The company's case is hardly helped by the fact that Robert Kaluza, BP's well manager on board the rig at the time of the disaster, has declined to testify in front of an investigation into it, pleading his fifth-amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
The threat of long prison sentences creates an all-or-nothing situation in which top executives refuse to testify in order to avoid self-incrimination.
Elsewhere, though, the need to preserve social cohesion, parroted by European politicians from left and right, has become a self-defeating excuse to avoid reform.
Another issue that continues to face the government: when to read Mr. Tsarnaev his "Miranda" warnings, informing him of his rights to counsel and to stay silent to avoid self-incrimination.
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Above all, avoid self-sabotaging behavior that you may not even be aware of, like blaming others rather than taking responsibility for all decisions, or not charging what your product or service is worth, due to lack of current market information or a personal bias.
Self-insured companies can also avoid changes to pricing rules that could increase costs for groups of healthy workers.
The questions were worded to avoid alienating the gas nationalists but also to avoid a self-defeating and costly renationalisation.
The best leaders recognize this attitude and studiously avoid being self-absorbed.
At 2009 as this event, Nissan showed off self-navigating robots that could avoid each other in accidents based on algorithms based on the way fish avoid each other.
For small businesses, being self-insured would let them avoid new requirements under the law that call for traditional small group plans to include richer benefits, such as mental-health and maternity care.
But his fear and self-doubt lead him to avoid close relationships, even walking away from the women he cares for when she comes to him and gives him the chance to propose marriage.
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From here you can take shots using the phone as a trigger (which is how I'm mainly using it) to avoid those self-portrait reflections, but there's a stack of other options that many will find useful.
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The firm will move its 40 U.S.-based workers to a self-insured plan in June, in part to avoid the health law's risk-spreading provisions that could raise its costs, said CEO Randy Keith.
Either way, Barnes and Noble has found itself in the self-help section, trying to avoid the clearance bin.
Mr Thaksin has been living in self-imposed exile in order to avoid a prison term for corruption in his homeland.
Germans who prefer to be self-employed so that they can avoid paying salaried workers' full social-security contributions also complain that the dice are loaded against them.
Previously under the self-assessment rules, you could avoid the penalty charge for a late filed tax return if all the tax payable had in fact been settled.
"It moves you out of your self-contained little bubble and helps you avoid group think, " he says.
Amazon's online superstore has become the unlikely stage for 21st-century amateur comedy, where thousands of customers have submitted reviews for products ranging from the self-explanatory explanatory book "How to Avoid Huge Ships" to the Hutzler 571 banana slicer, a yellow plastic banana-shaped device that cuts bananas into even slices.
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"We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of self-referential church, " the cardinal said in an interview to an Italian journalist last year.
Becoming a fiduciary is not prohibited but it does impose additional requirements and care to avoid conflicts of interest and self-dealing which can become the basis for a prohibited transaction.
"The plaintiffs have persuaded me that at least with respect to some plaintiffs, their fears of prosecution under COPA will result in the self-censorship of their online materials in an effort to avoid prosecution, " Reed wrote.
Transactional leaders rely on self-interest: constituents are motivated by a desire to receive rewards or avoid punishments.
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In the more than 36 years I have practiced criminal defense law, I have had many occasions to represent people who, out of self-interest, chose to cooperate with law enforcement against others in order to avoid criminal prosecution or obtain leniency.
He said the demo version could only self-park in an area equipped with sensors and restricted to other robotic cars to avoid the risk of collision.
But even Norman, who has experienced the familiar evolution from self-proclaimed luddite to iPhone zombie in the last couple years, has given up trying to avoid the results of major golf tournaments.
Sadly, facts like these are not enough to avoid the silly season altogether, or to persuade the USDA to ignore the self-serving indignation of the meat industry and keep a reasonable suggestion on its site.
But The Hobbit feels fearless and devoid of self-consciousness about expectations or anything other than excitement at telling its story, and at times almost seems to avoid any obvious choices or traditional perspectives in the approach to action and big reveals.
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