Sentences with phrase «as civil sanctions»

The firm also represents those facing professional disciplinary, regulatory and compliance proceedings where, in today's heavily regulated commercial world, such proceedings can attract significant criminal penalties as well as civil sanctions.

Not exact matches

«As Mikhail grew increasingly frustrated and angry, he began threatening the travelers with civil and criminal sanctions, including forfeiture of their Aeroflot tickets if they refused to accept that they were «Indians» who had to return «back to India,»» the complaint says.

Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq — where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States — and Libya — its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest — and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The use of such expressions as «a private matter» and «between God and me» suggests that his Catholicism, however sincere, has been considerably attenuated by Canada's civil religion, which, following Jean - Jacques Rousseau's, will brook no dissent, particularly from those whose faith entails obedience to something beyond the socially - sanctioned quest for autonomy.

The NLC President, however, expressed shock that rather than call for the sanction of governors who failed to properly utilise their bail - out funds, and creating misery to the people as well as overheating the polity, Okupe would be calling for the «blood of hapless civil servants».

It would concede a more effective role for NGOs internationally, providing them with the same capacities as other international actors and simultaneously it would serve as a mechanism of control of these non-profit organisations, being subjects to the same administrative, civil and criminal law obligations and sanctions applicable to states and international organisations.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

The Obama administration's initiative to tighten oversight of public - school disciplinary practices by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, based on racially disparate effects of standard penalties (such as suspensions) as well as hard - to - assess accusations that minority students are being treated more harshly for similar infractions, has put additional pressure on integrated schools to equalize rates of disciplinary sanctions by race and class.

The high - profile slayings of black men such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray just exemplify the problems of overmilitarized police departments, overcriminalization of youth, perpetuation of state - sanctioned racial bigotry, drug war overkill, and violations of civil liberties by law enforcement that have been detailed at length by progressives, conservatives, and libertarians alike.

Mark didn't write much more scornfully about Mann's scientific impersonation of Rocket Richard and Wayne Gretzky than I did, so let me be clear that in these matters Michael Mann is a sleazy charlatan, and he is welcome to try the same legal trick on me, in Canada, where there is a civil legal sanction against defamation, for which, as for much else in this country, I am grateful.

As long as the state continues to sanction civil marriages, then, in our view, the anti-discrimination standards set by Parliament itself require that civil marriage be open to all CanadianAs long as the state continues to sanction civil marriages, then, in our view, the anti-discrimination standards set by Parliament itself require that civil marriage be open to all Canadianas the state continues to sanction civil marriages, then, in our view, the anti-discrimination standards set by Parliament itself require that civil marriage be open to all Canadians.

Criminal contempt sanctions are the same as civil contempt sanctions except they can not be purged.

This provision must be read in conjunction with Recital 6, which states that «administrative proceedings leading to sanctions such as competition, trade, tax, financial services proceedings and other investigations by administrative authorities in relation to these proceedings, and also civil proceedings are not covered by this Directive.»

The three dominant themes in 2008 cases where PIL was invoked were as follows: UK / EU law implementation of UNSC resolutions concerning freezing of alleged terrorist assets (sanctions cases); the acts / omissions of UK authorities in Iraq / Afghanistan viewed in the context of PIL and provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Human Rights Act 1998 (Iraq / Afghanistan related cases); and state / diplomatic immunity in the context of civil proceedings and / or attempts to enforce arbitration awards against assets of State entities in the UK (Civil immunity cacivil proceedings and / or attempts to enforce arbitration awards against assets of State entities in the UK (Civil immunity caCivil immunity cases).

«As some of us do from time to time in the course of our civil litigation practices, we venture into the criminal world on behalf of existing clients who face criminal sanction for some alleged transgression.

As of 3 January, it can impose a range of civil sanctions on those who pollute, endanger or otherwise damage England's countryside.

art. 19 (2)(providing that the parties may, at their discretion, and as agreed in writing, provide mutual assistance with respect to «hearings or any investigations before any court, administrative agency or administrative tribunal with respect to the imposition of civil or administrative sanctions»).

He advises banks, corporations and individuals on major fraud, corruption, bribery, unfair trading, money laundering, sanctions, extradition, market abuse and regulatory matters, as well as civil recovery of losses.

I also wouldn't rule out the possibility that some court might construe the safe harbors from discipline for unauthorized practice in Rule 5.5 as informing (or, despite the Rules» plain terms, even defining) licensure requirements, and thus helping to define safe harbors from any sanction for unauthorized practice, including the civil fee forfeiture that often accompanies a determination of unauthorized practice, or the misdemeanor criminal liability to which my post refers.

Mar. 13, 2018)(published), a trial judge sanctioned plaintiffs who brought lender liability claims in a residential property dispute with terminating sanctions and also imposed over $ 25,000 in monetary sanctions (as against plaintiffs and their attorneys) under Code of Civil Procedure section 128.7.

This is yet more evidence that courts» inherent authority is alive and well as a potential basis for spoliation - related discovery sanctions, despite the December 2015 amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37 (e).

Thus, for reasons I elaborate in Part III of the paper, retributive damages are best understood as an intermediate civil sanction that require (constitutionally and normatively) an intermediate level of procedural safeguards, that is, a level falling roughly between what is due defendants facing on the one end, compensatory damages, and on the other, criminal fines.

Anyone «knowingly or willfully» violating the statute was subject to civil liability as well as criminal sanctions of «not more than five hundred dollars ($ 500) and / or imprisonment for no longer than one year.»