Sentences with phrase «become a public charge»

Historically «there has been a bias in favor of those who could take care of themselves and a bias against those it was believed could not and therefore would become public charges.

2 Section 30 (1)(a) of the Immigration Act 13 of 2002, as amended by the Immigration Amendment Act 13 of 2011 prohibits an admission of non-citizens who can not take care of themselves while staying in South Africa and allows deportation of those whose likely to become a public charge.

Since the wife's waiver of maintenance did not place her in danger of becoming a public charge it was not unconscionable.

Enforcement of the agreement would result in the risk of the wife's becoming a public charge.

Where the results of a 2007 prenuptial agreement waiver of maintenance would be a risk that a mother of three children would become a public charge, the agreement would be set aside for being unconscionable at the time of divorce.

The Court determined, on appeal that the terms of the agreement were unconscionable since its enforcement would result in the risk of the wife becoming a public charge, and since she was unemployed, largely without assets, and was the primary caregiver for the parties» young children.

If an employer kept a disabled worker on their payroll through disability leave, D'Alessio said that would similarly keep the worker from becoming a public charge.

Long - term disability insurance keeps workers from becoming a public charge.

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Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.

Tell me, if the school charged the actual market value for the use of this space and the use of equipment, etc. and if that market value actually reflected the cost to the public, then the issue might become clearer to you because these religious people would scream at having to pay full price and the cost of any damages they may inflict upon the public property they are using illegally.

Pressure had been building on the Vatican to proceed with criminal charges against Wesolowski, a Polish native ordained by Saint John Paul II, since the accusations against him became public.

With the public system, a baby's cord blood is donated (at no charge to the parents) and becomes available to anyone who is a match and needs it.

The decision, which overturned the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, has led to speculation in New York that convicting anyone on public corruption charges would become virtually impossible in all but the most explicit cases of favor - trading.

Assemblymember Pamela Harris (D - Coney Island - Dyker Heights - Bay Ridge), who was indicted earlier this year on corruption charges, has been keeping a low profile since her legal troubles became public.

DeFrancisco — a 23 - year Senate veteran praised by Democrats and Republicans alike for intelligence and toughness but seen by some as disengaged — decided to seek Skelos» job after it became clear Friday that Skelos and his son, Adam, faced arrest as soon as Monday on public corruption charges after a long investigation by US Attorney Preet Bharara.

Private possession of small amounts of marijuana is considered just a violation, but when the drug becomes public during a police search, the person is subject to a misdemeanor charge.

Mr. Giuliani, who hired Mr. Lhota as his budget director and later promoted him to become his «right - hand» man, went on to charge Democratic mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio misled the public and demanded an apology.

State Assemblyman Al Stirpe became the second elected official Thursday to reject campaign donations he received from executives of COR Development Co. charged in a public corruption probe.

Then, in court, the criminal charge is unsealed and becomes public.

In a text message to Renna's boss later that night, Mahoney would also threaten charges if the picture became public.

In the absence of criminal charges, it's unclear whether details gleaned from Bharara's investigation would ever become public.

Once the ink had dried and the fine print was made public, one clause became a concern for some of the same officials who had cheered Mr. Cuomo's tough, take - charge talk: the city would be required to pay for whatever repairs the monitor ordered, a cost that could total hundreds of millions of dollars.

Thanks in part to several legal fights, journal fees in the Netherlands have become public, and calculations by Waaijers have shown that Elsevier charges two or even three times as much per article by Dutch authors as three other large publishers.

Nevertheless, consumers look for safer food, especially as the public becomes more aware of bacterial outbreaks, and farms in the past seven years have led the charge to respond.

In 2004, when Allon Therapeutics went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange, he joined the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, becoming its business development director in charge of forging commercial opportunities and scientific partnerships for the institute.

Not responding to a text or a tweet from someone's mobile phone after one hour, might mean that someone could be busy, be in the shower, charging their phone, in a meeting, taking a nap or sleeping, or a variety of other things that we used to normally do before our mobile phones became the biggest accessory in our public lives.

The crusade to privatize public education in North Carolina has become a hallmark of the folks currently in charge in Raleigh.

Meria Joel Carstarphen became superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools (APS) on the heels of a national cheating scandal in which 11 of 12 people in APS were convicted on charges including racketeering, with some serving time in prison.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

In too many cases, a small group of inept and corrupt adults — district administrators, school boards and teachers unions — is in charge of what has become an increasingly incompetent public education system.

At the same time, the long line of EVs at Mercedes - Benz also reminded us that Silicon Valley has become the scene of road - rage - style incidents in recent months as people squabble over access to the limited number of public charging stations.

We do anticipate the expansion of the Ioniq Electric region once public charging stations become more widely available.

Public charging stations are becoming more widely spread as this one is located in the Okanagan community of Merritt.

It has been oversold, however, because it has become a «new» way for trainers to charge for their services and fool the public.

Unfortunately, unlike the «mainstream» console / PC market, mobile games didn't become popularized in the public eye as paid commodities; a large part of why games like Angry Birds and Clash of Clans have seen so much success is because anyone with a smartphone or tablet can download and play them free of charge.

Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual «investigation» into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of «insubordination» and «breach of fiduciary duty,» which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st.»

Bishop Hill writes: As it becomes clear that there will be a determined step by bureaucrats to neuter the FOI Act by introducing charges, it is increasingly important that the public take steps to nip this activity in the bud.

The ban became controversial when it was delayed in late 2010 after what the public interest group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Copublic interest group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola CoPublic Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Company.

However, recharging away from home is becoming easier as public and workplace charging stations become more widely available.

The SAVE trial involved many players, who thus became pioneers in electric mobility: municipalities (Les Mureaux, Mantes la Jolie and Poissy) and companies (Carrefour, Total, Leclerc, Vinci Park, Intermarché) deployed charging infrastructure available to the public; 40 participants (companies, municipalities and consumers) acquired charging stations and electric vehicles.

Already, dozens of cases in Ontario alone have been stayed under the Jordan framework, with the public becoming particularly familiar with the name when an Ottawa judge threw out a first - degree murder charge against ex-soldier Adam Picard, who was accused of killing 28 - year - old Fouad Nayel, after it took four years to bring his case to trial.

When you have been charged with a criminal offence, that information becomes part of the public record.

When users purchase documents from PACER, the extension adds a copy to RECAP's public repository, where it becomes available to anyone else at no charge.

However, it dismissed charges against her regarding the first round of shares she purchased, ruling the confidentiality agreement signed by the two companies was routine, and would not have been a market - moving fact if it had become public.

Normally they would not become public until charges are laid,» he says.

While a large number of clients and cases garner significant public attention, often involving pitched battles against teams of government lawyers and agents, many of Williams & Connolly's greatest successes have come when charges were never brought, involving investigations that have never become public and can not be identified.

The task she faces became even more obvious when the government made public her mandate letter; a daunting list filled with legally complex and hot - button, emotionally charged issues.

Already installed in thousands of public locations worldwide, Qi wireless charging will become pervasive so people can have wireless charging wherever they go - in hotels, airports, travel lounges, restaurants, coffee shops, businesses, stadiums and other public places.

Now that new iPhone models that feature Qi wireless charging are in the hands of consumers, it seems wireless charging will become even more pervasive in public locations than it is today.

Whether in public spaces, in our cars, or in our furniture, it's becoming easier and easier to find places to top - off the battery of a phone supporting wireless charging.