Sentences with phrase «have an interest in protecting»

«However, the Court also maintained that the state has an interest in protecting the life of a fetus after viability — that is, after the point at which the fetus is capable of living outside the womb.

Unlike state agencies, the Legislature is largely exempt from FOIL, and the Senate has an interest in protecting that status.

Its billionaire owner, John Catsimatidis, whose oceanfront home in East Quogue enjoys an unsullied view and ambience, seems to have no interest in protecting the environment of the North Fork.

«We agree that we're all going to work in a coordinated way, so having funds in separate accounts they're all going to be — the IDC has an interest in protecting their members if there are primaries — but other than that, we are focused on the special election, we're focused on November, and we're all focused on those goals together,» Cuomo said.

The best way to do that is to expand choice so that the beneficiaries of those programs have an interest in protecting those programs.

And because politicians are under strong political pressure from hagwons because the private - tutoring industry plays an active role in political donations and elections, there are vested interests in protecting the hagwons.

Webberville Community Schools has an interest in protecting its public records and preventing excessive and unreasonable interference with the discharge of its functions.

And because our children have the most vested interest in protecting...

It showed that it had no interest in protecting the health and long - term climate of Australians.

In such circumstances comity is violated because the issuing state might still believe its courts have an interest in protecting its residents in such child custody determinations.

[32] The only other entity which is not a party that may, in a general sense, have an interest in this type of situation would be the Public Guardian and Trustee who, through its statutory obligation, has an interest in protecting infants in this type of context.

But, going into an agreement at least, both parties usually have an interest in protecting trade secrets and business goodwill.

However, the courts still have an interest in protecting people.

Since MLS & Realtor's are joined at the hip so to speak they each have an interest in protecting each other's business models.

Not exact matches

The core of any argument about stories of this kind is that they are protected by the First Amendment because there is a clear public interest in having the information released that outweighs the fact that it was classified, or may have been obtained by illegal means.

Rather than protecting shoppers, the Competition Bureau seems more interested in harassing stores that have low prices and interfering in legitimate marketing strategies.

When the supervisor sued for wrongful dismissal, Linamar argued that the supervisor had violated his duty to protect the company's interests through his involvement in child pornography, despite the fact that it was done on his own time.

While Cuba is greenfield territory for U.S. entrepreneurs, their counterparts from Canada, Europe, Latin America, Israel and China have not been bound by the same embargo restrictions; many are already doing business in Cuba and will fight to protect their interests.

In her memory, we devote our actions to a just cause; to defend what is right and to protect the interest of not only shareholders but most importantly the far more important stakeholders of employees, drivers and customers whose lives have been forever altered by the abiding faith and fervent hard work of Travis Kalanick and the Uber team.

They also are in negotiations with other advisors who would be interested in using Hammond's firm as a succession partner to protect the value of their practices, both for their loved ones and their clients.

Boards are empowered to protect shareholders, but many shareholders have become sympathetic to activists because they believe the system has inherent conflicts of interest; that directors are more interested in collecting paychecks and preserving their status quo than in exercising their fiduciary duty to shareholders.

«If, in the end, the United States takes actions that harm China's interests then China will have to take resolute and necessary steps to respond to protect our legitimate interests.»

It would be interesting to see how much it would have cost to protect the systems in question, or to change to process that was exploited and compare it to what was lost because of the breach.»

As reported in the Globe and Mail on Oct. 31, the judge ruled that the Law Society had put the commercial interests of its members ahead of its statutory duty to protect the public interest.

What they said: «Standard Life has a long history in Scotland — a heritage of which we are very proud and we hope that this continues but our responsibility is to protect the interests of our customers, our shareholders, our people and other stakeholders in our business.»

Big tech companies that sell directly to consumers across the globe have an obvious interest in protecting — or at least purporting to protect — their users» privacy.

«CHX justifies the proposal by stating» [T] he Exchange submits that the proposed rules for LTAD are designed to operate in a manner that is consistent with the Act in that they are designed to protect investors and the public interest, are not designed to permit unfair discrimination, and would not impose any unnecessary or inappropriate burden on competition.»

Congress has legitimate interest in protecting users subject to the ad revenue - driven whims of a supposedly self - regulating tech platform, and, unfortunately for Facebook, big tech regulation is starting to look like something most people can get behind.

There are many reasons you might be interested more in protecting what you have that earning a good return on it.

Given the last of its published principles, it will be interesting to see which executive Facebook chooses to send to testify in front of Congress — to explain things like how it failed to protect the privacy of ~ 50M users nor even inform people their data had been siphoned off for illicit purposes.

«Rather than remedy its misconduct, China has chosen to harm our farmers and manufacturers,» Trump said in the statement, and he added that he's instructing the secretary of agriculture to take measures to protect farmers and other agricultural interests who might be ensnared by the Chinese tariffs.

While WTO rules do allow countries to act to protect their «essential security interests» in a time of war or emergency in international relations, foreign countries have questioned whether that applies here.

«If we send any kind of message to our premier it's that he needs to open his mind, and be open minded to the evidence that shows Canadians and, in particular, folks up in this part of the country have the knowledge, skills, and ability to build these projects, operate these projects in the national interest, and to show that we can protect the values that all of us believe in.»

Seeing as how the Federal Government has done nothing to show that the millions of Coinbase users have engaged in suspect tax - avoidance conduct, Mr. Berns attempted to protect the interests and personal information of all of Coinbase's customers who are the subject of the summons.

Would you be interested in a product that protects your principle and yet still increases with the markets?

In her report, Warren reiterates her support for that rule, which she says would «protect consumers from these types of abuses,» and would «put an end to these conflicts of interest.»

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

For this reason, Trump getting rid of the mortgage - interest deduction would effectively be the more populist position in comparison to the April «backdoor» version that protects it politically while rendering it useless to most people.

The UCC - 1 protects the interests of the lender in the case of borrower default or bankruptcy, in which said asset (s) would be foreclosed on, seized or sold off.

«It's a fight we don't want to have, though, because while these fights can drag on in international trade tribunals for years it really puts the pinch on smaller producers... In the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.&raquin international trade tribunals for years it really puts the pinch on smaller producers... In the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.&raquIn the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.&raquin is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.»

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

10:41 am ET: Rep. Anna Eshoo just asked Zuckerberg if he would change Facebook's business model «in the interest of protecting individual privacy.»

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

In one complaint, the progressive research group American Bridge argues that had Trump been interested only in protecting his reputation, he could have secured Daniels's silence in 2011, when she first spoke with reporters about the alleged affaiIn one complaint, the progressive research group American Bridge argues that had Trump been interested only in protecting his reputation, he could have secured Daniels's silence in 2011, when she first spoke with reporters about the alleged affaiin protecting his reputation, he could have secured Daniels's silence in 2011, when she first spoke with reporters about the alleged affaiin 2011, when she first spoke with reporters about the alleged affair.

Some observers have questioned whether there is too much complacency in the markets, and too little interest in protecting against downside risk in equities.

And what I get concerned about is that this massive disruption could potentially result in reorganizations of a lot of industries, and if you're in the debt side of that transaction, and something has been reorganized, generally you need to be really concerned about protecting your interests over time.

Inflation - protected securities would likely outperform nominal government bonds amid higher - than - expected U.S. inflation, but stocks might not easily stomach a sharp upturn in interest rates or Federal Reserve (Fed) hawkishness.

Then Clark's chief of staff, Dix had backdated a memo in an attempt to protect the premier from conflict - of - interest charges.

Not only do you want to have the correct coverage to protect your business in the case of claim, you want to protect your investor's interests as well.

For now, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a limited duration of about 2 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 2 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), mostly in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.