future legislation that would affect private collections — and could eventually put them out of business.

There's a pretty good biblical precedent for it, for one thing, but for another, I don't say it casually.

Precedent can be theologically meaningful, and a respect for the traditional not merely sentimental.

While I find the majority opinion in Brown disappointing and even more so the fact that its author was Scalia, in the end there is something for conservatives to take away from the case: a strong judicial precedent that new categories may not be added to the type of content not afforded full First Amendment protection.

They're exciting and all, but, by acting as if early faith lives were not faith lives at all, an unrealistic precedent is being set for new Christians, especially.

But to lose faith in it for this specious reason (as if a high incidence of adultery casts doubt on the validity of marriage) is to lose faith not only in literature but in the mind's capacity to make those nonlinear leaps beyond present certainties that give Einstein an occupation and Hawking precedent for his dream of grand unification.

The pre-Smith precedent, despite Ginsburg's argument to the contrary, doesn't expressly address whether for - profit corporate forms are ent - itled to free exercise claims.

Here one does not necessarily look for precedents in Jesus» life but for consequences of the Christ - event as a whole.

The issue here, IMHO, is that the pre-Smith precedent doesn't directly speak to for - profit corporations, but it does speak favorably to for - profit organizations bringing a free exercise claim (i.e. Braunfeld).