Sentences with phrase «recognized as crimes»

We were also inspired and uplifted by the stories of women and girls fighting back, refusing to be silenced, and demanding accountability for actions that are only just starting to be recognized as the crimes they are.

If these practices weren't recognized as crimes yet, I knew from the outrage of the people we were meeting that there was plenty of support to change the laws.

While technically intentional gross misrepresentation on a rental application is a crime, the unwillingness to recognize it as a crime and to prosecute offenders remains an issue.

Not exact matches

Organizations are recognized as good community citizens when they support programs that improve the quality of life in their community, including crime prevention, employment, environmental programs, clean - up and beautification, recycling, and restoration.

Abbas has previously said that Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital was a «crime» and that he will no longer accept any role for the US in a peace process.

It don't matter if the Govt recognizes Bitcoin as currency or not, they have real money value and stealing them is a crime.

At his trial in Rand's novel, Hank Rearden shocked the judges — and delighted those in the courtroom — with his refusal to recognize his actions as a crime, enter a plea or defend himself.

I recognize that the people who are doing these horrific crimes are blindly using their belief as a smoke screen... sadly we see it too often.

His real crimes is failing to recognize that there are as much bad parts in the BIble as in the Koran, and also to failing to recognize there are good parts in the Muslim holy book.

The crime of genocide, a term which has been bantered about for 30 years, has suddenly become recognized as an act of national policy that is condemned by the common will of humankind.

One had to be either a Roman citizen, as in the case of Paul, or else guilty of a crime against the empire rather than an infraction of a provincial or racial law over which the recognized authorities among the conquered people had the right of judgment.

This will be explained away as «well the things that we are nudging people to recognized goods i.e. knife crime».

The private - party gun market,» one study observed, «has long been recognized as a leading source of guns used in crimes.

The group in its statement made available to the Nigeria Politics Online and signed by Executive Director Adetokunbo Mumuni, Said that, «Budget padding in fact is corruption, as it is implicit in corruption offences such as abuse of office, attempt to embezzle, divert, and misappropriate public funds, conspiracy to act corruptly, and illicit enrichment, which are recognized under the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party, and included in national legislation such as the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act and the Fiscal Responsibility Act.»

Their views on such matters as conviction rates and plea bargains reveal that Mr. Laquidara, who also has the Working Families Party and Green Party lines, has the right sensibility: He recognizes the need for aggressive prosecution of repeat offenders and those accused of violent crimes, but he also sees the need to exercise discretion in certain other cases, balancing justice with the office's limited resources and the need to prevent case backlogs.

According to court records filed in June, Veliu bragged his cousin is Alex Rudaj, who's «widely recognized as the leader of Albanian organized crime in New York.»

It also mandated that teachers be given training on how to recognize and deal with cyberbullying, but did not designate it as a crime.

At the time, I was working as a TV news reporter, and my doctor immediately recognized me from the crime - filled, disturbing stories I had been covering.

Was recognized by Time Magazine as the best TV villain of the 1980s for his portrayal of mobster Ray Luca inMichael Mann's critically acclaimed Crime Story.

Those who are interested in grisly crime mysteries will already recognize the subject of Ellroy's book as the infamous «Black Dahlia» murder, where a young female drifter named Elizabeth Short (Kirshner, According to Spencer) was murdered, her torso cut in half, and her body drained of blood.

Subsequently, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has recognized rape as a war crime, 58 thus recognizing that «women are particularly vulnerable to persecution by sexual violence as a weapon of war.»

Carr's first novel was a surprise best - seller when it was published in 1994, but savvy trendspotters should have recognized all the ingredients that sometimes launch a literary thriller into the limelight: a mainstream crime - fiction plot (cops and shrinks track psycho killer) overlayed with some vivid history (late - nineteenth - century New York), and a famous hero (Teddy Roosevelt as the city's police chief).

Then, as Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source: an author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime — from the pages of her own book.

I recognized things as clues but still couldn't solve the crimes by the end.

He is a prolific writer of more than 40 books — ranging from crime novels to literary fiction — and is widely recognized for his Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins detective series based in Watts, which includes the first book in the series «Devil in the Blue Dress,» as well as «Little Scarlet.»

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

Doug Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy Blog picks up on this story, as does White Collar Crime Blog, which commends Urbina for «recognizing that an individual who decides to go to trial should not be punished simply by making this choice.

My career as a defense attorney has led me to recognize that just because white collar crimes are not violent criminal acts does not mean that they don't carry heavy punishments.

This is not exactly a novel position, as penal law recognizes that different crimes require different times.

Reasons included (1) judges «grade on a curve» and, after sitting through 20 cases involving violent crimes, might not find a more minor crime as serious whereas a jury would not share this context; (2) defendants will select those judges who they believe will be more inclined to acquit; (3) judges are bound by fixed sentencing rules so rather than sentence a defendant of a nonserious crime to a lengthy term they avoid that dilemma through acquittal; (4) judges might better understand the complex elements of certain corporate crimes and, unlike a jury, would recognize when the prosecution failed to carry its burden and (5) some judges may just have something against prosecutors.

As the CJEU pointed out in Digital Rights Ireland, the objective to fight serious crime (such as international terrorism) is definitely recognized by EU law; Article 6 of the Charter does not only warrant the right to liberty, but also the right to securitAs the CJEU pointed out in Digital Rights Ireland, the objective to fight serious crime (such as international terrorism) is definitely recognized by EU law; Article 6 of the Charter does not only warrant the right to liberty, but also the right to securitas international terrorism) is definitely recognized by EU law; Article 6 of the Charter does not only warrant the right to liberty, but also the right to security.

The Court recognized that these conditions, along with racism and bias, had contributed to the grossly disproportionate incidence of crime and incarceration amongst Aboriginal peoples, which it described as a «crisis» in the criminal justice system.

In addition, the firm's Washington, DC office was recognized in the General Commercial and White - Collar Crime and Government Investigations categories, as well as the Bankruptcy / Restructuring category; the New York office was ranked in the Litigation: White - Collar Crime and Government Investigations category; the Tampa office was recognized in the White - Collar Crime and Government Investigations category; and the Baltimore office was recognized in the General Commercial category.

We are recognized as a high - profile criminal defence firm in Ontario and have developed a record of success * handling drug crimes defence and other criminal charges.

Mentioned as a «renowned practice,» this is the first time Bryan Cave's Paris white - collar crime team has been recognized by Décideurs.

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A recent resource by Justice Canada, Abuse is Wrong in any Language, recognizes that, sometimes, behaviours occur in immigrant families that are not always recognized as family violence or crimes.

Even though Brockton has been widely recognized as a great place to live and work in, crime is still a concern.

Acting as a junction for settlers traveling the Oregon Trail and later during the gold rush, Pocatello today is officially recognized as the «U.S. Smile Capital» due to an outdated ordinance from 1948, which declared it a crime to not smile.

This should have always been a crime or at least recognized as contempt of court or defamation, emotional abuse, or grounds for custody change.