Sentences with phrase «into acts of abuse»

We know from our own troubled War against Terror, how easy it is, when facing a murderous enemy, to slide from just war principles, into acts of abuse and immorality.

Not exact matches

A good next move for Congress would be to launch a long - overdue update of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act from 1986, which makes it unlawful to break into a computer to access or alter information and, astoundingly, still serves as a legal guidepost today.

Important changes to Canadian citizenship and immigration policy have broken into the headlines of late, from the introduction of the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act to serious abuses of the controversial temporary foreign worker program to refugee determination concerns.

Without hunger, our consumption will lead us deeper and deeper into acts of oblivious or intentional neglect, abuse, exploitation of those who are hungry.

Survivors of childhood sexual abuse delivered an emotional appeal to state senators Wednesday after they learned that the Senate did not put the Child Victims Act into their budget plan.

Despite the fact that in her presentation she is clear of the influx of aid workers and researchers from the Global North coming into communities in the DRC to question abuse survivors (she reveals, for example, that only oral permission is obtained because the act of signing a document has taken on the meaning that the signer is entitled to some form of aid), she believes that US military personnel should be direct (and, it would seem, demanding) about the subject of sexual assault.

Police launched an investigation into possible breaches of the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 earlier this year, after claims that Labour was offering wealthy backers a seat in the House of Lords in return for loans.

The Senate President expressed his readiness and those of his colleagues to look into the amendment of NDLEA Act in order to curb the prevalence of drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking in the country.

By this petition, we humbly request your noble Commission to launch a full - scale investigation into this matter in line with your mandate under article 218 (a) of the 1992 Constitution and section 7 (1)(i) of the Act 456, 1993 as amended and to establish whether or not the conduct of ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah in question, amounts to abuse of office, corruption and perversion of justice.

«In my own view, this plot is an act of desperation, blackmail, intimidation, abuse of office and crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a Police State where top officials can not be made to obey the law, follow due process and subject themselves to constituted authorities,» the Senate President told Senators.

Survivors of childhood sexual abuse delivered an emotional appeal to state senators today after they learned that the Senate did not put the Child Victims Act into their budget plan.

If we insist that the Ghanaian everywhere act right, where will be the Ghanaian tolerance for abuses against the Ghana economy in the land of the Ghanaian by the aliens Mosquito and his unpatriotic team import into our economy from Togo specifically?

In the first, the former Scientologists describe how they got into Scientology; the second act recounts the history of Scientology and the author of Dianetics, and in the final act, the film airs allegations of the abuse of church members and misconduct by its leadership, particularly David Miscavige, who is accused of intimidating, beating, imprisoning, and exploiting subordinates.

But after «Flight» descends from its high - wire act, the film reshapes itself into a fairly standard story about substance abuse, and the life - long endeavor of maintaining sobriety.

Odin doesn't cross the line into criminal acts without the injection of a drug abuse subplot that has him going off of the deep end.

Employing admirable restraint while focusing on the crack team of Boston reporters who exposed the pedophilic crimes being committed by members of the clergy, this riveting film ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit.

A movie that ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit, Spotlight is especially admirable in its restraint, not only in its approach to unsettling material but also in the relatively muted acting by all concerned.

Such conduct shall include, but is not limited to, threats, intimidation or abuse based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex; provided that nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to prohibit a denial of admission into, or exclusion from, a course of instruction based on a person's gender that would be permissible under Education Law sections 3201 - a or 2854 (2)(a) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. section 1681, et seq.), or to prohibit, as discrimination based on disability, actions that would be permissible under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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The Means Test for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy was enacted into law in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

«Substantial abuse» was expanded by the Bankruptcy Reform Act, which went into effect on October 17, 2005, to include a Means Test which allows Chapter 7 only if a debtor has less income than the median for the state of residence, or can pay less than 25 % of his or her unsecured debt from income remaining after meeting expenses over a 5 year period.

New Bankruptcy Laws - The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), also known as the new bankruptcy laws, was signed into law by President George W. Bush on April 20, 2005.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (S. 256), was signed into law by President Bush on April 20, 2005.

The simple act of having a dog or cat sterilized spares unwanted future animals from being born into lives of homelessness, suffering, and abuse.

Located on 67 acres in Tampa, Florida, the sanctuary is home to 80 + cats of 12 different species including lions, tigers, bobcats, cougars, servals, jaguars, and others most of whom have been abandoned, abused, orpharned, saved from being turned into fur coats, or retired from performing acts.

Titled with variants of «animation abuse,» the three golem - like sculptures encountered at the entry allude to a thing molded by humans, the copy stuck in a closed loop or limbo, unable to act on its own, but holding the promise of a way to evolve into a higher being.

I MAY have been a Turner Prize virgin, but when I walked into the Tate Britain for the preview of this year's exhibition and was faced with decomposing bodies, blow - up dolls engaging in a sex act and vases depicting images of child abuse, I can not say I was very surprised.

Two years ago today, the Bankruptcy Abuse and Protection Act of 2005 was signed into law and took effect in October 2005.

According to the legal provisions of South Korea, hacking means an act that unauthorized or authorized people use to abuse their authority to break into an information network by using an information processing device such as a computer.

Divorce is bad, and accordingly the 1857 UK Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act made it very difficult to get a divorce a vinculo, especially if you were a woman; adultery and abuse are bad, and accordingly the 1968 Canadian Divorce Act required the court to take matrimonial misconduct into account when determining issues of custody and support.

BAPCPA [Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention & Consumer Protection Act] Hangover: One theory is that the system is still suffering from a BAPCPA hangover, and that everyone who was thinking of filing filed last October before the law went into affect.

Many online abuse cases rely on the «tacking on» of cyberbullying to other, perhaps more serious crimes and, while much of what is said online can be covered by existing legislation such as the Malicious Communications Act (1998) or the Communications Act (2003), prosecution is often reliant on fitting the charge into the parameters of other offenses, such as stalking and threatening to cause violence.

The rule changes ushered in by the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which came into force in October 2015, should result in an increase in claims arising out of infringement of competition law (for example damages claims relating to cartels, anti-competitive agreements, or abuse of a dominant market position).

Representations include investigations into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering and securities regulatory abuses including insider trading and market manipulation, financial reporting fraud and financial defalcation.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on April 20, 2005.

He is currently acting for a number of government departments in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

In my view, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act... does not make the millions of people who engage in this ubiquitous, useful, and generally harmless conduct into unwitting federal criminals.»

For some residents, developing insight into the correlation between their own acting out behavior and their history of abuse, is the first building block toward continued therapy work in the future.

It gives examples of how the Act has been relied upon in child welfare and legal proceedings to ensure fair process and to prevent unnecessary interference or an abuse of power by the state into the family life of vulnerable children and families.

-- In conducting the statewide needs assessment required under paragraph (1), the State shall coordinate with, and take into account, other appropriate needs assessments conducted by the State, as determined by the Secretary, including the needs assessment required under section 505 (a)(both the most recently completed assessment and any such assessment in progress), the communitywide strategic planning and needs assessments conducted in accordance with section 640 (g)(1)(C) of the Head Start Act, and the inventory of current unmet needs and current community - based and prevention - focused programs and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect, and other family resource services operating in the State required under section 205 (3) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatmentabuse and neglect, and other family resource services operating in the State required under section 205 (3) of the Child Abuse Prevention and TreatmentAbuse Prevention and Treatment Act.

When I think about the reconciliation process I sort of go back to the issue of what's called the stolen generation... The national inquiry into the separation of these families made seven or so recommendations for government response to these abuses and I'd be interested in hearing how many of those recommendations have indeed been acted on.