Sentences with phrase «from speaking out»

Reassure - Reassure your child that they did the right thing in coming forward; young people's imaginations are prone to creating vivid «worse - case scenarios» which can inhibit them from speaking out.

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins says she hopes the recent shining of light on sexual harassment signifies the beginning of the end of a culture which both permits these behaviours to occur and prevents victims from speaking out...

At the AMA's national conference in Brisbane, doctors voted to ramp up the political pressure around climate change, and they passed an urgency motion requesting the government to review the Border Force Act, which they said had the potential to gag doctors from speaking out about the treatment of refugees being held in detention centres.

Nonetheless, tying our hands behind our backs to prevent us from speaking out is a debate which will never end; some will agree, others will disagree.

Corporations are increasingly using Canadian courts to intimidate and silence people from speaking out against pipelines through residential and conservation land, unsafe mining practices, fish farming, waste processing plants and building developments.

And issuance of a harsh penalty may chill other lawyers from speaking out against unjust policies in the future.

As a result of USAG's decision, in this case the confidentiality agreement will not have prevented Maroney from speaking out.

From silencing people from speaking out about someone allegedly abusing a position of power, to preventing discussion about the true extent of the problem across the industry, NDAs — and the anonymity they provide — can do as much harm as good.

The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

This harbinger of climate woe, who is trying to convince the world the issue is settled and all scientists are in agreement, excused those scientists from speaking out, even though they supposedly have irrefutable proof that AGW means Earth is headed for certain destruction.

«But,» he says, «it does dissuade people from speaking out about their work.

The CSIRO said the report was in breach of its publication guidelines, which restrict scientists from speaking out on public policy.

They are the ones who are truly blameworthy for helping along a cleacut con job by refraining from speaking out.

-- Liberals may be inhibited about being aggressively contrarian and / or from speaking out even in moderate terms out of a reluctance to give aid and comfort to the enemy, although they agree with the enemy on this particular point.

Nobody has been stopping people from speaking out, and scientists are well within their rights to refute propositions of other people.

[ANDY REVKIN responds: I daresay I've brought Dr. Hansen's research and conclusions as much or more publicity over the course of his career than any other science writer, starting with a 6,000 - word cover story on global warming in Discover Magazine in 1988 that opened with his Senate testimony and continuing through the period when political appointees at NASA tried to stop him from speaking out.

Instead of a mentor / collaborative relationship with administration, the binding teacher evaluation system is confrontational, preventing teachers from speaking out.

If that message was supposed to subtly constrain school boards from speaking out, it missed its mark; 43 boards have adopted resolutions against the OSD.

In Arizona, for example, a law prohibiting teachers from speaking out against budget cuts and other education policy issues included a $ 5,000 fine.

However, stigma surrounding the issue remains a barrier for the majority of sufferers, and stops them from speaking out and potentially seeking help.

And though she's managed to balance activism and acting, the former still occupies a lot of Gurira's time — from speaking out about violence against women at the United Nations to saying at an awards ceremony five days after the 2016 election that she's «felt a calling to do more.»

And this is on top of ongoing efforts by the administration aimed at «preventing scientists who believe there might be such a link [between global warming and more intense hurricanes] from speaking out.»

Prior restraint means preventing someone from speaking out in case they say something objectionable, rather than allowing them to speak and then taking action.

«People who have been affected often feel isolated and fear repercussions from speaking out.»

I know from personal experience that, in this case, it stopped a number of people from speaking out.

The SNP leader also faces accusations of trying to exert «Stalinist» discipline over proposed new rules banning her MPs from speaking out against party policy.

Despite the friendship, it did not stop me from speaking out on all the projects that were planned for his property.

She went on to complain, however, that community members have been prevented from speaking out in the past, particularly during environmental review meetings.

Uncertainty about the party's future direction following the election of Ed Miliband as the party's leader is constraining senior figures in the party from speaking out.

She claims the warrant is part of a conspiracy to silence her from speaking out about the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal.

The $ 130,000 hush agreement was intended to prevent her from speaking out about an alleged affair that began, Daniels said, at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006.

That did not stop dozens of members of the community from speaking out about the issue at the meeting.

From speaking out against him at rallies and encouraging grassroots political action, Nixon has been a vocal critic of President Trump.

So what do we learn from Speaking Out?

For decades, it was the position of the liberal ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) that it was unconstitutional to prevent non-profit corporations from speaking out on candidates.

Our culture so often stops us from speaking out about the problem because we fear the backlash of opinion.

Does your reluctance to criticize ever keep you from speaking out about respect for children in parenting?

«In both cases, very trusted and revered male offenders used their positions and their care, cunning and trust they enjoy not only to access the victim but to keep those around him from speaking out,» says Anderson.

Many have become apprehensive about how people see them and are inhibited from speaking out in their own defence, while, sadly, there are those who seem unsteady in their faith or half - hearted in their trust in God's power.

Yes, two liberal commentators have used similar language in the past, but as David Frum wisely points out, the indecencies of others in the past do not excuse those of Limbaugh in the present, nor should they prevent us from speaking out about the situation at hand.

Pena Nieto and the rest of the current government have refrained from speaking out against Trump considerably, other than to say that Mexico will not pay for a border wall.

Europe now has dozens of laws to stop Christians from speaking out on controversial issues, not just in public spaces but in pulpits and private conversations as well, enforced vigorously through the criminal code.

Unfortunately, the Big Brother mentality that has taken over the administrative levels of the Catholic Church prevents most of them from speaking out about it.

His consistent humility, however, has never led Pope Francis to shrink from speaking out, or taking a bold stand, when the circumstances require it.

Trump's attorney Cohen has secured a private arbitration ruling preventing Daniels from speaking out further, but since the arbitration ruling took place without Daniels or her lawyer present, and was not brought on behalf of Trump but on the part of Cohen's shell company, Daniels and her attorney argue the arbitration ruling must be reversed.

The case was expanded this month to allege that the startup's chief executive «fosters a sexually charged corporate culture that condones unlawful conduct,» and deters victims from speaking out.

And if Trump prevails and keeps the case in arbitration, he's basically guaranteed to win arbitration rulings stopping Daniels from speaking out.

Before the election, Cohen paid $ 130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels to keep her from speaking out about her alleged affair with Trump, and he helped orchestrate countless business deals and legal maneuvers for Trump over the past several years.

His lawyers filed two motions in the United States District Court in California, where Daniels sued to get out of the NDA that bars her from speaking out about the alleged affair, saying that Daniels has violated the agreement at least 20 times and could be subject to damages of $ 20 million.

And the agreement has no end date, meaning it essentially keeps former staffers from speaking out forever.