Sentences with phrase «egregious violation in»

Eventually, the member pushing the initiative may settle for a less egregious violation in return for withdrawing the threatened point of order.

Not exact matches

If my proxy solicitation results in Mr. Hagenbuch's failure to receive over 50 % of the votes cast for his election, then I believe the failure of the board to accept his resignation would be an egregious violation of proper corporate governance and in direct opposition to a clear shareholder directive.

«Over the past year, the Egyptian transitional government continued to engage in and tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief,» reads the report.

From my perspective, shaped by thinking of morality and war in just war terms, egregious violations of the rights of people caught up in a conflict constitute an injustice that is immoral not to seek to remedy.

Notwithstanding the Iraqi government's «efforts to increase security for religious sites and worshippers, provide a stronger voice for Iraq's smallest minorities in parliament, and revise secondary school textbooks to portray minorities in a more positive light,» the report states, the government «continues to tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, including violent religiously - motivated attacks.»

And to repeat, the farthest I go is to call upon Republican members of the House to begin airing threats of impeachment, as way to restrain Obama from further egregious violations of the Constitution, and as a way to put it on record that those violations did provoke attempts to employ the sort of check spoken of in Federalist # 51.

The Little Sisters are not engaged in a political stunt but in an act of moral resistance to the egregious violation of religious freedom.

There are egregious violations of what constitutes food (or drink) in Starbucks» latte, as Hari points out.

Accordingly on 11 June 2009 the UK civil society organisation Baby Milk Action submitted a complaint alleging that the reports posted on the UN Global Compact Office site and launched at the joint event were misleading and that Nestlé was, in truth, responsible for egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a separate civil rights lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, Robert Weinstein and the Weinstein companies at large for «egregious violations of New York's civil rights, human rights, and business laws» earlier this year, his office said in a statement.

After a review of the statewide shelter system found 97 % had at least one violation, the state said at least two particularly egregious shelters in the city will be closed.

«The allegations brought by the US Attorney are gravely serious, and, if true, are an egregious violation of the trust placed in Senator Smith by the public,» Valesky said in a statement released just minutes after Klein's statement.

This egregious violation occurred just after I had read about an experiment that pitted young kids against bonobos in a test to see who might copy other individuals more.

Crisis: Whistleblowing and / or coverage in the popular press raises public and professional alarm over particularly egregious ethics violations.

Regular or egregious violations will result in a ban.

The ruling came as a surprise to environmental and indigenous activists around the world who were well aware of corruption in Guatemala's legal system and had been skeptical of the court's ability to see how egregious these violations had been.

So you're saying, basically, that like there is always a chance for a system to behave in egregious violation of the second law, for its macroscopy entropy to suddenly and spontaneously decrease.

Conduct suggesting that the Crown was condoning egregious police misconduct in violation of its duty of even - handedness would, in my view, cause a reasonable observer informed of the circumstances to question whether T could receive a fair trial.

Minors can indeed be treated differently under the law, hence the business of «trying as an adult» in case of egregious violation.

It would take really egregious facts and serious damages caused by the conduct to make the case stick, and I doubt that you could find an appraiser willing to testify as an expert witness that this conduct rose to a violation of the standard of care for an appraiser, even if it was not a case of «best practices» in the profession.

«Generally we absolve the licensee of culpability if the licensee is acting in accordance with an attorney's instructions, but the violations alleged in this complaint were too egregious for this to be permitted.»

Violation of this Regulation may result in disconnection of the Booth in question without notice until any such egregious act has been corrected.