Sentences with phrase «rampant abuse in»

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

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Condo board battles, dramatic showdowns and abuse of power is becoming rampant in Ontario.
The high court's action was a blow to Vivendi SA's Capitol Records (vivef) and units of Sony (sne), which warned of rampant online copyright abuse if a ruling by a lower court shielding Vimeo from liability remained in place.
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.
According to the third thesis in the canonical narrative, a losing struggle in the fetid jungles of Vietnam destroyed American troop morale and discipline; this disintegration led to rampant drug abuse, the murder of unpopular officers, atrocities like the My Lai murders, and a generation of physically and psychologically scarred veterans.
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.
We have rampant corruption and abuse in our Gurdewara, we have the largest number of female fotiece abortion in India and probably in the rest of the world, we have Gurdewara's based on caste, we have the highest rate alcoholism in England (highest of liver damage), being born and raised in the UK, the girls are now drinking more then the guys.
I don't think that David was referring to the thousands of country ministers, but I am also very surprised that you took offense at a cartoon that was clearly not directed at you — unless you can justify the abuses that are rampant in Christian TV and radio «ministries».
Wood, the actor who famously played Frodo in the Lord of the Rings films, told the Sunday Times that abuse runs rampant throughout Hollywood because of all of the «vipers» and people who only have their own interests in mind in the industry.
If any sin or immorality is rampant in the realm of substance use and abuse, it is the willful disregard of those who need care by those who are committed to caring.
Before abandoning fundamental values and institutions, we must pause and take stock of our present social order: millions of drug abusers; rampant child abuse; a rising underclass without marketable job skills; children roaming the streets; children with only one parent or no parent at all; and children growing up with no one to guide them in developing any set of values.
The same day this hearing took place Fred Dicker dealt with this topic on his radio show and he said in this day of cheap digital cameras and video cameras and cell phones and the like, if these tales of horrific abuses were the norm and so rampant why can't Witt and Kennedy and the rest produce a single example?
State leaders yesterday announced agreement on a series of bills to help curb the rampant rise of heroin and other drug abuse in New York.
Republican Nassau County Congressman Peter King today tore into President Donald Trump «s apparent defense of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on the O'Reilly Factor yesterday — a comment King called «morally indefensible» given Putin's rampant human rights abuses in his native land.
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.
Cuomo also investigated rampant «pay - to - play» abuses in the comptroller's office under Alan Hevesi, whose resignation in late 2006 led to DiNapoli's appointment.
Harassment and abuse of women and girls in public and private places is a rampant yet largely neglected issue..
Child sexual abuse is rampant in Hollywood, say several child stars in the know.
When you factor in the fact that most rapes are not reported you come away with a realization of widespread rampant sexual abuses carried out in many cases by commanding officers.
The cassock is no longer the marker of respect it had been in earlier epochs but has become, after the revelations of rampant pedophilia and the churchly abuse of power in Catholic Ireland, a badge of opprobrium he wears with the stubborn martyrdom of a hair shirt.
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.
Since our last look at the rampant fraud and abuse of school voucher programs around the country, North Carolina has implemented its own voucher program that provides low - income students with funds to flee the public school system in...
Since our last look at the rampant fraud and abuse of school voucher programs around the country, North Carolina has implemented its own voucher program that provides low - income students with funds to flee the public school system in exchange for a private education.
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.
I suspect we'll see many such disconnects as books become full - fledged digital objects and applications — books that literally can't be read in certain countries, subpoenas on the pages people read, books that mysteriously drop content for some legal reason, books with viruses, books that die when a company dies, social books that abuse your expectations in some ways, not to mention rampant ebook piracy, unauthorized edits of a book, etc..
Abuses in the consumer debt collection industry are rampant.
«The Office of Students and Young Consumers has been instrumental in uncovering rampant lending abuses and deceptive practices that make it difficult for borrowers to manage their education debt responsibly... It makes no sense to eliminate this critical office at a time when millions of Americans need a watchdog working to make sure lenders and loan servicers are following the law and treating them fairly.»
Unfortunately, animal abuse runs rampant in society, found everywhere from puppy mills and backyard slaughter operations to factory farms and laboratories.
Sadly, the rampant abuse of antibiotics when addressing feline urinary tract issues in cats shows that this fact is being ignored.
A number of former puppy mill dogs have gone on to become canine «ambassadors» for their kind, raising awareness about the abuse, neglect, and rampant inbreeding inherent in these facilities.
In a context where violence, rampant poverty, abuse of alcohol / drugs and infant birth / AIDS are the masters, the train surfing is configured as the search for a social redemption that will never come for the characters of this story.
Today, a fact finding team of five non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pacific Environment — released a scathing report, The U.S. Export - Import Bank's Dirty Dollars, on the rampant human rights abuses at the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) financed Sasan coal - fired power plant and mine in Singrauli, India.
I began learning about coconut farming and production, and discovered that very few companies have good business practices; abuse and injustices are rampant in the industry, and it's next to impossible to source fair - trade coconut milk.
If the Federal Patent Court rules on this before Apple and Samsung settle, and if there's a finding that Samsung filed a patent on something right after it appeared in a standardization document, it won't enhance Samsung's reputation and will make Apple a poster child of a certain, rampant form of abuse of the standard - setting process.
Santa Fe Jury Awards Record $ 58 Million in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Trucking Company, New Mexico Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, March 25, 2013 Albuquerque Police Chief Announces His Retirement Amid Allegations of Rampant Police Abuse, New Mexico Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, March 25, 2013 Additional Resources:
«Although whites are not the primary targets of the alleged racial abuse at the Whirlpool plant in LaVergne, Tenn., they allege that they have been subjected to a hostile work environment where supervisors allowed racial epithets and offensive graffiti to run rampant.
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.
The abuse of ICOs by fraudsters has been rampant ever since this novel way of fund - raising became a rage, and measures need to be put in place to safeguard against such abuse.
Identifying the signs of physical or emotional abuse is notoriously difficult, with numerous studies detailing rampant under - detection in the medical community — even among primary care physicians, who typically have more training and a deeper familiarity with patients.2 For birth registrars, the innate difficulty of detection is compounded by the hectic and eventful atmosphere surrounding a birth, making it an especially inopportune time to identify and broach such a sensitive issue, especially if an abusive father is present.
Not a touch on the rampant emotional abuse normalized and sexualized in the book?
In August 2007, the Howard government exercised national emergency powers in the Northern Territory after a report found rampant pedophilia, juvenile prostitution, domestic abuse, and other problems in Aboriginal communitieIn August 2007, the Howard government exercised national emergency powers in the Northern Territory after a report found rampant pedophilia, juvenile prostitution, domestic abuse, and other problems in Aboriginal communitiein the Northern Territory after a report found rampant pedophilia, juvenile prostitution, domestic abuse, and other problems in Aboriginal communitiein Aboriginal communities.
However, the government decided to continue the federal intervention in the Northern Territory, imposed by the previous government in 2007 in response to evidence of rampant pedophilia, juvenile prostitution, domestic abuse, and other problems in Aboriginal communities.
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