Sentences with phrase «with legal powers»

Such legislation would provide the Australian Government with the legal powers and planning machinery needed to restructure the economy and mobilise resources in order to restore a safe climate and safe ocean pH.

«This model Act provides the Australian Government with the legal powers and planning machinery needed to restructure the economy and mobilise resources in order to prevent or limit a general climate and ocean acidification crisis and to urgently restore a safe climate and safe ocean pH,» writes Philip Sutton in the introduction to the model Act.

We are the only charity with the legal powers to help animals in need, and bring animal offenders to justice.

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

It requires ordained ministers to renounce their long - established role as agents of the state with the legal power to sign marriage certificates.

For a guy with no legal power over the schools, Booker has been a prominent force in Newark education reform, both for popular and unpopular reasons.

The passage of SB620 in the Senate is, without a doubt, a significant first step in providing Michigan parents with the legal power to transform underachieving schools that are failing their children.

They could be invested with any legal power that the Parliament sees fit.

Not exact matches

But with such anonymizing power made available for free, some less - than - legal (and even downright malicious) operations claim to operate successfully.

Elevating more women and underrepresented minorities to positions of power is becoming a business imperative for the firm, with clients demanding diversity in their legal teams, Erickson says.

In essence, the FCC has given ISPs the legal power to blackmail any content provider that does not pay them with the threat of a slowdown in service delivery.

Mining services provider Viento Group has entered a trading halt after a legal dispute with a minority shareholder in its 65 per cent owned subsidiary, Power Infrastructure Services.

A few weeks after the announcement of the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) said that the acting director of ATF was unsure if the agency had the legal power to ban bump stocks in the first place, with regulation being perhaps the only available option unless Congress passed legislation.

Facebook has not always made it easy to export user information, and when start - ups like Power Ventures have sought to access user data with consent to power services that compete with the social network, Facebook aggressively combatted these features through technical measures and legal action under the Computer Fraud and AbusePower Ventures have sought to access user data with consent to power services that compete with the social network, Facebook aggressively combatted these features through technical measures and legal action under the Computer Fraud and Abusepower services that compete with the social network, Facebook aggressively combatted these features through technical measures and legal action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

An artificial legal entity created by government grant and endowed with certain powers.

It is the moral and legal duty of those with power to provide opportunity to those without.

In some states, like Ohio, fights have broken out among anti-abortion activists over how to use their new - found power, with one faction pushing for sweeping new restrictions and the other urging more incremental limits that they say will withstand legal challenges.

Founded by three powerful archbishops in 1933, the Legion offered ethical consultation to Hollywood and eschewed cooperation in legal censorship with government agencies, but its power came from its influence on the faithful and from its willingness to encourage boycotts whenever Hollywood ignored its ethical appeals.

Taking the Darwinian revolution into the law, Holmes rejected the antebellum idea of natural justice in favor of a supposedly scientific legal positivism that identified law only with power.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

My point, is that as «church», we invest a huge amount of trust and power in the hands of our (ex) leaders, who tend to justify their «annointed» position by invoking God with a cut and paste scriptural legal treatise underpinning their position!

Above all, the coercive power of our legal system, already stretched thin, must be used with caution and chiefly against evils about which there is something like universal consensus.

Woolworths is facing claims by Harris Farm Markets it is acting anti-competitively by enforcing a first right of refusal over a retail lease in Sydney's Double Bay, in a legal dispute that could mark the start of latest challenge to big supermarket power since Woolworths and Coles were challenged by the regulator on how they deal with suppliers.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

The most striking fact is that constitutional law academicians were able to draw on the reputation and expertise of legal professional elites through their transnational networks, and with their backing to represent to both parliamentary and Executive politicians that the judicialisation of politics, already normal in the West, was the only legitimate model of judiciary - democratic power relations.

It is very hard to conceptualise the type of power they wield with our existing political and legal vocabularies, but it a type of power that shapes our lives, identities and experience of the world.

When Schneiderman and Cuomo formed the commission in July, stacking it with district attorneys and other legal experts, they agreed to make each member a deputy attorney general, giving the panel broad investigative authority in addition to its subpoena powers.

Winning a majority gave them the votes — if not the legal power, as this is a devolved parliament dealing with domestic matters — to deliver that.

Neither the Senate nor Assembly have acted on them just yet, with rumors of legal action challenging the executive's budgetary powers.

During a brief court appearance with the jury absent, Morvillo told the judge he has built a solid legal reputation by «being intent on doing everything I can in my power to ensure that my clients testify truthfully, even those who, like Mr. Howe, have had a history of not always telling the truth.»

«Any prospective Attorney General candidate with respect for the office, separation of powers and a commitment to preserving the integrity of an ongoing legal proceeding would tell the Governor where to stick his interview because the Attorney General of New York doesn't work for you,» Molinaro said.

An alternative route may be a wider permissive legal power to grant particular tax treatment to landowners participating in a development that satisfies the defined requirements of a sustainable development with the costs of exercising the power met, at least in part, out of the development.

The coming power struggle pits the neoliberal capitalist class — big business and the banks with their friends in the media and their governing allies in the Tory party — against a weakened Labour party pushed on the back foot by a big election defeat and a trade union movement still hamstrung by Thatcher's legal minefield.

Silver was convicted of using his power in the legislature to do favors for a cancer researcher and a real estate company in return for referrals and legal fees to two law firms he was affiliated with.

The two trials laid bare many of the secrets the commission might have uncovered — with testimony about the vast, almost unilateral power exercised by legislative leaders, the way powerful real estate interests dole out campaign contributions, legal referrals and jobs to line politicians» pockets and maintain access, and how money is hidden by evading disclosure laws and funneling it through relatives, law firms and title fees.

The legal power of these international conventions is enforced in Russian Federation by the article 236 of the Criminal code «Using prohibited means and methods of waging war» with the penalty up to 20 years in prison.

President Trump is barreling into a confrontation with the courts barely two weeks after taking office, foreshadowing years of legal battles as an administration determined to disrupt the existing order presses the boundaries of executive power.

Unfortunately, this just part of the pattern of Schneiderman avoiding prosecuting those with political power,» said Jimenez, a graduate of Harvard Law School who provides legal services to low - income residents of the Bronx.

The indictment accuses Silver with using the power and influence of his office to obtain $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks from two law firms for legal work that he never did, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported.

SILVER had no public affiliation with Goldberg & Iryami and performed no legal work at all to earn those fees, which were simply payments for SILVER having arranged the business through his official power and influence.

With over 14 + years experience in community organizing, advocacy, and strategic outreach in underrepresented communities, she has utilized communications and legal theory to examine new tactics for digital mobilization and movement building, using social media platforms and narrative power analysis as it relates to the Latino outreach strategies.

Sturgeon, the first minister and SNP leader, has decided that consultation is not enough, and insists that her government or Holyrood should be given the legal power to block any changes they disagree with.

Henry Kissinger was spotted discussing the 2016 presidential election Tuesday night with power players including NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, his legal eagle wife Rikki Klieman and attorney David Boies at...

This provides Cash with more power to enforce contract changes, such as a longer school day, but a legal fight appears to be on the horizon.

According to the decision by a five - member panel of justices, there's no real factual and legal basis for Ghana's Supreme Court to share its powers and jurisdiction with any other court, and so it can not be compelled to halt the ongoing proceedings.

Henry Kissinger was spotted discussing the 2016 presidential election Tuesday night with power players including NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, his legal eagle wife Rikki Klieman and attorney David Boies at Upper East Side restaurant Sistina.

Invites a years - long legal battle with New Jersey by granting subpoena power over the Port Authority to a Cuomo - appointed official.

He rose to political power, beginning with his role as a legal counsel to the Warren Commission.

Saraki, in his response, said the chamber would seek legal advice on the matter as it had to do with separation of powers.