Sentences with phrase «actually acted against»

i was actually harassed in ft worth, tx a couple of months ago and DID relay to the MANAGER that was harassing me that she was actually acting against the law.

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Now, when bitcoin is seen as the most likely method to have been actually used by a mass murderer for the purchase of a weapon, European authorities will have all the legitimacy and urgency to act against it.

This lack of transparency could actually also be grounds for yet more legal action against Trump, in fact, since it looks very likely that it's a violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act to not hold these advisory meetings from business leaders open to the public, though the administration denies any of its actions have contravened this order.

A military attack that is not decisive opens the possibility that the US will have committed an act of war against the Syrian regime without actually securing victory.

While many Christians in the past have acted directly contrary to those very clear biblical teachings (i.e., the Crusades, etc.), others have actually appealed to those very teachings in fighting the tide of a culture that would demean humanity (i.e., MLK, William Wilberforce, the Confessing Church's stand against the Nazis, etc.).

First, whereas the social gospel writers had called on the church to act nonviolently and to support nonviolent ways of getting justice, Niebuhr saw the limits of what could be attained in that way and also that the appeal to nonviolence actually stacked the cards against the workers.

The adoption of such a constitutional amendment would be an act of repression for a large part of the community, and would actually go against the moral and religious convictions of most Protestants and Jews and many Catholics.

2nd you will loose on his much needed value if you let him off for free next season instead of making good use of this money to obtain a decent replacement someone like Mahrez or whom ever else would be a much better asset in that scenario plus Sanzhez being South American and all shall be very vocal about it and will throw tantrums and negative images through out the season for keeping him against his will and will simply will act childish which we all saw is very capable of and this would seriously affect team spirit for no good reason if you can actually avoid all that and offload him for a decent price now

There is no video of the act in question, she is only claiming that she did it, so unless there's proof that sex abuse occurred or that she actually used her child to sell actual pornography, there's no way to bring charges against her, as the petition hopes to do.

Actually, under this new act, which is being referred to as FERA, the AG, a local government, or a whistleblower to bring a lawsuit against any party who makes or uses a false or fraudulent claim, record or statement to obtain government funds.

She said that the anonymous donors to the town Republican Committee, if they did indeed use helicopters to get to and from East Hampton, may actually be acting against their own interests, as calls to close the airport continue to mount in the absence of measures to address excessive aircraft noise.

Funke contends that one part of the equality act would actually expand late - term abortions, and he says he could support other parts of the legislation, which would give a boost to laws against sexual harassment, domestic violence and salary discrimination.

It's bad enough that some of our senators are acting out of petty vengeance and self - interested power struggles, but today the Post reveals that Senator John Sampson, the Democratic caucus leader who is a foe of the schools bill supported by the mayor, is actually working as a trial lawyer in a lawsuit against Joel Klein.

She has shown, in an ice sheet model with gravitationally self - consistent sea level, there is actually a sea level fall at the grounding line, which acts to stabilize against the marine ice sheet instability.

While acidic lemon may not be your first choice when your stomach is churning, it actually acts as a smart line of defense against potential tummy upset.

Thor, after meeting with his weapons guru (Peter Dinklage, acting very Shakespeare) and bracing himself against the burning force of a star, gets a new super-hammer — an ax, actually — which is presented as an ultimate tool until it fails, at a crucial moment, to do what we think it's going to do.

There is also the unforgiveable overuse of dream sequences, which act as foreshadowing and an excuse to pit Affleck against Cavill, scenes before they actually meet.

While I know it never makes sense to vote against Dame Meryl, she actually has had the least precursor support of the four and it really feels like «Hustle» is playing in at least three acting categories, maybe four.

Referencing Title IV and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the letter warns against discipline policies that result in «different treatment based on the student's race,» or policies that while seemingly race - neutral, actually have «a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

Here's why: The act of paying off the unpaid debts that show up on your credit reports can actually work against you.

I'm one of the few people who actually loved Wind Waker's ambitions from the get - go, but for most gamers, the «cartoony» graphics were some kind of act of blasphemy against Ocarina of Time's relatively brooding atmosphere.

I think «sticking to one's guns» is more about not being able to tolerate what the alternative entails (as opposed to never actually being offended by it in the first place, but temporarily acting like you're going against something in order to gain cred).

And his invocation of the RICO act against AGW skeptics looks badly like a relentless (but desperate) attack against his opponents, to whom he is actually unable to bring relevant contradiction.

Nothing about moving trucks is or random houses that simply «look abandoned» has any meaning here, further than the truck - moving thing actually tended to show that the homeowner took deliberate steps to falsely portray a situation in order to take his intended action against those who he expected to act as a result of that false portrayal.

Essentially, a defence of self - defence can be raised in domestic abuse cases where the accused argues that they reasonably believed there was a serious threat of harm being applied against them or another person, that the act they are committing in self - defence is actually intended to be in self - defence and that the act that was committed is reasonable considering the situation.

The barista claims he pursued this nuclear option only after a number of complaints from customers and after trying to confirm that he had the «power as a Starbucks employee to pull the plug,» including «asking supervisors, calling managers, and even looking through the employee handbook (which not only said nothing about this act being against policy but actually explained how to do it) before cutting the public Wi - Fi.»

An interpretation of the Act that finds employers are obligated to create and maintain a policy by which workers may bring forward complaints of harassment but are nevertheless free to terminate, or otherwise penalize or retaliate against, any worker for having actually made a complaint under that policy is, in my view, untenable.

If the government actually wants to protect the public against Facebook abusing its power, it would need to go harder than the Honest Ads Act that would put political advertising on Internet platforms under the same scrutiny regarding disclosure of buyers as the rules for TV and radio advertising.

«The National Family Violence Survey upon which Straus bases his major conclusions about the relative rates of violence by partners and against children rely solely on self - reported acts of force by adults, do not determine whether these acts actually occurred, employ a definition of child abuse that bears little or no relation to the definitions used in the child welfare field or by the courts, and take no account of actual consequences, such as injury.

Each province, each board and each individual acts for themselves and it's not been until our commission structures were threatened has there been a desire to actually come together, yet we still continue to work against one another.

A purchaser may recover in a civil action brought under the Disclosure Act against a real estate licensee if the licensee fails «to disclose to a purchaser a defect actually known to the real estate licensee prior to the acceptance of an offer to purchase and which were not included in the disclosure statement.»

It can be tempting to act spitefully against someone who is making your life difficult, but in some cases this can actually be illegal.