Sentences with phrase «with weak laws»

The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.

Rather than comply with more humane standards, many Virginia puppy millers decided to move their operations to states with weaker laws and lax enforcement.

Not exact matches

The so - called made - in - Canada approach to intellectual property protection put us outside the mainstream for a number of years, with weak Canadian laws making Canada a favourite location for websites promoting internet piracy.

The laws of physic requires that there be forces and objects that interact with each other, such as the four forces now known, of gravity, electro - magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces (and now there is possibly dark energy) that is interwoven within matter.

A little thought about natural law makes clear that there is no other species than man so endowed with the possibilities of its own protection and thoughtful promulgation; no other species that can display such a reverence for life that it can fight against the dying of the light; no other that can so protect its weakest, most vulnerable members.

Christianity asserts that men are weak and self - centered creatures who are unable to live up to even the milder demands of the Law, let alone obey the Great Commandment to «love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself.»

To begin with the elemental ethical level, the words of Amos denouncing those who would «make the ephah small and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit» (8:5) are set in formal legal language in both D and H. 17 All three codes under discussion have general laws against the perversion of justice.18 The principle of sympathy and consideration for the weak is expressed with astonishing variety.

(Here, he calls to mind the way in which Jesus interacted with the poor, weak, and disenfranchised, interpreting the law to allow for such things as healing on the Sabbath.)

Likewise, although my math background is weak, isn't Borel's law saying that as the number of trials approach infinity the distribution of results approach the individual probabilities with a probability of 1, i.e. n - > ∞ the probability that «heads» will occur 50 % of the time is 1.

A while back he ordered a survey of bribery law, and now he has sent the results to NABC members with a recommendation that they press for strong legislation in states that either have no laws against bribery in sport, or weak laws.

• Baby Milk Action's campaign of solidarity with partners in the Philippines, where Nestlé is leading the industry attempt to replace strong regulations successfully defended in 2007 with its own weak law.

China has repeatedly faced challenges with weak enforcement of food safety laws and regulations — including problems specifically related to poultry products.

Six states had strict laws restricting the sale of so - called competitive foods — snacks and drinks sold in vending machines, school stores and during fundraising projects, which compete with school - served meals; seven states had weak laws; and 27 states had no laws governing competitive foods in middle schools.

Nestlé is leading an industry attempt to replace the Philippines regulations with its own weak law, which will mean (amongst other things) that the clear warnings will go.

Nestlé and its partners are pushing for a new, weak law to be introduced, which will allow them to advertise milks for use from 6 months of age (with the same branding as milks for use from birth) and target mothers directly.

Cultures with a weaker history of rule of law tend to have a culture of honor where personal reputation (honor) is highly...

Areas with weaker zoning laws tend to have more affordable housing as compared to more restrictive places.

The Attorney General's report traced guns used in crimes throughout the state over a six year period, and demonstrated that the great majority came from outside New York, mostly from states like Florida and Virginia with much weaker gun laws.

In the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.

Goodlatte voted for the same concealed carry bill that Faso voted for — the same bill that allows states with weaker gun laws to impose them on states with stricter ones.

New York State's campaign finance laws are weak and vague to begin with, but the lack of enforcement compounds the problem.

The newspaper looked at whether Cuomo, who created the commission to expose weak campaign finance laws and shore up ethical behavior in Albany, had interfered with its investigations.

«Teachers are standing up for their students and themselves against largely red states with weak labor laws and where governors and legislators have opted for tax -LSB-...]

That wasn't always the case though, as New York's blue sky law was initially weaker than that of many other states, until the New York Supreme Court determined in People v Federated Radio Corporation (1926) that the act's purpose was to «defeat all kinds of fraud in connection with the sale of securities and commodities and to defeat all unsubstantial and visionary schemes in relation thereto whereby the public is fraudulently exploited,» even if the fraud can't be proven to have «originated in any actual evil design or contrivance to perpetrate fraud or injury upon others.»

Despite these limitations, the findings are consistent with a study the team conducted in 2013, which found that states with stronger firearm legislation had decreased deaths, from both homicides and suicides, compared to states with weaker firearm laws.

This breakdown of societal taboos against lemur hunting, a study now shows, combined with weak enforcement of wildlife laws, is contributing to a rise in illegal lemur poaching in the country.

This law is so weak, critics say, that an EPA effort to ban asbestos — a class of fibrous minerals known to cause the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma — got struck down by a federal court in 1991 because the agency had failed to comply with another TSCA mandate that the agency pick the «least burdensome» way of regulating a substance.

States with higher - than - expected SAT scores were less likely to pass charter school legislation; tended to adopt such legislation later, if at all; and passed weaker laws.

The interdistrict provisions in the law are weak, and charter options are not meaningful in states with arbitrary limits on new charter schools.

Weak laws are the biggest culprit, followed by operators who are chummy with authorizers, followed by inertia.

Massachusetts has strong standards and high NAEP test results, but a weak charter - school law with multiple levels of restrictions.

In the past three posts of my series on California charters (here, here and here), I highlighted some of the serious problems that exist in a state with weak governing laws, a powerful lobby propped up by billionaires, and a governor who consistently vetoes bills aimed at charter reform.

Only seven states have a «parent trigger» law on the books, with some versions weaker than others.

Maryland currently has one of the weakest charter school laws in the nation, which has left parents here with fewer choices for educating their children than in many other states.

States with weak charter laws encourage nepotism, profiteering by politicians, and worse,» according to the NPE report titled Charters and Consequences.

It was true that the studies proving the case for patent restoration — for laws that would give pharma additional compensatory patent time — were weak and inconclusive, but the essence of the industry argument struck a nerve with Engman: here again was a case of overregulation hurting the economy of the nation and depriving the consumer of an improved product.

The laws in the Garden State also serve to limit choice for people with weak credentials.

IRAs and Solo 401 (k) s with only one participant are not protected by this law and state protection can be much weaker (e.g. in California).

Kentucky holds steady at fiftieth place for the ninth year in a row, followed by Iowa (49), Wyoming (48), Utah (47), and North Dakota (46) rounding out states with the weakest animal protection laws.

It's shocking to many that these places are even allowed to exist, but due to weak laws and poor enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act — which only requires minimum standards of care to begin with — puppy mills are incredibly difficult to shut down.

With large numbers of imported dogs from rabies endemic areas entering the US pet trade, weak federal import laws, and state and local laws that specifically exempt the traffickers from regulation because they are supposed to be operating as humane shelters, the public Is vulnerable to this irresponsible activity.

Consumers are partly to blame, but the blame is at least partly with agencies that set weak environmental laws (eg Scott Pruitt).

Another factor continuing to affect Court practice, Zubarev says, is that the August 2014 contraction of the Russian Supreme Court from two separate supreme courts (one dealing with simple civil law disputes and criminal law matters, and another dealing with commercial disputes between companies) into one has resulted in a Court practice «getting more and more difficult», as the Court is less concerned with freedom of contract, and more interested in exploring the actual intent of the parties, and protecting the weaker party.

Since these laws mostly side with the weaker party - the employee - I can not see that you would have to accept staying employed.

But the patchwork nature of Canadian securities regulation, combined with a lack of resources and weak laws, have doomed previous efforts at increasing enforcement.

While law firms are increasingly comfortable with bringing in external advisers, some partners still believe such a move is a sign of weak management

But first, a little context: In 2012, the federal government weakened a number of Canada's oldest and most important environmental laws, including by replacing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act with the weaker CEAA 2012 and giving the NEB greater authority to permit environmental harms and impose barriers to public participation.

Jackson had initially filed suit in federal court in June, but earlier this month, Judge John F. Walter of the Central District of California convinced Jackson that his claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act — the only claim premised on federal law — was weak.

Reporter Mike Riley suggests that law firms are the «weak link» in the security chain, in part because lawyers aren't used to dealing with it.

Having examined the foundational weaknesses of the Bell coalition's website blocking plan (existing Canadian law, weak piracy evidence, limited impact) and its negative effects (lack of court orders, overblocking, ineffectiveness, violation of net neutrality, vulnerability on freedom of expression grounds, higher Internet costs, privacy risks), the case against the plan enters the final phase with several posts on how it fails to meet the requirements under the Telecommunications Act.