Sentences with phrase «in gross abuse»

This trend has continued for many years, and has resulted in gross abuse of the Conduit - Principle which has unfortunately aroused the interest of the tax authorities.

School administrators are obliged to respond to the concerns of parents and school boards, so blame for this state of affairs can not be pinned solely on them, though they should know better and not participate in gross abuse of power.

«The only reasonable conclusion we have reached is that the anti-corruption agencies and other institutions of state have allowed themselves to be dictated to by a single vindictive authority which takes pleasure in using power anyhow and in anyway in gross abuse of the constitution,» the forum said in a statement issued on Thursday by Osaro Onaiwu, its coordinator.

Not exact matches

They understood the parable, rightly, as accusing them of gross abuse of their position and, in effect, serving notice of dismissal on them in the name of the Owner; the vineyard would be let to new tenants.

To cite two texts: In a 1929 article, «Birth Control: The Perverted Faculty Argument», Henry Davis says, ``... the contraceptive act between a husband and wife is mortally sinful, chiefly, it would seem because it is a grave abuse of a faculty, a gross perversion of a means — the act of marital intercourse - which is given by Nature, that is, God, to man for the immediate purpose of generation».

If we are mindful and willing to take some stands, say, against restaurants with gross kitchens or companies that treat employees badly (though, this is often in the eye of the beholder) or chocolate companies that use slave labor or companies that abuse God's creation, change can happen.

The committee said that it had «identified many instances of serious problems in these programs, some of which could lead to gross abuses unless they are more effectively monitored and controlled.»

In some cases there had been gross peculation and abuse of the system.

In Erie County, partners including the Erie County District Attorney's Office, Lee Gross Anthone Child Advocacy Center and Crisis Services will provide free training to institutions and individuals to recognize the warning signs and develop strategies to prevent child sexual abuse.

The United Nations» «gross institutional failure» to act on allegations that French and other peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic led to even more assaults, according to a new report released Thursday.

Tessa Thompson spoke of the importance of the Time's Up movement in fighting «not just gross abuses of power but imbalances of power».

Internally Displaced Persons IIDPs) in Mogadishu face risks to their lives, safety, security and dignity and are at disproportionate risk of gross human rights abuses especially women and unaccompanied children.

A number of legal bloggers roundly condemned Jones Day for bringing the suit, with Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy leading the backlash with his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he said that the lawsuit deserved a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

[18] «Special circumstances» have been held to include situations where the non-party has engaged in fraudulent conduct, an abuse of process, or gross misconduct in the commencement and / or conduct of the litigation, or when the non-party is the «real litigant»: Anchorage.

No steps were taken to move the adults to a safer area until they had been imprisoned, together with their children, in their flat for a weekend and subject to gross physical and sexual abuse and humiliation.

To do away with it, in response to one or two unpalatable outcomes, and to replace it with an arrangement which would abolish the last constitutional check upon the consequences of gross executive abuse, would be a monumental step.

«We hope this award can underscore how a breakdown in the rule of law can lead to gross labor abuses and impunity for those who make millions harvesting seafood from the ocean.»

Once powers are in place to remove material deemed by the State to be adverse to the public interest, our society and individual citizens become extremely vulnerable to the gross abuse of these powers, regardless of how well - meaning our current leadership may be now.

Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy is winning praise from some corners of the blogosphere for his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he says the lawsuit by law firm Jones Day against the Web site BlockShopper.com deserves a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

Without limiting this question, does section 293 require that the polygamy or conjugal union in question involved a minor, or occurred in a context of dependence, exploitation, abuse of authority, a gross imbalance of power, or undue influence?

In the face of non compliance with UNSC Res 1970, several cease - fire declarations by the Gaddafi regime which were not honoured, and a continued threat of force against civilian populations, on 17 March 2011, a majority of the UNSC (five members abstaining namely Brazil, Germany, India, Russia and China) invoked Chapter VII, re-iterated the references to gross human rights abuses and adopted the following additional measures:

Roy Gross, who heads the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said his group, which deals with over 2,000 animal abuse cases in the county per year, believes the animal abuse registry will help to save animals.

In Blencoe, the SCC confirmed that a stay of proceeding is available for «inordinate delay» that «comprises the very fairness of the hearing» or leads to a «gross or shocking abuse of process».