Sentences with phrase «process of changing laws»

It may have taken longer than many would like to integrate the military, expand the roles of women in the armed forces, and end «don't ask, don't tell,» but we were able to achieve all of those through an open, public process of changing laws and regulations.

The government is in the process of changing the law to make it easier for schools to take younger children.

Of course, changing legal education is an ongoing and evolutionary process - much like the process of changing the law itself.

Not exact matches

New Zealand law requires companies making any type of workplace changes to go through a restructuring process.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

In addition, our effective tax rate in the future could be adversely affected by changes to our operating structure, changes in the mix of earnings in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities, changes in tax laws and the discovery of new information in the course of our tax return preparation process.

And unlike Detroit, which was able to file under Chapter 9 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, there's no court process under which Puerto Rico can restructure its debts — unless Congress changes the law.

In such conflict, as well as in the quieter processes of peaceful transformation, cultures may change; conservation of culture is not an absolute law.

The organic model we are suggesting pictures reality as composed of multitudes of embodied beings who presently inhabit a planet that has evolved over billions of years through a process of dynamic change marked by law and novelty into an intricate, diverse, complex, multi-leveled reality, all radically interrelated and interdependent.

Now, the Marxists accept qualitative transformation at the lower levels of the evolutionary process, but at the level of reason, they fail to apply the law of qualitative change.

Evidently you find yourself able to judge how much he knew and what he did and didn't do with very little knowledge of both civil and Church due process, canon law, changes in rules, education, and procedures etc..

With this understanding of «organism» and «environment» in hand, I wish to turn to the development of the process view of laws, induction, explanation, and conceptual change.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

Law was part of the process which brought the duo to the club in recent seasons, and has done plenty for us in his eight - year stint with Arsenal, but his work has failed to bring us any closer to a first Premier League title since 2004, and we must now hope that his replacement has the power to make some big changes to our current operations.

unless and until the default process for handling divorce and other family law matters is changed from litigation to some form or forms of consensual dispute resolution, it only takes one person to sink the ship and thus destroy the family.

He added further changes to the law would be introduced next year which would require the public sector to involve disabled people at every step of their policy - making processes.

Nick Clegg, who led the bill through a lengthy consultation process with other Commonwealth countries, said: «The other Commonwealth countries where Her Majesty the Queen is head of state have just given us the green light to change the law, and we are wasting no time,» Nick Clegg said last night.

Once the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on a matter of U.S. Constitutional law, the only ways to change it are either for the Supreme Court to overturn their decision in a later ruling on a different case or for the U.S. Constitution to be amended, according to the process set out in Article V.

They have indicated that they are willing to give Mr. Cuomo half of what he wants — ending the LATFOR process by changing the law.

If we try to summary the whole answer, then we may say that the norms are not there, but two important aspects have to be considered: Threat to peace and security and massive human rights violations; meanwhile, if there are not such cases, and the change has gone through the due process of law and the new government has been able to gain the most support of the member states, then the new government is recognized.

The process the Court used to change the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, and the result of the Supreme Court's rejection of the law is unacceptable.»

Cuomo also announced he had signed legislation that makes permanent a law that changes expiring language on a DMV license renewal form highlighting organ donor enrollment, requiring licensees to check one of two boxes for organ donation in order for their license to be processed.

Parliament, he insisted, would not be left «in the dark» during the two - year process and would be able to shape future legislation on the incorporation of EU law and potential changes to immigration rules.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon joined Assemblyman Michael Kearns, Lackawanna Mayor Geoff Szymanski, Lackawanna Councilmember Joe Jerge, representatives from the Western New York Law Center, and other supporters to push for changes in banks foreclosure procedures to expedite the process and greatly reduce the number of vacant properties, often referred to as «Zombie Homes,» because of their distressed condition.

The Abandoned Property Neighborhood Relief Act seeks to close the current loophole, changing state law to make lenders responsible for delinquent properties soon after they are abandoned — not at the end of a lengthy foreclosure process — and to pay for their upkeep.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Nobody should be under any illusion that the ruling All Progressives Congress will ever change from its mission of dictatorship through deliberate and carefully calculated violations of human rights, the rule of law and democratic processes.»

«If the Commission believes that the privacy protections granted by the IRS undermine accountability in the electoral process, then it should lobby Congress to make changes, but the Commission's charge does not pertain to reevaluation of those federal laws and policies,» the filing says.

This is because, strict adherence to the law in the transition process will be followed in case there is a change of government after this year's election.

The changing of national government laws is a slow and tedious process.

And if government woulds now change its mind, then a process of discussion and negotiation should be put in place rather than just breaking of the extant laws.

She noted a 2003/4 review of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000, which «concluded that it was not the right time to change the law and that the impact of new technology needed to be properly considered and factored into the decision making process».

Any changes proposed by Parliament to the processes of law and justice will always be debated fully by both houses before they can go on the statute books or can be moderated enough to be generally acceptable.

However, under a law passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Cuomo last spring, charters are poised to change the annual lottery process to set aside a significant number of seats for children of their employees, including employees of charter management organizations.

«My research shows that a rushed policy process, without thorough consultation with communities or key stakeholders, may have dramatic implications for the success of the law change.

In this issue: Environmental Justice in New Mexico - Renewed Push for Change; Recommendations on Environmental Justice - New Mexicans Respond; The Healthy Communities Bill — An Interview with Sofia Martinez; Richard Moore on Environmental Justice and the New Mexico Environment Department's Policy Committee; Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr. signs Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005 New law bans uranium mining, processing throughout Navajo Nation; Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigChange Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigchange litigation.

by Walter Chaw An experiment in perceptual distortion that questions the nature of viewership and the law of observation that states, in part, that the nature of the process of observation necessitates a change in the essential quality of the observed, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a hyper - pretentious film - within - a-film-within-a-film conceit so gimmicky it hardly matters that by the end gimmickry is its point.

«We've made fundamental changes to the law to provide that support and the work I've seen so far, putting families at the heart of the process, is inspiring - but we know there is still more to do to.

Hickok: The whole purpose of the peer review process is to talk to, listen to, and work with states as they make whatever changes need to be made to align their accountability systems with AYP under the new law.

A discussion that started out weighing the merits of a revised federal education law quickly turned into a back and forth about congressional process, with most parties agreeing on the substance, broadly speaking, of how No Child Left Behind must change.

More than half of states have changed, or are in the process of changing, their laws to factor student test scores into teacher evaluations.

Completely changes the petition approval process by inserting fiscal reasons for the first time, in spite of the fact that California's charter law already has clear reasons for why a petition can be denied

Second, the Office of the Attorney General required that § 16.63 (h) be changed prior to publication to make it clear that under State law, licensed attorneys only may represent parents in due process proceedings.

A coalition of charter leaders has been working since April to change some of the language to streamline the authorizing process and to protect the autonomies charters are given under state law.

Around 8:00 pm, as seven weary Board members were debating a proposal put forth by Board member Steve Zimmer calling on the district and state to bring greater transparency to the parent trigger signature - gathering process, Superintendent John Deasy suggested that the Board might as well lobby Sacramento to repeal the law instead of just lobbying Sacramento to change it (as the original Zimmer resolution requested).

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Members of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission Education Committee today voted to support a proposal by Commission member Erika Donalds to change language in the Florida Constitution that will authorize the Legislature to enact general laws providing alternative processes to authorize the establishment of charter schools.

Many of the education reform proposals Bush championed were actually part of Governor Malloy's education reform bill, and although legislative Democrats made some changes, the majority of the concepts made it through the process and became part of Connecticut's new education reform law.

While Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio might be able to change some elements of the evaluation process, much of it is enshrined in state law.

Both authorizations included a number of changes to Federal law intended to streamline the environmental review and permitting processes for many transportation projects across the Federal Government.