Sentences with phrase «prevent wrongdoers»

This two - pronged approach — called SAFE, for support, abatement, fines, and enforcement — teams police officers with city inspectors to evict criminals for civil violations, board up homes to prevent wrongdoers from returning, and in some cases, condemn the deteriorating properties if owners don't bring them up to code.

They say they brought the case «to prevent the wrongdoers from simply turning off the lights and dancing away singing: «Ciao, baby, got ta run!

Capital punishment is obviously an effective way of preventing the wrongdoer from committing future crimes and protecting society from him.

Sir Terence Etherton in Urban 1 took a different — and, it is thought, better — approach: failing to comply with a notice is not necessarily repudiatory but rather prevents the wrongdoer later claiming equitable relief (eg specific performance, if / when he is in a position to complete).

Not exact matches

From the perspective of classic statements of the just war idea, there was no question that one might justifiably use force to prevent an attack by a wrongdoer as well as to repair the injustice caused by such an attack or to punish the attacker.

These damages are intended to punish the wrongdoer and to prevent them from acting in such a harmful way again.

While the recent economic crisis brought newly invigorated political support for SEC enforcement against financial services companies, a recent case shows that the courts will still prevent the SEC from overreaching in its efforts to punish those it views as wrongdoers.

First, she validates the management need to investigate wrongdoing rather than immediately confront a suspected wrongdoer: «if the suspected employees had been confronted with the Employer's suspicions in late April or May as the Union suggested, while that might have had an immediate, albeit temporary, deterrent effect, that would have prevented any real hope of discovering the true extent of the problem.»

Punitive damages are intended to punish wrongdoers and to prevent those in a similar position from harming others.

The report severely criticizes laws pushed by special interest lobbyists to limit contingency fees, the impact of which is to allow wrongdoers to hire the best attorneys while preventing the sick and injured from doing the same.