Sentences with phrase «used against the institutions»

It was developed as a weapon to be used against the institutions of power at a time when the appeal of socialism was fading.

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Retailers, marketers and financial institutions can use these tendencies and weaknesses against us.
«This is because institutions such as the Future Fund can now use tools that assess an active stock picker not just against the benchmark, but against factors that are easily and cheaply replicable.
The Comptroller's office specifically warns against frauds using what appear to be checks issued by banks or similar institutions.
The off - balance sheet vehicles have been used by financial institutions to keep some assets off their balance sheets, thereby avoiding the need to hold regulatory capital against them.»
In fact, it goes against much of human nature, and women's self - protective inclinations used to be supported by the people and institutions around her.
Instead, as we all are aware, the institutions of the nation - state (prominently the family, the schools, the churches, the mass media) commonly teach ethnocentrism and prejudice against people who are racially or Ideologically either traditionally or conveniently used as scape goats.
Protestantism thoroughly exploited the medium; it was the first movement of any kind to use printing for overt propaganda and agitation against an established institution — the Roman Catholic church.
Catholic citizens have every reason — including the truth of the matter — to argue that our Constitution is much more democratic that our Court now says it is, just as they have every reason to argue that our Framers never meant «liberty» to be used as a wrecking ball deployed against our indispensable relational «intermediary» institutions — beginning with the family and the church.
The current situation in Libya can be best characterized as a struggle pitting the «centre» that controls national institutions, the flow of oil, and billions in unfrozen assets against a marginalized «periphery» that can challenge the centre's legitimacy via its use of force and appeal to local loyalties.
His words: «I urge you to use your good institutions to preach against hate speech as well as promote tolerance among the people of divergence views.»
To provide staff to all private — meaning mostly religious — schools without a proper review of which facility has a need for this kind of security is an expensive way of going around constitutional prohibitions against using taxpayer funding for religious institutions
The Roman Catholic Church is using the two weeks running up to the Fourth of July for prayer and advocacy as it continues it's fight against the federal Health and Human Services Department mandate that would force some Catholic institutions to provide health insurance coverage that includes contraception.
Beyond its use as a tool against large financial institutions, Schneiderman has used the act as a basis for a probe into ExxonMobil, arguing that its alleged failure to disclose to its shareholders and the public research that showed the potential impact of climate change constituted a Martin Act violation.
Using data from two academic institutions, Derosa and colleagues compared outcomes in patients with advanced RCC or NSCLC who had received antibiotics within 30 days of beginning immunotherapy against outcomes in those who did not.
Higher education institutions are preparing for a new fees regime against a backdrop of severe cuts and must get used to receiving less government money.
In addition, the challengers say using tax dollars to pay tuition at religious schools is barred by the Constitution's prohibition against compelling a person to «support any place of worship... against his consent,» and its ban on using state funds «for the benefit of any religious or theological institution
In a 5 - to - 0 decision, the court said that the voucher program did not violate the state's prohibition against using state funds to benefit religious institutions because the primary beneficiaries of the vouchers were the families who used them.
3.3 The Client acknowledges that a decision to use a research and writing service is their own and agrees that the Company and its writers and other employees are not liable for the decision to use services that go against the university or institution rules or are prohibited by law in the Client's state, city or county.
«This is because institutions such as the Future Fund can now use tools that assess an active stock picker not just against the benchmark, but against factors that are easily and cheaply replicable.
Index A published interest rate against which lenders measure the difference between the current interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage and that earned by other investments (such as one, three, and five year U.S. Treasury security yields, the monthly average interest rate on loans closed by savings and loan institutions, and the monthly average costs - of - funds incurred by savings and loans), which is then used to adjust the interest rate on an adjustable mortgage up or down.
Interest is one clever weapon use against us by banks and financial institutions.
To reduce the indirect effects of such receivership on other institutions, it would be helpful to legislate a restriction on the use of credit default swaps (essentially insurance contracts against the failure of a company's bonds), requiring that such swaps may be used for bona - fide hedging purposes only.
The fight against animal cruelty just got harder, due to last week's USDA blackout, which led to the deletion of thousands of inspection reports on the licensed facilities that use animals, such as puppy mills, zoos, circuses, aquariums, and research institutions.
Maisie Skidmore was interested in news that various institutions were banning the use of camera phones to preserve some mystique and then we chatted about the backlash against longform fetishisation (and the backlash to the backlash).
The interventions of these artists use the visual iconography and language of the host institution against itself to reveal a gap, an internal contradiction.
The inbuilt checks allow for more extreme popular positions not to result in more extreme outcomes but it doesn't prevent the de facto institution of a narrow ruling class capable of using considerable powers to maintain the status quo against their removable which must then be by revolutionary means.
«Don't feed the trolls» was Nealy's social media advice, cautioning attendees not to post information nefarious social media trolls could use against attendees or their institutions.
The Act was designed to encourage health care professionals to share information and have open discussions about improving the quality of health care within an environment that protected the discussions and prevented them from being used in legal proceedings against the health care professional or institution.
This already difficult scenario was exacerbated by the use of a domestic terrorism conviction, made in absentia, to obtain an Interpol Red Notice and Worldwide Freezing Order against Mr Boreh and the brandishing of the underlying judgment to the media, financial institutions and international security organisations, including US Homeland Security.
I would really want to see one of the EU institutions going against the Court for this and using the ratio from C - 50 / 12.
You neglect to acknowledge an actual complaint against Law and Justice: They used their lawful authority to take institutions of state away from the political opposition.
These plans are mostly used by banks and financial institutions who cover their risks against the mortgage or home loan given to their customer by bundling the term plan along with the loan.
It also provides protection for any unforeseen financial emergency as most whole life insurance policies can be used for taking loans against the deposit of the policy with the financial institution.
The malware was used in attacks against financial institutions that netted...
Alphaex.net has extended invitations to regulated enterprises and financial institutions around the globe who can make use of the alphaex.net platform to offer fiat currency pairs against XinFin XDCs where participating institutions are authorized to operate.
Banks can not explicitly say that a permissioned blockchain won't be used against smaller financial institutions for purposes of a blockade.
«Alphaex.net has extended invitations to regulated enterprises and financial institutions around the globe who can make use of the alphaex.net platform to offer fiat currency pairs against XinFin XDCs where participating institutions are authorised to operate.»
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