Sentences with phrase «acts by private persons»

Neither are illegal acts by private persons or corporations not directly involved with the government.

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Another popular attack method used by hacking collectives is «doxxing»: the act of releasing personal, private information of specific people, often private citizens.

But that, of course, presupposes that individual persons are the property of the state, public chattel of which the state is wrongly deprived by the private act of suicide.

Industrialization could be effected by the people, acting for the most part through governments, or it could be left to the private sector.

Even private persons who believe strongly that homosexual conduct is immoral or prohibited by religion were forbidden to act on those beliefs.

Most libertarians I've talked to view the portions of the Civil Rights Act that coerce the actions of individuals or their use of private property to be a ill - guided and would rather people «vote with their wallets» (e.g. by boycotting racist businesses.)

Legal, with restrictions (see also NFA Items): These are items that are regulated by the National Firearms Act, and require paperwork + licenses in order to own, but are generally obtainable by private persons.

Their government locked up the children of migrants and Woolas authorised security guards employed by private contractors to use «physical control in care» techniques to deport people — including the mentally ill and children under 18 — according to documents obtained by the Liberal Conspiracy website under the Freedom of Information Act.

Since the passage into law the National Lotto Act, 2006 (Act 722) and Lottery Regulation, 2008 (L.I. 1948), this is the first time since 2006 that the Board and Management of NLA led by Kofi Osei - Ameyaw have decided to * Register and License * the Operators, Agents, Sub-Agents and Writers of Banker - to - Banker Lottery under Public - Private Partnership Agreement so that they can operate legitimately and pay their taxes to Government in order to increase revenue mobilization for Government through Lottery as well as create jobs for people who are interested in Private Lottery.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency (ECIDA), is a public benefit corporation created in 1970 by an act of the New York State Legislature to promote and assist private sector industrial / business development thereby advancing job opportunities and economic well - being to the people of Erie County.

• Theresa May, the home secretary, has promised to look into the cases of people entitled to live in Britain who have been wrongly told to leave the country by a private company acting on behalf of the UK Border Agency.

You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Service in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated «scraping»; (ii) using any automated system, including without limitation «robots,» «spiders,» «offline readers,» etc., to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the Company servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional on - line web browser (except that Humble Bundle grants the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from Humble Bundle for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials); (iii) transmitting spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email; (iv) attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service; (v) taking any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole judgment an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (vi) uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Service; (vii) collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service; (viii) using the Service for any commercial solicitation purposes; (ix) impersonating another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity; (x) interfering with the proper working of the Service; (xi) accessing any content on the Service through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Service; (xii) bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content therein; (xiii) sell, assign, rent, lease, act as a service bureau, or grant rights in the Products, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other entity without the prior written consent of such Products» (defined below) licensors; (xiv) circumventing Service limitations on the number of Products you may purchase, including, without limitation, creating multiple accounts and purchasing a total number of Products through such multiple accounts which exceed the per - user limitations; or (xv) except as otherwise specifically set forth in a licensor's end user license agreement, as otherwise agreed upon by a licensor in writing or as otherwise allowed under applicable law, distributing, transmitting, copying (other than re-installing software or files previously purchased by you through the Service on computers, mobile or tablet devices owned by you, or creating backup copies of such software or files for your own personal use) or otherwise exploiting the Products (defined below) in any manner other than for your own private, non-commercial, personal use.

This category, however, is considerably narrower than the «acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities» mentioned in Article 9 (3) AC.

This private member «s bill will, if passed, give explicit recognition to the rights of trans people, by adding gender identity and gender expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act and the hate crimes -LSB-...]

In arbitration, disputes are resolved with binding effect by a person or persons acting in a judicial manner in private, rather than by a national court of law that would have jurisdiction unless the parties have prior agreement to exclude it.

There is distinction between acts that might be done by a private person, and acts that a private person would never do, with only the latter being government functions.

Broadly speaking, Canada's Employment Equity Act, SC 1995, c 44, requires certain federally regulated private and public sector employers and contractors to implement employment equity measures «to correct the conditions of disadvantage in employment experienced by women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities» (s 2).

Section 6 (3)(b) of HRA 1998 provided that a public authority included «any person certain of whose functions are functions of a public nature» save that, by s 6 (5), in relation to a particular act, a person was not a public authority by virtue only of s 6 (3)(b) if the nature of the act was private.

The Excalibur action stemmed from a private placement of shares and warrants in a Chinese corporation called Southern China Livestock that were marketed and sold by the company's American owners to persons who qualified as accredited investors under the U.S. Securities Act of 1993.

The London Borough of Croydon formed the view that the borough was «experiencing a significant and persistent problem caused by anti-social behaviour; that some or all of the private sector landlords who have let premises in the area (whether under leases or licences) are failing to take action to combat the problem that it would be appropriate for them to take; and that making a designation will, when combined with other measures taken in the area by the local housing authority, or by other persons together with the local housing authority, lead to a reduction in, or the elimination of, the problem»: section 80 (6) of the 2004 Act.

However, the Act sets out a private right of action, meaning that a person who believes they were effected by a person or corporation who violated that Act, can obtain, depending on the circumstances, up to a maximum of $ 1,000,000 for each day on which the conduct occurred.

If any person knowingly violates any of the provisions of G.S. 84 - 4 through G.S. 84 - 6 or G.S. 84 - 9, fraudulently holds himself or herself out as a North Carolina certified paralegal by use of the designations set forth in G.S. 84 - 37 (a), or knowingly aids and abets another person to commit the unauthorized practice of law, in addition to any other liability imposed pursuant to this Chapter or any other applicable law, any person who is damaged by the unlawful acts set out in this section shall be entitled to maintain a private cause of action to recover damages and reasonable attorneys» fees and other injunctive relief as ordered by court.

This private member «s bill will, if passed, give explicit recognition to the rights of trans people, by adding gender identity and gender expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act and the hate crimes provisions of the Criminal Code.

The idea that environmental claims warrant different treatment arises principally from the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision - making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.»

Health oversight agency means an agency or authority of the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is authorized by law to oversee the health care system (whether public or private) or government programs in which health information is necessary to determine eligibility or compliance, or to enforce civil rights laws for which health information is relevant.

LSC is a private, not - for - profit Corporation created by an Act of Congress to ensure low - income people have equal access to the courts nationwide.

The law lords» decision in YL v Birmingham City Council that the Human Rights Act 1998 does not apply to people in private care homes whose places are funded by local councils, exposes a loophole in the law which needs to be closed by statute, says Eric Metcalfe, director of human rights policy at JUSTICE.

In essence, if you commit fraud while using your public office to do so, the Code deems that you should be punished more severely than if the same act is committed by a private person.

There is, of course, an old and rather naïve view by Ottawa standards that holds that the Attorney General is supposed to act on behalf of the public good and not advise the Queen and her Government as though they were private persons.

While Facebook didn't explain how many users had their data snagged by the «thisisyourdigitallife» app, the reports say it pulled private info from more than 50 million people even though they didn't know about it or consent — an act that at the time was allowed under Facebook's rules.

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