It is more like: «Look, I don't know if you're a pyramid scheme or what, but some people think you are, so I want my money back,» which is less an assertion of fraud on Herbalife's part than it is an assertion of red - blooded American litigiousness on the plaintiffs» part. (bloomberg.com)
That's why from now on, institutes with the highest «litigiousness levels» can only hire new short - term employees if they can demonstrate that their current staff can't do the job, the memo continues; meanwhile, institutes with fewer court cases will be given priority in the allocation of the 275 new competitive permanent positions that CSIC has just announced for 2016. (sciencemag.org)
Transplanting all the sensibilities of a Howard Hawks screwball comedy into present day Los Angeles, «Intolerable Cruelty» hilariously follows love's difficult path in our times of cynicism, greed and excessive litigiousness. (movie-gazette.com)