Sentences with phrase «of ruinous»

«Patent trolls like Personal Audio know this and use the threat of ruinous litigation costs as a weapon.

At a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, witness after witness testified about patent trolls who use the threat of ruinous defense costs to pressure companies into paying settlements on vague and overbroad patents.

«The appeal panel's decision creates an impossible standard for all trial counsel; even if a lawyer is winning a trial for his or her client, has not been criticized by the trial judge (and even if their opponent's conduct has been so criticized), the LSUC decision now requires trial counsel to challenge or ignore rulings of the trial judge and to disagree with how the trial judge is conducting the trial, or face the prospect of a ruinous prosecution like this one (the «control of the courtroom grounds»).

His paintings are eerie scenes of the ruinous edges of modern British life.

From there, the game will introduce the new 20v20 Corsair's Stronghold PvP map, then 10 days of doubled experience followed by the launch of the Ruinous Manor dungeon.

The odds of a ruinous situation is far higher than most models estimate because of the need for withdrawals and the autocorrelated nature of returns — good returns begets good, and bad returns beget bad in the intermediate term.

They seemed to oppose the established orthodoxies — bringing in underrepresented ethnic and sexual subjects and, indeed, a strain of ruinous, unedifying sarcasm that distorted future audience expectations.

Hearts of Darkness: Guerra's Exceptional Exploration of Ruinous Colonialization Colombian director Ciro Guerra charts an enigmatic...

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Google Play, Amazon Video, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube) In the wake of the ruinous late - 2000s subprime mortgage crisis, the family - owned Chinatown bank Abacus Federal Savings faced harsh legal comeuppance while the well - funded giants were bailed out and deemed too big to fail.

Other complications arise from the girl's family, subsistence farmers who don't even know what a lawyer is and worry about the possibility of a ruinous feud with the dead man's family if they take legal action to defend their daughter.

Mercifully, and very astutely, The Hangover avoids the clichés — the majority of them, at least — by starting where most movies of this ilk finish: in the aftermath of the ruinous carousing rather than the preamble to it.

Argentina has, in the past, tried printing its way out of debt - but at the cost of ruinous inflation.

If he looked a little closer, he would see the number of businesses that have collapsed as a result of the ruinous years of DUMSOR.

Silver detailed his neighbors» many difficulties in the wake of the ruinous storm, which inundated Lower Manhattan with river water and knocked out power to tens of thousands of residents.

That is a distinct possibility, if the Buhari government remakes this economy as a productive hub; and purges public service of its ruinous greed.

One thing is certain though: from the impulsive bent of yore, epitomised by the with - immediate - effect temper of the ruinous military years, Nigerians would tend to have become more tempered.

Busquets is similar to Barcelona team - mate Dani Alves, He takes simulation to a new level of ruinous disgust.

We should start with the premise that able - bodied people who work hard should have access to health insurance without the risk of ruinous expenses in the case of an emergency or a severe disease.

The Presbyterian minister «was standing, at the moment of the ruinous pang, on the first floor of the rectory, wondering if in view of the heat he might remove his black serge jacket, since no visitor was scheduled to call until after dinnertime, when the Church Building Requirements Committee would arrive to torment him with its ambitions.»

But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: «Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.»

If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible that main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: «Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.»

But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: «Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Many are prepared to take a guaranteed but relatively small loss to avoid the prospect of a ruinous one.

There's a greater chance of a windfall in an individual stock but also a greater chance of a ruinous loss.

Not exact matches

The world's most popular digital currency exchange, Coinbase, is under fire from angry customers over its decision not to support a new version of bitcoin that could also make it vulnerable to «ruinous legal trouble,» according to a prominent legal scholar.

And if they succeed, their executives will be part of a culture that rejects the use of patents as a tool for aggression and ruinous lawsuits.

So while there are few checks and balances on the abuse of power, the leadership's priorities remain the same: keep the country relatively stable, head off political risks, and avoid a financially ruinous military conflict.

All have eventually run afoul of their boss, who alternates between lavishing praise on Xi one day and threatening China with ruinous trade sanctions the next.

After ruinous bouts of competition like this, rival railroad companies would agree to cooperate, pooling the business in certain areas and setting common rates.

In a commentary in The Wall Street Journal this week, former vice president of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder writes that Trump's tax cut plans — the largest of all the presidential candidates — would cost the nation $ 9.5 trillion over the next decade, which in turn would make the budget deficit balloon to ruinous effect.

Several Hollywood films have used the ruinous landscape to their advantage, like «Jurassic World» and «Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.»

At worst, it could be ruinous — a lifetime of responsible spending and borrowing wiped out by identity theft and fraud.

A ban on Venezuelan crude into the U.S. could be ruinous for Citgo, so Rosneft wants to swap out its stake for more operational control of joint ventures inside Venezuela.

If it works, the plan could make shoppers happier by delivering clothing that looks better on them, while also addressing the ruinous consequences that returns can have on the profits of internet apparel retailers.

@ Mr Optimistic — you just made the argument for taking the negative yield on linkers: «I am only a couple of years away from retirement and a burst of inflation would be ruinous.»

I am only a couple of years away from retirement and a burst of inflation would be ruinous.

In The Literal Meaning of Genesis, he writes, «It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are.»

Yet the talk, by putting its question, dares and ought to dare, to remind man, in a way never to be forgotten, that the most ruinous evasion of all is to be hidden in the crowd in an attempt to escape God's supervision of him as an individual, in an attempt to get away from hearing God's voice as an individual.

If what a man fears is not the mistake itself, but the reproach at being caught in the mistake, then that fear so far from helping him out of the error may even lead him into that which is still more ruinous, even if apart from this he had made no mistake.

Outwardly, too, cleverness is used in a ruinous way, in the matter of the decision, that is to say, it is outwardly misused.

But, once the intention is to grasp in its entirety the problem of the understanding of faith and the language appropriate to it, these oppositions prove to be ruinous.

So jealous was the god thought to be of this «devoted» loot that when, as at Jericho, tabooed property was secreted, his wrath was ruinous, (Joshua, chap.

Any irregularity was likely to bring down, not on the individual sinner alone but on the whole group, the god's ruinous disfavor, and therefore the coercion of customary conduct and the extirpation of irregular conduct were ruthless.

My French and Chinese friends sometimes tell me that piri - piri and spice cooking are ruinous to a sensitive palate, and boast that they have created the world's two reigning academies of cuisine without recourse to such extremes in the kitchen.»

A fair minded manager would admit that our so called defence with the ruinous and way out of his depth Chambers was dead lucky we did not get hammered by 3 clear goals against Chelsea (mainly thanks to Moratas rubbish finishing) even though, overall we did deserve a draw, since Chelsea were also rubbish at the back.

A single year of Champion's League is often ruinous but it'll be fascinating to see it play out.

Instead of focusing on Paladino's deficiencies, I ask Mr. Lazio to focus on Mr. Cuomo's much greater deficiencies which will have ruinous effects on NYS residents.

But aside from this sole point, the other allegations, coming from the former president, are tantamount to pure gas: they are logical legacies from Obasanjo's ruinous foundation, as first president of the 4th Republic.

Len McCluskey, leader of the UK's biggest union, Unite, will use his speech at the historic Durham Miners» Gala today (Saturday) to call upon Labour to renew its connection to working people by delivering a genuine alternative to the government's ruinous austerity programme.

The answer would be... oh right, because the last Labour government was one of the most incompetent, destructive, ruinous governments in history.