Sentence examples for unreasonable orders from inspiring English sources

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Pop culture — stoked by the movie and the best-selling novel "The Nanny Diaries" and now by the newly published sequel, "Nanny Returns" — tends to paint mothers who employ nannies as over-entitled she-devils who pepper their hapless employees with unreasonable orders and micromanage them to the brink of nervous breakdowns.

Two Canadian telecommunications giants have been fighting the government in court, pushing back against what they call "overbroad and unreasonable" orders to hand over information on scores of their customers.

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In his ruling, Judge Federico Moreno called the return unreasonable and ordered the government to use its best efforts to help the immigrants return to the United States.

Outcome evaluation was conducted at the end of SAHP treatment in 373 studies, which we regard unreasonable in order to assess the effectiveness of SAHP.

The comments marked a reversal by a city that just a few years ago made him the target of a barrage of DWP lawsuits, including one accusing him of issuing unreasonable and unlawful orders.

Air-Vice Marshal David Walker was reported last Tuesday as asking this question of the RAF pilots under his command: 'Would you think it unreasonable if I ordered you to fly your aircraft into the ground in order to destroy a vehicle carrying a Taliban or al-Qaeda commander?' How much more pertinent this question would be if it concerned saving mankind.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said El Paso's natural gas pipeline to California had "unjust and unreasonable" policies and ordered change by November in the allocation of space to shippers.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday that rate increases sought by a health insurance company were unreasonable, and it ordered the insurer to rescind them or justify its refusal to do so.

Existing divorce laws in England and Wales require an accusation of adultery or unreasonable behaviour in order for a divorce to be granted in less than two years of a marriage breaking down.

This means that people "resort to agreeing to make an untrue allegation in court of adultery or unreasonable behaviour, in order to move on with their lives," according to Ms Edwards.

"O'Reilly thinks the NRA position of unlimited guns and amunition is unreasonable, but in order to present O'Reilly's gun control to his right-wing audience, he has to, first of all, talk about 'far-left loons,' so O'Reilly can then sneak his little gun control idea into his show without sounding like like a 'far-left loon' to the far-right loons who watch his show".

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