Liberalism has been a notoriously elastic word – as often used as a term of abuse applied to Islington chatterati as claimed to define an acceptable form of individualism.
Discovery and rectification of mistakes, errors and abusesAre there clear means for identifying and fixing these (and in the case of abuse, applying sanctions)?
Seven times since 1973, the Legislature has taken up the question of who must report suspected child abuse, applying that requirement to many professions, but it never seriously considered adding ministers, rabbis, priests and imams to the list.
Thus, the term came to be used thereafter not in the American sense of a meeting but of a closely disciplined system of party organization, not infrequently as a term of abuse applied by politicians of one party to the controlling organization of its opponents.
Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise".
In oral evidence given to the committee, the police, civil rights organisations, social networks and a leading QC all pointed out that in fact we already have a multiplicity of overlapping criminal laws in place around harassment, threats, menace and abuse, which apply as much to the online world as the offline.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) have taken this framework for regulating revolving door abuses and apply it to the financial services sector in their proposed "Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act".
The N.F.L. has two drug policies — one that covers use of performance-enhancing substances and another "policy and program for substances of abuse," which applied in Miller's case.
When Wyden, Feinstein's strongest adversary on privacy issues, asked whether the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to the C.I.A., Brennan said, "I would have to look into what that act actually calls for and its applicability to C.I.A.'s authorities.
