Sentences with phrase «economic harm from»

Selling old patents brings universities little revenue but risks contributing to the wider economic harm from patent trolling.
Successfully moved to dismiss the claim arguing that indirect economic harm from the loss of «key employee» services, absent any direct injury to the employer, is not cognizable — an issue addressed by only a handful of courts throughout the country and one of first impression in New Jersey.
The study, Vulnerability and Adaptation of US Shellfisheries to Ocean Acidification, breaks new ground by identifying the communities along our nation's shores that will most likely suffer long - term economic harm from ocean acidification, revealing a mosaic of vulnerability to ocean acidification nationwide.
The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) was created to assist qualifying taxpayers who have experienced a delay of more than thirty days of resolving their tax issue, or have not received a response to the problem by the date that was promised by the IRS, and are experiencing economic harm from those delays.
Among other issues, the term — as it is defined now — leads not only to the obligation to help countries facing climatic risks, but also those facing economic harms from a premature abandonment of fossil fuels (language demanded, no surprise, by Saudi Arabia).
Actually, the speaker is referring to an action by the NY Attorney General demanding certain companies put disclosures in their investment materials about the future economic harms from global warming.

Not exact matches

A Ted Talk by British researcher Richard Wilkinson, for example, focuses on the harm to society that results from economic inequality — notably the gaps within (not between) societies, which includes life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, crime, teenage births, obesity and mental illness.
The Remain campaign would have us believe the EU would impose tariff barriers in retribution, but the truth is we import nearly # 70bn more from the continent than we sell there, so it would be an absurd act of economic self - harm for the EU to start a trade war with Britain.
It has produced a 23 - page report warning of dire economic consequences if the state follows North Carolina's path by pursuing a policy that would harm tourism, alienate employers and dissuade talented millennials from staying in or moving to Texas.
And likely many knew that Chicken Little predictions about the economic harm that would result from tax increases were always overstated.
International stocks could rise from the benefits of improved economic growth, and hedging the currency means any dollar appreciation associated with higher rates won't harm investors.
That is, when disputes veer from the conventional channels for sorting out disputes — and threaten to become the source of serious economic harm for both economies.
Mercy Canada is a non-profit residential home for young women, ages 19 - 28, from diverse socio - economic situations, struggling with life - controlling issues such as drug & alcohol abuse, physical & sexual abuse, human trafficking, eating disorders, self - harm, depression, and unplanned pregnancy.
Leave aside all of the individual things that Obama is doing that harm economic growth: Obama is the first American president (with the possible exception of FDR) to actually benefit from economic weakness.
APHIS can not run away from its regulatory responsibilities to protect farmers from environmental and economic harm that are the direct result of GE contamination in the promotion of agricultural biotechnologies.
Finally, embargoes are put into place which curtail exports to the targeted country to harm their quality of life and economic efficiency and / or block imports from the country, preventing them from making money from international trade.
Labour has debatable donors, too, but a lot of Conservative cash comes from people whose economic activities harm us
The result was a series of catastrophic policies (like the cultural revolution) that caused great harm (from purges of opponents, economic dislocation and famine).
In 2008, during a BBC One This Week interview between Abbott, Michael Portillo and Andrew Neil about who was history's worst dictator, Abbott said about the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong: «I suppose some people will judge that on balance Mao did more good than harm... He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the Japanese and he left his country on the verge of the great economic success they are having now.»
«New York, the financial capital of the world, is leading the nation in taking decisive action to protect consumers and our financial system from serious economic harm that is often perpetrated by state - sponsored organizations, global terrorist networks and other criminal enterprises,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.
That proposal met stiff resistance from upstate lawmakers who represent districts near the Canadian border and from Canadian officials themselves who feared that it would harm cross-border economic traffic.
It is 16 - year - olds from not well - off families, those who find it difficult to afford ordinary things, and those who have been affected the most by the recent economic crisis, who were also most likely to suffer from poor mental health and to have self - harmed.
Implicitly, the committee assumes this consequence does considerable harm to the affected students, given the substantial economic rewards that accrue, on average, from receiving a high school diploma.
But elementary and secondary school budgets will likely be spared from harm unless economic conditions worsen considerably, leaders of NGA and NASBO said at a press...
Hedge Clippers released an incisive report condemning Success Academy for accepting major gifts from hedge fund board members who support conservative social and economic policies that harm the disadvantaged populations that Success intends to serve.
• protect consumers from economic and emotional harm when a sickly animal is purchased or when they unknowingly support a cruel industry;
Under the treaty, the word «adaptation» is restricted to adaptation to adverse effects of warming from human - generated greenhouse gases (and to economic harm in, for example, places like Saudi Arabia that pump oil; they'll be standing in line for some of the cash).
But these same friends embrace ideas like U.S. energy independence, reducing foreign oil imports, promoting economic growth, protecting our families from harm and improving the U.S. balance of trade.
The demonstrators were largely focused on economic injustice and inequity, with a central concern being climate change driven mainly by emissions from rich countries and mostly harming poor nations that have not had an industrial revolution.
The myopic focus on anthropogenic climate change is diverting attention and resources from our critical challenge of developing and transitioning to alternative transport fuels fast enough to prevent massive economic harm especially to oil importing countries.
Although oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform site may in fact be creating the greatest environmental and economic harm in U.S. history so far, there is new evidence that another looming environmental problem is likely to produce far worse environmental and economic impacts not only for the United States but particularly for some of the poorest people around the world.
Here we've trimmed the «harmed economy» scenarios from consideration, and can consider all scenarios — including natural variability and self - stable scenarios, as well as AGW — of optimal economic performance.
From a survival perspective, I understand the data to point to ongoing and escalating catastrophic harms, suggesting to me in public health at least, that the time for «playing games» with economic models or other approaches that simply tinker and tweak on the periphery has to be urgently replaced with an ideological transformation, exactly along the lines that Mike and Ken were speaking to last night.
Harm to the USA is much more likely to come from economic issues than from changes t the climate over the next 50 years.
Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.
For instance, if the the US not only has economic interests in the climate change policies in political debate but also obligations and duties to poor vulnerable nations to not cause them great harm from US ghg emissions, the United States may not justify failure to act to reduce its ghg emissions on the basis of economic cost to the US.
For instance, most cultures and religions support variations of the golden rule that holds that individuals should not be able to severely harm others because of economic self - interest, polluters should pay for harm that they caused, and nations should prevent their citizens from harming others beyond their boarders.
Because stronger laws have been successfully blocked by opponents of strong climate change policies on the basis that stronger laws will harm the US economy, destroy specific industries, and destroy jobs, the actual US climate change policies are based upon US economic interests, a fact not clear from examining the statements of the US federal government alone.
In the United States, because stronger laws have been successfully blocked by opponents of strong climate change policies on the basis that stronger laws will harm the US economy, destroy specific industries, and destroy jobs, the actual US climate change policies are based upon US economic interests, a fact not clear from examining the statements of the US federal government alone.
«Severe» economic harm typically results from a combination of factors, not one single cause.
Technological progress is increasingly decoupling environmental harm from economic growth.
Without an economic way of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere it is not clear whether or not this technology will do good or harm in this respect.
Because the Administration predicated its Endangerment Finding on the IPCC's questionable reports, the State is seeking to prevent the EPA's new Rules — and the economic harm that will result from those regulations — from being imposed on Texas employers, workers and enforcement agencies.»
According to Messitte, many residents of Maryland and Washington, D.C., are affected when foreign and state governments choose to stay or dine at the Trump hotel in those jurisdictions and they «are, quite plausibly, trying to protect a large segment of their commercial residents and hospitality industry employees from economic harm,» he said.
The criminal defendant could also sue the defense attorney for malpractice, but would only prevail if the criminal defendant could show the economic harm that resulted from the conviction and that the defense attorneys» conduct fell below the standard of care for a reasonable defense attorney.
People injured in a Michigan auto accident have up to 3 years after the crash to file a third - party lawsuit, for pain and suffering from accident injuries or excess economic harms.
When money or property is withheld for some time period, there will also often be an element of pre-judgment interest that is calculated on top of the economic value of the harm as of the time of the breach, often at a statutory rate, although the law of pre-judgment interest varies quite a bit from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and is often allowed in contract lawsuits, but not in tort lawsuits.
These are powerful disincentives from acting as a «whistleblower» and if the economic harm exception rule is implemented, these disincentives will likely continue to prevent lawyers from taking the risk of breaching solicitor - client relationship.
From the legal perspective, some people define economic - based crime to be an act of abstention from pursuing an action that will result in harm to the economic policy or the economic security of the country, committed by a person eligible for taking the criminal responsibility; such an act is prohibited by law and for which the law has prescribed a penalty or precautionary measuFrom the legal perspective, some people define economic - based crime to be an act of abstention from pursuing an action that will result in harm to the economic policy or the economic security of the country, committed by a person eligible for taking the criminal responsibility; such an act is prohibited by law and for which the law has prescribed a penalty or precautionary measufrom pursuing an action that will result in harm to the economic policy or the economic security of the country, committed by a person eligible for taking the criminal responsibility; such an act is prohibited by law and for which the law has prescribed a penalty or precautionary measures.
Economic crimes differ from ordinary financial misconduct, as economic crimes are initially directed towards the economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national Economic crimes differ from ordinary financial misconduct, as economic crimes are initially directed towards the economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economic crimes are initially directed towards the economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economy.
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