Sentences with phrase «protecting the public from»

The real problem with retrospective review of rules is that it prevents agencies from moving forward to protect the public from new and unregulated hazards.

The court held that courts have to look through form to substance to protect the public from schemes to attract «risk capital» with which a company can develop a business for profit.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Simply put, the Federalists believed government should protect the public from the worst inclinations of the powerful, while the anti-Federalists felt government existed solely to protect the powerful from infringement.

The intent of this examination is to certify that each food manager has demonstrated by means of a food safety certification examination to a certifying organization that he or she has the knowledge, skills and abilities required to protect the public from food borne illness.

Consumer Product Safety Commission www.cpsc.gov / Government organization charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.

If marketers of «nutritional supplements» were ethical they would be lobbying for improved legislation to protect the public from unethical practices.

One measure that would move significantly towards achieving this would be to protect the public from harmful commercial interests by adopting, in full, the WHO / UNICEF International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent resolutions («the Code»).

The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (BMS) was adopted at the 34th World Health Assembly in 1981 to protect the public from inappropriate marketing strategies, but has been weakly implemented, enforced, and monitored by countries [2].

Britain is better equipped at protecting its public from terrorism than any other country, security minister Lord West has claimed.

«We recommend that the government engage actively with the US administration and with the international community to assist the process of closing Guantanamo as soon as may be consistent with the overriding need to protect the public from terrorist threats,» the report concludes.

The new figures, released to us by the Sentencing Guidelines Council, expose the myth that Asbos are being used as a stand - alone, preventative tool to protect the public from repeat and serious antisocial behaviour.

«We will develop the most stringent monitoring and enforcement program in the nation,» Mr. Bellone said in a press release about a larger plan to better protect the public from sex offenders living in Suffolk County.

«However imprisonment should continue to be used to protect the public from the most serious offenders - those who are violent, dangerous or seriously persistent.»

Tuesday: «The Conservatives want to amend Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure that protecting the public from risk is given priority over the risk to [police] officers» (BBC).

Our staff, the City of North Tonawanda Zoning Ordinance and the New York State Fire Prevention and Building Codes are here to protect the public from hazards of fire, inadequate building construction, and to provide for the health and safety of the citizens of North Tonawanda.

At that crucial juncture, state Sen. Schneiderman once again let politics get in the way of protecting the public from the worst type of criminals.»

Samuel Pierre — on probation after admitting he and an accomplice bilked Haitians immigrants out of more than $ 11,000 — calls in his campaign literature for reforms to protect the public from «corrupting influences.»

The latest misguided proposal from the Town Board that previously brought you the boo ban and plans to issue regulations protecting the public from the dangers of turtles and hummingbirds is a possible moratorium that would prevent a medical marijuana dispensary from opening in Riverhead.

With his nest of white hair and vibrant blue eyes, he seems more like an amiable country doctor than a Harvard - trained physician who has fought the world's most powerful corporations and bullied bureaucrats to protect the public from poisonous pollutants for nearly 30 years.

The goal of the workshop was to assist AAAS in setting forth the principles and requirements for a regulatory framework that promotes development of mHealth devices and apps, while protecting the public from undue risk.

And the White House opposes the measure because it «is contrary to the widely - accepted scientific consensus that GHGs are at increasingly dangerous concentrations... [and] would strip EPA of its authority to protect the public from GHG pollution.»

«We envision this treatment approach having a broad range of applications such as protecting military personnel from biothreat agents or protecting the public from other toxin - mediated diseases such as C. difficile and Shiga toxin - producing E. coli infections,» said Shoemaker, the paper's senior author.

The principle implies that there is a social responsibility to protect the public from exposure to harm, when scientific investigation has found a plausible risk.

For years, the industry - friendly USDA tried the same deception with arsenic in US rice, prescribing «safe» intake, rather protecting the public from well - established hazard at any feed.

-- is a non-profit organization that draws from the most current research to identify harmful chemicals in our environment and several resources to help protect the public from unnecessary toxic exposure.

It never ceases to amaze me how government - controlled, public health «experts» talk about the danger of infectious diseases, like Ebola, and leave out the importance of digestive health, better nutrition and immune - enhancing nutritional supplements to protect the public from deadly diseases.

Most importantly, it protects the public from poorly - trained or unethical practitioners calling themselves naturopathic doctors without appropriate training.

I'm protecting the public from shock when I wear them.

Our ultimate goal has always been to protect the public from the horrific consequences we have foreseen, but it appears our mission to prevent it from occurring may have failed.

The purpose of the test is to protect the public from incompetent teachers.

Through September 5th, advertisements will appear nationwide and law enforcement agencies across the country will be on patrol to protect the public from impaired drivers.

The final rule includes a public interest exclusion (PIE) mechanism designed to protect the public from the affects of serious noncompliance by service agents.

«We conclude that the district court correctly decided that Apple orchestrated a conspiracy among the publishers to raise e-book prices, that the conspiracy unreasonably restrained trade in violation of the Sherman Act, and that the injunction is properly calibrated to protect the public from future anti-competitive harms,» wrote Debra Ann Livingston, for the court.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that «the purpose of the [Sherman antitrust act] is not to protect businesses from the working of the market; it is to protect the public from the failure of the market.

Author Bio: Ann McGinnis writes about characters that let their egos and sense of justice rule their lives, while they protect the public from serial killers and unthinkable crimes.

I believe that the gatekeeping argument is one that publishers tell themselves to make themselves feel good about all the dross they protect the public from.

Fair Debt Collections Practices Act was established by Congress 30 years ago to protect the public from abusive debt collectors.

I can't believe the government isn't protecting the public from such a scam.

It intends to protect the public from unfair or deceptive advertising and business practices by credit repair organizations.

The Act has several provisions to protect the public from unreasonable interest rate increases.

(b) The purpose of this Act is to provide prospective consumers of credit services companies with the information necessary to make an informed decision regarding the purchase of those services and to protect the public from unfair or deceptive advertising and business practices.

The purpose of the Act is to provide prospective buyers of credit repair services with the information necessary to make an intelligent decision regarding the purchase of those services, and to protect the public from unfair or deceptive advertising and business practices.

Here's a summary: A blue sky law is a state law in the United States that regulates the offering and sale of securities to protect the public from fraud.

They stopped short of making changes to pit bulls, specifically, but the court attorney's office and animal control officials are looking for ways to better protect the public from dangerous dogs.

What it wasn't doing was protecting the public from dogs; and what it really wasn't doing was protecting dogs from the public.

«FDA does not believe raw meat foods for animals are consistent with the goal of protecting the public from significant health risks, particularly when such products are brought into the home and / or used to feed domestic pets; however, we understand that some people prefer to feed these types of diets to their pets.»

In south Brevard, pit bull adoptions have been banned since 1978 by humane society officials who say it is the best way to protect the public from attacks.

The legislation is intended to protect the public from what is perceived to be dangerous dog breeds and it often includes the catch - all phrase ``... and any dog of a mixed breed that visibly contains any of these breeds.»

We also support reasonable laws to protect the public from dangerous dogs and oppose breed - specific legislation in any form.