misapplication


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Synonyms for misapplication

wrong, often corrupt use

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Synonyms for misapplication

wrong use or application

the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

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'Let not the legitimacy and the well-settled wisdom of the law be clouded or demolished by its misapplication, abuses in enforcement or wrongdoings on the part of the designated implementors of the law,' she added.
The internal review found instances of "misapplication of accounting policies" in UK divisions, mostly relating to the timing of revenue recognition and incorrect accounting of some assets and liabilities.
Misapplication examples include inappropriately applying the guideline to patients in active cancer treatment, patients experiencing acute sickle cell crises, or patients experiencing postsurgical pain, Dn Dowell wrote.
Among the issues raised by Te was the prosecution's misapplication of the "multiple republications" principle.
The ATA's misapplication stems largely from the extremely broad definition of terrorism in the law, which allows the inclusion of offences bearing little or no connection to terrorism per se.
Other advanced technologies in the new Nissan Dayz include Intelligent Emergency Brakes, Lane Departure Warning, Intelligent Lane Intervention, Emergency Assist for Pedal Misapplication, Intelligent Around View Monitor, High Beam Assist, and the Helpnet2 advanced automatic accident reporting system.
The topics include choice-of-law as geographic scope limitation, forum non conveniens: recent developments at the intersection of public and private international law, whether international mass claims commissions are the right mechanisms to provide redress to individuals injured under international law, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission's partial awards on Eritrea's and Ethiopia's diplomatic claims, and the misinterpretation and misapplication of the minimum standard of international law.
Wang is accused of theft and misapplication of fiduciary property.
Speakers of the seminar, NAB DG, PEC vice chairman, mayor and deputy mayor of Quetta discussed various issues including flaws in development project plans, reasons behind delay in completion of development projects and consequences of misapplication and waste of government resources.
Speakers of the seminar, Director General NAB Balochistan, Vice Chairman of Pakistan Engineering Council, Mayor and Deputy Mayor Quetta discussed various issues including blemishes in development project plans, reasons behind delay in completion of development projects and consequences of misapplication and waste of government resources.
21 on second-degree charges of theft by unlawful taking and misapplication of entrusted property and property of government.
'There is a lot of misapplication of public funds in disaster management by cartels in the ministry which must stop.
Murray took over the case after former prosecutor Brian Towne, 49, was charged with 13 counts of official misconduct and four counts of misapplication of funds stemming from his tenure as states attorney in LaSalle County.
Weinstein navigates through this component of his argument by describing hate speech in his introduction as expression that "demeans." (1) Later, when discussing a case adjudicated in the European Court of Human Rights, he suggests that because Gillmerveen's discourse was "odious"' but had "little vituperation and no use of epithets," it was a case of the misapplication of hate speech laws.