Sentences with phrase «from ordinary standards»

His conduct did indeed amount to a marked departure from the ordinary standards of decent human behaviour.

The purpose of awarding punitive damages is for the retribution, denunciation, and deterrence of misconduct that represents a marked departure from ordinary standards of decent behaviour.

[60] The plaintiffs ask for punitive damages, which they argue are warranted in the present case due to the «high - handed, malicious, arbitrary or reprehensible misconduct that departs to a marked degree from ordinary standards of decent behaviour:» Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., 2002 SCC 18 (CanLII) at para. 94.

They are meant to punish the defendant in exceptional cases where the defendant's conduct has been «malicious, oppressive and high - handed» and «represents a marked departure from the ordinary standards of decent behaviour», see Whiten, at para. 36.

They are meant to punish the defendant who has acted in a malicious, oppressive and high - handed manner in a way that represents a marked departure from ordinary standards of decent behaviour.

The test thus limits the award to misconduct that represents a marked departure from ordinary standards of decent behaviour.

Not exact matches

It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

These evangelical philosophers do not tell us what rules of historical inquiry and reasoning will apply if the events of the New Testament are exempted from the standards governing ordinary historical reasoning.

This image is shocking, even almost blasphemous, when examined from the point of view of our ordinary standards of rationality, or of what we usually think should qualify as ultimate reality, or omnipotence or as the foundation of our being.

For that reason the notion of revelation, a notion that we can not separate from what is considered quite improbable in terms of our ordinary and critical standards of plausibility, seems to contradict critical consciousness.

For hope is an openness to the breaking in of what is completely unpredictable and unanticipated from the point of view of what is considered to be possible by ordinary standards of expectation.

Children from poor backgrounds and ordinary middle class backgrounds should have the same opportunity to receive an elite education too, assuming they can cope with the standards required.

But our entire programme is to defend ordinary Londoners, from the attacks on their standard of living.

«Seyfert» galaxies, which are all around us, are sort of miniquasars, producing a torrent of radiation from their core that, though it's far less than a quasar's, is spectacular by ordinary galactic standards.

From industry leaders, sport stars, and Hollywood icons to thousands of everyday, ordinary people, stem cell therapy has helped when standard medicine failed.

Video extras, all of them presented in standard definition, kick off with «The Making of Solomon Kane» (11:47), an ordinary, general, promotional featurette that gathers enthusiastic, plot - descriptive remarks from the cast and crew and a tiny bit of behind - the - scenes footage.

A standard deep discount clause looks something like this: «On copies of the Work sold by the Publisher at a discount of greater than 55 % from the publisher's retail price through channels outside of ordinary retail trade channels, the author will be paid a royalty of 15 % of the Publisher's net proceeds.»

The money you receive from distributions is always considered regular (or, in IRS terms, «ordinary») income and is taxed at a standard rate.

«Ordinary care» requires only that the Bank follow standards that do not vary unreasonably from the general standards followed by similarly situated banks.

«Ordinary care» requires only that we follow standards that do not vary unreasonably from the general standards followed by similarly situated banks.

The self - evidence and simplicity of an ordinary, rectangular box, made from a standard industrial material, is exposed as endlessly complicated once we try to catalogue how it appears to us as a three - dimensional object».

The testimony of forensic experts is also necessary to show how the product departed from established safety standards, or how changes in the design could have made it safer for ordinary or reasonably anticipated use.

Moreover, it will enable the country to modernise its financial system and move away from its precarious reliance on debt - driven, export - led growth to an economy based on services and consumption, therefore lifting the standard of living and more importantly the quality of life for ordinary Chinese.

The actions taken in seizing a laptop belonging to a representative of the Claimants and using documents taken from it in the arbitration and the intimidatory actions taken towards the Claimants» officers / employees speak for themselves in its disregard ordinary standards of commercial morality.

The legal standard for determining disability and eligibility for benefits is not whether your injuries prevent you from working completely, but whether you are unable to perform «any substantial requirement» of your ordinary job.

Creating an Ordinary Resume: While you should not stray too far from the standard resume format, writing a resume that is not distinct from others will not get you the job.