Sentences with phrase «about violence at»

I was often asked by union clients to give lectures on my specialist subjects, in particular about violence at work.

Earlier this month, at a City Council hearing about violence at Rikers, Mr. Ponte praised Mr. Clemons for a «long history of doing good work in the agency.»

The Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society has joined a growing list of charities and organizations to cancel events at Trump's exclusive Florida resort, Mar - a-Lago, following his controversial comments about violence at a white supremacist rally.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and New York City Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton were scheduled to speak Tuesday about violence at city celebrations.

The racists are out and rearing their ugly heads with lots of fake tweets about violence at #BlackPanther screenings.

Not exact matches

Police used water hoses in below - freezing temperatures to keep about 400 protesters at bay, a move criticized by activist groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and elected officials concerned about freedom of expression and the escalation of violence.

«I moved to Canada at a time when there was a lot of violence and insecurity in Colombia, and whenever I thought about the conflict, the trouble always seemed to stem from the inequality between the rich and the poor,» she says.

Police and politicians have attributed the violence to the alcohol served at about 70 % of locations in the U.S..

As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»

Black Lives Matter, a generally amorphous protest movement, is generally aimed at raising awareness about state violence against black people and systemic racism.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

After Trump made equivocal comments about who was to blame for violence at rallies held by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville over the weekend, Ken Frazier, the chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck, resigned from Trump's manufacturing council Monday.

From left, Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, 14, who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida; Francine Wheeler, mother of Ben Wheeler, 6, a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting, and Lori Haas, mother of a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, during a meeting with Senate Democrats about gun violence last month.

Indigenous leaders, First Nations communities, even Amnesty International, have all expressed concerns about «man camps» at resource development projects and the potential for exploitation and violence against Indigenous women they pose.

At Friday's meeting, Kelly also told subordinates to convey to other White House aides that he cares about domestic violence, according to the officials.

Surviving students at the school quickly spoke out on social media and to news cameras about the violence and, more broadly, about political leadership that they saw as having let them down.

People were really maxing out credit cards trying to really help these children and these brands are willing to give so much to them, and I think that is because — at the center of it — we're talking about gun violence.

The recent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has renewed the debate about high national rates of gun violence and what to do about it.

Think about the language we use; the things we look at and so on... and to sign up to the White Ribbon Pledge, which is never to commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women.»

The campaign hopes to raise awareness about gender - based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional and international level.

Children not among the targeted audience: those who worry about having enough food to last through the weekend, those who wonder why their father is no longer at home, and those who must learn to avoid neighborhood violence.

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.»

How about a Catholic Father of two girls to get on and: 1) Agree that any violence against any human of any age is wrng an punisghable regardless after (at least in my country (the US) one is proven guilty by a court of law.

The discussions at the Security Council of the U.N., for example, produce more moral statements about Russia's lies, violence, and manipulations than any church has ever done.

My husband and I give premarital counseling and from experience we learned that we have to talk about violence even at that stage in the relationship.

Although he sympathized with the civil rights movement and actively opposed the Vietnam War» he was (with Richard John Neuhaus) a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam» he felt increasingly alarmed at the radicalism of the Movement, which reminded him of the street violence he had witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany.

By cherry - picking texts out of the Bible to reveal the goodness, and love, and mercy, and grace, and acceptance of God, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like that!

God gets angry at Moses at this point, and tells him, «Don't talk to me about violence!

We will look at much of this imagery in a later post when we consider the violence in the book of Revelation, but the imagery is only brought up here to show that when Jesus talks about the flood in Matthew 24, He likens it to a similar form of world - wide judgment that falls upon the earth at the end of days.

As for what Jesus taught, he said some pretty disturbing things about God's wrath upon the earth, and then in his ascended state, he told John the graphic horrific violence that would come at the end of days.

And regardless of what you believe about the violence of God in Scripture, these books will present you with a new way of looking at things so that you no longer have to choose between accepting that God is violent or writing off the Bible as hopelessly full of error.

On the post about the drawings you said «God has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, destruction, murder, violence, oppression, retribution, vengeance, hate, or conditional acceptance.»

Look, I know that not everybody will agree with the theory I am proposing about how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament (see the link list at the bottom of this post).

I preached about the proliferation of violence which is at the root of more than just gun crimes.

If that opportunity never presents itself (and I hope it doesn't) you could always go visit some female burn victims in the Middle East and talk about the violence suffered at the hands of their husbands, all justified by their religious beliefs.

Far Cry, at its core, is about violence, not Jesus.

Hey black pastors how about you focus on black on black violence, or blacks low graduation rates and low education, or the drug epidemic, or the fact that black men abandon their children at a higher rate than other races... yeah ga. y marriage should be a big issue... what a fvcking joke...

Or we could give ourselves permission to engage in the violence of electricity production by saying (in the manner of Reinhold Niebuhr) that the kingdom that Christ's life makes visible is an «impossible possibility» which stands at the edge of history as its judge rather than being the truth about history.

A Christian charity has told Premier it's concerned about latest figures that reveal despite prosecutions for «honour - based» violence being at their lowest level in five years, the number of reports to police have gone up.

Authorities say Mr Kelley had been confronted on at least two occasions in the last five years about domestic violence, including an assault on his ex-wife and a child that ended his Air Force career.

I concluded much the same thing that I am writing about in my recent series on the violence of God in the Old Testament (see the link list at the bottom of this post).

If we're upset over some victims of gun violence but not others, grieved by some untimely deaths but not others, worried about some missing children but not others — we aren't concerned with the injustices at hand.

I was thinking a bit more about the violence of God and the source of evil today (as these topics are consuming my thoughts recently), and I remembered a paper I wrote back in 1999 while at Denver Seminary for a class I had with Douglas Groothuis.

Although he was talking about the state of the planet, his words are also apt on the topic of racial justice: If you look at the data that shows how racial violence has evolved throughout history and aren't frustrated or exhausted, then you probably don't understand the full story.

In both stories, hosts wishing to protect the male guests offer women — essentially considered property at the time — to the mob instead, which goes to show that this was not about sexual preference, but about violence and domination.

Nominee Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs and government relations at Franklin Graham's evangelical relief ministry, previously posted on social media about Muslims» propensity for violence and his desire to prioritize Christian refugees, according to a Washington Post report.

I think Jesus would be mortified at what his preaching's have turned into today, so instead of reacting with violence and ignorance at a non believer take a second to think about your own relationship with god and the universe, blind faith is a terrible sin

But even with displaced ideas about masculinity, «toughness» and competition, football has a core issue that all Christians who support the game must reckon with: It is, at its very core, a game of violence.

Kavanaugh was outspoken about his disgust of Mayweather's past antics and alleged domestic violence history... he vowed he'd never shake hands with Mayweather because he's so disgusted at him as a classless person.

But at a time when more and more athletes of color are speaking loudly about police violence and racial injustice, Jordan and Newton are somewhat muted.