Sentences with phrase «which special contribution»

The Court of Appeal also did not consider it to be helpful to add to the guidance contained in the House of Lords» judgments in Miller and Charman which they said «provide authoritative and clear guidance as to the circumstances and manner in which special contribution is to be applied».

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In France, 16 huge - net - worth types, including L'Oreal SA heiress Liliane Bettencourt and Total SA chief executive Christophe de Margerie, signed a petition calling for a «special contribution» by the super-rich to help the country through its current budget crisis, which threatens France's AAA credit rating.

Ms. Gray is also Minister Responsible for Democratic Renewal, a role that coincides with her position as chairperson of the Select Special Ethics and Accountability Committee, which is reviewing the Election Act, the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, the Conflicts of Interest Act, and the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act.

Indeed, the thesis according to which religious representations are, like all determinate expressions, a manifestation of the creativity of the mind and thus referred ultimately to reason, fails to recognize the special contribution of phenomenology, which is the irreducibility of these representations to purely rational functions.

It is but natural that many people ask whether or not historians of religions have a special contribution to make which these scholars can not make.

In 2010, Kelly won the Attorney General's Special Commendation Award, which recognizes the extraordinary efforts of an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), an ICAC affiliate agency or an individual assigned to an ICAC Task Force or affiliate agency for making a significant investigative or program contribution to the ICAC Task Force.

«What special contribution does religion have to make to a world which now has access to so much information and understanding from science, philosophy and all the other disciplines?»

It also offers a welcome contribution to the debate over reasons for America's special relationship with Israel, which many would argue no longer serves its best interests (and perhaps even perpetuates conflict in the Middle East).

What unifies each contribution in this special edition, however, is not simply a focus on social media networks, but an implicit establishment, or recognition, of a new ontological plane of discussion on which politics can now occur: the digital - political, in which technology affects, and is in turn being affected by, the materials, bodies and politics of the citizens living within the state.

Last week, State Senator Adriano Espaillat's campaign circulated a tough mailer against his primary opponent, Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, in which they accused Mr. Linares of «betraying» the community by backing Rep. Charlie Rangel over Mr. Espaillat's bid to become the country's first Dominican - American congressman earlier this year and for taking campaign contributions from special interests.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

In Albany, which has been criticized for having a pay - to - play culture, special interest groups including lobbying firms, unions and corporations often steer contributions toward those in power, regardless of their ideology.

Madel could make hay out of Greenfield's state - registered cash stash, which campaign finance experts say is a legal but hardly ethical way to collect contributions from real estate and other special interests barred from donating to his Council campaign coffers, thereby skirting the city's strong campaign finance laws.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, but subject to such requirements as the legislature shall impose by general or special law, indebtedness contracted by any county, city, town, village or school district and each portion thereof from time to time contracted for any object or purpose for which indebtedness may be contracted may also be financed by sinking fund bonds with a maximum maturity of fifty years, which shall be redeemed through annual contributions to sinking funds established by such county, city, town, village or school district, provided, however, that each such annual contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of the contribution, the same amount of such indebtedness as would have been paid and then be payable if such indebtedness had been financed entirely by the issuance of serial bonds, except, if an issue of sinking fund bonds is combined for sale with an issue of serial bonds, for the same object or purpose, then the amount of each annual sinking fund contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of each such annual contribution, (i) the amount which would be required to be paid annually if such indebtedness had been issued entirely as serial bonds, less (ii) the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be paid during such year on the portion of such indebtedness actually issued as serial bonds.

Furthermore, the bill, which was passed in a state budget agreement in early April, fails to lower sky - high campaign contribution limits, close campaign funding loopholes, or mandate greater disclosure of independent expenditures by special interest groups.

The loophole has allowed special interest groups to funnel tens of millions of dollars into political campaigns, sometimes in secret, and circumvent contribution limits that individuals would otherwise have to follow, according to the Brennan Center, which has sued New York's Board of Elections to try to force it to close the loophole.

You think it's bad that Obama has raised $ 16 million in large bundled contributions, because some of that money might come from special interests, which Obama has pledged to attack.

I mean, I love Freeman Dyson's phrase, I love the phrase Freeman used — which he coined right in front of me at the Institute of Royal Studies in Princeton; I remember him saying it to me — that what made Dirac's contribution special was more than anybody else, his contributions were like perfectly carved marble statues falling from the sky.

«The essence of the demand for freedom is the need of conditions which will enable an individual to make his own special contribution to a group interest, and to partake of its activities in such ways that social guidance shall be a matter of his own mental attitude, and not a mere authoritative dictation of his acts.»

Saying it couldn't raise enough money privately to launch the school, AF negotiated a «partnership» with Harries under which New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) would provide $ 700 in cash and in - kind services per student for a school that AF would run and staff (not including the legally required contribution for transportation and special education services).

Into this debate wades Stanford University professor Terry Moe with his new treatise, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools, in which he marshals evidence on elections, campaign contributions, and education governance to argue that unions have an exaggerated and detrimental impact on American schooling.

A significant contribution towards the high driving dynamics and handling safety is made by the active aerodynamics, which has been tuned to the special requirements of the four - door coupé in extensive simulations, wind tunnel tests and road testing.

A significant contribution towards high driving dynamics and handling safety is made by active aerodynamics, which has been tuned to the special requirements of the four - door coupe in extensive simulations, wind tunnel tests and on - road testing.

When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural center, its special contribution, and these two great characteristics are constantly imbued with the spirit of independence and love of liberty which lives in the hearts of the dwellers of the mountains, their main quality added to the national character, there is every reason to believe that we shall have a people and institutions such as will be permanent; with such wealth of resources, of such high education and intelligence, and of such vitality, of such longevity, of such devotion to freedom and hostility to centralization and tyranny as shall enable this Nation of ours to stand indefinitely; and to maintain in the future years its manifest destiny of leading the peoples and nations of earth in the principles of free government, constitutional security and individual liberty.

One of several partners in the project, TPL's main contribution will be its extensive local history collections, special collections, and expertise, which will be used to help tell Toronto's history in a way that makes it accessible, interactive, and brings it to life, using digital channels and applications to deliver the content.

Gain on a full surrender Gain on partial distributions IRA distributions TSA / ORP distributions Correction of excess contributions to IRAs Conversion of IRA assets to a Roth IRA Gain on surrender of Paid Up Additions (PUAs)(Note: Automatic surrender of PUAs for Value Pay is not a taxable event) Processing of Non-Forfeiture Option (NFO) to Extended Term Insurance (ETI) or Reduced Paid Up (RPU) Interest earned on dividend accumulations Loan on a MEC Dividend used to reduce loan interest on a Modified Endowment Contract (MEC) Dividend used to reduce loan on a MEC Compound of loan interest on a MEC Gain recognized on lapsed contract with a loan Collateral assignment on a MEC Non-qualified Annuity (NQA) Collateral Assignments Special interest paid on money held too long Interest earned on advance premiums 1035 exchange without paying off loan first Earnings on non-individual owner contracts for which an exception under section 72 (u) of the Internal Revenue Code does not apply

The advocacy group Allied Progress offers a summary of Mulvaney's special interest in protecting payday lenders, in South Carolina and in Congress, and the campaign contributions with which the payday lenders have rewarded him.

There is a special rule for sole proprietors and single - member LLCs: You can contribute 25 % of net self - employment income, which is your net profit less half your self - employment tax and the plan contributions you made for yourself

Special anti-discrimination rules can limit retirement plan contributions for highly - paid individuals, defined as anyone making more than $ 120,000 in 2017 or anyone who is a 5 % owner of a company which offers the retirement plan in question.

Proceeds can be donated to the Humane Society of Missouri Cinderella Program to help injured stray or unwanted animals become eligible for adoption or the Foster Program which allows animals that are not yet ready to be placed for adoption the opportunity to grow bigger, heal a wound, receive needed surgery for a special need or any of the other available contribution areas.

Thanks to a very special contribution, Utah FACES was able to establish The Diji Fund, which was later renamed the Injured Animal Fund.

To highlight their contribution to this genre, a special collection of illustrated books is currently being formed which presently numbers around 1,500 volumes.

As the editor of Artscribe, a timely publication that regularly featured contributions by Art & Language; the creator, writer, and host of a number of TV documentaries, including the six - part series This Is Modern Art, which won many awards, including a BAFTA; and an author of books about contemporary art in London that combine informed description with «seeing the black heart in everything,» Collings has received notable recognition, including a special commendation from the Turner Prize committee.

Please join us for a talk by Jaffer Kolb, guest editor of Graham funded Log 41, which includes a special section called «Working Queer» with contributions by Ellie Abrons, Andreas Angelidakis, Annie Barrett, Caitlin Blanchfield & Farzin Lotfi - Jam, Stratton Coffman, Mustafa Faruki, Nicholas Gamso, Andrew Holder, Andrés Jaque, Jaffer Kolb & Aaron Betsky, Ang Li, Michael Meredith, Ivan L. Munuera, Joel Sanders, Rosalyne Shieh, and Michael Wang.

The contributions also consider such specific works as Kelly's Interim (1984 — 1989), the subject of a special issue of October; Gloria Patri (1992), an installation conceived in response to the first Gulf War; The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001), an extensive project including a 200 - foot narrative executed in the medium of compressed lint and the performance of a musical score by Michael Nyman; and two recent works, Love Songs (2005 - 2007), which explores the role of memory in feminist politics, and Mimus (2012), a triptych that parodies the House Un-American Activities Committee's 1962 investigation of the pacifist group, Women Strike for Peace.

«Nick loves sailing and this would be a lasting and very special reminder of the high regard which I know so many of us have for Nick and his contribution to Tate,» the plea for donations added.

All these specious claims for wind energy are simply part of a long line of snake oil sales spiels — intended to fool the public, and to enable politicians to justify favoring special interests by enriching various rent - seekers (which will then return the favor via campaign contributions and other reelection support).

The courts are now moving away from the gender discrimination of recognising «special contribution» merely because one party, invariably the husband, has been able to generate enormous sums of money, which can be quantified, whilst the wife's contribution in bringing up the children and looking after the home can not be measured in the same way.»

«Special contribution remains a legitimate possibility but only in exceptional circumstances... such a contribution can, in principle, take a number of forms; that it can be non-financial as well as financial; and that it can thus be made by a party whose role has been exclusively that of a home - maker... in some cases... its amount will be so extraordinary as to make it easy for the party who generated it to claim an exceptional and individual quality which deserves special treSpecial contribution remains a legitimate possibility but only in exceptional circumstances... such a contribution can, in principle, take a number of forms; that it can be non-financial as well as financial; and that it can thus be made by a party whose role has been exclusively that of a home - maker... in some cases... its amount will be so extraordinary as to make it easy for the party who generated it to claim an exceptional and individual quality which deserves special trespecial treatment.

Fair use, in this sense, represents the larger society's recognition that learning and criticism have a special contribution to make to the public good, which warrants the researcher and reviewer trespassing on property's otherwise scared ground.

The Court of Appeal also referred back to Lambert v Lambert [2002] EWCA Civ 1685, [2003] 4 All ER 342 in which, although the court made an unequal division based on special contribution, Bodey J stated that in order to justify a departure from equality «the characteristics or circumstances clearly have to be of a wholly exceptional nature, such that it would be obviously be inconsistent with the objective of achieving fairness for them to be ignored».

The husband also submitted that Holman J had been wrong when he said that special contribution «requires some exceptional and individual quality in the spouse concerned» which, he said, was contrary to Miller in which reference had been made to «exceptional earnings».

Work v Gray provides little further guidance on how judicial discretion should be exercised when considering the issue of special contribution, beyond the principles which have already been set out in previous cases.

The barristers had suggested figures of around # 30m — # 50m as a threshold, below which it would be difficult for special contribution to exist.

The court must then assess whether any such special contribution is «unmatched» by considering whether the other party has made an equal contribution which is so significant that it would also be inequitable to disregard it.

It is funded by the Special Court for Sierra Leone which is the first international criminal tribunal to be funded entirely from voluntary contributions from governments.

11.3 (1) For the purposes of section 195 of the Act, but subject to a resolution under section 100 or 108 (2)(b) of the Act, if a section has, by a bylaw passed under section 72 (3) of the Act, taken responsibility for the repair and maintenance of specified portions of some but not all of the strata lots in the section, a contribution to the operating fund or a special levy in respect of the repair or maintenance of those portions is shared only by the owners of the strata lots to which the contribution or special levy relates, and each strata lot's share of the contribution or special levy is to be calculated in accordance with the following formula and not in accordance with the formula set out in section 195 of the Act:

6.5 (1) For the purposes of section 99 of the Act, but subject to a resolution under section 100 or 108 (2)(b) of the Act, if a strata corporation has, by a bylaw passed under section 72 (3) of the Act, taken responsibility for the repair and maintenance of specified portions of some but not all of the strata lots, a contribution to the operating fund or a special levy in respect of the repair or maintenance of those portions is shared only by the owners of the strata lots to which the contribution or special levy relates, and each strata lot's share of the contribution or special levy is to be calculated in accordance with the following formula and not in accordance with the formula set out in section 99 (2) of the Act:

The recognition of the special value of Indigenous culture within the Australian national identity accords with human rights standards which observe the special contribution of minority cultures to the cultural identity of the state, advising that: [ICCPR] Article 27 is directed to ensuring the survival and continued development of the cultural, religious and social identity of the minorities concerned, thus enriching the fabric of society as a whole.