Sentences with phrase «of economic penalties»

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The U.S. sanctions followed a first round of U.S. economic penalties ordered earlier in the week on 11 people the U.S. said were involved in the dispute in Ukraine.

But the breadth of Trump's tariffs in March, which slapped global penalties on imports of common commodities, was severe enough to prompt the resignation of the president's top economic advisor, Gary Cohn.

The appeal of the 401 (k) financing strategy is pretty obvious in this economic climate - a bad small business - lending environment, lots of people with business skills in the unemployment line, a way to seize control of your retirement funds without penalty - but it truly is a matter of betting your future on the present.

The action carried no immediate penalties but it could end with Venezuela's expulsion from the international coalition of nations created to promote economic stability.

Banning economic withholding and bring in penalties for electricity generators and utilities that match the magnitude of the offense.

1) Churches need to be a voice for economic justice for lower - income families by, for instance, advocating for more generous child and earned - income tax credits, as well as for the elimination of the marriage penalties embedded in many of our public policies directed towards lower - income families.

The more that I looked at the death penalty the more I saw Pandora's box: It opens up a whole lot of other important issues like race and economic inequity and how the death penalty is applied — even things like the role of government.

We will not agree on the optimal size of government or the economic good of tax cuts or the death penalty.

Because of their huge investment in military they can invade most third world countries, without economic penalties.

Women without college educations are dramatically less economically dependent upon their husbands than they used to be, while the economic dependence of women with college educations on their husbands remains high because although both men and women with college degrees have seen surging incomes since the 1970s, most women with college degrees experience large income penalties for leaving the work force for a while to raise children, while women without college degrees don't face those kinds of income penalties in their far less skilled jobs.

If at least 15 percent of the contractors hired for the construction are not minority - and women - owned, Destiny will pay a $ 75,000 penalty to the agency to be spent on workforce and economic development initiatives in the city, he said.

For biomedical scientists, the average impact is about a 10 % penalty on future citations to prior papers, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper posted in May.

Generally, exclusion of refugees is grounded in the hyped fears of employers and service providers that the Immigration Act of 2002 could impose penalties on them if they do not comply with its rules.15 This misconception is further reinforced by political statements, which hold that the majority of refugees are bogus or economic migrants who are in South Africa in a search of a better life.16 There is apparently an inability to distinguish between applicability of the immigration regime and refugee regime.17 However, it is true that the Refugees Act of 1998 strictly exempts refugees and asylum - seekers from the immigration restrictive measures imposed on non-citizens in certain circumstances.

She leads an office of attorneys and transportation industry analysts who investigate and enforce DOT's aviation economic, consumer protection, and civil rights requirements primarily through negotiation and issuing cease and desist orders assessing civil penalties.

If the debtor is entitled to a refund and the creditor refuses to refund within a reasonable time, not to exceed 60 days, after written demand, including the filing of a legal action, the debtor shall recover a penalty of five times the amount of the actual economic damages not to exceed the finance charge, but in any event not less than one hundred dollars ($ 100).

The liberty that Paul speaks of is freedom from sin, and ultimately freedom from the penalty for sin — it is not economic or political liberty.

I have a, perhaps overly pessimistic, feeling that national energy interest and the mantra of ever - continuing economic growth will trump international agreements unless there are enforcable and painful penalties for non-compliance.

That would avoid the economic inefficiency of subsidies — and the tax or deficit burden — while producing an optimal reduction curve without adding an artificial economic penalty for drivers.

And even in the American Midwest and Northeast, nuclear plants have been at very high risk of closure because they've been forced to pay an economic penalty, and an oversupplied market, resulting from federal subsidies — now a quarter century old — to wind developers, and from their exclusion from state clean energy mandates.

Economists must also demonstrate that control of carbon dioxide imposes huge economic penalties, particularly on lower - income groups.

«Any time government takes the place of the free market and arbitrarily determines the price or the availability of a product, social and economic penalties predictably follow,» said Cato Institute Senior Fellow Jerry Taylor.

An effective solution would be to change the political and economic system to ensure that those kingpins of promotion of understandably unsustainable and damaging ways of thinking and acting will not suceed and will likely suffer significant penalty for their efforts to maximize their personal gain any way they think they can get away with.

These additional reductions in the near - term are the core of any responsible plan to avoid the climate Apocalypse, and the additional reductions will result in severe economic penalties.

The maximum amount of an administrative penalty is $ 1 million for each day that the contravention continues plus a one - time payment to address the economic benefit the person obtained from the contravention.

The Model Penal Code: Sentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing commissions, sentencing guidelines, and appellate sentence review.

From the legal perspective, some people define economic - based crime to be an act of abstention from pursuing an action that will result in harm to the economic policy or the economic security of the country, committed by a person eligible for taking the criminal responsibility; such an act is prohibited by law and for which the law has prescribed a penalty or precautionary measures.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Omnibus Rule and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), lawyers may qualify as business associates, which carries a whole host of obligations and compliance measures — and serious penalties for failing to meet those standards.

Public interest work can be in any number of practice areas including: Administrative law, AIDS / HIV, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Animal Rights, Appellate, Arts, Bankruptcy, Children / Youth, Civil Rights / Civil Liberties, Community Economic Development, Constitutional, Consumer Law, Criminal Law, Death Penalty, Prisoners» Rights, Disability, Education, Elder Law, Employment Law, Environmental / Energy, Family Law, Gay / Lesbian Rights, Health / Medical, Homeless / Housing Law, Immigration, International Human Rights, Legislative, Litigation, Migrant Workers, Municipal Law, Native Americans, Public Benefits, Tax, Women.

These «confidentiality orders» are hard to obtain and while they can carry significant economic penalties for violation, the injured party nevertheless sustains the feared damage and must spend appreciable sums of money and time to obtain relief from the courts.

Canadian Appeals Monitor No Jury Trial for Securities Offences: Economic Penalties Are Not A «More Severe Punishment» Under Section 11 (f) of the Charter

The penalties for driving uninsured are getting more severe — in addition to risking economic loss by not having insurance protection, you risk fines, suspension of driver's license or registration and even time in jail.

Second, economic costs or penalties are part of bitcoin's security model.

There are also economic penalties put in place which keep the miners «at bay» and prevent them from taking over the network by gaining more than half of its hashing (mining) power (the so - called 51 % attack).

Include economic penalties if either spouse takes any position inconsistent with the terms of the agreement.

The Economic Growth and Tax Reform Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) made one of the most important «fixes» to marriage penalties in the tax code when it modified the earned income tax credit (EITC).

These groups seek to regain control over spouses who are divorcing them, usually through forced marriage counseling or enacting extreme economic penalties for filing for divorce, including loss of custody, loss of marital assets, and forced joint physical custody arrangements where the child is shuffled between incongruent households so that the father can avoid paying child support.

The economic implications of having to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has one obvious dimension — that of whatever penalty or disincentive is levied by government on those whose properties are less environmentally sound.

When contract time rolls around, the union leaders assess current economic conditions, the shortage, or not, of unionized labour at the time, and the importance of employers» contracts regarding penalties for late completions of projects.