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Kansas defines domestic violence as an act of violence or
a threatened act of violence against a family member, household member, or between people who are dating.
An insurer or employer may also try pressuring an employee to return to work sooner than recommended, or
threaten acts of retaliation if they seek out compensation.
(c) If a party is absent or leaves home because of an act or
threatened act of domestic violence committed by the other party, such absence or leaving shall not be a factor in determining the best interests of the child.
(a) «Domestic violence» means an act of violence or
a threatened act of violence upon a person with whom the actor is or has been involved in an intimate relationship, and may include any act or threatened act against a person or against property, including an animal, when used as a method of coercion, control, punishment, intimidation, or revenge directed against a person with whom the actor is or has been involved in an intimate relationship.
Not exact matches
Critics argue that the ruling is a broad assault on protections Internet companies have long enjoyed under the Communications Decency
Act and could
threaten the free exchange
of ideas online.
Onitsuka set up five regional distributors in the United States, an
act that deprived Blue Ribbon
of its exclusive distributorship and
threatened to eliminate 90 %
of its roughly $ 3 - million sales base.
Senate Republican leaders on Thursday unveiled a reworked version
of their health care bill, following party infighting that
threatened to torpedo their effort to replace the Affordable Care
Act, also known as Obamacare.
One
of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's last
acts was to halt the EPA's Clean Power Plan, at least temporarily
threatening the United States» ability to carry out promises made in Paris on curbing climate change.
In both statements, Claasen argued that, due to similarities shared with the New York BitLicense regulation, the
act will «
threaten the very existence
of small fintech businesses nationwide.»
«Adopting a model
act with the characteristics
of the New York regulation is sure to
threaten the existence
of the fintech industry nationwide.
Unfortunately, when it comes to matters like wealth preservation, if we are not immediately
threatened with a financial «life or death» situation, the same also applies, and most
of us will not
act until we are actually confronted with a financially devastating event, and the situation devolves into one
of financial «life or death» for us.
Examples
of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact
of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels
of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility
of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions
of these conditions that decrease the level
of disposable income
of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security
of travel, such as terrorist
acts, armed conflict and threats thereof,
acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread
of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment
of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount
of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion
of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability
of our creditors to accelerate the repayment
of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss
of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price
of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times
of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability
of attractive port destinations; pending or
threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
If we go by your premise that «Some
of us do the right thing because it is the right thing» and those
of Faith because we are
threatened, then why have we not
acted more on the prescribed punishments that are
threatened and demanded by God?
He helped draft the «Defense
of Marriage
Act,» the 1996 law in which the federal government defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman, and is the author
of «Fighting for America's Soul: How Sweeping Change
Threatens Our Nation and What We Must Do.»
No fair observer can doubt the double standard working against them in the media: No matter how vituperative pro-choice activists become, how loudly they scream or how disruptive they
act during pro-life political rallies, they will never be accused
of spewing «hate» or
of being
threatening.
The Public Order
Act Last month, we published English barrister Paul Diamond's report on official bigotry against Christianity in England, which uses the Public Order
Act and its outlawing
of speech that is «
threatening, abusive, or insulting» as an excuse.
Anyway, we have come to the conclusion that YES, God is God and he can do whatever HE wants, but He can never
act outside
of HIs character, and when we understand God's character is good and loving and compassionate and so on, then we are not
threatened by Him doing what he wills, because we know His will is always good.
And if the church simply ignores these storms, we are
acting just like Jonah when he went down into the hull
of the ship and fell asleep while the storm from God
threatened the lives
of all on board.
The tyranny
of the PRO-LIFE argument is so retarded because it demands that NO ONE should be able to have an abortion, even if the fetus is (1) the result
of a vicious r - ape, (2) the pregnancy
threatens the life
of the mother, among other examples that prove that abortion is not always an «
act of convenience.»
Volunteer groups should not provide employment to local gringo wannabe elites — or northern missionaries living in the South — who
act in the name
of the poor but actually erect barriers to true encounters because such encounters would
threaten their privileged role as interlocutors.
Although initial provisions
of the Indian Reorganization
Act of 1934 affirmed constitutional protection for the practice
of Native traditional beliefs, those basic rights continue to be
threatened by legal challenges to the American Indian Freedom
of Religion
Act of 1978.
Her doctor also told me that if Stella survived the surgery, it would be an
act of God, and that the risk
of not doing the surgery was equally as life
threatening.
Also, I've known
of a church where big donors
acted as if they were patrons and
threatened the pastor that they would leave the church if he did not agree to their demands.
«In English criminal law, incitement was an anticipatory common law offence and was the
act of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or
threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime.»
Ilesanmi was charged by police under Section 5
of the Public Order
Act for using
threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight
of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress which was racially aggravated.
We may find it instructive that in human relations forgiveness always
threatens to become a kind
of weapon which men use against one another, for the very
act of forgiveness implies a judgment.
In sum, the Muslim community surely does not respect and be sensitive to other groups» belief / faith, yet they demand other to respect them by the mean
of threatening in an evil
act of violate, when they do not get their way.
An
act of God on the high seas
threatens to destroy the ship and all aboard.
He argues that terrorists in our age
threaten the destruction
of democracy itself, with all the values that democracy embodies and protects, and that to combat this threat effectively, democracies may need to do
acts that are evil in themselves but constitute a lesser evil than that posed by terrorism.
«For most
of our 40 - year partnership with Coles, the relationship has been a strong and mutually beneficial one but we consider that, in recent times, Coles has repeatedly breached its obligations, failed to
act in good faith and taken steps that
threaten the very core
of our business,» Mr Foote said.
Examples
of (but not exhaustive or limited to) unacceptable behaviour are as follows: 8.1 Foul and abusive language 8.2 Attempting to conceal or consume alcohol 8.3 Being under the influence
of alcohol or illegal substances 8.4 Smoking 8.5 Any
acts liable or likely to cause damage 8.6
Threatening, disrespectful or violent behaviour 8.7 Theft
of Club property 8.8 Not following the instructions
of a Club steward 8.9 Entering prohibited areas
On the other side
of the spectrum, a bill that
threatened to gut the Massachusetts Endangered Species
Act was not passed.
No person shall use any abusive,
threatening, indecent, profane, or obscene language, or language calculated to occasion a breach
of the peace, nor be guilty
of any indecent
act or behavior in the Park System.
Acting OFPD Fire Chief Raymond Kay said as many as a dozen nearby homes were
threatened because
of floating embers that spread through the region.
Under federal law children are protected from food allergens that can bring on severe or life
threatening reaction under the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection
Act of 2004 (FALCPA) 2 (Public Law 108 - 282) which requires the labeling
of allergens on manufactured food products.
TLT: The current, stronger nutritional standards
of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids
Act are currently being
threatened in Congress.
We wish to place on record that the presence
of the three men in Ghana is not for any
act that can be said remotely to
threaten the country's security.
But eventually Brown and Alistair Darling were forced to
act in extraordinary and unprecedented ways by the sheer scale
of the crisis, which
threatened the viability
of the whole banking system and the economy.
We have taken notice
of frontpage stories in the Tuesday, March 22, editions
of the state - owned Daily Graphic, and in newspapers belonging to the «rented press» stable
of the ruling NDC government, about the arrest
of 3 South African nationals on suspicion
of engaging in «
acts that
threaten the country's security.»
Not
acting now to support the economy will condemn hundreds
of thousands
of people to unemployment, risk thousands more businesses going under, and
threaten our long term recovery.
Few weeks after the security services scuttle covert moves by the NPP to use foreign «mercenaries» in the training
of the party's security in weapon handling, the NPP's
acting Chairman, Freddie Blay has openly
threatened that the party will cause mayhem if it loses this year's election.
The British reputation for generosity and fair - mindedness is being
threatened by the repeal
of the Human Rights
Act
Any substantive change to the
Act could
threaten the existence
of the coalition.
The alternative is the gutting or abolition
of the
Act, and a withdrawl from the European Convention on Human Rights, which the Conservatives are
threatening to do (David Cameron even had a populist pop at the idea
of human rights in a conference speech before he became Prime Minister).
A very novel question could emerge as to whether a tweet or
threatened tweet could amount to an official
act for purposes
of extortion.
The warning followed the observation by the Nigeria Police Force leadership
of the increasing resort to
acts of brigandage by sets
of misguided individuals who apparently are hiding under the cloak
of Movement for the Actualisation
of Sovereign State
of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB) to
threaten national security and public peace in parts
of South East geopolitical Zone and some other conterminous States.
López Varona criticized the board, created by the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability
Act (PROMESA), for making what he called «life -
threatening» decisions for the people
of Puerto Rico outside
of the public eye, away from the island and close to Wall Street.