Sentences with phrase «for complicity»

Frequent worldwide travellers will appreciate the ambit of this decision, which makes the prosecution of a foreign financial professional in the US more likely for complicity in his US client's de facto tax evasion schemes.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether corporations may be sued in American courts for complicity in human rights abuses abroad.

Counsel for the Canadian Council of Refugees made reference to the consequences of a finding of inadmissibility for complicity in the commission of war crimes as including potentially being placed on the «Wanted» list.

Earlier this year, Thomas Micchelli penned an insightful essay in the Rail entitled «Monumental Squalor,» which indicted architect Robert A.M. Stern for his complicity in the George W. Bush Presidential Library, a project that is planned to perpetuate the bankrupt beliefs of a presidency that has destroyed the ideals of America.

A painting, though, calls for complicity.

I examine my self and identity in a critical manner; I hold my audience and me accountable for our complicity.

Unlike, say, the bourgeois couple in «Caché,» who were at least capable of feeling guilty for their complicity in the repression of the French Algerian population, the Laurents will not be called to account for their crimes against humanity, or even to acknowledge them.

Nearly all were indicted for complicity in genocide and either genocide or conspiracy to commit genocide.

Former Chairman, Ekiti State Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Rotimi Olanbiwonnu, has spoken on his ordeal in prison while standing trial for complicity in the murder of former National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Chairman, Omolafe Aderiye.

Olanbiwonnu said he and six other persons who stood trial for complicity in the murder of Aderiye had been vindicated by God and the court of law.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was recently sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the killing of unarmed demonstrators during the first six days of protests that ended his rule last February.

Similarly, on 29th June, 2017 Sunday Ene was arrested at Igbo - Etche Road, Obio / Akpor LGA, Rivers State for his complicity in the kidnap and murder of John Mbanugu on 21st June, 2017 in the area

Speak out now, decent Tories, or forever be damned for your complicity.

How come one Iyiola Omisore got elected into the upper chamber of the National Assembly from behind prison bars while standing trial for complicity in the murder of Uncle Bola Ige, the Cicero, then serving Federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General?

At a time when Michelle Obama is under widespread criticism for complicity with the food industry (see Fed Up!

Fidel Castro could earn an important place in history by arresting and trying the Pope for complicity in the abuse scandals.

A strong Catholic would be calling for the prosecution of the Pope for his complicity in child buggery.

He was later dismissed from his university post for complicity with the secret police.

For both many African - Americans and many white liberals, to speak openly of this personal responsibility is, in effect, to exonerate European Americans for their complicity in deeply embedded racist practices.

Christians can atone for their complicity with violence in the past by refusing to be complicit with state violence now.

Anyway, it was a hard lesson learned, and I apologized directly to you for my complicity in spreading that rumor — and I made every effort to correct that and connect you with the board of Emergent Village at the time so they could offer an «official» apology directly to you as well, but you refused to speak with them.

Indeed, the impetus for our book, «JP Madoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook» was Holder's refusal as Attorney General to prosecute a single criminal banker for the litany of indisputable crimes committed in the last eight years and his sale of get - out - of - jail - free cards to senior officers of JPMorgan Chase so that they were not prosecuted for their complicity in Madoff's crimes and for their dishonesty with respect to the «London Whale» scandal.

«And all should feel ashamed for complicity in Mr. Trump's words and deeds.

Not exact matches

A group of Israelis and Americans bereaved in Palestinian attacks said Monday they would seek $ 1 billion in damages from Facebook for alleged complicity, as part of a suit filed in the United States against the social media giant.

Discussing the complacency and complicity of traditional economic models, as taught in universities and adopted by central banks, Michael and Steve take us on a journey from a solar system to a galaxy of thought, taking in the history of economics to solutions for the ongoing global depression.

«Now is the time for all those who value justice and equality in holding Uber accountable, not only in its complicity with Trump's hateful policies but also for impoverishing workers,» the TWA statement read.

For example, the clergy has made centuries long attempts at avoiding, hiding and subsidizing pedos, either out of greed, fear or complicity.

however, the principalities and powers are also in a powerful conflict and competition for dominance over humanity, but sometimes resort to collusion, complicity, conspiracy and collaboration to achieve their dehumanizing ends.

The director may have intended to draw the audience into complicity with the lovers» selfishness — and in fact, I was surprised at how long it took for the audience to stop laughing at Ernest, to lose their edgy sympathy for the lovers — but the ultimate effect was simply to make the lovers» erotic demands seem further from our own.

Conversations about the power of making arrests, the corruption and complicity of local governments, the holistic care for survivors, the mechanisms of business and labor, the dangers of coming against criminal syndicates — these are not simple ideas or odds to overcome — especially in the NGO community.

Such an invocation of providence ignores what must then be divine complicity in the slaughter of tens of thousand Iraqi civilians, whose deaths were part of a plan for the realization of the kingdom through the Bush doctrine.

It also leaves the forgiver in an accomplice role of some complicity if there is damage done to others in the future for failure to call out leaders» patterns of toxic behavior now.

What then for their communities who suffer devastation or complicity?

I pray and am trusting God for direction, for timing, for listening, for speaking, to making restitution, for remembering my times of repentance for my own complicity, for repenting as needed.

I would not accuse him of «complicity in the explicit slander»» his words about Obama's view of America» of the Church for saying things other Catholics, including me sometimes, find wrong.

The issues Ellis discusses and the principles he formulates could inform our own need to come to terms, for example, with our mistreatment of Native Americans or our complicity in the oppression of Latin Americans.

To choose organized religion as a site of struggle for liberation presupposes a sense of ecclesial ownership as well as repentance of complicity with patriarchal religion.

Unfortunately, as women, we have found it difficult to persuade the churches and the ecumenical movement that the issue of violence against women is as much an issue of ecclesiology as is complicity in political conflicts, because women have been silent for too long and the churches too have been complicit by their often silence, but also by their sometimes legitimization of the violence theologically.

In 1997, the World Jewish Congress succeeded in exposing the complicity of the Swiss banking system with the Nazi persecution of German Jews, and, after some hesitation, Swiss banks announced their intention to create a Holocaust Fund for Holocaust victims whose family assets had disappeared into Nazi accounts in Swiss banks.

Couturier, about the novelist's necessary complicity with evil: If he is a believer, the difficulty begins when he sits down at his table to write, for he is obliged to become each one of....

For the most part, the complicity of the churches and their theologians in sexual violence is a complicity of silence.

The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) voted 684 — 46 during this year's general assembly to defer action on a resolution that apologizes for «involvement in and complicity with racial injustice» during the civil rights era.

Most of the reasoned arguments for Donald Trump follow from larger theories about the demise of our polity and culture, and about Hillary Clinton's complicity in that disintegration.

Without the liberation of Churches and Christians from their complicity with structural injustice and violence, there can be no liberating Church for mankind.

As Christians, we bear terrible responsibilities, in our complicities and acquiescence, for a past that has brought us to this condition.

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There is, for instance, the negligence and complicity of bishops, and of the seminaries in their charge.

The idea of someone doing something generous for us which undoes our complicity in lies and violence while itself being a completely nonviolent act takes a lot of getting used to.

The cliches were used to generate guilt among Lutherans for their alleged complicity with Hitler and to open the way for their accepting the utopian schemes of the Communists (something to which Lutherans are typically averse).

And that at the cross He has forgiven us and paid the price for all of our complicity in this often chaotic world.