Sentences with phrase «pro quo by»

Not exact matches

As Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, points out, by paying it forward, you are more successful without expecting a quid pro quo.

In business, you have a better chance by offering quid pro quo.

Rather than existing on a blockchain, as most have come to expect of cryptocurrencies, the E-Coins were located on QUID PRO QUO's own servers, and in spite of the Association's claim that 80 percent of the currency was backed by tangible assets, «the actual percentage was significantly lower.

The quid pro quo was that IPIC would receive assets of equivalent value from the Malaysian fund by the end of June this year.

Issues of justice arise when there is a contract or a mutual agreement between two people by which one does something for the other and the other agrees to give something equivalent in return; this equivalence is what is termed the quid pro quo.

There is the quid pro quo, the club has players that do just enough keep us afloat and those players feel privileged for the opportunity, to which the club itself feels justified by keeping them on not paupers wages but enough to keep them happy and not make a fuss.

Of course, these actions could also have been taken by Trump's predecessors (not as a quid pro quo, or because they are Russian moles, but because they see it as necessary part of foreign policy; this is true for Trump as well).

They claim boundary changes was introduced as a quid pro quo for the May 2011 referendum on electoral reform, in which the public rejected the alternative vote system by a ratio of two votes to one.

However, under questioning by one of Silver's attorneys in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Taub said there was no explicit quid pro quo.

While everyone is adamant that there is no quid pro quo for all this cash, the politicians themselves seem only too willing to do favors for the real estate industry, with a reported 68.6 million square feet under development by the end of 2015.

«Some senior Conservatives were angry at suggestions that the policy was a «quid pro quo» for the marriage tax allowance... The marriage tax allowance, to be announced by David Cameron at the Tory Party's annual conference, is expected to cost about # 550 million.

Kinderhook, NY... October 13, 2016 — Zephyr Teachout, the liberal New York City professor who moved Upstate this year to run for Congress, muted her support for fellow Vermonter and socialist Bernie Sanders ahead of New York's presidential primary in a quid pro quo orchestrated by the Clinton campaign team, leaked emails show.

Suspicion was aroused by some that the peerages were a quid pro quo for the loans.

«This is intended to be an apolitical commission that appears to have acted politically by seeking an inappropriate quid pro quo,» Mr. Dadey said.

The decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in a ruling that narrowed the definition of the types of official acts that could be considered as part of quid pro quo arrangements.

I'm coming to this late, but this essay by Zephyr Teachout, former Howard Dean campaign internet director and Fordham Law School professor, on what Chief Justice John Roberts gets wrong about the meaning of corruption and a quid pro quo in American jurisprudence, is a must - read.

Gage repeatedly said that the charges against the senator failed to show a quid pro quo and that the senator's stances on issues dealing with real estate and the environment were «longstanding» and were not skewed by his relationship to the companies or his son's employment.

As a quid pro quo to the Power Authority taking care of George's friends and family club members, George, his oversight committee, looked the other way and abrogated his responsibility to not only the taxpayers of his district but to all Western New Yorkers by letting the Cuomo / Silver progressive establishment cartel, in two successive budget bills in 2011 and 2012, sweep $ 600,000,000 from the bank account of the Power Authority to the General Fund of the State of New York — monies that should have been used for the economic benefit of Western New Yorkers.

All three cases involved a common issue — a new definition by the Supreme Court requiring a formal exercise of government power rather than just a meeting or phone call to prove a quid pro quo bribery scheme under the federal law prohibiting «honest services fraud.»

Be cautious of means testing benefits — as established by Magna Carta, taxation still rests on consent, where the quid pro quo for higher earners paying much more taxation is universal entitlement to at least most benefits.

The defense had sought to undermine Dr. Taub's testimony by pointing out he has a non-prosecution agreement, and had argued none of the speaker's activities actually constituted a criminal quid quo pro, or direct «this for that.»

As the two investigations diverged, the U.S. attorney's office focused almost exclusively on potential quid pro quo arrangements with de Blasio donors from the 2013 campaign, while Vance's office remained focused on complaints referred by the state Board of Elections over whether the mayor violated contribution limits in steering money to Democratic State Senate candidates in 2014.

The feds say that arrangement was part of an illegal quid pro quo in which Silver funneled $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants to Taub, who is avoiding prosecution by agreeing to testify against the Manhattan Democrat.

Even if he were tempted by it, a compromise would look to all the world like a petty quid pro quo, if the world is paying attention.

Bruno, 85, is facing his second trial for depriving the public of the right to honest services by engaging in what prosecutors described as a «quid pro quo bribery scheme.»

Minutes earlier, Michael S. Feldberg, Silver's lead attorney, had said the prosecution presented «no evidence of a quid pro quo in exchange for official acts» by Silver, who led the Assembly for nearly 21 years.

Last week, jurors heard about another alleged quid pro quo scheme centered on cancer patients being referred by Silver to the Weitz & Luxenberg personal injury law firm.

Family loyalty angle But legal and political experts alike expect the Skelos lawyers to try to turn the family narrative to their advantage, recasting the ugly allegations as a more sympathetic story of parental love for a child who needed help that may resonate, and arguing that any quid pro quos were imagined by people who wanted to curry favor with the GOP leader.

But he says the jury did not seem to be deterred by lack of proof of an actual quid pro quo, through an email, for instance.

In Revenue Ruling 57 - 127, the IRS Commissioner determined that funds from a government foundation used by an individual for the purpose of conducting a research project free from direction and control of the institution were not to be considered a fellowship because the foundation reserved rights in patents resulting from the research, thereby establishing a quid pro quo.

It is integral to evolution as cooperating organisms gain survival advantage by a quid pro quo between them.

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In my book, there was definitely a quid pro quo transaction here — evidenced by Judge Bellis» finding that neither Vallas nor Pryor were fully forthcoming, and the testimony of the NEAG Dean to the effect that this one independent study did not constitute a leadership program.

Finally, congressional Republicans were angered by what they perceived as an end run around Congress, and House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) questioned the secretary's legal basis for the waiver commitments» quid pro quo.

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2008 A Selection of Short Films and Videos by Lawrence Weiner, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Auditorium, Beijing, CN Offsides, Lisson Gallery, London, UK With a Line of Graphite, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, IT Forever & A Day, CAC, Malaga, ES Lawrence Weiner, Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin, Berlin, DE Seven Statements in One (works from 1970 - 1988), El Sourdog Hex, Berlin, DE Dematerializing Cinema — The Films of Lawrence Weiner, Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Boston, US The Crest of a Wave, Latitudes / Suñol Foundation, Barcelona, ES Lawrence Weiner: Quid Pro Quo, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Water in Milk Exists, Uplink Factory, Toyko, JP AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, US; K21 Kunstsammlung Nordhein - Westfalen, Dusseldorf, DE

Basically, think of it as a quid pro quo - if the commenter adds value to your blog, you reward them by providing them with an inbound link back to their website.

Or is the reception not so much an award but rather a quid pro quo where big firms cash in on pro bono service by obtaining one - on - one access to the federal judges at an exclusive ceremony.

There are two types of sexual harassment: quid pro quo sexual advances by a supervisor (for example, sexual advances in return for a job or promotion) and a hostile work environment.

Unlawful treatment also comes in the form of sexual harassment by the employer — whether it is direct sexual harassment aimed at the employee which is known as quid pro quo harassment, or in the form of general sexual conduct by other employees which alters the conditions of employment and renders the work environment hostile or abusive.

Plans to change the ways in which Arkansas judges are elected are starting to take shape as bills are starting to be debated and amended in committee any by authors, including one with a unique quid pro quo.

Section 13 (2) repeats the formula first found in the Theft Act 1968, s 31 (1) which removed the privilege in connection with offences created by that statute against the quid pro quo that answers would not be used against the maker.

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