Bentham contends that there is nothing novel or unwarranted about his method for “ in all this there is nothing but what the practice of mankind, wheresoever they have a clear view of their own interest, is perfectly conformable to .”

In this respect, " they offered strange fire before the Lord "; they were guilty of a presumptuous and unwarranted intrusion into a sacred office which did not belong to them.

The AG declared the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) would defend agencies ’ decisions to withhold documents from a FOIA requester under one of the statute's exemptions " unless they lack a sound legal basis or present an unwarranted risk of adverse impact on the ability of other agencies to protect other important records.

This, they argued, was an unwarranted restriction imposed in a manner that cannot be justified in a free and democratic society that could survive a limitations clause challenge.

In a further study, Thornberg concluded that there are seven stages of moral deliberation as a bystander in bystander situations among the Swedish schoolchildren he observed and interviewed: ( a ) noticing that something is wrong, i. e., children pay selective attention to their environment, and sometimes they don't tune in on a distressed peer if they're in a hurry or their view is obstructed, ( b ) interpreting a need for help-sometimes children think others are just playing rather than actually in distress or they display pluralistic ignorance, ( c ) feeling empathy, i. e., having tuned in on a situation and concluded that help is needed, children might feel sorry for an injured peer, or angry about unwarranted aggression ( empathic anger ), ( d ) processing the school's moral frames-Thornberg identified five contextual ingredients influencing children's behavior in bystander situations ( the definition of a good students, tribe caring, gender stereotypes, and social-hierarchy-dependent morality ), ( e ) scanning for social status and relations, i. e., students were less likely to intervene if they didn't define themselves as friends of the victim or belonging to the same significant social category as the victim, or if there were high-status students present or involved as aggressors-conversely, lower-status children were more likely to intervene if only a few other low-status children were around, ( f ) condensing motives for action, such as considering a number of factors such as possible benefits and costs, and ( g ) acting, i. e., all of the above coalesced into a decision to intervene or not.

Although no ban has become law yet, activists have complained about unjust surveillance and arrest and claimed to be victims of an unwarranted police raid due to their home having their electricity cut off, where they were harassed by police asking if they were " terrorists.

Police officers cannot by law, join any trade union, but as unsworn, unwarranted officers, PCSOs can even though they are employed by the Police.

After Zero X returns to Earth, he disappears, and thereafter is the instrument of the Mysterons ' campaign of vengeance against Earth for what they saw as unwarranted aggression.

The Memorial Society and Helsinki Watch reported in May 1991 that they had found compelling evidence that the imposition of the state of emergency had led to an unwarranted breach of civil liberties and that Soviet troops had used unjustified force resulting in many deaths.

Robertson voted against bills funding maternity and childcare on the grounds that they were an unwarranted governmental intrusion on personal rights.

In this they had the support of Nasrullah and the religious factions he represented, who were sympathetic towards the Ottomans because of what they saw as unwarranted infidel aggression towards Islamic states.

A way to maintain autonomy is for the person to write an advance directive, outlining how they wish to be treated in the event of them not being able to make an informed choice, thus avoiding unwarranted paternalism.

Each townsperson attempts to rationalize their involvement in Andri's death ( which they consider in hindsight unwarranted since he wasn't born a Jew ).

Perceived diplomatic insults and unwarranted official orders issued in support of these actions by European powers were widely recognized as grounds for a U. S. declaration of war.

Ethnographical and geographical digressions were such a feature of the work that it developed the unwarranted reputation of being a universal history, never Trogus ' intention.

On average, the intersections had 24 % fewer crashes after the unwarranted signals were removed.

In return, the U. S. Attorney: a ) agreed to dismiss the other eight remaining charges in the superseding indictment ; b ) agreed not to charge Al-Arian with any other crimes known to the government at the time of the execution of the agreement ; c ) agreed not to enter any recommendation as to the imposition or amount of a fine ; d ) agreed with Al-Arian that an appropriate sentence would be 46 – 57 months in prison ; and e ) covenanted that if no adverse information were received suggesting such a recommendation to be unwarranted, the U. S. would recommend that Al-Arian receive a sentence " at the low end of the applicable guideline range, as calculated by the Court ".

It seems to be a just conclusion that when in 1852 the Bay Islands were erected into a British " colony " this was a flagrant infraction of the treaty ; that as regards Belize the American arguments were decidedly stronger, and more correct historically ; and that as regards the Mosquito question, inasmuch as a protectorate seems certainly to have been recognized by the treaty, to demand its absolute abandonment was unwarranted, although to satisfy the treaty the United Kingdom was bound materially to weaken it.

Many fans felt the comments were unwarranted and highly distasteful so soon after Guerrero's death in November 2005.

No valid scientific methodology by which folklore accounts could be interpreted was known before the mid-20th century, and with sparse historical and archeological sources, the doors were thus opened to wild and unwarranted speculation.

The firm agreed to “ pay over $ 9. 3 million in penalties .” On April 28, 2003, the same firm was found to have “ issued research reports that were not based on principles of fair dealing and good faith .. contained exaggerated or unwarranted claims .. and / or contained opinions for which there were no reasonable bases .” The firm was fined $ 110 million dollars, for a total of $ 119. 3 million dollars in fines in six months.

Her abusive and unwarranted ' help ' as an already raised Aes Sedai were eventually put to an end after the then Mistress of Novices, Merean Redhill, having been informed by other concerned Accepted, threatened her with a penance as well as humiliation.

This fraud caused a great financial burden upon the fisherman and oystermen, who were driven to " unlawful and riotous assembly ", in protest against unwarranted charges made upon them in the course of their trade.

However, many elements of The Chaos Factor were retconned in later editions of the game, since it was considered by fans to be an unpopular source-book that promoted unwarranted crossovers, like Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand.

The National Party opposed the bill, saying that it gave too much control to Māori, United Future opposed it due to the removal of the public domain concept and ACT opposed it on the grounds of the legislation being retrospective, that it was a denial of property rights ( in this case Māori property rights ), and that it was an unwarranted incursion by the Crown into areas that were specifically Tikanga Māori.

Glushko pointed out that the US Titan rockets used to launch Gemini spacecraft also used identical propellants so these concerns were unwarranted.

While Stark I and II were intended to remove potential conflicts of interest from physician decision making, a number of persons have argued that the legislation, particularly parts of Stark II, represents an unwarranted intrusion into the practice of medicine.

In many societies, what we regard as corruption, favoritism, and personal influence are so accepted as consistent with the mores of officialdom and so integral a part of routine administrative practice that any attempt to force their elimination will be regarded by the local leadership as not only unwarranted but unfriendly.

Needless to say, any such inference would be quite unwarranted.

One essential aspect of a consistent framework is its avoidance of any unwarranted ( arbitrary ) exceptions for a particular person or group — especially the person or group that holds the framework.

He further points out that questioning the honesty of Pausanias is unwarranted, as any well-informed Greek then would probably know the ascription of the monument even centuries after the battle.

Bristol avoided competition by abusing federal regulations to block generic entry ; deceived the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office ( PTO ) to obtain unwarranted patent protection ; paid a would-be generic rival over $ 70 million not to bring any competing products to market ; and filed baseless patent infringement lawsuits to deter entry by generics.

# records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information ( A ) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, ( B ) would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication, ( C ) could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, ( D ) could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local, or foreign agency or authority or any private institution which furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record or information compiled by a criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source, ( E ) would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law, or ( F ) could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual ;

* In 2004 the United States National Research Council ( part of the National Academy of Sciences ) supported the linear no threshold model and stated regarding Radiation hormesis: The assumption that any stimulatory hormetic effects from low doses of ionizing radiation will have a significant health benefit to humans that exceeds potential detrimental effects from the radiation exposure is unwarranted at this time.

In doing so, he extended the right announced in Griswold to any procreative sexual intercourse: " If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.

On May 20, 2009, the Justice Department, in a brief filed by Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Tony West, and Justice Department attorneys Mark B. Stern and Charles W. Scarborough, took the position that, " The decision of the court of appeals is correct and does not conflict with any decision of this Court or any other court of appeals ,... Further review is unwarranted.

* Information which relates to personal information the disclosure of which has no relationship to any public activity or interest, or which would cause unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the individual ( but it is also provided that the information which cannot be denied to the Parliament or a State Legislature shall not be denied by this exemption );

However, monotypic taxa are generally avoided by modern taxonomists if not necessary, and in this case a distinct superorder seems indeed unwarranted: together with the equally dubious superorder " Stenopterygii ", the grinners appear to be so closely related to some Protacanthopterygii to be included in that superorder.

Although the rationale for changing HRV is sound, it also contains the inherent danger of leading to the unwarranted assumption that modification of HRV translates directly into cardiac protection, which may not be the case.

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

The point of the text is unclear, variables u and v are undefined, the remark that w stands for German wert is unwarranted, and it is certainly not mathematical, so proceed with caution!

An unwarranted seizure for debt was fined, as was the distraint of a working ox.

* Hurtfulness, such as physical violence, including sexual abuse and rape, verbal abuse, biased or vulgar jokes, breaking a confidence, using foul language, ignoring people's feelings, willfully discriminating, blaming, punishing people for unwarranted deeds, labeling others.

Such detail is generally unwarranted for prototypes as some refinement to the design is to be expected.

They said his unwarranted sexual advances showed he could not enforce the law and was cause for discipline.

Mimeograph had a largely unwarranted reputation for being messier than spirit duplication.

I quite agree that the question what and how much good labor unions do is one on which intelligent people may differ -- I think that laboring men sometimes attribute to them advantages, as many attribute to combinations of capital disadvantages, that really are due to economic conditions of a far wider and deeper kind -- but I could not pronounce it unwarranted if Congress should decide that to foster a strong union was for the best interest not only of the men, but of the railroads and the country at large.

Possessing partial control over matter, the Mysteron computers draw on their power of " reversing matter " to rebuild the complex before vowing revenge for the unwarranted aggression.

Failure to acknowledge and accept that conscientious judgements can be seriously mistaken, may only promote situations where one's conscience is manipulated by others to provide unwarranted justifications for non-virtuous and selfish acts ; indeed, insofar as it is appealed to as glorifying ideological content, and an associated extreme level of devotion, without adequate constraint of external, altruistic, normative justification, conscience may be considered morally blind and dangerous both to the individual concerned and humanity as a whole.

The current drug of choice for therapy is diethylcarbamazine ( DEC ), though ivermectin use is not unwarranted.

Library Science students however should be more wary of such a development given the potential for unwarranted changes being made to the collection.

Hiphop Kulture rejects the immature impulse for unwarranted acts of violence and always seeks diplomatic, non-violent strategies in the settlement of all disputes.

Westmoreland insisted that he only needed those forces either in-country or already scheduled for deployment and he was puzzled by the sense of unwarranted urgency in Wheeler's queries.

From time to time certain Muslims have interpreted such Qur ' anic allowances for " defensive violence " to include what other Muslims have viewed more as unwarranted and overly aggressive violence.

Andros castigated the Mainers for their unwarranted acts and ordered the Indians released and returned to Maine.

The Popular Front's founding manifesto condemned the actions of the conservative-led government, demanding the release of political prisoners detained after November 1933, the re-hiring of state employees who had been suspended, fired, or transferred " without due process or for reasons of political persecution ", it proposed establishing an independent judiciary from government control, the investigation and prosecution of acts of unwarranted violence by police, and revision of the Law of Public Order to protect the rights of citizens against arbitrary power.

The name cannot be traced back much earlier than 1840, Speculation that it came from a Celtic word for torrent is unwarranted, nor is it believed to be related to the heah yfre ' high bank ' at the river mouth mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon charter.

Most jurisdictions have large penalties for false, unwarranted or prank distress signals.

Complaining about player killing may result in harassment which can continue for as long as the complainers play the game, but repeated unwarranted player killing is looked down on.