But Judge Hoeveler said, "Given the serious nature of the drug epidemic in this country, certainly the efforts of the U.S. to combat the problem by prosecuting conduct directed against itself cannot be subject to the protest of a foreign nation profiting at U.S. expense."

The Wards Cove case involves racially discriminatory conduct directed at Asian Pacific Americans, such as segregated housing and dining facilities and relegation of minorities to menial jobs with no realistic prospect of promotion.

There is no suggestion in this record that Florida law would not equally restrain similar conduct directed at a target having nothing to do with abortion; none of the restrictions imposed by the court were directed at the contents of petitioner's message.

A couple may separate according to the law if repeated physical violence or grossly abusive conduct directed against the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner; homosexuality, abandonment, and many more.

No doubt that "slight" to his pride was what had triggered later events, but his immediate response had been bad enough, and the Academy took a dim view of sexual harassment, especially when it took the form of insulting language and abusive conduct directed by a senior midshipman at a junior.

Psychiatrists, psychologists and social scientists warn that if young people are not stopped in their tracks when they are caught carrying out violent conduct directed at defenceless individuals, invariably starting with animals, their dangerous anti-social behaviours will likely escalate.

Necessity is conduct directed at an innocent person as a result of duress or compulsion, or a threat by a third party or an outside force.

Private defence (or self-defence) is conduct directed at the person responsible for the duress or compulsion or threat.

Stalking is a pattern of repeated and unwanted attention, harassment, contact, or any other course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.