Sentences with phrase «on abuses in»

Roper: I guess you could say CFA got involved in the fiduciary issue with the first study I wrote for the organization in 1986 on abuses in the financial planning industry, though I'm not sure what the word «fiduciary» meant when I started that research.

A Miami Herald series on abuses in the Florida juvenile justice system is a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School announced Wednesday.

«I am working on a conference for the fall on abuse in the church (it's my first ever).

In spite of the protests I get nearly every day that my focus on abuse in the church is unbalanced and unnecessary because it is so rare, I continue to address it because millions of people are recipients of spiritual abuse at the hands of their spiritual leaders and their churches.

OWN THIS PRINT In spite of the protests I get nearly every day that my focus on abuse in the church is unbalanced and unnecessary because it is so rare, I continue to address...

As we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liars.

(For much, much more on abuse in a church setting, as well as multiple resources for getting help and counseling, see our «Into the Light» series on this topic.)

We did a series here on the blog on abuse in the Church called «Into the Light,» which also includes a long list of additional resources, and we will continue to address this important issue in the future.

Aging in Place: National Council for Aging Care Clearinghouse on Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly National Adult Protective Services Association National Center on Elder Abuse, U.S. Administration on Aging National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse Nursing Home Abuse Center U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime — Elder Abuse

What follows are some disturbing statistics on abuse in nursing homes across the United States, as related by retirementforseniors.com.

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When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

At the opening of the trial in Rome, the U.S. investment bank the other defendants asked a three - judge panel at the Court of Accounts, which rules on abuses of public funds, to reject the case in an acknowledgement that the judges do not have jurisdiction, Marco Fratini, one of the judges, said.

Hart was on the investigative Senate committee that looked into CIA abuses in the 1970s, and became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the spy establishment — just as Richard Nixon was secretly battling the CIA, the Pentagon, and corporate interests at the time that the Watergate scandal began to undo his presidency.

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

«This surge is very troubling and likely foreshadows an increase of importation, abuse, and overdose deaths in the United States,» Anthony Williams, assistant administrator and chief of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on Tuesday.

Inclusion in each section depends on the drug's potential medicinal uses and the potential for dependency and abuse, according to the DEA.

Meanwhile, an investigation by CNN focused on the dark side of ride hailing drivers, finding 103 U.S. Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse in the past four years and and 18 drivers for Lyft.

To have power is to abuse it, and I did,» KISS's Gene Simmons admits in a video interview with Inc. in September, ahead of the release this week of his book, On Power: My Journey Through the Corridors of Power and How You Can Get More Power (Dey Street Books).

Through the Internet and social media, that blog told the world her views on girls needing to go to school but being shut in and abused.

Galea, a physician and epidemiologist by training, is quick - to - the - point and unflinching — even brutal, at times, in his directness, particularly in the chapterettes on firearms, substance abuse, and incarceration.

However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners at every level of the K - Cup distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.

Criminal complaint aside, the video is focused on Eggland's Best rather than Briarwood, ending the video by saying, «Join me in urging Eggland's Best to end this disgusting animal abuse.»

That is why we released the video and are calling on Eggland's Best to stop supporting blatant animal abuse in its egg supply chain by committing to going 100 % cage free.

In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»

«There seems to be very little progress on some of the big things in terms of getting user growth going again, in terms of making Twitter more accessible for new users, in terms of dealing with abuse, in terms of driving revenue growth.»

The central message of Diebert's stark - and - sometimes - grim book, and the Citizen Lab in general, is that tabs must be kept on those who hold power so that they do not abuse it through technological means.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told a Brussels audience in January that the U.S. company promised «to do better» to boost privacy, stem the spread of hate speech and clamp down on the abuse of the social network to influence votes.

Melanie Sloan, who served with Conyers from 1995 to 1998, alleged in the report that she was verbally abused by Conyers, who is now the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

«As a company, we were too idealistic and optimistic and didn't focus enough on preventing abuse or thinking through how people could use the tools our platform provides to do harm,» Facebook said in a statement to Entrepreneur.

On Tuesday, Anheuser - Busch (BUD), the official beer sponsor of the NFL, condemned the league's actions in light of recent abuse allegations, but the company did not pull its sponsorship.

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

By the time Masih was released in 2014 — early, for good behavior — the team had written a second manual on how prisoners abuse drugs in prison.

Still, Mayweather's star dimmed considerably in 2012 when he served 90 days in jail on a misdemeanor related to domestic abuse.

Schenck is also watching Venezuela's snap election in May, which could trigger further US sanctions on the oil producer whose government has been accused of human - rights abuses.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on $ 150 billion in Chinese imports to the United States to punish China for what government officials regard as Beijing's predatory industrial policies and abuse of U.S. intellectual property.

«Since protecting users is a top priority for Google, we have detailed policies against deceptive or misleading use of trademarks in ad text and take swift action when we see this type of abuse on our platform,» the representative said.

Jack mentioned that some other airlines fired employees who had substance abuse problems, whether or not they had jobs in which safety was on the line.

«If the president wants to make an immediate impact on Venezuela to stop these human rights abuses and restore the situation, he's got the ability to,» Hamm told Bloomberg in an interview in his capacity as head of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance.

In 2011, 31 % of prescription - opioid - related overdose deaths involved these two kinds of drugs used together, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

«In the case of Twitter, with the abuse, with the vitriol that's on it, there's a lot of brands that just don't want to be associated with that sort of content.»

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

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.

That yes, there are abuses, and yes, maybe they've gone too far in certain areas, maybe there are too many kids on Ritalin, maybe electric shock --»

After weeks of discussions with the Justice Department, Democrats on the House intelligence committee released Saturday a classified memo that counters GOP allegations that the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian election interference.

It could also have a ripple effect on other types of substance abuse, since an estimated 80 % of new heroin users start with prescription opioids such as OxyContin — a statistic that may have contributed to the decline in prescriptions in the first place.

Symptoms include lack of energy, changes in appetite and sleep patterns, substance abuse, anxiety, and thoughts of self - harm, which, while clearly not great for mental or physical health, also take a toll on economic productivity.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a statement said the settlement «represents another strong step toward our goal of reversing the decades of abuse on Rikers and building a culture of safety for officers and inmates alike.»

To be sure, there are others who say that any move to crack down on abuse of the H - 1B visa system is a step in the right direction.

«What you're not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs and listening in on people's phone calls or inappropriately reading people's emails,» Obama said from the East Room of the White House.

In 2012, she joined the office of the Montgomery County district attorney, where she focused on sex crimes and elder abuse cases.