Sentences with phrase «why states act»
And the role of the government lawyer in the process of upholding and developing international law is often a pivotal one — at the intersection of applying international legal principles; facilitating state practice; and articulating why states act as they do.
https://www.gov.uk/ Not exact matches
If it is, there are two perfectly legal reasons why they may be requesting a tax ID number: (1) They want to confirm that your shipment is exempt from state sales and use taxes, or (2) they want to confirm that you're not engaged in terrorist activities under the U.S. Patriot Act.
In fact, part of why I like the state crowdfunding alternatives (alternatives to JOBS Act Title III) is that they seem to take more of the approach that people want to back small companies for reasons that are as compelling or more compelling than the prospect of financial return.
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars and physicians as well as family member of health efected individuals... Why lawyers!!? So crime per physicians OR WHAT IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) NO DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY»S FATHER WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY SCREWED / BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason)!!!
Fanatic Religious People (ALL faiths — Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Mormon, etc.) are one of the PRIMARY reasons why the world is in a perpetual state of Wars / Strife, because it seems they can't think or act without INJECTING THEIR religion into an issue.
This is nothing new in the history on mankind... why does this author act like it;'s just here in the states?
Hawkins recently explained to Sojourners why she wanted to stay at Wheaton, as well as why she has no regrets over the December act that precipitated her theological scrutiny: wearing a hijab during Advent as an expression of «embodied solidarity» with Muslim Americans in the wake of prominent figures such as Donald Trump and Franklin Graham calling for bans on Muslim immigration to the United States.
For instance, if all political parties, including the APC which was then in opposition, could hold their primaries in the state, why would the PDP that was in control of the State Government come down to Abuja for its primaries against the provisions of the Electoral Act and the PDP constitustate, why would the PDP that was in control of the State Government come down to Abuja for its primaries against the provisions of the Electoral Act and the PDP constituState Government come down to Abuja for its primaries against the provisions of the Electoral Act and the PDP constitution?
One answer stated that «only documents released under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request need to carry the justification or authority for why the information was redacted.»
That's why activists like myself are uniting New Yorkers across the state to demand the state Senate pass the Child Victims Act, which would finally deliver justice to survivors of childhood sex abuse.
It is time for our elected officials to have an honest and open discussion on the SAFE Act and why states with less restrictive gun laws do not have these problems.»
«That's why it was very important for the state to act,» said Poloncarz, a member of a national opioid epidemic task force.
Ask any pollster why Democrats made such wide gains in Congress and state legislatures around the country in 2006 and they will tell you that independents acted like Democrats.
Women say they were branded and traumatized by doctors in a secretive group, and state officials will review why authorities didn't act sooner on the women's reports, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
Related: Why has the Supreme Court of the United States not used its power of judicial review to audit constitutionally - questionable laws like the Patriot Act?
The timeline raises questions of whether high - level state officials were aware of the situation; and, if so, why did they not act upon it earlier?
In Buffalo Thursday, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, D, pointed to the Orlando, Fla. mass shooting as an example of exactly why New York state passed the SAFE Act.
It doesn't take much to see why the US took more of a backseat when Colorado and Washington, two states that have also fully commercially legalised cannabis, act as very large elephants in the UN's designated room of conformity.
«From all available records, none of the grounds required to postpone an election is existing in the state of Osun for now and so one wonders why this chairman, if he truly believes in the fact of his allegations, can not report it to the police for investigation because this allegation if really they are true, is a violation of the electoral act and the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria.
The state governor had argued that Osinbajo's visit was based on the invitation of the state government and wondered why the APC leadership would discourage the Acting President from inaugurating other projects in the state.
That's why the Count Every Vote Act states that all reforms must be in place by 2006.
«Governor Cuomo and Joe Percoco clearly violated the law here, and it's beyond me why our state attorney general hasn't acted on it,» DeFrancisco said.
Georgia has most restrictive petitioning requirements in the country according to Ballot Access News which stated in May, 2003: «Georgia is the showcase example of why the Voter Freedom Act [H.R. 2268] is needed.»
«Gov. Cuomo and Joe Percoco clearly violated the law here, and it's beyond me why our state attorney general hasn't acted on it,» Senator DeFrancisco said.
However, it is hard to understand why such a molecule might act differently in cancer cells, where NF - kB is typically always in an active state.
But getting stuck in these states can take a tremendous toll on our bodies, impair our thinking, and make it difficult to speak or act effectively.That's why I teach my clients this powerfully effective mindfulness practice that can calm our nervous system in seconds...
The new state assessments (along with old standards like the SAT, ACT, and AP credits) are diagnostic enough, it seems to me, to have real explanatory power, offering answers to such questions as «Why do only a third of young Americans complete four year college degrees?»
This can be the only explanation as to why no state, the entity with the power to address such atrocities, has acted on behalf of these women via the human rights instruments accessible only to them.
That's why, assuming that Congress fails to act to reauthorize the law, in the end the same problem that has vexed the law since 2001 seems likely to plague the waiver process as it grinds on over time: how to give states flexibility yet ensure that they hold schools accountable for results.
They would then need to explain why, if teachers are underpaid compared to their societal contributions, the federal government is able to recognize this and act on it but states and local school districts are not.
That's why GreatSchools ratings in a growing number of states and cities includes data about student academic progress over time, high school graduation rates, and college readiness including SAT / ACT performance and participation.
Recognizing the cost of human - graded assessment There's a good reason why standardized tests — such as the SAT, ACT, and state end - of - year exams — are usually composed of a long string of multiple choice questions followed by only a small handful of constructed response questions.
Well informed families should continue to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the undead portions of No Child Left Behind that persist in ESSA — including most especially the required publication of results from annual tests in two subjects only, which information middle - brow families consume and act upon, leaving the less tuned in behind to wonder about why their neighbourhoods steadily decline — ... Read More
And that's why the National Disability Rights Network, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and Association of University Centers on Disabilities linked arms with the nation's major civil rights groups to demand that the new version of NCLB, the Every Student Succeeds Act, include annual standardized assessments to measure student progress and that state compliance be overseen by the strong arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
The follow letter reiterates why he earned that title and why Connecticut's Governor, Education Commissioner, State Board of Education, State Legislators and State Representatives would do well to read the letter, read it again, and then act to save Connecticut's public schools before it is too late.
Why Public School Parents Oppose H.R. 2218 and Our Recommendations for Improving the Charter School Bill A Parents Across America Position Paper on the «Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act» July 5, 2011 Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing public school parents from across the United States, opposes the current version of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act, which was recently reported from the House Education and Workforce Committee.
That's why Duncan announced in June that he was giving the 37 states plus the District of Columbia, which had won federal waivers from the most egregious mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, an extra year to implement teacher evaluations linked to new assessments that are supposed to be aligned to the new Common Core State Standards.
That's why, even though Congress left a lot of discretion to states in crafting accountability provisions under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), it was clear that ratings must be purposefully designed to reflect how schools are doing for all groups of students.1 Otherwise, schools» average all - student results will, by default, become their ratings, removing the incentive for schools to tackle inequities in opportunity and achievement.
This is largely why I enlisted the assistance of Arizona State law school graduate Lin Edrington in seeking the Virginia Department of Education's (VDOE) VAM (SGP) data via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit (see pertinent files here).
The discussion of why or why not some states are embracing using the ACT or SAT as their high school achievement test is complex and lengthy.
If Twitter UK can be embarrassed into acting quickly, recently ridding itself (this week in fact) of cyber bullies and other assorted trolls by the British news media, backed by the government, plus have them arrested and publically exposed to the nation, then why hasn't the head office of Amazon in the United States been forced to take the same action when it comes to attacks by trolls on Indie writers who are ordinary law abiding citizens like you and I?
The shock value of the first sentence — «After killing the red - haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper» — is all the greater as a result of the reader being ignorant of why Glyver has been driven to commit such an act; but its apparent glib and unfeeling assurance is modified dramatically when we later realize Glyver's true state of mind at this time.
This act also states that creditors must provide reasons why an applicant was denied credit; upon the applicant's request.
This is why they gathered more than 190,000 signatures in support of the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act — an exercise in direct democracy that was passed on November 2nd to improve conditions in the state's breeding facilities.
It was almost as if the act of painting was the motivation for why painting should exist, even in its most reductive state.
Guston's main point at Boston University was that the state of things in 1966 was very different from the original experience of the Abstract Expressionists around 1950 when, in his words, you felt as if you were driven into a corner against the wall with no place to stand, just the place you occupied, as if the act of painting itself was not making a picture, there are plenty of pictures in the world — why clutter up the world with pictures?
There are many explanations as to why my place is the only one in the state acting like a proper El Nino afflicted area.
Well, Republicans were completely wrong about the Affordable Care Act («Obamacare»), and now, wisely, are quickly abandoning their attacks on it in advance of the 2014 election, so why not double - down and call conservative, flexible, market - based, state - controlled regulations to curb emissions «Obamacare for the environment»?!
«The Right Climate for Development: why the SDGs must act on climate change» released ahead of the twin UN meetings for Heads of State in New York — the UN Climate Summit on 23 September and the opening of the General Assembly debate on post-2015 development on 24 September 2014.
Why it Should» t be Listed Under Endangered Species Act From Red State The Washington Post devoted its KidsPost page today to a sympathetic plea for the polar bear — the predatory creature that environmentalists want listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.