Sentences with phrase «which legislates»

What we're seeing when we look at these people in Genesis is so unfamiliar that it helps to jump ahead in the Bible to the 10 commandments, which legislates for the patriarchal household, and think about why the final commandment is so hard to apply directly today.

It will join the House Homeland Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies, which legislates and oversees elements of cybersecurity, infrastructure protection, and promoting security technologies.

The bill undoing the president's prized overhaul will be the first order of business when the House reconvenes this coming week, marking a sharply partisan start on Capitol Hill to a congressional year in which legislating may take a back seat to politics.

To renew expiring Regional Forest Agreements (which legislate to permit native forest logging) would therefore be uneconomic.

Not exact matches

Parker adds that unlike the fight for the right to vote, which was legislated with the stroke of a pen, today's gaps in equality can't be mandated, and won't change over night.

The last time Canada Post experienced a work stoppage was in 2011, which included 10 days of rotating strikes and a lockout before employees were legislated back to work by Ottawa.

In part for this reason, at the inception of the inflation target there was no change to the legislated framework, which has not materially altered since its inception in 1959 (Table 1).

Weighting the rates each province has legislated by GDP indicates an average of 10.7 %, which does not change my critique.

But I'd be foolish to overlook that the legislated definition of a recession bestows practical meaning upon the consecutive quarterly declines, which actually makes it more meaningful than a «true» recession.

The Federal government needs to uphold the legal decisions by properly legislated regulatory boards which have approved these projects and get the pipelines built for the good of our economy and all Canadians in general.

Legislating a new urban resource extraction policy, which requires mandatory consultation with urban municipalities before approving energy development projects within their boundaries, ensures licences are compatible with municipal development plans, and grants municipal governments veto power over the final licencing decision.

Islam has legislated for this purpose, clearly defining the functions of the legitimate ruler who is representative of the community, and outlining the penalties which the ruler must enforce.

To those impatient political enthusiasts who talk loudly on how futile and impractical religion must always be, and who are bent on legislating human equality into existence, Kierkegaard offers a word of counsel, «Only that which is religious can with the assistance of eternity press the equality of men through to its ultimate conclusions: the reverent, genuine, unworldly, true, the only possible equality between men.

The right to participate in the widest possible moral discourse, through which social practices are legislated and justice is pursued, is also a formative condition of emancipation.

To the contrary, the discourse is about the activities of the state or about legislated norms by which all social action will be governed.

With 300 million firearms in private hands (one - third of them pistols), the overwhelming majority of gun owners ARE responsible, law - abiding citizens, which is why these horrific massacres are not commonplace, but rather horrific outliers that can never be legislated away (e.g. DC, Chicago, and «Gun Free Zones»).

There are also christian lawmakers and lobbyists who try and legislate that belief in hopes of conversion, which is where the hate from the other side comes in.

If your values and my values are in conflict, how do we determine which becomes legislated and normalized?

He sees politics as «the master art» which must direct «the rest of the sciences», including economics, and «since, again, it legislates as to what we are to abstain from, the end of science must include those of the others, so that this end must be the good for man.»

That which is fundamentally real in the Kantian moral world is thus a cosmopolis of noumenal selves, free and equal and rational and self - legislating, whose autonomy is qualified by the categorical imperative.

Ah, but about the present Peirce became another mathematician legislating for actuality; he decided that the presents in which actions happen are infinitesimally brief, with an infinite number in any finite time however short.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

This atomization can not be determined exclusively by the influence of the occasions in its own past, for occasions which have already arrived at their respective satisfachons are not able to legislate what specific bo, mds finally inform the loci or regions of succeeding occasions.

Well, in terms of America, which is what I think your talking about, Hindus, Brights, Jains, and myriads of other religions aren't attempting to legislate their religion in direct opposition to the first amendment.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

Last week our nation commemorated the eightieth anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, the most commonly cited lesson of which is: You can not legislate morality.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

In three regards the law which Deuteronomy pleads (rather than strictly legislates) may be seen to express the prophetic temper which produced it.

Voters will be asked whether they want to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which gives equal right to life to the mother and the unborn, and replace it with new wording to allow parliament to legislate on abortion in the future.

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The RLA calls on governments everywhere to legislate according to the World Health Organisation's International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes, and challenges the companies which continue to break and bend the Code to put the health and lives of babies before their profits.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Ministers are now under pressure from the legal profession and its law reform advisory body, the Law Commission, to legislate to give full legal force to pre-nup deals by which couples agree how to divide their property when they divorce even before the wedding.

The Let's Move campaign has quite obviously stayed away from legislating anything, which is why it's not really very useful.

We have legislated in the first Energy Act 2011 for the pioneering pay - as - you - save Green Deal which will revolutionise our energy saving efforts, provide jobs across the country, and save householders money.

In his Labour conference speech, McDonnell said a Labour government would legislate for a «real living wage», which he said was likely to be higher in 2020 than the # 10 level he proposed last year.

«I caution that legislating for targets is not the same as legislating the means to achieve them, and it is the means to achieve them on which we will all be judged.

Extradition is a reserved area, which means that the parliament can not legislate on it.

Presumably the idea is not to legislate top wage rates (which would anyway miss capital incomes, which are proportionately more of top incomes), but to use the tax - benefit system to achieve the ratio.

«However much you try and legislate to cover UK - based publishers, there will always be some beyond the reach of the law which it is almost impossible to legislate over,» he explained.

In December 2013, an agreement between the Government and the four ISPs, under which the ISPs committed to offering all new customers a family - friendly network level filtering service, was announced (in the face of a threat to ISPs that if they didn't do something voluntarily, the Government would legislate).

This gives shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David to attack him on the issue, which is currently being legislated on (not quite as glamorous as Lords reform, admittedly).

Councilman Donovan Richards (D - Far Rockaway) introduced a similar bill last year which only covered municipal employees — where the council has greater authority to legislate.

Moreover, he knew that we might win and did not want the embarrassment of being forced by Europe to legislate equal marriage, which would have been used against him by Euro - sceptics in his own party — and by UKIP.

The Court considered Items 29 and 36 of the Exclusive Legislative List of CFRN and held that «Inland Waterways was not one of the items over which the National Assembly was given power to legislate and the National Assembly did not designate the Peninsular of Lagos Lagoon as an International Waterway.

Although the coalition parties legislated to secure fixed - term parliaments of five years - a precondition of entering into government together - there are two ways in which a general election could take place before 2015.

This led to the Labour manifesto for the 2015 general election under Ed Miliband's leadership which promised to «legislate to make three - year tenancies the norm, with a ceiling on excessive rent rises».

Cuomo said plastic bags are a statewide problem, which is why he created a task force that will be co-chaired by members of the Senate and Assembly «so that the recommendation can be quickly legislated.»

«I can't reasonably be expected to endorse a strategy which I don't think makes either much sense in practice and confounds and contradicts what we have solemnly legislated on earlier on in this parliament.»

Scot Peterson and Iain McLean discuss their new book, which explores the facts and opinions behind the legislating of same - sex marriage in the United Kingdom and the United States