Sentences with phrase «of predatory»

The reverse mortgage industry has been plagued over the years by confusion, rife with reports of predatory lenders preying on the elderly.

It's because the pieces are falling into place for Congress, after years of gridlock, to pass measures that could help the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® boost the number of home buyers in his market and, just as important, curtail the destabilizing presence of predatory lenders.

There are many forms of predatory lending, including loan «flipping,» in which lenders use technicalities to foreclose on buyers so that they can keep flipping the house onto the market for higher and higher prices.

Several lawsuits were filed, anyway, accusing Apple of predatory trade practices.

They can carry offline impacts, from Americans showing up unknowingly at Russian - promoted rallies to causing what Watts said were observable «stock dips which allow all sorts of predatory trading and other things to happen.»

Buying veterans» retirement and disability benefits, however, has the semblance of predatory lending...» OK.

It eliminated the legality of predatory insurance companies and it ensures that everyone has access to basic preventive care at no additional cost beyond their monthly premiums.

Watch for signs of predatory drugs: extreme dizziness and confusion, difficulty standing, slurred speech and take the affected person to the hospital.

If criminal intelligence sharing becomes more difficult then we will be less able to track the movements of predatory paedophiles, share data on cyber-attacks or combat financial fraud.

In part two of our interview with Kimberly Whaley, we speak about the rise of predatory marriages and potential case law reforms.

The national court and parties refer to three alleged infringements of competition law: (i) abuse of dominance consisting in the system of reductions implemented by Riga Airport; (ii) an anticompetitive agreement between Riga Airport and Air Baltic; and (iii) abuse of dominance in the form of predatory pricing by Air Baltic.

Get Smart With Loans - Arm yourself with lending knowledge — don't be the victim of predatory lending or unfair loan terms.

Some argue that the strict Brunner Test should be reduced to a less strict standard since Brunner was decided at a time when private student loans were still eligible for discharge and there were many examples of predatory lending practices.

A lawyer in Florida who was put out of business, along with every other real estate lawyer in her city, by a six - month long (that is all it took) campaign of predatory pricing, and who, needing to make a living, then took a job with that industry (but is no longer doing much law), went on to describe the level of service (despite the now four times greater cost than the lawyers ever charged) that her new employer and its non-competitors now deliver to the public as shit (her word).

The book is Michael W. Hudson's «The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America — and Spawned a Global Crisis.»

When you are convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child you will be faced with criminal and non-criminal penalties.

Government plans to open up forests to allow the construction of wind parks is a catastrophe for most species of predatory birds and bats and the surrounding ecosystem.

Such is the desperate status of the lionfish wars, an invasion of this predatory fish from the Pacific Ocean into the Bahamas and Caribbean region that threatens everything from coral reef ecosystems to the local economies, which are based on fishing and tourism.

On the local level they are terrified of predatory tax increases, drunken drivers, purse snatchers, muggers, power failure, water shortages, inflation and the high cost of being sick.

The journal is not merely obscure, but is published by SCIRP, a long - time entry on Jeff Beall's list of predatory publishers.

Including what will be the effect of having powerful electro - magnetic fields so close to beaches, especially if sharks are attracted to such fields as part of their predatory nature?

Increasingly acidic waters due to buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide is diminishing Great Barrier Reef corals, robbing sharks of their predatory senses, and hindering sea stars and other calcifiers in their ability to store calcium carbonate, which is crucial in forming their protective skeletons.

Killing a bunch of predatory birds, the groups continue, is a distraction from the dams rather than a solution to the salmon's bigger problem.

The resulting change in availability of prey has in turn caused dramatic declines in the numbers of predatory seabirds in west coast colonies and corresponding increases in the size of those colonies on the south and east coast over the same period [58].

Nowadays many creators have been seduced into the space of otherness and the abject, as a banner we can lift the embodiments of delusion of Goya in his Black Paintings and The Disasters of War, or visit the work of David Cronenberg in The Fly, Tod Browings with Freaks, the otherness worked by Lynch, Bacon's deformed faces, the sexual exaltation in Picasso and Kubin, Barney's beautiful Chimeras, the twisted bodies of John Currin, or the «Frankensteinian» exercises of Cindy Sherman, they like many other artists, have used this place as a sign of vulnerability of the predatory condition, of the primary lethal and self - destructive impulses of human beings.

He had recently scrapped his latest proposal for the space — he'd contemplated lining the walls with a collage of predatory cellphone ads that target prisoners and their families — a design that had been photographed and heavily publicized.

NPR's Weekend Edition celebrated the opening of Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges museum of American art with a short piece accusing the Wal - Mart heiress of predatory acquisitions:

Her large cutouts of animals in various stages of predatory or parasitic feeding are placed densely next to each other.

Most of these clippings concern the legendary trumpeter — a cartoon announcing «Armstrong Wows at Cotton Club» beneath which he scrawled the name of Martin Luther King — while others are more whimsical, such as one labelled «BRUSSELLS BELGIUM», featuring several naked women, a man holding a flying bowler hat by a rope tether, and a flock of predatory birds.

His depictions of these urban ferrymen exude an atmosphere of predatory sexuality suggestive of the illicit moonlit encounter at the same time as they draw the viewer into ambiguous psychological depths.

The temporary WOPPOW flagship store presents fashion in the age of predatory capitalism, global aggression and the indifference of the profiteers.

For its full effect, the isolation and vulnerability of the lamb requires a menace: the wolf in traditional European folklore (sin and the devil in the Christian allegory), in place of which the shark embodies the principle of predatory, soul - stealing monstrosity at a magnified intensity and thrillingly exotic guise more naturally suited to the environment of the tank» (A. Gallagher (ed.)

Due to the fervour around microtransactions following Star Wars Battlefront II, there was concern from the player base that EA would force Bioware's implementation of predatory loot box economies, and Brennon Holmes, a member of the development team would speak up on the matter to say that the Bioware team is full of gamers who want to discuss the best way to move forward with the idea, and that they weren't set in stone.

«We know it will give families who have been victims of these predatory practices a sense of pride and accomplishment to have worked to prevent future exploitation and we have been working both with them and legislators in other states who are also considering ways to address this important issue,» Lee said.

Hawaii State Representative Chris Lee is taking a stand against what he calls «the spread of predatory practices in online gaming.»

Still, I felt it necessary to do my part, and I've held true to my declaration that I wouldn't enable this kind of predatory BS in my gaming, so in a message to publishers out there who still think this is going to be okay:

He ends with urging folks who support his cause to write to their elected officials (local and otherwise), providing a template letter of grievances concerning the ills of predatory gaming practices for convenient complaining.

Players lead a small army of fearless Space Marine Terminators to battle in a ferocious fight for survival against hordes of predatory alien Genestealers.

«We're here today to ensure future protections for kids, youth and everyone when it comes to the spread of predatory practices in online gaming, and the significant financial consequences it can have - and has been having - on families around this nation,» Lee said.

This time he'll be able to explore the entire town, though, and he'll have an ExoSuit to help him deal with new, dangerous zombie types like The Fresh (who are newly zombified victims that will turn in front of Frank's eyes and exhibit superior speed and ferocity), and the Evo (who are zombies with superior strength and mobility that mimic the behavior of predatory hunting animals).

As Frank seeks to uncover the truth behind the outbreak, he will face new undead enemies, including the Fresh — newly zombified victims that will turn in front of his eyes and exhibit superior speed and ferocity, and the Evo — zombies with superior strength and mobility that mimic the behavior of predatory hunting animals.

This unique event will provide experienced divers with the privilege to encounter BULL SHARKS, learn about their behaviour, practice to interpret situations, react correctly and the most important — to feel comfortable, as well as get all their questions answered about the top of the predatory food chain during the daily SHARKSCHOOL ™ workshops with DR. ERICH RITTER, leading shark communications and interactions researcher.

We've had our share of predatory visitors over the years — hawks, fox, feral cats... But those risks don't seem worth worrying about much anymore.

Sharks do not want to attack humans as a general rule, but they have 300 million years of predatory evolution behind them, so do the same thing with sharks each time, every time.

Sharks do not want to attack humans as a general rule, but they have 300 million years of predatory evolution behind them.

Millions of predatory Android apps have been downloaded unknowingly — this can cause some serious damage for your devices and your wallet.

Excellent writing style that captures my sentiments exactly ~ yes I've experienced both the welcome embrace of warm local hosts AND the slight manipulation of predatory encounters using the solo female identity... Travel would not be so inspirational if it was a static hum of pleasure and comfort.

You've heard of predatory lending, but probably never imagined that this unethical financial practice could apply to man's best friend.

Live Food If a store sells even a moderate selection of predatory species, it will be necessary to carry live feeder foods of various types.

However, it may also be an aberrant expression of the predatory behavior that is, if you will, hijacked by the laser movement.»