Sentence examples for egregious damage from inspiring English sources
Egregious damage might be an overstatement.
"The board was telling the Europeans that if they hold in their objections to the deal, they will do egregious damage to Honeywell," the person said.
But perhaps the most significant development is a move by lawmakers to address the egregious environmental damage that the industry has caused in the state's forests.
Obviously that means that we should not cause outright harm: we must put an end to environmental damage, egregious tax avoidance and mis-selling scandals.
"The behavior is so egregious that the damages could be astronomical.
A single egregious case of environmental damage — even one less severe than BP's Gulf of Mexico spill — could undermine the assumptions underlying the billions of dollars invested.
"ExxonMobil had an egregious record for environmental damage and human-rights violations around the world," Carol Foyler, a school counsellor in Santa Rosa, California, said.
If there are damages from an egregious breach of fiduciary duty, exemplary (punitive) damages over and above fair value may lie.
Although State Farm moved prior to phase II of the trial for the exclusion of such evidence and continued to object to it at trial, the trial court ruled that such evidence was admissible to determine whether State Farms conduct in the Campbell case was indeed intentional and sufficiently egregious to warrant punitive damages. ___ P.3d, at ___, 2001 WL 1246676, at *3.
In separate decisions announced the same day, the court also ruled that Georgia had breached the Disabilities Act by not providing community, rather than hospital, care for mentally ill patients who qualified for it, and that a plaintiff in a sexual discrimination suit did not have to show that an employer's behaviour was "egregious" to collect punitive damages.
They argued that key elements in the government's royal charter, including clauses on exemplary damages for egregious breaches of privacy and for libel and a plan for an arbitration unit for complainants, were flawed and could threaten the financial viability of smaller newspaper and magazine publishers.
