Sentences with phrase «diversion by»

If you don't have a criminal record and you haven't been in trouble with the police before, the Crown may offer you diversion by telling you that they will withdraw the charge if you do 20 hours of community service.

Sometimes cases are pre-approved for diversion by the Crown, and it may indicate in your disclosure that your case has been pre-approved.

As a result, «Action Arcade Wrestling» is a blast in a multi-player setting and a fun diversion by your lonesome.

Hitman: Absolution features a mission in which the player can create a diversion by picking up and dumping the dead body of an exotic dancer near police officers.

Advocates hastily organized the «emergency» protest after a notice posted at the hospital warned that the LICH Emergency Department «will be placed on official diversion by FDNY,» as of 6 a.m. on June 20.

The plan would also reinstate a «lockbox» to limit the diversion by the state of any new MTA revenues for other purposes and would create a work group to assess the adequacy of public transportation in the city and its funding.

Calls by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a new electoral roll and validation of voters prior to the November 7 elections are a diversion by the party to aid it rig the poll, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress has said.

«The Minister of State continues to monitor the current fuel situation and to work with NNPC and DPR to continue to execute already communicated ministerial directives to maximally flood the market with products and prevent and penalize any sabotage attempts at diversion by any culprit.»

They begin to hide behind clouds of criticism of the Church or of particular Christians, or they create a diversion by arguing about the historicity of the Old Testament stories, or, for example, about the Church's attitude toward war or divorce.

But I have put out the foregoing quotes by the theorists, just to show you how many roadblocks appeared on my ride, confused me at the outset, resulted in many an unfortunate diversion by AA.

If carbon - containing fallout from the upper ocean falls fast enough, it bypasses diversions by other creatures and reaches depths where nothing much happens to it for a long time, says Sari Giering of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, where she studies oceanic carbon.

Not exact matches

By its own admission, McKesson's monitoring program — which assigned customers monthly thresholds for controlled substances and involved three levels of review — was geared more towards reporting suspicious customers than isolated suspicious orders; the company believed this was the more practical approach to identifying and preventing diversion.

Not exactly a tribute for the ages, the short clip is a strange if somewhat entertaining diversion, backed by tacky techno beats.

Masih was blown away by the variety and ingenuity of their methods, and he obtained permission from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to write a textbook on how drug diversion happens.

They're proposing to get rid of Waste Diversion Ontario — which was created in legislation by the previous Tory government — as well as controversial eco fees on hazardous waste and electronics that are passed on to consumers.

Discussion of bulk «water transfers» and diversions took place at a Calgary meeting of the North American Future 2025 Project (partly funded by the U.S. government).

The Garrison Diversion Unit: A Case Study in Canadian - U.S. Environmental Relations, Canada-U.S. Prospects 7, by John E. Carroll and Roderick M. Logan.

At best it serves to fill in the blank spaces of a life of permanent busyness by providing sporadic excitations and diversions.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

no, it won't matter if the economy improves... it's a diversion topic employed by the lib media in an attempt to take attention off of barry's failed presidency..

As Strauss says, from the point of view of this pure philosopher, nonphilosophic lives seem deformed or mutilated or full of desperation imperfectly calmed by diversion.

On the contrary, he argued that the polygyny of the Fathers, which was tolerated by the Creator because of fertility, was a diversion from His original plan for human marriage.

'' As usual, Bill, you defend the indefensible by trying to create a diversion.»

The attack on the U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, was orchestrated by extremists who used the protests as a diversion, U.S. sources told CNN Wednesday.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Through his own joyful spirit, and by encouraging that virtue in others, through healthy friendships and innocent diversions, Philip laid the groundwork for souls to advance in virtues of every kind.

Augustine never quite brings his view of sexual love within the range of his deepest insight as to what loving another in God means: turning the whole current of love for self and neighbour into the channel of the love of God «which suffers no stream to be drawn off from itself by whose diversion its own volume would be diminished».19 To turn the human loves into the stream of devotion to God is one thing, to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is another.

We have heard already considerable discussion of a 1990s «peace dividend,» a diversion of spending from military needs to social concerns made possible by the radical diminution of the Soviet threat.

It is among the first companies in the United States to have the landfill diversion efforts at its plants verified by NSF International Strategic Registrations, a major milestone in the food industry.

Other diversions included Ms. Redd the mermaid snapping «shellfies» with guests, a live tiki carving by noted tiki artist Billy the Crud, the Son of Lord Baltimore greeting guests and leading tours, and The Golden Tiki's resident animatronic skeleton Captain William Tobias Faulkner telling his shipwreck tale of woe to all who would listen.

Carpet Recycling UK could be on track to meet its ambitious 60 per cent diversion rate by 2020 as the total volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill reached 42 per cent in 2017.

Our renewed focus on food waste diversion began when I came into the role of sustainability manager in 2007; as a fourth generation farmer, I, personally, am really passionate about not letting this resource go to waste by putting it to better use.

It contains 90 % coffee by weight, with diversion of this nitrogen - rich food from landfills and the recycling stream supporting achievement of waste diversion and greenhouse - gas targets;

28 - Temecula Valley Microbrewery Visits The burgeoning Temecula Valley craft brew scene can be a fun diversion independently or on a several - brewery tour guided by a knowledgeable, enthusiastic, local craft beer expert.

The Murray Darling Basin Plan's (the Basin Plan) Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) adjustment mechanism enables the Basin - wide SDL for surface water (10,873 GL per year) to be changed up or down by no more than 5 %, as long as environmental, social and economic outcomes are not compromised.

This is a nice diversion from a weekend dominated by football.

and still have depth at the position of greatest need that was created by our «diversion tactic» misdirecting teams towards taking their needs..

I recently took my crew there for a fun little diversion from everyday life and we were blown away by the experience.

Try heading off a toddler's diversion tactics by taking care of her needs before bedtime so she won't use them as an excuse to get out of bed.

Their inquisitiveness is equaled only by their energy, so lots of diversion and stimulating play is important to ensure optimal growth and development.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

He recently introduced another bill which would restrict any diversion of funds allocated for transit unless explicitly approved by the state Legislature.

When Donald Trump's longtime political adviser and attorney was asked by the Daily Beast Monday to comment on a potentially explosive story about his boss, he could have stonewalled or sweet - talked, bartered or begged, or attempted any of the other diversion tactics regularly employed by professional campaign strategists.

Corruption rewards those who do not play by the rules and also creates a system of distortion and diversion thereby destroying all efforts at constructive, just and fair governance.»

«Is it not correct to suggest that your administration acted on the basis that it was essentially unrestrained by international or Nigerian law in engaging in or encouraging the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion meant to purchase arms for Nigerian soldiers in order to protect them against attacks from Boko Haram and to enhance their ability to defend the territorial integrity of the country and provide security for its citizens?»

Obviously trying to get its own pound of flesh in retaliation, the Senate summoned Lamorde to respond to alleged diversion of N1 trillion proceeds belonging to the EFCC as alleged by one Gorge Uboh.

«Would you accept that the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion was largely due to your failure to ensure: (1) that system was in place to ensure a transparent and accountable spending of budget for military operations in strict accordance with the standards of international law including the UN Convention against Corruption; (2) that any such system was operating in a continuous and effective manner; and (3) that violations of the standards were punished when detected by that system?

Diversions, changes in service that have to be staffed by flagmen and others, can include anything from trains that have to slow down while they bypass work sites to entire lines being shut down, officials said.

All the while, straphangers are being kept in the dark about the projects, with inadequate signage and announcements, according to the joint study by the office of City Comptroller John Liu and State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli that sampled 50 diversions over a two - year period beginning in January 2009.

In addition the study found that four of 15 diversions sampled went over budget by a total of nearly $ 27 million for a total cost of more than $ 83 million.