Sentences with phrase «used by the individual states»

Although the «best interest» standard does vary from state to state, some factors are common in the best interest analysis used by the individual states, including:

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The profiles would be used to «identify the personality traits of individuals» in states to be targeted by the Bolton PAC, said the agenda, which was prepared for SCL and Cambridge staff.

The four schools of law have clear rulings that on no account should an individual or group of Muslims attempt to change the government of an Islamic state through the use of arms and violence, because to allow such a possibility invites civil strife, private wars, and the abuse of Islam by factions who use theology to justify their self - interested rebellions and usurpations.

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

The term usually signifies the process by which religion loses social significance, but the emphasis may be on the relationship of Church and State or on the social influence of religion, or used to speak about individual belief and practice.9

The term and title, «Master Chef» at least in the United States, is used loosely by Marketers and individuals alike to promote any number of self - interest endeavors.

In practice however, there are some restrictions set by the individual States that take into consideration practicality, and limit parents from using numbers, pictograms, and obscene words.

«On 7 May 2015, the Telegraph used a public telecommunications service for the purposes of transmitting unsolicited communication by means of electronic mail to individual subscribers for the purposes of direct marketing contrary to Regulation 22 (2) of PECR,» the ICO stated in their ruling.

Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) are used by a wide variety of industries to circumvent the $ 5,000 annual corporate contribution limit in New York State campaign finance law, relying on the New York State Board of Elections» 1996 determination to treat LLCs as individuals, subject to a $ 150,000 annual contribution limit.

Through a new web - based portal set to go live July 1, the state Office of General Services will take control of allocating more than 10,000 parking spaces now controlled by individual agencies, which use different standards to award spots based on lengthy waiting lists.

Ahead of last year's elections, state Senate Republicans boosted many of their candidates with financial support from a campaign fund that was barred under state law from being used to promote individual candidates, according to a court filing by the state Board of Elections» independent enforcement office.

«This is a terrible day for United States of America and it is very, very frustrating how we are being divided and the false narrative that is being peddled by this highly insecure individual who's using power to uphold that false narrative.»

Making the call at a news conference in Osogbo, the state Chairman of APC, Prince Gboyega Famodun, said the video clip was fabricated by some unscrupulous individuals to discredit the election, adding that the video clip, which was brandished by the spokesperson of Jonathan Campaign Organization, Mr Femi Fani - Kayode, had nothing to do with the last August election in Osun State as the ballot papers shown in the video were different from the actual ballot papers used for Osun governorship elecstate Chairman of APC, Prince Gboyega Famodun, said the video clip was fabricated by some unscrupulous individuals to discredit the election, adding that the video clip, which was brandished by the spokesperson of Jonathan Campaign Organization, Mr Femi Fani - Kayode, had nothing to do with the last August election in Osun State as the ballot papers shown in the video were different from the actual ballot papers used for Osun governorship elecState as the ballot papers shown in the video were different from the actual ballot papers used for Osun governorship election.

A bill introduced by Bronx State Sen. Jeff Klein, allowing individuals to use a portion of their life insurance money to cover nursing home costs, was signed into law by the Governor last week.

All States may participate in and permit, provided that the Security Council decides in advance on a case - by - case basis to approve: the supply, sale or transfer directly or indirectly from or through their territories, or by their nationals or individuals subject to their jurisdiction, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, and whether or not originating in their territories, to Iran, or for the use in or benefit of Iran, of any battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems, as defined for the purpose of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, or related materiel, including spare parts, and the provision to Iran by their nationals or from or through their territories of technical training, financial resources or services, advice, other services or assistance related to the supply, sale, transfer, manufacture, maintenance, or use of arms and related materiel described in this subparagraph.

He has also taken individual action to set an ethical standard, such as cutting up his state - issued parking placard — which read «on official police business» — and refused his lulu, a $ 9,500 payment ostensibly for the extra work of being on a committee, but one he said is used by the leadership to secure a member's loyalty.

Some of the buildings are used by nonprofit mental health and homeless services groups that contract with the state to provide services to a few hundred homeless and mentally ill individuals.

Data are drawn from year - end financial reports provided by individual districts using standard state forms.

This is the solution used for pass through taxation entities, where deferral of taxation is avoided by the pass through mechanism that immediately taxes shareholders whether or not profits are distributed, but it becomes complex when the entity incurs taxes in many states that must be passed on to all of the owners to report proportionately on their individual tax returns.

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

Hawkins and Jones want the state to opt out of Common Core and opt into individual assessments like the Performance Based Assessment Tasks (PBATs) used by 26 public schools in New York City.

He says the capital cities of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait «have been used as a base by wealthy individuals and religious foundations to channel millions of dollars to radical Sunni elements fighting Assad in Syria, either with the tacit approval of the regimes, or taking advantage of weak money - laundering protections within those states.»

Musa regretted the use of inciteful words, especially by highly placed politicians like Governor Nasir el - Rufai in the state, which according to him was capable of fermenting violence, adding that security agencies should hold such individuals accountable.

«By using special state - of - the - art cameras that use dual synchronized lenses, and two individual image sensors to produce a separate stream of video for the viewers» left and right eyes, they capture your wedding in the same way your eyes do,» says Creative Director Igor Dmitry.

For this purpose, the scientists combined a sophisticated bioinformatics strategy developed by Masaomi Hatakeyama that uses state - of - the - art sequencing methods with a new technology that can optically map the long, individual DNA molecules in the genome.

Leonardo Cohen, at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the study, thinks the next step should instead be to use the existing scanning method to train individuals to enter good brain states of their own accord, by rewarding them when they do.

Those warnings will state tanners face an amplified risk of skin cancer that increases with repeated sunlamp use, and the devices should not be used by individuals with open wounds or a family history of skin cancer.

For each polymorphic site observed in a given horse sample, we defined the ancestral state using the donkey sequence data and computed a measure of genetic load as the product of the GERP score at each site and the number of derived alleles carried by this individual at this site, averaged across sites for each individual.

Electric car operating costs are translated into an mpg equivalent, or MPGe, using individual states» electricity costs as calculated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

By definition, meditation is often used to describe the individual's state of intense attention on an object of awareness like...

A recent scientific review by Nicole Templeman and colleagues (the Journal of Endocrinology) states that, «Genetic profiling studies could be used to understand the mechanistic underpinnings of this variation [individual responses to macronutrients].

This is particularly important, because individual states using PARCC have the discretion to set their performance levels lower than those specified by the test developers.

As outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalent).

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

Relay's handbook says its students instead can use tests they acquire elsewhere or even write themselves, if the assessments show mastery of state or Common Core standards, or of standards set by charter networks or individual schools.

School districts may use the expertise of individuals in the state who wish to provide online instruction to students by issuing adjunct certificates to qualified applicants.

A group of Los Angeles teachers Wednesday unveiled their own proposal for a new performance review system that would use both state standardized test scores and assessments chosen by individual schools to measure how well instructors help their students learn.

Fulfill the requirements of a state - approved preparation program that includes clinical experiences using models of accomplished practice by instructors with K - 12 experience, as well as promotes cultural responsiveness and the ability of teachers to address the individual learning needs and backgrounds of all students;

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

Each of these proposed rule revisions reflects conditions imposed by Texas's NCLB waiver — that student growth be measured at the individual teacher level, that student performance on state assessments must be included as a measure of student growth, that the student growth component must be weighted 20 percent in a teacher's evaluation, and that TEA ensure that local school districts using locally - developed appraisal systems use student growth at the individual teacher level.

NMSTE Mission: To ensure the success for all students by serving as a state wide network of individuals seeking to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education.

ELPA21's Professional Development (PD) Task Force worked with EL experts and educators from ELPA21 states to develop materials and guidance to be used in group trainings and accessed by individual teachers.

The book was co-authored by the CTTL's Director and Head of Research, Glenn Whitman and Ian Kelleher who have been presenting around the United States this year how research in the field of Mind, Brain, and Education Science can and should be used to inform, transform, and validate how teachers design their classes and work with each individual student.

Long - standing state law and a more recent court order demand that the district use results on the state's annual standards exams as part of the teacher evaluation process, which the district plans to do by examining how much improvement individual students have shown over the year under each teacher.

(f) As used in this title, the phrase «unlawful employment practice» shall not be deemed to include any action or measure taken by an employer, labor organization, joint labor - management committee, or employment agency with respect to an individual who is a member of the Communist Party of the United States or of any other organization required to register as a Communist - action or Communist - front organization by final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board pursuant to the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950.

The work we did with the State of Washington also helped us get closer to our goal of supporting libraries» individual and unique missions by providing scalable, reliable and easy - to - use library - branded mobile apps that users of library resources increasingly demand.»

In addition to the definition of commercial activity generally used by insurance carriers — leasing of 90 days or more per year — individual states and cities might have their own laws regarding short - term guests.

Depending on your income and your state, here are a few examples of how much an individual with an adjusted gross income of $ 50,000 would save by paying for $ 3,000 worth of medical expenses using an HSA.

The government watchdog urged the search giant to, «work closely with federal and state agencies to ensure your search products are not being used by individuals and companies seeking to prey on the most vulnerable student loan borrowers by implying an affiliation with the federal government.»