Sentences with phrase «special amendment to the law»

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Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discriamendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discriAmendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.

A public hearing on proposed amendments to the town's entertainment and special events law, including one that would give the Southold Town Board the responsibility of approving or denying special events permits, is set for Tuesday, March 13.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights asking him to «use your good offices and position to urgently request the National Assembly of Nigeria, specifically the Senate, to withdraw amendments to the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal Act which if passed into law would seriously weaken the act, undermine the fight against corruption in the country, exacerbate extreme poverty and violations of internationally recognized human rights.»

He downplayed the chapter amendment, saying there is a «typo» in the bill that refers to a special certification under subdivision 6 of existing law, when it's actually subdivision 9.

Put pressure on the Senate to withdraw the amendments to the anticorruption laws and to ensure that a climate of legislative impunity and official corruption is not allowed to undermine the mandate of the Special Rapporteur to advance human rights and address extreme poverty;

Then less than two weeks later, the governor signed an amendment to the law that created a special area between 24th and 27th streets and 10th and 11th avenues.

At Tuesday's County Legislature meeting the floor was opened for public discourse on the special order of the day; a vote on two amendments to the Laws of Rockland County, both of them intended to aid local veterans.

At the Annual Meeting or at a special meeting of the Society, voting shall be limited to those members in good standing who are present at the meeting, except for the annual election of Officers and Directors, delegate to The American Kennel Club, and amendments to the Constitution and By - Laws and the Standard of the Breed which shall be decided by written ballot cast by mail.

At the Annual Meeting or at a special meeting of the Club, voting shall be limited to those members in good standing who are present at the meeting, except for election of Officers and Directors, and except for amendments to the By - Laws and to the Standard for the breed, which shall be decided by written ballot cast by mail.

At the Annual Meeting or at a special meeting of the Club voting shall be limited to those members in good standing who are present at the meeting, except that the annual election of Directors and the vote on amendments to the Constitution, the by - laws and the Standard for the breed shall be decided by written ballot cast by mail.

Judges, public interest lawyers, and law librarians have a special interest in this European equivalent to a First Amendment battle.

I retained Pamela to help with business development and some special projects in my First Amendment / Communications law practice.

One (immense) problem: (1) There is, and can be, no special copyright law for «newspapers,» because the definitional (not to mention the First Amendment) problems are such that it is simply impossible to imagine such a thing coming into existence.

Students will be required to prepare memoranda throughout the semester on related topics including home schooling, curriculum reform, vaccination law, proxy consents to medical treatment and research, corporal punishment, and the Fourth Amendment's special needs administrative search exception.