Sentences with phrase «pro quo for»

I note it is an amendment to the Income Tax Act, so presumably the argument is that this documentation is the quid pro quo for a trade union's tax - exempt status.

An important quid pro quo for a patent, is the disclosure of the details of the innovation sufficient that a person skilled in the art can take advantage of the invention.

This protection is the quid pro quo for a civil litigant being compelled to produce relevant documents and to submit to questioning under oath as part of the civil discovery process.

The quid pro quo for this one way shift is that success fees and ATE premiums would cease to be recoverable.

He should not substitute his opinions about what constitutes good policy (like eliminating tutoring for struggling students or mandating national standards) as a quid pro quo for federal waivers.

«I think they can do better than that and if I was government I would be asking them to do more as a quid pro quo for their tax privileges.»

«There's a lot of bad blood for the vetoes, for the way he tried to get legislation passed in a quid pro quo for a pay increase,» DeFrancisco said.

The federal bribery statute does not require and explicit quid pro quo for conviction, and a federal appeals court affirmed that there was potentially enough evidence in the government's case to merit a re-trial.

Prosecutors argued that this amounted to an illegal quid pro quo for Silver, who the government said steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in state research grants to Taub to keep the patients coming — something the prosecution noted Silver never publicized, allegedly because he wanted to keep attention away from the illicit arrangement.

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.

Note to Preet: What was the quid pro quo for Andrew's totally UNWARRANTED book advance.

Providing stability nationally would be the quid pro quo for bold reform locally to make the changes needed to the commissioning and provision of care.

He sat down last month with federal investigators to answer questions about whether he or his aides agreed offered any quid pro quo for donors to his campaign or the Campaign for One New York.

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

«Although the government principally advanced a theory that Dean Skelos's arrangement for or participation in certain meeting constituted circumstantial evidence of a quid pro quo for legislative votes, it also argued in the alternative that the meetings themselves satisfied the official - act requirement,» the panel wrote in their decision.

According to sources, one of the authors on «Crapper is on the payroll of either Avella or Graziano - both of whom have been trading donations and favors quid pro quo for quite some time.

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.

«If he gets money as a quid pro quo for an official act, that's bad,» defense lawyer Michael Feldberg told Caproni.

She hits out against the «half - baked» plans and says the quid pro quo for boundary reform doesn't seem very savoury to her.

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

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.

Some Christian charities demanded conversion as a quid pro quo for practical aid, and aroused great resentment as a result, but many did not — it was the witness itself that was to convince.

Well, bring it on: it is all an excellent opportunity for bishops to explain what Catholic education is really for, and to declare plainly that if the State expects our schools to abandon the Catholic faith as a quid pro quo for receiving Catholic tax - payers» money, then that is an expectation we are not prepared to satisfy: and then, we will have to take the consequences.

As quid pro quo for lifting the U.S. government's debt ceiling last year, Republicans in Congress demanded $ 1.2 trillion worth of budget cuts over the next decade to drag Washington back into solvency.

New studies find that banks abused nonpublic information during the financial crisis and that brokers and clients often engage in quid pro quo for insider knowledge.

Not exact matches

Lawyers and prosecutors say that requiring such proof would make it harder for authorities to pursue insider trading cases, potentially preventing prosecutions in which corporate executives tip friends or relatives without any tangible quid pro quo.

«The patent system is based on a «bargain,» or quid pro quo: the inventor is granted exclusive rights in a new and useful invention for a limited period in exchange for disclosure of the invention so that society can benefit from this knowledge,» the court said.

A quid pro quo could emerge where Rogers gives up some of the market in exchange for Videotron not rocking the boat too much with lower prices.

He might decide to back Morton in return for a quid pro quo on another issue that divides them — the proposed national securities regulator, which Morton opposes.

Customer loyalty programs for brick - and - mortar businesses offer a great quid pro quo: crucial customer information.

The official said that at one point an FBI colleague received a call from Kennedy in which Kennedy «asked his assistance in altering the email's classification in exchange for a «quid pro quo.»»

The unspoken quid pro quo — that banks need to buy government debt in exchange for the central bank's largess — seems to be working.

Whether individuals are better off for this quid pro quo depends on how carbon taxes affect fuel consumption.

That's led some GOP politicians to claim there was a quid pro quo where the Clintons received money in exchange for Hillary's approval of the Uranium One deal, although there's no evidence to prove it.

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In July, Luhn told Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine that Ailes «psychologically tortured» her for 20 years after she accepted his quid pro quo offer: career opportunities in exchange for sexual favors.

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.

«While I had no particular affection for the IRD,» writes Higgins, «I also had no desire to enter into a coalition on the basis of quid pro quo demands.

This created problems for the Orthodox delegates at the Council of Florence in 1444 and it was agreed that the fire could be dropped as part of a quid pro quo, with the Greeks agreeing to some suffering; with the truly righteous being immediately beatified.

Grace is not awarded for the satisfactory completion of a spiritual check list — and grace is not earned for works or acts — and grace is not part of a quid pro quo arrangement or relationship — and grace is not a stipulation of a contract or covenant — and grace is not right thinking or thinking right or thinking good thoughts or having the right beliefs — and grace is not about rewards and punishments — and grace is not about later.

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.

Protection for maternity and paternity leave is part of the quid pro quo of being part of the EU free trade area.

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).

«The abundant record evidence that Dean Skelos traded his vote for legislation... in exchange for benefits to his son... is sufficient to allow a reasonable jury to infer the existence of a quid pro quo arrangement,» the judges said.

Silver contends he received perfectly legal referral fees and says there was no trade - off (a «quid pro quo» that prosecutors must prove) for legislation.

Prosecutors say they expect some unspecified «changes» in the testimony, while Silver's defense team says that ambiguity remains at the core of their strategy — to try to convince jurors that Silver's receipt of legal outside income was separate, and his official behavior was based on the merits of legislation and grants rather than a «quid pro quo» for a bribe.

«While we do not comment on any specific campaign contributions, we categorically deny any quid pro quo between contributions and legislation,» Anna LaPorte, a spokeswoman for Extell, said in a statement to ProPublica.

«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.

IANAL, but «negotiations» seems to suggest a quid pro quo, (you do this for me, I'll do that for you).

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.