Sentences with phrase «social legislation»

Instead, the GI Bill became the most successful piece of social legislation Congress ever enacted.
The GI Bill became the most successful piece of social legislation Congress ever enacted.
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He solicits the Church's opinion on social legislation relating to health and abortion, and promises that the state will protect the Church from slander and defamation.
A good many of the issues that baffle us today have to do with the tension between individual liberty and social legislation limiting freedom of choice.
Ed Miliband supports giving back more control to national parliaments, and for the UK this must include control over social legislation like working hours and agency workers.
The polarized debate over health care moved into a new phase Monday, as Democrats and Republicans shifted their focus to the November elections and what could turn into a referendum on the most significant social legislation enacted in half a century.
David Cameron knows from private chats with Chancellor Merkel, Mark Rutte of the Netherlands and others that there are influential European leaders who tire of some EU social legislation themselves and would love to see the back of some of it.
A report by Ulrich Preis, professor of social legislation at the University of Cologne, outlines the approach to temporary contracts to be taken after the qualification period.
1601 is an important year in UK social history: ``... the 1601 Act for the Relief of the Poor has come to be regarded as a milestone in British social legislation.
During successive Conservative governments between 1979 and 1997, social legislation originating from the EU was seen as the only positive development for trade unions in British labour law.
Policy Generally speaking, the legal framework for thinking about child rearing creates a strong presumption in policy that favors parents» rights to raise their children.6 This attitude is reflected in three major pieces of social legislation governing the nation's child welfare system: the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.7
Early on in her ascendant political career, a visitor once spoke of Eleanor Roosevelt's «passionate interest» in a piece of social legislation.
They were put back in power in 2010 to work for JOBS and yet what do they do, practically nothing but social legislation, anti-abortion, anti-gay, thankfully the American people pretty much stopped that last night!
In our highly complex Western society «social help becomes increasingly a matter of political - social legislation
Over a quarter of a century ago he was editing a paper on race relations and social legislation.
In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.
It repealed much of the social legislation passed during the years of Thatcher and Major and renationalised the rail and water industries — moves that secured enormous popular support.
It is an irreversible piece of social legislation.
As part of the EU truce, the Conservatives will drop their plan to seek an opt - out from some social legislation, especially the working time directive, but will seek to «limit (its) application».
At times, the courts have construed it so broadly as to invalidate some social legislation which we would now accept as essential.
The Supreme Court held that the Fifth Circuit erred in its characterization of mental retardation as a quasi-suspect classification calling for a more exacting standard of judicial review than is normally accorded economic and social legislation.
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