Sentences with phrase «not predatory»

People facing foreclosure are in very difficult circumstances, and they need help — not predatory behavior.

But locking progress through this mode (and, again, toward the game's true ending) behind either spending more money or doing tons of tedious busywork feels at least greedy if not predatory.

The loot boxes in Shadow of War are not predatory, cosmetic, or time - saving — they are simply misguided.

Fortunately, most of the miniature species of fish available to the trade are not predatory on other fish species.

Not predatory advertising or unsympathetic labor nurses, and certainly not free formula samples.

They accepted that their pricing policies were aggressive towards each other, but not predatory in principle.

The morbid are our greatest peril — not the «bad» men, not the predatory beings.

The mutant isn't predatory.

I think the main distinction between self - publishing and vanity publishing is that self - publishing isn't predatory.

With better — and free — alternatives out there, there aren't many ways to look at RAL and RAC programs where they aren't predatory, targeting people who think they don't have other options or are desperate to get their refund money now.

Not exact matches

Bad credit can limit your financing options to predatory lenders that saddle people with oversize loans and repossess the cars when they can't pay.

The problem is that most don't qualify for bank loans with an 8 % interest rate, and even more don't want to do business with predatory lenders who charge 40 % and remind them of Tony Soprano.

When most entrepreneurs think of private equity, they imagine predatory organizations and individuals who aren't going to act like partners.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

While there are several advantages to alternative lending, it's critical you carefully review and evaluate various loan product, so you don't fall prey to predatory lending.

However, even this strategy has skeptics.324 While established brick - and - mortar retailers like Target have tried to lure online consumers through discounts and low delivery costs, 325 Amazon remains the major online seller of baby products.326 Although Amazon established its dominance in this market through aggressive price cutting and selling steeply at a loss, its actions have not triggered predatory pricing claims.

Canada's current infrastructure and our public and private leadership do not foster the needed capacity to contend effectively in the complex, predatory and state - sponsored ideas ownership game.

A court hearing this week will determine whether or not thousands of former Corinthian Colleges students will have their student loan debt erased.The class - action lawsuit was filed in California by the Project on Predatory Student Lending and by the Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, USA Today reported.

I do not want to be too negative about credit cards, but I feel it is kind of a predatory product and regulators have not really figured that out yet.

«Facebook's platform must protect us from predatory behavior,» wrote a Twitter user named Evan Baily, «or we can't and shouldn't trust the platform.»

These guys don't seem to realise that truly confident, well - balanced, non-psychopathic people know how to (and want to) start real, sincere conversations with romantic prospects without having to resort to springing bullshit predatory «techniques» on people in completely inappropriate contexts.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

«Ultimately, it's not like we've taken real steps to stop predatory lending based on race,» Beryl Satter told me.

Predatory lenders count on borrowers not having the time or know - how to understand their contracts.

Another warning sign of predatory lending is offering a loan that doesn't require a credit check.

Predatory lenders often have terms that mean the creditor profits when you can't make payments.

Any loan that charges triple - digit interest rates costing far more than the actual principal borrowed is predatory and could not be construed to be somehow helping anyone.

But we put ethics and user privacy at the core of our approach, which means our activities are not invasive or predatory for the communities we study.

Predatory lending often involves creditors who don't provide proper loan disclosures or provide misleading information for borrowers.

But he can not, because he is enslaved to his own predatory, domineering instincts....

This seems almost predatory to me, like God is some hunter who's hiding in a blind, admiring the deer who aren't fooled while taking the heads of the rest as trophies.

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

-LCB- alert: Smith would probably not have done well in the Twitter world -RCB- One can surmise that the form of capitalism that Americans subscribed to in Adam Smith capitalism was based on an ethical system influenced by Christianity.My very, very rudimentary understanding of Sharia laws concerning finance suggest to me that it is more closely related to Adam Smith capitalism than to predatory capitalism.What do you think?

The Catholic Church should be treated like any predatory institution, I think the more than proved they can't control themselves.

With the exception of predatory behaviors that take advantage of the vulnerable among us, we should concentrate on cleaning up our own act, rather than remaking others into our own image so that their presence is not challenge our narcissistic psychological comfort zones.

In a time of predatory trade globalisation, they have even succeeded in corrupting the Olympic Games and their supreme organisation the IOC, which perhaps does not surprise connoisseurs of the history of this institution.

I agree with this statement as far as it goes; the only problem I have with it is that I feel like there is a basic assumption here that it is easy and obvious to tell what behaviors of our own or others are predatory and destructive and which are not.

Churches often don't communicate with each other, so a predatory person can simply move to another pasture to find new victims.

Which is another reason why we can share how we feel and why; but can't be impute motives or be dogmatic except for the most obvious predatory acts like murder, rape, physical assault — those things that have been criminalized by enforceable laws, laws that have the support of an overwhelming public consensus.

you don't think there is any place for friendly, gracious, humble and loving stands against behavior that you think may be predatory but is ambiguous?

Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.

The human species should not apologize for its predatory role in the biotic pyramid.

This is a man who clearly can not deal with his own actions and so hast to make it about the predatory 16 year old.

To be shocked that predatory people would seek to use the authority of God to destroy is to assume that somehow Jesus» warnings do not apply to us.

You also, even though predatory behavior must not be tolerated, tell us not to obsess over evil.

Let's not agree to disagree over the rights of women and the LGBT community, the Establishment Clause, the exploitation of misguided people by predatory clergy.

A Church that is not cercerned with BOTH personal predatory behavior and institualized socioeconomic injustices is not faithful to its calling.

The first is to put in place checks and balances so that the predatory and exploitative instincts In human nature do not become socially subversive.

«Predatory Rich» You make me sick, if you don't like it here go live in North Korea or Iran.

Coles denies engaging in predatory pricing, claiming it has not been selling milk at a loss (which is required for a successful action under the Birdsville Amendment, although it is not a pre-requisite under the standard misuse of market power provision, which might also found a claim for predatory pricing).