wrongful conduct
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwrongfulandconduct
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wrongful
adjective
uk/ˈrɒŋ.fəl/us/ˈrɑːŋ.fəl/
Wrongful actions are unfair ...
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conduct
noun[U]
uk/ˈkɒn.dʌkt/us/ˈkɑːn.dʌkt/
behaviour:
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(Definition ofwrongfulandconductfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofwrongful conduct
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Either way, the crux of an excuse is that one's blameworthiness for engaging inwrongfulconduct-or the wrongfulness of the conduct-is reduced or eliminated.
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First, there might be limitations on the threats it is legitimate to issue to deterwrongfulconduct.
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Additionally, he is guilty of solicitingwrongfulconductin cases (1) and (2).
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Quinn does not assume that ever y threat issued to deterwrongfulconductis legitimate.
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Alexander explicitly endorses an unlimited account of threat-issuance where the threat is issued to deterwrongfulconduct.
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If a rule prohibits jaywalking, a judge conforms to that rule just in case she finds that jaywalkers have, and that nonjaywalkers have not, engaged inwrongfulconduct.
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That is because, if one person's loss is caused by another's wrong orwrongfulconduct(and certain other conditions are met), then the loss is the wrongdoer's fault.
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Third, there are cases in which once the threat has failed to deter thewrongfulconduct, the previously prohibited infliction of harm may become permissible.
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Issuing a threat, after all, is a form of coercion, and there are restrictions on the legitimacy of any sort of coercion, even when imposed to deterwrongfulconduct.
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However, it is realistic to believe that the threat of being called to answer forwrongfulconductmight have a salutary effect on practice.
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An employer should not be put to what could be quite substantial expense as a result of thewrongfulconductof a seaman.
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We have readied a perfect state of things in the railway world, wherein a man or woman charged withwrongfulconducthas to be informed of the complaint.
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Rules which make the wrongdoer liable for all the consequences of hiswrongfulconductare exceptional and need to be justified by some special policy.
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Mostly, they rest upon three basic prongsnamely unity of interest and ownership,wrongfulconductand proximate cause.
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A year later there was a disciplinary charge forwrongfulconductat work.
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The purpose of such damages are twofold: to deterwrongfulconductby other actors, and to serve a normative function of expressing social shock or outrage at the defendant's actions.
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