Sentence examples for injurious conduct from inspiring English sources

Many observers have interpreted the ruling's requirement that cities demonstrate, "some direct relationship between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged" as a high burden of proof and very costly for cities to legally challenge predatory lending.

"In light of this attenuated chain of causation, Miami's asserted injuries are too remote from the injurious conduct it has alleged," Thomas wrote.

Nor does a plaintiff who has been subject to injurious conduct of one kind possess by virtue of that injury the necessary stake in litigating conduct of another kind, although similar, to which he has not been subject.

"I have concluded that the defendant's injurious conduct was unsportsmanlike and inexcusable," Mr. Dillon said in a written statement.

In the United States the injunction retains its essentially equitable character and, as in England, covers a wide spectrum of types of injurious or potentially injurious conduct.

In the era of the Occupy Wall Street movement, when the global financial elite has been accused of immoral and injurious conduct, we are still obsessed with the lives of the ultrarich.

Risk factors for suicide are impulsive and non-suicidal self-injurious behavior, depression, conduct disorders and child abuse.

It was a lawful business and would not in instances be injuriously conducted; but in instances it might be, and because it might be, with injurious consequences, its regulation was provided.

If ever the fear of criminal stigma and the threat of imprisonment were deterrents to wrongful conduct, it would be in the case of white-collar crime, which is injurious behavior committed by people of high social status in the rational pursuit of maximizing profit.

We are aware of only one published longitudinal study conducted in New Zealand investigating self-injurious behaviour.

These can be difficult to distinguish from each other, and some (eg, tics) are found in association with comorbid conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety disorders, mood disorders, learning disorders, sleep disorders, conduct and oppositional behavior, and self-injurious behavior [ 2].