Sentences with phrase «serve legitimate purposes»

Mr. Bush should focus on developing new and more advanced satellites for this country that can serve legitimate purposes.

Both loyalty review boards and Congressional investigating committees serve legitimate purposes, but they have often assumed the functions of court trials without the attendant safeguards.

The legislation outlines harassment including but not limiting to willful intent to coerce, extort, abuse, torment, threaten, terrify or intimidate a person, that serves no legitimate purpose, and causes someone to suffer.

«This resolution calls upon President Obama to grant clemency to Lopez Rivera, so that he is immediately released from prison, considering that his continued incarceration is unjust and serves no legitimate purpose,» the resolution says.

The site's founders appear to see SideTaker as serving a legitimate purpose in helping to keep couples from breaking up.

The defendant engaged in fighting or threatening, or engaged in violent or tumultuous behavior, or created a hazardous or physically offensive condition by an act that served no legitimate purpose.

The court recognized that the Policy served a legitimate purpose, namely the deterrent effect of a potential dismissal on employees who would otherwise conceal their drug habit.

It should serve a legitimate purpose, address a suitable topic and have regard to the particular context.

Even humour which is intended to serve a legitimate purpose may be considered inappropriate if it is directed at a subject matter or person in a manner which is unacceptable in light of norms governing judicial conduct or oversteps some other social or cultural boundary.

Not exact matches

After the Court granted the Government's petition for leave to serve the summons, managing partner of Berns Weiss LLP and Coinbase customer Jeffrey K. Berns filed a motion challenging the summons, arguing that the IRS had no legitimate purpose in seeking the requested records, that enforcement of the summons would constitute an abuse of process, and that the categories of requested documents were overbroad.

Essentially, a court identifies the purpose of the subject law and then considers whether it serves a legitimate government purpose.

This latest effort by Senate Democrats to hit the reverse button and go back to the investment - killing Title II scheme via a Congressional Review Act (CRA) vote serves zero legitimate policy purpose.

Those government acknowledgments of religion serve, in the only ways reasonably possible in our culture, the legitimate secular purposes of solemnizing public occasions, expressing confidence in the future, and encouraging the recognition of what is worthy of appreciation in society.

I think legitimate discussion of the issue serves a purpose.

It serves the legitimate rights and purposes of the potential mother without unduly infringing upon the legitimate rights of others.

For still others, it is the only legitimate vocabulary of anger, and nothing else quite serves the purpose.

«These speculations are false, unsupported by credible sources and serve no purpose other than to overly politicize the debate and detract from the legitimate concerns of school nutrition professionals nationwide.»

«Because the record demonstrates that the furlough and the temporary withholding of the 4 percent raises serves a legitimate state purpose and because the means chosen are both reasonable and necessary, plaintiffs» motion for preliminary relief must be denied,» it continues.

«With New York government scarred by a shameful parade of scandals, ethics reform is once again at the forefront of this year's legislative session and I call on the Senate and Assembly to include real restrictions on these taxpayer - funded mailings that serve no legitimate governmental purpose,» Singas wrote.

Arguments can be made for it serving a legitimate storytelling purpose, as well.

Cash is one of the three major asset classes and it serves several legitimate purposes in a portfolio: it dampens volatility and provides liquidity.

Courts have also held that the use of credit checks serve a legitimate and job - related purpose.

Even the industrial arts might be as earnestly and as successfully cultivated, with this sole difference, that instead of serving no purpose but the increase of wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour....

And many — and this is predominantly (although not exclusively) to be laid at the feet of the Republicans — deliberately exploited legitimate concerns about government overreach and government interference in the market to gin up a malignant hatred of government for the politically expedient purpose of laying cover for very risky and highly dangerous policies that served to benefit a tiny % of the public disproportionately.

This served a purpose when our cavemen / cavewoman ancestors faced legitimate threats of starvation, attack by another tribe, or being an appetizer to a large animal.

While the propose bill sounds, on the surface, to be serving a noble purpose, opponents criticize the bill as too far - reaching, vague in its definitions, and at risk of detrimentally impacting legitimate websites.

Even under strict scrutiny, being able to identify a passenger, especially using public transit, having identification serves an overriding and legitimate public purpose (actually multiple purposes) and as such, would survive the strictest of judicial scrutiny.