Sentences with phrase «by frivolous»

American businesses of all sizes and from all industry sectors are being held hostage by frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims made by patent trolls.

They could be wiped out by a frivolous liability claim.

Each year thousands of Americans — including many South Carolinians — are adversely affected by frivolous lawsuits.

Time to Take Action Ending Frivolous Lawsuits (Article published in GSA Business Report / link) Each year thousands of Americans — including many South Carolinians — are adversely affected by frivolous lawsuits.

The ads, some of which will be shown at movie theaters during previews, feature small business owners talking about how their businesses were ruined by frivolous lawsuits.

There's ego there, there's scathing criticism of climate change skeptics, and there's a growing sense of themselves being under siege by vitriolic personal attacks, by global warming denialism, by harassment, by frivolous Freedom of Information Act requests, and so forth.

So don't be surprised when it produces unhinged zealots who try to use the power of the state or harassment by frivolous lawsuits to subvert the rules of open scientific debate.

For example, lenders tend to have more sympathy for a bankruptcy that was caused by a medical crisis, as opposed to one that was caused by frivolous spending.

They could be wiped out by a frivolous liability claim.

This wasn't a problem per se, but my job was made hard by the frivolous book covers and titles assigned to them.

In a world where business headlines are dominated by frivolous, money - losing apps that command astounding valuations, I'm proud to be creating a business that has the potential to actually change millions of lives.

Blood transfusions are a proven medical technology that are required not by frivolous choice, but for strictly medical purposes.

Despite its initial incarnation being rendered insolvent by these frivolous legal attacks, ML - Implode continues today in a stripped - down, lean - and - mean embodiment, remaining dedicated to tracking the fallout of the 2007 - 2008 credit crisis.

-- based psychologist and author of the 2008 book Introvert Power, believes that introverts have a leadership advantage in their ability to delve into the big ideas and not be distracted by frivolous social preoccupations.

Not exact matches

Days can seem to fly by and sometimes meetings on topics not directly related to immediate outcomes can seem frivolous, but these discussions brought us all closer and helped us focus on what was most important.

Some companies deserve to be sued by an employee for wrongful termination, but a disturbing number of companies are victims of frivolous lawsuits initiated by employees eager to jump on the litigation bandwagon.

«However, it is important to say that Yieldify will not get bullied by any organisation that brings forward frivolous and unfair claims and misuse legal systems for their advantage.

Yieldify CEO Jay Radia said the company does not comment on ongoing legal cases, but slammed Bounce Exchange as a «tyrant» and asserted that Yieldify «will not get bullied by any organisation that brings forward frivolous and unfair claims and misuse legal systems for their advantage.»

In response, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. notes that this frivolous lawsuit is a last - ditch effort to substantiate the baseless Russian collusion allegations by a nearly - bankrupt Democratic Party still trying to counter the will of the people in the 2016 presidential election.

The campaign called the suit a «frivolous,» «partisan» and meritless action that represents a «last - ditch effort» by a «nearly - bankrupt Democratic Party» still trying to counter the will of the American public.

You'll know you're in your work profile by the purple background (your personal one is blue), as well as by the absence of any frivolous apps, like Angry Birds.

The Shield Act aims to thwart frivolous lawsuits by requiring trolls to pay for defendants» legal expenses should they lose in court — a pretty big demotivator, if you ask me.

To deal with trolls» propensity to target small businesses, the administration wants new legislation that will «protect off - the - shelf use by consumers and businesses» from frivolous patent litigation.

By transferring my money to a couple brokerage accounts and two other banks as soon as it hits my main bank I no longer have temptation to spend on frivolous things.

Administrative actions — seizure of property by a government agency without notice or due process; becoming enmeshed in a frivolous civil lawsuit.

But at best the story can seem frivolous, and at worst it can feel like a distraction from the damage done by Trump's policy decisions (like, most recently, appointing a man who has called for war with both North Korea and Iran as national security adviser).

By law, the credit bureaus are usually required to investigate the item in question within 30 days, unless they consider your dispute to be frivolous.

Based on a new survey from CompareCards.com by LendingTree, the majority of credit card debt doesn't come from frivolous spending — this is obtained from basic expenses.

In Greene's novel, by contrast, adultery is anything but frivolous: it may be either the occasion of despair or the beginning of conversion, but whatever else it is, it is always a subject of fascination.

They don't complain about being asked to wear a hat and they don't destroy business's by filing frivolous lawsuits.

They hope that the coin tossing, selfie - taking throngs of tourists, as the frivolous Western public at large, will be given pause, if only briefly, to contemplate the surging pattern of mass murder of Christians purely for reasons of faith, largely by Islamists.

Fasting is the means by which the Muslim voluntarily abandons certain legitimate frivolous enjoyments as a means of putting his soul to a test and promoting its capacity for perseverance.

It reminds us that studiousness requires the self - discipline to exclude frivolous pursuits (including the pursuit of frivolous knowledge); that the pursuit of knowledge is at its best when motivated by a genuine desire for the truth, not self - aggrandizement.

For in this, instead of impressing upon him a holy fear and shame before the Good, he is polluting the pure one by teaching him the fear of loss of money, loss of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule of fools, the laughter of the frivolous, the cowardly whining of consideration, the inflated triviality of the moment, the fluttering mist - forms of vapor.

They only make themselves and their cause appear frivolous by claiming that military force is immoral and futile, and, at the same time, wanting to have a political say in how such force is to be employed.

I have often though that all of us who are affected by higher taxes and higher prices due to frivolous lawsuits should band together and sue the people and the lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits.

«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

Christ the Key By Kathryn Tanner Cambridge, 309 pages, $ 29.99 Far too much of what is published under the name of theology these days has about it the air of the frivolous» but such a complaint can not be made about the work of Kathryn Tanner.

He knew by his cleverness exactly what his frivolous people needed, in order that they should not simply take the earnestness of the Good in vain, and thereby be led to pay the wise man a good deal of money as a reward for having deceived them.

If he becomes revealed and lets himself be saved by Agnes, then he is the greatest man I can picture; for it is only aesthetics which is frivolous enough to think that it extols the power of love by letting the lost soul be loved by an innocent girl and thereby saved; it is only aesthetics which sees amiss and thinks the girl a heroine, whereas it is in fact the merman who is the hero.

In other words, to avoid frivolous RFRA claims, Congress may need to preclude otherwise justifiable religious exercise concerns by severely limiting the availability of both religious and nonreligious - based exemptions and accommodations, potentially resulting in more draconian legislative drafting.

I've tried to disobey it, thinking it was frivolous and unneeded, only to be greeted by a loaf whose crumb was not as fine and rise was not as perfectly formed.

I'd rather go out swinging against the Cavs in the first round then collect another frivolous first round win only to get rolled by Toronto in the 2nd round.

By the»70s, for reasons Piper feels are frivolous at best, the single wing had become as obsolete as the flying wedge and the six - man line.

Costa risks increasing the ban if it's deemed frivolous by the FA which seems likely and a three game ban could just as easily become four.

What a defiantly frivolous thing — to wear lipstick when all the faces around you wear only the lines etched into their skin by years of hard - won survival.

I have only seen people be judged around here for continuing to hold onto opinions that are not supported by facts, or for judging others as bad parents for dumb reasons, or taking risks like homebirth for frivolous reasons.

- The proposition that all children should be fed by the school, for such frivolous reasons as a futile attempt to prevent the stigma of poverty, as if kids can't tell who has money by the clothes and toys they have, where they live, or what their parents use to drive them to school.

East Hampton Village officials criticized what they called a «frivolous» lawsuit filed by the former village police chief, saying they enacted «reasonable restrictions» on Gerard Larsen's outside security work out of concern about the top cop's potential conflicts of interest.

There would also be a lower limit for the powers and size of assemblies, so as to deter the establishment of frivolous assemblies by small units in the absence of overwhelming communitarian desire to have one.