Sentence examples for small infringements from inspiring English sources

Alongside low wages, exceptionally long hours and physical abuse came harsh fines for small infringements of rules or "shoddy work".

On October 20th Japan's recently appointed trade and industry minister, Yuko Obuchi, and justice minister, Midori Matsushima, resigned from the cabinet following small infringements of political-funding rules.

Without effective pro-active investigations at high-risk labour sites, small infringements of labour rights will continue to develop into forms of labour exploitation and trafficking.

She was perpetually sour and incandescent with fury at the smallest infringement.

If we don't put the brakes on small commercial infringements on public space, in five years Gotham may be Gotham™, a city where we rent our emotional states from pharmaceutical companies and in word-of-mouth campaigns tell our friends about it (oops, we already do that).

Instead, he suggested that courts apply common sense by throwing out vexatious claims over small items of infringement – such as a lawsuit against a car maker for all its profits in a case of identical cupholders – but allow companies like Apple to argue that exterior design can be a critical factor in its profitability.

He finished seventh and, though stripped of the result because of a small rear-wing rule infringement, he had made his mark.

The verdict, reached in Federal District Court in San Francisco, leaves Oracle with a relatively small claim of copyright infringement, making it almost certain that the judge will not demand a harsh penalty from Google.

There's no hanging around making small talk, social oneupmanship, or infringement on evenings or weekends.

So AstraZeneca has recently spent millions of dollars in court pursuing several small drug companies for patent infringement after they announced a plan to make a true cheap generic version of Pulmicort Respules.

By the start of this year, Monsanto had filed 144 lawsuits against 466 farmers and small farm businesses alleging patent infringement, according to a report from the Centre for Food Safety which has championed Bowman's case.