• Non-Disparagement Clause- A non-disparagement clause, typically contained in a separation or settlement agreement, states that an executive director cannot say anything bad about the employer even if the commentary is true.

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  • Japan, however, is allowed to hunt between 300-400 minke whales annually in the sanctuary under a clause allowing a long-term scientific research program.

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  • "Chainrai has invoked a clause in a loan contract he struck with the club's third owner this year, Ali Al Faraj, giving him the right to take over 90% of the shares should they default on repayments to him, " added Farquhar.

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  • This would have meant Britain didn't get its protocol but would get a clause in the treaty, He tabled a clause which made clear that the measures in the new fiscal compact applied only to the eurozone and wouldn't undermine the single market or allow discrimination against the financial services sector of non-Euro states.

    BBC: The tensions between Cameron and Clegg over EU

  • That makes it look like Lewis used a MAC clause as a bargaining chip to get more federal assistance, Kucinich said.

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  • Mr Grayling has since confirmed plans to include a new clause in a Justice Bill later this year which will increase the maximum sentence.

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  • This is because one of the QCs who delivered that opinion is the crossbench peer Lord Pannick, who's increasingly influential in swinging the crossbench vote for or against a particular clause of a bill.

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  • If the terms of the employment contract condition severance payments on compliance with the non-disparagement clause or unequivocally state that a breach of the non-disparagement clause will result in a forfeiture of severance or other benefits- the clause is optimized if the payments or benefits paid out to the executive director are paid out over a period of time.

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  • In the absence of, say, a confidentiality or non-disparagement clause in a contract, court orders prohibiting the making of true statements are rare indeed, generally considered a violation of the free-speech provision of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.

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  • This is a union security clause, which a Right to Work laws ban.

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  • The French economy minister Laurent Fabius said that "no European" could accept such a clause, as it implies a pre-determined end-point for the negotiation.

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  • In the spring of 2012, he signed a long-term contract, albeit one that included a "release clause, " a fixed price for which the club would have to sell him.

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  • There has to be a contract for a contract to include a clause preventing the consumer from joining a class action.

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  • The UK's opt-out from the Working Time Directive only applies to the directive's clause setting a 48-hour limit on the working week.

    BBC: EU court: Workers sick on leave can get extra time off

  • Missouri read the treaty power broadly under the Supremacy Clause at a time when the courts gave Congress's powers short shrift, but the decision was fundamentally mistaken.

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  • But a clause in the French constitution (a sop for the anti-Turkey camp from the previous president, Jacques Chirac) obliges France to hold referendums before approving new accessions after Croatia's.

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  • She said she had discussed the matter this month with Interior Minister Giuliano Amato and Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, who said they would work to insert an anti-violence clause in a law to combat discrimination against homosexuals.

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  • That opinion does signal that, unlike Justice O'Connor, and, certainly, unlike some of the others on the current court, he will be interested, let's just say, in restricting Congress' power under the Commerce Clause in a way that could have serious implications for the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act.

    NPR: Reviewing Alito's Dissents

  • Foster had been out of action since November's defeat by Morecambe as a clause in his contract would have automatically generated a new deal with two further appearances.

    BBC: Darlington release Steve Foster and Lee Thorpe

  • Instead of being a defect, the idea of almost unlimited Commerce Clause powers is a fact of the modern world.

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  • He was limited by a no-compete clause from working on a social networking rival to Renren.

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  • One of his first moves in office was to persuade his European Union peers to remove a clause from the now-frozen Lisbon treaty stating that competition was a key EU objective.

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  • Disliking constraints of any kind except those she imposed upon herself, she refused to sign a loyalty pledge when she was appointed to a teaching post at Idyllwild arts school and, in 1990, took the National Endowment for the Arts to court when it asked her to accept a no-obscenity clause in return for a grant.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • The Baggies took up their option to buy the striker, a clause they inserted in the deal which brought Miller to the club on a season-long loan in August.

    BBC: Baggies complete double signing

  • Shortly after he came to power, he changed the constitution and had it include a clause saying the Senegalese were willing to see their sovereignty overtaken by that of a pan-African government.

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  • The contract also contains a clause that prevents the Jets from using the franchise tag on Revis, according to a person with knowledge of the contract's content.

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  • The breach was at least partially based on a clause that required Ultra Music Festival to include Ultra Music if Ultra Music Festival expanded beyond a Miami event.

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  • Although a clause in the 1999 law that set Juki Net up called on the government to submit a broad privacy bill before it could become active, officials point out that the same law placed restrictions on the system it created: the data cannot be shared with (non-governmental) third parties or used for purposes that are not already specified.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • But leaders resisted a second, much more ambitious move by the commission: to use the same treaty clause to create a stabilisation fund of unlimited size that it would also control, this time borrowing against loan guarantees from national governments.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • If there is such a clause, the house will automatically pass to the surviving owner irrespective of whether or not there's a will.

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