Sentences with phrase «major factors in the case»

In New York, it is not against the law for legislators to take outside income — and it was a major factor in the case of Mr. Silver, who prosecutors said had traded state grant money and influence on tenant legislation in exchange for legal referral fees.

Not exact matches

Winning major trophies with club and country sure factors into the decision - making, but it can be argued that in the past the discrepancy in talent and respective individual exploits of the finalists was in some cases minimal.

However, when it comes to child protection, routine engagement with fathers and father - figures has seemed a distant ideal: safeguarding policy has repeatedly failed to identify this as an issue despite the fact that Serious Case Reviews over a twenty year period (most recently the Ofsted Serious Case Review summary of 46 cases, as well as both of the Baby Peter Serious Case Reviews) have found failure by practitioners to engage with the men in children's lives to be a major factor in child abuse and deaths.

Additionally, in over half of these cases other major risk factors, such as smoke exposure or sleeping on soft surfaces, were present at the death scene.

That change was a major factor in the decision to drop the case against de Blasio, which Bharara also came to before being fired March 11, sources told The Post.

First, even if variation in intelligence is taken to be largely genetically determined — which they argue is increasingly disputable — it still remains the case that children's family environments and resources are major factors in how well they do academically at school.

In these cases, diesel exhaust is a major factor.

Noted CBS Films Sunday, reporting the film's grosses: «As has been the case all along the film is playing broadly in terms of geography and theater type but a major factor in its strong performance this weekend is the tiny drop (just 14 %) in the holdover theaters.

In this case, plotlines deal with peer pressure (a major factor contributing to Rock's decision to bust up his principal's car), broken homes, and drugs.

I've highlighted quality writing in all of these entries (because I think that is a major factor) but with Deus Ex it's a bigger feat than in most other cases due to the ease with which the topics it discussed could have pushed the game into pretentiousness.

A bill before the Legislature would use the ratings as a major factor in determining which teachers receive or lose lifetime tenure protections and who would be the first to go in the case of layoffs.

Excessive self esteem is a major factor in many cases of Alzheimer's disease; this book is going to tell you why.

The major deciding factor in many cases is accessibility.

Other factors such as employment, school, or major may factor into your eligibility in some cases.

In most cases, major currency trends occur when a variety of factors coalesce for a period of time, giving impetus to one currency over other currencies.

I agree that behaviour is a major factor in success, but am more optimistic that with good processes and education investors can be successful (but Dan has seen more cases than I have so my optimism may not be as rooted in reality).

Human influence is a major factor in most cases of dog violence.

In that case, only let the bonus be your deciding factor if you're planning a major purchase you can use it for.

In the case of the Columbine High School shooting, the video game Doom was a major factor in the opinion of the cause in the investigators mind, stating that the shooters had modified the game to include two shooters and unlimited ammo and recreated scenes from the gamIn the case of the Columbine High School shooting, the video game Doom was a major factor in the opinion of the cause in the investigators mind, stating that the shooters had modified the game to include two shooters and unlimited ammo and recreated scenes from the gamin the opinion of the cause in the investigators mind, stating that the shooters had modified the game to include two shooters and unlimited ammo and recreated scenes from the gamin the investigators mind, stating that the shooters had modified the game to include two shooters and unlimited ammo and recreated scenes from the game.

Last but not least, this scenario demonstrates how, in the usual case, CO2 concentration lags, but is a major factor in, the temperature changes.

In the case of the IPCC, maybe you know a lot more - IPCC finally admits that paving over tropical forests is a major factor in climate chanIn the case of the IPCC, maybe you know a lot more - IPCC finally admits that paving over tropical forests is a major factor in climate chanin climate change

A specific case in which envy seems to be a major factor in the development of opposition to a wind farm is the Ceres Project on SA's Yorke Peninsula, where some potential turbine hosts demanded more money than the proponent was willing to pay.

They have given it a bit more prominence than in AR4, mentioning it at least three times: in the SPM, in section 7 and in section 8, however, rationalizing in each case that it can not be a major factor.

Our website does discuss some of the major factors of case value that apply in most personal injury cases.

This has not been a major focus in custody case law but three of these seventeen factors are explicitly concerned with that issue (6, 7 & 8) and one factor implicitly focuses on that concern (14).

Establishing fault and liability is a major factor in the amount of compensation you can receive, so it is a good idea to have a lawyer help you with these aspects of your case.

This has potential adverse consequences both in individual cases, where parties are unfamiliar with court procedures and do not have a lawyer to argue their case or examine the witnesses, and for the justice system overall, since the presence of lawyers is a major contributing factor to the efficient and effective operation of our courts.

Given the high costs that an attorney must front in defective airbag cases, the severity of injury is a major factor for product liability attorneys selecting which cases to pursue.

Peter's focus is addressing online access to electronic court records, the importance of print - independent citation methods, replacement of print for «official» case law publication, and major institutional factors that have inhibited court innovation in the U.S.

While the vehicle you drive has a major impact on your premium, it's not the only rating factor that insurance companies consider, and in most cases it's not even the most important one.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

Although the major focus of this paper is on personality aspects that contribute to gambling problems, one can not dismiss environmental factors, which in some cases may be more influential than one's personality and other possible genetic influences.

In the significant number of cases substance abuse is a major contributing factor.

LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS --[Editor's note: I normally do not write about crimes committed by trans people, however in this case, relationship difficulties during transition was a major contributing factor in the death, hence it's newsworthiness.]