Sentences with phrase «upon promise made»

The trial and appeal courts over turned the transfers and distributed her estate equally as per her will on the basis of undue influence but the appeal over turned the portion of the judgement that allowed the brother to succeed on the basis that he relied upon the promise made by his sister, he took care of his mother for years, but the sister reneged on her promise to transfer to him her 1/3 of the house as she did not own it when she promised it.

The report explains that in order to stand by an agreed - upon promise made at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 to prevent the earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius, 80 percent of the world's carbon reserves must be left in the ground.

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Importantly, a preferred stock's claim to dividends is contingent upon the company actually being able to make the promised payments.

As far as creating the body and then demanding certain parts be cut off is also a symbolic and learning experience for Abraham and his seed that Abraham's seed would be blessed and that Abraham and his seed made would continue to make agreements and promises with God, if that keep their agreements they made with God great blessings would be upon them.

On the other hand, the chief problem with the view of the new reformers is that it fails to recognize that a sexual self, liberated from undertakings that have a moral claim upon it prior to any of its particular intentions and choices, has no satisfactory way to make moral judgments about what it intends, chooses, promises, and then undertakes.

«To promote peace was one of the central promises Justin Welby made upon his confirmation as Archbishop of Canterbury.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

How often in extremity have we prayed, «Give us life, that we may call upon your name,» making an implicit promise to use our lives to better purpose next time, to resist the temptations to sloth, anger, pride, greed, malice and everything else that would deflect us and diminish our better selves.

The New Year is upon us and with it comes the tradition of making a bunch of promises to yourself that are usually centered on diet, exercise or making healthier choices in general.

Upon accepting a product for review, we make no promises for a positive review, but do not believe in bashing a product, either.

He will attend this press conference to stand up for his community, all those who depend upon the MTA, and to make sure promises made to keep the MTA adequately funded are kept.»

They see the improvements that have been made and I believe they also recognize the promise that's been campaigned upon for year,» Reed said.

When Henry stumbles upon a frontier homemaker (Emily Cass McDonnell) whose husband is away at war, it appears that the film is making a promising foray into more personal, Grand Illusion terrain.

Karen Gillan (TV's «Doctor Who») plays Kaylie Russell, a young woman who reunites with her brother Tim (Brenton Thwaites) upon his release from criminal institutionalization in order to make good on a promise they made to one another as children.

The new year is upon us, which means its time to make big promises to ourselves that we probably won't keep.

Wright, Pegg, and Frost have now teamed up for the final entry in their unofficial «Three Flavours» trilogy — this year's The World's End — and the pic promises to be another fantastic effort from the trio as it follows five childhood friends who happen upon dire circumstances as they make their way through a pub crawl.

Unwilling to make the love of his life watch him dying, he leaves her and stumbles upon a secret program with the promise to cure his state of hopeless degradation.

To build upon the accomplishments made possible by our previous grant from the Bezos Family Foundation, we are seeking continued funding to seed and expand additional, promising new ideas as well as provide core support for the Center on the Developing Child that can be earmarked for key personnel expenses and essential infrastructure costs to sustain operations.

Once upon a time, I decided to finally keep the promise I'd made to myself many times in my life: I'd write a novel.

We also offer an ironclad no resale promise — every piece of writing that we produce is custom written based upon your assignment and will never again be made available to another student.

Make sure that your complaint highlights that the seller did not provide what was promised to the consumer upon purchase.

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Overall, Destiny 2 builds upon and refines gameplay mechanics to deliver an even better experience than the first Destiny, while making good on the promise of an expanded story.

This is because the game promises a strong PvP element and, while you can be sure of stumbling upon a friendly player from time to time, there is the ever present risk of real players wanting to gun you down in the forest and make off with all your instant spaghetti.

Made in response to the post-industrial landscape, Thomas Berding's recent paintings draw upon the sense of refuse and the promise of refuge that urban centers and ports of commerce suggest.

(UN, 1992) As we shall see, some national proposals in Copenhagen, seventeen years after the UNFCCC was agreed upon, failed to abide by many promises made by governments in the UNFCCC.

Upon promise of payment of many pigs, a Tanna or Ambrym Bigfella would erect a DC - 3 mock - up out of shrubbery, making up for the absence of engines in the woven wicker nacelles by having his entourage of virtual graduate students copy and append aerodynamically correct propeller blades, carved out of tree fern trunks.

But if, instead, the world manages to act upon a global promise made in Paris in 2015, and to contain global warming to no more than an average rise of 2 °C, the number at risk would be measured only in millions.

I therefore find it peculiar when Federal Justice Minister, Peter MacKay, bemoans Canadians» loss of faith in the criminal justice system while in the same breath repeating his oft - made promise to rain a fury of new tough - on - crime hail from on - high upon the

This Cree jurisdictional process discussion was initiated by the Elders as they shared their deep concern for families being torn apart and the impact this had upon the functioning of the community.This «jurisdictional» discussion goes back to treaty making and promises made to Indigenous peoples by the Crown while entering into and finalizing treaty negotiations.

HVC argued, based upon the testimony of Mr. Aubrey and Mr. Matthews (HVC's human resources representative), that human resources had merely promised a «severance» package — there was never an express promise any payment would be made on retirement.

The potential for misuse of the judicial office, and the political promises that the judge would be compelled to make in the course of campaigning for nonjudicial elective office, together dictate that a judge who wishes to run for such an office must resign upon becoming a candidate.

[13] The making of a pledge, promise, or commitment is not dependent upon, or limited to, the use of any specific words or phrases; instead, the totality of the statement must be examined to determine if a reasonable person would believe that the candidate for judicial office has specifically undertaken to reach a particular result.

The claimants submitted, inter alia, that the orders: (i) had been made without any prior consultation as to the principle, relying upon the common law duty to act fairly and / or the doctrine of procedural legitimate expectation; and (ii) were irrational on the basis that the reasons which had been put forward by the defendants in justification of the decision were inconsistent and contradictoryDyson LJ: The fact that, when conferring on the lord chancellor the power to prescribe court fees, parliament had decided whom he should consult before doing so, militated strongly against the idea that there should co-exist a common law duty to consult more widely (in the absence of a clear promise by the lord chancellor that there would be wider consultation and in the absence of any clear established practice of wider consultation).

It promises to make Indigenous law the bedrock upon which First Nations will govern themselves.

• You met a friend / fiancé online • You've never met face to face • Your correspondent professed love at warp speed • Your friend / fiancé is plagued with medical problems requiring loans from you • You are promised repayment upon the inheritance of alluvial gold or gems • You've sent large sums for visas or plane tickets but the person can not seem to make it out of Ghana • When your friend does try to leave the country, h / she is detained by immigration officials demanding payment or bribes • Your correspondent consistently uses lower case «i's» and / or grammar not in - keeping with their supposed life station or education level Cases bearing these and other hallmarks have all proven to be scams intended to separate sympathetic people from their money.We advise Americans not to send money to people they have never actually met.

With January's end almost upon us, we will soon know whether the software update will indeed make its way to the Moto Z Play as promised.

Sonos likes to get things right before it unleashes changes upon the community and ever since Alexa voice control made a connection with Sonos, there's been one glaring omission: complete Spotify voice control like you get on the Amazon Echo.It was promised... Read more

The promising news regarding SegWit comes as the Bitcoin network is making good progress with the Lightning Network, the second - layer payment protocol that is reliant upon SegWit.