Sentences with phrase «threatening jail time»

However, it is not unusual for cash advance lenders to threaten jail time in an attempt to scare the borrower into repaying the loan.

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Dawn Huckelbridge, director of American Bridge's Women's Rights Initiative, released the following statement in response to the US Senate's vote on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and threaten doctors with jail time:
New laws threatening five years jail time for driving while «avoidably distracted» come into force on Monday.
Richard, all the points you have made are correct and you didn't even mention that Corbyn has already threatened to sling Labour's most successful leader of all time in jail!
Further, correction officers who are now retired from service in the Rockland County Jail after decades of service can state emphatically that they can not recall a previous time when any officer was ever threatened with felony charges on such minor matters.
The fake debt collectors threatened everything from legal action to jail time to having child services take the victims» children.
Many of the callers use terrorizing language often threatening arrest, jail time or calls to... Read more»
Debt collectors are falsely claiming to represent law firms and threatening you with legal action and even jail time if...
In some situations they may threaten individuals which obtained a payday loan with criminal prosecution and jail time i...
After conducting an investigation into a handful of popular examples, Belgium's Gaming Commission has found that the loot boxes in Overwatch, FIFA 18 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive are in violation of the country's gambling regulations, threatening fines of up to $ 1.6 million and jail time if the games are not adjusted.
In other words, Belgium is threatening EA, Valve, and Blizzard with up to 5 years of jail time (doubled if it can be proved children play the games in question) unless they remove lootboxes from those games.
People do not feel threatened by exceptional acts of ethical behavior because they feel exempt from such impossibly high standards, i.e. Mother Teresa helping the poorest of the poor in India and Nelson Mandela doing jail time for leading South Africa out of apartheid.
According to The Baltimore Sun, two dozen of these people were fined and threatened with jail time after their cellphones rang in Stone's courtroom, and at least two people were jailed for slamming doors.
First time I've seen a website threaten would - be registrants with jail time.
«It is ironic that after serving time in the county jail and being threatened with a potential life sentence, Ray McCann pleaded no contest to a charge of perjury when, in fact, he had told the truth and the charge itself was based on police fabrications,» said Michigan Innocence Clinic Director David Moran.
The ideologues in control of the Missouri State Senate have threatened her with contempt and jail time for refusing to share the private, personal medical information of patients at Planned Parenthood health centers.
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