Sentences with phrase «protect the public against»

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office had raised the issue during the ongoing relicensing process and appealed the initial decision, saying there needed to be a new analysis of the impacts caused by potential severe accidents at the Buchanan nuclear facility and potential upgrades to protect the public against such accidents.

Nonetheless, a human Brucella vaccine is needed to protect the public against human brucellosis and bioterrorism [34].

He, along with his moderators, work tirelessly to protect the public against all forms of scam.

Truth in Lending Act (TILA): This federal law aims at protecting the public against unfair and erroneous credit card practices and credit billing.

PIJAC strongly supports protecting the public against dangerous animals, but legislators often overreact with regulations that go too far by imposing excessive restrictions or banning species of animals that do not represent a public threat.

Current regulations fail to protect the public against those risks.

The registry aims to protect the public against poor practice and provide recognition and support for registered family mediators.

Chapter 93A protects the public against «[u] nfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices,» and authorizes consumers to sue businesses engaging in such activities.

As lawyers we're expected to protect the public against the tyranny of over-reaching government, yet too many believe that we and our institutions are beyond criticism.

If the government actually wants to protect the public against Facebook abusing its power, it would need to go harder than the Honest Ads Act that would put political advertising on Internet platforms under the same scrutiny regarding disclosure of buyers as the rules for TV and radio advertising.

After a year - long enquiry the committee has made a series of recommendations to protect the public against unscientific health and medical claims.

A special compensation fund exists under RESA to protect the public against the loss of trust money; however, the Real Estate Services Regulation limits the maximum amount that may be paid to a single claimant to $ 100,000, and the maximum total amount that may be paid in respect of claims against a single brokerage to $ 500,000.

Not exact matches

The SEC promotes full public disclosure, protects investors against fraudulent and manipulative practices in the market, and monitors corporate takeover actions in the United States.

Instead, they will be used to protect against the sub-optimal arrangements that would be forced upon them as public companies.

Cases against regulators often are filed by trade associations to protect individual companies from any potential blowback from the government or the public.

Broward School Board members took a stand against arming school employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its students.

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But rather than supporting the idea that all Canadians should have comfortable retirements — say, by reforming CPP, and protecting private sector employees against company bankruptcy — the authors see public sector pensions as just more «premium.»

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Despite laws that protect women's right to breastfeed in public, there are frequent press stories about women being advised against breastfeeding or humiliated in public for breastfeeding.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

Breast feeding is clearly an issue for public health consideration as it provides significant protection against infections in newborns and infants.12 Because breast feeding has been shown to protect against infections so profoundly in developing countries, it is estimated that an increase in breast feeding worldwide by 40 % would reduce deaths from respiratory infection by 50 % in children less than 18 months of age.3

The intelligence services have too much power - and parliament too little - for the public to feel protected against state intrusion

But speaking to Citi News, Director of Police Public Affairs Superintendent Cephas Arthur says the Police will continue to remain vigilant as it seeks to protect citizens against threats including terrorism.

It will enable Parliament to help in the fight against corruption and thereby protect the public purse.

Lawmakers will return to Washington today facing intense public pressure to break their decades - long gridlock on gun control, a demand fortified by a bipartisan group of governors calling for Congress to take action to protect against mass shootings.

New York's existing law protects affordable housing and public safety against illegal hotel operators, and that's not up for debate,»

And, in the meantime, poorer people will be protected against public sector pay conditions; their children will get a pupil premium; and they will gain disproportionately from tax cuts - as well as, of course, from the welfare state.

When this Conservative government bans public sector strikes (FFS Vince Cable is in favour of banning private sector strikes), or when they go in heavy handed against public sector workers striking to protect their livelihood then I will like to see you explain how «liberal» this Conservative government is.

«ICE will continue to protect New York communities against public safety and national security threats and it is false and offensive for the Governor to say otherwise,» Homan concluded.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.

Protests against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's harmful public education agenda peaked in New York City on March 12, when parents, their children and educators joined hands to form a human chain around their buildings before or after classes as if to protect them from the governor's proposals.

The command in a statement said, «Contrary to the report which is an orchestrated attempted to disparage the Command and pitch the public against the police, it is pertinent to state unequivocally that the Police which is a law enforcement agency guided by the rule of law and duty bound to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of citizens did not play any role, under whatever guise, in the murder of the deceased.

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

«We are grateful for our continuing partnership with Attorney General Schneiderman and his team of professionals as we work together to ensure the safety of the public is protected against the dangers of unlicensed practice.»

Nor would the current bill protect against local human rights / public accommodations laws.

«The people who say they're against this bill need to look victims of serious crime, terrorism and child sex offences in the eye and tell them why they're not prepared to give the police the powers they need to protect the public,» she said.

Among other things, Local Law 3 protects against bias in areas including public accommodations,» Kelly said.

However, the public are generally pessimistic about its ability to deliver in other areas — less than half have confidence in its ability to improve the NHS (32 %) and schools (32 %), cut crime (33 %) or immigration (39 %) and to protect the country against terrorism (42 %).

New Yorkers are protected against discrimination in employment, housing, and public services based on race, creed, age, citizenship status, gender, marital status, and sexual orientation, among other qualities.

«We commend the Governor for standing up against the Trump deportation machine to protect immigrant New Yorkers at state facilities, but we need to stop ICE where they frequently use their dragnet, thus chilling public safety for all,» Steven Choi, the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said in a statement.

Shelley Mayer is the Change We Need From Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abuse.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

He also put forward a bold manifesto for change, including stringent rent controls to protect the poor against money - grubbing landlords and called for an industrial strategy which would embrace the public ownership of the railways and the Royal Mail.

According to the Ministry of Finance, the policy will encourage tax compliance while protecting the consuming public against harmful and unwholesome products.

On one side stands a Labour government with a ten - year record of investing in public services, which has already shown itself prepared to intervene to protect people against the recession.

Public Health Thank You Day 2013 honors all those health heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disasters.

Last week North Country Public Radio broke the story that the Cuomo administration was trying to oust the popular figure, who this summer launched what was deemed a successful boat - washing program to protect against invasive species.

«These regulations affirm that all transgender individuals are protected under the State's Human Rights Law, and all public and private employers, housing providers, businesses, creditors and others should know that discrimination against transgender persons is unlawful and will not be tolerated anywhere in the State of New York,» read the press release announcing the action.