Sentences with phrase «act against violence»

The ACT Against Violence training program: A preliminary investigation of knowledge gained by early childhood professionals.

Final summary report for evaluation of the ACT Against Violence training program to the American Psychological Association and The National Association for the Education of Young Children.

ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids Program: Effects on maltreatment - related parenting behaviors and beliefs.

Measures utilized include the ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids Scale.

«Last Day on Earth» has just wrapped production and can soon be seen on the festival circuit with partnering organization ACT Against Violence.

Not exact matches

Explains Clancy: «If someone rips you off or someone stiffs you on 50 kilos, [do] you go out and do an act of violence against that guy and bring a bunch of heat on you and your organization?

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She is among the student leaders who have started the #NeverAgain movement, vowing to force lawmakers to finally act against gun violence.

a suicide bomb act is done as ritual), nevertheless the act of violence itself is done as reaction to something (corporal punishment), or as an attack against someone or something.

I am an American non-practicing Muslim, who have never committed any acts of violence against anyone and nor do I plan to.

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At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for Human Rights called «crimes against humanity.»

I constantly hear of large groups of gays protesting against the rights of Christians to marry other Christians, telling adolescent Christians they are immoral and committing acts of violence against Christians.

= > The Unborn Victims of Violence Act is a United States law introduced into congress in 1999 which defines violent as sault committed against pregnant women as being a crime against two victims: the woman and the fetus she carries.

«These acts of violence against innocent citizens are an unwarranted affront on our collective safety and freedom,» Jonathan said.

When we think of violence, what first comes to mind are violent acts by individuals or groups against individuals.

Humans have brought the pain and suffering of sickness, violence, and starvation upon themselves by their willful, sinful acts against God.

acts of violence against anyone is wrong no matter what your faith may be.

They are the roots of violence and mutual rejection between people; they are both challenged and transformed in encounter with the crucified Jesus, and the «peace» that we may hope for as a result of the act of God in the death of Jesus is something that stands against each of them alike.

This was in the mid / late eighties, when fear about AIDS was still high, and where acts of violence and discrimation against gays and lesbians was still hight.

And he did say that the use of violence to impose religion is to act against reason, and to act against reason is to act against the nature of God, for God has revealed himself as logos — the word and the reason by which all came to be and in which all coheres.

There is no excuse for murder, violence or any harmful act against humanity!

Consider as well the so - called «sagebrush rebellions» against federal control of vast areas of the western U.S — a revolt that gave birth to many threats and acts of violence directed at Park Service personnel.

I love free speech but, those in positions of authority who advocate hate, bigotry and acts of violence against others should be held criminally accountable for what they say.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

There's also Sri Lanka where the Sinhala Buddhists acted in violence against the Tamil Tigers and Christians...

I When we think of violence, what first comes to mind are violent acts by individuals or groups against individuals.

At that time the injunction against killing was limited only to those acts of violence that arose from personal feelings of hatred and malice.

Self - defense implies abstaining from unjust acts of violence against others: unfortunately this requires both honest self - awareness and empathy (qualities that seem to be short supply).

«You have been talking for weeks now about the wrongdoings of Catholics against Protestants in 16th and 17th century Europe,» I continued, raising my voice even higher, «but you've said absolutely nothing about the monstrous acts of violence by White Protestants against Negroes in the American South today in 1961!»

Balakian's book is a chronicle of terror, hope and occasional heroism, and — like most such tales — of the international community's resounding failure to prevent or stop acts of violence against a people.

He struggled to find the reason and the rationale to free his people from their compulsion to act in hideous violence against one another.

David is basically saying some very simple things to Christianity in a nutshell — love your neighbor, do not committ vicious acts of violence against your neighbor, speak up when these acts happen, and be accountable for your actions (repentance)... simple really.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) says more than 600 acts of violence against religious minorities, including Christians, have happened since May this year.

He acts in violence against his brother and in judgment suffers alienation not only from his lost brother and from the human community, but from Yahweh as well (4:14).

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

In 2000, Congress passed the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, which protects victims from deportation after they testify against offenders.

«The violent bear IT away» You can see how among other things my effort to articulate is an act of violence against the whole.

Whatever one thinks about its legality, abortion has nothing to do with advancing human «health,» and a large number of Americans regard it as a gravely wrong act of violence, not only against unborn children but also against women.

An employee handbook should explicitly state that any employee who commits an act of violence against another person while at work will be terminated.

The scandal had included months of media reporting on alleged acts of violence against women by roughly a dozen football players, with accusations that the school and athletic department had responded ineffectively.

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When the child gets slightly older, some mothers decide to explain in vague terms that the father committed some act of violence against her.

If he witnessed an act of violence against another person, point out that this kind of behavior is not normal, not the way people usually solve their problems.

To be sure they are capable of acts of violence against unarmed people, which most regard as psychotic, and they have to be dealt with under the criminal law — unless killing them is the only way to save other lives.

The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) has condemned the «acts of criminality perpetrated against the courts and for that matter the judiciary by the so - called Delta Forces in Kumasi following the arrest and prosecution of thirteen of their members for involvement in an earlier act of violence.»

Those convicted of domestic violence, who have an order of protection against them, would have their firearms confiscated under the SAFE Act.

«Because you refused to give up, minutes ago, the House of Representatives finally joined the Senate in passing a meaningful Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

In what has been characterized as a victory for President Obama and congressional Democrats, the House voted today to pass the US Senate's bipartisan reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, said she is not surprised that pistol permits spiked after the SAFE Act, which included a broader ban on assault weapons and requires pistol - permit holders to re-certify every five years.