Word: breach
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...will pay in other ways. "I guess where I'm trying to go with this is that there are moral absolutes, and that God's law indeed is there to protect you from yourself," Sanford said at the state capitol in Columbia. "And there are consequences if you breach that. This press conference is a consequence...
...Hegarty, described a journalist's protection of his or her sources as "an absolute value, not a convenient principle." But what swayed the Belfast Recorder Tom Burgess was the risk to Breen's life. In his ruling, Judge Burgess said complying with the police request could lead to "a breach of [Breen's] right to life under the European Convention [on Human Rights]" "The Real IRA have killed, and attempted to kill, for much less. During the attack on the soldiers at Massereene barracks, the gunmen shot and seriously wounded two men delivering pizza to the barracks. Their crime? Collaborating...
...questions may now be asked in Northern Ireland why public money was spent on attempting to force a journalist to breach the confidentiality of her sources, not least by the journalist herself. "I am perplexed as to why the police wasted time and resources in taking this case", said Breen outside court after the judgment. That's a line of enquiry Breen and other reporters may be keen to follow...
...Wells asked Greenberg whether losing his job justified breaking that oath, implying that he had done so as revenge for his dismissal from AIG after serving as its chief executive for 38 years. "The fact that you lost your job was a big enough act to cause you to breach your fiduciary responsibility?" asked Wells...
...That [selling the AIG stock] was not a breach of our fiduciary responsibility," Greenberg replied. He maintained that Starr - which was long operated as if it were a private subsidiary of AIG - is an independent company with the right to end the compensation plan as well as the right to sell its shares...