Sentences with phrase «illegal acts of»

It is majorly because of the easy and effortless use of internet which has welcomed illegal acts of data breach and forced banks to go for insurance cover.

A school district can only be held vicariously liable for the illegal acts of an employee when it has «actual notice of» and is «deliberately indifferent to» employee misconduct.

In its suit, the energy giant accuses the defendants of conspiracy to commit illegal acts of trespass, nuisance, assault, intimidation and intentional interference with contractual relations.

Free - roaming cats and dogs can be victims of hunger, exposure to the elements, sickness and injury, predation, car accidents, and illegal acts of cruelty committed by people.

What we're trying to do here is stop illegal acts of online piracy that deny Canadians fair compensation for their work.»

Security agencies were used to subvert legitimate exercises embarked upon by the opposition while they openly supported illegal acts of members of the ruling party.

The air attack, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people.

I assert that the Jewish declaration of a State of Israel subsequent to the UNs passing of Resolution 181 was an unauthorized / illegal act of land seizure where Israelis essentially simply decided to take what was not theirs without the owner's consent.

Oil drilling by the New Jersey - based Genie Energy Ltd in the occupied Golan Heights could well result in a lawsuit claiming that Israel is engaged in an illegal act of pillage as defined in the Hague Convention.

And among those many persons who have committed no illegal act of crime or of overt violence, there is a widespread self - centeredness and demand for the right to do what one pleases which results in the violence of serious hurt to others.

BeautifulPeople can not be held liable for the loss of user's private data or for personal data and / or personal information or communication between users being released into the public domain either through an illegal act of hacking, fraud, negligence or human error.

Petit takes through his life — from discovering wire walking when he snuck into a circus as a kid — the head of said circus, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley) later becomes his mentor; to his devotion to his art leading to his being thrown out of his parents» home; to meeting a beautiful street singer named Annie (Charlotte Le Bon, The Hundred - Foot Journey); to his first illegal act of artistry — wire walking between the towers of Paris» Notre Dame cathedral.

His feature - length debut revolves around a Brooklyn street hustler who captures an illegal act of police violence on his cell phone and contends with a chain of events that ensue as a result.

Manipulation: The illegal act of creating a false impression of trading volume or price for a security.

Cramming is the illegal act of placing unauthorized charges on your wireline, wireless, or bundled services telephone bill.

[T] is illegal act of cyber-terrorism against a climate scientist (and I don't think that's too strong a word) is ominous and frightening.

It is unfortunate that an illegal act of accessing private email communications between scientists who have been involved as authors in I.P.C.C. assessments in the past has led to several questions and concerns.

Not exact matches

«But if there was a situation in which employers decided to knowingly continue to hire someone illegally — for example, as an act of civil disobedience — then they could be prosecuted for a felony for harboring illegal workers.»

If a client seeks their lawyer's advice on a matter that could be illegal or expose them to criminal liability, and the client uses the advice to commit a crime or act of fraud, the attorney could be asked to testify against their client.

Under the Protection of Children Act, it is illegal in the UK to download or distribute images of child exploitation — something the BBC should have been well aware of.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

In 2006, the government enacted the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which made any type of online gambling within the United States illegal.

At the federal level, no law has explicitly made fantasy sports contests illegal; the most recent relevant legislation, the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, left fantasy sports out of it.

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

«The government's basic rule is to prevent any illegal acts or uncertainties regarding cryptocurrency trade, while eagerly nurturing blockchain technology,» Hong Nam - ki, minister of the office for government policy coordination, said in a statement.

Notably, Republicans also recommended Congress repeal the Logan Act, which makes it illegal for private citizens to conduct policy negotiations on behalf of the US and which several of Trump's associates, including Flynn, have been accused of violating.

Rettenmaier is now fighting charges of child porn possession, claiming the FBI conducted an illegal search and that Best Buy (BBY) workers acted as federal agents.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

Recent developments, including ongoing investigations into bribery and corruption at the Company's subsidiaries in Mexico, China, Brazil, and India; new revelations of accounting fraud at the Company's China operations; a recent ruling by a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge against the Company for its illegal discipline of employees; and, the NLRB decision to authorize a nationwide complaint against the Company for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, highlight the need for enhanced oversight of Wal - Mart's corporate culture and behavior.

Germany at the start of the year began enforcing a new hate speech law that gives social networks just 24 hours to act on hate speech, fake news, and illegal material.

A former employee of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank is alleged to have acted as a loan shark and run illegal businesses to the tune of 6.4 billion yuan (HK$ 7.9 billion).

«Passing a law that makes it illegal for a 20 - year - old to purchase a shotgun for hunting or an adult single mother from purchasing the most effective self - defense rifle on the market punishes law - abiding citizens for the evil acts of criminals,» NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement this week.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

In 2012, Liberal leader Raj Sherman introduced the Tobacco Reduction (Protection of Children in Vehicles) Amendment Act, which would have made it illegal for adults to smoke tobacco in vehicles with children.

However, in case of obvious illegal content for example child pornography, phishing attempts or the like, One.com will act as a responsible company and inform the relevant authorities.

The United States House of Representatives is considering the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, a bipartisan bill that would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images, sometimes called revenge porn, without the consent of the people involved.

Consumers should beware of those that do not follow these laws because they could be acting as a cover for other illegal activity.

A company that even printed out a contract like that would be liable under the Civil Rights Act, because it is illegal to discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of religion.

With the prospect of ending illegal immigration, the Act also provided a path to amnesty and future citizenship to many of the four million persons then living in the United States without permission.

In 1986, a Democratic Congress passed and the Republican president signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which attempted to close the back door of illegal immigration by, among other measures, imposing sanctions on employers for hiring unauthorized aliens.

Legally, the county's moratorium may violate a federal law — the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act — which makes it illegal for local governments to place a «substantial burden» on houses of worship and their function.

There are plenty of acts that I consider immoral that are part of Christianity (and every religion), but they're not illegal.

In England and Wales the acts of buying and selling sex are not in themselves illegal but associated activities such as soliciting, kerb crawling and brothel - keeping are outlawed.

What I want to illustrate here, is that it is an illegal act to just clutch some verses out of the Bible, and come up with wild conclusions.

Who are we to tell God he can not do the same in our day and time??? The Law now states it is illegal, Edmunds / Tucker act, and as of 1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also does not practice it.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

Regardless of one's view on illegal immigration, the RCC should be taxed since they are acting as a political group.

It is also true that much social change in Ireland has come about as a result of strong pressure from E.U. institutions, for example, the decriminalization of «homosexual acts» in 1993 (homosexuality as such was never illegal in Ireland, but «homosexual acts» were).

«The pilots are engaged in this illegal slowdown in order to bring pressure on Spirit during current negotiations for an amended collective bargaining agreement pursuant to Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act,» Spirit Airlines spokesperson Paul Barry said in a statement given to Buzzfeed News.

From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.