Sentences with phrase «committed egregious acts»
Victoria Burhans, 28, and Chloe Rivera, 25, claim Lopez used his authority over them «to commit egregious acts of sexual harassment» while they were in his employ in 2012 and have filed fresh court papers.
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We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)
In the most notorious attack, former Allende cabinet member Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, were killed in a September 1976 car bomb explosion in Washington, D.C — in Dinges's words, «the most egregious act of foreign - inspired terrorism ever committed in the U.S. capital» prior to 9/11.
«To us as a party, the most egregious of the faux pas committed by INEC is asking the APC to lawfully nominate a candidate for the supplementary governorship election without a valid and legally cognizable primary election of the party conducted within the mandatory timeliness specified by the electoral act.
«We are committed to bringing whoever is responsible for this egregious act to justice,» Cuomo added.
It also holds that a contractual clause limiting liability is unenforceable even where the breaching party did not commit a criminal act or egregious fraud....
The changes have the potential to affect not just the employers committing the most egregious violations of the Act but those who commit less serious contraventions as well.
Rather, they are a way to punish the defendant for intentional conduct or gross negligence — behavior that is so egregious that a civil court penalty is warranted in order to deter the defendant from committing the same act again in the future.