Sentences with phrase «illegal practice of»

China has also banned initial coin offerings it the beginning of September as an illegal practice of public financing.

For example, in 2006, a naturopath in Wheat Ridge, Colorado was convicted of «theft, perjury, criminally negligent homicide, illegal practice of medicine and third - degree assault» for providing alternative holistic treatment to someone resulting in their death.

The CVMA is strongly opposed to the illegal practice of veterinary medicine by unlicensed persons providing illegal services in unregulated locations...

This can lead to additional criminal charges related to animal cruelty and / or the illegal practice of veterinary medicine.

In short, while I believe the private equilibrium is generally quite responsible, regulators can not afford to be Panglossian about it - after all it was this private equilibrium that recently generated the illegal practice of late trading in some mutual funds, where preferred customers got to trade after the markets had closed, and it was this private equilibrium that caused a number of ostensibly safe money market funds in the early 1990s to take on excessive hidden risk that caused them to «break the buck» - in effect declare losses on what is supposed to be a risk free asset.

Tax evasion: this is the perfectly illegal practice of lying to the taxman or trying to hide some of your income.

Twisting: The illegal practice of inducing a policy owner to replace a policy by providing inaccurate, incomplete or misleading information.

The now illegal practice of eliminating the grace period for people who paid off their credit card balance in full the previous month.

Focus Features won an intense bidding war for the rights to this film adaptation of Garrard Conley's memoir about a young man forced into the often abusive and increasingly illegal practice of «conversion therapy» to «cure» his homosexuality.

But the team decided to change the terminology because, «if you have a Sicilian mafia background, [«shakedown»] has a different connotation,» he said, referring to the illegal practice of extorting money from small businesses, generating laughter from the audience.

Prayer hotlines should be considered on par with illegal practice of medicine by unlicensed and untrained amateurs.

Wells Fargo has been fined a total of $ 185 million for the widespread illegal practice of secretly opening unauthorized deposit and credit card accounts, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

On the other hand, you can possibly get away with it and profit handomely, but why risk your future, sanity and fall victim to illegal practices of the business that comes with consequences when it takes the same amount of time and effort to do your deals the right way?

The Office of the Trustee, the part of the Department of Justice that oversees bankruptcy filings in the US, has promised to take steps to stop illegal practices of mortgage servicers, including the filing of false or inaccurate claims, the charging of unnecessary fees and the failure to acknowledge discharged debts.

The regulator added that cryptocurrencies currently only trigger potentially harmful side effects such as market manipulation, fraud, heightened speculative trading, illegal practices of capital funds raising, and cybercrimes associated with cryptocurrency theft.

Not exact matches

Almost 25 years ago, Boston Beer became the first brewer to age beer in spirit barrels, a now - standard practice that, Koch says, «everyone thought was illegal, because you couldn't commingle different types of alcohol.»

The indictment states that SAC has been charged «with criminal responsibility for insider trading offenses committed by numerous employees and made possible by institutional practices that encouraged the widespread solicitation and use of illegal inside information.»

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 case is the latest twist in a long - running legal fight over whether Google's email scanning practices amount to illegal wiretaps and a violation of California privacy laws.

It's also a legacy of «redlining» by banks — the past practice, now illegal, of classifying minority - dominated neighborhoods as too dangerous for lending.

• Create a list of legal and illegal HRM practices in your country.

While the practice of patent trolling is not illegal, a patent troll has no intent of ever developing a product or service by utilizing a patent.

Until the early 1980s, the practice of buying shares with corporate money was considered borderline illegal because it was thought to potentially open the company up to charges of manipulating share prices.

Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf testified Tuesday in front of the Senate Banking Committee about the bank's allegedly illegal sales practices.

Currently, payday lending is illegal in fourteen states, but in many of them national payday chains circumvent the law by forming partnerships with out - of - state banks, a practice known as «rent - a-bank.»

Some lenders should be avoided at all costs because they use blackmail, threats of violence, and other illegal practices.

Even though the Company has not, to our knowledge, been implicated in any illegal activities, there remain serious questions as to how the appointment of just a single independent director will change and improve the Company's internal control system and its overall corporate governance practices.

Fleming said he also wants to see increased enforcement of illegal practices, especially online.

Clearly, if the allegations of illegal or deceptive practices are sustained by the inquiries underway, the ARF will formally rescind the award, on the grounds that the work did not, in retrospect, meet our standards and requirements.»

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

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.

Can89 and Mirsal — People have been justifying illegal, immoral, or intrusive practices under the disguise of a religious belief for centuries.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

Speaking of LeRoyCarhart, four of his former employees have reported unsafe and illegal practices at his abortion clinic in Bellevue, Nebraska - including unsanitary conditions and unlicensed staff starting IVs and dispensing medication.

This isn't about privileged women saying «breast is best» (a woman's choice how to feed her child is her own)-- it is about misleading, unethical, and in some cases illegal marketing practices, illegally sourcing milk from a horrible dictator, and the use of slave labor.

from another...» She used to be here in Michigan, more than one infant death here related to illegal use of vaccum at a home birth — her CPM credential was revoked (and later, one of her students, having learned similar practices at her «knee» also lost her credential) so I'm not surprised, but still shocked — I had understood that she was «retired» from Midwifery after she moved to Utah; I'm very saddened by this.»

To support INVESTIGATION into unethical, improper and illegal adoption practices and the abuse of human and civil rights of mothers in North America.

Update 13 February 2015: We had reported that Tesco promised a shake up of its marketing practices after being challenged over illegal formula promotion in its stores.

An extensive underground network of illegal practitioners has developed in Missouri in recent years, according to Sen. John Loudon, the Missouri lawmaker who spearheaded legislation that would allow nationally certified midwives to practice in the state.

I'm going to assume, for the sake of brevity, that all of my readers are aware that Nestle has been subject to a boycott since the late 1970s for questionable, unethical, and sometimes blatantly illegal business practices.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Monday released a letter sent to the president of a health - care company that in a job placement ad that called for «no Hatians» to apply, warning the company that it was illegal to discriminate in hiring practices.

Some of the practices such as bribery and extortion are deeply ingrained in this illegal activity.»

Acknowledging the «irony» of how a business practice that's illegal in New York State helped keep the Buffalo Bills in Western New York, billionaire Terry Pegula defended the controversial gas drilling method better known as hydro - fracking.

A campaign against illegal mining by the current NPP government is gaining traction amid fears the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu, who is fronting the anti-illegal mining crusade, will lose steam because of the influential people involved in the practice.

A code of practice for small - scale mining operations will be outdoored and committees will be formed in all mining Districts to fight illegal mining and address issues relating to small - scale miners

Whilst this may on the one hand fuel concerns about possible growth in the use of illegal pornographic content such as that depicting children or animals, it is also the same feature that allows a nervous or embarrassed teen to look for much - needed information about sexual identity or practices.

Testimony at the trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, has highlighted some practices inside the governor's office that government reform groups say is at the very least questionable, and possibly even illegal.

Testimony at the trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, has highlighted some practices inside the governor's office that government reform groups say is at the very least questionable, and possibly even illegal.

As government struggles to deal with the age - old menace of illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, various reports from the Water Resources Commission and the Water Research Institute show the practice may soon leave Ghanaians without proper sources of drinking water.

A shocking aspect of the bill's proposals would allow staff in secure colleges to use potentially fatal restraint on children to enforce «good order and discipline», a practice which could be illegal.