Sentences with phrase «rampant abuse»

The legislation would increase state enforcement, root out rampant abuses in election law and ensure absolute and full disclosure of all donors.

In a bid to crack down on rampant abuse at facilities treating the developmentally disabled, state inspectors will now double the number of times they visit the facilities.

Sweeping fraud and abuse uncovered in state's STAR rebate program; DA announces amnesty opportunity Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe announced on Wednesday that authorities in Rockland had discovered rampant abuse of the STAR tax rebate for homeowners.

In yet another move to undermine the effectiveness of institutions designed to protect us from some of the most rampant abuses by for - profit companies, President Trump's Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Mick Mulvaney, announced on May 9, 2018 that the Bureau will dismantle the Office of Students & Younger Consumers.

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe announced on Wednesday that authorities in Rockland had discovered rampant abuse of the STAR tax rebate for homeowners.

As the story progresses, some of the vigilantes turn to drug trafficking and commit rampant abuses against anyone accused of being a Knight's Templar.

Hell, look at its history, it is littered with rampant abuses of power.

The City Council is looking to crack down on rampant abuse of parking placards with a set of new bills.

While rampant abuse of heroin and prescription opiates dominates public attention, dependency on benzodiazepines — a group of tranquilizers that includes drugs such as Ativan, Klonopin, and Xanax — remains less widely acknowledged or understood.

The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act («FICALA») is designed to correct rampant abuses in federal court class actions and mass tort MDL proceedings that harm consumers and businesses, but enrich lawyers.

In the late 1980s, the Colorado Springs - based C&MA began receiving reports of rampant abuse at Mamou: children slapped and punched, raped and fondled, and threatened with undoing their parents» mission if they told.

After the elapsed time, the «Only You» multimedia series went on display this month at The Untitled Space, a contemporary art gallery founded by Cesarine in TriBeCa in 2014, and as stories of rampant abuse in the entertainment industry are divulged more frequently than ever, Cesarine hoped the project will make people «step back and take a deep, dark look who you are... and at what our society accepts as «normal.»»

He calls it «the fox guarding the hen house», and says it fails to prevent the «rampant abuse of the disabled».

To Alan McGonigal, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district's civil division, the rampant abuse of prescription drugs required a more holistic strategy, one that he had often used in prosecuting health care fraud: Find the gatekeepers.

The PC party is desperately hoping that this will distract the public from the real problem, the rampant abuse of government aircraft by many more MLAs and their staff.

IMO, the rampant abuse by the systems of religion, bureaucracy, politics, and economics is a requirement built - in to the design of these systems in order for them to succeed.

As someone who has been on government assistance before, I have seen the rampant abuse that occurs and is allowed to occur.

The Golden Globes were notable this year for fighting back against the rampant abuse and harassment of women in Hollywood in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in October.

Google Play Books used to be a viable option for self - published authors, but due to rampant abuse of their Partner Program the company decided to halt all new registrations until they could put mechanisms in place to prevent piracy.

Memories are short and too many have forgotten the rampant abuses in the guaranteed loan program.

Rampant abuse in the debt settlement industry has caused Attorneys General in Colorado, Minnesota, West Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Texas to go after individual debt settlement companies directly.

I spent hours reading the postings, oohing and ahhing over all of the adorable pictures of pups for sale, never once suspecting that behind many of those innocent photographs was rampant abuse and unspeakable suffering.

Sadly, the rampant abuse of antibiotics when addressing feline urinary tract issues in cats shows that this fact is being ignored.

«We had seen such a rampant abuse of science under George W. Bush,» Halpern says, singling out Bush's efforts to sidestep endangered species protections to benefit fossil fuel development.

Polluting dyes and tanning chemicals, excessive landfill waste, plastic microfiber pollution in the oceans, cotton fields that poison the surroundings and require huge amounts of water, not to mention the rampant abuse of garment workers, who are usually poverty - stricken women working long hours, separated from their families, are just a few of the problems that afflict the fashion industry.

The guidance in no way quantifies «essential», and leaves the door open to rampant abuse of a central tenant of the criminal justice system — the right to legal representation.

Rampant abuse at one Georgia nursing home has shed light on the immense problem of nursing home neglect and, in part, spurred the creation of a new Department of Justice initiative.

Rampant abuse at one Georgia nursing home has shed light on the immense problem...

The tontine has a long history dating back to the Middle Ages (working title for this article: «One weird trick kings used to make money»), and were basically everywhere across Europe and America up until the early twentieth century, when they were illegalized because of rampant abuses and scandals.