(1) The city council’s community safety team, now responsible for a leaflet campaign urging young Muslims not to join Isis, used to employ 31-year old Mashudur Choudhury as a racial harassment worker.
(2) Some 300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also harassment and assault by men.
(3) The checkpoints are a recipe for harassment and abuse.” Among other moves disclosed were plans to hire 300 extra security guards to secure public transport in the city.
(4) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
(5) Even when things are taken more seriously, harassers are generally allowed to leave quietly, which enables them to move some place else and do the same thing.” Many of the women who made complaints to their institutions said they felt they were the ones on trial, while alleged perpetrators were often protected by management who feared losing a star researcher and their funding.
(6) A mother and her son shared delusional beliefs that doubles of themselves existed and that they were being harassed by the police and social and educational services.
(7) For me, this is what needs to change - we need a cultural shift in our attitudes and behaviours and that needs to see all of us standing up and calling out harassment and misogyny, whether it is in the street or the workplace, to erode that normalisation that makes perpetrators feel safe doing it again and again.
(8) He stressed that the sister-in-law and her husband were not only accused of circulating libellously untrue stories but also of harassment of the wealthy financier.
(9) Anna Gautheron only learned what the term "street harassment" meant when she read about it online.
(10) Rob Bliss, who runs a viral video marketing agency, created and directed the video in association with Hollaback , a New York-based group dedicated to ending street harassment .
(11) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
(12) Almost all of the 20-plus women claim they experienced Ailes’s harassment firsthand.
(13) On one level this is quite just, as everyone has the right to defend themselves, but in cases of sexual harassment it does nothing to protect vulnerable people or to encourage them to come forward.
(14) Not only did erections survive unscathed, but sexual harassment continued to flourish.
(15) Public debate over the problem intensified after the 2011 uprising, with activists and lawyers saying they see progress in transforming attitudes and more harassers being jailed.
(16) And in the last month, it has faced serious allegations about sexual harassment , as early-stage investors have lambasted its “destructive culture” .
(17) Miller is suing the NoW's parent company, News Group, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and of harassing her "solely for the commercial purpose of profiting from obtaining private information about her and to satisfy the prurient curiosity of members of the public regarding the private life of a well-known individual".
(18) The buses are so crowded that women are bound to get harassed.
(19) The tribunal added that Dean's dismissal was a consequence of unlawful harassment arising "not from treating the claimant differently from non-disabled associates [in enforcing the 'look policy'], but in treating her the same in circumstances where it should have made an adjustment".
(20) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
Vexatious
Definition:
(a.) Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.
(a.) Full or vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unions blame 70% fall in employment tribunal cases on fees Read more “The government originally said making people pay would weed out vexatious claims.
(2) Stirling's attempt to refuse the request, calling it "vexatious", smacks of fear.
(3) Calling the story, originally published on gossip website TMZ “a vexatious lie”, Morrissey threatened legal action and claimed the matter is “in the hands of” Los Angeles police.
(4) The IPT invited us to respond to the security services' assertion that the claim was "vexatious", but was unable to tell us what their substantive response was – because the security services did not consent to Shaker knowing whether they had actually been defaming him in secret.
(5) The best contributions tell the truth, or if not the truth (a vexatious and flexible concept, given history’s tendency to be somewhat in the eye of the beholder) – then at least truth according to the person providing the story.
(6) He said that the "late submission of thousands of pages of documents was both vexatious and unreasonable".
(7) It is easy to accuse Clegg of mishandling the Rennard affair but he is at the mercy of a chaotic "open market" for vexatious litigation and of an upper chamber of Byzantine archaism desperately in need of reform.
(8) The paperwork that embodies government outsourcing, the physical contracts themselves, tells you a lot about how vexatious the whole business is.
(9) "What the commissioner has ruled is that he doesn't believe that the request is vexatious," a spokeswoman said.
(10) She doesn't believe that people willingly pursue "vexatious claims".
(11) "Frivolous or vexatious claims" could be struck out at an early stage.
(12) Parliament on Monday proposed no safeguards against this becoming a PPI-style stampede for anyone – including lobbyists – trying to grab a compulsory correction plus a quick payof f. Fining journalists for unethical deeds is a charter for the vexatious.
(13) Many complaints received by the IPT were "frivolous, vexatious" or even paranoid, he explained, some, for example, of the type where people claimed that listening devices had been implanted in their teeth by MI5.
(14) However, it would not be abhorrent to its business practices and shareholders: an algorithmic tweak knocking out a whole class of vexatious litigants would surely be worth it?
(15) It’s why we remove malware from our search results and other products.” Whetstone’s blog post poked fun at Thomson’s assertion that by undermining the “basic business model of professional content creators” such as News Corp, Google was helping create a “less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue”, with the result that “intemperate trends” across Europe would proliferate.
(16) The vexatious issue of the 'post-concussional syndrome' is discussed and the conclusion is reached that it is unlikely that this syndrome is solely produced by the possibility of compensation.
(17) The university said the firm's application, originally made anonymously through a London law firm, was "vexatious" and rejected it.
(18) Naylor's chief operating officer, Bridie Warner-Adsetts, said a reduction in "vexatious" employment tribunal claims would also benefit businesses.
(19) Undermining the basic business model of professional content creators will lead to a less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our society," he wrote.
(20) Robert Thomson, chief executive of the company, had accused Google of creating a “less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our society”.