Sentences with phrase «year under amendments»

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Over the last two years, Sharon Vogel and Bruce Reynolds have been at the forefront of change in Ontario's construction industry leading up to the fundamental amendment of Ontario's Construction Lien Act, which is currently under consideration by the provincial government.

In light of Mr. Oman's years of service to the Company and his significant contributions to the growth of the Company's mortgage business, we believed it was appropriate to enter into this arrangement in 1998 to address the impact on benefits payable to him under these plans caused by certain prior internal job changes and amendments made to these plans.

Business associations have been generally very supportive of the policy changes under Bill C - 49, saying it goes much further than earlier amendments proposed in recent years.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Under attack this year is Article 40.3.3, otherwise known as the Eighth Amendment, which «acknowledges» the right to life of the unborn child.

The people under the most pressure are the Senate Republicans, all of whom signed Koch's three - pronged pledge (it also included budget and ethics reform), only to turn around and pass a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process in time for the 2022 elections but leave it in all it's partisan and un-independent glory this year.

The amendments will increase democracy and transparency in the operations of the Party, which for years has been under fire for being a corrupt, antiquated machine controlled unilaterally by the Boss.

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell proposed an amendment to the pensions bill which will allow people to buy up to an additional six years of voluntary national insurance contributions, over and above those permitted under the current time limits, in order to enjoy a higher state pension.

Popper — who passed his rifle safety course in 1981 when he was 14 - years old — said bump stocks serve no purpose and he said they are not protected under the second amendment because they are not guns.

The proposal floated by Krueger and Samuels would use licensing fees of approximately $ 8 million a year from each of the seven casinos authorized under the constitutional amendment, assuming, of course, that's it's given second passage by the Legislature this year — not a foregone conclusion — and also passes muster with the public in a referendum vote.

But Vacco argues the process was initially about an unrelated matter: Racist comments written late last year in ArtVoice, protected under the First Amendment.

Under a state constitutional amendment passed last year, a total of four casinos will be allowed on non-Indian land in three regions of the state: the Hudson Valley - Catskills, the Albany - Saratoga area and the Southern Tier.

Under the amendment, passed Monday by the City Council's sanitation committee, the law will go into effect on Feb. 15, 2017, and won't be enforced until August 14 of that year.

Under a state constitutional amendment approved by voters last year, a total of four casinos will be allowed on non-Indian land in three regions of the state: the Hudson Valley - Catskills, comprising Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties; the Albany - Saratoga area; and the Southern Tier - Finger Lakes area.

It is unclear whether government scientists» participation in this education - oriented activity would then preclude their engagement in any other scientific conference in the same year, under the current amendment language.

The dissenting justices contended that the church members should have been exempted from the requirements under a 15 - year - old amendment to the law that has been applied only to members...

In a 70 - page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch released the Denver schools from 21 years of federal oversight and upheld a 1974 amendment to the state constitution prohibiting districts not under federal desegregation orders from busing children for racial balance.

The absence of proposed amendments will almost surely mean that changes in the law, P.L. 94 - 142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, will not be included in House and Senate bills authorizing funds for the programs funded under the law next year, according to Congressional staff aides.

Earlier this year, the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schools.

The state Department of Education under Commissioner Chris Cerf has won three amendments to its application from the U.S. Department of Education in the last year, with the latest approval coming last month.

Finally, this substitute amendment requires, beginning in the 2016 - 17 school year, each school board and independent charter school to annually provide the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled in the school district or the independent charter school with a copy of, or access to, a summary of the pupil examinations that it is required to administer under state and federal law, as well any examinations the school board or operator requires to assess pupil, school, or school district performance.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

On Wednesday, Sen. Leah Vukmir, R - Brookfield, said she feared the amendment — which would reduce the amount districts could raise under state revenue limits by about $ 14 million in the first year — would «obstruct» the bill she and Rep. John Jagler, R - Watertown, drafted.

During six years working with the Commission, Sharon played key roles in the development of regulations under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act; the development of the Commission's Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues, and the Commission's work on Title VII's sex discrimination provision as it pertains to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons.

Under this new amendment, undergraduate students will be offered one choice for an income - based repayment plan, which requires students to pay 12.5 % of their discretionary income for 15 years.

Over the years, PIJAC has supported further amendments to enhance effectiveness of this law to ensure that companion animals in pet stores are raised under humane conditions consistent with appropriate animal care standards.

In May 2011, the Harvard Environmental Economics Program hosted a two - day research workshop and policy roundtable in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to reflect on these and other questions in light of twenty years of experience implementing the SO2 cap - and - trade program, established under Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990.

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

Last year, every country in the world committed to phase - down HFCs under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.

-- For each vintage year starting in 2012, the Administrator shall auction, pursuant to section 791, 15 percent of the emission allowances established for each year under section 721 (a), with the proceeds used for the benefit of low income consumers to fund the program set forth in subtitle C of title IV of American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 and the amendments made thereby.

«(2) outside of any leased area or area scheduled for leasing prior to calendar year 2011 under any outer Continental Shelf 5 - year leasing program or amendment to the program under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344).

This year, four different amendment proposals to control the consumption and production of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol were submitted to the Parties for their consideration.

Wilson spent the past two years in jail until this past Friday, when the Georgia Supreme Court, by a 4 - 3 ruling, held that Wilson's sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

For more than 55 years, this Court has enforced a rule under which evidence of undoubted reliability and probative value has been suppressed and excluded from criminal cases whenever it was obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

It has been a little under seven years since Bill 168 made amendments to Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) by adding employer obligations regarding the prevention of workplace violence and harassment.

Under the amendments, the grace period will be allowed to run to one year before the priority date, such that the invention can still be patented if its priority application was filed within one year of the disclosure.

With 30 years of litigation practice under his belt, Mercer is well placed to have pushed the debate for change further this year as the working group he leads proposed amendments at the Law Society of Upper Canada that would allow non-lawyers to own up to 49 per cent of a law firm.

Earlier this year, the Government of Canada introduced amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations which will see the maximum age of a dependent child increase from under 19 years of age to under 22 years of age.

The reason they have to do that is under the previous Bill 139 amendments from a few years ago.

The fictitious case was about whether an 18 - year - old's YouTube video promoting a terrorist organization is protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The prohibition against strikes in the Public Service Essential Services Act substantially interferes with a meaningful process of collective bargaining and therefore violates s. 2 (d) of the Charter; the infringement is not justified under s. 1; the declaration of invalidity suspended for one year; and the appeal with respect to The Trade Union Amendment Act, 2008 is dismissed.

Labour Law: Essential Services; Right to Strike; Freedom of Association Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v. Saskatchewan, 2015 SCC 4 (35423) The prohibition against strikes in the Public Service Essential Services Act substantially interferes with a meaningful process of collective bargaining and therefore violates s. 2 (d) of the Charter; infringement is not justified under s. 1; declaration of invalidity suspended one year; appeal with respect to Trade Union Amendment Act 2008 dismissed.

However, despite the passage of 5 years since the amendments took effect, there have been no court decisions awarding damages under the Code.

Although soon overturned by a state constitutional amendment adopted by initiative, the opinion presaged the U.S. Supreme Court's decision seven years later under the federal constitution that superseded the initiative.

Under an amendment made by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, s 77, minor revisions to the codes for trial purposes for up to two years can now be made without being laid before Parliament in draft.

The United States Supreme Court has made clear twice within the last five years that a state court may assert general jurisdiction over a foreign corporation under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment «only when the corporation's affiliations with the State in which suit is brought are so constant and pervasive «as to render it essentially at home in the forum State.»»

After nearly three years, the United States Supreme Court has decided to hear a case that alleges a claim for taking of property without just compensation under the Fifth Amendment to the federal constitution.

Among other things, this amendment will result in Yahoo! granting Alibaba a transitional license to continue to operate Yahoo! China under the Yahoo! brand for up to four years, while restrictions on Yahoo!'s ability to make other investments in China will be terminated.

And per the Hyde Amendment (which has been the law for more than 40 years)-- federal Medicaid funds do not go toward abortion (with limited exceptions outlined under Hyde).

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