Sentences with phrase «often abused system»

The party sent out a press release this morning reiterating its «staunch» opposition to «the wasteful and often abused system of public financing of campaigns,» and reminding members of the Senate and Assembly who plan on seeking the Conservative line this fall that legislation that would create such a system is double rated — meaning it will carry twice the rate of other bills in determining lawmakers» score, as it were, on top party issues.

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«The inaccessibility of the legal system results in women staying in situations that are unhealthy and sometimes dangerous, while women fleeing abuse without legal help are often re-victimized by their abuser and by the court system
The exploitation of refugee youth feeds off broken systems and is demanded by buyers who often have a history of childhood abuse and trauma.
The bishops did take action and by 1993 most dioceses had in place much more effective systems, often involving lay review boards, for dealing with charges of abuse.
That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?
As for reporting or investigating alleged abuse, too often churches first try to deal with things internally, though their church structures and systems.
The children in the foster care system have usually endured abuse and neglect and often express their feelings through behavior.
Labour's awkward compromise in this area makes it look like they can't decide, while Labour voters especially applaud the Tory approach to a get tough policy on welfare — they are often the people who see abuse of the system at first hand, and for them, fairness is about stamping on scroungers and shirkers.
Last summer, the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to take over New York's juvenile - prison system after investigating Tryon and two other state facilities and uncovering a litany of abuses: employees restraining kids so often and with so much force that kids had endured concussions, broken teeth, and broken bones.
By imposing third - party reporting of expenses, a VAT system reduces tax evasion relative to a self - reported income tax system like that used in the U.S. where the IRS periodically audits business expenses, but there is widespread abuse in the area of business expenses (especially in small businesses that often treat what should be considered personal expenses as business expenses) due to a lack of third - party reporting of business expenses the way that it has third - party reporting of business income via 1099 information tax returns.
The charter system is so unregulated that oversight often comes from whistleblowers who feel disturbed enough, and courageous enough, to report abuses.
When this isn't the case, there is an unfortunate abuse of the system taking place, most often by vanity presses.
You'll find yourself spawning directly in front of enemies far too often and vice versa, and as various online videos already show the system can be completely abused, allowing you to kill the same guy over and over as he spawns.
As the Commission says in its report, «without a clear, fair, transparent and accessible system of collective redress, there is a significant likelihood that other ways of claiming compensation will be explored, which are often prone to potential abuse negatively affecting both parties to the dispute.»
And, every so often, the system breaks down (or one party abuses it) and the judge has to issue sanctions, and disciplinary committees get involved.
All too often, insurance companies have been selling minimum policies and then abusing the system to under - pay claims due to the difficulty and expense of litigating a small case in District Court that might be worth more than $ 10,000.00, but not more than $ 15,000.00.
Currently there is no negative consequence for filing a false allegation of child abuse into the CPS system, and often these false allegations have the «secondary gain» for the allied narcissistic / (borderline) parent of terminating the targeted parent's involvement with the child pending the outcome of the CPS investigation.
Nonetheless, the results have profound treatment and social policy implications, because failures within the child protective services system too often result in recurrent episodes of abuse, frequent changes in children's out - of - home placements, and an absence of positive social supports in the lives of maltreated children.
Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.
Victims will not necessarily take the initiative in sharing a history of abuse even with their lawyers, let alone with others in the system, which means that the onus of inquiry often falls on these others.
Because families at risk of child abuse or neglect often face challenges in other areas of their lives, effective collaboration with other service providers and systems is essential to supporting families» many unique needs.
It shows that family and friends carers provide good placements for many abused and neglected children, and recommends that it should be an option that is explored more often, at an earlier stage, for children coming into the care system.
Family therapy is most often utilized to help the family system heal in situations of death / grief, trauma, divorce, addiction, and / or abuse.
The Early Intervention Foundation's (EIF) recent report stated that children who experience abuse often lack a designated adult outside of the family system who is able to provide consistent support — or a «trusted relationship».
The Parent Training Programs that Address Child Abuse and Neglect topic area is relevant to child welfare because parents of children in the child welfare system are often required or encouraged to attend parent training programs.
More often than not, the children that enter the system were either surrendered by their birth parents, were orphaned, or were victims of neglect or abuse, thereby terminating their parents» rights over them.
They may also experience an additional adverse psychological consequence — namely, re-victimization by a domestic violence system that is designed to assist female victims and that consequently often does not recognize that men, too, can be abused.
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