Sentences with phrase «take affirmative action»

Whenever a mental health professional diagnoses child abuse, this activates a legally obligating professional «duty to protect» that requires the mental health professional take affirmative action to protect the child.

Moreover, these regulations require that LCE take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion,...

We take affirmative action to recruit, select and develop women, people of color, veterans and individuals with disabilities...

As a federal contractor / subcontractor, we take affirmative action in employment based on race, sex, disability and status as a protected veteran.

Is there an actual motivation for your reader to take some affirmative action?

Currently, users of social networking services such as Facebook must take some affirmative action, such as liking or sharing, in order to associate themselves with the product.

This means we assume you have given us your consent to collect and use your information in accordance with this Policy unless you take affirmative action to indicate that you do not consent, for instance by clicking or checking the appropriate option or box at the point of collection.

Baker Botts is subject to Executive Order 11246 and is required to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

The way that the law is implemented procedurally requires the U.S. government to take affirmative action to adjudicate that he is not a U.S. citizen prior to his attaining age 21, which didn't happen.

However, those who are proactive and take affirmative action will learn, get smarter and come back even stronger in the end.

(a) This subpart is applicable to all grantees and other covered organizations under this part, and implements the requirements of section 30 of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, which provides: The Secretary shall take affirmative action to assure that no person shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, or sex, be excluded from participating in any activity conducted with funds received from any grant made under this title.

38 USC 4212, Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Act of 1967 All federal contracts of $ 25,000 or more shall contain a provision requiring the party contracting to take affirmative action to employ qualified special disabled veterans.

(a) Any contract in excess of $ 2,500 entered into by any Federal department or agency for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction) for the United States shall contain a provision requiring that, in employing persons to carry out such contract the party contracting with the United States shall take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified handicapped individuals as defined in section 7 (6).

What's refreshing is the emphasis the film places on Bale's character's conception of masculinity that doesn't fall under either of the usual tropes; he's neither idealistic at the cost of lacking the will to take affirmative action (as Whitaker's character is) nor is he a time bomb of self - destructive aggression (as Affleck's character is).

Why not take affirmative action and burn your season ticket just to show how disgusted you are?

Appended to the resolution are a dozen pages of information on site development, ramps, entrances, doors, stairs and rest rooms, The UCC — on Independence Day 1977 — called on «each local congregation to take affirmative action assuring the full integration of persons with handicaps into membership of the Christian fellowship at all levels.»

Again, this is my concern that users currently may not know or take affirmative action to protect their own privacy.

A click - through agreement requires the potential customer to take affirmative action — usually by clicking a button — to show that they are agreeing to the terms of the sale.

If the government takes affirmative action to facilitate the free exercise of religion, does this action have a «secular purpose»?

It's a case of what might have been for Getafe whose owners seem content with their affiliation rather than taking affirmative action.

Regardless of whether the student sustains the concussion in the classroom, on the playing field, or elsewhere, schools need to be well prepared to take affirmative actions to facilitate the student's return to school for the sake of educational progress as well as medical safety.

The defense insists that the government could only be blamed for creating danger for young people if the government had taken «affirmative action» to create that danger, and, they say, the government took no affirmative action.

President Trump is a named defendant in our federal lawsuit, and this dangerous and reckless approval is yet another example of the US government taking affirmative action to destabilize our climate.

[Where state trooper took affirmative action of allowing police dog to be off leash, there is no immunity from suit; actions for personal injury caused by police dog will be analyzed under the dog bite common law, whether the owner of the dog knew or should have known of the dog's vicious propensities, as the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act does not permit actions under strict liability.]

720 ILCS 11 - 20.1 (b)(1) states that an affirmative defense may be asserted if a defendant «reasonably believed, under all of the circumstances, that the child was 18 years of age or older... prior to the act or acts giving rise to [the] prosecution... he or she took some affirmative action or made a bona fide inquiry designed to ascertain whether the child was 18 years of age or older... and his or her reliance upon the information so obtained was clearly reasonable.»

Not exact matches

It will take four affirmative votes to take action on whatever the Office of General Counsel recommends.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

Male seminary classmates see women as favored candidates for those jobs that take heed of affirmative action goals.

Affirmative action programs are being challenged; attitudes toward immigration have taken a restrictionist turn; and many white families seek to place their children in schools with few children of color.

When Giambra took office in 2000, Mohamed took a job with the county working on affirmative action compliance.

In response, Azzopardi said, «There is a fundamental difference between legislative actions that strip members of the LGBT community of their rights and taking affirmative steps to help change long - standing practices in a foreign country.

On Capital Tonight: The US Supreme Court is set to take up affirmative action again this week.

The ESA can not ensure habitat protection or require other countries to take affirmative conservation action to protect the giraffe.

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And if affirmative action is over in the Dutch sciences, what other measures could be taken to help women break through «the glass ceiling»?

«It was perplexing that the Supreme Court took the case because the University of Texas admission policy seemed in line with what the court had ruled was acceptable in the Michigan case,» says Professor Julie Reuben, pointing out that in Grutter v. Bollinger the Supreme Court supported the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action admissions policy.

But this argument ignores the declines in racial diversity on campus that have taken place after bans on affirmative action and the real - world consequences that these declines have for students of color.»

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The U.S. Supreme Court's agreement last week to take up the legality of race - based admissions in higher education sets the stage for a ruling on affirmative action that is likely to reverberate throughout precollegiate schools as well.

The take - away from both studies is that higher education is spectacularly bad at «affirmative action,» as originally envisioned: reaching out to disadvantaged students and preparing them to attend good schools.

The point she should really be making, and as you said, is that politician should take more affirmative and transformational actions towards climate change including revolutionize our energy system rather than just planting trees.

First, last week, the United States Commission on Civil Rights took up the issue of affirmative action at law schools at a five - hour hearing.

Sander's proposed study, while designed to prove Sander's point — that minority lawyers who benefit from affirmative action are less competent — might prove the opposite: that the bar exam isn't an indicator of anything except a good bar review class, disciplined study habits and well - honed test - taking skills.

* Watch our very own Elie Mystal take on Richard Sander over affirmative action.

On a technical point, warrant canaries are usually there because a programmer has set up a system whereby which in order for the canary to continually appear, someone in control of the site must continually, let's say at least once per day, take some affirmative and definite action to keep the canary up.

Hiring personnel can take in important qualifications (certified human resources professional), experience (collaborated with executive team to develop the framework for the company's affirmative action compliance policies), and necessary credentials (Master's Degree, Human Resource Management).

Ensured affirmative action is taken when responding to US custom issues, as well as other government agencies.

One such affirmative action that the mental health professional could take in order to discharge his or her «duty to protect» is to file a suspected child abuse report with Child Protective Services (CPS).