Sentences with phrase «on their abuse of»

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.

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.

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.

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.

However, as evidence of the fact that Christianity has no monopoly on the abuse of power, our century has been checkered with instances of gross inhumanity perpetrated not just by post-Christian but by anti-Christian ideologues from the right and from the left.

No Brigitte: The point of THIS post is that MOST churches don't allow discussion on the abuse of women, but you can find PLENTY that discuss Muslims and Islam.

Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.

In the third part of our series on abuses of money, sex and power within the church, we look at a model of healthy leadership... More

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.

Anderson Cooper speaks with Richard Hoatson about a new report on abuse of minors by Catholic priests.

He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children (ATTACh).

Her professional memberships include the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

She has received several awards including the Outstanding Research Study Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and most recently, she was named 2003 Distinguished Alumna by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at California State University, Chico.

And they'd try and placate Britain by offering concessions on abuses of the benefits system.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Tuesday presented another witness, Alhaji Suraju Ahmadu, in the ongoing trial of Alhaji Sule Lamido, erstwhile governor of Jigawa State, who is being prosecuted by the Commission on a 27 - count charge bordering on abuse of office and money laundering before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court Maitama, Abuja.

Lamido: EFCC Presents another Witness The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Tuesday presented another witness, Alhaji Suraju Ahmadu, in the ongoing trial of Alhaji Sule Lamido, erstwhile governor of Jigawa State, who is being prosecuted by the Commission on a 27 - count charge bordering on abuse of office and money laundering before Justice Adeniyi Ademola -LSB-...]

One study — on the abuse of «housekeeping accounts» — did question political spending by the health care workers union 1199 SEIU, a close ally of Citizen Action, along with that of a number of corporate interests.

Bala as he is popularly called was dragged to Court on Wednesday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegations bordering on abuse of office while he served as FCT Minister.

Trush has blamed his actions in large part on his abuse of alcohol, which he used in reaction to a series of personal and health crises.

The governor also says he is pleased that the legislature agreed to his plan to crack down on abuse of the disabled in state run facilities.

The governor says he is pleased that the legislature agreed to his plan to crack down on abuse of the disabled in state run facilities.

Speaking at an Inter-Agency Forum on Strategies for Countering Counterfeit Drugs and Substance in Accra on Monday, the Minister said, «the recent issues on the abuse of drugs including tramadol and codeine has become a national threat.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has again called on Nigerians to handle the Naira with care, restating that the N50, 000 fine on abuse of the...

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has said he's supportive of some pension reforms, including cutting down on abuse of overtime that leads to inflated pension payments, but has not yet publicly said yes to a new benefit tier.

According to the statement, CDHR is deeply concerned with the failure of the House to investigate allegations of «budget padding» raised by Honourable Jubrin, while the motion on abuse of members» privileges was raised, debated and referred to ethics and privileges committee of the House for investigation later resulting in the suspension of Jubrin from the green chamber for 180 siting days and sealing off his office.

Before the election Labour had already sketched out a number of measures that a government serious about clamping down on the abuses of zero - hour contracts could adopt.

A Federal Capital Territory, High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to remand into prison custody pending the determination of a bail application by the Ex - FCT minister Bala Mohammed who has been arraigned over a 6 - count charge bordering on abuse of office, false declaration of assets and fraud to the tune of N864million.

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.

Lamido is being prosecuted alongside his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha, and two others by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 27 - count charge bordering on abuse of office and money laundering.

I was just starting to write my thoughts on the abuse of the incumbency factor when a friend phoned to ask if I was back from Ukraine!

Both were convicted on multiple corruption charges that in part focused on their abuse of income they earned outside of their state elected positions.

«Nightcrawler» doesn't play as a lecture on the abuses of news gatherers.

But Rosario Dawson said wearing black was to symbolize «the death knell has struck on abuse of power.»

The following seventeen organizations joined the amicus brief: National School Boards Association, Ohio School Boards Association, American Association of School Administrators, American Professional Society on Abuse of Children, American School Counselors Association, Buckeye Association of School Administrators, Council of Administrators of Special Education, International Municipal Lawyers Association, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Ohio Association of School Business Officials, Ohio Educational Service Center Association, Ohio Federation of Teachers, School Social Workers of America Association, and Council for Exceptional Children.

Continue reading Twitter Storm: Call for Congressional Hearings on Abuses of High - Stakes Testing

Jeffries said he and Clark were not allowed to present testimony on the abuse of animals at Clark's personnel board hearing last Thursday.

American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Child Abuse Prevention Network Child Welfare Information Gateway (Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) Child Welfare League of America International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect National CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children) National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse (National District Attorneys Association / American Prosecutors Research Institute) National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges National Council on Child Abuse and Family Violence Parents Anonymous Prevent Child Abuse America

BUT, it's been well documented here and here that AMEX is putting a lot of effort into cracking down on abuse of their credit card benefits / bonus system.

A presentation of the monumental installationThe Ozymandias Parade (1985), a scathing commentary on the abuse of political power, on view in New York for the first time since the Whitney Museum's retrospective in 1996.

This body of satirical work continues his acerbic attacks on abuses of power, corruption and political dumbness seen in his 2010 Cape Town show Hail to the Thief.

From Shepard Fairey's «How I'm Taking on Abuse of Power and Political Corruption» in The Daily Beast to a behind - the - scenes look at Daniel Heidkamp's studio process in ARTNews Habitat, it's been a big year in news for Pace Prints artists.

The Ozymandias Parade, a scathing installation commenting on the abuse of political power.

Though now, more than thirty years later, her depictions of the male figure in various states of acting out in unscrupulous ways could not be more relevant to our contemporary dialogue on the abuses of power that we are experiencing and witnessing first hand.

This is one reason the Union of Concerned Scientists, for example, has walked a fine line in its statements on abuse of FOIA.

The sooner the Federal Government acts on this abuse of Australian citizens by the wind industry and their conflicted «useful idiots» the better off the world will be, for everyone.

(4) Halpern et al. do not understand our critique on the abuse of diagrams in the context of simplistic radiative balance models.

In the digital era, as more & more of our information is handed over to corporations in order to participate in the necessities of life, I worry that these corporations, and not judges, will serve as the check on abuse of police power.

Co., 2015 MT 155N — Successfully upheld summary judgment in favor of title insurer on abuse of process claim.

Both the first instance judge and the majority of the Alberta Court of Appeal dismissed most of the applicants» requests, without considering the merits of the application, based on abuse of process and lack of public interest standing.

Decisions of the courts on the abuse of discretionary powers, he says, «are based far more often than the courts have admitted on a judgment about what it is thought right for Parliament to wish to do.»