Sentences with phrase «widespread state practice»

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The indictment states that SAC has been charged «with criminal responsibility for insider trading offenses committed by numerous employees and made possible by institutional practices that encouraged the widespread solicitation and use of illegal inside information.»

As another example, in the past twelve months, Coca - Cola has experienced both widespread panic in Europe over a supposedly tainted product and protest marches in the United States over purported discriminatory hiring practices.

In Russia in particular, church and state have been in elaborate entanglement for centuries, the result of which has paradoxically been widespread abandonment of the practice of the faith.

Yesterday, five judges of the International Tribunal against Monsanto stated in their advisory opinion that the corporation «has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health» citing its widespread dissemination of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture, the introduction and release of GM crops, and introduction of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB in the environment.

The EU investigated complaints from member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and discovered that the practice, known as «dual food», was widespread, and implicated top processors in the food and drink industry.

National data from the ongoing CDC survey of Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC), which assesses breastfeeding - related maternity practices in hospitals and birth centers across the United States, indicate that barriers to breastfeeding are widespread during labor, delivery, and postpartum care, as well as in hospital discharge planning...

This may be due to the widespread implicit assumption that Western states prefer progressive, liberal norms while autocratic regimes prefer sovereignty (and the freedom to engage in illiberal practices).

Electoral fusion was once widespread across the United States, but is now commonly practiced only in New York.

Disquiet about the extent of the state's use of private communications data — including surveillance of the length and time of phone calls, but not their content — has become headline news since Edward Snowden's leaks revealed how widespread the practice has become.

Defenders of the process, including state agencies in Pennsylvania — where the practice is widespread — maintain that it can be done safely.

The practice is widespread in Sabah, the Malaysian state in Borneo, where government officials turn a blind eye to it, say the authors.

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher unions.

States could encourage the widespread development of such high - quality principal preparation programs by incorporating the elements detailed above into policy through program accreditation or state licensing standards, a practice that several states have already underStates could encourage the widespread development of such high - quality principal preparation programs by incorporating the elements detailed above into policy through program accreditation or state licensing standards, a practice that several states have already understates have already undertaken.

In her New York Times series, «United States of Subsidies,» Louise Story wrote about the widespread practice of states giving financial incentives to corporations to locate States of Subsidies,» Louise Story wrote about the widespread practice of states giving financial incentives to corporations to locate states giving financial incentives to corporations to locate there.

The report found that «widespread public awareness of the damage caused by the overuse and misuse of standardized testing, coupled with effective grass - roots organizing by parents, teachers, students and their allies, is increasingly producing positive changes in state and district testing practices.»

«GAO found the experiences of its fictitious consumers to be consistent with widespread complaints and charges made by federal and state investigators on behalf of real consumers against debt settlement companies engaged in fraudulent, abusive, or deceptive practices,» the report concluded.

A recent shipment of 222 dogs from Puerto Rico illustrates how multi-faceted, ill - conceived and widespread the practice of importing street dogs into mainland USA has become.20 Although dogs are regularly shipped into the Northeastern states from Puerto Rico, this particular shipment, arranged by the Puerto Rico Animal Welfare Society, was motivated by the opportunity to win a $ 100,000 grant.

The prevalence of industry best practices nationwide, combined with strong state regulatory frameworks is the reason why the EPA Draft Assessment found no widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources from hydraulic fracturing.

In 2013, a year after the case was opened, Coldwell Banker filed a demurrer stating it had properly classified the plaintiffs by following «widespread industry practice for many decades.»

These practices were disturbingly widespread from the 1890s through the 1970s; I highly recommend you look up the history of sundown towns in your state using Loewen's database.

There is a widespread practice throughout the united states of concealing this information from both buyers and sellers.