Sentences with phrase «practice acts as»

The practice acts as sole provider of debt recovery legal services to Mercedes Benz Financial Services, and has acted for it on various debt actions, injunction applications at High Court level, and fraud cases.

«While most of the regulation springs from good intention, much of it in practice acts as a disadvantage to economic activity.»

He started in practice acting as a solicitor for the Banabans of Ocean Island in the Pacific in their actions against the UK Government and others arising from the environmental degradation of their homeland island by phosphate mining.

Not exact matches

When he retired and sold his two practices, his daughters, Whitney and Mary Alison, convinced him to look into franchising as a second act.

«Sustainability» is a catch - all phrase that refers to the science, or practice, of acting so as not to harm the environment, protecting (rather than depleting) natural resources and supporting long - term ecological balance.

«Given the significant consequences of acting as an unregistered broker - dealer and the increased attention being given to this issue by the SEC staff, private - fund advisers should consider reviewing their practices to determine whether any activities that may be approaching or crossing the line would require broker - dealer registration,» David Blass, the chief counsel of the SEC's division of trading and markets, suggested in a speech last April.

Their last act before the bubble bursts is the time - honored practice of taking the money and running — paying themselves as large bonuses and salaries as corporate treasuries (and public bailouts) allow.

It should act as inspiration for women all over the world to put their business ideas into practice and to make successes of themselves.

We are also pleased to see that the CSA, IIROC and MFDA may view refusals or low ball offers as an indication of problems with a registered firm's complaint handling practices including their obligation to deal fairly, honestly and in good faith with clients, act within the applicable standard of care, or have implemented and maintained effective complaint handling procedures.

Sources familiar with the deliberations said two sections of the Competition Act where Ottawa may want to make changes are Sections 76 and 77 — that deal with practices such as «price maintenance» and «exclusive dealing.»

On July 30, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, which he characterized as «the most far reaching reforms of American business practices since the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.»

Dr Leblanc has served as an external advisor to boards that have won national awards and peer endorsement from institutional shareholders for their corporate governance practices and has also acted as a corporate governance expert witness in recent years.

[107] This class action lawsuit was filed in 1994 with Selma Buycks - Roberson as lead plaintiff and alleged that Citibank Federal Savings Bank had engaged in practices forbidden under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act.

As head of Herbert Smith Freehills» private wealth practice in Asia, Richard acts for HNW individuals, their families, private banks and other advisors across Asia on a range of contentious and non-contentious trust and probate issues together with charitable and family company matters.

So it became industry practice to ignore Shiller's research findings, to act as if it was no big deal that valuations affect long - term returns and to continue to push the now discredited Buy - and - Hold strategy.

Prior to this, Mr. Makarov acted as the Chief Legal Officer at RUSAL Global Management B.V. Throughout the period between 2004 and 2011 he practiced Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions law as a partner at the international law firm, Jones Day.

These practices should not be confused with coercive tied selling, as defined by the Bank Act.

We build scalable marketing practices and help manage the grow strategy for start - up organizations — acting as a strategic partner.

What annoys me about this behavior, which is practiced very often today as well, is that for some reason corporate managers seem to act like these buybacks — when they are earmarked for the purpose of offsetting stock options — exist in a vacuum where the laws of economics are suspended.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

The writ petition filed by Kali Digital claims that the decision of the Reserve Bank to deny services to crypto traders and exchanges violates various acts of the Indian constitution - Article 19 (1)(g) and Article 14 - which promise individuals a fair treatment among the eyes of law, as well as the freedom to practice any business or occupation of their choice.

In our Securities Practice, we act as counsel to more than 80 public companies (including 20 Chinese issuers), as well as, numerous FINRA (formerly NASD) licensed underwriters and placement agents in connection with their financing activities, including private placements and public offerings of equity and debt securities.

As one Muslim scholar put it, «Shari`ah instructs man on how he should eat, receive visitors, buy and sell, slaughter animals, clean himself, sleep, go to the toilet, lead a government, practice justice, pray, and perform other acts of [worship].»

Funny how your Jesus taught compassion, acceptance, love and tolerance... and you christians teach and practice the exact opposite for anyone that doesn't believe or act the way you view as acceptable.

in essence, in addition to being an individual act of bravery in overcoming a temptation, it also serves as a template for others in the practice of bravery as well.

Who are we to tell God he can not do the same in our day and time??? The Law now states it is illegal, Edmunds / Tucker act, and as of 1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also does not practice it.

I I say that as a practicing Catholic... It comes off very phony for someone like Gingrich especially, to wear the sign of the beginning of lent on his forehead... Three marriages and many infidelities... Acting in a graceful manner would be more appropriate.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

The Concordant Literal translates the two words as «sodomites» (those who practice sodomy — either anal sex (an act not limited to m / m pairs, although they do practice it; the NIV uses the phrase «shrine prostitute») or zoophilia (person / animal)-RRB- and «catamites» (young boys kept by older men for sexual purposes; it is suggested by some scholars that the boy the Centurion asked Jesus to heal in the Gospels was a «kept boy»).

He might understand his act as the natural extension of the current practice of altruistic kidney donation.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

As the Christian thing concretely present, a congregation is a complex of practices comprised of bodily and mental acts regarding ourselves, our neighbors, our shared social and physical contexts, and God.

Otherwise in theory or in practice he would be acting irresponsibly, and unjustifiably hazarding his conviction as a believer or his subjective morality.

Prayer as practice of the presence of God; reloving of family, workmates, and church members; compassion for the oppressed and disadvantaged; unmasking of the world's claims of God's sanction for its unjust structures; integrity of mission interweaving witness, acts of mercy, and acts of justice: all are areas of continuing growth in grace as long as we live.

Your point seems more directed at practicing and acting upon what one believes as opposed to the belief itself.

Her description of the science alone would have been fine, but the article is meant to be taken as a whole, and drawing a theological conclusion and describing the proper practice of science as an act of worship takes an article about science and turns it into one about fantasy as those conclusions are baseless and unprovable.

Even if this assessment is not the same as taking each act separately, each actor must still decide whether probable consequences authorize a given social practice or some alternative set of rules.

Though this is referring to Jewish holidays and other practices, I think the idea is universal: don't act as a judge.

The act should be made illegal, as it once was in this country (the USA), and all who CHOOSE to practice it be «Registered S.e.x. Offenders».

This is the phenomenology, particularly as practiced by Max Scheler, of which Wojtyla became a student, and which would in time lead him into novel, but orthodox, expositions of sexual ethics (Love and Responsibility), and into even more novel, though no less orthodox, expositions of the human person as the self - possessed locus of action and thought (The Acting Person).

He acts in practice as though God does not exist and, without arguing the matter, assumes rather uncritically that religion is something outgrown.

Deregulation of broadcasting in the U.S. and the Federal Communications Commission's apparent indifference to the practices of broadcast licensees and cable operators in effect seem to legitimize the operation of these media as businesses like any other business, disregarding the public trusteeship that is required by the Communications Act.

and Leviticus 20:13 «If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act.

The accounts in the Gospels which pictures Jesus on constant travel, according to him, arose from the practice of plying the trade of a carpenter and the work opportunity provided by the massive building projects undertaken by the Herods.26 The occasion also helped him establish contact with various groups of people, many of those, for whom, he had later acted as a broker.27

When conception has taken place, an abortive act is simply murder.29 Likewise birth control practiced perpetually as excluding life is a serious violation of man's natural existence.

Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

So let me try and get this straight, if religious doctrine does not define some practice as against the law or evil but yet the laity performs these unlawful acts, it keeps the church free from culpability?

As a thought, I have been trying a «leadership» practice which seems to me to go off at right angles to the balancing act / continuum of authority you describe.

Few practicing biblical scholars would take exception to this, even those who speak of God's acts in history, since these are generally viewed as mediated through the selfhood of human agents.