Sentence examples for federal practices from inspiring English sources

Canada's new marriage policy comes at a time when the government is also pushing for legislation that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, another policy that diverges sharply from American federal practices.

African Americans did not simply choose to live under the worst conditions when they migrated to Northern cities by the millions after emancipation; rather local, state, and federal practices facilitated through block-busting, red-lining, and unequal lending schemes targeted black communities and contributed to urban rebellions of the 1960s and the Baltimore Uprising.

Using concentrations within one order of magnitude of a human-health benchmark to identify compounds that may warrant additional monitoring is therefore consistent with various state and federal practices.

Most of its resources are online, and staples like Wright & Miller's Federal Practice and Procedure — $3,596 for the multivolume set — are not here.

"The niceties of federal practice have to go second to the compelling needs of people to get a recovery that is almost, almost, almost within their grasp".

Though Mr. Clinton ultimately broke his promise about the military, he signed executive orders benefiting gays, like those protecting them from discrimination in federal employment and ending the federal practice of routinely denying them security clearances.

Lawyers say the proposal, which was widely discussed at the American Bar Association's conference in Washington last month, is likely to be influential in other federal courts and in state courts, which often follow federal practice in procedural matters.

While the Watergate case put Mr. Wright most squarely before the public, in legal circles he was well known as the senior author of a 55-volume treatise, "Federal Practice and Procedure".

Even as we speak, the Obama administration budget-cutters are trying to end a longstanding federal practice of paying the costs of storing the entire national cotton crop every year.

Also working against any kind of cost control is the federal practice of declaring ever-broader areas disaster zones.

As a human rights lawyer and advocate, Malika led the effort to shut down Craigslist sex ads that served as the leading site for the trafficking of children for sex, ended the federal practice of shackling pregnant mothers behind bars in U.S. prisons, and successfully advocated for millions in federal funding for treatment services for at-risk families.