Sentences with phrase «was an abuse of»

Such parties frequently criticize what they believe to be the abuse of the welfare state by minorities.

«The U.S.'s decision... is an abuse of trade remedy measures, and China expresses strong dissatisfaction regarding this,» Wang Hejun, the head of the commerce ministry's Trade Remedy and Investigation Bureau, said in a statement on its microblog.

It's an abuse of the constraints on the scope of the SEC's authority and a violation of basic federalism principles.

In my view, it is an abuse of process, as that phrase is used in this setting, for Burnaby to be seeking here the relief it failed to obtain at the NEB and in the Federal Court of Appeal.

Something we really never had exept over the last 15 + years is the abuse of derivatives and the creation of a whole new sectors of them.

In the end, Justice Macintosh concluded that while he had the jurisdiction to rule on the questions before him he would decline to do so on the grounds that it would be an abuse of process.

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Also, honor killings are cultural and actually forbidden in Islam and so is abuse of women.

«Incest is abuse of children» is a way of saying it could cause genetic abnormalities and birth defects in the child, therefore harming the child's health.

It is an abuse of women by a megalomaniac.

I do know there are dirty hands, and there was an abuse of power by Pastors in leadership.

It is abuse of power by narcissist in leadership.

It's abuse of power that's sin.

It was the abuse of power that shipwrecked the socialist states in Eastern Europe and not the many mistakes that could have been corrected.

David: «In fact, I've come to the conclusion that the core issue at the heart of our communities is the abuse of power and its privileges».

A critical one was the abuse of power when problems in economics, agriculture and other areas became intractable.

In fact, I've come to the conclusion that the core issue at the heart of our communities is the abuse of power and its privileges.

Admittedly there have been abuses of religion and abuses and atrocities committed in the name of religion, but this is more and indictment of the violent nature of humans than of religion.

These are the abuses of capitalism which should be condemned.»

As for religion being the so - called root of all evil, it is the ABUSE of religion by people using it for their own ends that is evil.

I think that's an abuse of the text, if ever I saw one» (Natahan)

Writing in The Guardian on 12 June, she argues that an «infallible» scientific stance that just rejects all religious truth is an abuse of human knowledge.

Hagin himself wrote a book, published three years before he died, in which he attempted to correct what he considered were abuses of scripture.

What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.

Invoking Gaudium et Spes to suggest that binding Church teachings can be «transcended», modified out of all recognition or simply set aside in the name of modernity is an abuse of both the letter and the spirit of the Pastoral Constitution.

That problem is the abuse of the metaphor of «the seamless garment» and of the principle expressed in a «consistent ethic of life.»

It's an abuse of power, it's an abuse of trust.

If Judge Bork's claim is admitted, then all the Court's «departures from the Constitution» (his phrase), all the cultural upheavals worked by the Court and deplored by him and by the other contributors to your November symposium, are an abuse of lawful authority, not an exercise of arrogated authority....

Smothering your arcane 2000 yr old religious beliefs in burning bushes and flying men from sky on little children is an abuse of worst kind.

When asked what he expects from the new ambassador, Thomas told Premier: «The ambassador should travel to countries where there are abuses of religious freedom and make it known that the US is watching.

There will be no abuse of people with a different opinion.

Interestingly enough the 11th article brought against him was ABUSE of power.

It is the abuse of a democratic mandate for an unrelated and unsupported ideological programme.

The biggest problem in the Miami mayoral race was the abuse of absentee ballots, not the voting of convicted felons.

Small town real estate corruption — Spring Valley in Rockland County is in the hot seat, but is the abuse of zoning and eminent domain ubiquitous?

Of all of Silver's crimes, the most disturbing was his abuse of cancer research funding, steering it to a doctor who sent him lucrative asbestos referrals.

Firstly, that this case in its entirety was an abuse of process, or, secondly, that if it wasn't, it should be heard before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which is a special court set up to hear cases involving issues concerning official surveillance.

The Legal Aid Society challenged the state's new familial DNA testing proposal, saying the move is an abuse of power.

He also argued that it was an abuse of court process for the interested parties to have similar motions pending before the court and the Court of Appeal simultaneously.

In these circumstances, we are clear in our minds that the decision by the newly appointed AG to exercise her discretion to file a Nolle Prosequi in this matter is an abuse of discretion, it is capricious, it is an abuse of due process and it is not candid.

The Minister insisted that she has absolutely nothing to do with the issue noting that it is an abuse of public office, the judicial process and her human rights for Governor Oshiomhole whom she stopped from taking a «highly suspicious N15 billion loan'to make false allegations against her while hiding behind the constitutional immunity granted state governors.

«Waving a placard and threatening a cyclist is an abuse of power,» said Gounardes, who is Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams» top lawyer.

«It is an abuse of public office, the judicial process and her human rights for governor Oshiomhole, whom she stopped from taking a highly suspicious N15 billion loan, to make false allegations against her while hiding behind the constitutional immunity granted state governors,» read the statement.

«But unfortunately, there was abuse of trust at various levels which cost Nigeria a lot of lives and goodwill.

The Authority's action is in response to what it says is the abuse of the medicine used to treat moderate to severe pain.

«The British economy will become much more dynamic if we're released from the prison of the European Union and really it's an abuse of the Chancellor to use his officials for propagandist tactics like this.

«That would be an abuse of the English language.

Common sense must guide all to praise the government that has the vision to go this way and anything contrary by an individual is an abuse of common sense in the highest order.

His words, «We expended the meager resources we have to ensure the morale of the military is raised by getting officers to be on ground with the men but unfortunately for us, as a people; there was abuse of trust at various levels which cost Nigerians a lot of lives and goodwill».

The defence via the preliminary objection is also claiming that the information contained in the charge is incompetent and that charge is an abuse of court process.