Sentences with phrase «unjustified threats»

The new Act amends the current law relating to unjustified threats regarding proceedings for infringement of patents, registered trademarks, registered designed, design rights and Community designs.

A human rights advocacy group, Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, on Sunday described as unjustified the threat of legal action against it by a former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi.

While protesting this outrage, youth were basically blackmailed into silence by the unjustified threat by the UNFCCC Secretariat of all civil society participation being cut unless we left quietly.

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Public action to prevent the birth of genetically handicapped offspring by mandatory means — a potential public threat revealed in the current debate over community rating of health care insurance — is unjustified.

Threats to national pay structures are yet another unjustified attack on public sector workers and will hit spending power hard in the poorest areas of the country.

(a) «Dangerous dog» means any dog which (i) without justification attacks a person, companion animal as defined in subdivision five of section three hundred fifty of this chapter, farm animal as defined in subdivision four of section three hundred fifty of this chapter or domestic animal as defined in subdivision seven of this section and causes physical injury or death, or (ii) behaves in a manner which a reasonable person would believe poses a serious and unjustified imminent threat of serious physical injury or death to one or more persons, companion animals, farm animals or domestic animals or (iii) without justification attacks a service dog, guide dog or hearing dog and causes physical injury or death.

A dog is considered dangerous if it attacks and injures a person, pet or farm animal without justification, or if it «behaves in a manner which a reasonable person would believe poses a serious and unjustified imminent threat of serious physical injury or death» to a person, pet or farm animal.

In extreme cases, acts or the threat of acts which are outside the terms of the contract and therefore unlawful (such as unjustified increases in margin) might render the proposed variation voidable for «economic duress».