Sentences with phrase «used against their members»

«They have a rule that they do not take action against auditors until all civil litigation has been resolved,» Coffee says, «because they don't want their actions to be used against their members in a civil suit.»

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The union leaders say Disney is unfairly discriminating against the employees, or «cast members,» because they are engaged in contract negotiations and using the bonuses as leverage to accept a substandard pay increase.

In a bathroom down the hall, a member of a team of Filipino cleaners scrubbed a shower stall using three limbs simultaneously — two hands and a foot to press a rag against the enamel.

Managers can use the stronger team members as counterweights against those who are apathetic or negative so that the team can reach success.

Leaders can use it to stay engaged with team members, see how their group stacks up against the best, and receive recommendations to improve.

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

In upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.

If they do, such member or members will be dragged into a public square and I will randomly choose a couple of techniques out of the Malleus Maleficarum that I deem appropriate, to use against the violatior or violatiors, so as to make sure they get the message and that they don't intefere again in the future.

His willingness to speak against this movement has not endeared him to some members of the American theological community, who have become increasingly supportive of liberation theology and increasingly willing to use Marxist categories in criticizing social structures.

Four members of Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church - Anthony Flagg, 21; Maurice Robinson, 20; Jamal Parris, 23; and Spencer LeGrande, 22 - filed suit against Long and the 25,000 - member megachurch in September, claiming he used his position as their spiritual counselor to pressure them into sexual relationships.

It was this latter which led members of the Temperance movement in Britain in the nineteenth century to campaign against the use of alcohol and to set up alcohol - free clubs.

It's pretty easy to see that Colson is not calling for an end to contraception (because Protestants have always used it, and they might not be too interested in outlawing it) but a «catechism» of church members in a war against Obama.

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Betting Against the Public is one of the most popular and simplest methods used by Sports Insights members.

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Here is a non-sexist case to be made against the selection of Condoleezza Rice as a member of the new College Football Playoff committee: she endorsed the use of torture.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted on 19 January 2016 (393 votes in favour, 305 votes against) to reject draft EU rules on baby food, which would have allowed baby foods to contain high levels of sugar and products to be labelled for use from 4 months of age.

«It is quite simply disgusting that Nestlé and its colleagues are using economic blackmail against the Philippines in an attempt to force members of congress to accept a bill that the Department of Health, WHO and UNICEF have clearly stated will be damaging to Filipino society.

Endorsed by UNICEF and quickly adopted by 150 of 194 WHO member nations (with the US, home to two leading infant - formula makers, voting against it), the code stipulated manufacturers should not distribute free samples to promote their products, that advertising should not «idealize the use of breastmilk substitutes», and that packaging should include information on the benefits of breastfeeding.

As a nursing mom and a member of multiple breastfeeding support groups, I used to feel confused that while the public health community and many parent groups proudly proclaim that «breast is best» for babies, so many breastfeeding moms would report being shamed, harassed, and even discriminated against for actually choosing to nurse their kids.

At 11 a.m., NYC Council Member Jessica Lappin, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and NYCLU Director Donna Lieberman hold a press conference to speak out against a resolution that calls on Albany to allow religious groups to use New York City public school space for worship services; Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

For a lawyer you seem to always use foul words to make your point, one day someone is going to make a complaint against you and use all your comments as proof that you are unfit to be a member of the bar.

Only two members of a special panel put together by Cuomo voted against approving the use of familial DNA to solve violent crimes.

The top of the party is treating this like a coronation: I am not satisfied about the integrity of the process, and having put a number of complaints in to the party chairman, I was disappointed that incidents whereby Members of the European Parliament are using party databases to effectively campaign against me — ostensibly against the rules — were not challenged.

All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

As was the case when he was a rank - and - file member, Heastie voted against measures that would have expanded their use in New York.

The incoming Majority members, with their numbers said to be hovering around 170 as against the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) 115, are expected by Nana Addo, to ensure that his nominated ministers, who will be vetted by the Appointment Committee, are given the nod using their number as an effective weapon.

Led by Reps. Jerry Nadler, Joe Crowley and Dan Donovan, New York members of Congress wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to use his influence to ensure that Jakiw Palij — a convicted Nazi guard — is deported, so New Yorkers and Americans are not forced to live with «a painful reminder for Americans who fought against the Nazis or lost loved ones in the Holocaust.»

The last time the party used such disgraceful tactics to prevent local members» choice of Mayoral candidate standing in the election was against Ken Livingstone.

The Oneida Indian Nation has been leading a campaign against the NFL's teams use of the name, which now includes several members of Congress.

When asked to consider press coverage of Labour and anti-Semitism: 49 per cent of members think Labour does not have problem with anti-Semitism and that it has been created by the press and Corbyn's opponents to attack him, as against 35 per cent who think the party does have a problem with anti-Semitism but it is used by the press and Corbyn's opponents to attack him.

«We are going to continue the observation of our unannounced cessation of hostilities in the Niger Delta against all interest of the multinational oil corporations, but we will continuously adopt our asymmetric warfare during this period if, the Nigerian government and the ruling APC continue to use security agencies / agents, formations and politicians to arrest, intimidate, invade and harass innocent citizens, suspected NDA members and invade especially Ijaw communities.»

THE BRONX — A New York State assemblyman from The Bronx says police used excessive force against him as he tried to soothe a tense situation between officers and community members in Morrisania and then lied about it to the press.

«Chief of Army Staff, General Buratai and his military hierarchy are desperately using every and any available strategy to justify their actions against IPOB family members in Biafraland particularly in Anambra State because of our boycott threat.

In last year's race for Westchester County Executive, republican Rob Astorino's campaign compiled the total number of times that his democratic opponent, George Latimer, voted for tax increase as a member of the Westchester County Board of legislators, which was 46 %, and used it to campaign against him as a «tax and spend democrat.»

Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, who engaged in a major funding limitation debate during the fiscal 2017 appropriations season when he proposed an amendment to bar discrimination against certain federal contractors, said he hadn't thought of using a funding limitation to bar payouts for claims stemming from sexual harassment by members of Congress.

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

The state Republican Party countered with a complaint against Mike Michaud that accused the U.S. House member of using federal campaign money for his gubernatorial campaign.

«We, the entire workers of the Cocoa research institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Ibadan and members of the host communities decry and condemn in entirety the decision of the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Leye Oyebade, to use brutal a force to suppress and repress the ongoing legitimate agitation of CRIN workers against the years of despotic and draconian rule of Prof Malachy O. Akoroda, the executive director of the institute.

For example, the City Council broke from its tradition of deferring to the local council member on land use matters in 2009, when it approved a rezoning for Two Trees Management in Dumbo against the wishes of David Yassky, the Council member at the time.

I'll make an educated guess that it is not supported by any current Security Councel members (Russia OR USA) because they are worried it will be later used against their own interests.

Carl Paladino is using his sizable email list to rally his supporters against New York's Republican members of Congress who have remained neutral in the presidential race, failing to endorse his favorite candidate, Trump.

He warned members of the public to desist from sending their sensitive photographs to the Internet, so that criminals would not use them against them.

U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Nikki Haley voted against the resolution, using the United States» veto power as a permanent member for the first time in more than six years.

NYC Council members are expected to introduce legislation today that would significantly change how the NYPD uses the decades - old nuisance abatement law against homes and businesses cops say have been used as dens of crime.

We would, therefore, like to use this medium to call on all women groups, the minister of Gender and Social Protection, Mrs Oye Lithur, the speaker of parliament, women's wing in parliament, all women of all political parties, Women Rev. ministers, Queen mothers and all women including that of Kennedy Agyapong, stakeholders concern to condemned in no uncertain terms the excessive use of language by the honorable member of parliament against the woman.

The Governor got the Senate Democratic Conference and the Democratic Assembly Members to vote against their own community interests and against themselves, while on the other hand, the Governor created his own, private, HUGE Member Items — or should I say, Governor Items and Governor Capital Funds for his disposal, making everyone believe that he did away with the system — and in the process, using the Democrats as rubber stamps.

Sheriff who accused Makarfi of using the victory at the Supreme Court as a licence to victimize party members, however appealed to members and supporters of his deposed leadership faction to remain calm and refrain from further legal action of any sort against the party.