Sentences with phrase «when in a vulnerable state»

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The United States» joint bid with Canada and Mexico once felt like a lock but it is looking more vulnerable by the day thanks in no small part to the US president

Thirteen months ago when the United States launched a joint bid to host the World Cup with Mexico and Canada at a news conference on the...

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community» those most in need of the law's protection» to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.

Crisis theory, as developed by Erich Lindemann and Gerald Caplan, holds that when a person is in a state of crisis, he is especially vulnerable to change.

Any regime, including a democratic one, degenerates into what the Pope calls a «tyrant state» when its law exposes the weakest and most vulnerable members of the community — those most in need of the law's protection — to private lethal violence or other forms of oppression.

I am required to report when adults are being abused, but they generally have to be in a «vulnerable state,» i.e. physically disabled, mentally disabled, or «unable to defend themselves.»

It seems so obvious to me that a baby needs to be near their mother / parents when they are in their most vulnerable state.

Moskowitz recently angered some of her teachers when she refused to publicly state her support for undocumented and transgender students and staff in her schools, and finally relented to saying she would protect vulnerable students after a tense back - and - forth with staff members.

«During the hardest of times, when we had a Republican governor and state Senate determined to leave New York City's most vulnerable to fend for themselves, Dean Fuleihan stood his ground,» de Blasio — who made the announcement at CUNY City Tech in Brooklyn — said in a prepped statement.

When the brain is in this low energy state, it has been well established that the brain is extremely vulnerable to additional trauma, where even smaller impacts can lead to another concussion; and these second concussions can cause severe brain injuries with potentially permanent or fatal outcomes.

It's no secret that there are deceptive people online who want to take advantage of others who might be in a vulnerable state — such as when they're looking for love.

When Paulina tries to cross the border herself, she is in a particularly vulnerable position, and the men helping her cross the border know it (they are called «coyotes» for more reasons than one), and they know she will have no recourse in the United States for her complaints, regardless of whatever they might do to her.

For all the talk from state leaders about their support for school choice, when they have had the opportunity in recent years to open doors of opportunity to Mississippi's most vulnerable children, they have not acted.

Yet the American state of Oregon, where more than a thousand schools are already known to be similarly vulnerable when the great Cascadia fault off the Northwest Coast next heaves, still lags terribly in speeding investments in retrofitting.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

It is important when defending a private prosecution to focus on the aspects of the case which are likely to be particularly vulnerable to attack and which may not be present in a prosecution by the State.

New York Chief Judge John Lippman echoed this connection between access to civil justice and public safety when he stated: «If what happens inside this courthouse or any courthouse... is anything short, even by the smallest amount, of promoting equal justice... [t] he most vulnerable in our society, they're the ones who have suffered the most.»

When your life is not balanced, you are constantly in a state of flux, vulnerable to the unexpected.

Conclusion: Among others, the «lessons» that can be gleaned from the VTech and VTech USA cases include: (i) IoT / connected toys and devices remain very vulnerable in the face of haphazard / sloppy security practices; (ii) inadequate security safeguards will no longer be tolerated by regulators, particularly when children's information or other sensitive information is involved; (iii) robust and adequate security safeguards involve multi-level tiers of protection per the above; (iv) vendors should never misrepresent the state of their security practices in their privacy policies; and (iv) in a connected world, regulators are willing to work together and share data and resources to combat «deceptive and unfair practices that cross national borders» (in the words of the FTC).

«Thank you for everything Sarah, you have been patient, kind and wonderfully re-assuring to me when I found myself in a profoundly vulnerable state, and for that I will be eternally grateful.»