Sentences with phrase «lapse of judgment»

This momentary lapse of judgment can lead to severe injuries including traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, disfigurement, and other permanent and debilitating conditions.

Social media is becoming a factor in more and more child custody cases, and parents are well - advised to understand how a momentary lapse of judgment could derail their bid for custody.

But I hope the court won't cut back on the First Amendment to protect a law professor from a lapse of judgment or his own sour grapes — which is what seems to be driving this lawsuit far more than an innocent desire to vindicate one's name.

The Court of Appeal makes clear that not every single lapse of judgment or disparaging comment about opposing counsel will or ought to lead to disciplinary action.

Local 10 reports that prosecutors are seeking a relatively lenient sentence of just 15 months in prison because they believe «Page had a lapse of judgment and the bank was at fault for allowing this to happen.»

It can begin with police incompetence, sloppiness or misconduct; a momentary lapse of judgment — a false witness, an uncorroborated accusation.

Groping a half - asleep girl isn't a drunk twit thing or a momentary lapse of judgment thing, it's a feeling entitled to women's bodies thing.

A brief look at my account will reveal I have successfully made 12 on time payments since my unfortunate lapse of judgment.

But don't fall into a lapse of judgment.

If, however, you object to the character - based, appropriate use of the «F - bomb» or a lapse of judgment showing a major flaw in a protagonist, you may rest assured that my characters are not «perfect», that they, too, have lessons to learn.

Smith adheres to the formula of his previous similar efforts in that the two would - be lovers initially find reasons not to be together, then they have a lapse of judgment that explores the possibility of romantic entanglement, a pulling back completely, and then a coming to terms.

After the incident, the first - year QB out of Texas A&M said, «I felt like I did a good job of holding my composure throughout the night, and you have a lapse of judgment and slip up.»

There was also a lapse of judgment on part of Mr. Saxena as claimed in one of the announcements, that he had been online when the private keys were extracted for the BTG distribution process and saving in plain text format which went against the written policies of safety and security of operations.

Before assigning equal blame to the rejected parent we need to differentiate between a pattern of mistreatment and isolated lapses of judgment, between a cause of the alienation and a desperate, helpless, ultimately inadequate response.

Not exact matches

«In a moment of lapsed judgment, I assumed that a particular English blogger — who shall remain nameless — and 22 — was in a position to pay for her hotel stay.

This is certainly a step in the right direction of creating a balanced justice system — one in which big businesses can not capitalize on people's lapses in judgment.

This is certainly a step in the right direction of creating a balanced justice system — one that does not allow big business to capitalize off of people's lapses in judgment.

In the same way, the label of criminal is oppressive because it keeps individuals from overcoming their momentarily lapses of good judgment.

That's obviously a shitty take too; they're human and they are capable of mistakes or lapses in judgment.

Powell insisted his drunk driving arrest was just one night of bad judgment, compared to Rangel's long - standing ethical lapses.

With Giraldo and other supporters on hand, Monserrate begged Manhattan Federal Court Judge Colleen McMahon for mercy, saying he was ashamed of his «lapse in judgment.»

He said that Lord Ashcroft's tax status was a matter for him, that new rules regarding the conduct of Tory MEPs would be published within weeks and he promised decisive but fair judgment against anyone found guilty of ethical lapses.

I would recommend, or at least request, editing articles of this ilk with an eye out for similar lapses in judgment.

But I believe these moments are meant to be more symbolic of the good versus evil struggle for the soul of Gotham city, rather than lapses in judgment from the creative team.

Again, it all depends on Thompson, who knows how far to push the character's change of heart while suggesting that it's just a momentary lapse in judgment.

By Michael Russnow HollywoodNews.com: For the past two years I've written reviews of The Golden Globes excoriating Ricky Gervais for mostly tedious humor and lapses in judgment that resulted in so - called jokes that were in severely bad taste.

The much - commented - on lapse in judgment that relegated Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy to the Frontier section last year affected its reception, not only because Frontier is a catch - all category for films that are regarded as too far - out for the majority of Sundancers, but more concretely, because Frontier films screen at the festival's lesser venues.

Distractions, lapses in judgment, and plain old bad luck are a part of every day life.

A panoply of intervention systems are available to step in during lapses of driver judgment or emergency situations.

When Alex inadvertently obliterates Violet's misapprehension regarding the inferior intellect of hockey players, he becomes much more than just a hot body with the face to match.Suffering from a complete lapse in judgment, Violet discovers just how good Alex is with the hockey stick in his pants.

In a nutshell, because there's no accounting for the lapses in judgment of other people!

In an effort to do so, and in a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics, I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else's name.

But even he conceded that he committed «a serious lapse of professional judgment and ethics...»

On February 20, 2012, Peter Gleick issued a statement in the Huffington Post admitted to soliciting and receiving Heartland's budget and planning documents «under someone else's name,» and called his actions «a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics.»

Gleick acknowledges that he, an outside critic of the organization, solicited and received Heartland documents under false pretenses, an action he describes as a «serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics.»

Another blogger, Joe Romm of Climate Progress, granted that Gleick «committed a serious lapse of professional judgment and ethics.

There are stats for cases filed, applications for leave submitted, appeals heard, judgments (including number of unanimous vs. split decisions), and average time lapses (time lines in the life of a case at the Court)... [more]

When young people face the lifelong consequences of a charge of date rape or another sex crime after a night of overindulgence or a temporary lapse in judgment, our attorneys will work hard to ensure that their rights are protected and that their future is not destroyed.

I acknowledge that wearing the hat was a breach of the principles of judicial office and was a lapse in judgment that I sincerely regret.

As the judgment above illustrates, judges are more likely to give a child the benefit of the doubt when it comes to a «momentary lapse» in judgment based on his or her relative youth and inexperience.

By the time the matter arrived before a hearing of the Ontario Judicial Council on Aug. 23, the Hamilton judge's lapse in judgment had been «heard around the world.»

There are stats for cases filed, applications for leave submitted, appeals heard, judgments (including number of unanimous vs. split decisions), and average time lapses (time lines in the life of a case at the Court).

It probably depends on the ages of your children, but odds are that they make mistakes or lapses in judgment on at least an occasional basis.

Indeed, the dissenter noted the apparent gamesmanship of the county attorney, who only sought summary judgment after the notice period had lapsed.

He said wearing the cap was a «lapse in judgment» and his intention was not to make a «political statement» or an endorsement of Trump's controversial views.

Even worse, if you aren't proactive enough to take care of your traffic ticket, the evidence of your momentary lapse in judgment will haunt you for the next three years.

It's a moment of weakness, a lapse of memory, an error of judgment, anything you want to call it, that makes you look really bad or unprofessional at the end.

It is highly recommended that you limit the number of hours your employees spend on the road each day because driver fatigue can cause lapses in judgment that can ultimately lead to an accident.

Most of these lapses in judgment are fairly easy to remedy.

It is also a good idea to limit the number of hours your employees spend on the road each day, as driver fatigue can lead to lapses in judgment.