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"favoritism" Definitions
  1. the favoring of one person or group over others with equal claims; partiality: to show favoritism toward the youngest child.
  2. the state of being a favorite.

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Not only is some favoritism acceptable in deciding who gets an exclusive interview, but judges would be at a loss to distinguish between permissible and impermissible favoritism.
"These are not partisan, there is no favoritism," he said.
This is overdue and favoritism like this needs to end.
It does mean tolerance for all by all, without favoritism.
There is no favoritism between one band or the other.
She was ousted after widespread protests against politically motivated favoritism.
"There have been steps to stamp out favoritism," said Gen.
Comey is famously hostile to political favoritism or chumminess with politicians.
Mr. Schuette said there would be no favoritism in the investigation.
She said the monument sent a message of favoritism and exclusion.
My religion cannot demand favoritism as I execute my public duties.
"We don't show favoritism for anybody," Sheriff R. Glenn Smith told reporters.
" Appointing Green, they added, "would risk creating uncertainty, favoritism and unequal standards.
Were there any women who were jealous or thought it was favoritism?
However, procurement favoritism defies the dozens of trade agreements signed by Mexico.
"Parents don't appreciate the difference between love and favoritism," said Dr. Libby.
"This favoritism comes from you," he told reporters at Brazil's training center.
It's playing governmental favoritism and demanding to in fact not be equal.
Without fear, without favoritism, and certainly without regard to any partisan influence.
There is no indication that he received the bailout because of favoritism.
"This has crony favoritism and bias written all over it," he said.
Lately, her extreme favoritism for my spouse, Sabrina, has reached new heights.
The Russian favoritism towards Trump during this past election is extremely apparent.
Both have publicly criticized political favoritism aimed at SpaceX in the past.
In Mongolia, the permit process has been rife with favoritism, experts say.
Whitefish Energy spokesman Chris Chiames balked at the suggestion of cronyism or favoritism.
But now authorities say Zamora did more than show favoritism to the student.
But even some lawmakers who support Clinton think Wasserman Schultz has shown favoritism.
Even if it's consensual, questions of conflict of interest and favoritism come up.
But through his fame, issues of alienation, race, and athletic favoritism are addressed.
The favoritism was obvious, even though I think they did love their children.
The Republican and Democratic nominees will get identical intelligence briefings; no favoritism here.
Such favoritism is deeply offensive to the American sense of fairness and justice.
If anyone pointed out the favoritism, they were singled out and severely punished.
LinkedIn's head of Trust and Safety, Paul Rockwell rejected the charge of favoritism.
We need tax reform that ends the practices of rent seeking and favoritism.
"Things like press conferences and assigned seating, which sounds kind of arcane, but actually started in 1981 as a way for administrations, both Republican and Democratic, to not show favoritism or an appearance of favoritism toward any specific reporter," Montanaro reports.
This was most likely down to higher-socioeconomic groups' cultural favoritism for print media.
There's a reason judges should be required to avoid even the appearance of favoritism.
Did you feel as though, perhaps there was a favoritism of the Chevron bid?
Their parents were so relieved that she lived that their gratitude looked like favoritism.
A sustainable capitalism requires a system free from the barnacles of favoritism and cronyism.
We're waist deep in an era of NBA basketball that's defined by offensive favoritism.
Sebelius in 2013, and favoritism toward business interests seems to guide his judicial philosophy.
"Reliance denies any favoritism or gain from the settlement," it said in the statement.
To my own mother, it was an article of faith to show no favoritism.
But the race drew outsized attention for the Democratic establishment's apparent favoritism toward Crow.
So we are already accustomed to the pressure, this favoritism you all talk about.
"I actually felt liberated," Dalle said, explaining the reasons behind the favoritism, in 2014.
There was no evidence of favoritism: New Wave had simply made the highest bid.
But she said many supervisors have relied on intimidation and favoritism to control workers.
But the Defense Department clapped back over the weekend, denying any favoritism toward Amazon.
Some experts on government ethics said Goldman's treatment of Mr. Cohn smacked of favoritism.
Rarely has the agency been accused of political favoritism or, worse, tipping an election.
Now, of course, critics are watching Vance for any sign of favoritism toward Weinstein.
There was a lot of favoritism, and also a big turnover within staff, of course.
We don't selectively enforce the law, do not show favoritism or ignore our own laws.
Their complaints are legit, but this time around it's not about favoritism, it's about stupidity.
Some parents hide it better than others, and some favoritism reaches into the next generation.
Perhaps someone else has been penalized for excessive electricity usage, signaling favoritism toward the president.
Arkansas has said the previous, human-based system was ripe for favoritism and arbitrary decisions.
There is no favoritism about the origin of the company, there is no political play.
I'm posting them in the order I received them, so as to not show favoritism.
He accused her of struggling to keep the party together and showing favoritism to Mrs.
Airbus didn't create this game, but protectionism and political favoritism force them to play it.
An earlier investigation had cleared Pai of allegations that he showed "favoritism" toward the deal.
In Brazil, there are seemingly endless scandals involving purchased government favoritism for Petrobras and Odebrecht.
The corporate favoritism through subsidies showered on wind and solar by governments has been significant.
Temptation to distort markets would be irresistible and suspicions of favoritism and fraud never-ending.
Rival agency Expert, set up two decades ago, complained that ACRA was benefiting from favoritism.
Nobody knows, but there is every reason to believe that political favoritism is running wild.
I had long believed in an America with opportunity for all and favoritism for none.
We saw trends as well as specific patterns of favoritism and instances of self-dealing.
"The one thing you can't do under the establishment clause is denomination favoritism," he said.
But putting taxpayers on the hook for corporate favoritism isn't just a state government problem.
"No matter what, people will be looking for ways you are practicing favoritism," said Dudley.
His absolute power — employees say he personally approves every application — creates the appearance of favoritism.
That move by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke drew accusations of favoritism, which have been denied.
To the Sports Editor: Re "Football Favoritism at F.S.U.: The Price One Teacher Paid," Sept.
Instead, he took on a systematic approach that avoided any signs of favoritism or nepotism.
Without this player favoritism, the game couldn't take as many perspective risks; it'd be deemed unfair.
I met Ed Lee once, interviewing him about his pursuit — some say favoritism — of tech companies.
But other Republicans have also expressed outrage at what they view as Comey's favoritism toward Clinton.
Experts worry it could lead to unintended consequences, political favoritism and/or no actual emission reductions.
Democrats say the new law will open the door to patronage and favoritism in state agencies.
But especially for people who were already skeptical of the change, it simply looked like favoritism.
"The Guardian post, written by a former curator, accused Facebook managers of "intimidation, favoritism, and sexism.
The campaign then went on to blast Trump for expressing geopolitical favoritism toward Russian foreign policy.
Businesses and government together should stop this favoritism and work to re-level the playing field.
The TPP contains provisions to tackle trade distortions caused by government favoritism toward state-owned enterprises.
This favoritism is also problematic because of its impact on the incentives to innovate and compete.
But workers want things like better protection from termination and mechanisms for contesting favoritism by managers.
He drew scrutiny for receiving favoritism from the federal government in securing visas for foreign investors.
Clinton's tenure as secretary of state that include references to foundation donors, accusing her of favoritism.
Remember, their dispute goes beyond and long predates America's involvement or seeming favoritism to either side.
This kind of access is the most corrupting brand of favoritism and pervades the entire government.
Similarly, if you have more than one manager, you should avoid showing favoritism to just one.
For example, how does the fund ensure that there's no favoritism of one recipient versus another?
You should agree not to engage in professional favoritism or public displays of affection at work.
For decades, presidents have entered office vowing to end such favoritism, but they all eventually backtracked.
A white-hot WikiLeaks dump of DNC emails, many of which revealed damning favoritism toward Hillary Clinton.
He has since faced a series of investigations into alleged corruption, fraud, favoritism and campaign-funding irregularities.
The nominee said he would not show favoritism to Trump or anyone else in enforcing SEC rules.
"A common pitfall is when there has been a history of favoritism among siblings," Mr. Grubman said.
"There is no favoritism, there is no leg up to Bombardier or to anybody else," Sabia said.
Trump's wrath has limits, but reverse favoritism is a risk when government money is up for grabs.
However, good leaders don't show favoritism because they know to do so leads to bad employee morale.
Republicans have seized on the change as evidence that Comey and the FBI treated Clinton with favoritism.
Asked whether he saw "red flags" or felt that the WHO showed China favoritism, Trump mostly demurred.
We could show that there wasn't favoritism or politics involved in who the tariffs were applied to.
"Student-athletes should never be treated with favoritism," he said, "nor be used to set an example."
The Senate bill's favoritism for pass-through capital income over labor income is a bit more subtle.
"There has been a history of this kind of favoritism and discrimination," he testified before the panel.
"There are individuals who try to seek favoritism, who want to bring something good to the czar."
Most Americans continue to be frustrated by the difficulty, favoritism and sheer size of our tax code.
Belin says Trump's "clear favoritism" for those countries can exacerbate the divisions between them and Brussels, or Paris.
Some say they are passed over for opportunities for promotions and advancement based on racism, ageism, or favoritism.
Kenny said the Irish government disagrees "very vehemently with the European commission" and denies any favoritism for Apple.
Oh, and they need to stay away from anything that looks like favoritism or cronyism in this endeavor.
Her widely-read essay in Politico earlier this week alleged favoritism from the DNC for the Clinton campaign.
In his closed-door interview with congressional investigators, he repeatedly denied showing political favoritism to Clinton over Trump.
Known as JEDI, for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, the project has been the subject of accusations of favoritism.
With all the players they have, all that favoritism, they were still knocked out in the first round.
Sarkozy has since faced a series of investigations into allegations of corruption, fraud, favoritism and campaign-funding irregularities.
Such actions are, on their face, not inherently wrong, but motivated by poor economic thinking or unethical favoritism.
And those people are being placed in by the sheriff, himself, as political appointees and favoritism and cronyism.
To find these savings, we asked four key questions: Would eliminating the program increase opportunity or reduce favoritism?
There are no soft criteria for admission: no interviews, no favoritism for legacies, no strings to be pulled.
It may seem that this or that actor might benefit from favoritism, permissive oversight, or other unfair advantages.
People will not tolerate a leader who shows favoritism to allow bad behavior, excessive absenteeism or unproductive presenteeism.
"It means absolutely eliminating political bias or favoritism — in either direction — from our investigations and prosecutions," Sessions said.
But typically, what you don't want it to look like is that you're buying any kind of favoritism.
Rather it's donor service and the dead hand of Wall Street Journal editorial page dogma, which condemns tax favoritism toward workers or families as dangerous social engineering — as opposed to tax favoritism toward the investment income of Wall Street Journal readers, which is just the level playing field Almighty God intended.
The company even acknowledges that this product change introduces a bit of favoritism into its previously unbiased search platform.
Given the outsize impact college has on a student's life and future career, such favoritism should be made illegal.
Keemstar has also claimed to his 2 million Twitter followers that Mogollon receives "special favoritism" because of her gender.
Earlier this week, Whitefish Energy spokesman Chris Chiames explicitly denied the suggestion of favoritism on behalf of government officials.
Cordeiro said each team chose to negotiate a different compensation package with U.S Soccer and there was not favoritism.
Net neutrality rules aimed to prevent that kind of favoritism, but the current FCC argues those rules impede innovation.
The appeal, filed by staff representatives Carlos Bowles and Johannes Priesemann, also made allegations about favoritism at the ECB.
Clinton benefited from undue institutional advantages in the race, including apparent favoritism from officials at the Democratic National Committee.
The Spurs did not seize Western favoritism from the Warriors in one game, but they surely closed the gap.
It must include best-in-class provisions to end China's favoritism toward domestic industries and to protect intellectual property.
There is justified skepticism, given the Senate's structural favoritism toward Republicans, that any major Democratic effort can become law.
Again, Sinclair was consistent in offering the package to the Democratic and Republican nominees, thereby not showing overt favoritism.
The lawsuit is the eighth one to challenge North Carolina's district maps for partisan favoritism, the Associated Press reported.
Sanders had repeatedly accused her of favoritism and went as far as endorsing her primary opponent back in Florida.
On the heels of leaked emails over the summer from the Democratic National Committee, which suggested favoritism toward Mrs.
Historically, battles between social classes, ethnicities and religions have invoked the same in-group favoritism and out-group derogation.
But we can't ignore the downsides either: Lower pay, stingier promotions, and a potential employer favoritism toward the childless.
Whether speech is political or not also may depend on the identity of the speaker, which invites government favoritism.
"It means absolutely eliminating political bias or favoritism, in either direction, from our investigations and our prosecutions," he said.
Mr. Abe has also been hurt by accusations of favoritism toward friends and conservative sympathizers, which he has denied.
But by September 2016, as Russia's favoritism for Trump became more and more obvious, Republicans started to flock to Putin.
In fact, judges aren't even allowed to smile or show any signs of emotion, because it could be considered favoritism.
The favoritism awarded to football is what caused the university to routinely violate federal law and value rapists over survivors.
It tosses aside years of favoritism to workers and financial interests in Mexico and Canada, to the detriment of Americans.
What the justices will ultimately decide is how much latitude the government should get in showing favoritism toward particular faiths.
Trump's campaign signaled that this Obama-era favoritism toward the interests of Silicon Valley won't survive the next four years.
Some of the emails appeared to show favoritism within the DNC for Clinton over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
As partisan affect has intensified, it is also more structured; in-group favoritism is increasingly associated with out-group animus.
But fixes that require identifying "reputable" news organizations are inherently risky because they open companies up to accusations of favoritism.
What this might then suggest is favoritism based on a criteria that has nothing to do with actual athletic performance.
For these whites, it's about protecting their in-group and showing some sense of favoritism, completely independent of racial prejudice.
Yeah, social psychologists have been studying the phenomenon of in-group favoritism and out-group animosity for a long time.
About 262,2000 prosecutors across the country must raise money for campaigns, opening them up to charges of favoritism toward contributors.
England lived up to its favoritism in the first half: 203 shots to Sweden's 1, more passes and better accuracy.
But he also implied that it might be necessary to weed out "political bias and favoritism" from investigations and prosecutions.
Vance denied any favoritism at the time, saying that his office contracted the firm because of its expertise in Palantir.
Training first-level supervisors to reduce favoritism and harassment and offering bonuses can keep current workers in farm work longer.
Accusations of harassment, favoritism and bullying have overshadowed Sunday's show and pitted the Recording Academy against its suspended chief executive.
Those in the trucking industry often view "family-owned" fleets as a positive, rather than a red flag for favoritism.
" According to Merriam Webster it's supposed to mean "marked by impartiality and honesty : free from self-interest, prejudice, or favoritism.
We're told this isn't a case of celeb favoritism, but more about Madonna already going through the process twice in Malawi.
The portrait Previn paints of Mia Farrow is harrowing, alleging favoritism of her biological children, neglect, and verbal and physical abuse.
That leads to an automatic favoritism, so I think it's important that women try to be less competitive and more supportive.
In order to eliminate the perception of favoritism, Meen will stay far away from the judging events that begin on Monday.
They are placed in a "coherent structure" to "eliminate any sense of favoritism or political gain," according to the city's website.
Each such form of privilege is a special case of favoritism that could be its own article, or series, or book.
Favoritism and utilizing different sets of rules based on race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, whether positive or negative, is wrong.
The argument is to have a level ground for all players in the energy sector to compete without any legal favoritism.
The FCC proposal was approved by a 3-2 Democratic majority, with Republican commissioners dubbing it corporate favoritism, according to NPR.
But the American people need reassurance that these funds won't become another swamp of influence, favoritism or trading cash for access.
"We are filling out a search warrant, looking for documents and evidence that can support the allegation [of favoritism]," he added.
The local's president, Joe Puleo, characterized department officials as using the officers as "pawns for their political favoritism" in this case.
And this being New Jersey, putting state money into private companies has the potential to lead to political favoritism or corruption.
They said Mr. Meehan seemed to favor her over other employees, so much so that others saw his favoritism as unprofessional.
But they're versions of routine favor trading and favoritism that have long corrupted the admissions process, leeching merit from the equation.
But they're versions of routine favor-trading and favoritism that have long corrupted the admissions process, leeching merit from the equation.
While candidates were aware the thresholds would increase, they were not briefed on the specifics, to avoid any appearance of favoritism.
Gun safety activists quickly raised an alarm, contending that the reversal was a sign of the administration's favoritism for gun interests.
"We don't find any material to show that it's commercial favoritism," Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said in delivering the court's ruling.
The BBC said both cases were simple editorial errors that did not reflect any attempt to show favoritism toward Mr. Johnson.
As the Horowitz report makes clear, the FBI broke no rules and showed no favoritism in pursuing the counterintelligence probe. 6.
As a government minister, Ms. Gayflor was not allowed to show favoritism for any candidate, let alone campaign on one's behalf.
The remaining 14 defendants, including the former defense minister, were accused of abuse of power, favoritism, denial of justice and misfeasance.
She said relations between the foreign aid groups and the Rakhine people had been poisoned by years of neglect and favoritism.
To those who would raise the bugaboo of subjectivity or instructor favoritism, please see the classroom motto: Life Is Not Fair.
The professors were accused last year of creating a "hostile academic environment" marked by excessive drinking, favoritism and, at times, inappropriate behavior.
In 2010, the commission held hearings that exposed favoritism, the granting of no-show jobs and organized-crime involvement on the docks.
I've seen chefs pin people against each other, make people cover their shift so that they can prevent their vacation, obvious favoritism.
"Today's announcement demonstrates a commitment to prioritizing common sense, economics and science ahead of industry favoritism and politics as usual," she said.
Feuding with a white conservative like Turnbull might appear to break the pattern of white favoritism Trump has shown, but it doesn't.
Verstappen's father Jos was also scathing of the decision on social media, with a series of comments on Twitter suggesting Ferrari favoritism.
Last year, another instance of M.D. favoritism was presented to me in a time of need, and I grabbed it without flinching.
It does not matter that favoritism is inescapable in the federal government and that the Clinton Foundation stories are really nothing new.
Thomas Virgets, one of the four AIBA officials who vets referees and judges, said that the organization takes pains to avoid favoritism.
Because there are people up there that permit shit and whether we like it or not, it's always going to be favoritism.
Some doctors believe that patient gifts may predispose them to favoritism; others are willing to accept small gifts of low monetary value.
Canada launched the long-delayed competition last month and said it was confident no favoritism had been shown toward any one contender.
He thought he could deliver the right message to the American people, balancing openness while protecting the bureau from accusations of favoritism.
"Sex stereotyping is actionable only to the extent it provides evidence of favoritism of one sex over the other," one brief reads.
The inspector general also looked into reports that Harris encouraged favoritism in awarding agency contracts to personal friends, which the CIO denied.
Trump and his allies have pointed to the texts as evidence of blatant favoritism among FBI agents involved in high-profile investigations.
At the 288.022 and 22009 Olympics, blatant favoritism by judges to riders from their own nations almost led to the sport's expulsion.
While this specific concession is not typical for free trade agreements, favoritism far too often plagues international trade and should be eliminated.
Start by having an honest (and likely uncomfortable) conversation, avoid showing any hints of favoritism, and then find a new sounding board.
That led to a drop in approval rates, but the process was an improvement in that it took strides toward avoiding favoritism.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz — faced harsh criticism for its alleged favoritism toward frontrunner Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders and other lesser-known candidates.
While FlareTV is aware of the favoritism among its viewers for PewDiePie, the channel maintains that it's unbiased between the two rival channels.
Inbox It's Time to End Favoritism Toward College Athletes To the Sports Editor: Re "Florida State Settles Suit Over Winston Rape Inquiry," Jan.
For the prompt, "Arbitrary action, personal favoritism and coercion for partisan political purposes are not tolerated," positive responses dropped from 52.3% to 50.4%.
She's a daddy's girl, at least outwardly, a favoritism that she uses to her advantage and against her mother, Jalila (Ruba Blal-Asfour).
It also said he had shown favoritism to the male friend of a woman colleague by taking him on as a parliamentary assistant.
Embrace video as a medium Facebook's video favoritism is only part of the reason for the rise of video (albeit a big part).
Would eliminating the program increase opportunity for all Americans or reduce government-driven favoritism that forces competitors to play on an uneven field?
There is, however, a small community of people who are taking this in-group favoritism and developing it into a more nativist ideology.
But despite the appearance of favoritism, white working class Americans are as politically marginalized as Mr. Trump's critics; they're in the ghetto, too.
But he will soon face charges in Corsica of favoritism in the construction of a new tennis center on the island in 2013.
Some Sanders delegates and supporters, angry at leaked emails that show the Democratic National Committee's favoritism of Clinton, refuse to support the nominee.
Instead of federal favoritism for some areas over others, policymakers at all levels should concentrate on making the whole nation an opportunity zone.
The suspension has led opponents of Buhari to accuse him of interfering in the electoral process and of showing regional and religious favoritism.
Potential renegotiations of NAFTA could deter these gains if the deal doesn't include reducing both trade barriers and government favoritism for certain industries.
It should be noted that Shirrako's channel is full of such videos, seemingly showing no favoritism for any sort of person in the game.
There is no solid evidence that the FDA was deliberately giving unfair favoritism to Mylan, but EpiPen does seem to be enjoying special treatment.
Why it matters: Trump and Murdoch are old pals, but this conversation could raise accusations of political favoritism when it comes to regulatory approvals.
It's a calm, serene experience, and it's especially refreshing to get away from the breathlessly nationalist favoritism displayed by local commentators around the world.
We will ensure that anyone who works on any investigation in the Department of Justice does so objectively and free from bias or favoritism.
The committee found "a culture of mismanagement, reckless spending, favoritism, and a general lack of accountability at the USMS," the 430-page report reads.
"But the pollsters had been so nice that she didn't want to show favoritism by telling one ahead of the others," Ms. Amster wrote.
If favoritism by political appointees toward outside persons and organizations were illegal, the United States government would be quite different than it is today.
The issue at hand here — as with other online platforms accused of political favoritism — isn't bias but rather misunderstanding of how the technology works.
Beijing has promised to tell its state-controlled banks to show less favoritism in lending to state-owned enterprises instead of private sector businesses.
As a result, Comey seems to have felt pressure to make an unprecedented effort to defend his decisions as fair and without undo favoritism.
Introducing subjectivity and favoritism, while barring equal access for religious and private-school children who seek admission to the specialized high schools, furthers divisions.
Can he separate the court from even the appearance of favoritism, especially when it comes to conservative legal activists, business interests, or President Trump?
And when it comes to expenses that aren't reimbursed, Nilson recommends employees be frank with their bosses about the tax code's favoritism toward businesses.
Democrats continue to call for an independent investigation and will be watching Burr for any evidence they believe shows favoritism to the Trump White House.
Babis calls the police investigation a ploy by adversaries to chase him out of politics, which many Czechs view as ridden with bribery and favoritism.
She also wants the office to investigate potential political interference and favoritism, and whether the tariffs are actually achieving the goal of keeping America safe.
The saint-making process has not been immune to corruption and mismanagement, with accusations that the system allowed for favoritism for causes with rich backers.
He and two other professors were accused last year of creating a "hostile academic environment" marked by excessive drinking, favoritism and, at times, inappropriate behavior.
The issue that's concerning here, and the issue that drives the divorce between the average American and government, is the possible exhibition of legislative favoritism.
Despite this, there are barriers to private sector participation such as liability, perception of favoritism and lack of a common response language, among many others.
At the same time, trade negotiators agreed to allow favoritism for national companies, only on smaller, bread-and-butter projects under the $10.1 million cap.
In 2014, the American Humanist Association and several local humanists challenged the monument, arguing that the cross demonstrated government favoritism of Christianity over other religions.
The problem here is not only the appearance of political favoritism and the implication that different laws (or no laws) apply to the political elite.
The Free Speech Clause bars the government from burdening, suppressing, or compelling protected expression, particularly when based on favoritism or hostility to the message expressed.
I created a banger called 'Levels' that Channel U said was too dark, but really I think they were showing more favoritism to London crews.
"Coercion is certainly a clear example of an Establishment Clause violation, but no more so than sectarian favoritism," they told the court in their brief.
Clinton left Ms. Wasserman Schultz liable this year to charges of favoritism in conducting the party primary and contributed to her sudden downfall on Sunday.
In the coming weeks and months, they must defy what has become the political norm and reject government favoritism, no matter what form it takes.
"For too long I have been the only one at the FCC complaining about the favoritism this agency has shown Sinclair," Rosenworcel said on Twitter.
Lurking in the background of this case is the argument that the Establishment Clause permits any religious favoritism short of actual coercion of non-adherents.
If your boss (who happens to be your partner) takes you to lunch or promotes you, people will claim it's based on favoritism — not merit.
" The colleague agreed, summing up their mutual concern about Professor Bonn: "Trying to put a stop to his favoritism for athletes once and for all.
Students angered over accusations of favoritism helped set off large protests that forced President Moon Jae-in to apologize and his justice minister to resign.
The favoritism is justified by the claim that Christians are more at risk from the Islamic State and other groups that engage in indiscriminate murder.
It is one thing for a president to issue a pardon that smacks of favoritism, like when President Clinton pardoned his brother for drug charges.
Kris Jenner has somehow managed to deal with both of these problems in one fell swoop, evading favoritism without sacrificing that all-important personal touch.
Governments here and elsewhere still respond to special pleading and favoritism and try to block competition, or at least tax it, in their home markets.
Often when Trump interrupted the moderators it was to dispute the amount of time he'd been given to speak or to chastise them for favoritism.
But the big pivot in the article was, after a discussion of sexual harassment and sexual favoritism, to pivot to gender discrimination in the writers room.
The pattern of placement for the presidents was chosen "to maintain a coherent structure and eliminate any sense of favoritism or political gain," the city notes.
There will be raffle tickets to randomly draw the names of the people who will get to ask questions, to show that there is no favoritism.
Then, during the 22014 primaries, Bernie Sanders and his supporters criticized the DNC under Wasserman Schultz for what he saw as favoritism toward Hillary Clinton's candidacy.
This, together with the grade-fixing scandals at other colleges, shows that the favoritism given to athletes (and other V.I.P. students) does not stop with admissions.
"If there is a level of inconsistency coming from the platform and favoritism that affects me personally, then that's an issue," he said, according to Dexerto.
Mr. Ryan, the Schooner Capital founder, said he didn't think Mr. Blankfein's suggestion of Russian favoritism — tongue-in-cheek as it was — invoked the right issue.
The lawyer's response smacks of favoritism (to the president) and might violate the president's fiduciary duty to treat all shareholders equally and act in good faith.
More importantly, it was harmful coming on a day when favoritism and special treatment is already on the minds and lips of everyone following this election.
And the White House was opposed to naming Russia, as CNN previously reported, in part because of concern about the election and appearing to show favoritism.
In contrast, financial crises may be perceived as an endogenous and 'inexcusable' type of crisis that are the result of policy failures, moral hazard and favoritism.
It began with accusations of favoritism leveled by two presidential candidates, continued with the wrenching exposure of hacked emails and abrupt resignation of former chair Rep.
But critics argue that this would result in fast and slow lanes for internet access and could lead to favoritism and the entrenchment of wealthy players.
"It's impossible not to have favorites, and we do know that the perception of favoritism is one of the biggest factors in sibling rivalry," she said.
What's more, Iowa law specifically highlights what factors should not be taken into consideration, including favoritism for a political party, incumbent legislator or member of Congress.
The four-member panel, in a 70-page report issued last Friday, said that a "patriarchal culture of favoritism and cronyism" had allowed "impunity and retaliation".
But in class he watched instructors show favoritism toward the children of security officials, going as far as to supply them with exam questions in advance.
Clinton wins in November, the Clinton Foundation will cease accepting the large foreign donations that have long powered its philanthropy — and raised questions about governmental favoritism.
The letter to PREPA requests documents and information concerning alleged acts of corruption and favoritism in the power restoration operations in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Also, $35 million in contracts were awarded to firms employing former TFBSO senior staff members in executive roles, raising serious concerns about favoritism in contracting practices.
Persuading the courts that a four-story cross in the middle of a public highway doesn't show religious favoritism turned out to be a tall order.
But it's Pruitt's open corruption -- and continued tenure -- that has done more to stain the enterprise as a hollow front for pocket-lining and industry favoritism.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that the FCC's inspector general had opened an investigation into whether Pai was showing favoritism to Sinclair and expansion plans.
Mr. Filin was often perceived as an intriguer prone to favoritism who pressured dance critics to pan dancers he did not like, such as Mr. Dmitrichenko.
It's too early to say whether Trump's interventions herald a period of corporate favoritism or a policy effort that sets American companies on a different course.
Although he kept the Taliban at bay, he was also accused of tribal favoritism and of using force against political rivals, which ultimately kept Oruzgan fragile.
She's suddenly showing favoritism toward Clive, who is more relaxed around her—and even flirtatious—over time, and pushing back against Elsa, the disciplinary mom figure.
On Thursday, Mr. Weinstein's representatives said correction officials had transferred Mr. Weinstein to Rikers Island a day after heart surgery to avoid the appearance of favoritism.
During the 2000 presidential primary, leaders of the Democratic National Committee were frequently accused of showing favoritism toward Hillary Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
We need an impartial, standardized and professional process for testing at entry level and on promotional exams to inoculate against the effects of bias and favoritism.
A study of nearly 200 nonspecialized law reviews by the University of Toronto law professor Albert H. Yoon found favoritism toward faculty from their home institutions.
"Every study I've ever seen across the social sciences shows that education promotes less in-group favoritism and greater tolerance toward those unlike ourselves," she continued.
Regional, a company of 2140,2150 workers which began in 289 in Venezuela's second city Maracaibo and is owned by the billionaire Cisneros family, has denied favoritism.
Critics have called his decision to exempt Florida's waters from the Trump administration's plan for new US offshore oil drilling political favoritism to benefit Republican Gov.
The Players shows no favoritism to long hitters such as Woods and Mickelson, but Woods is a two-time winner of the event (2001 and 2013).
For many enlightenment thinkers, pardoning was too dependent on personal favoritism and the whim of the king and sidestepped a more systematic reform of criminal law.
As president, Trump has continued to hold McCabe up as Exhibit A of political favoritism infecting the FBI when he lashes out against the Russia investigation.
To be sure, we have not examined all possible available evidence, but we have yet to find any evidence of favoritism for any of the outsiders.
Mr. Tillerson warned against showing favoritism in the succession, and viewed the treatment of the young Prince Mohammed during a White House trip as too lavish.
Know that people are watching People are going to assume there will be some favoritism, so try to avoid giving any impression that could be happening.
Now, definitively, the most authoritative congressional panel on the issue of Russia's favoritism in the 2016 election has weighed in — and it weighed in against Trump.
But while it's inappropriate for someone in Strzok's position to express favoritism toward a certain presidential candidate, there isn't clear evidence he acted on those views.
Whatever head start he enjoyed was an artifact of base pay set by people outside of the national sales team – not of tacit favoritism for a man.
Claude Gueant, who was secretary-general of the presidency and later interior minister under Sarkozy, is accused by an investigating magistrate of being an accomplice to favoritism.
Three high-ranking military officers and a minister resigned recently, citing rampant brutal human rights abuses by the military and ethnic favoritism that granted Dinka officers impunity.
This time, she's specifically mocking her Kris Jenner, the matriarch of the Kardashian family, over her so-called favoritism for whatever child is making the most money.
With little outside scrutiny, some officers told BuzzFeed News the internal trials are merely a "kangaroo court," rife with favoritism, racism, and pressures to just plead guilty.
This gendered favoritism is all too common in sports, but is especially virulent in ones like tennis, where high-status players like Serena Williams are routinely devalued.
Ever since, Jamiat supporters have bitterly resented what they see as Ghani's betrayal of the deal and favoritism toward Pashtuns, traditionally the strongest group in Afghan politics.
Numerous WeChat articles on the incident warned that Trudeau was so quick to believe the child because of his supposed favoritism toward Muslims and prejudice against Asians.
She nixed salary bonuses known as "lulus" and standardized capital allocations (although a recent POLITICO story found that certain ways to bestow favoritism have survived under Johnson).
The most egregious and explicit example of Washington's favoritism for the big banks would become transparent upon creation of any explicit government guarantee behind mortgage-backed securities.
In addition to accusations of using code words, Zara faced a $40 million discrimination lawsuit in 2015 accusing it of practicing race-based favoritism within the company.
Regulators and prosecutors need to be able to pursue actions against people who may have political, social, or business ties to important politicians without fear or favoritism.
Demoralized and irked by the blatant tax favoritism for non-residents, few residents care to know how much tax revenue escapes in the defiant, local underground economy.
"I hope to continue to contribute to the conference, but I don't expect to get any particular favoritism when it comes to the chairmanship position," he said.
State-Operated Businesses United States negotiators have discussed the need to address favoritism often granted to state-owned business — those directly or indirectly owned by the government.
It was a rich subject to which the authors returned in "Pinstripe Patronage: Political Favoritism From the Clubhouse to the White House … and Beyond," published in 2011.
They assert and perpetuate themselves in many different ways, from full-on violence and repression down through subtle patterns of exclusion, coercion, and favoritism in the workplace.
Unfortunately, this plan doesn't sit well with competing energy sources — the wind and solar producers who claim Perry's proposal is unjustified "market intervention," if not outright favoritism.
Bans on sexual relationships between supervisors and subordinates serve multiple purposes, such as protecting the involved parties from the risk of retaliation and preventing concerns about favoritism.
It piled too much wealth and power in the hands of the already wealthy, it encouraged political favoritism and corruption, and it left workers and farmers behind.
Three years ago, vendors and city officials clashed over the dwindling quality of the market and accusations of favoritism that effectively exiled commercial booths from the square.
The report said Mr. Pai's suggestion that the case be handed over to an administrative judge was "significant evidence" that he did not show favoritism to Sinclair.
HHS lawyers urged officials to "be cautious" about talking to Novartis privately, before the agency formally solicited applications for CMS demonstrations, to avoid the appearance of favoritism.
Carole Ghosn, who was speaking to CNBC's Sarah Eisen on "Closing Bell" on Thursday, said the disparity in treatment shows the nation's favoritism for its own people.
So that's a typical day, and it's already full of locker room talk, favoritism, and backstabbing (he's secretly gunning to take Alex Levy's [Jennifer Aniston] juicier segments).
Allegations of political favoritism and loyalty to industry are recurring themes in five of Zinke's biggest decisions to date, which affect the lives of millions of Americans.
The fact that both parties so readily accepted the program and that both apps are virtually the same has helped damp down any concerns about party favoritism — mostly.
Beyond predictable accusations of favoritism, a number of people I spoke to said that most of the professors who were let go had leadership roles at the Corcoran.
The reason any effort to break up the banks for real is doomed is because Washington's most enduring bipartisan "achievement" has been its favoritism for large financial institutions.
The Lisbon prosecutor's office said in a statement it had concluded there was "no crime of favoritism or any other (crime)" and that it has archived the case.
His qualifications, which include dozens of scholarly articles and economic papers, were not questioned in the appeal, which instead focused on the "perception of favoritism" at the ECB.
A year later, when The Philadelphia Inquirer revealed that the operation had taken place and that Ms. Kane had shut it down, she faced claims of partisan favoritism.
Last week, the paper published a series of articles about ethnic favoritism in the presidential palace, a sensitive issue in a country that has long struggled with equality.
D.N.C. officials said that while candidates were aware the thresholds would increase in the fall, they were not briefed on the specifics, to avoid any appearance of favoritism.
The episode added to the problems faced by Mr. Abe, who was already dealing with accusations of showing favoritism toward friends and conservative sympathizers, which he has denied.
Employees felt he and another Neumann pal who helped lead the group, WeWork's co-head of real estate for United States, Canada and Israel, Arash Gohari, enjoyed favoritism.
Writing in Complete Colorado (a project of my employer, the Independence Institute), she explains how this corporate favoritism disadvantages other businesses: My drive-in theatre has one location.
Reuters was ranked No. 1 in accuracy in an Economist study this year and tracked nearly dead center in measuring bias, showing neither left nor right-wing favoritism.
Here's a guy who has thought about every aspect of grandparenting, cosmic and pragmatic, and covers subjects ranging from favoritism and spending to L.G.B.T. families and visitation laws.
" The government of Chiang, he wrote, was riddled with "greed, corruption, favoritism, more taxes, a ruined currency, terrible waste of life, callous disregard of all the rights of man.
Again, it offered neutrality where others offered only walled gardens and ecosystem favoritism, and it has now gained substantial market share in the smart TV operating system space, too.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then the chair of the DNC, clashing over what Gabbard perceived as Wasserman Schultz's favoritism of Clinton over Sanders — a leak that Gabbard would later defend.
It would also be a stern rebuke to President Barack Obama for any and all favoritism he and his administration have shown to Clinton before and during this election.
" She said these issues, like the "buy more, sell more" mentality, favoritism, shortages of popular colors and prints, and more left her with a "huge pit in my stomach.
Askerlund said Friday he agreed to a three-year contract and plans to build a professional organization with officers who watch over the community without bias, prejudice or favoritism.
Former President Barack Obama reportedly chose to hold off on having the intelligence community publicly identify Russia as the culprit for months to avoid the appearance of political favoritism.
The appeal, filed by staff representative Carlos Bowles, said a perception of favoritism at the bank risked fuelling euro scepticism among the public and demoralizing personnel at the bank.
The California Republican, and former member of Trump's transition team, has been suspected of showing favoritism toward the president while tasked with leading a nonpartisan investigation into his administration.
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll shrugged off a report Friday that alleged he contributed to fractures within the team in recent years by showing favoritism toward quarterback Russell Wilson.
The correspondents' association has decided seating assignments since 1981, in large part because administrations of both parties did not want even the appearance of favoritism in determining press access.
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said he was concerned about "the appearance of favoritism" given that some of the grant recipients were schools the lawyers in the case had attended.
Pai's favoritism was so blatant, it resulted in a corruption investigation by the nonpartisan FCC Inspector General into whether Sinclair and Pai had coordinated their assault on the rules.
Mr. Schulte accused his bosses of favoritism, complaining that he got put on the "intern desk" while the other employee got a "prestigious desk with a window," prosecutors said.
"You have to be very careful as coming off as fair and making sure everyone is following process and procedure and don't make decisions based on favoritism," said Rothbard.
The attacked led progressives to cry foul at the national party, which grassroots activists had accused of favoritism for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential race.
Police arrested Pelta and two officials from the Education and Sports Ministry in May and charged them with abuse of power, breaching fiduciary duties and favoritism in public tenders.
To avoid any appearance of favoritism, he embraced the metrics of polling and donations in the hope it would create an even playing field with rules accepted by all.
As both parties work to stave off populist revolts and push back at charges of elitism and favoritism, conditions have never been better for long-shot candidates to run.
And while Senate Republicans broadly criticized Trump's Twitter forays into the case, they said further investigation is unwarranted — dismissing Democrats' calls for congressional action over allegations of politically motivated favoritism.
DOT refuted such implications in the piece, though ethics experts note that Chao and McConnell's relationship make such grant allocations — and concerns about if there was favoritism involved — especially murky.
After the crowd started singing at BTS' recent show at Wembley in London, South Korean ARMY complained that BTS had shown favoritism toward foreign fans by allowing them to sing.
Last month, SBM Offshore chief executive Bruno Chabas, and former board member Sietze Hepkema settled "personal favoritism" charges with Brazilian prosecutors for around $60,000 each, with no admission of guilt.
According to National Geographic, a recent study on paw favoritism also found, again, like humans, male cats tend to be left-handed more often than females, who are mostly righties.
The ECB's staff committee has repeatedly raised the issue of a perception of favoritism at the euro zone institution, tasked with watching over banks and controlling inflation in the bloc.
Anonymous peer grading bolsters the accuracy of the scores by reducing favoritism and other such concerns as well as eliminating the need to hire hundreds of graders for each course.
A settlement system for disputes between investors and states was scaled back, now only for expropriation, favoritism for local firms and state-dominated sectors such as oil, power and infrastructure.
In a rare rebellion, foreign companies protested to PDVSA that Trenaco was vastly underqualified, leading to the cancellation of the $4.5 billion deal amid concerns about transparency and political favoritism.
Tomic, 26, accused Hewitt of favoritism in the awarding of wildcards to local players for the year's first Grand Slam, and said he should be replaced as Davis Cup captain.
The Republican-controlled FCC has worked to clear regulatory roadblocks that would have impeded the merger, and Democrats in Congress have repeatedly accused Pai of showing favoritism to the company.
"If bosses are brazen in practicing favoritism, they can seriously hurt team morale and increase turnover — not to mention cause legal trouble by creating a hostile work environment," Taylor says.
Psychologists have been able to produce major features of group effects — favoritism and loyalty to ingroups, along with hostility to outgroups — with great ease, using trivial bases of group identification.
Despite billions in taxpayer subsidies, the United States currently generates less energy from solar and wind, the darlings of government favoritism, than it did from renewables in 1950. Yes. 1950.
In another hint at industry favoritism, earlier this year, the EPA "inadvertently" publicly posted an internal glyphosate assessment on its website that made a case for the safety of glyphosate.
The house-cleaning move means Perez can start from scratch as he remakes a DNC that was rocked by hacks, accusations of favoritism and leadership shakeups during the 2016 campaign.
One of them, French model Clémentine Desseaux, recently told The Cut that she's tired of the favoritism that exists in the industry: "We're not treated the same way," she said.
The contract is stirring suspicions of inside favoritism, prompting the financial oversight board that manages Puerto Rican affairs to consider appointment of a special monitor over the island's power authority.
Under normal circumstances, renewing trademarks in Russia is generally a routine matter, and there is nothing to suggest from the few public records available that Mr. Trump was shown favoritism.
The secretary general is expected to show no favoritism to any particular country, but the office is largely dependent on the funding and good will of the most powerful nations.
Today, how will U.S. companies respond to rising concerns about bullying or favoritism in federal government intervention, and will Trump's L.L. Bean endorsement provide a greater incentive to engage politically?
South Korea: Students angered over accusations of favoritism toward "gold spoon" elite children set off large protests, forcing President Moon Jae-in to apologize and his justice minister to resign.
The chairman of the Czech Football Association (FACR), Miroslav Pelta, resigned earlier this week after police charged him with abuse of power, breaching fiduciary duties and favoritism in public tenders.
Trump's transactional approach to trade — along with his protectionism for chosen manufacturers — suggests a trade policy guided more by favoritism, photo ops and corporate cronyism than the broader national interest.
An FCC spokesman said in a statement that allegations that Pai has shown favoritism toward Sinclair are "absurd," noting that the FCC recently handed the broadcaster a $13.4 million fine.
Sessions did so, he said, because he wanted to avoid even the appearance of any bias or favoritism due to his prominent role as a surrogate for Trump in 2016.
Smiley on Monday acknowledged he'd had consensual sexual relationships with employees, but he denied sending lewd text messages, groping anyone or giving favoritism to employees he had a relationship with.
Nepotism, or favoritism to one's family, one's tribe, one's ethnic group for privilege, is still perceived as part of the ills that bestowed upon Africa decades of war and deprivation.
A report by the city's Department of Investigation laid out troubling evidence of "a culture of misconduct, employee mistreatment and favoritism" by two former managers of the Throggs Neck Houses.
Though the panel found no evidence of abuses of power, the Police Department's lack of standards and guidelines in its disciplinary proceedings made the process susceptible to favoritism or bias.
If Ms. Lynch issued the order and Mr. Comey obeyed, she risked the same fate that Mr. Comey feared: accusations of political interference and favoritism by a Democratic attorney general.
He lost presidential immunity from legal prosecution a month after he left office and has since faced a spate of investigations into alleged corruption, fraud, favoritism and campaign-funding irregularities.
Management was gun-shy because of the Trending Topics fiasco; taking action against partisan disinformation—or even identifying it as such—might have been seen as another act of political favoritism.
Far too often, the right kind is one that fosters the fortunes of people just like us in group favoritism, and the worst kinds are the ones that do the opposite.
Despite being the world's second-biggest economy and biggest country by population, China has been notoriously difficult to crack, largely because of the government's censorship policies and favoritism towards domestic providers.
A relationship with a boss can put pressure on the subordinate to consent, Coll said, as well as creating an "appearance of impropriety or favoritism" that affects others in the workplace.
To underscore that point, Goldman's expert witnesses found three dozen news stories, all predating the bombshells about government investigations, in which Goldman's alleged favoritism against its broad client base was disclosed.
Of course, no one is expecting President Obama not to show as much favoritism as possible to a fellow Democrat he has already endorsed to succeed him in the Oval Office.
A sharp slowdown could also add to the headaches of a premier grappling with domestic issues such as suspected favoritism, declining support, and opposition pressure for his finance minister to resign.
In a statement, a Lyft spokesperson took a veiled swipe at Uber for even bothering to compete with Didi in China, given the favoritism shown to homegrown businesses by Chinese regulators.
Through these acts of favoritism, which include tax incentives, states empower large corporations and that results in unfair playing fields, limited or restricted competition, higher costs and raw deals for taxpayers.
As a result, without even being aware of their favoritism, male managers often simply don't invite women to join teams, work on high-visibility projects, or participate in informal social activities.
It is easy to forget that initially this trade war was about making China's markets fairer for US businesses — ending favoritism for domestic companies, forced technology transfers, and intellectual-property theft.
Multiple Republican lawmakers said Wednesday they believe the email case was tainted by political favoritism and special treatment for the 2016 Democratic nominee and planned to press Wray about their concerns.
Any signs of favoritism toward Kolomoisky or his interests could swiftly undercut the image of Zelensky as a reformer and, perhaps more critical, his ability to secure Western support for Ukraine.
"The biggest thing I'd love is for this to be a home game as far as the crowd is concerned, favoritism if you would," Scott said in a Golf Australia podcast.
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) internal watchdog cleared the agency's Republican chairman, Ajit Pai, of showing any favoritism toward Sinclair Broadcast Group in the review of its now-abandoned merger plans.
He or she is expected to show no favoritism to any particular country, but the office is largely dependent on the funding and the good will of the most powerful nations.
Trainer: Bob Baffert Jockey: Joel Rosario Odds: 9-2 Drape: The 2-year-old champion will vie for favoritism after two narrow losses in the Santa Anita Derby and the Rebel.
On Friday, September 19th, the S.E.C. announced a temporary ban on short selling, infuriating hedge-fund managers, who saw it as political favoritism that interrupted the natural course of the markets.
The liberal bent of the donations is likely to fuel suspicions on the right about Silicon Valley, which has long faced charges of showing favoritism to Democratic officials and their causes.
Government favoritism is not just unfair, it distorts the free market, holds back the economy and incentivizes businesses to squander resources on rent-seeking that could be used to create value.
"You acted with favoritism when you granted authorizations to set up car assemblies," the judge told Ouyahia, who denied the charge, saying all permits were granted in accordance with the law.
An attorney for Greaves says the standards used by Twitter to determine its suspensions and verifications of users is colored by its favoritism toward groups that share the social network&aposs views.
His supporters have flooded the airwaves to complain about the superdelegates, while Sanders announced he would support Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's primary opponent given her alleged favoritism toward Clinton.
Considering Pai chairs an organization that is in charge of regulating cable, radio, satellite, TV, and the internet, showing favoritism toward any technology company is neither a good or an ethical look.
Arguably the two most successful groups of predators on planet Earth, the decision to exclusive two-legged mammals and their collared companions can best be described as an act of blatant favoritism.
A spokesman for Pai said on Thursday the "accusation that he has shown favoritism toward the company is absurd," citing the FCC's $13 million proposed fine of Sinclair over undisclosed paid programming.
Workplace relationships could prompt concerns over individual productivity and accusations of favoritism to maintaining a professional and comfortable environment and avoiding possible disruption to that — especially in the event of a breakup.
While those seeking to regulate consumer broadband service like a utility claimed a noble intent — to nip hypothetical favoritism of web traffic in the bud — it was hardly a pro-consumer move.
All voters had to do was look at his resume to know exactly what they were getting: more carve outs for insider interests, more personal politics and favoritism, and more elitist interference.
Until 2015, it was the county's policy to set starting employees' pay based on their past salaries, in part to avoid favoritism and help attract high-quality candidates, according to court papers.
Foxx faced intense criticism after her office suddenly decided in March 2019 to drop all 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct against Smollett, leading to accusations of political favoritism on her part.
But I expected more from the surprise reemergence of a personal favorite, even if that favoritism is increasingly connected to a single game from 33, which feels like a million years ago.
The collapse of trade negotiations in early May occurred mainly because Chinese negotiators, in essence, withdrew previous offers to amend many of the country's laws to reduce favoritism toward its homegrown businesses.
The D.N.C. recently revised its debate-qualification standard to make it possible for someone like Mr. Bloomberg, who does not accept political donations, to participate, drawing accusations of favoritism from other campaigns.
She also had another ambition in this production: To illuminate the idea of colorism, in which skin tone — whether lighter or darker — can lead to favoritism and discrimination within an ethnic group.
The divisiveness that would flow from such government-sponsored religious favoritism is apparent, described in a lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation hours after the president issued the executive order.
In a pending lawsuit filed last year in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, Mr. Stoll argued that "favoritism and preferential treatment" has long existed between the police and Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish communities.
" Arcuri told an interviewer on Monday: "Boris never ever gave me favoritism, never once did I ask him for a favor, never once did he write a letter of recommendation for me.
A senior House Democrat has asked the Transportation Department's internal watchdog to investigate whether Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao showed undue favoritism to Kentucky constituents of her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
It is part of a broad investigation by a federal prosecutor who is examining whether illicit commissions and bribes resulted in apparent favoritism by two pension funds that invested in the project.
The KSU made no mention of issues such as infighting or favoritism when Jeon resigned in 2014 and has steadfastly denied he had been biased towards athletes of certain universities or backgrounds.
The original NAFTA settlement system for disputes between investors and states was scaled back, now only for expropriation, favoritism for local firms and state-dominated sectors such as oil, power and infrastructure.
The emails, released by activist group WikiLeaks at the weekend, appeared to show favoritism within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for Hillary Clinton and prompted the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Pai accused the privacy rules' supporters of "corporate favoritism" for subjecting ISPs to different rules than "edge providers," which means websites and apps like Facebook that provide online content but not internet service.
Their suspicions of Democratic Party favoritism confirmed by stolen emails published by WikiLeaks, they booed chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at her own state's delegation meeting and forced her to surrender the convention gavel.
Ms. Brewer, a Democrat, said she had created recruiting programs in public housing and training programs for new members, as well as a screening system to find worthy candidates and minimize political favoritism.
That's something even Pai's allied Commissioner Mike O'Rielly recently admitted in a otherwise misleading blog post, in which the Commissioner tried to claim that the FCC's blatant Sinclair favoritism was just quirky happenstance.
The harms from this arbitrary favoritism have fallen most heavily on the poor and on minority entrepreneurs, who find themselves locked out of the market and denied the chance to pursue their dreams.
At the risk of being banal, it has to be said that the DNC might have had their thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton, but that is not collusion—it is favoritism.
But given the current FCC's favoritism toward larger providers (as the net neutrality repeal and other efforts make abundantly clear), smaller ISPs are wise to be worried about what the future might hold.
Ellen Weber Libby, a clinical psychologist and author of "The Favorite Child," said some families have a shifting favoritism, where different children hold the advantage from day to day or week to week.
Mr. Ojeda said he believed the attack was politically motivated because he had been "questioning leaders" and publicly calling out entrenched nepotism that he said had resulted in favoritism in jobs and salaries.
It has played a key role in dramatically reducing the costs of solar power, among other technologies, but some Republicans feel it is wasteful and represents favoritism for certain energy sources over others.
Kevin Carwile, who has run the death penalty unit since 2010, was reportedly demoted for fostering a culture of "favoritism and sexism," according to internal documents and court records gathered by the Times.
Mr. McLaren said that he agreed to help found the Sport Dispute Resolution Center, an arbitration and mediation organization, because he was tired of seeing sports administrators make team decisions based on favoritism.
In fact, prosecutors seem to treat members of the president's party more harshly in resolving cases, perhaps to avoid the appearance of favoritism in plea deals that typically involve recommendations for sentence reductions.
Ms. Ruden adds: Many of the better-off young people at Harvard appeared to require intense favoritism to reassure them, perhaps because of the less-moneyed achievement and potential that loomed all around.
The list — administered by the British company William Reed Business Media, which uses more than 443,244 judges around the world — has come under frequent criticism that it is riddled with favoritism and sexism.
" That favoritism is, according to Gergen, "compromising the Department of Justice in a way we have not seen I don't think since Watergate and even then I thought it was more in-bounds.
The DNC's superdelegate rules have changed dramatically since 2016, in large part because of the sharp criticism levied by Sanders and his allies about the clear favoritism many superdelegates showed toward Hillary Clinton.
For example, he is still telling his friends who attend high-dollar committee fund-raisers that they do not need to pay, the sort of favoritism that can create endless headaches for staff.
But this would have been an excellent opportunity to address the millions of fake comments, the allegations from Congress that the Commission has mismanaged its cybersecurity, the accusations of industry favoritism, and other concerns.
The rumor mill is still spinning over how exactly WikiLeaks obtained tens of thousands of emails from the Democratic National Convention that reveal blatant favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders within the party.
But support in recent polls has fallen below 30 percent, with the opposition fanning suspicions of Abe's favoritism to a friend and voters believing that he and his aides have grown arrogant in office.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank staff back Mario Draghi's aggressive stimulus policy but resent the perception that he relied on a "kitchen cabinet" and allowed favoritism at the institution, a survey showed on Wednesday.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank staff back Mario Draghi's aggressive stimulus policy but resent the perception that he relied on a "kitchen cabinet" and allowed favoritism at the institution, a survey showed on Wednesday.
For example, Twitter's early suggested users list was the source of much debate around the issue of possible favoritism that might give some users an advantage over others in terms of growing their followers.
We saw this play out very clearly on CNBC today after Republican nominee Donald Trump accused Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen of political bias and favoritism during his extended phone interview on Squawk Box.
Their efforts also ran up against a moderate Republican Senate and a House controlled by Democrats, which worked doggedly to expose industry favoritism at EPA and keep accusations about mismanagement in the public eye.
Dr. Salmon pointed out that the effects of parental favoritism may be much sharper in families where there isn't enough to go around in the first place, so the inequities may be particularly harsh.
The central bank distributes funds including public salaries across the country, but factions in the east say they have received less than their fair share, accusing the Tripoli central bank of favoritism and corruption.
The lawsuit cited "a culture of in-group favoritism under which white decision makers favor people with similar backgrounds" and went on to list ways in which the plaintiffs say bias has been manifest.
Others fear just the appearance of a sexual or romantic liaison — which could provoke wifely jealousy, concerns about sexual favoritism, or reputational harm to the male boss who might wrongfully be labeled a creep.
Emboldened by damning emails showing favoritism toward Clinton, Sanders supporters have organized protests outside the convention, including a sit-in that forced reporters to remain inside a media pavilion at the Wells Fargo Center.
Critics see a degree of political favoritism behind the design of the program, given the influx of funds to key states that Trump hopes could catapult him to a second term in the White House.
Geographical breakdown of the first 15 Skype questions There's no apparent geographical favoritism, either, as five questions have come from states Hillary Clinton won in 2016 and seven questions have come from states Trump won.
That may reflect the very obvious favoritism that defines the Trump family's relationships, but it also suggests that Trump doesn't know what to say about the story that has defined and profoundly damaged his presidency.
The objective of a national tax-revenue system should be to fund the legitimate functions of government, and do so in a manner fair to the national self-interest, devoid of governmental favoritism or bias.
"There are a lot of very smart lawyers turning that question over in their minds today," Mr. Eisen said, adding that a business competitor injured by foreign favoritism toward a Trump company might have standing.
Because Nigeria's chief judge has a key say in resolving electoral disputes, Onnoghen's suspension has led opponents of Buhari to accuse him of interfering in the electoral process and of showing regional and religious favoritism.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A South Sudanese general has resigned, citing abuses by the security forces against civilians and what he called increasing ethnic favoritism in the military, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Saturday.
At his post-match media conference, Tomic called for Hewitt to be replaced as Davis Cup captain and accused him of favoritism in the awarding of wildcards to the Australian men's players in the draw.
He defeated Charles J. Hynes, an incumbent of more than 20 years who had been weakened by accusations of favoritism toward political supporters in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community, and of allegations of campaign-finance improprieties.
" So did Trump's reelection campaign, which complained in a letter Monday from Chief Operating Officer Michael Glassner that Twitter was showing political favoritism by flagging a video that is "100% real, 100% authentic, 100% unedited.
Others are stymied by persistent favoritism toward the coal industry by local officials and a dearth of transmission lines to carry electricity from rural areas in the north and west to China's fastest-growing cities.
They also have fueled resentment among many Bolivians of mixed or European descent, as well as the country's smaller Indigenous groups, who accused Mr. Morales of ethnic favoritism and exploiting racial differences for political gain.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, its ratings slipping over suspicions of favoritism, has suffered a fresh embarrassment when his defense minister made politically sensitive remarks just days ahead of a key local election.
It's going to have to grapple with the optics of favoritism, which might frustrate other potential and existing partners as it would encourage shoppers to gravitate toward faster-operating grocery providers for the shortest delivery time.
Despite Strzok's extremely inappropriate texting — it's wildly improper for someone in his position to express animus or favoritism toward a particular candidate — the inspector general found no evidence that Strzok acted on his text to Page.
Addressing workplace romance can be complicated, but many companies remove any gray areas by forbidding managers, especially C-suite executives, from having relationships with subordinates given the potential for favoritism or lawsuits if the relationship sours.
White House political appointees and members of Congress show favoritism regularly, from how quickly they return campaign contributors' telephone calls to which meeting requests they honor to who gets what they want in the policy arena.
Trofimova rejected allegations that ACRA enjoyed state favoritism, saying competition should exist for quality ratings and this should not take the form of what is called a "rating shopping", when competitors are fighting for a client.
Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont recall Mr. Sanders's complaints that the Democratic machinery was rigged against him, and wince at the possibility that claims of favoritism or disputes over viability could again prove divisive.
"A system that relies for investigation solely upon judges themselves risks a kind of undue 'guild favoritism' through inappropriate sympathy with the judge's point of view or de-emphasis of the misconduct problem," the committee wrote.
Google rejects the charges of favoritism and says many of the visits either took place with other tech industry officials or were for innocuous projects like photographing the White House art collection for Google's Art Project.
The Trump administration also seems to have had little concern about showing favoritism in the rivalry between the prince and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who until Wednesday had been next in line to the Saudi throne.
On Sunday, Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation effective at the end of the convention as chair of the Democratic National Committee, following a leak of emails that showed apparent DNC favoritism toward Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.
The central bank distributes funds including public salaries across the country, but factions in the east say they have received less than their fair share, accusing the Tripoli central bank of favoritism and corruption - charges it denies.
Officials familiar with the views and policy of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's Office, which will give the in-person briefings, say it will do its utmost to avoid any suggestions of political favoritism or bias.
Critics say of Amazon's move into government contracts raises several red flags, including favoritism by officials on the other side of the bargaining table who create requirements that only Amazon can meet or otherwise skew the process.
The appeal alleges that the "perception of favoritism" at the powerful institution, which is in charge of supervising banks and controlling monetary policy in the euro zone, risked demoralizing staff and fuelling euro-scepticism among the public.
Caracas is still fueled by a steady supply, which critics of the embattled President Nicolas Maduro describe as politically motivated favoritism: Keeping the capital well supplied helps prevent further anti-government protests, after months of violent unrest.
In addition to the outright statements of loathing of candidate Donald Trump and blind admiration for candidate Clinton, the FBI and DOJ approached all things Clinton with kid gloves — a double standard explained solely by political favoritism.
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Brazil may be hot favorites to beat Mexico and advance to the World Cup quarter-finals but midfielder Casemiro pointed to the already departed Germans as proof that, in football, favoritism counts for nothing.
The departures came more than a week after WikiLeaks posted almost 20,000 of the committee's emails, a number of which revealed officials showing favoritism toward Hillary Clinton in her primary campaign against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
On top of that, the oil industry benefited for decades from government favoritism, including big tax breaks in the United States and big consumer subsidies in other countries, that helped lock in a global dependency on oil.
Swaka himself had switched sides in February, when he quit the army with a pledge to overthrow the government, citing abuses by the security forces against civilians and what he called increasing ethnic favoritism in the military.
The emails, released by activist group WikiLeaks at the weekend, appeared to show favoritism within the DNC for Clinton over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran a close race for the nomination for the Nov.
Given the FCC's actions involving the Sinclair/Tribune merger, it is unfortunate that House Democrats are still trying to beat this dead horse, especially after their prior accusations of favoritism towards Sinclair were shown to be false.
At best, Rosspirtprom would create another clunky bureaucracy at a time when Putin had promised to pursue the opposite course; at worst, Illarionov feared, it would be an opaque company that would allow for favoritism and corruption.
The announcement came amid scrutiny regarding the funding of its construction; the federal prosecutor named both the hotel and Trump Towers Rio in a criminal investigation into alleged favoritism from public pension funds in exchange for bribes.
The accord came 3-1/2 years after former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said his own multi-year probe into ticket sales had uncovered hoarding, favoritism and other practices that drove ticket prices far above face value.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A staff representative has taken the European Central Bank to court over the hiring of President Mario Draghi's closest adviser, escalating a conflict over alleged favoritism at the top of the euro zone's mightiest institution.
One or two picks born of favoritism aren't too corrosive to government, but when the only variable deciding whether you have a job is your willingness to tell the president what he wants to hear, that's dangerous.
If Menendez and his allies sincerely wish to repeal subsidies in the energy sector, they should redirect their sights at renewable energy companies that have been the biggest beneficiaries of political favoritism with tax preferences by far.
In Chicago, the next mayor is usually pre-ordained by the so-called "Chicago machine" — a Democratic party-run system of favoritism and financial ties that make most elections in the city all but a foregone conclusion.
On Friday, Representative Peter DeFazio, the Oregon Democrat who heads the House Transportation Committee, asked the Transportation Department's in-house watchdog to look into whether Ms. Chao has been showing inappropriate favoritism to her husband's Kentucky constituents.
The election loss was a stinging rebuke to Abe's administration, battered by suspicions of scandal over favoritism for a friend's business and by the perception among many voters that he and his close aides have grown arrogant.
"It is necessary to verify if the favoritism shown by the pension funds to LSH and the Trump Organization was due to the payment of illicit commissions and bribes," Mr. Lopes said in documents filed in October.
Finally, Trump holds somewhat of an all-time shitposting record, dominates Facebook political ad spending, and is the number one recipient of social media company favoritism, because as president he can say whatever he wants with total impunity.
The speech at several points seemed to be responding to growing international denunciation of BRI's lack of transparency, its inattention to corruption, its overwhelming favoritism toward Chinese entities, and its reputation as a "debt trap" for developing countries.
Let's get this out of the way first: I went to middle school and high school with Diana Oh, the visionary behind {my lingerie play}, but the show's presence on this list has nothing to do with favoritism.
An independent "fairness monitor" - described as an external, third-party consultant hired by the government to monitor the process - said that "decisions were made objectively and free from personal favoritism or improper influence," according to the government statement.
But the infighting and favoritism endemic to user moderation on sites like Reddit and Wikipedia would be all the more fraught on YouTube because unlike those volunteer sites, many of YouTube's creators make their living on the site.
" The money may get passed on, Mr. Grubman said, "but it travels with all the family dynamics, the resentments, the jealousies, the favoritism, the avoidance of conflicts, and that's the real inheritance that siblings have to deal with.
The DNC announcement on Thursday came as part of a series of reforms to the DNC's presidential primary debate process, a move intended to evade the same accusations of favoritism and unfairness that marred the 22019 nominating contests.
Clinton facing accusations of favoritism toward Clinton Foundation donors during her time as secretary of state, former President Bill Clinton told foundation employees on Thursday that the organization would no longer accept foreign or corporate donations should Mrs.
Researchers have found that children as young as 19 months seem to understand the concept of fairness, and appear surprised by scenes of blatant favoritism – such as when one puppet is given toys and another puppet goes without.
Rather than declare victory and end urban renewal, the legislature has instead allowed the definition of "slum and blight" to be creatively expanded, along with the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) as a form of corporate favoritism.
" DNC Chair Tom Perez "is promising the party will curtail superdelegates' role at the 2020 presidential nominating convention, but he's been unable to broker a shift he says is needed to avoid charges of favoritism that dogged Clinton.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Four years after the Korea Skating Union (KSU) was supposed to have cleaned up its act, allegations of favoritism and athlete mistreatment have again roiled South Korean sport just weeks ahead of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Ellis had been criticized for his handling of the trial by former prosecutors, who said his tendency to harangue the prosecution into speeding up the trial appeared to be tip-toeing perilously close to favoritism toward the defense.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party suffered an historic defeat in an election in the Japanese capital on Sunday, signaling trouble ahead for the premier, who has suffered from slumping support because of a favoritism scandal.
It creates a whole mess of potential conflicts of interest when it comes to content favoritism, with opponents of the deal drawing concern around AT&T's ability to promote its own shows and movies over those of other companies.
Federico Sturzenegger, who has been president of Argentina's central bank since President Mauricio Macri took office in December, has been accused by prosecutor Jorge Di Lello of dereliction of duty, favoritism and abuse of authority, according to the report.
All three are veterans of decades of conflict in Afghanistan and bitter former rivals but for the moment they have set aside their rivalry to band together against what they see as Ghani's favoritism for his own Pashtun group.
KABUL (Reuters) - A leaked memo from an staff member in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's office this week has set off a storm of criticism and accusations that the note lays bare systematic favoritism to Ghani's own Pashtun ethnic group.
"We believe trade unions could provide that separate body that could represent the worker in [sexual harassment cases], rather than relying on in-house investigations that can tend to be corrupted by favoritism [and] fear of firings," Didžgalvytė said.
Biden laid out his own plan, said government should "stop at nothing" to provide effective testing and warned against "favoritism" — presumably a reference to Trump's decision to exempt the United Kingdom from new travel restrictions affecting most of Europe.
It seems reasonable to have a conversation with human resources that focuses on specific problems: If a manager's favoritism for a particular employee is really lowering morale or causing other trouble, that's a legitimate issue, whatever the underlying reason.
"I'm pleased that the Office of Inspector General has concluded that there was 'no evidence, nor even the suggestion, of impropriety, unscrupulous behavior, favoritism toward Sinclair, or lack of impartiality related to the proposed Sinclair-Tribune merger,'" Pai said.
Travelling aboard a Nissan jeep refitted to look like a chariot, he sometimes gave several speeches a day, inflaming crowds about what he saw as the government's favoritism toward Muslims; sectarian riots followed in his wake, leaving hundreds dead.
If one team was consistently trying to break a particular rule, it was up to the inspection officials to remember — a big fuzzy hole in an otherwise precise process, and one that often led to cries of favoritism or foul play.
Washington (CNN)A company with ties to President Donald Trump's brother was awarded a $33 million government contract earlier this year, and a rival bidder filed a complaint alleging potential favoritism in the bidding process, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
One of the many side effects of #MeToo has been to provide a reminder that Hollywood has never been a meritocracy, that it operates on favors and favoritism, lust and spite, just as much as it does ability and bankability.
YouTube has millions of creators on the platform who are fighting to get their videos seen; if traditional news outlets are shown favoritism, it's a cultural shift that will see immense backlash from a large portion of the creator community.
At the meeting, Sinha claimed there was favoritism within the Third Gender Board of West Bengal, and that Dr. Bandopadhyay had created a clear distinction in the community between those she considered to be elite and those she did not.
"I think the relationship between the Supreme Court cases and the hotel is too attenuated to create a problem for Justice Gorsuch -- he's not showing any favoritism from the President or benefiting from the relationship in any meaningful way," Lubet said.
After a series of controversial decisions marred the 1988 competition in Seoul, AIBA replaced its old scoring, which relied more on subjective elements, with a method that awarded one point for each hit, to diminish the possibility for favoritism and corruption.
"My biggest reservations are the role of the Chinese central government, potential state intervention and favoritism toward Chinese companies," said John Driscoll, director of JTD Energy Services in Singapore and a former oil trader whose career spans nearly 40 years.
With Davos types like Ms. Merkel, you know that whatever rhetoric they employ in public, there are people working behind the scenes who respect international law and global treaties, who understand that blatant national favoritism will blow the system up.
Iyengar and Krupenkin argue that the impact of feelings toward the out-party on both vote choice and the decision to participate has increased since 2000; today it is out-group animus rather than in-group favoritism that drives political behavior.
That was the case in 1986, for instance, when, as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, I directed the staff to look into allegations of favoritism by the White House in the Small Business Set-Aside Program.
Attraction to Hank might be considered odd, largely in part (outside of the murdering) because of his stereotypically "evil" look—the tattoos, and hairlessness, specifically, but also his slightly tweaked fashion choices, a favoritism towards slides and loafers in particular.
If House delegations become more sharply divided by state, such geographic favoritism could become more prevalent because the majority party would have less incentive to consider the interests of states where they have little or no membership at political risk.
"It took a lot of effort, but President Rouhani has convinced the top commanders that if systematic corruption and favoritism are not taken seriously, the pillars of the regime will be undermined," said Saeed Laylaz, an economist close to the government.
Another is the extent to which Mr. Trump's foreign policy has been guided by favoritism toward the leaders of other countries (several of them autocrats) where his private company has been able to do business, putting up hotels and such.
About 10,000 Citi Bikes are deployed from docking stations concentrated in Manhattan and Brooklyn, with some stations in Queens and none in the Bronx and Staten Island, leading to charges of inequity and favoritism by some local officials and residents.
But his tenure ended in crippling allegations of professional misconduct and political favoritism that helped lead to his defeat by Mr. Thompson, who, in October, died of cancer at age 50 after serving three years of his four-year term.
If the Supreme Court is to fulfill its duty to the American people as defined in the Constitution, there ought to be little room for blatant conservatism or liberalism or any intense demonstration by the nominee of political or policy favoritism.
Employees of the unit, which helps the attorney general decide when to seek the death penalty, filed at least 12 complaints of favoritism and sexism to Justice Department officials, the inspector general and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, The Times reported.
By the mid-1970s, critic Thomas Hess acknowledged the critical favoritism shown to postwar male artists when he singled out the Ninth Street women as "sparkling Amazons," a jarring choice of words that perpetuates the chauvinism it aims to debunk.
All presidents, including Ms. Park, have entered office vowing to end favoritism and collusion with the chaebol, but they all later backtracked, arguing that the corporate titans were too important to the national economy to be arrested or given long sentences.
That potential favoritism can come in varied forms, including in Amazon search results, with prime placement on competitor brands' product pages, and even right at checkout when an Amazon customer is ready to buy an item from a non-Amazon brand.
However, the investigation revealed troubling evidence of "a culture of misconduct, employee mistreatment and favoritism" led by two former managers of the Throggs Neck Houses, a 29-building complex that is home to more than 2,500 low-income New Yorkers.
He described many displays of favoritism from B&H's management based primarily on race, claiming that Hispanic workers receive minimum wage while Jews holding similar positions earn between $18 to $20 an hour — as one coworker reported after comparing pay stubs.
Widely seen as inflaming tensions and as a demonstration of the administration's favoritism toward Israel in its long conflict with the Palestinians, the move drew condemnation at the time from many corners, including Al Qaeda and other extremist militant organizations.
The star also revealed a tidbit about dressing for a game when you're a sports reporter: it's better to wear black and gray (which we've seen her in plenty this season) than wear color so you never show favoritism towards one team.
Nader Nour El-Din, a former adviser to the ministry of supplies, said Hanafi's policies had allowed corruption to flourish, prices on staple commodities to jump to "unprecedented levels," and public sector companies to be "destroyed" amid favoritism for private sector businesses.
Favoritism for our compatriots doesn't allow us to benefit them at the expense of exploiting poorer societies who are deprived of skilled workers that they badly need — doctors and nurses to staff their health systems, engineers and computer programmers to develop their industries.
"I think the relationship between between the Supreme Court cases and the hotel is too attenuated to create a problem for Justice Gorsuch -- he's not showing any favoritism from the president or benefiting from the relationship in any meaningful way," Lubet said.
She needs to openly disavow the behavior of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the departing chairwoman of the D.N.C., promise that Ms. Wasserman Schultz will have no role in a Clinton administration, and apologize for the blatant favoritism that the committee showed to her campaign.
Mr. BamBrogan and his fellow plaintiffs — Knut Sauer, formerly Hyperloop One's vice president for business development; David Pendergast, former assistant general counsel; and William Mulholland, former vice president for finance — accuse Mr. Pishevar and Mr. Lonsdale of unfair favoritism toward relatives and associates.
"When 'family' becomes the decisive criterion for what we consider right and good, we end up justifying and even 'consecrating' practices that lead to the culture of privilege and exclusion: favoritism, patronage and - as a consequence - corruption," the pontiff said in his homily.
Sandow, a media company and consultancy, owns the design magazines Interior Design, Luxe Interiors + Design, and Galerie, and the materials research library, Material Connexion, prompting questions from some in the design industry about favoritism and privatization of the previously city-run event.
Planned Parenthood and states governed by Democrats filed lawsuits this month challenging them, and advocacy groups called for investigations into claims of favoritism toward faith-based organizations and warned that the shift could deprive thousands of at-risk women of critical health care.
"In that subjectivity a whole host of sins can be camouflaged, and you risk creating a system rife with favoritism and corruption," said James Cahill, president of the New York State Building & Construction Trades Council, which represents more than 2200,2000 unionized construction workers.
The case that took down President Park — leading to the first such impeachment in South Korean history — was emblematic of such favoritism, and was set off when students at Ewha Woman's University in Seoul began organizing rallies against her government in 2016.
These are people voting based on DVDs that are mailed to them, with their decision of which DVDs to actually watch based heavily on the specially tailored PR campaigns directed at them, as well as their favoritism for their buddies in the industry.
Short track powerhouse South Korea has won 21 of the 48 gold medals awarded in the sport since it joined the Olympic program in 1992 but stories of destructive rivalries, physical abuse and favoritism have long cast a shadow over the KSU.
The Koch network and groups like the Club for Growth, which for years have targeted what they call "crony capitalism" in Washington, have opposed the border tax as an unnecessary tax increase and a form of favoritism that would hurt the economy.
Given that Google is a mammoth company setting precedent in the realms of data privacy and transparency, these petty hecklings over supposed partisan favoritism represent a deep abdication of the work that public servitude is supposed to embody, namely consumer protection and anti-monopoly legislation.
The ex-head of Sarkozy's private office, Emmanuelle Mignon, is already under investigation for alleged favoritism, abuse of public funds and destruction of public archives in connection with the polls and communication services ordered from his then-political advisers, Patrick Buisson and Pierre Giacometti.
The lawsuits by Ticket Galaxy and TicketNetwork Inc came 2-1/2 years after Underwood's predecessor Eric Schneiderman said his multiyear probe into the industry had uncovered hoarding, inflated surcharges and favoritism to insiders that made it difficult for ordinary people to buy affordable seats.
"This appeal is triggered by the desire to stand against the malfunctioning affecting ECB's appointment process, resulting into widespread perception of favoritism and complaints of lack of transparency and unsound rules," appellant Carlos Bowles said in his appeal, filed in March and seen by Reuters.
"When governments control companies, economic assets (companies, lenders and so on) over time are used to further political interests – leading to inefficient companies and markets, enormous favoritism and corruption," Dimon wrote in the letter, which was released along with the bank's 2018 annual report.
The Mint daily reported here that Kochhar was asked to go on indefinite leave until a probe into allegations of favoritism in loan distribution is concluded, and that the decision was taken on the advice of a majority of the bank's seven independent directors.
But he said Mr. Kudlow and Mr. Moore in their public comments "left out a lot of details about how Trump's plan could get from the $10 trillion to the $3.8 trillion" — details that conflict with Mr. Trump's professed favoritism toward the middle class.
Mr. Trump's friendly come-on to the Russians came the morning after American intelligence agencies told the White House they had "high confidence" that Russian intelligence was behind the hacked D.N.C. computers, leading to the release of nearly 20,000 emails that showed favoritism toward Mrs.
Indeed, many who recall the tax-incentive programs that came before Start-Up and Excelsior, including the Empire Zones program created in the late 1980s, said the latest generation of subsidies has replicated some of the old issues, including favoritism and a lack of accountability.
"The more partisanship becomes a social identity — and I think this is as true today as it's been in modern American politics — the more we should expect people to engage in in-group favoritism and out-group discrimination," political scientist Danny Hayes told Klein.
India's purchasing of the Russian weapons system effectively forces the Trump administration to choose between punishing Delhi -- and destroy the fledgling defense relationship -- or granting the country an exemption, weakening the effect of the sanctions and opening up the US to accusations of favoritism.
A day earlier, an appeals court had put Mr. Ray's execution on hold because judges wanted more time to assess whether a policy at Holman Correctional Facility, where Mr. Ray was set to be executed, violated the Constitution's prohibition against religious favoritism by the government.
"This committee treats with the utmost seriousness any implication that the Department showed favoritism to a major defense contractor or that efforts have been made to silence members of Congress," McCain told Carter at a hearing on the U.S. Defense Department's fiscal 2017 budget request.
The "new" system assigns numeric base values to jumps, spins, and other technical elements in a skater's program, in an attempt to standardize the potential scores for those elements and reduce the possibility of corruption (though, as BuzzFeed points out, favoritism and inflated scores still exist).
The suspicion of scandal over favoritism for a friend's business and missteps by cabinet ministers have taken a toll on Abe, who until recently was favored to win a third three-year term as party leader, and hence, premier when his current term expires in September 2018.
"The Clintons, as they approach the presidency, if they are successful, will have to work with their attorneys to make certain that rules of the road are drawn up to give confidence to them and the American public that there will not be favoritism," Lugar said.
For Thomas Lloyd, 703, and his brother Stacy B. Lloyd IV, 42, it has been a journey that began with long-ago favoritism by their grandmother Rachel Mellon of Upperville, Va., (known as Bunny) who was married to Paul Mellon, the art patron and philanthropist. Mrs.
In Corruption in America, Zephyr Teachout quotes Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in the infamous Citizens United decision—"Favoritism and influence are not ... avoidable in representative politics"; "Democracy is premised on responsiveness"—which consecrated the equation and, along with it, a dystopian vision of the democratic process.
Foxx admits fault in her handling of Smollett case Foxx's progressive policies had already put her in the crosshairs when her office suddenly decided in March 2019 to drop all 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct against Smollett, leading to accusations of political favoritism on her part.
The revelations have convulsed a country that only two and a half years ago saw the ouster of Mr. Moon's predecessor and conservative enemy, Park Geun-hye, in a scandal that erupted over academic favoritism shown to the daughter of a close friend of Ms. Park.
Net neutrality advocates, naturally, are up in arms over this kind of favoritism, but the current administration's attitude toward it boils down to a shruggie — so don't be too surprised when Comcast starts offering its own streaming TV bundle with a discount for its inevitable wireless service.
Zero-rating is the practice of providing a service that is free and exempted from data caps and is criticized by net neutrality advocates because it allows companies to offer favoritism to their own products to encourage consumers to use them, often to the detriment of competing products.
To check for political favoritism among the 10,000 human evaluators at Google who rank sources on "expertise" and "trustworthiness," the Economist "wrote a program to obtain Google results for any keyword" and then ran it on a browser with no history in a "politically centrist" part of Kansas.
You're pitting us against one another: Aside from harsh social media hashtags associated with this event such as #WhosLeaving and #ShareYourFave, Crayola is also encouraging crayon lovers everywhere to fight for their most beloved colors to stick around, promoting favoritism and resulting in a bunch of sad crayon posts.
CARACAS/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Venezuela's state oil company, PDVSA, has relaunched a large tender for the drilling of 600 oil wells in the world's largest crude reserves, sources with knowledge of the tender said this week, after a similar project collapsed last year amid concerns about transparency and political favoritism.
Trump has repeatedly accused Democratic nominee and former secretary of State of providing access and political favors to donors of the Clinton Foundation, but the video released Tuesday accuses the "pay-to-play expert" of buying favoritism with a contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) in 2013.
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Beyond questions of legality and favoritism, agencies should consider the impact of withholding information from other agencies in terms of adversely affecting the cooperation they receive from other agencies in the future — cooperation that is important to fair and proper tax administration and broader enforcement of other laws.
General Khan had risen to power with generous support from NATO military contracts and political backing from the former president, Hamid Karzai, and although he kept the Taliban at bay, he was also accused of tribal favoritism and of using force against political rivals, which ultimately kept Oruzgan fragile.
"If the investigation finds that Pai or any other FCC staff did indeed let their own bias and favoritism shape decisions related to the deal, they must not be permitted to vote on this matter and they should be subject to other appropriate ethics-review processes," González added.
Peggy Drexler, a research psychologist and the author of "Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family," said that while favoritism may hurt in ways unique to nonbiological moms in same-sex relationships, it has nothing to do with biology and it actually signals developmental progress.
Their concerns, echoed by other independent brewers, ranged from whether individual ratings will truly be independent, to the potential for favoritism in the placement of reviews on the site, to the lack of transparency about the deal, which was consummated in October but was only recently made public.
Dugan's EEOC complaint also says that on December 222, 20203, she sent an email to Shonda Grant, the Recording Academy's head of human resources, saying she had been sexually harassed by a lawyer who represents the Academy, while also alleging corruption and favoritism within the Grammy nomination process.
This kind of sectarianism is the reason for one of Latin America's most remarkable paradoxes since the late 2000s: Poverty and inequality declined, but political tensions increased — not so much because social programs relied on redistribution (their funding actually came from exports rather than tax increases), but on favoritism.
"They do what they got to do not because they're prone to criminality, but they're prone to masculinity and the idea that I just need a space and the ability to compete on my own merit, and not be held down by favoritism or racism or whatever it was," he says.
But its apparent unwillingness to hold the Levinsons and their agency, ACES, to account has also caused resentment among other agents, many of whom have privately expressed dismay that the players' union failed to fully investigate the accusations against the Levinsons, and contend the union has shown favoritism toward them.
But in one instance, Ms. Wilson told investigators, Mr. Shanahan or his staff may have "created the appearance of favoritism" by ordering that a meeting on delivery of a Boeing refueling tanker, the KC-46, be led by a Pentagon official who was believed to favor the aerospace contractor's terms.
After decades of Australia sidling up to the United States, sharing intelligence and fighting alongside the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, many Australians in the foreign policy and economic establishment are now questioning what some have come to describe as a complacent favoritism for American priorities in the region.
Still, even if blatant favoritism is more embarrassing in the Instagram era than it might have been previously, it was hard to grasp why these parents didn't just donate a building, or give a bunch of money to have their last name engraved at the top of a library entrance.
At forums for DNC candidates, the same ideas -- the importance of organizing, a 50-state strategy, more funding for state parties, a focus on voting access and total deference to voters in primaries, to avoid the appearance of Hillary Clinton-over-Bernie Sanders style favoritism -- are espoused by each of the candidates.
Still, experts note the purpose of the 1967 anti-nepotism statute is to prevent nepotistic favoritism in the wielding of federal power and benefits, so any notion of granting such an important federal power to a non-employee family member contradicts the purpose and spirit of that law, as well as standard practice.
They do not view him or his spokespeople as honest, they chafe at the unprecedented restrictions on access to senior administration officials and virtual "imprisonment" in the White House Press Briefing Room, and are understandably bitter over the favoritism Trump and his lieutenants show to sympathetic (some would say sycophantic) media outlets.
Add to this the fact that the administration is limiting the ability of broadband service providers to use such information for their own business plans by imposing legacy "Customer Proprietary Network Information" rules onto the Internet via the FCC's controversial net neutrality ruling, and Wheeler's favoritism to edge providers is plain to see.
The panel's four members pinned responsibility for the crisis on the program's executive director, Michel Sidibé, saying that under his autocratic leadership the agency had become a cult of personality marked by "favoritism, preferment and ethical blindness" that failed to prevent harassment and abuse or respond swiftly to accusations of ill treatment.
Matthew D. Luttig, a political scientist at Colgate, made the case in his 2016 dissertation, "The Rise of Partisan Rigidity," that, elite polarization has strengthened the relationship between a basic psychological motivation for group membership — the need for certainty — and partisan strength, in-party favoritism, out-party derogation, and conformity to group leaders.
Season three, in particular, has offered some beautiful commentary on female anger, as Julia, Kady, and the show's other women have attempted to navigate the messy gender politics of our own world (and said gender politics' favoritism toward men), but with everything amplified several dozen times by the presence of magical creatures.
FAVORITISM AT THE F.C.C. At the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Ajit Pai is under fire from Democrats in Congress for relaxing rules that restrict how many local TV stations a business can own in one market, weeks before a large conservative broadcaster, Sinclair, announced it was acquiring more stations by buying Tribune Media.
The complaint further claims that King created close working relationships with male colleagues but not female colleagues, and that his "uncomfortableness around female colleagues resulted in favoritism for male employees over female employees that was widely known throughout the workplace and referred to as 'bromances,'" and that his "bromance" with Kattan was also well-known.
Most of it was petty, bumbling, and shabby: favoritism and graft, wheeling and dealing, mainly done not by the President but by the men around him, not least the notorious Grant staffer and Whiskey Ring swindler Orville Babcock, whom Grant could never bring himself to fire but instead rusticated by appointing him Inspector of Lighthouses.
Clark University's Abbie Goldberg, the pioneering scholar on L.G.B.T. families, who was the lead author of a study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in 2008 titled "Perceptions of Children's Parental Preferences in Lesbian Two-Mother Households," said that her research results indicate that impressions of favoritism changed, even disappeared, over time.
A majority of the justices appeared inclined to rule that the particular cross at issue in the case, which is part of a memorial to 49 fallen soldiers from Prince George's County, did not run afoul of the First Amendment's ban on government establishment of religion by sending a message of favoritism to Christianity.
But with Trump Jr. and his allies now mounting a fierce pushback against Burr, the GOP chairman could soon be forced to make a difficult decision if Trump Jr. defies the subpoena: whether to hold Trump Jr. in contempt and risk further GOP backlash or give the President's eldest son a pass and spark outcries of favoritism.
The only way to make sense of what happened is to see the vote as an expression of, well, identity politics — some combination of white resentment at what voters see as favoritism toward nonwhites (even though it isn't) and anger on the part of the less educated at liberal elites whom they imagine look down on them.
Capital case section chief Kevin Carwile, who received an Excellence in Management Award from the Justice Department in 2011, has been accused of favoritism and sexism in how he oversaw the unit, which he was placed in charge of in 2010, the newspaper reported, citing court records, internal documents and interviews with current and former employees.
In Brazil, for example, the beachfront Trump Hotel Rio de Janeiro — one of Mr. Trump's many branding deals, in which he does not have an equity stake — is part of a broad investigation by a federal prosecutor who is examining whether illicit commissions and bribes resulted in apparent favoritism by two pension funds that invested in the project.
The fact that Chao's calendar shows that 1 out of every 4 meetings with local officials was with Kentuckians is significant because the department has long maintained that it, and she, have shown no favoritism to the state represented by her husband, even while local officials from other states have complained about having trouble getting to see her.
Although the episode differed in key respects from the current wave of sex-related office scandals — the question then centered on romance-fueled favoritism, not harassment or assault — it helped lay the foundation for the current debate over gender and behavior in the workplace, especially the dynamics involved when one of the people in a relationship is the boss.
OTTAWA, July 23 (Reuters) - Canada officially launched a long-delayed competition for new fighter jets on Tuesday, and said it was confident that there had been no favoritism toward any one contender though some have said the race is tilted towards Lockheed Martin Corp.. Ottawa wants 88 new planes in a contract worth between C$15 billion and C$19 billion.
During what came to be known as the New York-New Jersey Line War, between 1701 and 1765, natives of those two provinces, fueled by cartographical ambiguity, legal disputation, political chicanery, royal favoritism, proprietary murkiness, territorial stubbornness, latitudinal chauvinism, and good old-fashioned greed, would occasionally shoot at one another, raid the others' camps, destroy their homes, and burn their crops.
Porter, a Harvard-educated lawyer with whom the President had a special rapport, took a nuanced view, say sources, feeling that on the one hand it was a clear act of favoritism, but that, given the widespread political support for clemency, the optics were much less controversial than the Arpaio pardon which Porter and others had delayed, fearing a backlash.
" Lost in the discussion is whether America's national security interests would be best served as a neutral intermediary, or, as Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE recently said, "There's nothing wrong with showing favoritism towards an ally.
While Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao strongly denies showing any favoritism to the state represented by her husband, Mitch McConnell, his Senate re-election campaign has a different idea: "Team Mitch" on Tuesday morning tweeted out POLITICO's report showing Chao's record of granting meetings to Kentuckians over other local officials as a sign of his ability to deliver for his constituents.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada launched a long-delayed competition to build new fighter jets on Tuesday, and said it was confident no favoritism had been shown toward any one contender, though some in the industry have said the race is tilted towards Lockheed Martin Corp.. Ottawa wants 88 new planes in a contract worth between C$15 billion ($11.4 billion) and C$19 billion ($14.5 billion).
Problems cited by these analysts include subsidies for the financial sector's risk-taking; overprotection of software and pharmaceutical patents; the escalation of land-use controls that drive up rents in desirable metropolitan areas; favoritism toward market incumbents via state occupational licensing regulations (for example, associations representing lawyers, doctors and dentists that block efforts allowing paraprofessionals to provide routine services at a lower price without their supervision).
Most recently, Outdoor Voices, the trendy athleisure brand known for its tri-color leggings and "exercise dresses," was the subject of a Buzzfeed News report that levels charges from employees who say there is a rampant culture of favoritism, gaslighting, fear, and distrust, caused in no small part by founder and former CEO Tyler Haney, who left her post at the company in February.
ROBERT S. NUSSBAUMFORT LEE, N.J. To the Editor: The decision by the Supreme Court to allow parts of President Trump's travel ban to proceed smacks of the favoritism that we saw just before the start of World War II. Because my family and I, refugees from Hitler's Germany, had relatives living in New York City, we were allowed to immigrate in 1939 to the United States.
That is the assumption that the "baser" impulse—in this case, the impulse to prefer your cheater to their cheater—is more hard-wired than the "nobler" impulse, which would be to put favoritism aside, ignore the fact that one quarterback is married to a Brazilian supermodel while the other does Papa John's pizza commercials, difficult as that may be, and weigh the cases impartially.
But the so-called LavScam suggested new character flaws in Trudeau, including a seeming inability to express contrition during a rambling press conference on Thursday, a failure to stand up for the highly-respected Wilson-Raybould, and a seeming favoritism for Quebec over other parts of the country, after he did little to save tens of thousands of jobs in Alberta's ailing oil patch.
But lawmakers in the room said he repeatedly denied showing political favoritism to former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE over Trump, at a time when the bureau was juggling investigations related to both presidential candidates.
In particular, they worry the party will remain divided until the summer convention and fear a reprise of 2016, when lingering resentment among Sanders's supporters over the Democratic National Committee's favoritism toward eventual nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonClinton asked if she'd be Bloomberg's vice president: 'Oh no' Trump launches three-day campaign rally blitz Free Roger Stone MORE dampened voter turnout in the fall.
House lawmakers in the room said he repeatedly denied showing political favoritism to former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE over Trump in 85033, a time when the FBI was juggling investigations related to both presidential candidates.
Defense Secretary Patrick ShanahanPatrick Michael ShanahanWhy Dave Norquist is the perfect choice for DOD's deputy secretary Five questions for Trump's new defense secretary on first major tour Trump says media is part of vetting his nominees: 'We save a lot of money that way' MORE remains in "acting" status and now faces investigation by the Defense Department inspector general for alleged favoritism toward his former employer, Boeing, while at the Pentagon.
He argues that older siblings are more likely to succeed and have a three-point edge in I.Q., while younger brothers and sisters are more intuitive; readers also learn that as children, brothers and sisters fight once every 17 minutes, that only children get exposed to the adult world and abstract constructs at an earlier age, as well as the degree to which divorce and favoritism in parenting affect children.
A Republican presidency with a Republican majority in both houses will insure economic volatility, a crippling diminution of the social and financial safety networks in place, continued support for economic inequality and favoritism shown toward the wealthy, the undue influence of corporations over legislation, ill-advised responses to foreign affairs, a continuation of the conservatism of the court system, and a hopeless oblivion when it comes to the environment.
There also are allegations of ethical transgressions involving his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine ChaoElaine Lan ChaoMitch McConnell may win the impeachment and lose the Senate Hillicon Valley: Lawmakers say Facebook deepfake ban falls short | House passes bills to win 85033G race | Feds sound alarm on cyberthreat from Iran | Ivanka Trump appearance at tech show sparks backlash Trump administration unveils latest guidelines for autonomous vehicle makers MORE, showing favoritism to her husband's supporters in Kentucky.

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