Sentences with phrase «egregious violations of»

Our mission is to mobilize communities to combat genocide and other egregious violations of human rights around the world.

The changes have the potential to affect not just the employers committing the most egregious violations of the Act but those who commit less serious contraventions as well.

Weiner tweeted photos of his penis and his bare chest — egregious violations of judgment, but probably not actionable.

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.

This power isn't unlimited: particularly egregious violations of the law must be prosecuted.

The UN Global Compact is promoted as an alternative to regulation, but posts reports from companies on its website without any checking and has not investigated allegations of egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles when reported by Baby Milk Action.

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.

More recently, as part of the Nestlé Critics coalition, we have reported Nestlé to the UN Global Compact for egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles, including for its impact on water.

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

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 CPC designation is reserved for governments that commit or tolerate «systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.»

These are egregious violations of some basic human rights.

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.

«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.

McCarthy said Hyundai and Kia had committed the most egregious violation of the reporting standards, but she declined to say whether other violators may also be fined.

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.

It would seem, therefore, that the authors of the declaration are calling for an egregious violation of Shari`a tradition.

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

This is an egregious violation of the public trust.

«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 of the people's rights led Father Edu to take his fight overseas, traveling to Europe to address Norwegian parliamentarians and Intex shareholders.

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.

I've already argued that taking any gas and without doing any work causing it to separate into hotter and colder gas is a horrible, egregious violation of the second law, yet the entire gas column is by construction hydrodynamically stable, with a density strictly decreasing with height and without the slightest thing to cause bulk convection or other movements of air where «work» can be done.

Forced speech is the most egregious violation of freedom of expression, protected by section 2 (b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Not exact matches

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

Baroness Berridge, chairman of the APPG, said: «For the past sixty - plus years, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea has committed egregious human rights violations - the details of which would turn the stomach of even the most hardened person.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom also recommended that Pakistan be listed as a «Country of Particular Concern» for its egregious religious freedom violations.

«To the contrary, this incident is consistent with your pattern of egregious safety - related violations including your hit on a defenseless player during the 2015 Wild Card game and your hit against a Baltimore tight end away from the play on Jan. 3, 2016.

The UN Global Compact is promoted as an alternative to regulation, but it is worse than useless as it posts misleading reports from companies on its website without any form of checking and does not investigate reports of egregious violations when reported by Baby Milk Action.

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 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.

No doubt DeanMJackson's masterpiece of junk science, conspiracy theories and paranoia will soon be deleted for multiple comments policy violations, of which the most egregious are the accusations of fraud.

Bruce Pardy on The Current called it «the most egregious kind of violation of freedom of speech... this is the authorities requiring you to say what it is that they want to hear».

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.

After reviewing commentaries on Articles 18 and 34 of the UNCITRAL Model Law, the Court of Appeal, without deciding on how serious or egregious the conduct must be before a violation could be established, said that the conduct complained of «must be sufficiently serious or egregious so that one could say that a party has been denied due process.»

(New York Law Journal, Judge Drafts List of Banned Purchases for Father After His «Egregious» Child Support Violations)

A campaign finance violation is not a ground to remove an elected official from office, no matter how egregious, on its own, even if one could prove that the campaign finance violation probably caused the outcome of an election to change.

Let's start with the most important point first: A campaign finance violation is not a ground to remove an elected official from office, no matter how egregious, on its own, even if one could prove that the campaign finance violation probably caused the outcome of an election to change.

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.