Sentences with phrase «by vulnerable individuals»

However, the council and its partners understand that sometimes tents or temporary shelters are erected by vulnerable individuals in need of help and support.

Not exact matches

Ethereum was created with the intent for people to have the ability to build programs that have no middle man and no central server to house information, making them less vulnerable to abuses by individuals, agencies, or corporations.

In the meantime, the individual has been admonished by a supervisor as being disrespectful to her co-workers and vulnerable clients, as she works with people who can not defend themselves or speak up.

«Families Matter» is backed by UK - based charity Families Against Stress and Trauma, which provides support to vulnerable families of individuals at risk of joining conflicts.

Caused by a virus called HIV it has the capacity to attack and destroy the human immune system, leaving the individual vulnerable to the infections that eventually cause death.

«We are saddened by the accounts of deplorable behaviour from a group of individuals who have abused their power, exploited their position, and sought to subvert systems designed to protect vulnerable people in Haiti,» the charity stated.

«This places care workers in the invidious position of having to choose between providing lonely and vulnerable clients with care visits that meet their individual needs and fulfilling their payment - by - results contract,» Ryan says.

By hastily rubber - stamping this deeply problematic proposal, the Committee has taken a step toward a future in which the lives of terminally - ill persons are treated as expendable, and in which insurance companies will be at liberty to make cost - saving coverage decisions that steer vulnerable individuals toward physician - assisted death.

«SERAP also notes that your government has a legal obligation to protect vulnerable individuals including pensioners in Edo State by taking measures to ensure that they are not denied their human rights, and deprived of their access to basic necessities of life.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries.

The poor word choices, which resulted from the passion expressed by some, diverted the attention away from the legitimate concerns of the more than 500 hardworking mental - health workers, correctional officers, caregivers for developmentally - disabled individuals, administrative personnel and others who attended the rally to call for substantive dialogue with the governor about the direction we need to take the Empire State so that it serves all its citizens well, especially the most vulnerable among us.»

The Conservative Party should not be a centralised machine, controlled by a few individuals, vulnerable to groupthink.

McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who by all other measures are sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is that «they score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.

America the Vulnerable by Joel Brenner A public service announcement of the most urgent sort, this engrossing book reveals how our lack of cyber savvy, both as individuals and as a nation, is exposing us to extraordinary risks, including viruses that could destroy the power grid, simple hacks that have harvested millions of credit card numbers from retailers, and security breaches that are hemorrhaging classified intelligence through the Net.

«ALDH inhibition appears to be an important mechanism by which these environmental toxins contribute to Parkinson's pathogenesis, especially in genetically vulnerable individuals,» said study author Beate Ritz, a professor of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA.

«We studied asymptomatic individuals with a low risk of cardiovascular events at baseline and used noninvasive imaging to predict the risk of an event downstream,» said David A. Bluemke, M.D, Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. «This is the first population - based prospective study to determine if vulnerable plaque features by MRI add to the risk of a cardiovascular event beyond the traditional risk factors.»

McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who are on all other measures sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is a trait called absorption: «They score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.

In conclusion, individuals with CBG deficiency, whether genetically or environmentally - induced, are vulnerable to acute stress but do not have their abnormal psychoneuroendocrine phenotype further affected by chronic stress.

These funds will be directly invested by the charity into future campaigns designed to make the roads safer for the UK's most vulnerable users, and used to support their work with families and individuals devastated by road crashes.

We have a responsibility to protect vulnerable individuals from being radicalised or exposed to extremist views, by identifying who they are and promptly providing them with support.

So with great deliberations we decided to make it a private group attempting to screen in those who are genuinely interested, and not those who join for promoting their work by hook or by crook, and those who are bent upon stalking vulnerable individuals.

The government watchdog urged the search giant to, «work closely with federal and state agencies to ensure your search products are not being used by individuals and companies seeking to prey on the most vulnerable student loan borrowers by implying an affiliation with the federal government.»

Opie knows her sitters intimately, and by carefully controlling every aspect of each picture, she remarkably allows these compelling individuals to remain both vulnerable and ultimately unknowable.

On the occasion of her 2016 — 17 show at MoMA PS1, curator Peter Eleey wrote: Drawing inspiration from the distorted bodies that litter the histories of modern painting, Braunig adapts these legacies to the discomforts and instabilities of contemporary life... While evocatively dystopic, her paintings also subtly empower their vulnerable subjects, advocating a humanist art for an age in which individual experience seems threatened by forces beyond our control.

By their nature, such events can exceed our capacity to respond.195 In succession, these events severely deplete our resources needed to respond, from the individual to the national scale, but disproportionately affect the most vulnerable populations.235

For example: • Ethical considerations argue for the development of a process for overseeing adaptation efforts that is participatory, that is, represented by individuals from all geographic areas, and include the active input from all interested parties, especially the most vulnerable parties experiencing the most severe impacts of climate change, as well as transparent.

Meanwhile, in the UK vast sums are spent on prosecuting individuals and trying vainly to interrupt the flow of drugs into cities, carried along «county lines» by vulnerable children.

WAIPL works to protect creation and safeguard society's most vulnerable by providing education about climate change, helping individuals and congregations reduce their carbon footprints, and advocating for sustainable energy.

New Mexico Legal Aid (NMLA) will develop a statewide online triage program for the major civil legal issues faced by low income individuals and other vulnerable populations.

This is a little shocking given that a child who may be participating in proceedings is often, almost by definition, disadvantaged — «diminished» or a «vulnerable» individual as the draft proposed rules for children in family proceedings has it (Report of the Vulnerable Witnesses & Children Working Group, Februvulnerable» individual as the draft proposed rules for children in family proceedings has it (Report of the Vulnerable Witnesses & Children Working Group, FebruVulnerable Witnesses & Children Working Group, February 2015).

That is vulnerable in the sense these individuals don't have a tremendous amount of control over their destiny which is controlled by entrenched legal institutions.

Those purposes include the prevention of arbitrary disadvantage or exclusion based on enumerated grounds, so that individuals deemed to be vulnerable by virtue of a group characteristic can be protected from discrimination.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Engagement in «sexual acts», prohibited or not, is not the determinative factor in the identification of an individual's difference by that individual, or by the potential persecutor, and therefore this lack of recognition of the rights of gay and lesbian minors, which is also excluded by the prohibition on «homosexual acts», is of a fundamental importance to this exceptionally vulnerable group, based both on age and sexual or gender identity.

Once powers are in place to remove material deemed by the State to be adverse to the public interest, our society and individual citizens become extremely vulnerable to the gross abuse of these powers, regardless of how well - meaning our current leadership may be now.

The Human Rights Tribunal is ready and willing to award increasingly large damages awards - especially when the impugned conduct is carried out over a prolonged period of time by a person in a position of power and authority against a vulnerable individual; and

By the time our awardee got involved, this defendant had targeted over twenty vulnerable individuals.

Day care providers, foster parents, social workers and other individuals working with children or vulnerable adults may find their reputation and livelihood in jeopardy if they are accused of maltreatment by the Department of Human Services.

We have also championed the causes of vulnerable individuals who have been wronged by powerful corporate and government interests.

We have also championed the causes of vulnerable individuals who have been wronged by powerful corporate interests.

In McGuffie, Justice Doherty also relied upon the power imbalance rationale that was emphasized by Chief Justice McLachlin in R v Suberu, [2009] 2 SCR 460, where she and Justice Louise Charron wrote jointly, at para. 40: ``... [T] he purpose of s. 10 (b) is to ensure that individuals know of their right to counsel, and have access to it, in situations where they suffer a significant deprivation of liberty due to state coercion which leaves them vulnerable to the exercise of state power and in a position of legal jeopardy.

The decision of the High Court in R (Binomugisha) v Southwark LBC makes it difficult for a local social services authority to refuse to accommodate a failed asylum seeker who makes what purports to be a fresh asylum or human rights claim to remain in the UK if: (i) the individual is one of the more vulnerable individuals who, as asylum seekers, were accommodated by local authorities; and (ii) the purported fresh claim is not manifestly unfounded.

A client whose work requires him to work with vulnerable individuals or in finance may be hampered by any kind of conviction, as will a person who aspires to politics.

I have practiced in the area of sexual abuse for nearly two decades, and have observed that when one «sees over and over again the profound damage wrought by sexual abuse and being constantly reminded of the depravity and evil perpetrated against vulnerable individuals, one has to question why it is that awards in this area are not more consistently, or even sporadically, higher than they have been to date.»

It is important to note that the report, findings, recommendations and best practices are not intended to cover checks required by the Criminal Records Review Act for individuals working or volunteering with children or vulnerable adults.

Breach or neglect of the standard of care may be more common in the family guardian / conservator / caregiver setting due to these individuals choosing to make decisions based on what they feel is in the best interest of the vulnerable adult rather than following valid legal documents already in place, or making decisions by using substituted judgement — taking into account what the vulnerable adult would want.

Warning: Stay away from Dan Wile's training if, in order to pique your interest, you need: to feel you're in the presence of the «greatness» of an inflated ego to hear word followed by brilliant and erudite word, without the hindrance of real - life application to maintain a sense of perfection as a therapist - rather than to face your inner struggles However, if you are interested in a couples orientation presented by a truly humble and authentic individual and an outstanding expert in the field, one who: strips away your masks, exposing the inner voice of the vulnerable therapist lurking beneath your professional persona as you perform a therapy session empowers you with tools to that facilitates each partner to bring forth their voice in the session and have their message - at long last - be heard by their partners, then look no further.

Many individuals cope with traumatic experiences by using intellectualization and by devaluing interpersonal closeness and vulnerable affect.

(Barner and Carney, 2011) It is suggesting that by embracing this approach, we can open the door to better engagement with these vulnerable individuals, striving together to ensure safety and increased ability to access service and support.