Sentences with phrase «of abuse of authority»

This can be done, as Congress can determine the federal courts jurisdiction, and in the case of abuse of authority, limit that authority.

True enough, but a long habit of abuse of authority does not make the abuse legitimate.

Not exact matches

Their letter came on the heels of a controversial memo the House Intelligence Committee released earlier this month, which purports to show the FBI and Department of Justice abusing their surveillance authority to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

All of the companies deny the charges and say that they comply with all relevant laws and are working with authorities to prevent abuse in the system.

Adam Szubin, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Washington expected other governments and financial authorities to make similar moves to prevent Pyongyang from «abusing» global financial institutions to support its development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

The investigation comes after Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a polarizing memo in February accusing the DOJ and the FBI of abusing their surveillance authority when they sought the Page warrant.

Earlier this year, the committee's Republican majority attracted significant scrutiny when it released a controversial memo alleging that the FBI and the Justice Department abused their surveillance authority when it monitored Page ahead of the election.

He drew criticism from congressional Democrats, who said in a report he abused his authority and created a climate of fear at the agency.

It's an abuse of the constraints on the scope of the SEC's authority and a violation of basic federalism principles.

Many of the rules are designed to protect customers against abuses or help banks avoid big fines from authorities.

Policy initiatives on transparency and government accountability, along with formal (albeit belated) responses to injustices in Wukan and other rural communities indicate a willingness to redress human rights issues involving abuses of political authority.

Two forced strip - searches of a child by authorities at a Head Start program prompted by vague claims from an unreliable source could be considered child abuse, argues a friend - of - the - court brief urging the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive a lawsuit.

«Most of the emphasis appears to be on educating the field and encouraging them to be vigilant, while taking the position that USA Gymnastics has no authority to require clubs to take specific action — including the reporting of suspected child abuse,» Daniels wrote.

Officious social engineers of both the right and the left abuse the public schools to promote parochial agendas, whether by sanctioning the recitation of prayers over the school loudspeaker or by the distribution of contraceptives despite parental objections, thereby undermining parental authority and impairing the ability of parents to form their own family values.

British authorities had requested that he be extradited to the UK, however a Kosovan court blocked the move because under Kosovan law the child abuse allegations against him - some of which date back to the 1970s - had expired.

«Having written two lengthy books on poverty in Victorian England,» Prof. Himmelfarb notes, «I am painfully aware of the difficulties and inequalities in Victorian life... class distinctions, social prejudices, abuses of authority, constraints on personal liberty, restrictions and hindrances of all sorts.

A former Church of England priest has handed himself in to authorities in India to face claims he abused... More

Statistics have for decades shown that children are far, far, far, far more likely to be abused by a family member or by a school authority figure than they are by a member of the clergy of any religion.

If there is evidence of these articles being abused, we can bring the matter to the attention of the authorities concerned.

Bishops are required to cooperate - if approached by law enforcement - but are ALSO still under direction to keep silence on cases of abuse they learn about, and NOT to turn over priests to civil authorities.

When, because of military pressure, the Confederate Tribes decided they needed a central authority, some of the conservative prophets knew it could lead to abuses, and some vehemently opposed it: «Fallen is the virgin Israel, never to rise again, etc etc»..

The failure to question that authority and the collusion of the family in maintainting his power has led to all sorts of abuse.

A «whistleblower» discloses information he or she reasonably believes evidences: • A violation of any law, rule or regulation • An abuse of authority • Gross mismanagement • A gross waste of funds • A substantial and specific danger to public health or safety

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that read, «Coach [Tommy] Bowden... has abused his authority as... head football coach by imposing his strong personal religious beliefs upon....

2) The catholic church is to disclose all information of child abuse to US authorities in 30 days — up to and including whether the current pope knew of the abuse of children (which he almost assuredly did given his past roles in the church hierarchy); if this does not happen, the the catholic church loses its tax preferred status indefinitely

Brad and Rob, I have come to the conclusion that an improper understanding of spiritual authority is the common root of all spiritual abuse.

ttm, Belittling the question or the questioner and trying to shut them up is a form of spiritual abuse when it's done in a religious context or for supposedly religious reasons by someone in a position of authority.

Methodology and doctrine from the shepherding movement plus a strong dose of Watchman Nee's «Spiritual Authority» were the toxic weapons of my spiritual abuse experience.

For the past seven years I have written extensively on indicators of malignant ministers and toxic organizational systems, principles and practices for personal recovery from traumatizing abuse of spiritual authority, and constructive system solutions for dealing with destructive organizations.

We're in a conversation about spiritual abuse — the process by which people who have spiritual authority (pastors, preachers, priests, etc.) take advantage of that authority to do harm to those entrusted to their care.

Consequently, when abuse and its cover - up has occurred, it has happened on the level of local Church authorities.

It seems that all of the leaders and figures of authority have hidden child abuse.

All the research I did talked about toxic leaders in the business world, but I found very little to address the abuses of pastoral authorities.

According to the book, the Vatican had knowledge of multiple cases of sexual abuse committed by Maciel decades ago, but church authorities chose to do nothing about it.

Members of the group SNAP (The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) planned to hold signs and hand out flyers urging Roman Catholic cardinals to stop making symbolic gestures about abuse and instead meet with victims and give case files to the authorities.

If a church follows the Biblical pattern of having elders, and those elders exercise their authority as elders, then any abuse will be nipped in the bud.

Gregory thought that this was an exemplary statement of the way to protest the abuse of coercive authority — not by overt, destructive, risk - laden rebellion, but by a symbolic demonstrative act revealing the vulnerable moral credibility of abused power.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

As you may know, Sovereign Grace Ministries, an association of Reformed church plants, is facing a significant lawsuit that alleges church leaders covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person.

Coughlin asserted that prescription rendered canon law ineffective for the prosecution of accused clerics because «victims of child abuse sometimes do not bring accusations to the attention of church authorities until many decades after the abuse has occurred.»

In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a confession.

Priests who fail to tell police about suspected child sexual abuse should face criminal charges, even if they learn of abuse during a confidential religious confession, Australia's most powerful investigative authority has recommended.

We, the president and the members of the commission, wish to affirm that our obligations under civil law must certainly be followed, but even beyond these civil requirements, we all have a moral and ethical responsibility to report suspected abuse to the civil authorities who are charged with protecting our society.

I also see areas where the Reformers seem to have needed to challenge ecclesial authority to refute clerical abuses — sale of indulgences and offices — without considering the logical consequences of their justifications.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

The same bishops, more understandably, offer assurances about prompt reporting of criminal abuse to civil authorities.

The state's right to invade this area of human relationship is justified only when it can be shown that rights beyond the realm of familial authority are being violated, as, for example, when children are being abused.

Francis, the talking Roman Church Mule, spearheaded the «Sainthood» of Polish Pauly, who, if you believe had no knowledge of church abuse crimes, and who has embraced Benny - the Rat - zinger, refuses to open the internal books of Roman Church, Pedophilic crimes to the secular authorities, so the perpetrators of these crimes can be brought to justice.

In the case of religious expression, having a government authority like a school district abuse their authority by forcing the graduating class to listen to only one religious viewpoint and prayer is reprehensible from a legal standpoint regardless of what corrupt judge you find to rule differently.

This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as abused women and children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry than the people in it.