Sentences with phrase «on abuse of authority»

Not exact matches

Their letter came on the heels of a controversial memo the House Intelligence Committee released earlier this month, which purports to show the FBI and Department of Justice abusing their surveillance authority to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The investigation comes after Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a polarizing memo in February accusing the DOJ and the FBI of abusing their surveillance authority when they sought the Page warrant.

It's an abuse of the constraints on the scope of the SEC's authority and a violation of basic federalism principles.

Policy initiatives on transparency and government accountability, along with formal (albeit belated) responses to injustices in Wukan and other rural communities indicate a willingness to redress human rights issues involving abuses of political authority.

«Most of the emphasis appears to be on educating the field and encouraging them to be vigilant, while taking the position that USA Gymnastics has no authority to require clubs to take specific action — including the reporting of suspected child abuse,» Daniels wrote.

«Having written two lengthy books on poverty in Victorian England,» Prof. Himmelfarb notes, «I am painfully aware of the difficulties and inequalities in Victorian life... class distinctions, social prejudices, abuses of authority, constraints on personal liberty, restrictions and hindrances of all sorts.

Bishops are required to cooperate - if approached by law enforcement - but are ALSO still under direction to keep silence on cases of abuse they learn about, and NOT to turn over priests to civil authorities.

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that read, «Coach [Tommy] Bowden... has abused his authority as... head football coach by imposing his strong personal religious beliefs upon....

For the past seven years I have written extensively on indicators of malignant ministers and toxic organizational systems, principles and practices for personal recovery from traumatizing abuse of spiritual authority, and constructive system solutions for dealing with destructive organizations.

Consequently, when abuse and its cover - up has occurred, it has happened on the level of local Church authorities.

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that read, «Coach [Tommy] Bowden... has abused his authority as... head football coach by imposing his strong personal religious beliefs upon student - athletes under his charge.»

Instead of skirting the issue, much of the heat the catholic church is taken would probably be alleviated by simply just requiring those in power to report abuse to local authorities and levying swift and severe punishment on those who condone and cover up abuses.

What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.

Ms Lewell - Buck said a report into child abuse in Rotherham, which showed a failure on the part of authorities to pick up on the abuse of at least 1,400 children between 1997 and 2013, should be a warning to all.

Adding to the above considerations the prudential concern that government officials might abuse their authority to limit valuable forms of speech improperly, George concludes that the state should only rarely restrict speech on the basis of its content.

It can not he taken to sanction the accumulation of goods and possessions and economic power in disproportionate, and inevitably unjust and unrighteous, measure by attempting to restrain, on divine authority, those whose rights have been fundamentally abused in the process.

He raised armies, successfully withstood the attacks of the Lombards, the latest of the Germanic barbarians to invade Italy, made his authority respected in Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, attempted to curb the abuses in the Church in the Frankish domains, inaugurated the Roman mission to Britain, preached frequently, endeavored to enforce clerical celibacy, prompted monasticism and improved the quality of life in some of the houses which were lapsing from their professed ideals, and was the author of voluminous writings on theology that were long standard in the West.

Luther was anxious that the institution of Confession, which he valued highly, should not be abused; nevertheless, one did not have to pretend that authority for it went back to the New Testament: «For although private confession is one of the most salutary practices, we know perfectly well that the authority on which it is based is quite shaky.»

Sylvester Prierias left aside almost entirely the substance of the 95 Theses, concentrating instead on the authority of the Pope and on personal abuse of Luther.

The substantial pamphlet went through twenty editions in Germany and Switzerland, so low was the reputation of the papacy, so willing were people of all classes to listen not just to abuse, but to solid argument against papal authority, without in anyway supposing this to be an attack on Christianity.

Also, in the Protestant Evangelical world we put a great degree of authority on Scripture and, therefore, those who abuse often distort Scripture in order to gain access, control, and silence over victims and their families.

[For more on this, check out The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church by David Johnson and Jeff VanVonderen, and Is It My Fault?

I think it is a big mistake (and misunderstanding of church teachings, canon law and the authority of bishops) to not believe that these standardized guidelines on child abuse will not have a huge impact.

If you are interested in stopping the abuses being inflicted on our game - fish populations in the name of sportfishing (we'll have to leave the long - liners and purse seiners and gillnetters to someone with more authority), then you have no real quarrel with stage one (we all have to start someplace) and certainly not with those in stage five, who are the ultimate sportsmen.

Without Evidence If a person of colour has the misfortune of suffering acts of racism without recorded evidence — which is 99 % of the time as we don't go about with the recording features of our mobile phones turned on in anticipation of capturing racial abuses against us — then it is our word against those of our abusers before the person of authority who is most likely to be white.

Two sources familiar with the memo said it accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of abusing their authority in asking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge to approve a request to extend an eavesdropping operation on Carter Page, an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.

The story of continuity also ties to perceptions of impunity — no one in Burundi has thus far been prosecuted for political murder -, to lack of progress on questions of justice and memory, lack of trust in the newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (which interestingly only appeared on the scene months before the election, in December 2014), and perceptions of corruption, abuse of office, the sense of being «used» by those in authority (people speak of being their «bridge» to other objectives).

The BBC have also failed to report on the biggest news story to hit South Yorkshire since the failure of the media, police, and local authorities to report on the mass rape of white girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslims, and BBC failure in tackling the sexual abuse within its own organisation.

«The Human Rights Act and the European convention on human rights have been instrumental in preventing local authorities from snooping on law - abiding families, in removing innocent people from the national DNA database, in preventing rapists from cross-examining their victims in court, in defending the rights of parents to have a say in the medical treatment of their children, in holding local authorities to account where they have failed to protect children from abuse, in protecting the anonymity of journalists» sources, and in upholding the rights of elderly married couples to be cared for together in care homes.»

In the wake of the Penn State sexual abuse cover - up scandal, state Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D - Bayside) is renewing his call for passage of a bill that would require New York colleges and universities to report on - campus violent crimes immediately to the authorities.

As more is revealed about what really went on then that is still existing, and how the AG covered it up by refusing to indict the corruption now running the State Agencies and Authorities in Albany for massive Civil Service Law abuse and the granting of Pension System Final Average Salaries (FAS) way above the their permanent competitive status, you'll hear more excuses than a corrupt regime gives when it is about to collapse and they're in total fear.

BRINCKERHOFF: Working on the Garner case is a natural extension of the firm's longstanding practice of representing people who've been victimized by police misconduct and abuse of authority.

Despite the allegation involving funding for the DA's race — and another accusing Sampson of filing false Senate disclosure forms to conceal a $ 188,500 loan from a real estate developer — Carter insisted his case wasn't in the same category as a recent rash of other criminal cases accusing New York lawmakers of abusing their authority for personal gain or to cheat on campaign finance rules.

NCA is the national authority on multi-disciplinary approaches to supporting child victims of abuse, NCA's purpose is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of child abuse.

A gubernatorial spokesman, Rich Azzopardi, responded on Friday in a statement that accused Cuomo's own appointees of «protecting» John Degnan, the New Jersey - appointed chairman of bi-state authority, in an «abuse» of his position.

As the national authority on multidisciplinary approaches to supporting child victims of abuse, the purpose of National Children's Alliance is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of child abuse.

«The only reasonable conclusion we have reached is that the anti-corruption agencies and other institutions of state have allowed themselves to be dictated to by a single vindictive authority which takes pleasure in using power anyhow and in anyway in gross abuse of the constitution,» the forum said in a statement issued on Thursday by Osaro Onaiwu, its coordinator.

Meanwhile, Head of Public Affairs at the Food and Drugs Authority, James Lartey, says it will take conscious education and law enforcement to clamp down on the abuse of Tramadol.

He's milking authorities dry, after initially pledging to reform the abuses historically heaped on them and the temptation of their bonding powers.

Yet, while those films used the experiment as a touchstone, allowing the story to take on more aspects of a thriller, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film is less concerned with thriller elements, but rather the loss of individuality the participants experienced, and how quickly the guards began to abuse the prisoners, most of whom quickly bent to authority.

Tagged With: abuse of authority, based on a true story, dehumanization, prison experiment, Psychology, sadism, Standford, The Stanford Prison Experiment

Like Paradise Lost 3, West Of Memphis goes hard after Terry Hobbs, stepfather of one of the murdered boys, who was never grilled properly by the authorities about his past history of abuse, or his whereabouts on the day of the crimOf Memphis goes hard after Terry Hobbs, stepfather of one of the murdered boys, who was never grilled properly by the authorities about his past history of abuse, or his whereabouts on the day of the crimof one of the murdered boys, who was never grilled properly by the authorities about his past history of abuse, or his whereabouts on the day of the crimof the murdered boys, who was never grilled properly by the authorities about his past history of abuse, or his whereabouts on the day of the crimof abuse, or his whereabouts on the day of the crimof the crime.

Starting with Danny Boyle's «The Beach,» based on his novel, and continuing through two more collaborations with Boyle, «28 Days Later» and «Sunshine» and the remake of «Judge Dredd,» Garland has demonstrated great interest in the organization of society, the tension between the need for rules and the abuse of authority, and the way that gender roles handed down over thousands of years can poison otherwise pure relationships.

What we did find was that the majority of schools appear not to report incidents of this type on to the police or other authorities — thus in effect showing the person who initiated the abuse that they can get away with it.

Rather than truly relying on science, they are abusing the authority of science to exercise control.

This is simply an opportunistic & egregious abuse of government's taxing authority, which far too few investors ever cotton on to (as hoped).

Whether providing expert advice to the local humane authorities, visiting neglected farm animals, or treating an animal victim of violence, veterinarians are on the front lines of dealing with abuse.

In a society where dogs do invaluable work guiding the blind, and assisting those who need it, protect our troops, help fight crime and serve their country, yet with all this, others are kept in dreadful lives of breeding and abused on a daily basis while the local authorities and lawmakers ignore their plight.

«The VA is abusing its authority and fear - mongering to defend taxpayer - funded experiments on dogs that are cruel and unlikely to help veterans or anybody else,» said Justin Goodman, vice president of White Coat Waste Project, an advocacy group that wants to end funding to the agency's dog experiments.

After starting out as magazine photographers, they moved on to other innovative ways of addressing the use and abuse of pictures as well as dynamics of authority through installations, curatorial projects, and books.