Sentences with phrase «of pecuniary gains»

Before the turnaround in the war to dislodge Boko Haram from Nigerian territory however, Nigerian military went through some challenges which tested the professionalism of the armed forces amongst which were cases of soldiers deserting from the battlefront, soldiers disobeying lawful orders, soldiers and even pilots in some cases showing sympathy to Boko Haram killers on the grounds that they practice same religion and troops donating equipment of the Nigerian military to terrorists because of pecuniary gains.

We should not as traditional rulers sell ourselves out because of pecuniary gains.

What brings this clusterpuckery to the level of fraud - the purposeful and deliberate criminal misrepresentation of facts in pursuit of a pecuniary gain at the expense of other people, which could not have been achieved without telling lies - is the fact that the breach of method was manifestly not inadvertent, but had been undertaken by the investigators during the course of data - gathering, with the overt objective of misrepresenting the truth shared by those investigators among the raters in a manifestly contrived scheme of duplicity.

Not exact matches

The New York - based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that to be convicted, a trader must know that the source received a benefit in exchange, and that such a benefit was «at least a potential gain of a pecuniary or similarly valuable nature.»

Ajet Nassam and six other judges, namely Justices Francis K. Opoku, Kofi Essel Mensah, Ernest Obimpeh, Kwame Ohene Essel, Ivy Heward - Mills and Gilbert Ayisi Addo, were recently suspended over allegations of trading justice for pecuniary gains.

Immediate past governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi, also said he accept to be a minister for not for personal and pecuniary gains.

It's not a matter of ideology but rather criminal intent (mens rea) and criminal effect, not to mention the civil aspects of such cases, in which compensatory and punitive damages may be imposed upon the miscreant parties involved in the perpetration of deceit for the purposes of pecuniary or other material gain attained to the detriment of specific other people and the public at large.

One of the main arguments that I made for PLE is the long term pecuniary advantage to be gained from empowering (young) people to resolve their own legal problems before they reach the stage at which the state might need to step in and provide legal aid funded support.

Studies on economic stress and marital dissolution In standard economic models of marriage, pecuniary gains from a spouse play a central role in the assessment of fit of a relationship (Becker, Landes, & Michael, 1977; Charles & Stephens, 2004).

In Newman, the Second Circuit vacated convictions against two tippees, Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson, based upon a finding that a tippee may only be held criminally liable if he or she knew that the tipper provided information in exchange for a personal benefit and that benefit represented «at least a potential gain of a pecuniary or similar nature.»

In Leskun v. Leskun, [2006] 1 S.C.R. 920, at para. 29, the Court defined «means» as including «all pecuniary resources, capital assets, income from employment or earning capacity, and other sources from which the person receives gains or benefits», adopting the formulation of the traditional interpretation of «means» in Strang v. Strang, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 112, at para. 15.

The Supreme Court of Canada has interpreted «means» in the spousal support context expansively to include «all pecuniary resources, capital assets, income from employment or earning capacity, and other sources from which the person receives gains or benefits»: Strang v. Strang, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 112 at 119; Leskun v. Leskun, 2006 SCC 25 at para. 29.

A solicitation, as defined by Rule 7.3 (b), is an advertisement «initiated by or on behalf of a lawyer» that is targeted at a specific recipient or group of recipients and intended to secure the lawyer's retention for pecuniary gain.