Sentences with phrase «minor acts of»

Notably, students reported that their parents were much more tolerant of their substance use than of other problem behaviors such as rudeness to adults and minor acts of delinquency.

The type of negative behaviour can vary from minor acts of rolling one's eyes, smirking, giving silent treatment to more serious acts of exclusion, betrayal and cruel verbal abuse.

Minor acts of witness intimidation will generally be charged as a misdemeanor.

So minor acts of misbehavior, mostly suitability issues, are sometimes ignored.

Now, my mornings are dictated by a cherubic almost - two - year - old who likes to start his day with a smoothie and minor acts of vandalism.

Schizopolis represents a minor act of self - indulgence on the part of the sometimes eccentric Steven Soderbergh but results in major tedium for the viewer.

Although a single act of serious workplace misconduct (e.g. theft or workplace violence) is generally cause for dismissal there are decisions in which the employer was found not to have cause even though the employee committed theft or a minor act of violence.

Not exact matches

The Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) account allows you to give the gift of precious metals to your children, grandchildren, and other mMinors Act (UTMA) account allows you to give the gift of precious metals to your children, grandchildren, and other minorsminors.

The law also states that «zero - tolerance policies are not intended to be rigorously applied to petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors, including, but not limited to, minor fights or disturbances.»

Coercing a religious baker is like forcing an act of minor cosmic suicide.

Research shows minors are sold an average of 10 - 15 times a day, six days a week, totaling between 9,360 and 14,040 sex acts a year.

«If we don't act now, any one of us could go into hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection that can't be treated by antibiotics.

It is instead a limited and minor action in the context of this conquered and reconquered stretch of soil, the ugly but unexceptional act of a regional power.

He helps us put in its proper context the conduct that society has conditioned us to disapprove of — acts that range from the sexual libertinism of the Marquis de Sade to the minor sadisms of the Rolling Stones: urinating in public against a service station wall, trashing the hotel rooms in which they stayed, distributing their semen with indiscriminate generosity to avid groupies.

Josh Duggar, 27, the eldest child in the Duggar family of 19 Kids and Counting, apologized for acting «inexcusably» after InTouch, a gossip website, revealed that he had «forcibly fondled» 5 girls, all minors, when he was about 15 years old.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

But on the other hand they are to be given only a minor place, less than that of acts of kindness: «Christians must be taught that it is not the Pope's intention that the purchase of indulgences is in any way comparable with the works of mercy.»

We become comfortable with moral shortcuts and gradually conclude that small acts of dishonesty and minor indiscretions don't matter when the purposes are sufficiently large.

How dare someone compare abuse of a minor with an immoral act between consenting adults?

This approach can act as a mini health retreat, a minor meditation that will re-set your mind on the goodness and beauty of life.

Instead, a panel of coaches would direct the team, dividing their time between the Cubs and the minor league farm teams and taking turns acting as head coach.

On page 1,967 of the 2,232 - page bill — immediately following a section about the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the National Criminal History Background Check and Criminal History Review Program — there is an addendum to a 1939 labor law that specifically carves out an exemption for minor league baseball.

Emancipation is a term that generally describes the transition from «minor» to «adult» in which the child becomes free from parental control, and the parents are no longer legally responsible for the acts of the child.

Parent - child relationships can be a source of conflict in some marriages, but overall children act as a stabilizing factor in marriages and when children are absent the marriage is prone to be rocked by minor storms.

Although the specific issue of restricting smoking in prisons may appear of minor significance compared to other recent defeats in court for the justice secretary, this judgment is important because it clearly brings the prison system within the ambit of the Health Act.

Both moves would open up a space to abandon the Human Rights Act (HRA)-- widely detested by Conservatives — as long as the British bill of rights still satisfies the European convention, albeit with minor alterations.

Section 2 (2)(b) of the 1962 Act said that those who arrived as minors were not included in the immigration system.

Meanwhile, top leaders act as a sort of shield, taking what media attention there is away from more minor members.

Subsequently, numerous radical White Papers came to nothing, most recently Nick Clegg's ill - fated bill in 2011, but the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, colloquially referred to as the Norton - Steel - Byles Bill, will see minor reforms introduced on the sixth attempt at passing various incarnations of that bill.

«After a catalogue of complaints by the Mahin people of different communities of the acts and omission of the present Amapatu of Mahin, particularly with respect to the kingdom territorial integrity, land use, chieftaincy matters, including the issue of the Alaboto of Aboto and minor chiefs in Igbokoda; the meeting supported the decision of the Mahin kingmakers passing a vote of no confidence on the Monarch and declaring the seat vacant for the time being.

The Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevention Act or ATUPA is found in Article 13 - F of the NYS Public Health Law which covers regulation of tobacco products and herbal cigarettes and their distribution to minors.

The Legislature voted to increase penalties for committing acts of public lewdness in front of minors.

So although the top row in Table 2 shows another 23 to 29 % of minor recommendations being implemented (versus only 3 % not acted on), these cases probably are «chaff», and so ought to be set aside.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

Erie County legislators Edward A. Rath III and Ray Walter held a press conference Thursday to announce that they are co-sponsoring legislation to help bring an end to cyber-bullying, the act of online harassment against a minor.

Unable to persuade legislators to raise the age to 18, from 16, the governor acted unilaterally on the issue of housing minors in adult prisons, ordering 16 - and 17 - year - old inmates to be put in separate facilities.

Now that the environmental review process is complete, the next step will be for the Town Board to address a few minor revisions in the FGEIS, said Bakner, and file it along with a completed State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) Statement of Findings.

The passage of the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act and spearheaded by the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, was the most significant step yet toward reducing the burden of a two - decade - old policing policy that treats public disorder as harbingers of more dangerous offenses, and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of outstanding criminal court warrants for minor infractions.

The soldier (name withheld) was alleged to have committed the offence on a minor was found guilty on one count charge punishable under Armed Forces Act Cap 20, laws of the federal Republic of Nigeria as amended 2004.

The legislation was among 133 bills Gov. Andrew Cuomo had to act on by midnight Monday, a 10 - day bill consideration exercise that included a host of minor to medium changes in state law.

Known as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, the package of bills that passed last year created a new civil system for handling minor offenses that in the past often resulted in open warrants and the possibility of arrests for a disproportionate number of minority New Yorkers.

In 1996, Congress passed the Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA), which made illegal «any visual depiction including any photograph, film, video, picture or computer - generated image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.»

In the U.K., the 1976 Fatal Accidents Act provides for a lump sum of $ 20,000 to a surviving spouse or the parents of a minor.

Immigrants who came to the United States illegally as small children and who meet the requirements of the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, more commonly known as DREAMers, are at risk for mental health distress, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University.

For instance, articles on demonstrations supporting the DREAM Act, a proposal to grant residency for minors illegally in the United States, could increase the proportion of pro-immigration posts after publication of the articles.

The legislation, signed into law on 24 February by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, mandates prison terms of up to 14 years for homosexual acts and life imprisonment for «aggravated homosexuality,» such as sexual acts with a minor.

Now, after observing a notoriously choked stretch of autobahn, two German researchers think they understand better why even a minor slowdown on a packed highway can rapidly trigger long - lasting gridlock: Traffic at times appears to act like a substance rapidly changing from, say, a gas to a liquid.

A minor diplomat before he turned to acting, Hale began appearing in minor film roles in 1934, showing up fleetingly in such well - remembered films as the Karloff / Lugosi film The Raven (1935), the Marx Brothers» A Night at the Opera (1935) and the first version of A Star is Born (1937).

This is a sincere, well - acted movie about the short life of a minor rock»n' roll star, and by the time it's over we almost have the feeling Valens would have been surprised not to have died in a crash.

A Royal Affair loses its steam a bit in the final act, as the political shifting behind the scenes doesn't mesh too well with the love story that takes center stage, but it's all part of the required setup that brings us to that explosive climax which is well worth any minor complaints along the way.