What's the difference between clawback and evidentiary?

Clawback


Definition:

  • (n.) A flatterer or sycophant.
  • (a.) Flattering; sycophantic.
  • (v. t.) To flatter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is likely to call for banks to retain more capital and for some form of clawback if firms perform less well than expected.
  • (2) "If the same individual maximises the pension tax relief – they can put in up to £245,000 of their salary and get relief – then the cost of the tax relief clawback will be around £51,000.
  • (3) "If you listen to what Lloyds said in 2011 when they took the initial £3.2bn charge – that was used for a pretext for making a clawback on 12 executives.
  • (4) When they are paid next year the G20 deal brokered by Barack Obama and Brown means that a proportion of bonuses will be deferred and payments will be subject to clawback provisions.
  • (5) Any Treasury clawback will only serve to take resources still further from the frontline.
  • (6) Given that clawback has only been possible since 2010, attention focused on former chief executive Michael Geoghegan and Sandy Flockhart, the former boss of Mexican operations, who left this month due to ill health, as likely candidates for clawback.
  • (7) This includes monitoring sales to ensure that colleagues have met customer needs appropriately and communicated important information clearly … We also have clawback mechanisms in place for any colleagues who make inappropriate sales."
  • (8) And as the provisions continue to rise, Gordon believes the bank could look at further clawbacks against its executives.
  • (9) Such clawbacks may be a feature of the bonus season because of the waves of scandal to hit the industry ranging from payment protection insurance mis-selling in the UK to fines for Libor fixing and money laundering.
  • (10) Lagarde added that the IMF’s research suggests bonuses should be tied to longer-term, rather than short-term gains; and that banks should use “clawback”, to force staff who have hit their firm’s performance to pay back part of their bonuses.
  • (11) Hampton won't give numerical details, but explains that RBS is regularly recovering payments from previous years: We've done quite a lot of clawback in the last couple of years, on a variety of issues.
  • (12) (Carriers had a "clawback" clause in case customers abandoned the contract.)
  • (13) Osborne says the Britain has been leading the way on bankers remuneration in recent years, on transparency and clawbacks.
  • (14) "The Walker report has left in a reference to 'clawback' but it is not clear whether it means asking for the money back once it has been paid or forfeiture of the deferred, but as yet unpaid bonuses," said Alistair Woodland, a partner at Clifford Chance.
  • (15) If the regulator is allowed to cap retail electricity bills, a "clawback" mechanism, already used by some states in the US, would have to be incorporated based on future movements in wholesale energy markets.
  • (16) As of next April, the new lower threshold for clawback of working tax credit on income over £3,850 will mean that I will lose 48% of a proportion of my state pension and also of any small profits I might make in my business.
  • (17) Apparently this clawback arrangement will incentivise me to work.
  • (18) Ideally, these should be subject to clawback over the long-term.
  • (19) The bank is keen to avoid a fresh revolt at this annual meeting after its report outlining directors' pay and the clawback provisions is published next month.
  • (20) Bonuses must be spread over a longer period; they must be subject to clawback; more of the spoils must be paid in shares; and more information must be published about who gets what.

Evidentiary


Definition:

  • (a.) Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, evidentiary value of older samples was lower.
  • (2) In addition, careful parametric baseline studies were performed in each cat to strengthen the evidentiary linkage between wave A as recorded from the vertex in these experiments and previous studies describing the origin and trajectory of wave A in the brainstem reticular formation and several regions of thalamus, including the intralaminar nuclei.
  • (3) A plea is made for legislative support to pay for lab work and the establishment of state or national laboratories equipped to handle evidentiary material.
  • (4) The results show that DNA of sufficient quality and high molecular weight (HMW) can be reliably isolated from bloodstains deposited on evidentiary items which have an unknown environmental history and which have dried onto a variety of substrata.
  • (5) The article praised the prime minister’s “instinctive” response that “If you go abroad to join a terrorist group and you seek to come back to Australia, you will be arrested, you will be prosecuted and jailed” in comparison with Shorten’s reaction that “There are laws in place, I’m not going to play judge and jury.” But of course, there are laws in place, and they do have evidentiary requirements.
  • (6) The FBI has defended the closures for lacking a sufficient evidentiary basis at the time to sustain.
  • (7) Therefore, evidentiary material purposely or inadvertently contaminated with these reagents can be successfully typed.
  • (8) Evidentiary examination was performed on 100 victims.
  • (9) Contrary to earlier reports, the offence does not shift the onus of proof, and does appear to place a substantial evidentiary burden on the prosecution.
  • (10) That the Court did not remand the case to the trial court for further evidentiary proceedings and that the author of Wade v. Roe, Justice Harry Blackmun, was chosen to write the opinion, means that the majority of the Court went out of its way to once again reaffirm the principles enunciated in Roe.
  • (11) APA's Statement on the Insanity Defense served as the ably articulated premise for this evidentiary amendment.
  • (12) This paper discusses (i) the use of recent scientific data to demonstrate the existence of premenstrual syndrome; (ii) the use of standardized psychological tests or physiological assays to demonstrate that the defendant suffers from premenstrual syndrome; and, (iii) the legal choices to be made and evidentiary hurdles that must be overcome in presenting a premenstrual syndrome defense.
  • (13) The UN commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria said that in each of the incidents since April 2012 "the intentional mass killing and identity of the perpetrator were confirmed to the commission's evidentiary standards."
  • (14) Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who lost a bid for the GOP presidential nomination to Donald Trump and a self-declared “stickler for probable cause”, chided the FBI for closing the preliminary inquiries while seeking new powers to obtain communications data on a lower evidentiary standard.
  • (15) Vinson certified that the surveillance on millions of Americans, which continues until 19 July, meets legal and evidentiary standards under a provision of the Patriot Act.
  • (16) The fact that a theory lacking evidentiary support was so hastily endorsed by some of the nation’s foremost institutions speaks to the enduring power of the belief that aggressive policing is the only way to keep black communities safe.
  • (17) To fully utilize the information of VNTR data for forensic inference, the probability of observing the matching suspect and evidentiary profile in a reference population is estimated, usually by assuming independence of alleles within and between loci.
  • (18) That’s the problem.” “We all know that there are evidentiary issues with prosecutions of people for offences abroad.
  • (19) Still, she concluded that given the voluminous submissions received in this "straightforward price-fixing case", it was not necessary to hold an evidentiary hearing before approving the decree, because the court is "well-equipped to rule on these matters" and "a hearing would serve only to delay the proceedings unnecessarily".
  • (20) But it took the unusual step of distancing itself from this investigation in a 16-page communiqué, saying it had been excluded from evidentiary examinations at Cocula and at the San Juan river into which the bags were allegedly dumped; and had been presented with the only evidence on the one identified dead student – supposedly from the river – in an already opened bag.

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