Dr. Farley said the city's lawyers "feel quite confident" that the soda restrictions would withstand any legal challenges – an assertion that would almost certainly be tested by the soda industry if the plan is approved during the board's vote, in September.
The health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, said the city's lawyers "feel quite confident" that the restrictions would withstand any legal challenge — an assertion that would almost certainly be tested by the soda industry if the plan is approved by the board.
Employment lawyers say many companies know full well such restrictions will not withstand court scrutiny, but figure the small risk of a legal challenge is well worth the rewards of cowing most employees into believing they are legally bound to stay put.
Although differences are expected between the physiology of adult caloric restriction and embryonic ND, the nutrient-sensitive restriction point that we describe here could play a role in other tissues to enable stem cells to preferentially withstand ND compared with restricted progenitors.
Analysis of the P. acidipropionici genome revealed some defense mechanisms that may allow it to withstand viral and nucleic acid invasion; these include restriction enzymes and the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs).
Britain's biggest lenders are braced for a decision by the Bank of England on whether they are strong enough to withstand turmoil in global markets, as Threadneedle Street considers restrictions on their activities to slow down the growth in consumer lending.
Though some businesspeople say tourism will withstand the downturn because it has been sheltered by restrictions on foreign investment, others believe it is all the more insecure because Croatia's central bank, traumatized by the hyperinflation of the war years, has rigidly pegged the local currency, the kuna, to the euro, even as other currencies in the region have plummeted.
FAO Inc., the high-end specialty toy retailer that owns F. A. O. Schwarz, Zany Brainy and Right Start stores, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday saying it was unable to withstand a combination of weak sales, aggressive competitors and restrictions on its ability to borrow.
Additionally, manufacturers of vitamins/dietary supplements require encapsulated materials that can withstand a wide range of tableting pressures placing significant restrictions upon the materials that can be used in the encapsulation of lutein and zeaxanthin.
First, can a definition of extremism that leads to someone facing restrictions, such as a ban on using social media, withstand legal challenges - particularly on human rights grounds?
