Sentences with phrase «in hostile environments by»

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In the past, models and celebrities who worked with the photographer accused him of creating a sexually hostile environment on set, encouraging provocative poses, and sexual assault and harassment, according to a comprehensive list of the allegations leveraged against Richardson compiled by Complex.

Duggan, who co-founded the company in 2013, was named in a lawsuit filed against BetterWorks in the San Francisco Superior Court on July 13, which alleged a hostile work environment in which sexist behavior was tolerated by management.

A 2015 report from researchers at Kent State University and the University of Texas at Tyler found that the «prevalence of male norms in the male - dominated environment may result in a more hostile workplace for women who are perceived by men as violators of the gender norms.»

The Crash of 1987 came on the heels of a spectacular stock bull market that started in 1982 that was fueled by a supercharged business environment that included hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts and merger mania.

SAN DIEGO (AP)-- A grocery store in San Diego subjected Hispanic employees to harassment and a hostile work environment by implementing a no - Spanish language policy, federal officials said Thursday.

Both Yehoshua were just expressing the prerogatives of kings and priests: Exodus 19:6 The first by securing a first step of sanctification by the slaughter of even innocent victims, and the second by bringing salvation to a great number in a less hostile environment.

Not only must churches assume more of the teaching once performed by other institutions, but they must do so in the face of an increasingly hostile and seductive environment.

They're about the pursuit of their own happiness in what is, by nature, a pretty hostile environment.

After giving up a game at home and apparent momentum in their second - round series with Golden State, the Spurs went into the most hostile environment in the league at Oracle Arena and quieted the madness by beating the Warriors to regain control.

@ a hostile environment in Milehigh, with the fourth target in the offense, and a run game led by a fullback.

Pepper also found examples of actions by University administrators that directly discouraged complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes, or that contributed to or accommodated a hostile environment.

After the collapse of the USSR, the North Korean regime found itself in a hostile geopolitical environment: its state apparatus was fragile and plagued by famine; a dynamic and fast - growing South Korea was pulling away economically; and the North's remaining ally, China, was far from reliable.

The scandal has provided a window into the murky depths of British immigration policy and, in particular, a set of policy decisions made in 2012 by the then Home Secretary Theresa May to ensure a «Hostile Environment» aimed at supporting a drive to reduce net migration figures.

His resignation comes hours after an independent investigation found that while there was no evidence of a hostile work environment in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, there was inappropriate behavior by Professor Florian Jaeger.

The implementation of SAFE Act is not only going to cost NY state 36 million dollars a year, it has created a hostile environment for both in - state and out of state sports men and women and shooting enthusiasts who now risk committing felony crimes for the countless technical criminal violations created by the SAFE Act for possessing items which can be purchased over the counter in all our neighboring states.

By banning these groups we are creating a hostile environment in which terrorists find it more difficult to operate, and tackling every part of the terrorist network.»

In the cyberbullying bill, «bullying» would mean creating of a hostile environment by conduct, threats, intimation or abuse that reasonably has the effect of substantially interfering with a student's well - being, disrupts the school environment or causes a risk of physical or emotional harm.

A letter from a former Home Office minister - obtained by the Guardian - shows ministers knew about the wider impact of the so - called «hostile environment» crackdown on illegal immigration in May 2016.

In the US, someone might use a law like this to argue that there was a discriminatory «hostile work environment» that the employer needs to correct (by punishing the employees not using the pronoun.)

Conservatives are likely to draw attention to Labour's own commitment in government to creating a hostile environment, a phrase first used by Alan Johnson when he was home secretary in the last year of the Gordon Brown government, but campaigners insist that cracking down on illegal immigration could be done with better border checks rather than internal policing of status alone.

But there was an ominous sign at prime minister's questions of agitation on the right when the sacked Eurosceptic environment secretary Owen Paterson made a point of standing in a hostile manner next to the former defence secretary Liam Fox by the bar of the House of Commons.

The three aides, all women in their 20s, «were subjected to a hostile and offensive work environment,» according to a legal notice, prepared by their lawyer, that also said they would seek compensation.

Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle had to intervene to calm tempers, with Mr Javid adding: «I was talking about members of the hard left that have created a hostile environment in their own party and people that welcome my appointment by calling me a «coconut» and an «Uncle Tom».

Ms Thewliss said: «There is a litany of callous incompetence in this department and it is a problem of deliberate policy: cruel hostile environment policy by the former home secretary now Prime Minister and continued unabated by the current Home Secretary.»

Most of the solar energy that saturates desert environments gets lost, assimilated by the few plants that can survive in such a hostile climate.

«Our study illustrates that self - guided mutation is relevant to life within Earth's subsurface and uncovers mechanisms by which viruses and archaea can adapt in this hostile environment,» said David Valentine, a professor in UCSB's Department of Earth Science and at the campus's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

In his memoir, Murray noted that «the extraordinarily hostile environment revealed by the Mariner flybys made life there so unlikely that public expectations should not be raised.»

The game is set in an open world environment where after begin pulled down by a Wormhole you will land into a hostile world filled with alien zombies.

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

The public hearings being held by the Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth is an important step in further addressing the needs of young people who daily face hostile environments in our schools.

Frederick Hess and Chester Finn charge that those entrepreneurs who succeed in the hostile environment of public education do so by compromising and accommodating in order to win friends and allies in the locales that comprise their markets.

«It gives hope that — if more people stand up and resist — we can succeed in dismantling the government's hostile environment policies piece by piece.

The bottom line is that those education entrepreneurs who succeed in this generally hostile environment do so by compromising and accommodating in order to win friends, make allies, and evade enemies in the locales that comprise their micromarkets.

In light of the increasingly hostile climate toward immigrants and the insecurity caused by the changing policy landscape, Californians Together is implementing a multi-pronged approach toward creating a safe learning environment for students of all backgrounds.

The program, created by Sen. Alberta Darling, R - River Hills, and Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R - Brookfield, was supposed to begin this school year in the Milwaukee School District, but a commissioner Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele hired to oversee takeovers quit in June citing a hostile environment.

The presence of police officers, guns, handcuffs, and metal detectors in schools creates hostile teaching and learning environments that are reinforced by harsh, punitive, and exclusionary school discipline policies.

Doesn't beat with the first position occupied by iPad, but is the only laptop manufacturer with military standards and dedicated to working in hostile environments, high temperature, etc..

By altering his pH levels, we are making it a hostile environment for the yeast to grow as it doesn't grow well in acidic condition.

Scientists and volunteers who now keep vigil over the seals are trying to outmaneuver the species» extinction in a rapidly changing and sometimes hostile environment by using a range of tactics — including relocating some seals to what they predict will be safer shores.

Available this summer, this expansion will challenge players to survive as long as possible by gathering essential supplies in a very hostile environment.

The scientist finds quickly finds himself / herself in a less - than - favorable situation within the research facility, as the entire station has been overtaken by hostile aliens capable of mimicking objects in the surrounding environment.

The remote and hostile Southern Ocean is home to a diverse and rich community of life that thrives in an environment dominated by glaciations and strong currents.

There are two types of sexual harassment: quid pro quo sexual advances by a supervisor (for example, sexual advances in return for a job or promotion) and a hostile work environment.

Unlawful treatment also comes in the form of sexual harassment by the employer — whether it is direct sexual harassment aimed at the employee which is known as quid pro quo harassment, or in the form of general sexual conduct by other employees which alters the conditions of employment and renders the work environment hostile or abusive.

In this 100 - page court filing, Young alleges that she endured a hostile work environment rife at Covington, with ethnic and racial slurs made by white staff attorneys.

Where there are difficulties this is more likely attributable to a hostile educational environment, which is often fostered in part by the same type of thinking which often opposes affirmative action programs to begin with.

In life, a hostile work environment can occur due to workplace conduct which is contrary to your comfort and peace of mind as an employee and is caused by some type of unfair discrimination or discriminatory harassment.

The courts in that case concluded that even just one utterance of the «N - word» could be enough to be sufficiently severe to meet the «severe or pervasive» standard created by federal law for a hostile work environment.

In a hostile environment case, the claim by its very nature involves a cumulation of several events that have to be added together before the environment is sufficiently hostile for a claim to arise.

She said that one of her «Fox & Friends» co-hosts, Steve Doocy, «had created a hostile work environment by regularly treating her in a sexist and condescending way.»