Sentences with phrase «for bad intent»

Punitive damages require jurors to read the minds of corporate defendants, looking for bad intent or reckless disregard.

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Disney shareholders lost their case but the final ruling set a new bar for directors when approving these kinds of exit packages: «If a director acts with conscious disregard — in other words, a looking away — rather than a deliberate intent to violate his duties, he can still be held liable for acting in bad faith,» plaintiffs» attorney Steven G. Schullman told the New York Times back in 2006.
In spite of the logical need to modernize the 23 - year old agreement, we may end up with no deal or worse — the very real prospect of President Trump posing for the cameras to show off his signed executive order declaring America's intent to withdraw from NAFTA.
It's simple: If the bad guys can get an employee to give up his or heruser credentials or download some malware, they can likely waltz right past the technological controls looking for all intents and purposes as if they belong there.
Amid the bad news, Bombardier ended its nearly 18 - month sales drought for the CSeries with a letter of intent with Air Canada for the purchase of 45 CSeries 300 planes, with an option to buy up to 30 more.
You are idiots for calling him on the carpet, instead you should be getting the federal government out of the poverty fighting business, The war on poverty is over 44 years old and for all intents and purposes all it did was create an out of control bureaucracy that needs to be taken apart and labeled a bad idea for future generations.
there was NO FBI or CSI the man can NOT be proven to have murderous intent if the man survives for another day or so... you are again very bad at investigating and connecting the dots
It would be harsh to punish Stephen Hunt given no one can say for sure what his intent was, but it would be even worse to turn a blind eye.
He is also not brave enough to go through any number of players for a high ball, he wont even go through his own, he's bad at reading the flight of the ball and has no intent on making sure of it, when Ospina plays you have to rely on a certain amount of luck.
With all the bad blood between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho, and with the desire for Arsenal to show that last season's awful string of results away to the Premier League big boys wasan aberration, there is a feeling that the Frenchman will send the Gunners out with the intent to attack the league leaders and go for all three points.
To say that breastfeeding doesn't change breasts for the worse is propaganda with positive intent.
So I'd just praise him for the good interactions, and then kind of play dumb about the intent behind the bad ones and try to distract him the way you would a young toddler.
I feel badly, because it was my intent to write more frequently, to give more encouragement, and to share more resources for grieving mothers.
The prime minister goes to the EU summit intent on making the eurozone crisis even worse for democracy.
«When these elections are over, we will judge any decision we have to make off your behavior if you caused bad things to happen — even though it was not your intent you are responsible for them.»
Common street sense devoid of grammar spells this a bad deal from the intent for the need of the military to that chicken change of $ 20mill we sold our right judgement for.
For all intents and purposes, you're doing the right things; you've eliminated the bad habits from your life and you should start seeing results soon.
You might think they're talking about current American politics: There is no money in the national treasury for more social programs like orphanages and vaccinations; The military budget must be cut; The rich are intent on keeping their tax privileges; Members of the legislature continue to beat down all proposed reforms of the leader; The conditions of the poor are getting worse; Some religious leaders insist that the Earth was created in six literal days; Foreigners must be deported.
Joe something, the Mikey character in Swingers, gets a part in VERY BAD THINGS which, for all intents and purposes, looks like it might draw $ 7 out of my wallet.
Immigration between North and South America has been a thorny topic for American cinema, which tends to mask the complexities of this issue by depicting those south of the border as dangerous Mexican drug lords, intent only on pushing their product into the States, from Breaking Bad to Machete Kills.
The second film was really bad and the third one was even worse, but for some reason, Screen Gems is intent on milking the vampire / werewolf franchise for as long as they can.
The movies are full of girls with guns: sexy slingers who can strike a pose with a firearm in hand and blow away the bad guys with all the lethal intent of a sex kitten vogueing for a pinup.
Little Fockers represents the third in the lucrative Meet the Parents series, and its par for the course as far as intent and delivery, no better and no worse than the fulfillment of audience expectations.
He is the worst kind of enfant terrible, armed with a bestial cunning and taste and intent on demonstrating his disdain with an insistently predictable parade of cheap rip - offs that use schlock and celluloid catcalls as camouflage for his ape mentality.
Determined to bring the bad guys that did him in to justice, RoboCop sets out on a mission of his own, not realizing that the gang in question is actually in cahoots with the OCP, who for all intents and purposes, also own the city, the police department, and the machine side of him.
And save for the unexpectedly sweet courtship of a shy nurse (Leonie Benesch) by a mild - mannered schoolteacher (Christian Friedel), «The White Ribbon» mirrors other Haneke films in its intent to show the worst in people, from the authority figures (the baron, the doctor, the pastor, etc.) to their creepy children.
Beyond that, Pocan explained the intent and context of the budget «fix,» emphasized the importance of addressing revenue issues, gave some thoughts on school finance reform, defended parts of his record and more - or-less split the blame for everything bad between Governor Jim Doyle and the economy.
You can check the balance sheet for YouTube and Facebook to confirm that — there isn't as much money in customers of bad intent as there is in customers of good intent.
For all intents and purposes, getting to know your credit report is a requirement of fixing bad credit.
Worse yet, sales have declined for seven out of the previous eight months, ever since the the Federal Reserve signaled its intent to slow the pace of its Treasury bond purchases.
This is good news for first - time home buyers with bad credit because the U.S. government is intent on raising homeownership levels for millennials.
If I wanted a 30 - year fixed mortgage — and thank goodness, I don't — I now would qualify for a 3.776 % mortgage rate (which, for all intents and purposes, is not bad — just ask someone who took out a mortgage in 1981 when rates hit 18 %).
«The intent of the statute was clearly to fight blight and properties that were being abandoned and bad for neighborhoods and home values.
For some odd reason, when pups nip owners, they are often believed to do so because they are naughty, or worse, trying to rule the roost because of some creepy intent to become dominant.
The worst kind of fanboy going currently imo is the type that likes a particular company and the unique things they bring to the table, but go on and on about how other companies need to do the same things to the point that they are for all intents and purposes, trolling the people who enjoy their consoles for what they are.
I believe the intent is cute and all, but in all honesty, the worst thing that Nintendo (or anyone for that matter) could do is profit off someone's death.
We've seen similar (in fact much worse) digital pricing before on the PSN, but for a company taking brave new steps into the downloadable game arena this comes across as a bit of a disheartening statement of intent from Nintendo.
Bad taste often passes for avant - garde taste these days — so long as the artist signals «transgressive» intent.
The worst part is that his / her power will be underwritten by a thermodynamic consciousness SNAP in significant numbers of people who for all intents and purposes were just ordinary nice folks.
First of all, if you can imagine having someone with hostile intent go into your computer and dig through all of your e-mail looking for phrases and lines and exchanges to take out of context and attribute the absolute worst possible motives to, while misrepresenting the overall content, you'll get a feel for how violated the science community feels by this.
In reaction, Peabody has started an over-the-top new PR campaign called «Advanced Energy for Life» with the intent of softening the bad image of their dirty product and framing it as the savior for developing nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Perhaps the worst part of the bill is the fact that it won't necessarily mandate automakers to meet the new standards since the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which administers CAFE (but is for all intents and purposes in big auto's back pocket), can tamp down or eliminate them by showing they're not «cost effective» for the industry.
The idea that a judge can be validly impeached for «bad» actions in the absence of blameworthy intent has been consistently rejected at both the federal and state levels throughout American history.
In all Pennsylvania cases other than the 1803 Addison case, state legislators have consistently agreed that simply allowing a «bad» act to serve as the basis for a judge's removal, with no evidence of malicious intent, would allow the legislature to remove any judges with whose decisions it disagreed.
The British common law of impeachment required both a bad act and a malicious intent for removal of a judge.
In a case a paediatrician described as the worst she had seen in professional practice, Taase Suaesi - Faamau, 37, was jailed for three years by Christchurch District Court Judge Stephen Erber after admitting a charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Such a movement begs the question: Are judges, who are instructed to award such damages in only the most reprehensible of cases, losing sight of the purpose and intent of punitive damages or is employer conduct getting that much worse that the need for such damages is actually growing?
«It's just one more example of bad practices leading to bad results, as it's very tempting for a coder to take shortcuts while developing an app, with the sincere intent of cleaning things up later,» he told TechNewsWorld.
1031 exchanges are based on INVESTMENT property that is bought with the intent of an renting or for business or commercial use, in other words not flipping (dealing), so in an audit situation you must be able to show that you intended to purhcase the property for investment purposes but for some unforseen circumstance (job moved, bad spot financially you had to sell).
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