Sentences with phrase «in public harm»

Why can we now debate the policy options for a further reduction in public harm, such as plain packaging or tax increases?

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«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.
It's as old as industries that know their products do public harm, but lie to keep them in use.
«Any disruption of or interference with our use of the Google Cloud operation would negatively affect our operations and seriously harm our business,» the company disclosed in its S - 1 filing made public Thursday afternoon.
What would be the harm in allowing patents from bankrupt companies to be dissolved and then placed into the public domain?
With its ability to influence opinions, social media does remarkable harm by playing a role in the rigging of elections and public debate.
«Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency,» the report read.
The Fiduciary Rule and PTEs followed an extensive public rulemaking process in which the Department evaluated a large body of academic and empirical work on conflicts of interest, and determined that conflicted advice was causing harm to retirement investors.
«While San Francisco policymakers pursue common sense regulation of standup electronic scooters to enhance the public benefit of this new shared mobility technology and to reduce potential harm to the public, state legislators seek to eliminate elements of the Vehicle Code that exist to protect the health and safety of members of the public including users of standup electric scooters,» Peskin wrote in his resolution.
«Negative publicity or public opinion resulting from these matters may increase the risk of reputational harm to our business, which can impact our ability to keep and attract customers, our ability to attract and retain qualified team members, result in the loss of revenue, or have other material adverse effects on our results of operations and financial condition.»
The diffuse harm to individuals and the concentrated benefit to Wall Street create yet another way in which the system is rigged, justifiably eroding public confidence in the fairness of the financial system.
As a result, shareholders could lose confidence in our financial and other public reporting, which would harm our business and the trading price of our ADSs or ordinary shares.
Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls, or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement, could harm our operating results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods or adversely affect the results of management evaluations and independent registered public accounting firm audits of our internal control over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC.
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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
In order not to do harm, whether it's with medicine or with public policy, the first order of business is accurate diagnostics.
At the same time, the community should advocate for necessary change and self - regulate in areas where there are significant risks of public harm that have not been addressed by current law.
And as the Salvation Army does not engage in harm reduction programs, such as needle exchanges or supervised injection, drug use, drug dealing, and alcohol consumption in public spaces can be expected to increase.
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased.In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased.in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...
I hope that every child, every parent, every person who was harmed by our great sins towards First Nations is able to tell their story, hear an apology, and witness first - hand what repentance and justice looks like in public.
The public did not support President Bill Clinton's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, but American casualties were few, the war ended in victory, and the conflict did Clinton no harm.
In the end it will harm confidence and willing obedience more than the public discussion even of delicate questions, because they are well known in any case and can be discussed more objectively in public than if they are only debated in small fanatical circleIn the end it will harm confidence and willing obedience more than the public discussion even of delicate questions, because they are well known in any case and can be discussed more objectively in public than if they are only debated in small fanatical circlein any case and can be discussed more objectively in public than if they are only debated in small fanatical circlein public than if they are only debated in small fanatical circlein small fanatical circles.
I see no harm in public religious displays.
«He can not use his own name in this very case because of the continuing threat to his safety, and the public harm that religiously - motivated attacks have been proven to cause.»
But it seems to me that we harm the cause of public debate and reason if we do not attend to what's at stake in Christian theology itself as we do so.
In terms of public perception, the most important groups working against Marris were those who could be most profoundly harmed by the proposed legislation: the elderly, and the disabled.
At first glance, this answer is scandalous in a liberal culture, which promises freedom for freedom's sake, limited only by external considerations of public utility and to prevent harm to others.
Writing in The Times, Kate Lampard, chairwoman of GambleAware said: «As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.»
This would have been a narrow exception which would have caused no harm to the general public or to the monstrosity which is Obamacare, the largest tax increase in the history of mankind.
Under this exception, an employer may lawfully prohibit its employees from engaging in communications on the job that may harm its relationships with its customers or its public image.
The cycle of poverty and deforestation harms critically important ecosystems and imperils the public health and cultural traditions of communities that live in and near forests — not to mention the future development of potentially life - saving medicines.
In an opinion piece published in The Hill, American Beverage Association President and CEO Susan Neely points to new research providing further proof that beverage taxes harm communities and explains how America's beverage companies are taking comprehensive actions to achieve our shared goal of better public healtIn an opinion piece published in The Hill, American Beverage Association President and CEO Susan Neely points to new research providing further proof that beverage taxes harm communities and explains how America's beverage companies are taking comprehensive actions to achieve our shared goal of better public healtin The Hill, American Beverage Association President and CEO Susan Neely points to new research providing further proof that beverage taxes harm communities and explains how America's beverage companies are taking comprehensive actions to achieve our shared goal of better public health.
Beyond the food safety vulnerabilities, food fraud creates tremendous economic harm and undermines peoples» trust in the food supply chain, extending to companies, the food industry and even public institutions.
In an email to SB Nation, NCAA Director of Public and Media Relations Stacey Osburn sent the following statement: «The NCAA is always interested in pursuing behaviors that harm college sports, including recruiting violationIn an email to SB Nation, NCAA Director of Public and Media Relations Stacey Osburn sent the following statement: «The NCAA is always interested in pursuing behaviors that harm college sports, including recruiting violationin pursuing behaviors that harm college sports, including recruiting violations.
My main area of research focuses on developing public policies that are effective in reducing the harms that result from excessive alcohol use.
If you're able to, you can rinse it under a tap, but there's no harm in simply emptying it out in a public restroom and re-inserting it without a rinse, meaning it's convenient when out and about.
The possible benefits or harms resulting from exclusive pumping merit careful study,» a recent commentary in the American Journal of Public Health noted.
Texas school districts enjoy the broadest protections, which are waived only under specific circumstances, none of which apply to public use of school kitchens.8 In contrast, Massachusetts districts have immunity only if a school employee harms someone by performing an action that was not within the scope of the employee's employment.9
Such behavior includes, but is not limited to, attempting to enter the building with prohibited items listed above; smoking; offensive or disorderly conduct; throwing any object; entering or attempting to enter pools or exhibits; failure to follow the instructions of aquarium personnel; actions that might harm or endanger others; and any other conduct that is deemed inappropriate in a public setting.
In the face of growing public concern about price promotions and underage drinking the government has taken steps to reduce alcohol - related harms on health and crime and disorder, which together cost over # 10 billion every year.
Despite the «good job» in recent years by the Department of Health and Home Office, Mr Shenker said regulation of the drinks industry had been «very poor» and «producing huge levels of harm to the public».
The Nigerian government has an obligation to balance whether the risk of harm to the legitimate aim (that is secrecy of ongoing corruption investigation and presumption of innocence) from disclosure of the names of public officials is greater than the public interest in accessing the information.»
The Principle 4 (2) provides: «Access to a document may be refused if the disclosure of the information contained in the official document would or would be likely to harm any of the interests mentioned in paragraph 1, unless there is an overriding public interest in disclosure.»
To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.
These harms include: - Being harassed or insulted on the street by someone who has been drinking (Scotland 20 %, NW England 23 %)- Feeling unsafe or threatened in public (Scotland 19 % NW England 36 %)- Being kept awake at night because of drunken noise (Scotland 30 %, NW England 49 %)- Being sexually harassed (15 % NW England only)
As we have demonstrated before, the Council will again seek a fiscally responsible budget that won't compromise public safety or harm the most vulnerable New Yorkers,» they said in a statement.
Governor Cuomo says it would disproportionately harm New Yorkers, where property taxes are among the highest in the nation, and he's taken opportunities at public events recently to make the case against the plan.
The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.
Peter Bronstein, film director Guy Ritchie's lawyer in his custody battle with Madonna, noted that such hush - hush proceedings allow some clients to misbehave without fear of harming their priceless public personas.
ALBANY, NY (02/24/2012)(readMedia)-- The New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) will hold a press conference Monday morning in Rochester to discuss concerns about the potential harm to individuals, families, neighborhoods and the Rochester economy that may arise from state efforts to close Monroe Developmental Center and some group homes for the developmentally disabled.
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