Sentence examples for heightened standards from inspiring English sources

In some states there are heightened standards of review for inequitable actions by majority shareholders in small, privately held corporations – the action is called oppression.

For example, under its Dodd-Frank section 120 authority FSOC must consider "costs to long-term economic growth" when formally recommending heightened standards or safeguards for primary regulators to implement [12 U.S.C. § 5330(b)(2)(A).].

This week, if the House approves Citigroup's legislation and another bill that would delay heightened standards for firms that offer investment advice to retirees, the tally would rise to eight.

A1 Standards Set on Jail Health New York City is demanding that Prison Health Services, which just got a three-year, $313.7 million contract to deliver medical and mental health services to 13,500 inmates in city jails, agree to stringent staffing requirements, heightened standards of care and steep financial penalties for any failures.

Next year, there will be 51 Republicans in the Senate, making the margin for success for the GOP even more precarious than it is now". House bill would deregulate both domestic and foreign banks that control trillions of dollars of combined assets, reducing financial stability and tying the hands of regulators to reapply heightened standards in the future.

Seeking to avoid a repeat of previous failed efforts, New York City is demanding that a company it is hiring to deliver medical and mental health services to 13,500 inmates in city jails agree to stringent staffing requirements, heightened standards of care, and steep financial penalties for any failures.

Moreover, this heightened standard will result in a huge number of costly legal challenges to local regulations.

Using the heightened standard "makes no sense," Mr. Hungar said, and "ensures the enforcement of invalid patents".

tried to countermand against: it essentially leads to an unclear standard, making it difficult for teachers and school officials to know when to apply a regular standard of reasoning over a heightened standard.

Most importantly, both the exceptional circumstances requirement and the rigid mathematical formulation reflect a practice common among courts that have adopted "proportional review"—of applying a heightened standard of review to sentences outside the Guidelines range.

That heightened standard, Justice Kennedy wrote, requires employers to show that the tests were not relevant to the jobs at issue or that other "equally valid and less discriminatory tests were available".