Sentences with phrase «civil sanction of»

Its various provisions include the new civil sanction of Unexplained Wealth Orders, wider powers for the police to seize cash and other property alleged to be the proceeds of crime, and the broadening of the UK's anti-money laundering regime.

Not exact matches

«As Mikhail grew increasingly frustrated and angry, he began threatening the travelers with civil and criminal sanctions, including forfeiture of their Aeroflot tickets if they refused to accept that they were «Indians» who had to return «back to India,»» the complaint says.

The deterrent effect of the available monetary sanctions under agent liability probably exceeds the deterrent effect of enterprise liability because a civil judgment against an agent hurts his reputation more than does a sanction imposed by the firm in private.

Nevertheless, he decried, and actually seemed surprised by the fact that the jargon, presumptions, odor of sanctity, and especially the legal tools left over from the civil rights movement's glory years, now three generations past, are being used to sanction homosexual unions and in general make of non-heterosexuals yet another legally privileged group.

Throughout their history, Baptists of all persuasions have been ardent supporters of religious liberty, opposing state «imposed religious conformity and the attendant civil sanctions associated therewith.

This article describes a daring idea both for Desmond Tutu and the BBC in which the victims or families of the victims were invited to confront on TV either the perpetrator or someone associated with the organization that had sanctioned, planned and accomplished the killing or injury of their loved ones during the Civil rights marches in the late 1960s.

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

The literature clearly establishes that a legally sanctioned law enforcement system existed in America before the Civil War for the express purpose of controlling the slave population and protecting the interests of slave owners.

Wars and their rumors embellish the world scenes and the hardening of ones emotional sanctioning is tantamount and above the reproaches regarding civil moralism.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The use of such expressions as «a private matter» and «between God and me» suggests that his Catholicism, however sincere, has been considerably attenuated by Canada's civil religion, which, following Jean - Jacques Rousseau's, will brook no dissent, particularly from those whose faith entails obedience to something beyond the socially - sanctioned quest for autonomy.

If any of the provisions and procedures under Part VII of Act 663 were not followed, what steps are being taken to exact the civil and criminal sanctions prescribed by that Act for its breach?

Given the US Iraq war, incursions into Afghanistan, the Syria Civil War, their own sanctions, Yemen, they have a target rich situation that needs immediate attention of their time and resources.

The NLC President, however, expressed shock that rather than call for the sanction of governors who failed to properly utilise their bail - out funds, and creating misery to the people as well as overheating the polity, Okupe would be calling for the «blood of hapless civil servants».

The government stated that there are 1,390 cases on civil litigations (legal disputes between two or more parties that seek money damages or specific performance rather than criminal sanctions) in Magistrate, High Courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Penalties for Frivolous Lawsuits — Vote Passed (230 - 188, 11 Not Voting) The bill would modify federal rules governing civil lawsuits to require federal courts to impose sanctions on parties that violate the existing prohibition on the filing of frivolous lawsuits, with such sanctions to include monetary penalties to cover the other party's attorneys» fees and other costs.

The CIOT has also responded to HMRC's proposal for civil sanctions for enablers of offshore evasion.

The CIOT's submission to HMRC on Tackling offshore tax evasion: Civil sanctions for enablers of offshore evasion — can viewed here.

In 2005, Palestinian civil society issued a call for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights.

Let it be known at this juncture that we also condemned the destructive act of the students, therefore, we are not against the fact that the management want to sanction them through payment of damages, all we are saying is that N25, 000 [TwentyFive Thousand Naira] is too much for our parents to bear considering the fact that the school is dominated by ward (s) of Ondo State Civil Servants who have not received salary since November 2015, and most of these parents have 2 to 4 children in this same university, therefore, where do we expect them to get such a huge amount of money?

In addition to the civil sanctions imposed by the Ethics Commission, Darr faces the possibility of criminal charges which a state prosecutor says he is considering.

Academic boycott is only one part of a worldwide campaign including divestment and sanctions asked for by Palestinian civil society.

Black Panther, which finds Killmonger plotting to arm black revolutionaries the world over (and, implicitly, to strike back at the kind of sanctioned terrorizers who put Oscar Grant in the ground), replaces the civil - rights metaphor of the X-Men comics with the real horrors inflicted on real people.

«SELMA is a paean to the power of civil disobedience, and what good can come from solidarity against government - sanctioned hate.»

• Under the guidelines, the switch to a policy that substitutes lesser sanctions than suspension or expulsion raises the same civil - rights problem if it captures a fraction of black students that is larger than their proportion in the student body.

It would concede a more effective role for NGOs internationally, providing them with the same capacities as other international actors and simultaneously it would serve as a mechanism of control of these non-profit organisations, being subjects to the same administrative, civil and criminal law obligations and sanctions applicable to states and international organisations.

The switch to a policy that substitutes lesser sanctions for suspension or expulsion raises the same civil - rights problem if the incidence of disciplinary action also captures a fraction of black students that is larger than their proportion of the student body.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

The Obama administration's initiative to tighten oversight of public - school disciplinary practices by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, based on racially disparate effects of standard penalties (such as suspensions) as well as hard - to - assess accusations that minority students are being treated more harshly for similar infractions, has put additional pressure on integrated schools to equalize rates of disciplinary sanctions by race and class.

Such sanctions and focus, however, aren't enough for civil rights groups, which are bristling at the bill's elimination of specific subgroup student achievement targets.

Any person found to have intentionally breached the security of the test system may be subject to sanctions including, but not limited to, disciplinary action by a local board of education, the revocation of Connecticut teaching certification by the State Board of Education, and civil liability pursuant to federal copyright law.

The high - profile slayings of black men such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray just exemplify the problems of overmilitarized police departments, overcriminalization of youth, perpetuation of state - sanctioned racial bigotry, drug war overkill, and violations of civil liberties by law enforcement that have been detailed at length by progressives, conservatives, and libertarians alike.

The issue is whether educators can face sanctions for encouraging parents to engage in an act of civil disobedience.

What do these statements mean to a black man growing up under segregation, the struggles of the Civil Rights movement, assassinations of black leaders and sanctioned police brutality?

Unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including unauthorized peer - to - peer file sharing (e.g., using BitTorrent to obtain / distribute music or movies) may subject students to civil and criminal liability, sanctions arising from a violation of Cooper Union's Code of Conduct, and loss of internet services provided by the Cooper Union IT Department.

Actually, what's essential above all is an international push of intensive diplomacy and targeted sanctions to reach a compromise peace deal and end the civil war.

Youth groups and Filipino civil society had been planning a «sanctioned» action the following day in support of the Philippines, where Yeb was planning to speak.

Global Witness and Liberian civil society have documented systemic legal violations in the timber sector since the lifting of UNSC timber sanctions in 2006, which was a particular focus of international reform efforts since the end of the country's timber and diamond fuelled war in 2003.

The decision to use civil Rico versus criminal for tobacco was not made to «soften» the sanctions but rather to meet the lower standard of evidence.

On the day after president Obama's February State of the Union speech, Brune zip - tied himself to the White House gates — the first sanctioned, illegal, act of civil disobedience in the Sierra Club's history.

Others called for the full reinstatement of the climate bill, which, before a last - minute amendment in March, sanctioned protection for direct action protest and civil disobedience in the face of oil and gas protest.

Mark didn't write much more scornfully about Mann's scientific impersonation of Rocket Richard and Wayne Gretzky than I did, so let me be clear that in these matters Michael Mann is a sleazy charlatan, and he is welcome to try the same legal trick on me, in Canada, where there is a civil legal sanction against defamation, for which, as for much else in this country, I am grateful.

Those benefits include: the availability of a civil sanction rather than a criminal prosecution; the opportunity to work with the SFO to minimize negative publicity; and the avoidance of an automatic bar from involvement in public and private utilities contracts.

In 2002, the consultation report Modernising the Civil and Family Courts reviewed the new regime and found, contrary to the forebodings above: «Eighty - two per cent of respondents to the Law Society Woolf Network 3rd survey said that protocols were generally complied with but 68 % said that breaches did not attract a sanction.

The new rules on budgets and sanctions nearly destroyed the reputation of our civil justice system for fairness with the disastrous Mitchell decision when # 506,000 of costs was disallowed from a budget because it was filed the day before the hearing, not seven days before (Mitchell MP v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 1537, [2014] 2 All ER 430).

If the defendant refused to take the breath test after being advised pursuant to the statutory language by the police of the one - year sanction faced for a refusal (and the jail risked for a refusal where the defendant has prior refusal or DWI convictions), the first - offense sanction for so refusing is a civil offense carrying one year of no driving and no restricted driving privileges.

Can contempt of custody, visitation and child related restraint issues truly be remedied by civil rather than criminal sanctions?

In a post here in April, we discussed proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure designed to enhance cooperation and proportionality and to standardize sanctions.

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45 (c)(1) allows a district judge issuing a subpoena to award appropriate sanctions, including lost earnings and reasonable attorney's fees, against a party or attorney responsible for issuing and serving a subpoena that imposes «undue burden or expense» on a person subject to the subpoena.

Lack of compliance with the compounding requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) can put corporations and outside counsel at risk for sanctions and high cost exposure.