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It would be good for you to expand and show the readership your expertise in areas other than fees and the ongoing abuse of same.

Yesterday in Washington, our government gagged the military lawyer, Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, who alleged ongoing abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

The firm represented Nationwide Airlines (as co-complainant with Comair Limited) against South African Airways (SAA) in relation to ongoing abuse of dominance conduct, in contravention of the Competition Act, resulting in a damages claim against SAA, which was heard before the South Gauteng High Court in 2016.

Chief among these concerns right now is the U.S. government's ongoing abuse of surveillance technology, and its requirements of technology companies to supply information on their customers.

In the past, President Obama and his Administration have voiced support for reforms that would address ongoing abuses of the patent system by patent assertion entities, otherwise known as patent trolls, which currently cost America's economy roughly $ 29 billion each year.

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This year, the United States ranked No. 18 — falling four spots from last year and five from two years ago — «in part because of the ongoing epidemics of obesity, substance abuse and untreated depression,» according to World Happiness Report co-editor and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.

«My office will continue to fight for victims» best interests throughout the bankruptcy proceedings, and engage with all parties, including The Weinstein Company and Lantern, in an ongoing effort to advance the principles we set forward when we filed our complaint: ensuring that victims are compensated, employees are protected moving forward, and perpetrators and enablers of abuse are not unjustly enriched,» he said.

It's gotten to the point that there is considerable pressure for him to resign (although many doubt it will happen) because of the league's ongoing domestic abuse and discipline problems.

As part of our ongoing work in safety, we identify suspicious account behaviors that indicate automated activity or violations of our policies around having multiple accounts, or abuse.

Oct 23, 2013 — The University of St. Thomas in Minnesota has found itself in the middle of the ongoing se - x abuse crisis in Minnesota, according to Inside...

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

What's important in this forum is that the tactic of silencing the victim or those who call out abuse is an established pattern here, and David's comment above confirms that the pattern is ongoing.

For some victims, forgiveness will be an ongoing process as they heal from the wounds of abuse.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

In interviews by e-mail, Heyman, now 68, said, «I personally doubt that Eshleman and I will be able to sort things out — wounds caused by backstabbing do not heal quickly, and the abuse of scripture perpetrated by [Campus Crusade] is an ongoing affront to the Word.»

But the victims of ongoing abuse are not so lucky.

Two more priests have been placed on administrative leave by the Philadelphia Archdiocese as part of an ongoing investigation into the sexual abuse of children by clergy.

For example, such a culture may include some or all of the following; ongoing safety classes for parents, children and youth, sermons that teach about the value of children and that openly address issues related to abuse, ongoing child protection training for staff and volunteers, and the hosting of community wide events that address issues related to abuse.

And, marriages with ongoing, never ending, serious conflict is a very subtle, but powerful form of abuse.

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Breastfeeding can also be particularly difficult for a survivor of sexual abuse, so midwives will compassionately assist new mothers with education, make sure the baby is latching properly, and help them find an ongoing support group.

They are a combination of initial reactions to the abuse and the accommodation that children had to make in their personality formation in order to cope with the abuse on an ongoing basis.

While it is absolutely true that ongoing stress is bad for a baby's brain, the stress that is shown to cause developmental problems is the chronic stress suffered by babies who are abused or neglected, or void of any parental figure in their life (such as babies born in orphanages in China).

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

Dr. Chartock also discusses the ongoing probe into former New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is accused of abusing women.

For a number of years, Freedom from Torture has been highlighting the problem of ongoing torture in Sri Lanka and welcomed the press coverage of terrible abuses earlier this week.

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.

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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-...]

That the target of an investigation received an incomplete fill - in - the - blanks notice speaks to what critics say are ongoing problems at the Justice Center, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo created in 2013 following a series of stories about how disabled New Yorkers have been abused and neglected while in the care of state agencies or private facilities that contract with the state.

The New York Times says the Silver verdict and ongoing trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos «should sound a loud alarm to all the players in Albany who have become so accustomed to the abuse of power that they can't see how it infects every aspect of lawmaking,» adding: «If the lawmakers still don't get the message, voters should take heed.

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Michael Cusick, Sen. Andrew Lanza, Staten Island DA Michael McMahon, and representatives from the NYPD, Delco Drugs, and YMCA Counseling Services announce the donation of 10,000 drug deactivation pouches to combat the ongoing heroin and opioid abuse epidemic, Delco Drugs, 3833 Richmond Ave., Staten Island.

In a release signed by Steven Chilaka, its «National Secretary» on Sunday, they wanted the Chief of Army Staff to be included among those indicted in the ongoing probe of abuse of funds meant for the procurement of arms simply because he was the Director of Procurement at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ).

At 9:30 a.m., Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Commissioner of Health Gale Burstein, U.S. Attorney for the Western District William Hochul and police chiefs make a plea for volunteers to help combat the region's ongoing opioid abuse epidemic, Erie County Fire Training Academy, 3359 Broadway St., Cheektowaga.

Mr. de Blasio has made supportive housing — which is affordable housing for vulnerable populations with services like healthcare, substance abuse, and mental health help on site for residents — a central component of his plan to tackle the city's ongoing homeless crisis, which has seen both the shelter and the street population on the rise.

In the light of the ongoing probe into the abuse of the $ 2.1 billion meant for procurement of arms, which has seen the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, indicting some eminent Nigerians, a group, Save the Nation Movement (STNM), had called for the probe of Buratai, saying he was the Director of Procurement at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), between 2012 to 2015.

Political leaders were celebrating the anniversary of the Libya uprising today, despite ongoing concerns about human rights abuses under the new regime.

Unless tentative decisions are reversed, the final budget will not include an expansion of the statute of limitations in child abuse civil and criminal cases, nor will it include new ethics provisions to address ongoing pay - to - play allegations in Albany or close loopholes that allow certain donors to skirt campaign contribution limits.

Cuomo says the bill addresses an ongoing problem of abuse by employees in state mental health and special needs facilities.

Dowd, who has an ongoing priest abuse case against the Diocese of Rockville Centre, said it doesn't matter that Flanagan is no longer at the firm or may not have handled cases involving the church.

Asked if the abuse of travel vouchers by lawmakers is a «systemic problem,» Schneiderman told reporters, «The travel vouchers are an area of ongoing interest.

The Michigan Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) last week effectively prohibited the sale of all alcoholic energy drinks after considering several studies regarding such beverages as well as concerns voiced by substance abuse prevention and parental groups, the general public, and an ongoing U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation.

The question of whether marijuana can help treat chronic pain is important enough on its own, but Lindley's study takes on extra significance in the context of the ongoing epidemic of opioid abuse.

These instruments have formed the foundation for the biochemistry cores of two NIH Centers of Excellence (the NIAAA - funded TSRI Alcohol Research Center and the National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA]- funded Scripps Center for Cannabis Addiction Neurobiology) and have directly supported other ongoing projects at TSRI (the Methamphetamine NeuroAIDS Research Program, NIDA - funded projects on immunopharmacotherapy [Taffe and Janda laboratories], a project with Dr. Steve Poceta to measure human lumbar cerebrospinal fluid in Parkinson's patients with Restless Leg Syndrome, and a U.S. Army grant), as well as assisting non-TSRI collaborators from The Sanford - Burnham Institute, The Salk Institute, and elsewhere.

The same can not be said of those seeking to use important freedom of information laws to disparage academics and other public - sector scientists and abuse the freedom of information process to drive them away from ongoing important collaborations in the furtherance of sound, science - driven public and commercial policy development.

Last week, the White House announced an initiative aimed at fighting the ongoing epidemic of heroin abuse and prescription drug abuse in an effort to change the tide.

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But the ceremony's most memorable moment came in an honorary award for Oprah Winfrey, who spoke out on the industry's issues with misogyny, sexual abuse, and the ongoing lack of diversity in Hollywood's corridors of power.

The power dynamic between Alma and the domineering Reynolds takes on a new angle given the recent revelations of ongoing misconduct in a variety of male - dominated industries — although it should be said that there is no sexual abuse in Phantom Thread and, indeed, the behavior onscreen goes both ways — a new facet that Krieps says she appreciates.

It was one of the most memorable moments of an evening whose unofficial theme was Hollywood's ongoing reckoning with its legacy of sexism, abuse,...