Sentences with phrase «constitutes as assault»

In a similar instance, threatening to shoot another person while pointing a gun constitutes as assault, even if the gun is not loaded or you don't verbally make the threat.

Many people may not realize that just the gesture or act of intending to cause harm to another can legally constitute as assault in Philadelphia under tort law.

Not exact matches

So, make what one will of the Occupy protestors — their stated aims are certainly amorphous enough to allow one to love or despise or ignore them as one chooses, and they are far too various a group to characterize uniformly, in any event — but I can not really see how their actions constitute an assault on «Christian values.»

But as a former lawyer who has handled sexual harassment cases, I can affirm that this «ritual» of men in power taking advantage of the powerless and vulnerable with unwanted sexual advances or unpermitted touching and verbal and physical abuse is entirely unacceptable and illegal, and in some cases constitutes criminal sexual assault.

Denying what we conclude, disputing what we know or questioning what we think might or might not be acts of disinformation (formerly known as «lying»), but they can't — by definition — constitute assaults on * science *, which is not a body of knowledge but the machinery by which we continually improve our body of knowledge.

(This approach was tried in Mosley, when the News of the World's legal team, no doubt realising that the writing was on the wall, attempted to shoehorn the story into a matter of public interest by arguing that the sexual activities involved, constituted assaults under the Off ences Against the Person Act 1961 and as crimes were therefore matters of public interest.

Tensions spilled over and eventually Client confronted the other driver, destroying some of the man's property before threatening the man so seriously as to constitute an assault.