Sentences with phrase «which defends»

Many civil liberties advocates, such as Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which defends civil rights and freedoms in the digital world, believe that this patented system would enable Apple to secretly collect, store and potentially use sensitive biometric information about a user — simply put, to spy on their customers.

If, non-lawyers are allowed to have equity ownership in law firms and, for example, an insurance company partially or completely owns a law firm which defends its insureds in personal injury cases, the independent professional judgment of the lawyers working for the firm may take a back seat to the business goals of the insurance company.

«We need a new Act which defends and extends the right to justice, and we need a new body tasked with implementing it.

Under the lead of «highly competent all - around lawyer» Jo Pummery, who is the «attentive to detail» director and the head of the marine department, the team advises on the majority of marine - related incidents and has a marine advocacy department which both defends and prosecutes cases, including representation at coroner's inquests.

Speaking for Elliniki Etaireia, an NGO which defends the Aegean's ecology, she said turbines are both desirable and aesthetically fine, but the scale must be right.

(Peter Singer also has an essay, «One Atmosphere,» in which he defends the per - capita approach.)

The Tate show includes the opportunity to watch clips of the series, next to a blown - up magazine interview Clark gave to himself in which he defends the BBC but despairs of the number of documentaries on social issues.

List of missing freature is longer then your article which defends it.

The state animal control association which defends an industry based on convenience killing will predictably oppose it.

Support the publishers or put your money towards either RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network), the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization or the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which defends first amendment rights of comic book professionals nationwide.

He is also an active supporter of PEN American Center, which defends writer's rights and promotes literacy around the world.

Today NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has an editorial in the Daily News in which she defends «public education» — and, more specifically, the City's traditional school system — from alleged accusations that «they are violent, dysfunctional and that their students leave school without any knowledge.»

The Institute for Justice, which defends school choice programs in litigation across the country, has used this ruling to demonstrate that vouchers and other school choice programs, like ESAs, are legal in Mississippi.

The plot, conjointly written by Weinstein, Musa Syeed and Alex Lipschultz, is anything but bland, embroidering a painful reality about this particular religious group, which defends that a widower must remarry in order to properly raise his children.

The Lonely Island wrote a song for the 90th Academy Awards which defends the Oscar - worthiness of Thor: Ragnarok, Wonder Woman, Girls Trip, and It.

Now, the director is under fire after an interview resurfaced in which he defends Roman Polanski, who was convicted of raping an underage girl.

Curcumin is not essential for the growth and survival of turmeric, rather it is a natural phenol which defends the plant against herbivores, a feature it shares with other secondary metabolites, which are often used in medicine or as food additives.

The bottle itself is confirmed to be made from glass, and quite clearly a dark amber rather than the blue used by cheaper brands, which defends against UV radiation less effectively.

We've very happy with the opinion,» says Amy Comstock Rick, an attorney and president of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, which defends hESC work.

«If animal rights groups continue to pursue the use of laws in ways they were not originally intended, I'm concerned that universities may be forced to expend additional resources to counteract these unwarranted legal attacks,» says Frankie Trull, president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research in Washington DC, which defends animal experiments.

Concert proceeds will support the Indian Country Action Fund, a new nonprofit organization which defends the civil, legal, economic and political rights of Native Americans.

What arsenal can do against a team which defends deep & keeping a back 3 against a counter attack?

Neither has any doctrine ever so carefully defended itself against the most shocking of all blasphemies, that after God had taken this step it then should be taken in vain, as though God and man coalesced in one and the same thing — never has any doctrine ever defended itself against this as Christianity has, which defends itself by the help of the offense.

But it is a strange notion of orthodoxy which defends a bishop who — however strong he may be upholding Catholic doctrine — shamefully covers up child abuse.

For now, my only point is that there does not seem to be any passage in the Bible which defends the doctrine of Inspiration as it was taught to me: that the Holy Spirit guided human authors to compose and record through their personalities God's selected message without error in the words of the original documents.

«the president of the United States is the defender of the Constitution — which defends all faiths.»

Cobb's deep conviction, which he defends at length in his new book, is that the fortunes of natural theology today depend on Christian theologians appropriating the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.

A number of conservative Church of England figures have signed a letter which defends the former Archbishop of Canterbury against any criminal probe, calling the idea «bizarre».

In one of his last writings, Niebuhr describes «the guiding principle» of his mature life in relating religious responsibility to political affairs, as a «strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges» (Man «s Nature and His Communities [Scribners, 1965], pp. 24 - 25).

It will be the Church which defends the dignity of all persons when the levers of power move from the present hegemony that favours the homosexual lobby to another hegemony that may just as easily not.

The preservation of a free Government requires not merely, that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people.

They have then tried to contextualise science through a basically a priori metaphysics which defends the traditional concept of formality as a priori to physical observation and so ontologically transcendent of matter.

These weren't the truths which they defended in speech, ink, and for many of them — with their own blood.

In 2009, he linked arms with prominent evangelicals and conservative Catholics in signing the Manhattan Declaration, which defended a traditional definition of marriage and denounced abortion.

Moreover, since his vision of Jesus is one of the grounds on which he defended his apostleship, he evidently did not recognize any difference between his experience and that of Peter as regards the appearance of the exalted Jesus.

By the fundamentalist Protestant type we mean those churches which hold to the verbal inspiration and hence the literal inerrancy of the Bible, and which defend as of vital importance certain creedal dogmas, notably the virgin birth, the blood atonement, the physical resurrection of Christ, and his visible second coming.

Other people who call themselves liberals timidly put forward a lukewarm unispired plan to change it, which they defend very ineffectively despite having control of both houses of Congress and the presidency, and let the timid bill get diluted into wormy nothingness.

Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference today in which he defended himself for a second consecutive day against witness testimony in a federal corruption trial.

It's been a strange month for Bloomberg, who began it with a supremely sensitive speech about the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero, in which he defended religious liberty and pluralism.

In response to the story Ukip put out a statement from Etheridge in which he defended his comments — and attacked the media for promoting the story.

Hot Senate Race No. 5: In Missouri, Democrat Jason Kander had the single best ad of 2016, which defended background checks for gun purchases while showing the former Army National Guard captain assembling a rifle blindfolded.

Here's a recording of Gov. David Paterson's interview with 98.7 KISS FM yesterday morning, during which he defended Rep. Charlie Rangel from fellow Democrats — including President Obama — who have suggested the time has come for the embattled congressman to stop fighting the ethics charges he faces and go away quietly.

This is in response to Town Supervisor Helsmortel's Jan. 29 letter to the editor («Nothing secret about town board agenda»), in which he defended the board's actions and denied any «secrecy.»

Cuomo's office referred calls to the state Department of Corrections, which defended Agostini's appointment to the Parole Board.

He directed $ 750 million to build a factory for SolarCity in South Buffalo, which he defended to a prying reporter after the Rochester speech.

The MTA, which defended its decision to run the ads on the Times Square shuttle in Manhattan, also claimed Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked for the ads to come down, which Mr. Cuomo's office confirmed to the Observer.

Meet the supersoldiers The species collected in New York, Pheidole morrisi, normally has two types of worker ants, according to Abouheif: minor workers, which are responsible for foraging, nursing, feeding eggs and larvae, and taking care of the queen; and soldier ants, which defend the nest and use their big mandibles to crack seeds harvested by the minor workers.

The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, which defended Mann, said in a statement that Congress should restrict itself to narrow inquiries regarding funding.

As a member of the GBT Commissioning group, David focused on correlator checkout, served on the team which defended NRAO in the GBT Arbitration proceedings, and was a member of the GBT Azimuth Track Review Panel.

As our bodies age, they experience an increased concentration of harmful free radicals and a decreased concentration of antioxidants which defend against them.