Sentences with phrase «abusive practice of»

Attachment Parenting is not the same as the controversial and abusive practice of attachment therapy.

Many of these bills are touted as ways to end the abusive practices of nonpracticing entities, more commonly referred to as patent trolls.

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a church.

As Hilary Clinton sought a crackdown on abusive practices of a for - profit college, Bill Clinton received $ 17.6 million from the organization.

The Ontario government announced last week that it will be instituting measures to curb the abusive practices of «debt settlement» companies.

Restrictions on the more abusive practices of the industry seem to track the Federal Trade Commission rules which I blogged about Oct. 27, 2010 (Legislation & Rules Updates).

As discussed in detail in this SBP, the Final Rule addresses deceptive and abusive practices of debt relief service providers and includes the following elements:

Imagine if more high - profile developers acknowledged the abusive practices of crunch and unpaid overtime?

«We are writing to urge the swift passage of legislation to protect America's innovators from the abusive practices of patent trolls.

Not exact matches

In his complaint, McGlaughlin describes a history of «abusive» practices and conflict with supervisors that predated — and he says prompted — his union - organizing efforts, and continued after he began seeking to organize his fellow workers.

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) calls one of the core elements of its business «an abusive practice.»

A CFPB spokesperson said in an email to Vox that the bureau is authorized to take «supervisory and enforcement action against certain institutions engaged in unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices, or that otherwise violate federal consumer financial laws,» including the failure of institutions to engage in «reasonable data security practices» in connection with consumer report information.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission is explicitly tasked with investor protection, the CFTC's stated mission is to «protect market users and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to the sale of commodity futures and options and to foster open, competitive, and financially sound commodity futures and option markets.»

One of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers said abusive trading practices are costing workers billions of dollars in retirement savings each year and called for stricter rules on Wall Street brokers.

At the same time, government agencies are increasing their scrutiny of employee misclassification due to a growing number of complaints about abusive labor practices by sharing economy companies.

«It paints a target on the backs of senior Americans who are most likely to be targeted with abusive variable annuity sales practices,» she said.

Satoshi Nakamoto's idealistic vision of «one CPU one vote» has been superseded by a reality where the manufacture and distribution of mining equipment have become dominated by a very small number of entities, some of which have engaged in abusive practices against individual miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole.

Collins wants to remove a broker's duty of care in the areas where it's needed most — «where the conflicts of interest are greatest, the investors are least sophisticated, and the sales practices are most abusive,» says Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America.

Chairman Giancarlo's effort to balance the CFTC's goals of promoting innovation while also protecting the derivatives markets from fraud, manipulation and other abusive practices has passed the first significant test.

The mission of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is to protect market users and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to the sale of commodity and financial futures and options, and to foster open, competitive, and financially sound futures and options markets.

Whether it's the athlete on the free throw line speaking truth to overcome the fear of missing the shot, the business executive repeating a helpful mantra before they walk into a heated situation or a girlfriend repeating how worthy she is so that she can muster the courage to end an abusive relationship, we all practice a form of self - talk in our lives that helps us overcome the negative messaging we carry.

Those who indulge in s e x ual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prost i tutes, or practice h om os e xuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people — none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.»

The attorneys prosecuting the cases of the third wave of tobacco litigation also used a number of innovative legal devices, strategies or tactics designed to circumvent the tobacco industry's abusive discovery practices and to overcome the tremendous resource advantages enjoyed by the industry in previous litigation.

Some abusive practices grew up around this notion, and the impression was given that people could buy their own or another's way out of the interim state.

Hence, MacArthur looks at abusive practices in charismatic / pentecostal circles and points at the false belief outside of the truth, but at the same time, his beliefs are rooted on what you and I would believe is a false assumption, that certain gifts are no longer in operation today.

Too many Pentecostal organizations lack any structure for safe criticism of dysfunctional behavior, aberrant teaching or abusive practices on the part of leaders and powerful ministers.

With the identification of this new stage of development, coupled with new laws in the 20th century to protect children from abusive work practices, children were allowed to enjoy a longer childhood.

As someone who has worked in mental health for 9 years, specializing in working with children and families (many of whom, sadly, exhibit some of the abusive practices you mention above), I have only encountered one child who fit the criteria for RAD, and this was a child who spent the first years of her life in a Romanian orphanage.

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

Thus, even British practice suggests that international law does not permit withdrawing the diplomatic status of a building where abusive acts are going on when it is also actually being used for the diplomatic purposes.

«We are deeply disappointed that the City Council passed a flawed Right To Know Act which will do little to end deceptive and often abusive NYPD searches,» said Tina Luongo, Attorney - In - Charge of the Criminal Defense Practice at The Legal Aid Society.

The subpoena seeks to examine the patterns and practice of the owner, the abusive behavior of his agents, the intimidation of Spanish - speaking tenants and the flagrant violations of the rent laws.

In 2000, the Competition Commission found 52 different kinds of abusive trading practice.

«As the top state law enforcement officials charged with investigating consumer complaints of fraudulent, deceptive and abusive financial practices in our respective states, we know from first - hand experience that the need for strong consumer financial protection is undiminished in the years since the financial crisis.»

He said that it is «conceivable» that de Blasio might develop a «political backbone» without reelection pressure and force changes such as ending broken windows, abolishing the quota system that mandates a certain number of arrests and summonses and dismissing and suspending officers who engage in abusive practices without pay.

Dromm told Gay City that one of the real problems in the public schools is «abusive» security agents, and he said if the Council can afford $ 20 million for private schools they should appropriate an equal amount for «restorative disciplinary practices» for such security personnel in the public schools as well as for many more guidance counselors.

(Video from Dailymotion) As the holiest period of the Simchat Torah comes to an end on Tuesday night, there are those who practice Hasidim that participate in an abusive and a blasphemous manner in which they conduct Kapparos.

«The Antiquities Act does not give the federal government unlimited power to lock up millions of acres of land and water, and it's time we ended this abusive practice,» he added.

«What was undoubtedly set out originally by the NIH as a means to protect postdocs («trainees») from abusive practices, has paradoxically, in many cases, turned out to harm them, largely in terms of access to benefits.»

Unfortunately, because some people are skeptical of the effectiveness of online dating, a few abusive emails are enough to write off the whole practice.

The film gives Harding partial control of her own, jaw - dropping story, from her early days in thrall to an abusive mother, to the domino - chain of associations which led to her rival Nancy Kerrigan being clubbed in the knee, when she left her Detroit practice rink in January of that Winter Olympics year.

Focus Features won an intense bidding war for the rights to this film adaptation of Garrard Conley's memoir about a young man forced into the often abusive and increasingly illegal practice of «conversion therapy» to «cure» his homosexuality.

Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

They have been cited for abusive discipline practices, such as suspending 5 - year - olds and violating the civil rights of students with disabilities, failing to serve needy populations, such as English Language Learners and students with disabilities, and even financial fraud, mismanagement and self - dealing scandals.

The Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation called for the creation of the agency to combat abusive practices.

All have two or more of the following abusive practices:

In a release, representatives said Re: Create will focus on «engaging and informing lawmakers» on the importance of things like fair use, safe harbors, curbing statutory damages, and the need to counter «abusive» copyright enforcement practices.

Fortunately, the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) now protects consumers from deceptive or abusive practices in the telemarketing of these agencies.

In order to obtain financing and do not fall for these abusive practices, the best thing you can do is to search for different lenders and compare what all of them have to offer.

However, on a wider meaning, the term includes the practice of many lenders that convince borrowers to agree to unfair or abusive loan terms.