Sentences with phrase «decided against acting»

Affleck decided against acting in his directing debut so he could concentrate on the filmmaking, casting his brother, Casey Affleck, to star in «Gone Baby Gone.»

Not exact matches

She survived and sued the city and county of San Francisco, but the court decided the law was unsettled and shielded the officers from liability, even though they had acted against their training in bursting into the woman's room.

Referring to the decision, a spokesman for Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority said that «every institution must decide on the details of their internal regulations specifying the rules for their employees» investments and trading,» suggesting that the regulatory agency does not intend to interfere in Nordea's decision, nor act against similar moves that may be taken by other companies.

I am perpetually fighting against straw men in this blog, where so many act like the OT Israelites just got bored, and decide, out of the blue to make up «scape - goating» to engage in genocide in the name of God.

The cleric would tell such a person that a refusal to participate in these rites was an act of rebellion against God, and the cleric would question and challenge such a person to decide whether or not they really wanted to be part of this religion.

With the games coming thick and fast during the busy holiday period, with games against Bolton and Blackburn on the 1st and 5th of January respectively, the board at Liverpool will decide whether to wait until after those fixtures are completed or look to act in the next 48 hours.

When the child gets slightly older, some mothers decide to explain in vague terms that the father committed some act of violence against her.

The Oregonian reports: Day acted with prejudice against same - sex couples by deciding he wouldn't marry them and h... Read

Trump said he was initially considering whether to implement a temporary waiver of the Jones Act to allow it, but decided against doing so as «a lot of people that work in the shipping industry... don't want the Jones Act lifted.»

After year - long investigations into a potential pay - to - play scheme involving his definition political nonprofit Campaign for One New York and his failed 2014 fundraising effort for State Senate Democrats by now - former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara — eventually taken over by acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim — and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, the pair decided not to bring federal charges against de Blasio or his aides.

Train - maker Talgo Inc. filed a nearly $ 66 million claim against Wisconsin on Thursday, saying the money is owed after Gov. Scott Walker acted in bad faith in deciding to abandon a high - speed rail line connecting Milwaukee and Madison.

A statement in this regard signed by Colonel Sani Usman, Acting Director, Army Public Relations, read, «As part of the efforts to rejig and add renewed vigour to the fight against terrorism and insurgency in the country especially in the North East, the Nigerian Army has decided to rename the Operation Zaman Lafiya» to «OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE» which mean «Peace by Force.»

So what made Mathews and Hanauske - Abel decide that ciclopirox and deferiprone could act against both HIV and cervical cancer?

Dana Andrews, one of film noir's acting icons, plays a crusading writer who decides to test the protection of reasonable doubt against the trial system and capital punishment.

She would act in local theatre shows, but decided against going to one of LA's prestigious performing arts high schools, opting instead for a normal teenage experience with her friends.

Students have to decide if they are for or against and three students act as a «jury» to see who has won the debate.

There will be two different variations of Crowd Play, one where the player has to pick whichever choice gets the most votes (in the case of a tie, the player will act as the tie - breaker), and one where the player can still make the final call themselves, potentially upsetting the masses if they decide to go against the popular choice.

At that time, the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Smithsonian Institution decided — against advice from 58 distinguished scientists, including Dr Soon's former divisional director, Dr. Eugene Avrett, and a 1993 Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Kary Mullis — that Dr Soon's personal emails, and all related grant proposals and details, should be made publicly available to Greenpeace in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act, from which the Smithsonian is by law substantially exempt.

If there are accusations about domestic violence in a child custody case, the judge has to hold an «evidentiary hearing» (a trial before a judge without a jury) to decide whether a parent has engaged in one or more acts of domestic violence against the other parent, the child, or another family or household member.

As the court noted here, the defamation analysis against search engines is fact specific, and this case was decided within the statutory definitions of Australia's Defamation Act.

He relitigated issues already decided, made unfounded allegations of fraud and conspiracy, brought 36 unsuccessful motions, persistently brought unsuccessful appeals, sued lawyers who had previously acted against him, and failed to pay costs orders made against him.

Meanwhile, in the Georgia federal court case brought as a class action against Oasis Legal Finance, Judge Dudley Bowen dismissed one element of the lawsuit, and two other counts remain to be decided - including whether Oasis violated the state's Payday Lending Act.

On December 9, 2014, the Ontario Court of Appeal decided that the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) prevents a mortgagee from disclosing the mortgagor's discharge statement to another lender — even when that lender has a judgement against the mortgagor — without either the mortgagor's express consent or a specific court order.

The Court also decided to ask the EU Court whether Article 8 of the Insolvency Directive is directly effective, meaning that it can be invoked directly against the PPF to override the terms of the 2004 Act.

The claimants submitted, inter alia, that the orders: (i) had been made without any prior consultation as to the principle, relying upon the common law duty to act fairly and / or the doctrine of procedural legitimate expectation; and (ii) were irrational on the basis that the reasons which had been put forward by the defendants in justification of the decision were inconsistent and contradictoryDyson LJ: The fact that, when conferring on the lord chancellor the power to prescribe court fees, parliament had decided whom he should consult before doing so, militated strongly against the idea that there should co-exist a common law duty to consult more widely (in the absence of a clear promise by the lord chancellor that there would be wider consultation and in the absence of any clear established practice of wider consultation).

Even if we had taken a different view of the substance of the case, in the exercise of the court's discretion we would have declined to grant any relief, having regard in particular to the fact that Parliament has addressed the question whether there should be a referendum and, in passing the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008, has decided against one.

In the latest regulatory backlash against ICOs, the SEC has decided that, effectively, anyone who sells tokens is an unregistered money transfer business and anyone issuing an ICO is a money transmitter that is subject to the Bank Secrecy Act.

The contractor disagrees and decides to seek relief under the Construction Lien Act by registering a claim - for - lien against the «owner's interest» in the premises.