This section requires that all telecommunications companies in the U. S. take steps to ensure functionally equivalent services for consumers with disabilities, notably those who are deaf or hard of hearing and those with speech impairments.

Governing or administering agencies may for example codify rules into laws, police citizens and visitors to ensure that they comply with those laws, and implement other policies and practices that legislators or administrators have prescribed with the aim of discouraging or preventing crime.

The Convention requires countries to prepare a national biodiversity strategy ( or equivalent instrument ) and to ensure that this strategy is mainstreamed into the planning and activities of all those sectors whose activities can have an impact ( positive and negative ) on biodiversity.

Believing it is the elders ' responsibility to ensure that participants do not " eat and drink judgment to themselves " ( as mentioned in I Corinthians 11: 27-34 ) they require those who would participate to make themselves known to the Kirk Session before the service begins.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

He creates an image of disparate individuals, with factions broken up by the guiding hand of the law, working to ensure those in positions of importance are fairly chosen from their number and without the capacity to serve the interests of a smaller group.

Careful attention to detail is required where the building interfaces with the ground, especially at entrances, stairways and ramps, to ensure sufficient relative motion of those structural elements.

It is meant to be an extraordinary, rarely used power to ensure that those who should be brought to trial are in a timely manner or where an error of judgment is seen to have been made in the preliminary inquiry.

Council members are chosen according to a formula designed to ensure equitable representation of countries from various groups, including those engaged in seabed mineral exploration and the land-based producers of minerals found on the seabed.

Another responsibility of the change review board is to ensure that scheduled changes have been properly communicated to those who will be affected by the change or otherwise have an interest in the change.

The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is that " Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament " and that, since " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ," " Baptism of blood " ( as in the case of the martyrs, who are understood to include the Holy Innocents ) and, for catechumens at least, the explicit desire for Baptism, " together with repentance for their sins, and charity ," (" Baptism of Desire ") ensure salvation for those unable to receive Baptism by water.

To minimize those costs, microcontrollers tend to have short pipelines ( often three instructions or less ), small write buffers, and ensure that longer instructions are continuable or restartable.

He consolidated and expanded Ontario's educational and provincial institutions, created districts in Northern Ontario, and fought to ensure that those parts of Northwestern Ontario not historically part of Upper Canada ( the vast areas north and west of the Lake Superior-Hudson Bay watershed, known as the District of Keewatin ) would become part of Ontario, a victory embodied in the Canada ( Ontario Boundary ) Act, 1889.

While runoff voting is designed to ensure that each individual candidate elected is supported by a majority of those in their constituency, if used to elect an assembly it does not ensure this result on a national level.

Much of statistics is non-mathematical: ensuring that data collection is undertaken in a way that allows valid conclusions to be drawn ; coding and archiving of data so that information is retained and made useful for international comparisons of official statistics ; reporting of results and summarised data ( tables and graphs ) in ways that are comprehensible to those who need to make use of them ; implementing procedures that ensure the privacy of census information.

Airports may check the ID of any passenger at any time to ensure that the details on the ID match those on the printed boarding pass.

Now Novinha is determined to ensure they never marry, the way they always planned to: for if they do, Libo will have access to those locked files and, Novinha fears, will share the same fate as his father.

The court was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against prominent people, those so powerful that ordinary courts could never convict them of their crimes.

The court was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against prominent people, those so powerful that ordinary courts could never convict them of their crimes.

The chairman is elected by the Conference of the Parties at each of its sessions with due regard to ensure geographical distribution and adequate representation of affected Country Parties, particularly those in Africa, who shall not serve for more than two consecutive terms.

They ensure a citizen's ability to fully participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression, and protect the freedom of classes of persons and individuals from unwarranted infringement into those rights by governments, private organizations, and other entities.

: < nowiki ></ nowiki > he ability of a trusted computing base to enforce correctly a unified security policy depends on the correctness of the mechanisms within the trusted computing base, the protection of those mechanisms to ensure their correctness, and the correct input of parameters related to the security policy.

Each settler claiming land in what is now Moon Township had to go through a multi-level process of application for grant, warrant of property, and survey to ensure the physical boundaries of the property, and patent approval whereby the applicant paid for the land and title was conferred.

" If necessity so requires ", the diocesan bishop may grant specified priests the faculty to administer the sacrament, although normally he is to administer it himself or ensure that that it is conferred by another bishop.

A joint Soviet-Afghan statement says that the U. S. S. R. will ensure delivery of " equipment and materials " on account of the $ 100, 000, 000 credit granted in December 1955, and will also grant " other services connected with technical assistance in building certain installations " in many branches of Afghan economy.

In the Mahabharata, before the Kurukshetra War, Ahiravan offers his lifeblood to goddess Kali to ensure the victory of the Pandavas, and Kali agrees to grant him power.

Throughout the war, the WJC lobbied the Allied governments to grant visas to Jewish refugees from Europe and to ensure the restoration of Jewish minority rights in areas liberated by the Allied forces.

Despite the inquiry's findings, the government froze the grant and attempted various circuitous measures to ensure that the Wyuna Co-operative could not make use of it.

The Helsinki Accords, in which the Soviets promised to grant free elections in Europe, has been seen as a major concession to ensure peace by the Soviets.

In order to ensure that his gifts would not be wasted, he stipulated that the municipality must pass an ordinance establishing a tax to support the library's ongoing operating costs after the initial grant provided the costs for building and equipping the library.

The PWG Report recommended: ( 1 ) the codification into the CEA, as an “ exclusion ”, of existing regulatory exemptions for OTC financial derivatives, revised to permit electronic trading between “ eligible swaps participants ” ( acting as “ principals ”) and to even allow standardized ( i. e. “ fungible ”) contracts subject to “ regulated ” clearing ; ( 2 ) continuation of the existing CFTC authority to exempt other non-agricultural commodities ( such as energy products ) from provisions of the CEA ; ( 3 ) continuation of existing exemptions for “ hybrid instruments ” expanded to cover the Shad-Johnson Accord ( thereby exempting from the CEA any hybrid that could be viewed as a future on a “ non-exempt security ”), and a prohibition on the CFTC changing the exemption without the agreement of the other members of the PWG ; ( 4 ) continuation of the preemption of state laws that might otherwise make any “ excluded ” or “ exempted ” transactions illegal as gambling or otherwise ; ( 5 ) as previously recommended by the PWG in its report on hedge funds, the expansion of SEC and CFTC “ risk assessment ” oversight of affiliates of securities firms and commodity firms engaged in OTC derivatives activities to ensure they did not endanger affiliated broker-dealers or futures commission merchants ; ( 6 ) encouraging the CFTC to grant broad “ deregulation ” of existing exchange trading to reflect differences in ( A ) the susceptibility of commodities to price manipulation and ( B ) the “ sophistication ” and financial strength of the parties permitted to trade on the exchange ; and ( 7 ) permission for single stock and narrow index stock futures on terms to be agreed between the CFTC and SEC.

Conversely, there are cases where a team not only lost ( which might be honest ) but lost by some large amount, perhaps to ensure a point spread was covered, or to grant some non-gambling related favor to the victor.

But completing a task does not ensure the word is theirs, he may deny them the word, grant them a lesser word, or grant them a word they didn't want.

Thereafter, Satyavati asked Vyasa to grant a son to Ambalika, to ensure that at least one of the boys born would be eligible in all respects.

The decrease of costs allowed a reduction of ticket prices, but the line was still under threat until in June 1969 it was decided that the line's closure would result in significant hardship, and so a grant was allocated to ensure continued services.

In 2007, the JDA was awarded a grant of £ 27, 805 from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, a political body that promotes democratic reform and social justice, " to ensure that the people of Jersey have the opportunity to vote for an opposition party that would scrutinise the government ".

• Introduced several welfare schemes for teachers, non-teaching staff, Government employees, lawyers, rickshaw pullers, legal assistance to weaker sections, grant of Government employee status to 45000 chowkidars-dafadars, constitution of administrative machinery to ensure minimum wages to agricultural labourers etc.

9 crores was earmarked for grant of Rs. 30 /- as monthly allowance to the children of the ‘ mushhar ’ caste to ensure their attendance in the primary schools.

Both Salvatore and Toni head to the island where Torini is holding the mayor and a fight ensues, resulting in the two killing Torini and using the time with the mayor to establish that O ' Donovan is now in the Leone family's debt and as the game concludes, Salvatore demands that O ' Donovan grant protection to the Leone family while Toni attempts to unsettle the mayor to ensure it is granted.

A Fund grant is helping this project strengthen and expand its volunteer-based citizen ’ s network to ensure timely tracking data can be collected and used toward the stewardship of this whale and its ocean home.

Although he could not have excise taxes legalized, he did succeed in having legislation passed in 1919 to standardize property tax assessment across the state and grant the State Board of Tax Commissioners power to override local assessments, which effectively led to higher property values being attributed to city properties to ensure that the rural part of the state was no longer paying the majority of the state's revenues.

Brewers were required to allocate 15 % of total annual production of beer for use by the armed forces ; local draft boards were authorized to grant deferments to brewery workers who were highly skilled and irreplaceable ; the Teamsters labor union was ordered to end a strike against Minneapolis breweries because beer manufacturing was considered an industry essential to the war effort ; and near the end of the war, the army made plans to operate recaptured French breweries to ensure adequate supplies for the troops.