Second, even if we succeeded on establishing their liability, PwC India had viable arguments that they were at most reckless in conducting their audits, and did not act with actual knowledge of the fraud.
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Included were a vastly beefed up Community Reinvestment Act, actual or threatened discrimination suits by Justice and HUD to enforce regulatory requirements, and regulatory mandates on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to finance trillions in mortgage securities backed by subprime mortgages.
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They did not go that far with the actual act, but they went pretty far.
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Selling is as much an emotional state of being as it is the actual act of exchanging value for products or services.
After all, while what is said will be broadcast to the world, the actual act of writing a tweet or making a YouTube video can be a very solitary, private thing.
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However the penalty was for Google misrepresenting its actions to Safari users rather than for the actual act of bypassing the security settings, and the firm was not obliged to admit wrongdoing.
In banning would-be organizers of human rights violations as well as perpetrators, it allows the United States to act expeditiously before planned atrocities metastasize into actual ones.
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Virtually all disposal of wastewater is regulated by the EPA, either under the Safe Drinking Water Act or the Clean Water Act, but the EPA may delegate actual enforcement of these regulations to the states.
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To power and global reach can therefore be added another imperial characteristic: an actual desire to sally forth and act.
It was not until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, however, that the actual practice of slavery was banned throughout the British Empire (all slaves in the British Empire were officially emancipated in 1834).
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When, for the climactic union of Mera and Prince Kambu, portrayed by two female dancers (Chap Chamroeunmina and Chen Chansoda), actual physical contact occurred, the very act of touching was almost shocking given the measured formalities of Khmer classicism's unemphatic methods.
Philips also do not just look at the scores, but also the actual verbatims from the customers, and we identified and act upon those comments that make the most influence on the scores.
The Federal Reserve recently announced planned changes that will close certain loopholes within the new credit card law (CARD Act), increasing its comprehensive enforceability and more closely reconciling its actual effect with its intended purpose.
Hate Crimes Prevention Act -- which criminalizes violence motivated by any person's actual or perceived disability, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity -- for their alleged actions against the disabled victims.
"The actual taking of drugs is a health problem, not a criminal act, though it's obviously hard to take drugs without possessing them first, " Mr Hommes said.
Yet looking at actual crisis situations, it is surprising how many company leaders fail to act on this insight.
As there is almost no evidence of consumer-price inflation, either actual or potential, Mr Greenspan can present this week's rate rise as an act of great prudence.
In its ruling, the trust said that although the actual attack was not shown, "viewers were left in no doubt that an act of sexual violence was being carried out".
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