Sentences with phrase «by the abuse of»

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

The only way religion continues to infect people is by the abuse of the mind of children while they are in their developmental modes..

The issues raised by the abuse of advertisements are real, even urgent, but they are issues long with us and long understood.

The Church needs to stand by the biblical text and the clear exegesis that outlines a persons rejection of grace by their abuse of it.

Grady is angered by the abuse of money, sex and power by some Pentecostals and charismatics.

While everyone is quite rightly outraged by the abuses of the IRS in singling out conservative group for audits, intrusive inquiries, and endless delays on approval of their tax - exempt status, it has occurred to me that there is one simple solution to the problem that would not require nearly as....

There is the material kind of poverty, which is primarily caused by abuses of power or deficiencies in access to the markets that produce goods and services.

Judge Simon Hurst told him: «I have had the advantage of reading victim impact statements and it is clear that in their different ways, they were all profoundly affected by your abuse of them.

«Now that Wenger has named Arteta captain, that mean he will be continue to be a first teamer and he is unlike to sign a MDM» followed by abuse of the manager.

There is a global water crisis created by the abuse of the environment.

The former President said a report in the media that Ghana stood the risk of importing water by 2021 was a reality created by the abuse of our water bodies through the dumping of non-degradable waste such as plastics, metals, chemicals and other poisonous material.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

Indeed, it's both ironic and telling that the bill itself is named for an NYPD detective whose death — the city's medical examiner later ruled — was caused by abuse of prescription drugs, not Ground Zero poisons.

«I have never seen a report as strongly worded as this, it is clear that the committee was shocked by the abuse of public money.

Faith in our political institutions was seriously eroded by the abuses of the expenses system.

According to a joint press release, the change in the Two Bridges area is meant to, «protect the area from out - of - scale luxury developments made possible by the abuse of a zoning loophole.»

His test subjects include Abraham Lincoln (who reportedly suffered from depression), Winston Churchill (bipolar tendencies), JFK (manic traits, compounded by steroid use), and Hitler (bipolar tendencies, exacerbated by abuse of amphetamines).

The former head of a group of academy schools has denied six charges of fraud by abuse of position.

And she told me of the dedicated educators who were no longer willing to see their students humiliated or their profession degraded by the abuses of the NYC ELA Performance Assessment Test.

The series reflects the absurdity and information overload of the internet era and questions the ways in which people are affected by abuses of power.

Western science and Western forms of government now face a self - inflicted crisis: Loss of public confidence caused by unbridled greed and selfishness and by the abuse of federal science as a tool of propaganda.

Truck driver fatigue is the number one cause for truck accidents due to the error of the truck driver, followed closely by abuse of alcohol and other drugs.

Possibly the most difficult question to answer is what recourse was available to the woman after her privacy, and her security, were compromised by this abuse of her personal information?

Fraud is dealt with in the Fraud Act 2006 which establishes three ways in which the offence can be committed: fraud by false representation, fraud by failing to disclose information and fraud by abuse of position.

The Fraud Act 2006 (FrA 2006) defines three classes of fraud: (i) by false representation; (ii) by failing to disclose information; and (iii) by abuse of position.

Tesco's former UK managing director Christopher Bush, finance director Carl Rogberg and UK food commercial director John Scouler were each charged with fraud by abuse of position last week and are due to appear in court on 22 September.

By working with a therapist, people can learn the positive and negative aspects of power and can often learn how to rebuild and strengthen relationships that have been destroyed or negatively impacted by the abuse of power.

Not exact matches

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

The existence of sick and personal days also leaves the door wide open for them to be abused by employees who are less than honest about their health or personal lives.

«Abuse can't be solved by any single method, since it's posted in so many forms, by a wide variety of people, and for many reasons.»

According to a blog post by Ed Ho, Twitter's VP of engineering, if the service's algorithm detects abuse, it will take one of a number of steps to reduce the potential reach and harm of those tweets, including limiting the harasser's account for a set time period.

Meanwhile, an investigation by CNN focused on the dark side of ride hailing drivers, finding 103 U.S. Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse in the past four years and and 18 drivers for Lyft.

Another big conversation about Twitter right now is about preventing the abuse of users by others.

A TEDx talk containing allegations that Kristie Colón had been abused at Price's hand was deleted by the University of Kentucky last month.

However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners at every level of the K - Cup distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.

Every few months, it offers users new tools to mute racial slurs or report threats, but even though the company says it has stepped up its rules enforcement by an order of magnitude, users who report abuse typically hear there's nothing to be done about it.

«The abuse of our fans and our trust by Ticketmaster has made us as furious as it has made many of you,» the posting read.

«While our goal is to preserve hashtags on the platform, the safety of our community is our number one priority, so we will take steps to limit the spread of violating content and hashtags that are being abused by making them unsearchable.»

And then when I watch the trials and tribulations of a business like L.L. Bean, whose good - faith commitment and lifetime guarantees to customers have been shamelessly abused for years by flea market phonies, eBay a-holes and other crafty resale store shoppers, I remember that things become clichés, not because they're pithy phrases, but because they're sadly too true.

Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images,» Facebook says.

After a California doctor was prosecuted for child abuse imagery that was found on his computer by a Geek Squad employee, the EFF filed a Freedom of Information request to better understand the nature of Best Buy employees» relationship with the FBI.

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

The high court's action was a blow to Vivendi SA's Capitol Records (vivef) and units of Sony (sne), which warned of rampant online copyright abuse if a ruling by a lower court shielding Vimeo from liability remained in place.

«The brave and assiduous oversight by Congressional leaders in discovering this unprecedented abuse of process represents a giant, historic leap in the repair of America's democracy,» he said.

The Westworld hosts are abused and repaired almost daily by a team of medical / mechanical engineering technicians.

We demand investigations into R. Kelly's abuse allegations made by women of color + their families for two decades.

As robots enter daily life and workplaces, some have been victims of abuse by people in the workplace.

Cardinal Health agreed to pay $ 20 million to the state and issued this statement: «While the company denies the state's allegations, Cardinal Health recognizes that the epidemic of prescription drug abuse is a multifaceted problem driven by addiction and demand.»