They knew they were still ahead in the battle against tougher investor protection standards.
Five justices voted to reverse the Florida Supreme Court on the grounds that the recount procedure it ordered was too uncertain to satisfy equal protection standards, which require all voters be treated equally.
Common grounds are attorney-client privilege or work product protection, but standards are high.
The municipalities are now looking for private help as the Environmental Protection Agency imposes standards on water quality that municipalities cannot satisfy without outside financing and expertise.
The report insisted such threats should be considered by the National Security Council and civil contingency planners, with standards of protection developed for industries most in danger.
The Conference therefore calls upon States and all parties to armed conflicts strictly to observe international humanitarian law, as set forth in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other rules and principles of international law, as well as minimum standards for protection of human rights, as laid down in international conventions.
It forbids, for example, the death penalty for children and sets other standards for their protection.
That means restricting themselves to enforcing minimum though necessary rules on access, standards, environmental protection, information and pricing.
There's even a model that meets MIL-STD-461F standards for electromagnetic protection -- useful if your day job involves battling superheroes.
In late October 2012, a European Commission working party reported that Google's privacy policy did not meet Commission standards on data protection.
With its ratification, France strengthens the application and implementation of widely recognized legal and scientific standards in the protection of the underwater cultural heritage.
Advocates for the same sex couples tried to make a very simple case that the state's 97-year old marriage law, which refers to husband and wife, doesn't live up to modern standards of equal protection under the law.
Sophie Kwasny of the Council of Europe highlighted the importance of work to set standards for privacy and data protection.
While there were no details on the process of fracking today, the announcement did say "any development will have to meet high standards of safety and environmental protection".
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Broadcasters are also expected to apply "generally accepted standards" to provide adequate protection for members of the public from offensive material, and must ensure that potentially offensive material is justified by the context.
Millions of users worldwide depend on the EAL 4 certified, enterprise-software standards-based GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform to safeguard confidential or proprietary information, to ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining consumer privacy and to enable secure enterprise mobility.
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The study was actually conducted in and reported on air pollution in Boston, but it pointed out that air quality levels even below current standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency still pose risks to people who breathe particulate air pollution.
Michael Porter, a Harvard professor who has become the region's economic guru, peddles the comforting notion that Central America may be able to by-pass the sweatshop stage of development and leap quickly from poverty to northern standards of productivity, social protection and environmental sensitivity.
As dean, Mr. Kagan championed hard sciences, rigorous hiring standards for faculty, and the protection of free speech.
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Ms. Lunder noted that in Europe the standards are more rigid: UVA protection has to be one-third of the SPF.
Only a limited number meet Food and Drug Administration standards for "Class 1" protection, in which 90% of UV-A radiation is blocked and 99% of UV-B radiation is blocked.
The Convention aims at achieving heritage protection in the respect of high ethical and scientific standards as well as effective State cooperation.
To please environmentalists, he ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to consider letting California set its own emissions standards (ie, stricter ones) for cars.
He is cosier with the sort of interest groups (trade unions) that will call for protection, and is keener on using labour and environmental standards to hamper trade.
The Regulatory Cooperation Council, in fulfilling its mandate to promote economic growth and job creation, has spurred unprecedented cooperation to provide benefits to our consumers, regulators, and businesses through increased regulatory transparency and coordination while maintaining high standards of public health and safety and environmental protection.
As has been thoroughly documented by Lawrence Kogan of the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development, the marine environmental protection requirements emanating from LOST are rooted in the European-derived "precautionary principle, " a legal tenet requiring assurance that a proposed action will cause no harm to the environment before proceeding.
There are currently a wide range of independent UK regulatory bodies, covering both public services and private industry, which provide functions relating to consumer protection, economic regulation, competition and fair trading policy, professional standards and technical oversight.
In an effort to protect both patients and patent holders and to harmonize patent protection for various types of goods, World Trade Organization members established minimum standards for protecting and enforcing intellectual property.
"This positive move should help to raise standards within the debt collection industry and offer a greater level of protection for the consumer, " Scott Soutar, Credit Services Association said.
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