Sentences with phrase «on vulnerable individuals»

The guide «aims to help advocates identify the critical issues surrounding PFS contracts and their impact on vulnerable individuals and the public.

«I think another lesson is to highlight and focus on vulnerable individuals, those with pre-existing health conditions.»

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«It was beyond reprehensible that there were individuals that ran a business model based on taking advantage of people, especially vulnerable people.»

While the misuse and exploitation of information people share with companies does not constitute the type of «breach» or theft discussed in the previous chapter on security (because the information was not technically stolen), the potential for harm to individuals and to vulnerable categories of people is nonetheless very real.

«The War On Drugs paradigm has been used in many ways to marginalize vulnerable populations, to incarcerate individuals who do not have violent records,» says the Rev. Kathryn Ray, the project coordinator for Clergy for a New Drug Policy.

Ammerman also finds rational choice theory vulnerable in its emphasis on the individual.

We urge organizations in Maryland to sign on to this letter reaffirming our collective commitment to a strong and effective national nutrition safety net for vulnerable, low - income individuals and families.

He further suggested that strict laws must be implemented and individuals who infringe on the rights of the vulnerable in society, severely punished to serve as deterrent to others.

«These sad events shine a light on the onerous responsibility councils bear in working with the most vulnerable children and families, and the equally onerous responsibility we ask individual members of staff, children's social workers especially, to carry on our behalf,» she is expected to say later.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who by all other measures are sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is that «they score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.

He went on to conclude that «these findings indicate that individual differences in fronto - stiato - limbic regions implicated in impulsivity and decision making could render individuals vulnerable for the transition from occasional to escalating stimulant use.»

There is a growing sense, Pessah adds, that our heavily industrialized, chemical - soaked environment — and the way it acts on vulnerable genes in some individuals — may be a major culprit.

The güiña has been in decline for many years, with its population estimated to be fewer than 10,000 individuals, and it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996.

McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who are on all other measures sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is a trait called absorption: «They score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.

First, one 24 - hour urine collection might be insufficient to characterize an individual's habitual salt intake, but it does accurately reflect the average salt consumption of groups of subjects.42 Thus, our analyses based on tertiles of 24 - hour urinary sodium should be less vulnerable to the high intraindividual variability of sodium excretion.

This accumulation of rejection from a range of different networks could be considered one of the downsides of contemporary life, and certainly it directly impacts on individuals, leaving them feeling sensitive and vulnerable.

Mr Sherwood added: «The evidence shows that FLO has a positive impact on disengaged and vulnerable young people and highlights the importance of tailored casework to help them to take the lead in addressing their individual challenges, boost aspirations, achieve learning goals as well as pursue post-school employment, training and further learning goals.»

This project aims to explore the impacts of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on the lives of the most vulnerable and hard - to - reach individuals among the DACA eligible population.

This data has not appeared for 2015/16 and is not a statutory requirement for being displayed on the websites of individual schools which means that unless there is a proactive approach to ensuring that there is a consistent view across all schools then this approach may well act as a mechanism to enhance social mobility challenges for the children within the most vulnerable schools.

She is currently conducting mixed - methods research on: 1) the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, 2) immigration detention, deportation, and the intersections of immigration and criminal law, and 3) Legally vulnerable workers including noncitizens and individuals with criminal records.

Unfortunately, predatory lenders and unscrupulous individuals have been known to prey on the weak and vulnerable.

Investors who have focused on defensive industries and individual stocks that are less vulnerable to swings in the economy have tended to outperform the broader market with smaller declines during bad periods.

The government watchdog urged the search giant to, «work closely with federal and state agencies to ensure your search products are not being used by individuals and companies seeking to prey on the most vulnerable student loan borrowers by implying an affiliation with the federal government.»

If you are looking for a resolution to the problem, the prognosis will depend on the predictability of the behaviour and whether or not you can safeguard the family members, particularly the very young and old or any particularly vulnerable individuals.

For over 25 years world - renowned artist Tania Bruguera has created socially - engaged performances and installations that examine the nature of political power structures and their effect on the lives of society's most vulnerable individuals and groups.

On the occasion of her 2016 — 17 show at MoMA PS1, curator Peter Eleey wrote: Drawing inspiration from the distorted bodies that litter the histories of modern painting, Braunig adapts these legacies to the discomforts and instabilities of contemporary life... While evocatively dystopic, her paintings also subtly empower their vulnerable subjects, advocating a humanist art for an age in which individual experience seems threatened by forces beyond our control.

The climate change deniers isolate individual scientists just as predators on the Serengeti Plain of Africa hunt their prey: picking off vulnerable individuals from the rest of the herd.»

Building affordable housing is the real solution to our homelessness crisis — but with thousands of vulnerable families and individuals on the streets today, tiny houses are a viable, quick and low - cost solution.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

• Improved understanding of climate thresholds and vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptive responses in a variety of different local contexts across the country • Improved understanding of vulnerable populations (e.g., urban poor, native populations on tribal lands) that have limited capacities for responding to climate change • Ways to build adaptive capacity that can be generalized across individuals, communities, and countries • Decision support tools for entities responsible for hazard mitigation and management • Collection of socioeconomic research to inform impact, vulnerability, and adaptation research

Meanwhile, in the UK vast sums are spent on prosecuting individuals and trying vainly to interrupt the flow of drugs into cities, carried along «county lines» by vulnerable children.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

Residents in hurricane vulnerable areas who had a plan, and took individual responsibility for acting on those plans, faired far better than those who did not,» said Max Mayfield, director of the NOAA National Hurricane Center.

«These individuals are not as vulnerable or as foolish as the law society seems to think because they are unsophisticated... I still have an excellent reputation on the reserves where I work.»

It is because councils had enough housing stock to offer vulnerable individuals / families on low income, social housing.

Those purposes include the prevention of arbitrary disadvantage or exclusion based on enumerated grounds, so that individuals deemed to be vulnerable by virtue of a group characteristic can be protected from discrimination.

It has implications for the safety of vulnerable individuals, and can have lasting effects on parent - child relationships.

A «vulnerable sector» check identifies whether an individual has been granted a pardon for certain specified sexual offences, but is only available to organizations hiring individuals to care for children and vulnerable persons based on restrictions in the Criminal Records Act.

Engagement in «sexual acts», prohibited or not, is not the determinative factor in the identification of an individual's difference by that individual, or by the potential persecutor, and therefore this lack of recognition of the rights of gay and lesbian minors, which is also excluded by the prohibition on «homosexual acts», is of a fundamental importance to this exceptionally vulnerable group, based both on age and sexual or gender identity.

US defamation law allows private persons to prove and recover actual damages using a negligence standard (rather than the more stringent actual malice standard) 172 on the basis that private persons are more vulnerable to injury than public figures and their reputations are more deserving of protection.173 That recognition is consistent with the argument advanced herein, namely that there is something qualitatively different about individuals who possess reputation as celebrity: their discursive power to yoke the media to their reputation - constructing ends.174 Discursive power is the ability not just to erect a website putting his or her version of the story online (which virtually anyone can now do), but also the ability to cause mass media outlets to devote attention to his or her side of the story.

In others, a representative claim brought on behalf of a transient, vulnerable population may not require evidence from individual members of that group to succeed.

The physical and psychological challenges facing these individuals as a result of their disability, often requires them to be more dependent on caregivers, educators, physicians and, thus, makes them even more vulnerable to abuse.

He also addressed the critical issue of segregation with discussion of international standards which severely restrict the use of segregation for vulnerable people, and restrictions on prolonged segregation (over 15 days) due to the harmful effects on individuals.

It recognized that public interest litigants are crucial to realizing the Charter's democratic potential because they can address the systemic impacts of the law on the most vulnerable people in a way that isn't possible in individual litigation.

The 2011 Gordon Osbaldeston Lecture — A Short History of the Erosion of Trust — Allan R. Gregg — From inauthenticity to an essay on it: Gregg's target, though, is politics: «So even if we are now less deferential to our traditional leaders, and more efficacious and cynical as individuals, it may also be that this cultural shift has rendered us more insecure and vulnerable to the larger uncertainties that we can not control through technology and social media.»

Impose a duty on service providers or substitute decision - makers to take all reasonable steps to protect a vulnerable individual

Individuals convicted of an offence against a vulnerable person under any Act would be automatically placed on the registry.

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Comment: Commenters asserted that the NPRM did not adequately protect vulnerable individuals who depend on others to exercise their rights under the rule.