Sentences with phrase «illegal acts so»

Consumers should be very aware of what constitutes wrongful or illegal acts so that they can protect themselves from harassment by creditors.

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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.

Privacy International says the practice is illegal under the U.K.'s current Data Protection Act, and will be even more so when the act is replaced next month, to be more in line with the EU's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPAct, and will be even more so when the act is replaced next month, to be more in line with the EU's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPact is replaced next month, to be more in line with the EU's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

These mezuza bans are considered illegal discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, because only a Jew would have any need to put something on the door frame, so the rule (even if we assume the rule exists) negatively impacts only Jews, and nobody else... and there's no legitimate justification for the rule, since it's not a safety issue and it's too small to be considered unsightly.

Modifying a firearm so that it simulates automatic fire is illegal in New York, a measure that was approved before the passage of the SAFE Act, according to the State Police.

The Cuomo camp, which denies anyone connected to Schneiderman ever made such an ask, argues that even if the governor wanted to expand the power of the office he used to hold, he couldn't do so because acting unilaterally through executive order would be illegal.

During 2011, Lord Falconer assembled a Commission, which has now produced a report recommending a change in the law so that those who assist someone in the act of suicide will no longer be committing an illegal act.

If the Administration won't budge, then the legislature should act by making it illegal to do so.

On a day of mourning for cinema, it is reassuring to see a film like Sugar, an exquisitely filmed, well acted and narratively bold film that takes a smart, and most important, human look at an Illegal immigrant and a story behind so many baseball players we see.

By the time rational scientist Alex (Carla Gugino, who apparently didn't get her fill of this shit in Watchmen) joins the ride, you're so desensitized to the thing that its throwaway references to environmental concerns, illegal aliens, and the PATRIOT Act just wash over you — and why shouldn't they?

It is against the Canadian Livestock Act to sell a purebred dog without the papers therefore doing so is an illegal act and the persons that do this could be asking for problems if they are caugAct to sell a purebred dog without the papers therefore doing so is an illegal act and the persons that do this could be asking for problems if they are caugact and the persons that do this could be asking for problems if they are caught.

For them to connect the «bad deed» to your displeasure, you must catch them in the act so they associate digging up the potted plant is illegal.

These beliefs are so popular, that legislation in the UK, The Dangerous Dogs Act, has made it illegal to own one.

Now he's going to work for his crime - boss uncle in a bid to retrieve Yu Jian and restore the family's honor through murder, drug dealing, theft, and all kinds of other nasty, illegal acts that make the Grand Theft Auto series so much fun.

Two environmental groups have put out a fresh call to the United States to strengthen the Shark Finning Prohibition Act, a 2000 law aimed at blunting the illegal trade in shark fins that biologists say has devastated shark populations worldwide in the last decade or so.

Gore wanted these young, tech - savvy attendees to start a grassroots movement using social media like they did when «net neutrality was threatened or when the Stop Online Piracy Act threatened to blacklist websites that offered so - called illegal content,» said Macworld.

Mike Jonas, So an illegal and thus corrupt act ie «climategate» is evidence that climate science is corrupt.

The May 2000 ADB Forest Concession Review characterised the crisis situation in Cambodia's forest as ``... total system failure; resulting from greed, corruption, incompetence and illegal acts...» However, according to the ADB so many people, companies, institutions and countries were responsible for the fiasco that no one should be made accountable.

To do so, WWF works to strengthen the US government's ability to prosecute illegal timber cases; stop illegal logging in countries that export high volumes of timber; ensure full implementation of the Lacey Act, a US law that prohibits illegal timber and timber products from entering the US market; and design rural energy programs that rely on fuels other than firewood.

Users who post links to «illegal» content that do so without an economic motivation do not make an act of communication to the public if they can not reasonably know that the content has been uploaded without permission from the right holder.

Back in January the European Court of Justice ruled that «General and indiscriminate retention» of emails and electronic communications by governments is illegal, which very much challenges the remit of the UK's so - called snooper's charter, the Investigatory Powers Act.

What if an AG advises a president or a governor to do X illegal act because the only penalty is impeachment and the legislature is controlled by his own party so he can get away with it?

Then there's a question of, say, a lawyer advising his client that the fine for breaking the law is «only» $ X, so it would therefor be worth it to take the fine and commit the illegal act.

Section 37 (1)(b) applies only to people who act to further illegal entry of asylum - seekers in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit in the context of transnational organized crime, so that a migrant who aids in his own illegal entry or the illegal entry of other refugees or asylum - seekers in their collective flight to safety is not inadmissible under s. 37 (1)(b).

1698 Another Treaty of The Hague 1698 Piracy Act — making piracy illegal on high seas (so far as England was concerned).

Sometimes policies like director and officer insurance will cover intentional act risks because the determination of whether an act is illegal is so uncertain that there is real uncertainty involved to insure against.

The running of the bulls isn't an unlawful or illegal act, which are exclusions in all travel insurance policies, so that didn't exclude resulting injuries from coverage.

Age discrimination is illegal under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, so if you are facing obvious discrimination, you can take legal action.

730 DOS 02 DOS v. New World Realty of New York, Inc. — availing of license; deposits; disclosure of agency relationships; duty to supervise sales associates; failure to pay judgment; proper business practices; DOS has jurisdiction where disciplinary action was started while individual was licensed as an associate broker and was eligible to automatically renew at the time of the disciplinary hearing; salesperson owned voting stock in licensed corporate real estate broker, failed to pay judgment and failed to present evidence of inability to do so, and engaged in unlicensed activity after license expired; representative broker availed corporate real estate brokers license to salesperson; representative broker failed to properly supervise salesperson by permitting and authorizing salesperson to act as a real estate broker; broker and salesperson failed to make agency disclosures and failed to deposit funds of principal in a special bank account; real estate transaction conducted was a fraudulent business practice; DOS fails to prove the unauthorized practice of law; salesperson's license revoked and salesperson ordered to pay refund of $ 1,406.00 of illegal commission collected; representative broker's license revoked and broker ordered to refund $ 74.00 of illegal commission collected; representative broker fined $ 5,000.00