Sentences with phrase «tough on abuses»

We have put consumers» interests — today and in the long term — at the heart of our policy, encouraging more competitors in the electricity and gas markets, working with Ofgem to simplify the confusion of tariffs, and getting tough on abuses.

Bishops often remark that they «promised the Catholic people» they would be tough on abuse.

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Zuckerberg faced tough questions on user privacy, foreign meddling on the site and abuse of social media tools in the wake of reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users.

Trump used some of his toughest language yet against North Korea in a wide - ranging address in Seoul on Wednesday that lodged specific accusations of chilling human rights abuses, although he offered no evidence to support the accusations.

In its most recent resolution on the subject, the Episcopal Church declared in July 1988 that hard - core pornography abuses the self - images of women, children and men, and urged congregations to support then — Attorney General Edwin Meese's report with its call for stricter and tougher enforcement of already existing laws against pornography.

Paul Tough on the Today Show with Matt Lauer, discussing Tough's cover story in the New York Times Magazine on OxyContin abuse, July 26, 2001.

Labour's awkward compromise in this area makes it look like they can't decide, while Labour voters especially applaud the Tory approach to a get tough policy on welfare — they are often the people who see abuse of the system at first hand, and for them, fairness is about stamping on scroungers and shirkers.

Eric Garner's mother believes her son may still be alive today if the city had taken tougher actions in response to substantiated abuse allegations against New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo before he encountered Garner on Staten Island in 2014.

He went after notorious landlords like Samy Mahfar, Daniel Melamed and Raphael Toledano, aligning himself with tenant - advocacy groups that pushed for tougher crackdowns on landlords who abused the system.

As Western New York and the entire nation address a rising problem with opioid and opiate abuse, one of New York State's representatives in the U.S. Senate says the laws which crack down on international traffickers are not tough enough.

The back to back bombshells of abuse allegations against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and President Donald Trump's decision to leave the Iran nuclear agreement dealt a tough blow today to Amy Spitalnick, who before signing on as press secretary for Schneiderman worked for nuclear deal advocate group J Street.

Via her spewing of obscenities at anyone around her and heaping mental, emotional and physical abuse on Tonya at home; she is the embodiment of embitterment and loathing, heaping her frustrations on her daughter under the guise of the most twisted sense of tough love to force Tonya to succeed as a skater.

School - based initiatives similar to programs that have kept 7th graders from taking up cigarette smoking offer a more promising means of countering adolescent drug use than do tougher drug - enforcement laws, according to a new report on drug - abuse prevention.

I have had to counsel people in a variety of stressful situations: spousal abuse; children who were abusive to the dog; angry people; anxious people; wimpy people; overly tough people, and so on.

And when we see floods of images on TV and social media of the neglect and abuse many breeding dogs experience, it's tough understanding how prosecutions are not more numerous and breeding facilities not immediately shut down.

Our fences are able to withstand the toughest abuse (and they prevent dogs who might be escape artists from getting on the lam).

These combine a fierce playfulness with tough political content to focus on contemporary issues such as feminism and militarisation and the abuse of power - well as the role of digital technologies in the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and information.

But it is tough to find evidence on the surface that this kind of life for a working animal — and carriage horses are undeniably hard working animals — can really be considered abuse if it is not also considered abuse for humans to live and work in these urban conditions, or any other working animal for that matter.

Fast food restaurants face tough restrictions on ability to bring in temporary foreign workers under reforms announced to address public outcry over perceived abuses of system, Reuters

The issue of abuse and hate speech on online platforms generally has rocketed up the political agenda in recent years, especially in Europe — where Germany now has a tough new law to regulate takedowns.

As Paul Tough reports in his new book, How Children Succeed, studies over the last 10 years have shown that the body's reaction to stress — caused by things such as violence, exposure to substance abuse, and neglect in infancy and childhood — can have very serious and long - lasting negative effects on kids» psychological, physical, and neurological development.

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