Sentences with phrase «abuse positions of power»

The problem with teaching our kids this lesson, is that there are always going to be people that abuse their positions of power.

«Today's sentencing decision by the Court sends a strong message to New Yorkers that those who abuse positions of power to line their own pockets will be held accountable by this office.

Called out those who abuse their positions of power and given a voice to those who have been ignored or silenced for too long.

If those EV JoPa and MH friends love and care about their leaders, then take care of them and get them the help they need, so they can have healthy relationships and not abuse their positions of power.

You abused your position of power and that IS spiritual abuse.

Are you honestly going to turn a blind eye to how they have abused their position of power and influence to harm people?!

Addressing a crowd in Los Angeles, Johansson made a comment about men abusing their positions of power that was widely speculated — and later confirmed — to have been directed toward James Franco.

From silencing people from speaking out about someone allegedly abusing a position of power, to preventing discussion about the true extent of the problem across the industry, NDAs — and the anonymity they provide — can do as much harm as good.

Not exact matches

Because these people (priests and pastors) are held to a higher standard by virtue of their position, yet they routinely abuse their power.

Where there is a position of power, there seems to be potential for abuse... Is it possible to put an end to this type of abuse?

Julie has described a range of psychological abuses, legal abuses, abuses of power and position, breach of spiritual and tribal trust, psychic manipulation, numerous forms of sociopathic threats, physical harm, and conspiratorial behavior.

That was wrong and an abuse of power and position to discredit an individual, rationalize a divorce and cover up an affair.

To me and to every victim of spiritual abuse by Pastors in a position of power and influence.

Can I suggest something about power in it being about how power is used and as has been discussed before that it would be naiive to think that it is only people in positions of power tha abuse?

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

It's also naiive to think that it is only those in positions of power that abuse.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

It's the people in positions of power that use, corrupt and abuse religious doctrine to control the people.

And if the academy acknowledged that religious intolerance is systemic and involves abuse of power, then its leaders would also have to acknowledge their tenuous position in relationship to the First Amendment, which says that the government will not use its power to «establish religion.»

When I read between the lines of the New Testament, I see, along with the good, a very chaotic community that struggled with the same issues the contemporary church struggles with: ambition, power, position, money, possessions, charismata and worship, order, heresy, dress, the abuse of the sacraments, teaching, and so on.

The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

«We are saddened by the accounts of deplorable behaviour from a group of individuals who have abused their power, exploited their position, and sought to subvert systems designed to protect vulnerable people in Haiti,» the charity stated.

My own past of sexual abuse was from a female in a position of power and for those wondering if anyone has ever reported Ina May there is every reason to believe that the first person they told was someone who told them to not discuss it, not worry about it, not think about that part.

How often do we find that when people get into a position of power, that they then start to abuse it, both in politics and business.

«In the last two months, dozens of courageous individuals have come forward to share painful stories of harassment and abuse they suffered at the hands of those in positions of power.

It allows people like him to be elected to positions of power, only to abuse them by writing such scandalous articles for public consumption.

A Queens legislator charges that one of his colleagues abused her power, saying in an ethics complaint that she used her position to sic government agencies on a waterfront restaurant...

Like the victims and survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, ignored for years by people in positions of power, now on the long road to the truth.

It should also serve as a reminder to politicians, present and future who enter public service for the wrong reasons, that elected office is a privilege and abuse of power and position will not be tolerated.»

And in the world we live in today, we won't tolerate abuse of power and position in any form from anyone.»

Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich charges that one of his colleagues, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, abused her power, saying in an ethics complaint that she used her position to sic government agencies on a waterfront restaurant after her sons were assaulted outside the establishment.

Leaders within those groups say there is a shift happening, seen in recent months by the emergence of women and some men who have come forward to reveal their stories of abuse and harassment by people in positions of power.

Serious manipulation of people for personal gain or abusing power for personal benefit, if you are in a position to do so, can be common traits of those with blockages of this Chakra.

Too long people in positions of power have abused their celebrity or authority to gratify their sexual needs.

Deadline reports that 94 % of women surveyed by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center said they had been subjected to some sort of harassment or abuse by an older individual in a position of power.

«I personally witnessed two men in high positions of power on that set seek out and verbally abuse multiple women,» she wrote in the deleted Instagram post.

«I want, tonight, to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because, like my mother, they had bills to pay and dreams to pursue,» Winfrey said, telling the story of Recy Taylor, and declaring that «time is up» for those who use their positions of power to abuse others.

Oscar winner Broderick Crawford is Hoover, the once - dedicated agent who cleans up the bureau out of moral indignation over abuses and then builds it into his own private duchy of power and control, using information and blackmail to maintain his position and authority through every successive administration.

Not only that, he's a gentleman who conducts himself appropriately — unlike many other power brokers in Hollywood who have been accused recently of abusing their positions.

Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.

In this movie, it is shown that the main actor Terence abuses his power upon assumption of a higher position.

5 Sexual Exploitation — «any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust, for sexual purposes, including, but not limited to, profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the sexual exploitation of another».

What hurts us all is accepting the systematic abuse by people.in positions of power and celebrities.

The tension builds relentlessly as backstories morph into intriguing subplots, threats to the very core of Swedish democracy are uncovered, men in positions of authority continue to abuse their power, and Salander and Blomkvist continue to fight for justice in their different, inimitable styles.

Once you figure out what angle and how much power you could put into a shot, you could score a good amount of points by abusing that position.

Concept and reality, hope and melancholy, belief in the new and the reality of the abuse of power — this exhibition poignantly places the two positions in parallel, examining at the same time the forms of conceptual art.

(a) the agreement is expressed by the words or conduct of a person other than the complainant; (b) the complainant is incapable of consenting to the activity; (c) the accused induces the complainant to engage in the activity by abusing a position of trust, power or authority; (d) the complainant expresses, by words or conduct, a lack of agreement to engage in the activity; or (e) the complainant, having consented to engage in sexual activity, expresses, by words or conduct, a lack of agreement to continue to engage in the activity.

The LAA's position was that for an application to be granted, it must be shown that the act or omission complained of was deliberate or dishonest and resulted in foreseeable harm, and that there must also be an abuse of position or power — that more than simple negligence is required.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has the power to impose financial penalties and prohibitions, and enjoys wide powers to investigate cartels, market position abuse breaches and monopoly investigations.

(4) For the purposes of this paragraph, an act or omission by a public authority does not constitute an abuse of its position or powers unless the act or omission --