Sentences with phrase «preferential treatment of»

Ordinarily, special measures are accomplished through preferential treatment of disadvantaged groups, as suggested by the language of the Convention, and not by the impairment of the enjoyment of their human rights.

Literature suggests that perturbations in both «bottom up» attention mechanisms and «top down» executive control processes may play a central role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety.22 These perturbations extend to both emotionally charged and affectively neutral stimuli, reflecting both preferential treatment of specific categories of stimuli (i.e., bias to threat cues) and heightened vigilance of one's own performance and behaviour (i.e., cognitive monitoring).

Combating nepotism, cronyism or other kinds of preferential treatment of particular kinds of candidates is a responsibility that falls on Human Resources.

tax issues affecting guideline income and proper gross ups for non-taxable or preferential treatment of different sources of income

925 (1974); Posner, The DeFunis Case and the Constitutionality of Preferential Treatment of Racial Minorities, 1974 Sup.Ct.Rev.

Referring the the issue of preferential treatment of Halo and BF3, If you look at the player statistics on Halo Reach the amount of South Africans playing Halo Reach is incomparable to other countries across the world.

As I've mentioned before, fair / preferential treatment of Avangardco shareholders in a potential Ukr transaction is essential, and would provide valuable support to Bakhmatyuk in pursuit of his longer - term ambitions.

Having preferential treatment of «priority customers» inside the branch as a matter of official bank policy is just a reason for those customers to look elsewhere.

Does this constitute preferential treatment of police by police?

There are protocols in place, including the oversight of the Port Authority IG and an integrity monitor for the project, to guard against preferential treatment of any vendor to LGP [the private developer].»

The ACCC is proposing to allow DP World Australia Ltd and Patrick Stevedores to give preferential treatment of truck carriers engaging in dual runs at the Port of Fremantle.

This in turn implies no clergy deductions, no tax exemption and no preferential treatment of any kind.

Third is «the preferential treatment of Christianity in the legal system,» which is sometimes extended to cultural preference in general.

Jesus makes sure we do not miss here what has been a marker of his ministry — his preferential treatment of the outcast.

There are many strategies that can be employed to ensure this, and preferential treatment of close blood relatives appears to be one that we employ.

17 - 26) present a formidable array of statutes governing economic life: mandatory lending, interest - free loans, sabbatical rest and festivals, jubilee releases and land tenure, gleaning restrictions, tithing, debt remission, slave manumission, and the preferential treatment of widows, orphans and strangers.

It helped watchdogs keep an eye out for malfeasance like Cheney's alleged preferential treatment of Halliburton.

Add to these bureaucratic inefficiencies the curious case of Judy Sgro, the former immigration minister who resigned from cabinet in January following a pair of scandals involving the alleged preferential treatment of immigrants who were associated with her campaign office.

The flow is vulnerable to a number of factors, including unpredictable shifts in public opinion on such emotive issues as immigration and preferential treatment of foreigners in the workplace.

The order also forbids preferential treatment of traffic, which could occur if a broadband provider also offers content or services that compete with services offered by smaller companies.

Not exact matches

«Preferential tax treatment of small companies is too blunt an instrument to foster entrepreneurial activity efficiently,» the IMF says in its latest Fiscal Monitor.

You can invest in state - controlled firms like Sinopec, PetroChina and Bank of China, but it's difficult to tell whether these firms would thrive were their preferential treatment taken away through economic liberalization.

These tariff treatments include UST (NAFTA United States Tariff), and the GPT (General Preferential Tariff), the latter of which received a great deal of attention when dozens of countries were removed from Canada's GPT list in Budget 2013.

That said, no one here receives preferential treatment: each of us is given the same opportunities to succeed as anyone else.

These rules are far from simple, running into the hundreds of pages for each individual preferential treatment.

Preferred stock is better than common stock, because holders of preferred stock receive preferential treatment in the event of a liquidation of the business.

They retroactively assessed Frito - Lay the MFN tariff rate of 11 percent on the grounds that Frito - Lay had missed a «one - year filing time limit» to claim preferential treatment under NAFTA.

In 2007, the bank had agreed to a $ 16 million settlement over accusations that branch managers showed white brokers preferential treatment, depriving black and Latino brokers of new clients and the opportunity to earn commissions and promotions.

Because of my own work these past few years with organizations and individuals who are in some form or fashion working to address inequality, I have come to understand that many of the initiatives that are often described as entitlements or preferential treatment are usually neither.

Executives and lobbyists have a host of reasons for why preferential treatment should be allowed online, most of them illustrated by analogies to other, similar services.

A small number of large video companies such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTube have the massive reach and capital to pay additional fees for preferential treatment to speed video content delivery to end - users.

Rather than raising corporate tax rates, the Rhode Island legislation, Senate Bill 2796, would give preferential treatment in state contract bids to companies that pay their highest - paid executive no more than 32 times the pay of their lowest - paid full - time employee.

The provision therefore violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment right to due process, because it authorizes the Defense Department to afford preferential treatment on the basis of race and does not meet a «strict scrutiny» standard, the appeals court decided.

Quality-wise, its holdings are comparable to CPD's though of course, dividends on the U.S. holdings do not receive preferential tax treatment.

«GDXJ has intermittently been in jeopardy of losing its preferential tax treatment (as a regulated investment company) since last September because its portfolio often doesn't comply with the diversification requirements of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code,» noted Scotiabank.

Suppose that preferential capital gains tax treatment was only available to companies whose US payroll + benefits had increased over the term of the investment.

Also, any tax bill that does away with or caps state and local tax deductions could further incentivize individuals living in high - tax states that offer preferential treatment to in - state municipal bonds to seek shelter in the bonds of their home states.

Some Implications of Most - Favoured Nation Treatment,» respected trade lawyer Lawrence L. Herman concludes that investors from countries that have preferential trade agreements with Canada will be entitled to the same preferential benefits as EU investors under the Canada - EU trade deal.

Tax laws are subject to change and the preferential tax treatment of municipal bond interest income may be revoked or phased out for investors at certain income levels.

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Manuel Medina, the cofounder and CEO of Outreach, said that being a Ventures company didn't provide preferential treatment.

I have about 22 % of my portfolio with international exposure, but I think Canadians have even more bias towards home country (especially with the preferential dividend tax treatment that Canadian dividend paying stocks get).

In a recent survey, 39 % of male managers admitted to employing a female candidate based on their level of attractiveness and 57 % said they gave preferential treatment to attractive employees.

It is important to distinguish here between the socio - economic consequences of the claims that are advanced on the basis of the victim status of blacks (such as the pressure for racially preferential treatment) and their symbolic, ideological role.

I point this out because even if JPII has been beatified sooner and may be canonized sooner than people in the past, it doesn't mean that he actually becomes a saint sooner, or gets any sort of «preferential treatment» from God.

Even the perception of one denomination getting preferential treatment by the Gov» t is divisive.

Through a series of brief questions at the end of his book, Sigmund invites liberation theologians to seek ways of fusing capitalist market «efficiency» with the «preferential love for the poor,» to consider how private property is not always oppression but may in fact free people from it, to develop liberalism's ideal of «equal treatment under the law,» to nurture the «fragile new democracies» in Latin America, and, finally, to develop «a spirituality of socially concerned democracy, whether capitalist or socialist in its economic form,» rather than «denouncing dependency, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation.»

In the end, the Church of England's governing body surrendered once again to the meretricious zeitgeist, affirming that marriage was «important» but that it should not be given preferential treatment over cohabitation or lone parenthood.

The American Civil Liberties Union has been in the forefront of fighting for tolerance and has served as the watchdog for signs that the nation's historic and numerically dominant faith - Christianity - is receiving preferential treatment.

In a political crucible in which preferential treatment and race - based laws are advocated by the liberal establishment, a National Association for the Advancement of White People can look like an equal opportunity party.