Sentences with phrase «public policy reason»

So, to be blasphemous, there is no valid public policy reason why B.C. needs law school tuition frozen at artificially low levels when it is $ 5,000 to $ 15,000 higher in Ontario.

Isn't scientifically - informed public policy the reason we (in the U.S.) have the National Academies of Science («Advisors to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine»; http://www.nationalacademies.org), not to mention the National Institues of Health, National Science Foundation, NOAA, NWS, USGS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, et al?

Those that are healthy don't need the money, and there is a public policy reason why the government should not forcibly buy stakes in solvent companies.

«When little time for public reaction, it takes away the opportunity to improve the bill or look at it from a different light and realize there is a serious public policy reason that might cause us to think that we should step back,» said Jones.

To put it another more understandable way these two families have completely different standards of living and if so there is no public policy reason why they should face similar tax rates.

Section 507 sets forth 10 categories of unsecured claims which Congress has, for public policy reasons, given priority of distribution over other unsecured claims.

Congress has determined that these types of debts are not dischargeable for public policy reasons (based either on the nature of the debt or the fact that the debts were incurred due to improper behavior of the debtor, such as the debtor's drunken driving).

At the same time, Rose says there is plenty that we don't know, such as whether or not it is safer for employers to use fewer words in a termination clause and avoid all - inclusive language, and whether, for public policy reasons, future court decisions will put an onus on employers to make clear to employees the differences between ESA entitlements and the common law before they sign ESA - only contracts.

As such, for public policy reasons, Courts look at any restrictive covenant with the view that they are to be considered unenforceable until proven reasonable.

Those positions aren't completely divorced from needing to know the state law, but we sort of make those accommodations for good public policy reasons, right?

There's good public policy reasons to make the tactical changes to the legislation that can be made to achieve the appropriate balance,» Fekete says.

Portnykh is an important reminder that the public policy reasons that lie behind the without prejudice rule are held in extremely high regard and will only be disapplied in rare circumstances.

The changes to the law reduce the amount of unit owners required to reject a plan, postpone the time until another plan can be voted on, and requires that the plan be approved by the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation («Division») based on factual and public policy reasons.

[46] It is important to note that the determination as to whether public policy should intervene to render the exclusion clauses unenforceable should take place after the factual record is established, at which time the trial judge will be in a position to carefully examine whether there are public policy reasons to decline to enforce the liability exclusion clauses: Tercon, para. 119.

[17] An indemnity against a criminal liability may, however, be unenforceable for public policy reasons.

Interesting to see the majority speak of traditional criminal law principles in the context of offences, which, for public policy reasons, are the least traditional criminal law offences in the

Responses to the consultation demonstrated two over-arching perspectives: those who believe that change is happening in the legal profession, and those who doubt that transformative change is occurring or that there are compelling reasons to meet that change... respondents who cautioned against the need for change often expressed strong support for the public policy reasons underlying lawyers» existing regulatory regimes.

The commenter noted that there are public policy reasons for limiting the extent to which a criminal investigation is made known publicly, including the possibility that suspects may destroy or falsify evidence, hide assets, or flee.

Notwithstanding, it is extremely unlikely that you could be successfully prosecuted for copyright breach for using a national flag design as you would have a near watertight fair use / fair dealing defence for public policy reasons.

The public policy reasons for this are clear: a subpoenaed witness is required for the execution of justice.

For public policy reasons, it is clear that the law does not permit a contracting party to exclude liability for his own fraud in inducing the making of the contract.

Likewise there may be exceptions to how the law on domicile is applied, for public policy reasons.

Citing public policy reasons, the court ruled that uploading a file that was not password protected and available to anyone on the Internet to view is akin to leaving the file on a «bench in the public square.»

«Tracking the location of drivers does not have a place in pay - as - you - drive auto insurance for privacy and public policy reasons,» she said.

Not exact matches

The reasons are cultural and emotional, backed by ill - conceived public policy.

Still, the mere possibility of a change in policy on this front ought to raise concerns — if not for reasons of etiquette and old - fashioned customer satisfaction, than for public health.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

For some reason the Minister seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

Without such reasons or explanation, Canadians can only guess as to «the wider public policy factors» (Pembina at para. 74) taken into account by the GiC in ultimately granting project approval.

Another reason for that intolerably high public sector compensation premium — Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized -LSpublic sector compensation premium — Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized -LSpublic / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized -LSPublic Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized -LSB-...]

The Bank makes a public announcement of any policy decision, giving detailed reasoning for it.

Canada's long - standing policy has been to permit public access to such hearings, and there is no reason to expect that will change.

New EI policies, designed to hurt rather than help; new appeal mechanisms, rigged against claimants; and employee cuts everywhere, made without rhyme or reason across the public service, as the Parliamentary Budget Office has just reported.

The times prsonal views should not affect public policy is when A) It's illegal; B) It is for purely religiou reasons; C) It oversteps the power granted to the executive branch.

As such public policies, laws, and int.itutions would be based on facts, evidence, and reason as opposed to religious based ideology.

Natural Law and Public Affairs: for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students, a seminar bringing natural law reasoning to bear on contemporary controversies in politics and public pPublic Affairs: for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students, a seminar bringing natural law reasoning to bear on contemporary controversies in politics and public ppublic policy.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author, most recently, of Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism.

For all that the neoconservatives have said publicly about their vision of American power, a coherent narrative of the development of their policy has been needed, and Dorrien provides that account impressively He reveals that the purported reasons for the Iraq invasion (defending America from weapons of mass destruction and spreading democracy and freedom) were a mere gloss intended for public consumption.

A much smaller but culturally significant portion of advertisements promote political parties, candidates for office, public policy positions, favorable acceptance of various industries, unions, or other entities, particularly if they are unpopular for some reason.

So stop the pointless labeling, stop dealing in poorly - reasoned absolutes, and start looking at history — and you will find that this country HAS ALWAYS DONE BEST — economically, socially, culturally - when PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL POLICIES (government — i.e. PUBLIC — economic regulation, direct democracy, progressive taxation) have been implemented.

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America.

One reason is that denominational and judicatory officials have shifted their attention away from such «private» issues as education and toward public policy and social change.

For this reason, we have examined the issues of censorship, regulation, and the First Amendment protections from a perspective which asks what is right, just, and equitable, not simply what is currently legal or stablished public policy.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

«We found that it wasn't actually the length of breastfeeding that mattered, but the reason why they stopped,» study author Amy Brown, an associate professor of public health and policy studies at Swansea University in the UK, told The Huffington Post.

In part because human capital in these high quality sectors is deep and specific, so needs to be used to the full in exporting; in part because there are typically strong positive externalities to training and innovation systems from increased exports; in part because a tight fiscal policy constrains wage demands in the public sector from undermining restraint of export sector unions: these countries, as well as Japan and China for similar reasons, want no constraints on their exports through macroeconomic regulatory rules pressuring them to expand consumer demand.

The Vice President who queried the fact that most Nigerians for some reason do not discuss the role of grand corruption in crippling the nation's economy, admitted that though corruption is not easy to stamp out, said if the country sticks to the policy of ensuring that as far as public finance is concern, there is no impunity, people are held into account, then the economy will soar in no time.

Turning to pose for the photographers off to the right, the shadow chancellor demanded that Gordon Brown «stop boasting about [policy] success and start addressing the reasons for its failure,» which included telling the public about the severity of the situation.

Jim Al - Khalili, President of the British Humanist Association commented «As people who value reason and evidence in public policy and fairness and secularism in our political life we wrote this letter as a result not just of one recent speech and article but of a disturbing trend.

He's among the most engaging prosecutors I know, which ensures the public is properly educated on the policy reasons behind Bharara's crackdowns on the rich and powerful.