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11 Jan 2012, 11:12 am
The Charter’s model of dissidence – using international human rights law as a lever against domestic repression – quickly spread across Eastern Europe and the world. [read post]
9 Feb 2022, 8:57 am
One critical lever is ensuring that the Federal Government manages climate-related financial risk within its own procurement activity, while also leveraging its scale as the Nation’s largest spender to speed the adoption of key assessment, disclosure, and mitigation measures across the private sector. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 12:12 am
The result is that the Rule serves as a fulcrum balancing the lever upon which the managerial discretion of the Board, as provided by statutory corporate law, and equity, with its focus on fiduciary duties and the potential for a entire fairness standard of review, sit on opposite ends. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 12:39 pm
This approach would raise significant amounts of tax revenue, and it would give the U.S. a new policy lever to achieve nontax objectives, such as encouraging SWFs to comply with best practices of transparency, disclosure, and accountability. [read post]
14 Jan 2025, 9:05 pm
We are fully committed to pulling all the levers available to the FDA to make nutrition information readily accessible as part of our efforts to promote public health. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 9:33 pm
After all, if after 47 years the rats still aren't pressing the right lever, wouldn't even the most die-hard behaviorist consider the possibility that the experiment is a failure? [read post]
13 Jun 2022, 5:55 am
These same leaders have gutted the basic levers of governance in the country. [read post]
29 Oct 2024, 1:39 pm
Do the folks pulling Trump's lever not believe that he was a willing and active participant in the overthrow scheme, involving, as it did, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the pressure on Vice-President Pence to single-handedly overturn the election results, the "fake elector" schemes, the threatening phone calls to State election officials? [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 7:22 am
How wasteful, then, to ignore the possibility in favour of what can amount to training pigeons to peck at levers in the right order. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 9:30 pm
The first was that “last-mile power cannot be a lever for gaining an unfair advantage,” he said. [read post]
17 May 2009, 11:57 am
Making justice an integral part of conflict resolution and the search for peaceful solutions means not merely settling conflicts, but resolving, transforming, and transcending them by turning them into levers of social dialogue and learning, catalysts of community and collaboration, and commitments to political, economic, and social change. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 10:26 pm
Miheer Mafatlal and Hindustan Lever are landmark decisions of the Supreme Court in that behalf. [read post]
15 Nov 2024, 7:25 am
Within the United States, a related resounding critique argued that as a foreign policy tool, sanctions were too easy to impose, levied too frequently, and too disconnected from related economic or political/diplomatic levers meant to produce target compliance. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 9:55 am
This February 22nd, I plan to pull the lever for Stewart. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 5:51 am
That said, especially in a highly levered transaction such as here, the Court took care not to minimize the importance of Genesco's Q2 and Q3 deteriorating earnings and EBITDA performance (Genesco's lowest in 10 years) to servicing the significant debt being incurred to finance the merger and to fund continuing combined company operations. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 10:02 pm
The Smith-Lever Act in 1914 further solidified the role of extension in land-grant universities by creating a partnership with the U.S. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 5:40 pm
I would start by flipping peas with a spoon (or spork) at the least offensive, and move up to larger fulcrum/lever devices like ice-cream scoop sized ones for marbles, and then get all Medieval with the classic--but I would start off with relatively light objects if I was only annoyed. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 12:12 pm
Mehlman and Karl Rove wanted to win, and the way they sought to win was to use moral opposition to homosexuality as a lever to get out the vote. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 9:30 pm
To the extent that sue-and-settle exists, it might actually serve as a flexible yet institutionalized constraint on the pre-rulemaking phase that is so badly needed to prevent inappropriate relationships between the most powerful and capable interests and the agencies, and to give a leg up to more vulnerable segments of the interest group community that lack the resources and connections to pull the informal levers of power. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 4:41 am
Perhaps voters will read her list and find something on it that sufficiently captures their interest to justify pulling the little lever next to her name. [read post]
