Sentences with phrase «bad precedent for them»

Legal research and advocacy group Coin Centre has spoken out against the ruling, saying it is «deeply unsatisfied with the lack of justification provided by the IRS» and that the case «sets a bad precedent for financial privacy.»

At first glance, the decision appears to have set a bad precedent for an industry still finding its footing.

As for HLS and its law library, I think that it has (and continues) to set a very bad precedent for the operations of a law library.

The Kyoto targets surely have two main winners: Russia and Australia... The considerable increase in emissions allowed to Australia... has set a bad precedent for future negotiations, especially with regard to developing countries.

Later that day (June 26 — 2663), Mcgarvie worried that providing data would set a bad precedent for other cases, particularly David Holland's pending appeal of their refusal of IPCC correspondence not in the IPCC archive.

This just sets up a bad precedent for future purchases, and you could get into a feeling of entitlement to buy things you can't actually afford.

If anything, Redford set a bad precedent for superhero movies in having guys in spandex sitting around boardrooms and courthouses debating moral politics.

Spain's move to approve the drug flouts the spirit of E.U. environmental law, Bowden says, and «sets a bad precedent for Africa and Asia where systems are less controlled.»

«It would set a very bad precedent for a new prime minister to interfere in the official processes.»

Right from the start, the system was compromised by el - Rufai thereby laying a bad precedent for e-voting in Nigeria.

If he is not checked, his actions will leave a bad precedent for The Gambia and the sub-region, as a whole.

That's basically turning the tap off — and it sets a very bad precedent for future budgets if we don't protect funding now.»

The NTC is clearly caught up in a zero - sum struggle for power with the militias, setting a bad precedent for the forging of a working relationship between the militias and the soon - to - be-elected new government.

Though MLB hasn't given a reason for the decision, it's believed that the deal was below market, which a) would have set a bad precedent for the other 29 teams, and b) might have lowered the value of the franchise.

Prop F is a bad piece of legislation and would be an even worse precedent for other cities to copy.

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For a service that has had such a profound impact on recent historical events, including the Arab Spring and London riots, it's a very bad precedent that has shaken the faith of many users.

«Even if the current minimum wage increase proposals don't affect your company, it sets a bad precedent,» Merrill Matthews a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas wrote in a recent article for NCMM.

For a province that relies on free, unfettered trade of resources, measures such as this set a precedent as bad or worse as those set by BC Premier John Horgan's intention to regulate bitumen shipments in BC.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Not sure what the disciplinary panel will make of it — if they overturn it they will be setting a precedent that is OK for a proportionate response if a player is badly fouled, not sure they will want to do that.

Well be proud of yourself, you have taken it upon youself to set a precedent for a severe bashing once he has another bad game.

Although it's sometimes easier for parents to ignore occasional bad behavior or not follow through on some threatened punishment, this sets a bad precedent.

Leaving the county's top elected law enforcement position in a caretaker's hands for a long period of time sets a bad precedent, because it devalues the job and severs voters» ties to it.

In addition, the slower phase - in for New York City businesses with ten or fewer employers establishes bad precedent and complicates effective enforcement.»

Your Excellency, I have not forgotten the bad precedent set by Ex President John Agyekum Kufour in nominating Hon J. H. Mensah, his brother - law, for appointment as «Senior Minister» which the then Parliament accepted.

The bad news is what Alex Salmond will get in return: the precedent of votes for 16 and 17 year olds.

This will be a bad precedent, So I am calling on the assembly to revoke the permit or the property should be used for a different business like a super market or something else.»

Court expert and Albany Law School Professor Vince Bonventre says it's a unique opportunity for Cuomo, but perhaps sets a bad precedent.

The former president's decision evoked outrage across the nation with many criticizing him for setting a bad precedent and undermining the judiciary.

Businesses are concerned that this will set a «very bad precedent,» says Beat Späth, director for agricultural biotechnology at the industry association EuropaBio in Brussels.

Meeting up for a first date 15 pounds heavier than what your profile picture depicts sets a bad precedent.

But this is a comedy — or it's meant to be — and as much as I would have loved for the sense of the sinister inherent in this concept to turn into something deeply, blackly funny (I'm thinking of Very Bad Things as a possible precedent for this, but The Hangover is never so audacious), Lucas and Moore and director Todd Phillips (School for Scoundrels, Starsky & Hutch) go for the easy, cheap laughs, things that will shock a juvenile mindset — a mother breastfeeding?

The clear precedent for Franco's project is Tim «Speaking of Bad Movies» Burton's Ed Wood (1994), about the cheapo 1950s cult filmmaker Ed Wood (played by Johnny Depp), whose ingenious sense of trash was a source of inspiration for Burton himself.

«It just sets a bad precedent, allowing people to, in this particular area in education, earmark their tax dollars for a specific thing.»

I'm not concerned about the widely - discussed (and, according to critics, destructive and unsustainable) «race to the bottom» pricing trend; ebooks for a buck set bad precedents, pundits say.

For my argument to hold merit obviously the condition of the debt markets would have to be worse than historical precedent which by virtually any standard seems to be the case.

There are a lot of complicated legal issues, but I believe the bottom line is that if they put her down, it would set a bad precedent — they could start putting other dogs down for minor things, and what then?

During the first week, puppies characteristically learn good or bad habits that set the precedent for weeks, months, and sometimes years to come.

There's both precedents for series getting better and badder when changing the director.

Because there is no data, no historical precedent, no basis beyond hand - waving assertions that SST warming will make for worse hurricanes and change precipitation patterns in famine - inducing ways.

I had not realised how many precedents there are for bad science resulting from monolithic control.

Unfortunately, it's all very possible... Basically, what Levin does here is compile various predictions from a number of climate scientists and writers, cite historical precedents for climate - related migrations in the US (the Dust Bowl), and make some compelling inferences as to what could happen as weather conditions continue to get worse than they ever have before.

Not only can a civil claim force these bad actors to compensate past victims for their damages, but this type of lawsuit can also set a precedent and help bring legislative changes that will preemptively help others from being exploited in the future.

The disadvantages include the perpetuation of bad rulings and the difficulties rose when there is no precedent for the case before the court.

Indeed Senator Williams issued a statement on the last day of the legislative session in which he recognized that Judge Dyche was qualified for the position on the Worker's Compensation Board, but he felt the fact that Dyche would have been eligible to double dip would have been a bad precedent.

As discussed above, lack of publicity creates an increased risk of entrenching bad precedent and reduces incentives for judges to do their most careful work, 49 thereby undermining the ability of stare decisis to promote the rule of law.

For better or worse, the camera on the ZenFone 3 builds on the precedent set by the earlier generations of ZenFone.

If there is a precedent of you bending or breaking your own lease rules for 1 tenant then you have no leverage after that changing your mind mid lease bad idea.

Letting a first - time offense or brushing something off as «not that big of deal» will set the precedents for your tenants to behave badly.