Sentences with phrase «rules became law»

Since new federal bankruptcy rules became law in October, 2005, anyone who has gross income higher than the median income for their state is required to file bankruptcy under Chapter 13, instead of under Chapter 7.

Not exact matches

Things can become even more difficult if you operate in a heavily regulated industry that requires compliance with various laws and rules.

Italy might have just become a smaller concern for investors after the constitutional court ruled on changes to the country's electoral law.

Chilton said,» Unless this language is written to avoid it, this could blow a huge hole in the Volcker Rule and would obfuscate the intent of Congress and President Obama when the financial reform legislation became law in 2010.»

Given that these rules will then require 60 days to be published in the federal register and become law, it appears likely that the earliest date small businesses will be able to utilize these JOBS Act provisions to raise capital will be the beginning of 2016.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

And because Senate rules will require the plan to fit within a budget resolution that will most likely allow only $ 1.5 trillion in revenue losses over a decade, lawmakers will have to trim its proposed tax cuts — or add new tax increases — to meet that specification before it can become law.

However, Obama said that «just because we put forth a new rule doesn't mean that it will become law.

Dale Brown, FSI's president and CEO, stated on the call that FSI, as well as the other groups joining the suit, «has supported a uniform fiduciary standard since 2009 — before Dodd - Frank became law... but the Department of Labor's complex and unworkable rule will only harm the smaller investors it claims to protect.»

There has been modest tinkering with the Canadian rules over the years, but my Globe and Mail opinion piece notes the law is struggling to remain relevant in a digital age when our personal information becomes increasingly valuable and our consent models are little more than a legal fiction.

It was just another Wednesday in Trump's Washington, where many have become inured to comments and actions that suggest both disregard and even disdain for the rule of law.

In a Nov. 2 decision, Judge Susan Richard Nelson granted a preliminary injunction to Thrivent Financial, accepting plaintiff's claims of irreparable harm if the class - action provisions contained in the DOL rule are permitted to become law.

Commercial rules, as well as expertise in payments law to craft them, are key for new technology to push on to become a mature enterprise infrastructure for a truly modern...

When evil rules the majority, then those laws will gradually be changed so that behavior gradually becomes more inclined to selfish gratification at the expense of others, wickedness then becomes expected, then it becomes normal, then it becomes the law.

Since «universality» does no longer justify itself by «exemplary instantiations» of laws and rules, but proceeds as the universal effectiveness of the unique, this structure enables us to understand how singular events can become reasons of universal revealing.

And so, precisely because the rules of constitutional law create some faint possibility of gaining special consideration, the question the religion must ask itself becomes (to take Needham as our example) not What form of counseling does God require?

In neither case does it reflect a disrespectful view of divine law (which both the Old and the New Testament see as grounded in divine grace), but rather it refers to what is bound to happen to the law when we start «handling» it and using it to establish our own righteousness rather than letting the rule and righteousness of God dwell and become embodied in our midst.

But societies that successfully introduce non-religious cooperation - sustaining mechanisms like a rule of law, trustworthy police, less corruption tend to become more atheistic, another corroborating point of this theory.

The Laws prescribe: • How humans (and Jews) should become and behave by free choice The Laws of Torah are Ideas They expect fulfillment They are Potential The Laws of Torah depend on their human Interpretation • They are explored and ruled by authority and majority.

This is all the more striking as» what Luke could not foresee» the rules on inheritance were to become one of the trickiest and most developed in Islamic religious law, a nest of case studies for students of legal theory.

It is a period in which the Congregation founded by the Prophet and expanded by the skillfully conducted warfare of Arabian tribesmen became an Islamic Society with a formulated creed, a system of law derived from the source of its beliefs and ideals, a ruling institution, and a brotherhood which transcends accidents of race and station in life.

Opposition was intense but the rule became canon law.

The growing level of impunity; abuse of rule of law and gross violation of human right under Nana Akufo - Addo is becoming very alarming.

When in the Course of New York State Governmental events, it becomes necessary for a Governor to dissolve the political ideas and assumptions which have connected him with Democratic and Republican Members of the Assembly and the Senate, and forced him to assume among this executive powers, the right to assemble a Mooreland Commission, to reinstitute the rule of law in NYS; keeping in mind a decent respect for the opinions of New Yorkers requires that he should declare the causes which impel him to such dramatic action:

But once it stops being part of the constitution, obeyed by all as the rule of last resort, it becomes a law or statute which can be changed by a succeeeding parliament.

The GOP - controlled state Senate voted unanimously to approve new restrictions on the indoor use of electronic cigarettes, clearing the way for the rules to become law.

And even if the UK leaves the EU, all the rules would first remain in place as they have become part of the law.

«Distinguished gentlemen of the Press, it has become imperative for me to urgently issue this press statement to notify all men and women of good conscience on untoward activities of the current government in Lagos State that is hell - bent on persecuting my family for no reason besides that I insisted on the need to observe the rule of law

Even when ten minute rule bills are passed they generally join the lengthy queue of private members bill struggling for a second reading, which can only become law if the government allows it.

Citing six catalysts - the confusion over human rights and the rule of law, the unprecedented growth of the «database state», devolution and the pressure for greater decentralisation in England, the European Union and globalisation and questions about the eventual succession of Queen Elizabeth II, I predicted that the need for fundamental constitutional change would become unarguable within the next twenty years.

For those worried about a shift to an alternative payment culture to circumvent this rule should it become law, there is also a provision that «no member of staff in an organisation should receive an annual bonus exceeding the annual wage of the lowest paid worker in that organisation».

If this bill is passed into law, good governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights of Nigerians would become a farce in the country.By gagging civil society from criticising the National Assembly and the government, the bill will undercut the rule of law, shrink civic space, and expose vulnerable Nigerians to greater level of injustice and repression.»

The lawsuit filed by a conservative group seeking to repeal the same - sex marriage law that took effect Sunday relies on a lot of assumptions, incendiary charges and the hope the judiciary will become involve with the rules of order in the state Senate.

ALBANY — The GOP - controlled state Senate voted unanimously Monday to approve new restrictions on the indoor use of electronic cigarettes, clearing the way for the rules to become law.

Abubakar further said he wanted to become Nigerian president not for his selfish interest, but that he was determined at enthroning rule of law, internal democracy and progress in the country.

The state Senate approved new restrictions on the indoor use of electronic cigarettes, clearing the way for the rules to become law.

The debate is still out on whether or not the bill is the same as proposed by Jacqui Smith in 2008 (when she ruled out a central database), but if it was to become law then the wider impact could be catastrophic.

There is «zero tolerance» for sexual harassment in the Legislature, leaders say, but an ethics reform package that would create new rules and penalties for sexual harassment may not become law this year.

With the civil war over, Syria will become a model democracy, with tolerance for people of all faiths and respect for the rule of law.

He said that through the court ruling, democracy has won, freedom of choice and association have won and the rule of law has become stronger.

Malloy has ruled out a third option for the budget: allowing it to become law without his signature.

Since when did it become the ethical practice of any responsible and respected lawyer committed to the rule of law, independence of the judiciary, the independence of the legal profession, constitutionalism and democracy to resort to the print and electronic media as the medium of arguing an appeal or review of the decision of a Court of law he has lost?

The UK government believes bills applying exclusively to England should not become law without the explicit consent of MPs from English constituencies and it wants to change Commons rules known as standing orders to give them a «decisive say» during their passage.

Dr Bachmann originally became involved in this area of research through his role as Rule of Law Subject Matter expert for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) study on hybrid threats facing Europe — diverse issues such as terrorism, organized crime, failed states and how a mass influx of migrants might lead to political instability in certain countries.

UC announced yesterday that it is the first research institution to seek to «intervene,» or become a party in the case, in which the government is appealing a lower court's ruling that National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to study human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) violates federal law.

That rule of thumb since became known as Moore's Law and continues to drive the improvement of computers and other electronics such as the number of pixels in digital cameras and the size of computer memory.

Richard and Mildred Loving's marriage became the subject of a landmark ruling when, in 1967, the US supreme court ruled that the couple's arrest under state law that said that inter-racial couples couldn't marry was unconstitutional.

Casting rakish rising star Jean - Paul Belmondo as a hoodlum on the run from the law and American ingenue Jean Seberg as the sly, pixieish girlfriend who ultimately betrays him, Godard was riffing on the American gangster picture, but with its revelatory handheld camerawork and frenetic jump cuts, Breathless is clearly more than homage: it launched a New Wave, rewrote the rules of cinema, and along the way became the definition of cool.

Rules of Engagement) is a green, but very ambitious police officer who desires strongly to follow in his father's footsepts by becoming a detective lieutenant, which he attains by taking partial credit for the infamous Nite Owl murders, where three men barge into a diner and kill all of the inhabitants inside, including a former police officer named Stensland (Beckel, Blue Streak) Stensland's former partner is Bud White (Crowe, The Quick and the Dead), a rough - and - tumble cop as loyal as they come, but also willing to do the things that Exley is not, namely, to cross over the line of the law to see that justice is served.

The home - rule petition, which will also have to be approved by the House and the governor before it becomes law, was passed this spring by the Boston City Council in response to longstanding complaints about the committee's alleged ineffectiveness.