Sentences with phrase «outrageous acts»

Even though they are few in number, when outrageous acts of unethical practices occur, these acts usually hit the front pages of all the major newspapers and other media.

We saw war destroy lives in Syria and beyond, a migrant and refugee crisis in Europe, growing concerns about police discrimination in the US, and outrageous acts of corruption and violence worldwide.

In fact, the story of the Biblical hero sometimes approaches the outrageous acts depicted in «Game of Thrones» based on the novels of George R.R. Martin.

«What we are trying to do is with these students who are subject to these outrageous acts of violence or abuse is to give them a path to continue their education.»

«It has been extraordinarily painful to endure these many months of false accusations of «treason» and other outrageous acts,» Flynn said in a statement.

Do you know of a website where we can voice our opposition to this outrageous act?

A crime is simply a pretty heavy sin, an outrageous act of selfishness.

A video of that outrageous act made its way to the founder of AWWP, Masha Hamilton, who became convinced that Zarmeena's story...

This is as outrageous an act as I have ever witnessed imposed upon our community in 25 years as an activist.

For instance, the tort of «intentional infliction of mental distress» may apply where an employer has, intentionally or recklessly, carried out an outrageous act that caused the plaintiff severe emotional distress.

The defendant's breach of confidence was a flagrant and outrageous act that was a deep violation of trust.

The more you say «no,» the more children may ricochet from one outrageous act to the next.

Not exact matches

«Resolution of this Counterclaim will demonstrate that Mueller alone was the perpetrator of the humiliating and wrongful conduct targeted against Ms. Swift, and will serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts.»

«We acted in response to an outrageous proposal that was imminently pending review and threatened to impose dramatic and blatantly unconstitutional requirements on our church.

Being frozen with fear is one thing — understandable and certainly forgivable, but to turn it into some kind of noble religious act is outrageous.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

Stop acting like he's serious, just ignore his outrageous posts and stop responding.

Her origins are in the black folk expression «You acting womanish,» meaning, according to Walker, «wanting to know more and in greater depth than is good for one — outrageous audacious, courageous and willful behavior.»

«The PGA Tour acted in an outrageous and extreme manner.

Meanwhile, GOP State chair Ed Cox called the order an «outrageous power grab» and a purely political act «designed to appeal to radical primary voters and satisfy his presidential ambitions.»

«It's outrageous that the chairman of the Democratic Party acts that way with Democratic candidates,» said Rick Montano, a former Suffolk legislator who had a similar issue with Schaffer as a State Senate nominee in 2012.

He said, «We find it demeaning, insulting and outrageous that our senator acted as an escort and body guard to the wife of the Senate President when she was arraigned in court on charges of money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

He said: «The constituents, absolutely in my view, will vote for Jeremy given the chance and that's why it's the MPs today who have acted, I think, in a pretty outrageous way, should hang their heads in shame and ask themselves what they are doing and why they're playing into Boris Johnson's hands.»

today who have acted, I think, in a pretty outrageous way, should hang their heads in shame and ask themselves what they are doing and why they're playing into Boris Johnson's hands.»

The letter sent today to Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Zients clearly lays out why it is outrageous and indefensible to cut funds for the heroes and survivors of 9/11.

Her goal is to «serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts,» according to court documents, People reported.

People think that it is all about indecency, scandalous act and outrageous manner of giving and taking.

45 minutes of outrageous situation comedy with hilarious consequences, 45 minutes of gut wrenching and heart felt emotional drama, 45 minutes of impeccable acting from its two leads, who's on - screen chemistry (excuse the pun) has garnered them with a total of 4 Emmy's, and 45 minutes (im about to come back full circle here) of impossible to predict story lines that make the twists and turns in shows like Lost and Fringe genuinely feel like amateur hour.

sound of a switchblade, are the primary weapon of choice, which keeps things moment - to - moment as the movie snakes its way towards its outrageous, excruciatingly shocking final act with the kind of economy and pace found only in the best action movies.

But it's so refreshingly well - acted, with lively characters and some fairly outrageous...

I thought it was a well made movie and that the acting and ideas where there, but it doubled up the outrageous elements a little too much.

Filmmaker behind the new Marvel blockbuster talks about designing the movie's outrageous look, playing a rock alien and Cate Blanchett acting silly

This is an integral part of the Disney brand, of course — projecting a super-fashionable and somewhat chaste version of adolescence, in which the riptide undercurrents of hormonal acting out are always channeled in the most, like, totally amusing and mock - outrageous ways.

Mobile video technology means outrageous behaviour and abuses can rapidly become public knowledge, but achieving just outcomes still depends on a political willingness to act on such knowledge.

Polis» outrageous and inappropriate attack on Diane Ravitch may not have been some random, bizarre act on the part of an arrogant, self - serving Congressman but part of the corporate education reform industry's broader PR effort to dismiss the growing opposition to the privatization of public education.

While outrageous, it is unfortunately not surprising that a board which owns virtually no shares and has almost zero economic interest in the fortunes of the Company would be making these payments and failing to act even remotely in the interests of shareholders.

The odd «happy shake» can still be found in Vang Vieng, but the rest of the country has cleaned up its act and the most outrageous nightlife you will get in Laos is in Vientiane where a handful of nightclubs stay open past midnight.

I do find it outrageous that you can be potentially bumped like this — and that the staff always seem to act like this is of no consequence and why are you getting upset?

Clean Air Act which will increase pollution) 13) timing press releases so bad news will miss the news cycle on long weekends, especially when they plan on not enforcing environmental laws 14) press not reporting on the outrageous use of signing statements (president basically saying he intends to violate his oath of office) 15) press rarely reporting on anti-war demonstrations 16) Whitehouse use of Fox News (sic) and right - wing demagogue radio to get its message out 17) right - wing attempt to take over NPR and PBS.

Instead they act as Lone Rangers, often ignoring outrageous attacks on other skeptical scientists.

To claim falsely to be a «Nobel Prize winner» is such an outrageous misrepresentation of credentials that, until Mann made it part of his act, it was the kind of scam that would never occur to anyone outside a traveling medicine show or the carney guy in between the bearded lady and the amazing leopard woman.

The new EPA proposed rules are not based on any act of Congress but rather on an outrageous rewriting of the Clean Air Act by EPA on the basis of green ideology with all its bad science, bad economics and bad lact of Congress but rather on an outrageous rewriting of the Clean Air Act by EPA on the basis of green ideology with all its bad science, bad economics and bad lAct by EPA on the basis of green ideology with all its bad science, bad economics and bad law.

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1991)(in these days, the court can not consider the act of adultery to be outrageous and beyond the bounds of decency); Truitt v. Carnley, 836 S.W. 2d 786 (Tex..

In Honda Canada Inc. v Keays4, an employment law decision, the Supreme Court of Canada reviewed the availability of punitive damage awards and reiterated, at para. 63, that punitive damage should only be awarded in «rare circumstances» and are restricted to «advertent wrongful acts that are so malicious and outrageous that they are deserving of punishment on their own.»

1999)(mere adultery, though persistent, can not rise to level of intentional infliction of emotional distress); Weicker v. Weicker, 22 N.Y. 2d 8, 290 N.Y.S. 2d 732 (1968)(strong policy reasons weighed against applying intentional infliction of emotional distress to dispute arising out of matrimonial differences); Wilson v. Still, 819 P. 2d 714 (Okla. 1991)(act of woman stealing plaintiff's husband was not sufficiently outrageous); Rosenthal v. Erven, 172 Or.

The corporation's conduct was not outrageous as it was merely enforcing the provisions of the condominium documents and the Act, as it was required to do by the Act.

Prospectively, exemplary damages may be available if D has shown deliberate and reckless disregard of an outrageous nature of the claimant's rights, the conduct was punishable, and other remedies would not be adequate for punishment (Crime and Courts Act 2013, s 34 — not yet in force).

But where beach patrol professional does not act in a reasonably careful manner or makes an outrageous decision that results in injury to you or a loved one, that beach patrol professional should be held responsible for the consequences he or she caused.

Requires a plaintiff to show by «clear and convincing» evidence that a defendant «acted with malice or has shown a reckless and outrageous indifference to a highly unreasonable risk of harm and has acted with a conscious indifference to the health, safety and welfare of others.»