He said the overhaul, which implemented tougher teaching standards, punitively punished the teachers' union.
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Gone are the punitively high surcharges and obfuscatory booking systems designed to trick customers.
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A few billion dollars doesn't buy a lot in California's punitively expensive housing market.
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Instead, they have been used punitively, undermining teacher morale and worsening the teacher shortage.
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"What I would hope is that we don't use performance incentive funding punitively," said Pumariega.
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There isn't evidence that caravan members were treated punitively because they were part of the caravan.
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DECEMBER 20173: The city agreed to no longer "punitively segregate" people under 22017 in city jails.
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These were spoils of war, taken punitively after a well-documented historical battle, and put in the Trocadéro.
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But Palestinians say many of the restrictions are punitively arbitrary and about preserving Israel's economic advantage rather than security.
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Zodiac-shaming — the practice of treating someone differently and punitively because of their astrological sign — isn't a total joke.
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How to explain what appears, to many Apple partisans, to be a punitively low value placed on this business?
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Trump may also have been emboldened to act more punitively against Iran because it lacks North Korea's powerful intermediaries.
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Here's a plant that definitely won't flower: the hydrangea that someone prunes a little too punitively in the fall.
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"Neutral" reform that lightens the tax burden across the board is pro-growth; eliminating deductions selectively and punitively is not.
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Turkey and the P.K.K. must not wait until they have both paid a punitively high price in war to talk.
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These numbers make clear why a large chuck of Trump's base won't object to a budget that punitively targets the poor.
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In another in Hawaii, a Navy judge decided that two defendants could not be punitively discharged because of the president's comments.
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Countries impose countervailing duties - punitively high import tariffs - when they suspect another country of gaining an unfair trade advantage through subsidies.
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Some are pointing to Supreme Court cases that have made it difficult for Washington to punitively withdraw money from state and local governments.
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This should really come as little surprise, given that Trump based much of his campaign on punitively cracking down on crime and drugs.
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But the law was punitively "tough on crime," and it did contribute a little to the rise in incarceration from the 21996s through 21990s.
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But imposing sanctions punitively rather than strategically to obtain concessions follows a pattern that has yielded few political gains for the US in the past.
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Dr. Luke, regardless of the pending result of his defamation lawsuit, is acting punitively at this time, which is apparently his right under his contract.
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But why would the administration reflexively and punitively blame its own services for leaks, since we do not yet know who is responsible for them?
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Viacom then followed up by punitively blacklisting Jackson's music videos from airing on its networks and her songs from being played on Viacom-owned radio stations.
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The failure to cultivate and harvest the local produce, the destruction of the tunnel system and the relentless siege pushed the cost of living punitively higher.
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The company says that the measure breached a legal standard against making a "bill of attainder," in which the government makes policy punitively directed at a small group.
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A strong counterargument from Gosling and, uh, another guy proved that the board rules more punitively when women seem to be enjoying themselves, and the rating was overturned.
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Advocates for more flexible immigration policies, on the other hand, say the U.S. government must do more than respond punitively to the growing number of Central Americans approaching the border.
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Trump originally asked for $50 billion worth of Chinese goods to be punitively taxed, but has now doubled-down after Beijing threatened its own levy on 106 US produced items.
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Feig, one of ReFrame's ambassadors, said that when he initially began talking about the stamp with executives, they worried it would be used punitively, but that their fears have since eased.
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Such tactics responded to violence and addiction only punitively, fueling the over-incarceration of black men and creating a school-to-prison pipeline in neighborhoods that were dense with crime—and trauma.
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At a time when red snapper continues its strong comeback in the Gulf of Mexico, this year private recreational anglers face another punitively short federal red snapper season – a mere nine days.
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All this could be eliminated if a fraction of the billions wasted on the failed drug war were instead spent on treating addicts compassionately rather than punitively, and making drugs legal, regulated and safe.
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Having either the world's most punitively misconceived microeconomic policies or the world's most mindlessly self-destructive macroeconomic policies would be bad enough, but having both of them at the same time is just killer.
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But Charles felt used when Gomez wasn't romantically interested in him, and took to social media, punitively using his platform to call Gomez a con man for leading him on just to get a free Coachella trip.
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As Vox's Alex Abad-Santos recently noted, Viacom, the parent company of MTV, which produced the 2004 show, blamed Jackson: They punitively blacklisted her music videos from airing and her songs from playing on their radio stations.
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Other evidence indicates that black students are punitively disciplined for relatively minor infractions, such as showing disrespect to teachers, willful disobedience or talking too loudly, while white students who commit more serious infractions are punished less severely.
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Unenviable as this choice might be, it would seem better to do so early rather than burn through yet more international reserves and prolong the need for punitively high interest rates in a futile effort to defend the currency.
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The Germans, for example, haven't been shy about passing a law to punitively punish platforms if they fail to swiftly remove hate speech, while the UK remains focused on devising a framework to control a broader range of online harms.
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In a statement to Business Insider, StrongArm chief technology officer and cofounder Mike Kim said the company intends for its devices to be used to protect industrial workers' health and safety, and that StrongArm discourages employers from using it punitively.
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Many in corporate America are eager to see the punitively high U.S. corporate rate drop to internationally competitive levels, but few are raising their hands to offer an increase in their own net tax burden to finance that general rate cut.
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States have been running a live experiment of sorts on this over the past several years, reforming their criminal justice systems to, in short, punish people less punitively and incarcerate them for shorter periods of time for low-level offenses.
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A recent Washington Post article touted 2628 fixes for democracy including mandating three years of compulsory labor for young people in the military of AmeriCorps-like programs, outlawing private education, punitively punishing gun owners and vastly increasing redistribution to end racial inequities.
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Republican state officials in Georgia on Thursday punitively struck down a proposed jet fuel tax exemption that would have saved Delta, the state's largest private employer, some $40 million per year, despite public support for the proposal from the state's Republican governor, Nathan Deal.
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The administration has treated immigrants who come without papers punitively — separating families for several weeks, seeking to keep families in immigration detention indefinitely, detaining asylum seekers without a chance at parole — in the hopes of deporting them efficiently and deterring other people from coming in.
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Some mayors plan to challenge executive order Mayors in cities including Los Angeles, Boston and New York, as well as legal scholars, have vowed to challenge the presidential order, saying Supreme Court cases makes it difficult for Washington to punitively withdraw money from state and local governments.
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The pendulum has swung toward less direct intervention and more diplomacy, or, in the case of the Trump administration, conducting only select targeted airstrikes against airstrips and military infrastructure in Syria to illustrate the United States' steadfastness in responding punitively for the regime's use of chemical weapons.
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Instead of leaping into global collective action to mitigate the collapse of the biosphere and potential human extinction, America's ruling party is currently squabbling about whether they should punitively investigate Hillary Clinton over a routine committee decision from 2010 or for somehow rigging the election she lost.
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While the president learned about this in a recent New York Post article, high shoe taxes have been around for a long time — going back to the Great Depression when Congress imposed punitively high border taxes on U.S. shoe imports as part of the ill-considered Smoot-Hawley tariffs.
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After years of dormancy, during which she claimed her career had been punitively "put on hold by Dr. Luke," Kesha has recently re-emerged on tour, shoring up her finances and public support, singing "You Don't Own Me" and "I Shall Be Released" as fans chant furiously against Dr. Luke.
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Beyond America's jurisdiction, those dollars slipped free of its capital controls, and in the nineteen-sixties investors began to sling them from country to country as impetuously as in the days before Bretton Woods, punitively dumping the bonds of any government that tried to run an interest rate lower than those of its peers.
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Unsurprisingly, this outrage caught the attention of President Donald Trump, leading him to double down on his attacks on Kaepernick and the NFL on Wednesday, in a tweet claiming that the boycott was punitively damaging Nike: Just like the NFL, whose ratings have gone WAY DOWN, Nike is getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts.
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Consider the context: The commission was focused on a big drug crisis, established by a Republican administration, and chaired by a Republican governor — a recipe that just a few decades or even years ago would have guaranteed that much of the report would have focused on how to punitively crack down on drugs through the criminal justice system.
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" According to a 2015 report by Human Rights Watch, "corrections officials at times needlessly and punitively deluge [prisoners with mental disabilities] with chemical sprays; shock them with electric stun devices; strap them to chairs and beds for days on end; break their jaws, noses, ribs; or leave them with lacerations, second degree burns, deep bruises, and damaged internal organs.
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Bolstered by separate research that showed cognitive and nervous system damage in animals given MDMA at levels wildly above what humans would take, the DEA classified MDMA as Schedule I — the punitively harshest category reserved for drugs like heroin that are deemed to have no medical uses and a high potential for abuse — and set a series of public hearings to determine if the classification would become permanent.
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So if your brain is spinning, let's just briefly recap what happened here: Tony Ferguson was TKO'd by a production cable, Khabib was slated to fight five different opponents in the span of a week, McGregor would rather commit assault to defend a friend than get paid to defend a title, a flying hand truck left six fighters out of work, the New York State Athletic Commission is composed of medical diagnosticians who take the UFC rankings very seriously, a former lightweight champion was nickle-and-dimed at the 11th hour, Paul Felder went from a title shot to having no opponent in a matter of minutes, and a fighter who was punitively banned from getting post-fight bonuses is bailing out the UFC.
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Moulay Ismail finally conquered Larache in 1689 . Attacks on Larache continued, but it still remained in Muslim hands. In 1765, a French fleet failed in the Larache expedition. In 1829, the Austrians punitively bombarded the city due to Moroccan piracy.
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The ruling, therefore, upheld Canada Customs's right to prevent the importation of material that had already been banned as obscene by the courts, but curtailed the agency's right to preemptively or punitively detain material that had not been so adjudicated.
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Reese said that he favors a tax system by which all pay a portion of their income but that no one is excessively or punitively burdened.Reese, p. 146. Reese referred to himself as "notorious for political bad timing."Reese, p. 147.
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Judge Noonan delivered a concurring opinion in Anderson v. City of Hermosa Beach. He states that the process of tattooing should not be considered as pure expression in all cases. Noonan gives the example that a tattoo that was “punitively affixed” would not be protected by the First Amendment.
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His forces completely routed the Mughal garrison and punitively executed captives. The Marathas then looted the city and set its ports ablaze. Sambhaji then withdrew into Baglana, evading the forces of Mughal commander Khan Jahan Bahadur. During the attack on Burhanpur, among Sambhaji's 20,000 troops, many of them perpetrated atrocities against Muslims, including plunder, killing, and torture.
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The citadel was designed by Theodore Lebrun and de Puymanel, with 30,000 people mobilized for its construction in 1790. The townsfolk and the mandarins were punitively taxed for the work and the labourers were so over-worked that they revolted. When finished, the stone citadel had a perimeter measuring 4,176 meters in a Vauban model.Mantienne, p. 522.
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Pausanias says that because Messenia sided with Antony during the Roman civil war, Augustus punitively had Pherae and all of Messenia incorporated into Laconia, but it was restored to Messenia by Tiberius. Pausanias visited it and noted temples of Tyche, and of Nicomachus and Gorgasus, grandsons of Asclepius. Outside the city there was a grove of Apollo Carneius, and in it a fountain of water.Pausanias, 4.30.
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In 1589 the Moroccans briefly regained control of Asilah, but then lost it to the Spanish. In 1692, the town was again taken by the Moroccans under the leadership of Moulay Ismail. Asilah served then as a base for pirates in the 19th and 20th centuries, and in 1829, the Austrians punitively bombarded the city due to Moroccan piracy. From 1912 to 1956, it was part of Spanish Morocco.
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The crusaders did indeed become rich, at least for a short time, after capturing Kilij Arslan's treasury. The Turks fled and Arslan turned to other concerns in his eastern territory. Arslan punitively took the male Greek children from the region extending from Dorylaeum to Iconium, sending many as slaves to Persia. On the other hand, the crusaders were allowed to march virtually unopposed through Anatolia on their way to Antioch.
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Private Witt, having been assigned punitively as a stretcher bearer, asks to rejoin the company, and is allowed to do so. A small detachment of men performs a reconnaissance mission on Tall's orders to determine the strength of the Japanese bunker. Private Bell reports there are five machine guns in the bunker. He joins another small team of men (including Witt), led by Captain John Gaff, on a flanking mission to take the bunker.
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Manuel offered Conrad an alliance, but was rejected. The German crusaders then, without active Byzantine guidance (the crusaders later alleged that their local guides were in league with the Seljuk Turks) or adequate supplies, pushed into the interior of Anatolia. At Dorylaeum, they were met by the forces of the Seljuk sultan and, as they were half-starving, were forced to retreat. The Turks punitively harassed the retreating crusaders and the retreat became a rout.
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"Chavez poll petition rejected". Retrieved 10 November 2005. Reports then began to emerge among opposition and international news outlets that Chávez had begun to act punitively against those who had signed the petition, while pro-Chávez individuals stated that they had been coerced by employers into offering their signatures at their workplaces. In November 2003, the opposition collected an entirely new set of signatures, with 3.6 million names produced over a span of four days.
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In 1969, Chesler cofounded the Association for Women in Psychology.Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health, Phyllis Chesler, Esther D. Rothblum, Ellen Cole, Haworth Press, 1995, p. 1. In 1972, she published Women and Madness, whose thesis is "that double standards of mental health and illness exist and that women are often punitively labeled as a function of gender, race, class, or sexual preference". The book sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.
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Janša has repeatedly sued Mladina columnist Vlado Miheljak. The 2003 circulation of Mladina was 19,300 copies, making it the most read weekly in the country. Mladina has accused the 2004-2008 Janša government of imposing an advertising embargo on Mladina and Dnevnik, two publications critical of the government, as part of Janša's efforts to control the media. Mladina reported that state-owned enterprises selectively and punitively ceased advertising in these publications, instead redirecting advert purchases to more friendly media.
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Thomas, Duke of Clarence, a fiery cavalry general, demanded considerable territorial concessions including Normandy in return for aid to Burgundy. Now desperate to save the honour of the Oriflamme the Armagnacs resorted to seeking English arbitration in the internal dispute. At the Treaty of Buzancais the English demanded a punitively large ransom from the Armagnacs. In a series of humiliating encounters their leading general, Dauphin Louis, Duke of Guyenne was outmanoeuvred, defeated and forced into a Treaty of Auxerre.
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The village is said to have been named after two brothers, Budha and Lada, who were khatri by caste. Once a part of the state of Kaithal, it was punitively annexed along with the rest of that territory after not helping the British during the insurgency of 1857. The village later merged with Karnal District, one of the largest markets in East Punjab. The area was said to be a good area for the recruitment of military personnel, second only to Rohtak.
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The 1983 amendment provided for the first time for a form of alternative service, although for a punitively long period of three times the military service. Conscripted military service at that time consisted of two years full-time service, followed by 'camps'. The latter were annual call-ups for short-term periods of about a month, though not everyone was called every year. For those who had not done any military service, the Act provided for a six-year period of community service.
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A public statement by IOC President Jacques Rogge dismissed these accusations, stating that the competition had been fair. Another controversy occurred during the bidding process when an undercover investigation by British television series Panorama revealed a corruption scandal associated with IOC member Ivan Slavkov and Olympic agents, who offered to deliver votes from IOC members to any 2012 Olympic bid in return for financial favours. Still recovering from the effects of the Salt Lake City scandal, the IOC reacted swiftly and punitively toward the rule-breaking individuals.
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He and his students made significant contributions to organic synthesis and petroleum refining. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern petroleum chemistry in the US. Vladimir Ipatieff had three sons: Dmitry, Nikolai and Vladimir. Dmitry died in World War I. Nikolai was a member of the White movement, emigrated after the end of Russian Civil War and died in Africa testing a treatment he had invented for yellow fever. Vladimir Vladimirovich Ipatieff, also a talented chemist, remained in the USSR and was punitively arrested after the defection of his father.
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Image displayed by MICT when accessing prohibited content from Thailand from 2014–2016. Image displayed by MICT when accessing prohibited content from Thailand in late 2017. MICT blocks indirectly by informally "requesting" the blocking of websites by Thailand's 54 commercial and non- profit Internet service providers (ISPs). Although ISPs are not legally required to accede to these "requests", MICT Permanent Secretary Kraisorn Pornsuthee wrote in 2006 that ISPs who fail to comply will be punitively sanctioned by government in the form of bandwidth restriction or even loss of their operating license.
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He was assigned to organize agitation in the Romanian Railways workshops in Moldavia. On 15 August 1931 Gheorghiu was accused of "communist agitation" and punitively transferred to Dej, a town in Transylvania, where he continued the union activity. The union presented a petition in February 1932 to the CFR Railways, demanding better working conditions and higher wages. As a response, the CFR Railways closed down the Dej plant and fired all the workers, including Gheorghiu, who was deprived of the opportunity to be hired by any other CFR Railways workshop in the country.
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The unnamed protagonist of the Doom series as he appears in The Ultimate Doom Doom is divided into three episodes: "Knee-Deep in the Dead", "The Shores of Hell", and "Inferno". A fourth episode, "Thy Flesh Consumed", was added in an expanded version of the game, The Ultimate Doom. The game itself contains very few plot elements, with the minimal story instead given in the instruction manual and short text segues between episodes. In the future, the player character (an unnamed space marine) has been punitively posted to Mars after assaulting a superior officer, who ordered his unit to fire on civilians.
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Scholz was an actor's child whose talent protested early against the forced profession of a merchant. He made his debut in 1811 at the age of 24 in his mother's theatre troupe in the role of Harlequin in Friedrich Schiller's Turandot, Prinzessin von China and then appeared predominantly in Laibach and Klagenfurt. In March 1815 he was engaged for several weeks at the Hofburgtheater in Vienna, his debut was as Traugott in August von Kotzebue's play Bruderzwist oder die Versöhnung. Since his abilities were not recognized and he "soon felt the oppressiveness of the noble atmosphere", he became Kasperle, as his father proclaimed punitively.
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Under Darling, as a consequence of the Bigge Report, all heads of Government agencies were replaced with new appointments from London; many wealthy settlers arrived, rapidly expanding the frontier of settlement and increasing the rate of dispossession of the Aboriginals. Darling appointed many of these wealthy settlers as magistrates, and allowed the settlers and Mounted Police a freer hand to deal more punitively with convict absconders, bushrangers and Aboriginals. In dealing with clashes between the settlers and Aboriginal land owners, Darling followed Earl Bathurst’s instructions - to treat Aborigines as enemy combatants not British subjects. He supported “dispersals” of any gatherings of Aborigines,Governor Darling to Earl Bathurst, 6 May 1826, HRAVolume XII, page 269.
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Antisemitic rioting broke out in Britain in response to the killings. The British reacted by arresting 35 Jewish political leaders including the mayors of Tel Aviv, Netanya, and Ramat Gan and held them without trial, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement Betar was banned and its headquarters was raided, and the army was authorised to punitively demolish Jewish homes, with a Jewish home in Jerusalem demolished on August 5 after an arms cache was discovered there during a routine search. The sergeants' hangings has been widely seen as a turning point which finally broke British will to remain in Palestine. The consensus gradually formed in Britain that it was time to leave Palestine.
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During World War I, he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought on the Eastern Front. After the War, he studied Slavic philology in Prague, where he became friends with many Slovenes living in the Czechoslovak capital, such as the painter Božidar Jakac, philosopher Anton Trstenjak and sociologist Mihajlo Rostohar. In 1926, he moved to Belgrade, where he worked as a librarian. In 1929, he returned to Ljubljana, where he worked as professor at the Ljubljana Classical Lyceum until 1942, except for a few years in the early 1930s, when he punitively transferred to Novo Mesto because of his public opposition to the dictatorship of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia.
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Most of humanity believes itself to be a "wolfling" species that emerged into sapience solely through natural evolution, without genetic manipulation by a patron species. This belief is considered heresy and ridiculous by most of the galactic civilization and has made most of the galactic powers enemies of EarthClan. The fact that humanity had already uplifted two species (chimpanzees and bottlenose dolphins) when it encountered the galactic civilization gave humanity patron status, which is one of the few lucky turns it has had in its difficult position as pariah in the galactic civilization. This saved humanity from the likely fate of becoming client to another race through forced adoption or being punitively exterminated for the environmental damage done to the Earth and its native species.
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The plaintiffs called expert witness Nancy Cott, an American history scholar, who testified that "marriage has never been universally defined as a union of one man and one woman, and that religion has never had any bearing on the legality of a marriage". The next day, she continued her testimony, which revolved around three key points: how marriage has historically been used "punitively" to demean disfavored groups, how the legally enshrined gender roles in marriage had been disestablished during the 20th century and how the changes in the institution of marriage had mainly involved "shedding inequalities", which she said strengthens marriage. She emphasized the importance of the institution of marriage by noting that "when slaves were emancipated, they flocked to get married. And this was not trivial to them, by any means".
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It would allow the Royalist garrisons farther up the Severn at Worcester and Shrewsbury to be supplied from Bristol, with consequent benefit to the economy of that city. Gloucestershire – populous, wealthy and Parliamentarian – could be punitively taxed, and Welsh manpower and money could be freely deployed against the King's enemies in the rest of the country. Although it was likely that Rupert would have been able to storm a city that was less well defended than Bristol, Charles was not willing to risk the casualties an assault would incur. On 6 August the Parliamentarian governor of Gloucester, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Massey, refused to surrender the city, but in a secret communication he let it be known that he would do so if the King, rather than Rupert, led the army on Gloucester.
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The men's lawyer, Frank H. Canfield, appealed the imprisonment portion of their sentence until the case reached the Supreme Court. The Court found that immigration courts could not punitively detain non-citizens, rather that non-citizens can be detained to prevent further crimes prior to deportation. Immigration detention was found to be "not imprisonment in the legal sense"Kelly Lytle Hernandez, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771 - 1965, The University of north Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2017, Chapter 3: "Not Imprisonment in a Legal Sense" This case established that non-citizens subject to criminal proceedings are entitled to the same constitutional protections available to citizens. The ruling was issued on the same day as the court upheld racial segregation laws in its infamous Plessy v.
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Assedic is flexible and up to a limit approaching your former salary, allows you to work part-time. Revenues for working part-time are not punitively deducted from your income, and they are also considered taxable but also retirement-benefit augmentation income (although at a lower level than at the standard working level). Assedic bases its allocations to an individual's revenue on the amount of money earned over a previous period, a percentage of which is calculated and awarded on a daily (compiled in the monthly allocation) basis. Therefore, if a person, over a two-year period, were to lose their job through means other than resigning voluntarily, or being dismissed for serious breaches of contract or criminal behaviour, they are entitled to a certain number of days (broken down into hours for calculation purposes) paid at a certain rate per day.
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This Act regulated gun commerce, restricting mail order sales, and allowing shipments only to licensed firearm dealers. The Act also prohibited sale of firearms to felons, those under indictment, fugitives, illegal aliens, drug users, those dishonorably discharged from the military, and those in mental institutions. The law also restricted importation of so- called Saturday night specials and other types of guns, and limited the sale of automatic weapons and semi-automatic weapon conversion kits. The Firearm Owners Protection Act, also known as the McClure-Volkmer Act, was passed in 1986. It changed some restrictions in the 1968 Act, allowing federally licensed gun dealers and individual unlicensed private sellers to sell at gun shows, while continuing to require licensed gun dealers to require background checks. The 1986 Act also restricted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms from conducting punitively repetitive inspections, reduced the amount of record-keeping required of gun dealers, raised the burden of proof for convicting gun law violators, and changed restrictions on convicted felons from owning firearms.
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Set in Derry 1970, the play interweaves the 'present' - a hearing into the deaths of three unarmed citizens at the hands of the security forces, the reaction of the population shown by the character of the Balladeer and flashbacks to the main story - the final hours of the lives of three peaceful marchers who accidentally stumble into the Mayor's parlour after the march is hit by smoke and tear gas. Most of the action revolves around the unwinding personal stories of the three as they attempt to wait out the violence so they can go home only to find that they are now the centre of the action. Lily, a 43-year-old mother of eleven, Michael, a 22-year-old man (unemployed), and 'Skinner', 21 and unemployed (signs himself as Freeman of the City in the Visitor's Book), are the antiheroes, who perish as British soldiers shoot them in cold blood when they surrender. The ultimate irony is that the judge finds the security forces didn't act punitively, that Lily and Michael were armed according to non- existent witnesses and that Skinner was the innocent instead of the angry young man who despite his background wanted a free Ireland.
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