Sentences with phrase «raising fears of retaliation»

Trump's plan for a 25 % tariff on imported steel and 10 % on foreign aluminum raised fears of retaliation that could devolve into a trade war.

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Human Rights Watch report3 notes that while its research hasn't found «a pattern of abuse that could be considered systematic» the rights body «findings raises serious concerns about abuses by AMISOM4 soldiers against Somali women and girls» with survivors of sexual exploitation expressing feelings of «powerless» to fearing «retaliation or retribution, as well as the stigma and shame that the abuse could bring» and others, despite being engaged in exploitive relationships feared loosing «their only source of income» (HRW, 2014, September, p. 25).

I am committed to maintaining DOT's role as a Federal agency that respects the rights of current and former Federal employees and applicants for employment to raise legitimate concerns without fear of retaliation.

Fact: «The sheer prevalence of the problem of violence and the dynamics surrounding it make it clear any assumptions about equal partnership in these cases are out of the question... the majority of women never report the assaults or in fact ever tell anyone about it (Johnson, 1996) and thus may not be believed if the first time the issue is raised is at the point of separation... may avoid going to court out of fear of retaliation, a fear which is not unfounded given the data on the escalation of violence at separation... agree to whatever the husband wants in an attempt to pacify him... as an exchange for custody... may appear unstable or emotional while their batterers are perceived as confident, rational and economically secure (Rosnes, 1997)... all the research flies in the face of what Rosnes argues is presently happening in the courts:»... judges assume that wife abuse is not necessarily damaging to a child, and that being violent does not necessarily affect a father's parenting ability....