Sentences with phrase «said seek justice»

Not exact matches

The Justice Department said AT&T sought to hide the high cost to consumers of its $ 85 - billion deal to buy Time Warner in its closing arguments against the wireless giant.»

Elliott served the South Korean justice ministry a notice of intent in mid-April seeking arbitration of the dispute, the official said, a step before filing with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a forum to resolve such cases.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said in a letter released on Sunday night that the agency's request wasn't about setting legal precedent, but rather seeking justice for the victims and investigating other possible threats.

«While Gold Mantis was not subject to the F.B.I. raid,» she said in an email, «the Department of Justice action shows that the pressure on the construction site, across multiple contractors, was to cut labor costs by seeking out migrant workers least able to complain and then pressuring them to work in substandard conditions.»

Loop Capital's David Miller said he would not be surprised to see if Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) bulk buys theaters that AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) is seeking to divest to gain Department of Justice approval for its acquisition of Carmike Cinemas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CKEC...

This is what the doctor had to say about his allegations for filing a lawsuit: «I decided to file this lawsuit to seek justice not only for myself,» explained Dr. Briggs, «but for the hundreds of immigrant families who've suffered medical danger as a result of Catholic Charities» unconscionable record of neglect.

For the premises were firmly in place: Justice Kennedy had said that people in homosexual relations «seek autonomy» for themselves, just as people in heterosexual relations do.

Woodson has now filed a report with local police, but officials say that the statute of limitations has now passed, saying, «We are unable to investigate and seek justice to the full extent of what would we normally would in such a case.»

Christian social justice works in the same vein — it's worthless to say you love Gd and Jesus and seek the presence of the Holy Spirit if you're not bothering in the first place to make the world better.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a powerful progressive advocacy group that says its primary mission is to fight hatred, teach tolerance, and seek justice.

His characterization of the world as aiming for justice but creating injustice, as seeking peace but failing because it is our peace we seek (the world's peace, he said, is only a lull in a continuing conflict for power), was regarded as too pessimistic: «the typical gloom of a premodern, prescientific and pretechnological mind.»

We may say, in theory of course, that the heart of the myth of the Last Judgment sought primarily an assurance that justice would be done, irrespective of whether the final sentence would be either for or against those who were pinning their faith upon it.

It has been prepared to say, and to find varying kinds of theological support for saying, what their Christian insight should have compelled it to say in any case: that any human being, anywhere, who has shared in love, sought for truth, created or admired beauty, lived bravely, served goodness, stood for justice, and has thus responded, as far as was possible under the circumstances in which he or she lived, to whatever of divine reality has been made known, must somehow be included in the company of the faithful.

First, some Christians say that social justice is a perversion of the Gospel, and that rather than seek to engage in social justice issues, we should instead just preach the Gospel.

The pope has repeatedly said he is seeking justice for the victims.

However, the suppliers knew there were risks involved in unilaterally switching to ultra concentrates because of the consumer confusion, and sought to minimise the risks by using market intelligence and other information they obtained from Woolworths, without having to resort to entering into an arrangement or understanding, Justice Wigney said.

«The Fair Labor Standards Act provides employees the ability to join forces in a «collective action» and seek justice from large corporations that they could not afford to bring on their own,» said David Lichter, a co-founder and partner of Higer Lichter & Givner, one of the law firms representing plaintiffs in this case.

They were harassed, abused and stalked and yet, while they seek justice, they are being met with the same cold indifference as when they initially sought protection,» Killian said.

But Mr Ayikoi Otoo said lawyers of the accused judges can seek clarification in court over this since most witnesses in courts are not allowed to mount the witness box in any wearable that can affect the process of seeking justice.

Actor Corey Feldman, who says he was sexually abused as a child, is heading to the state Capitol on Wednesday to push state Senate Republicans to pass a bill that would make it easier for survivors in New York to seek justice as adults.

«(The Times is) not recognizing, necessarily, the steps that he has to carefully go through to bring together evidence in a very high - profile case such as this and that speed isn't always the best thing for any of the parties in terms of seeking justice,» said Vacco.

«With today's sentencing, I want to state publicly that, like many, I took Leibell's recent requests for leniency, actually seeking «overseas nation building» duty in lieu of jail time, as a final indictment on his complete disconnect from reality and justice,» Ball said in his statement.

«Jumaane's track record of justice seeking activism and solidarity with impacted communities and working people is what makes him the perfect candidate for lieutenant governor of New York,» said the group's co-founder, Winnie Wong.

MIDTOWN — State Attorney General frontrunner Kathleen Rice said Tuesday that her failure to vote for nearly 20 years was «a mistake» and resulted from her being busy all that time «seeking social justice.»

The 47 - year - old Feldman, who was in the 1980s and 1990s films «Stand By Me,» «Friday the 13th» and «Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,» says he's been seeking justice for decades.

«But many of them will never be able to seek the justice they deserve,» López - Wagner said.

Mr. Arthur who is seeking justice for wrongful dismissal and failure on the part of the bank to protect a whistleblower said he was unable to follow anti-money laundering rules when he accepted the cash because of the king's status.

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Some say the bill seeks to stifle contributions to issue advocacy groups that campaign for changes to environmental, education, criminal justice, government ethics, and other policies.

The EFCC said this in a counter-affidavit it filed in opposition to Diezani's application before Justice Rilwan Aikawa, wherein she is seeking an order compelling the Attorney General of the Federation to facilitate her return to Nigeria.

Instead, officials said, the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, seek to balance the goal of fairer punishment, laid out by Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat who is the Council speaker, with the Police Department's desire to maintain the discretion that officers use in making arrests, for even seemingly trivial offenses, when they deem it necessary.

It, therefore, said it would not be in the interest of justice to grant Diezani's application seeking to return to Nigeria.

In a statement following Tuesday's ruling, federal prosecutors in New York's Southern District said they will seek a second trial «where we will have another opportunity to present overwhelming evidence of Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos's guilt and again give the public the justice it deserves.»

«Elucd had already built the platform we were seeking to apply to different areas of government work,» said Patrick Gallahue, a spokesman for the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice.

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The New York State's Commission on Judicial Conduct says York Town Justice Walter Purtell has agreed to never seek re-election again.

Nathan Berger, the Long Island coordinator for the Justice for Farmworkers Rural Migrant Ministry, says they are seeking an eight - hour day, overtime, and one guaranteed day off per week, as farm workers are exempt from many state labor laws.

Julie Killian, a Republican running in a critical state Senate special election in Westchester County, says she supports the Child Victims Act, a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice as adults.

Justice Hassan held, «I am in complete agreement with the submission of the learned counsel for the applicant (EFCC) that the property sought to be attached are reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities and that by every standard this huge sum of money is not expected to be kept without going through a designated financial institution; more so, nobody has shown cause why the said sum should not be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

State lawmakers should stop wasting time and pass legislation to make it easier for people sexually abused as children to seek justice as adults, AG Eric Schneiderman said.

Erie County Republicans Republicans will offer one of their top judges for re-election this fall after Appellate Division Justice Erin M. Peradotto said she will seek a second term in State Supreme Court.

Meg Hillier, the chair of the public accounts committee, said: «The Ministry of Justice is seeking to modernise our justice system but needs to be clear about which of the promised benefits it will actually be able to deliver.Justice is seeking to modernise our justice system but needs to be clear about which of the promised benefits it will actually be able to deliver.justice system but needs to be clear about which of the promised benefits it will actually be able to deliver.»

He among other things accused the Supreme Court of persecuting him, and also said although he will pay the money, he will seek justice to clear his name.

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has said that it has the right to seek justice in court over the way and manner the Nigerian Constitution and Electoral Act were subverted in the June 21, 2014 Governorship Election.

Michael Jacobson, President and Director of the Vera Institute of Justice, said, «State leaders everywhere facing major budget shortfalls are looking at corrections spending, seeking strategies that save money and increase public safety.

Mark - Viverito said she sought to make the Council more equitable and function as more of a collective body during her tenure, with a commitment to immigration and criminal justice reform.

On his old network, CNN, Spitzer said prosecutors went too far in seeking a second - degree murder charge of George Zimmerman, and argued as a result «justice has not been served» in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

With the loss of Justice Rudolf Bruer, who did not seek re-election this year, the town would benefit from someone who can work with Mr. Price during the remainder of what he has said will be his last term.

However, in a letter dated November 30, 2017 and addressed to the Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ado Ekiti Division, the Ogundipe executive said it was seeking a postponement of the hearing of the motion for a stay of execution brought by the Olafeso faction on Monday, December 4, 2017.

In an unusual step that county Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election in 2007.