Sentences with phrase «abduction of about»

I was looking into the abduction of about 200 patients from the Vukovar hospital when Vukovar fell.

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Friday's inter-Korean summit drew a mixed reaction from relatives of Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korea decades ago, with some hopeful for the return of their loved ones and others anxious about the outlook, including the lack of a reference to the abduction issue in the leaders» joint declaration.

Abductions arise in pre-interpreted cognitively significant acts in the discovery and creation of new cognitions about natural laws.

Like (some of you youngsters may never have heard about Bertha Butt, who is one of the Butt sisters) doin the bump, coaxing the puck to fly into the net, with a resolute abduction of the hip joint off to one side, thus striking the puck with the buttocks in the intended direction.

On the other hand, absolute numbers of deaths on playground equipment and by child abduction are about the same — in 2005, 25 children died on playground equipment in the US, in 1970, 28 did, on the old «deathtrap» equipment we used to use and love.

Alfred Sacchetti, an emergency room doctor in Camden, New Jersey, and spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, says it's common for parents to worry more about their child being abducted by a stranger than about his riding in a car without a seat belt or playing near an ungated swimming pool — even though car - and water - related accidents pose a far greater threat to kids than abduction.

Parents worry endlessly about how to protect their children from stranger abduction and violence, but many overlook one of the biggest threats to their children's safety and well - being — their own home.

The abduction of the schoolgirls in north - eastern Nigeria in April 2014 by the Islamist militant group caused a global outcry — and prompted campaigns about girls» right to education.

About 50 of the kidnapped girls managed to escape from the captors in the first days after their abduction, but some 220 remain missing, according to the principal of the Chibok Girls Secondary School, Asabe Kwambura.

According to the Public Relations Officer of the police command, Mr. Femi Joseph, immediately after the command received the information about monarch's wife abduction, a team of policemen was dispatched to the scene, and in conjunction with the local hunters, chased the kidnappers.

The armed Boko Haram member, who appeared with dozens of the girls in the background, accused the Federal Government of lying to the world about the mass abduction for the two years the girls had spent in captivity.

Perhaps we should ask the PDP what indeed the party knows about the abduction of the Dapchi girls, going by its statement that their abduction and release were stage - managed.

The commissioner, who also commended the police for deploying their men in schools in the state, said he would pray that this was sustained and not an action dictated by emotion brought about by the abduction of the Dapchi schoolgirls.

Whether you're sure about political affiliations or alien abduction, that feeling of knowing derives not from rational thought, he argues, but from the brain's primitive limbic system; the gut feeling is more likely to emerge from careful electric stimulation than from careful consideration.

Will Beuche sees it this way: «I won't call abduction a spiritual experience, but by its very nature it casts you into reflection about your existence... you feel you're behind the scenes of a theater, of an incredible play... this play we're all in.»

The deltoid muscle has a dynamic activation of about 90 — 120 degrees of abduction.

From a base of 1,000 elderly men and women, Bassey et al. (1989) showed that shoulder abduction decreased gradually and consistently with age and was about 25 % less in these elderly subjects compared with norms for a younger population.

There is limited information available about the moment arm lengths of the deltoids for performing shoulder horizontal abduction and adduction.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Abduction (PG - 13 for sexuality, teen partying, intense violence and brief profanity) John Singleton directs this action thriller about a teenager (Taylor Lautner) who ends up on the run from a team of hit men when he tries to determine his true identity after seeing his baby photo on a missing persons website.

In this interview with UK site Metro.co.uk, he speaks about his experiences throughout his acting career, gives praise to his Abduction co-star Taylor Lautner, and of how he'll «be Lucius Malfoy until the last job I do».

Unfortunately, in a story about overcoming reflexive fears and animus to discover human commonalities, they're relegated to the background of a narrative that asks the audience to believe in sudden reversals and changes of heart, as well as nearly every ambush, abduction, near - rape and showdown in the Western playbook.

If you look at the actual story, which has one of my strongest narratives... the trade - off of one abduction for another... it becomes less about plot than about these two women travelling around together against a swirl of corruption.

The acting and Chris Ross» script are pure melodrama, so it's up to Morano to rein things in both as director and as her own DP; she brings some restraint, and plenty of vivid images, to a film that's all about the grotesquely intimate process of juggling mourning and anger in a child - abduction case.

Most filmmakers would turn a story about a mysterious child abduction and grieving parents desperate to save their kids into a cookie cutter psychological drama, then spice it up with a dash of teary melodrama and a pinch of hair - bristling thriller.

Those looking forward to the first - person alien abduction experience The Hum: Abductions are probably wondering like myself about the status of...

Based on true events about the uncomfortable subject of abduction of Joy, here you are thrown into her world where you discover she is held captive in the «Room» with her now five year old son Jack.

Elle Fanning first toddled on - screen playing younger versions of her older sister, Dakota, in I Am Sam and again in Taken, the Syfy mini-series produced by Steven Spielberg about alien abduction and hybrid breeding.

With goal to inform the public about the criminal operations of Boko Haram against Nigeria's peace and examine whether the Nigerian Government has properly confronted the situation within the country, this article provides a description of important factual information which is primarily based on the recent abduction incident of the 200 Chibok girls in Northeastern Nigeria.

The ride is conducted each year to raise public awareness about the plight of missing children, to prevent child abduction, molestation and sexual exploitation and to support abduction prevention education programs.

What is your opinion about Hill's suggestion that Aminata's very youthfulness at the time of her abduction enables her emotional survival, even as some of the adults in her world show signs of crumbling?

With the help of his brother Ben and sister Kerry, Vincent makes a documentary film about the lifelong trauma of child abduction and receives an Academy Award nomination for his work.

The same can be said about the influx of titles about UFO abductions, Big Foot and its cousins, etc..

We know from the synopsis of BioShock Infinite that Elizabeth, the girl whom the protagonist has been sent to retrieve, has been trapped on the floating city for about that long, so the reasons for her abduction and captivity will likely be explained.

The odds of total stranger abduction are about 1 in 14 million based on RCMP reports.

Ergo, the «control knob» proposition has the same likelihood of reality as those space alien abductions one reads about, Big Foot enrolling at Univ. of Washington, Congress balancing the budget, or Earth developing a climate of «boiling» oceans.

On or about May 22, 2006 (20 months after the abduction), the clerk of the Federal Constitutional Court reported to J's German lawyer that the file in the case is missing and can not be found.

In the debate about whether Japan should sign the Hague abduction convention, a serious consequence of Japan's failure to ratify the treaty is being overlooked.

The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released some limited information about the number of applications that it has received under the Hague Abduction Convention and the number of cases in which children have been returned.

The Treaty says nothing about the obligations of the United States and Mexico to refrain from forcible abductions of people from the territory of the other nation, or the consequences under the Treaty if such an abduction occurs.

On November 9, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear an appeal in Office of the Children's Lawyer v JPB and CRB (Supreme Court of Canada, Leave to Appeal (37250)-RRB-(Balev), a case which raises important issues about the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

Led by Hilary Lennox and her colleagues, the team at Five St Andrews Hill talks about international regulations surrounding child abduction and relocation, what reforms are needed surrounding surrogacy law, and also touches on the ins and outs of forced marriage and the tax advantages of marriage.

See our previous blog post, «What parents should know about the Hague Convention on the civil aspects of International child abduction.»

More information about the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is available in Frequently Asked Questions.

In Hague Convention 1980 child abduction retention cases, a new habitual residence regardless of intention of the parents may have been brought about in state B for example if the child is in school and settled in its new social environment.

He speaks with Lawyer Monthly about his extensive experience; in this stimulating interview, David speaks on implementing the first family law mediation scheme in Australia, how the UK could advance their legal system, and the challenging nature of child abduction cases.

As news of two European birdwatchers and their abduction from the Philippines recently hit the news and last week two American women and their Egyptian guide were abducted at gunpoint in Egypt, travelers have again been forced to think about what they should do if they are kidnapped while traveling.

The multilateral treaty is in place to protect children from the harmful effects of cross-border abduction and retention by providing a procedure to bring about their prompt return.

If a parent relocates to a country that has signed the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the United States, as a signatory to the convention, may be able to help bring about the child's return to the United States.

According to a 2007 report by CNN, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year — and about one - fourth of these abductions are committed by family members.

According to the Department of Justice, about 200,000 family abductions occur each year and that 6 percent of these last for longer than six months.