Sentences with phrase «threatening acts of»

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Violent and threatening acts of harassment against immigrants and Muslims have been on the rise, including at schools.

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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.

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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.