Sentences with phrase «traditional authority over»

The brief argues that the EPAs Rule «unlawfully attempts to radically transform the electric sector and usurp states» traditional authority over the electric grid.»

Abutia Development Union, (ADU), an association of committed citizens of Abutia Traditional Area in the Volta Region, is asking the government to hand over management of the Kalakpa Game Reserve to the Traditional Authority over what they describe as the failure of the Forestry Commission to make good use of the reserve.

The Ashanti Regional Security Council has placed a curfew on the Tafo township following clashes between the Muslim Community and the traditional authorities over a piece of cemetery land.

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During the 1960s, however, professed progressives concluded that the principal threat to individual freedom was not the state, big business, or economic privation, but traditional customs and social mores that claimed authority over people's lives and actions.

People have become disoriented as traditional cultural forms lose their authority over our lives.

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

They argued that the increase in wages would be higher for men who meet the traditional masculine traits that are most valued in the workplace: authority and dominance over others, economic stability, educational and labor market success, and heterosexuality.

With the rules that were more than two years in the making, the agency is expanding its authority over e-cigarettes, cigars and hookah tobacco, in much the same way it already regulates traditional cigarettes.

we have a long way to go before taking over the big media networks like GLAM (ewww) but i think we are becoming the influencers — we are the authorities now, not traditional magazines or huge online impersonal publications.

And those that do want to date other Asians tend to skew to more traditional relationship gender roles, such as expecting the woman to choose family over career or to do the entirety of household chores without ever questioning the man's authority.

True blended learning affords students not only the opportunity to gain both content and instruction via online as well as traditional classroom means, but also an element of authority over this process.

Opportunity # 2: Both a critical pedagogy advocate and a deeper learning champion would object to the fact that many traditional classrooms emphasize the wisdom and authority of the teacher (who is often white) over the curiosity, skills, and active agency of the students in the classroom (increasingly students of color).

Many writers turn to self - publishing as a means of bypassing traditional publishers and maintaining creative authority over their work.

The White House energy plan endorses this policy, even though it conflicts with traditional state authority over transmission siting decisions.

Most law firms, for example, opt for bold and traditional over bright and flashy, as they typically aim to establish a sense of professionalism and authority in their branding.

According to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India's (Irdai's) Annual Report 2016 - 17, the premium gathered by traditional products rose 14.24 per cent in 2016 - 17 over the previous year.

[23] The amendments covered a number of measures, one of which sought to «promote individual property rights» on Aboriginal land by enabling a Northern Territory entity (such as the Northern Territory Government or a statutory authority established by it) to be granted a 99 - year lease from the traditional owners over an entire township.

This has been a major issue in Australia where the foisting of a variety of «community» council structures on settlements and missions in Australia from the late 1960's on in the name of «self - management» or «self - determination» contributed to undermining traditional authority structures, had little credibility in the eyes of community members, and may well have contributed to the social dysfunction that has developed in many communities over the past 20 to 30 years - in Harvard Project terms, there was a monumental lack of cultural fit.

The traditional owners are in dispute with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority over the hunting of the now endangered turtle and dugong.

NAR wrote a comment letter that reiterated concerns that the Clean Water Rule (1) failed to preserve the States» traditional and primary authority over land and water use; (2) ignored the limits set by Congress and recognized by the Supreme Court; and (3) were confusing, arbitrary and deleted current scientific data.

The letter reiterated WAC members» concerns that the Clean Water Rule (1) failed to preserve the States» traditional and primary authority over land and water use; (2) ignored the limits set by Congress and recognized by the Supreme Court; and (3) were confusing, arbitrary and deleted current scientific data.