Sentences with phrase «more on the assault»

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This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

The Las Vegas Police Department reported that at least 50 people have died and more than 400 were injured by a gunman with a high - powered assault weapon during country singer Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday evening.

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

The missiles supposedly being readied for an assault on Guam are little more than a means to show off a new strategic capability, in this case the capacity to launch an accurate strike on a strategically important US target.

The company also called on lawmakers to pass «common sense gun reform,» including the banning of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines, and bump stocks, enact universal background checks, and more.

The Algerian army carried out a dramatic final assault to end a siege by Islamic militants at a desert gas plant on Saturday, killing 11 al Qaeda - linked gunmen after they took the lives of seven more foreign hostages.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

No industry has seen more technological assaults on the status quo than automotive.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

The full frontal assault on your competitor just may backfire, so find more creative avenues to weaken it.

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

Its staunch advocacy of free speech around the world - nothing other than direct personal threats are barred from Twitter - has helped it become an important avenue through which news and viewpoints are shared, from the first inklings of the U.S. military assault on Osama bin Laden's compound to Obama's tweeting «Four more years» when he won re-election.

For more than two weeks, the Trump White House has engaged in an unprecedented assault on the president's own Justice Department, and in particular on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the FBI.

As many of you know, the current Liberal government is very concerned about sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus, and has devoted no small amount of time and political capital to getting institutions to adopt new rules and regulations around said... [Read More]

At Ohio's Lake Erie Correctional Institution, which CCA bought in 2011, inmate - on - inmate assaults increased 188 percent and inmate - on - staff assaults went up more than 300 percent between 2010 and 2012, according to a state report.

Last year, he became the first sitting president to appear in more than 30 years, declaring that the «assault» on the Second Amendment had ended.

The Canadian Labour Congress has just released preliminary findings of a cross-Canada survey on domestic violence: more than a third of those surveyed had suffered domestic assault at some time in their lives, and of those currently experiencing it, more than half continue to be abused in or near their workplaces.

Update: Since this story was published on Wednesday afternoon, four more women have come forward with allegations that Jian Ghomeshi assaulted them.

But this doesn't mean that gun enthusiasts only focus on buying more assault rifles.

The madcap meeting with Trump on guns, which was meant to add clarity and more urgency to the debate, instead saw the president undermining the importance of «due process,» calling for «comprehensive» gun control, and even humoring the idea of an assault weapons ban — all somewhat unexpected positions for a GOP president to hold.

It speaks more to the possibilities of women than to the limitations, and Sokolowski said it was chosen based on spikes seen in online searches after three events: the Women's March, the release of «Wonder Woman» and the uncovering of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Can you imagine being in a group that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 can not get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug - related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Fiona Bruce chairs the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm, which released a report today saying 4 in 5 police officers have been assaulted by drunks, and 1 in 5 have been assaulted by drunks six times or more.

He reserves his most ferocious verbal assaults for «zealots» like Nellie Gray; he attacks Phyllis Schlafly («Why anyone paid any attention to this lady is one of the mysteries of the 80s»); he turns on Carl Anderson, who perhaps more than any other single figure in the Reagan Administration was responsible for the success of Koop's confirmation process, and berates him unmercifully for his opposition to the condom solution for AIDS.

Update (Sept. 23): More details are emerging on the «unprecedented church bombing» believed to be «the deadliest assault» ever on Pakistani Christians, reports Morning Star News (MSN).

Jeffs had succeeded in leading his church from jail in Texas in the leadup to his trial on sexual assault charges this summer, but prison is much more restrictive.

«What a wonderful future we could look forward to, and soon, if only two or three or more Vietnams flourished [sic] on the surface of the globe, each with its countless dead, its terrible tragedies and its daily feats of heroism, each delivering blow after blow to imperialism, compelling it to spread its forces thin to meet the assault of the growing hatred of the world's peoples!

A Church of England vicar on the run after being sentenced to three - years jail time for sexually assaulting... More

Although the American Catholic community has been confronted with yet more difficulties — ranging from the redefinition of marriage to assaults on religious liberty — one of the reasons for hope, moving forward, is that John Paul II left behind a rich spiritual and intellectual infrastructure for Americans to draw upon, to deal with these ongoing challenges.

For more than a decade, Augustine mounted an unrelenting verbal assault on the Donatists.

The hypocrisy here is staggering, for as everyone knows, white evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump, a man who has been accused by more than twenty women of sexual assault, who is on record bragging about those assaults, and who was recently found in a Christianity Today poll to be evangelicals» «most trusted celebrity.»

«More» means that assault weapons are more fun to play with because it gives people an opportunity to play soldier, or zombie killer out on the raMore» means that assault weapons are more fun to play with because it gives people an opportunity to play soldier, or zombie killer out on the ramore fun to play with because it gives people an opportunity to play soldier, or zombie killer out on the range.

From this perspective, the modern assault on sex standards in the name of freedom (more properly called license) presents a major threat to individual and social welfare, for it justifies and confirms sensual satisfaction as the regulating principle of life.

And the friend creates a haven of hospitality where you can regather your energies for a more open assault on less accepting portions of that world.

A friend creates a haven of hospitality where you can regather your energies for a more open assault on less accepting portions an inhospitable world.

More and more myself I feel like I have to armor up; I have to put on my armor because how else do I keep moving in the world when I can barely get up in the morning without hearing, learning about, witnessing another cultural assault, more cultural traMore and more myself I feel like I have to armor up; I have to put on my armor because how else do I keep moving in the world when I can barely get up in the morning without hearing, learning about, witnessing another cultural assault, more cultural tramore myself I feel like I have to armor up; I have to put on my armor because how else do I keep moving in the world when I can barely get up in the morning without hearing, learning about, witnessing another cultural assault, more cultural tramore cultural trauma?

It meant, for example, that segregated and exploited Blacks were threatened even more by this assault of humanity on nature than by direct human oppression.

We are fully aware that we can do no more than throw out a few suggestions and make a few preliminary assaults on the problem, for it will probably need the work of a whole generation of theologians for a final solution.

Alternative media like art, or TV shows, or comedy, have long been vehicles to examine society and religion and all sorts of things in a more effective way that head - on debate can provide — look at Stephen Colbert for one example — any, any restraint on those media is a direct assault on freedom itself.

Instead of being like yeast that leavens, it will be more like Westboro Baptist, launching assaults on all it disagrees with, which will be almost everything.»

Of course there is the other alternative also — to fight back with an arrogance and just pile on more claims to counterattack the assault.

The debate over resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States was made more complex and distressing by the mass sexual assault of German women by what appears to have been North African and Middle Eastern asylum seekers in Cologne, Germany on New Years Eve.

It is possible that the more general prohibition in the succinct commandment «You shall not steal» bears still the weight of indictment in man - stealing; as interpreted here, stealing is as direct and as powerful an assault on human integrity and the God - man - man community as is murder or adultery.

In the past decade and a half, fiery - foods have continued their assault on mainstream American eating habits, and I'll bet that more women than ever before are appreciating them, buying them, and consuming them.

Let's hope the Arsenal centre back isn't too badly injured and that he's fit and ready to play in the New Year, when the title fight will become more intense and we need to be confident for our assault on the Champions League, but we have a deep and talented squad and should really be able to live without just one player shouldn't we?

Harry Redknapp has been looking to boost his squad ahead of Portsmouth's first assault on European opponents, and has finally sealed a deal to give his side more firepower.

Just more than a year after being released, he was indicted on a misdemeanor assault charge from a January 2016 domestic violence incident with an ex-girlfriend.

You have to bear in mind that another NYC DA pursued a felony gang assault charge against Renzo Gracie on exponentially more flimsy evidence for the scuffle at One Oak several years ago with video evidence in existence to contradict the DA's witnesses» false statements which is the only reason it abandoned those charges for a misdemeanor assault plea.

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