Sentences with phrase «rampant abuse of»

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

«The abuse of the H - 1B program has been rampant.

For our society, with its rampant child neglect and abuse, and its shame - based patterns of addiction, the following insights alone are worth the price of this book:

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.

I do believe spiritual abuse is rampant, that systems perpetually pull towards inhumane policies and treatment of people, and that all kinds of harmful ideas, attitudes and behaviours run rampant inside systems, including the church.

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.

Or as the Naked Pastor calls it, «The rampant normalization and acceptance of spiritual abuse.»

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

The Association is also worried about rampant reports of human rights abuses, threats to peace and other institutional violence.

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.

Harassment and abuse of women and girls in public and private places is a rampant yet largely neglected issue..

Widely criticized for their depictions of police violence against residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, Brazilian director Jose Padilha's wildly successful Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within represented a fascinating diptych, an attempt to tick the boxes of the police procedural while probing rampant corruption and abuse of power.

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.

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.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

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.

[2] last look at the rampant fraud and abuse of school voucher programs: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2013/04/24/school-vouchers-a-pathway-toward-fraud-and-abuse-of-taxpayer-dollars/

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..

«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.»

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.

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.

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.»»

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.

«Japan is awash with ivory of dubious legality and fraud, and abuse of ivory trade controls are rampant,» Thornton continued.

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.

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«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 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.

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.