Sentences with phrase «role do law»

What role do law firms have to play in teaching the basics?

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But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

Price received plenty of scrutiny over his views on what to do about Obamacare (including the extent to which he will use his administrative role to dismantle the law) and his investments in a number of biopharma companies that would have benefited from legislation that he championed.

Gaebler lauded the law's language allowing the SBA to raise its loan guarantee from current levels to as much as 90 percent for some loans, but said «this latest, new rule negates some of those provisions and... doesn't offer much respect to the small business economy, especially when you consider the big role that small business plays in an economic recovery.»

In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.

But the company, Spectra Energy Corp., said former federal Conservative government house leader Jay Hill's role in the discussions about those laws has probably been very minor and, in any case, represents just part of the work he does for the company.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

Since Islam does not make a distinction between the secular and the religious, and since a large part of the Muslim world has but recently attained political independence and is now playing a significant role in world affairs, this re-examination of Islamic law is all the more urgently needed.

Indeed, in a complex society where no one can grasp more than a few of the details, some of the most important practical theology will have to be done by specialists in medicine, law or business, or by theologians and ethicists whose training equips them for specialized roles in those institutions.

The role of your parents, in - laws, siblings and friends all shift the moment you say «I do,» because when you join together as one, you've chosen to put your spouse above all others.

Does religion (equated by Justice Kennedy in an earlier case with the belief that «an ethic and a morality which transcends human invention» exists) have any role to play in the law?

A necessary consideration is that in Canon Law it is parents who are given all the rights over the education of children and not the state, not even bishops whose role is the very limited one of providing Catholic schools where they do not exist and inspecting and regulating them.

Bottom line is it's not the governments role to make people make the right choice its there to protect us from one another and to keep the peace and law, if we want to help people you and me have to do it.

The emphasis on love, with its sexual overtones, does not rule out the usefulness of moral law, but it most emphatically restricts such law to the role of guidelines or to a generally agreed consensus on ways in which love may best be expressed in human behavior and human relations.

But he was willing to hold — insisted on holding, for plausible reasons — that the role of a referendum proponent does not confer standing to represent the constitutionality of state law in federal court.

Furthermore, the Catholic emphasis on the role of natural law does nothing to dispel the idea that too much use of scripture in moral argument can be inappropriate or impolitic because it can make universal truths seem to be based only upon specific revelation.

Mr Cassidy: «We do not normally provide legal advice, if I can put it that way, in the sense of the law enforcer because that is not our role and it can place us in an awkward position.

Gazidis was hired to take over Deins role and Dein was the one getting transfers done, now it is Gazidis, with the aid of Dick Law.

I want improvement at AFC and while I will recognise that Wenger makes tactical errors, I feel we need to blame the right person for transfers otherwise we will not get the change we need, someone competent in the CEO role and someone who can get the job (transfer) done working for him (someone better than Dick Law).

The rest of the world A) has sensible drinking age laws (this has a gigantic role in why kids pledge frats) and B) doesn't have US - like Greek systems at their universities.

But Long also insisted she has no role as a contender for a federal office in championing the repeal of any state law, although she did say she would have voted «no» on the marriage bill last summer had she been a state senator.

Arguably, state officials with a legislative role who are not members of the state legislature aren't covered, but this does not reflect common practice and this hole is often filled by a state constitutional provision or a state law or a local government charter.

So, states can not criminalize illegal immigration because the federal laws on the matter don't leave any role for them.

««I want to be forgotten as party chairman... The really successful party chairmen are the ones you don't really remember»: Eric Pickles talks to ConservativeHome two months into his new role Main David Cameron say the Conservatives would bring «law and order» to the financial markets»

There's less at stake in the next few sessions than in the last one, when the city's rent laws were up for renewal, so REBNY may play a smaller political role than it did in 2014, in which it bankrolled the current GOP majority.

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.

Admittedly he was an afterthought for the role, only moving into the Cabinet once the resignation of David Laws saw Danny Alexander shifted from Scotland to the Treasury, but his time there has been impressive: Moore navigated the Scotland Act through Parliament and was doing a good job in ensuring the referendum on Scottish independence was being held on the government's terms.

Of course, Bharara's case has not yet been proven in a court of law, though one of the 10 men charged — former lobbyist Todd Howe, who did work for CPV — has already pleaded guilty for his role in the bribery scheme that involved paying tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco through the former gubernatorial aide's wife.

Even though I have been one of the greatest victims of the irresponsible section of the media, i.e. those who have created an industry from spewing calumnies, falsehoods and outright fabrications against my person, I do not regret one bit my role in repealing that old, discredited law.

One way of parsing out parts of a state that must be handled on a large, geographical control basis v. those which can be organized differently, is to distinguish between the idea of a commonwealth which emphasizes the role of taxing and spending as a governmental function versus the regulatory state that monopolizes the use of force and more generally tells people way they can and can not do under the law.

«As an ardent supporter of reducing gun violence and a strong believer in government's ability to play a role in that mission, however, I'm disappointed that President Obama did not urge us to look at our nation's gun laws, as he did in his speech about the Tucson massacre earlier this month.

I don't expect something on the level of The Power Broker (Robert Caro's study on the power of Robert Moses) but do point to the processes and laws that supposedly yield power to an strong executive... there is a structural difference between executive and legislative... within that, personalities play a huge role.

That some of those who would play a pivotal role in passing the laws of our land would do so by virtue of a title they inherited from their parents or from the patronage of another politician?

Let me once again state that the role of the CBN as banker to the Federal Government is to do exactly what we have done and within the limits specified by law.

In that same press release, State Sen. Daniel Squadron added, «I've long supported a key role for community boards in the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.»

Beyond Riegel's role and characterizations of the process as «chaotic» by one panelist, criticism has also fallen upon panelist Brenda Gill, an attorney who said during deliberations, «I don't care what the standard is, I am voting my conscience» — a statement that «runs directly afoul of a clear - cut Democratic rule» for this process, according to former New York Law Journal reporter Dan Wise's WiseLawNY blog, which reported it.

The law enforcement agencies themselves are worried about the role that these people are playing in this country and I did not hear anything like that» Amissah - Arthur said.

«The leaders of the House of Representatives will do well to focus on their primary constitutional duty of making laws for the peace, order and good government, and performing oversight role on spending of public funds rather than engaging in inherently execution functions of designing and executing projects This will enhance the operation of the sacred principle of separations of powers and the ability of the House to properly hold the executive to account for spending of public funds.»

The regulation of child production was done «through church and state, the norms surrounding sexual activity and sex roles, illegitimacy, cohabitation and marriage, family and kinship obligations and property law,» says MacInnes.

That interpretation of the federal law does not reflect the critical role electricity plays in people's lives and livelihoods today, said Scott, whose study of the issue was published this week in the «Energy Law Journal.&raqlaw does not reflect the critical role electricity plays in people's lives and livelihoods today, said Scott, whose study of the issue was published this week in the «Energy Law Journal.&raqLaw Journal.»

Artificial intelligence is playing an ever larger role in innovation — with major players such as IBM, Pfizer and Google investing heavily in creative computing — but current patent law does not recognise computers as inventors.

People who weigh more aren't lazy 4:29 - The idea of «just eat fewer calories» is akin to telling those with depression to just frown less and smile more 6:45 - How calories can count, we just don't need to count them 7:15 - The «Calorie Myth» 7:29 - Calories in / calories out and why it doesn't work 7:44 - The role of the hypothalamus 10:55 - The four laws of thermodynamics and why it isn't as simple as eating less and burning more 11:31 - Why most interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics are completely wrong 12:31 - the problems with eating less 13:46 - Why you'll lose muscle and fat if you just eat less 14:16 - How calories are different 15:00 - The four factors of quality food: satiety, Agression, Nutrition, Efficiency 15:48 - Foods that the more you eat, the healthier you get 16:05 - Foods to avoid 16:38 - How foods manipulate hormones 17:13 - How to get your brain to tell your body to do something 19:44 - How hormones signal the body to build muscle or gain fat 18:55 - Why exercise alone won't help you lose weight 19:45 - Where «exercise» comes from 21:15 - One step to be healthier

Scarf recommends taking on a role somewhat like «a nanny, an aunt or a babysitter» — someone who can keep an eye on the kids, but who doesn't lay down the law in the way only a parent can (and perhaps should) do.

While it is pleasing to see J - Law continue to take on adventurous roles, she did finer work in «mother!.»

Or — look, the movie is hopeless, so let's just have fun thinking about casting — they could have kept Elba as the hero and hired Jude Law as the villain, because Law knows how to do that double thing the role required: complete self - love and utter self - loathing happening at the exact same time.

The rest of the cast do well enough in their perspective roles, though Law's turn as Vortigern often errs on the side of hammy rather than deliciously foppy.

Of course, the era between 1862 through 1866 is littered with changes in the country; laws, slave status, war, economy, all play major roles, but the focus of the film doesn't zoom in on any particular thing.

Brooks doesn't take many starring roles in films he doesn't write, but he almost single - handedly elevates The In - Laws to the level of shiny mediocrity.

The Juilliard grad bided his time doing small roles, including a detective curiously named Fartman in 2004's «Lenny the Wonder Dog» and a 2006 episode of TV's «Law & Order: Criminal Intent.»

Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the committee responsible for education, will almost certainly play a leading role, as he did in the successful bipartisan effort to reauthorize the major K - 12 education law in 2015.