Sentences with phrase «most damaging case»

The most damaging case was likely that of an Indian passenger who was raped by an Uber driver in 2014.

Not exact matches

After Monsanto, Apple ranked second and third for most damages awarded to it in such cases, with close to a billion dollars from — guess who — Samsung.

In most cases, though, they are financial investments in which backers are motivated by the potential proceeds from a large damage award.

«After dropping their patent claims, this week Waymo lost one of the trade secrets they claimed was most important, had their damages expert excluded, and saw an entire defendant removed from the case — and all this before the trial has even started.»

The move struck observers as odd because most plaintiffs seeking damages usually hope to settle the case by leveraging the deep pockets of an insurer.

While in most companies the venture capitalists have to worry about their reputation along with their capital, in the case of Uber there is simply too much money at stake: transforming a $ 68 billion paper return to a real return (and guaranteeing a per partner return in the nine figures) is worth whatever reputational damage is incurred along the way.

If Krugman's criticism of the «mythology» is correct, the Canadian banking system of that era should have been a basket case, but instead it was a model for the world precisely because it lacked the two most damaging government regulations present in the US.

After all, there is but one man in most polygamy cases, and the sterilization of a man is cheaper and less physically damaging for a man than it is for a woman.

In the case of Templeton he spent many years rejecting God in the most public manner doing great damage to the kingdom of God.

In any case, these isolated monks certainly don't seem to doing any damage (unlike most of us), and they're preserving a pretty unique tradition.

Especially in the latter case but also in the former, however, it's not typical for whole neighborhoods to be targeted in fraudulent cases, as that is (a) a lot riskier than doing something to your own property both in terms of getting caught in the first place as well as the penalties you will incur, (b) makes you at most part of something apparently bigger and denies the fraudster of the unique victimhood they seek and (c) in the case of insurance fraud, involves damaging things you can't collect on.

In most cases the belief is in some respects psychologically damaging and in some respects beneficial.

As in the case of physical malnutrition, severe shortages of psychological food have their most damaging effects during the early years when growth is the most rapid and personality the most plastic.

The National Review conservatives were, in most cases, zealous defenders of Senator Joe McCarthy; the neoconservatives considered him a political thug whose demagoguery had severely damaged the anti-Communist cause.

As is true in the case of physical nutrition, deprivation of adequate emo tional food is the most damaging in the earliest years of life, when growth is the most rapid and personality the most plastic.

There are many people who have been damaged by life and need treatment or in some cases quarantine because the damage is so great, but most people are trying to be the best human they can be.

Perhaps most damaging were public assurances by the Cardinal that every case had been addressed, which assurances were then followed by the public exposure of yet further instances of wickedness.

Yet probably the most damaging is the learned behavior of covering up and enabling the addictive behavior, as evident in the above - mentioned case of the alcoholic layperson.

In most cases, if you can give the antibiotic to a newborn, it is considered safe to take while breastfeeding, although quindones should be avoided, as it can cause damage to tendons in adults.

It's going to take some major action to repair damage and this will most likely be a case study for years to come.

In contrast, OB's are required to carry insurance and as a result, most lawyers will take on a malpractice case if the damages are likely to be adequate to cover the cost of pursuing it.

While jaundice is usually very treatable, in the most extreme cases it can cause brain damage.

In most cases, the gum disease would not be so far advanced as to cause permanent damage.

Just look at those documented routes from Southampton, Glasgow Prestwick and Gatwick that have been lost or damaged as a direct result of APD, and it's clear that this tax is the reason airlines are transferring more routes to continental Europe where air passenger taxes are much lower, or in the case of most countries, non-existent.

In case of a crash, the plane shears its wings from the body to absorb most of the impact, in turn reducing damage.

If left untreated, 60 percent of patients eventually develop Lyme arthritis, with the most severe cases having higher risks of permanent joint damage.

Most plastic surgery cases were classified as debridement — removal of damaged or contaminated tissue.

Moreover, claimants will have to prove that there has been substantial damage to their reputation in the UK, and that the English High Court is the most appropriate jurisdiction for hearing the case.

Most MGUS cases are never diagnosed; MGUS is characterized by a detectable M protein without evidence for end - organ damage or other related plasma cell or lymphoproliferative disorders.

In most cases, specimens are seriously damaged.

In most cases, CTE is thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head, which damage brain tissue and lead to a buildup of an abnormal protein called tau, according to the CTE Center.

Once believed to be relatively innocuous in most cases, scientists now fear that repeated concussions may lead to debilitating neurological damage.

He said most cases of damage to the heart occur during the first 24 to 36 hours after surgery, when patients usually receive narcotic painkillers that can mask cardiac symptoms.

There has been some talk among string theorists in particular that the collider might, in the most optimistic to them of cases, create black holes [that would] pop before they could cause any damage.

«Most cases of brain - damaged newborns not due to mismanaged deliveries.»

Although most cases of strep throat heal on their own, antibiotic treatment reduce symptoms decrease transmission to others, and can prevent rare but serious complications such as damage to heart valves.

Finally, and most important, transgenic mice inoculated with prions from human cases of new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease produced the same incubation period and pattern of brain damage as had inoculation with prions from diseased cows.

The report credited the Montreal Protocol, which it called «one of the world's most successful environmental treaties,» for the recovery of the ozone layer, which it projects will help prevent two million cases of skin cancer by 2030, besides preventing damage to humans» immune systems as well as wildlife and agriculture.

Most of us don't think too much about cartilage (soft, flexible connective tissue found in the body) unless it's damaged in which case it's importance becomes immediately apparent.

In most cases it is harmless, but it can interrupt the usual flow of blood, raising the risk for serious organ, brain and heart damage.

Despite what seems like popular belief, in most cases, a fever less than 103 will not cause brain damage, and a fever stemming from an infection will usually not go above this unless other factors (hot environment, etc.) are present.

In each of the knee ligament injuries below, the damage can range from a sprain to a slight tear or a complete tear in the most serious cases.

We propose that the observed reductions in IgG levels in these cases can be explained by a combination of improved secretory IgA protection with enhanced regrowth of damaged villus structures» «The finding of elevated IgG concentrations to multiple foods implies an increased permeability to food antigens, and the most significant immune - challenging foods are reasonably expected to be those that elicit the most extreme IgG responses.

I should point out that my case was pretty severe to start with: severe damage of the gut lining to the point of multiple ulcerations, parasitic infection, chronic aeromonas infection, and most likely chronic candida overgrowth have kept my digestive tract inflamed for decades.

I feel that in most cases the majority of the initial artery wall damage is done my insulin but other factors, mainly hypertension alone can cause the initial injury as well in some individuals.

Like all modern foods, most cod liver oil today is subject to processing; in the case of cod liver oil, this processing generally applies heat from steaming, boiling or distillation.1 These treatments could damage the omega - 3 fatty acids in cod liver oil and remove natural vitamins, especially vitamin D. For that reason, the Weston A. Price Foundation has tended to recommend brands of cod liver oil that are extracted at low temperatures, especially through a process of fermenting the livers.

Recently, gluten intolerance has been described as a spectrum, with only the most severe cases of damage being diagnosed with Celiac disease.

More importantly, the most - successful efforts to expand school choice (including Virginia Walden Ford's work in Washington, D.C., Steve Barr's work with Latino communities in Los Angeles, and Parent Revolution's Parent Trigger efforts), have been ones led by poor and minority communities who explicitly made the case for helping their own children escape failure mills that damaged their families for generations.

Long among the most powerful forces in American politics, the unions are contending with falling revenue and declining membership, damaging court cases, the defection of once - loyal Democratic allies — and a multimillion - dollar public relations campaign portraying them as greedy and selfish.

Hey Brett, The most likely thing to happen in a casing on a wire being damaged, and touching metal.