Sentences with phrase «direct detriment»

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So where I disagree with Larison is his claim that «Conservatives actually know very well that they do not speak for a majority in this country, and they are also well aware that changes that would allow for more direct, plebiscitary democracy, whether in presidential elections or in passing legislation, would work to the detriment of their smaller states and their overall political interests.»

Executive Chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adeniran, described the attack as a «direct reaction of Northern militants to the unthoughtful provocative, unstatemanly and insensitive action as well as the pronouncement of President Jonathan to the detriment of an average Northern youth».

Beyond that we're on slightly less shaky ground with previous Best Director nominee Aronofsky delivering a large - scale biblical epic that still managed to be idiosyncratically his own (some would say to its detriment): love or loathe «Noah» it can't be faulted for ambition or scale, nor for the craftsman aspect of the directing skill on display.

«You're battling for attention in a very crowded marketplace which some major players are seeking to dominate by saturating that market with whatever they can, some of it below par — just like they did in the direct comic sales market, to the detriment of our industry in the 1990's.

If Amazon terms change to the detriment of direct - publishing writers at any point in the future, what would then stop them from switching to a different distributor / retailer?

The Court held that it was not necessary for the appellant to show that every female prisoner required to live at an AP has suffered the detriment of being placed at an AP far from her home in order to establish a case of direct discrimination on grounds of sex, and considered that the risk of being placed far from home is much greater for women than for men due to the smaller numbers of female offenders, and the policy decision that the particular vulnerability of women required to live in an AP means that all APs should be single sex.

... the application of the Ramsden v. Dyson, L.R. 1 H.L. 129 principle — whether you call it proprietary estoppel, estoppel by acquiescence or estoppel by encouragement is really immaterial — requires a very much broader approach which is directed rather at ascertaining whether, in particular individual circumstances, it would be unconscionable for a party to be permitted to deny that which, knowingly, or unknowingly, he has allowed or encouraged another to assume to his detriment than to inquiring whether the circumstances can be fitted within the confines of some preconceived formula serving as a universal yardstick for every form of unconscionable behaviour.

Giving the lead judgment, Lady Hale said the case of direct discrimination was «a simple one» and that being «required to live in an AP a long way away from home is a detriment.

Perhaps to my detriment but, in place of Facebook messenger and other services, I use Twitter's Direct Messages (DMs) and services like Line and KakaoTalk.

Even though the presence of a stepchild denigrates the time and attention the stepmother can direct toward her own children, the stepmother may still believe that if the stepchild were integrated into the her family system, the detriment to her own children will be offset by more hoped - for familial unity.

See the research and articles at http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/) So, given that there are just not all that many options to choose from in deciding upon a child custody arrangement, and given that those options overwhelmingly will be constrained or even dictated by fairly obvious facts about the parties» circumstances such as work and school schedules, or how far apart they live from each other, and similar considerations, one really has to query what all the painstaking attention to detail and «science» (or pretext to science) is all about if, when all is said and done, the decision will boil down to the application of a default personal preference, and pragmatic ways of arranging custody and visitation schedules to accomplish this while avoiding liability for placing children into situations in which detriment too obviously or easily can be proved to be the direct result of the arrangement.