Sentences with phrase «as vulnerable victims»

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There's only one silver lining to this deadlock: As more and more people hear about the trafficking bill, more will learn what trafficking is, how it hurts the most vulnerable among us, and how it is more likely to involve U.S. - born victims than those brought here from other countries.

The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.

All western nations need laws that protect vulnerable depressed and mentally incompetent people from falling victim to the euthanasia lobby who are promoting suicide (right to die) as a human right.

Rather, they figure as reasons to oppose it - albeit reasons that are defeated in these circumstances by the protections it affords to victims who would otherwise be left even more vulnerable.

If the victim has children, they should automatically be classed as having priority need, if not they must be seen as being more vulnerable through being homeless than an ordinary person.

Poor social - communication skills can make them vulnerable when involved with the Criminal Justice System as a victim, witness or suspect.

The die - off, which has subsided after claiming as many as 20,000 victims, is another blow to the long - term prospects for the Caspian seal, a population of around 400,000 animals that is listed by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable to extinction.

Although there is some research that portrays victims of bullies as unassertive and conflict - avoidant, other reports suggest that bullying is an «equal - opportunity» activity and that anyone of us is vulnerable.

Here are some things you may be doing to block love from entering your life: You're not really trying to meet the right man; you complain to your friends and family that there are no good men out there; you think all men are cheaters; you think it's impossible to meet a man because there are more women than men in your city; you keep making excuses as to why you can't meet someone; you're stuck in a past relationship; you're using your looks or work to hold you back; you think men your age just want to date younger women; you think of yourself as a victim; or you're afraid of the love you deserve, being vulnerable, and / or intimacy.

«Tangerine» has no interest in depicting these transgender characters as saints, martyrs or victims, but rather as real people: complicated, vulnerable, insecure, selfish and sometimes obnoxious.

Her beautiful, exhausted performance in You Only Live Once (1937) as the young woman partnered with a vulnerable Henry Fonda who become criminals on the lam has a tenderness and romantic despair that makes this memorable movie quite moving as it examines two everyday people who are very much the «victims of circumstances» in Depression era society.

The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.

As advocates for Ontario's car Accident victims, the lawyers at Auger Hollingsworth are disappointed and worried about how these changes will impact vulnerable people.

But what about highly vulnerable, cognitively challenged brain injured accident victims being painted as fakers and tossed to the curb by FSCO Arbitrators based on the unchallenged «expert» opinion evidence of an unqualified psychologist.

As noted by Justice Robert A. Graesser, the victims «were clearly vulnerable to abuse by reason of their occupation and their drug - addicted states» (at para 3).

If the victims are particularly vulnerable such as the young or the elderly, the consequence can be jail time.

Cazabon is being recognized for her longstanding advocacy in promoting social justice for victims of domestic and sexual violence, as well as her dedication and commitment on behalf of the Commonwealth's most vulnerable.

These structures include the overlapping systems of oppression that operate not only to render some spouses — most often women — more vulnerable to violence and with fewer resources to exit relationships, but also to construe only some spouses as «victims» deserving of legal redress.

As a national expert, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) provides technical assistance, trainings and practice manuals on critical immigration options for vulnerable immigrants including immigrant victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and other crimes.

A bully exploits the weakness in others and goes after the most vulnerable victims as their target.