Sentences with phrase «acts of abuse»

I believe it is possible for people who have engaged in acts of abuse in the past to learn to work with their partner in healthy ways by learning how to communicate their attachment needs and how to heal and repair any damage or trauma in their past that may have led to the development of abusive or violent tendencies.

In this case study, a young women who has chronic verbal, emotional, and physical abuse and was exposed to repetitive adult acts of abuse as a child initially presented with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) marked by constriction and disconnection, which resulted in her feeling passive and tortured.

It depended upon whether or not there was a sufficiently close connection between the work which the employee had been employed to do and the acts of abuse.

Secrecy: Nevertheless, the specific acts of abuse themselves are hidden in some sense from public view.

Patterns of Abuse: Systems of oppression are created by a series of acts of abuse which establish and maintain dominance.

She believed that the unprocessed trauma experienced by many women — as the result of individually experienced acts of abuse and violence, and as the result of cultural oppression — could manifest itself in physical symptoms, especially those relating specifically to female biology.

The collaboration with Priotab aims at identifying brain imaging biomarkers for trigger patterns of paedophilia and the risk of commiting acts of abuse

The penalty exceeded those imposed on many employees who had committed acts of abuse or neglect against people with developmental disabilities, and the case was complicated by the fact that the co-worker involved had previously been fired for cause.

In addition, a 24 - 7 hotline and statewide database will track reports of abuse, along with a statewide register of workers who have committed acts of abuse will be bared from working with people with special needs.

Chief of the General Staff Sir Mike Jackson has said the British army «condemn utterly» any acts of abuse against prisoners in Iraq.

Dr. Karp consulted on several severely injured babies whose screams drove their stressed - out parents to commit horrible acts of abuse.

In addition to the individual acts of abuse which led to criminal charges, The HSUS» investigation also found breeding pigs confined day - and - night in gestation crates, tiny cages that virtually immobilize animals for nearly their entire lives.

But we're seeing more violent acts of abuse than ever before.

«But addressing my own acts of abuse this way acknowledges the importance of confronting abuse in our culture and in the Church at large.»

We know from our own troubled War against Terror, how easy it is, when facing a murderous enemy, to slide from just war principles, into acts of abuse and immorality.

I can not state it strongly enough: No act of abuse is justified by God, and no one is called to endure abuse out of a commitment to the Bible or to Jesus.

Enduring even one more act of abuse is worse than being left «disconnected»

The worker, whose name is being held back because the case is still pending, received a notice in June that read «you committed an act of abuse or neglect on or about (insert date) at (insert provider agency name).

It's an act of abuse, not a hijink gone awry, but the film - makers invite the audience to find it funny.

An intentional and malicious act of abuse or cruelty is when someone purposely and knowingly deprives an animal of proper care or adequate food, water, shelter, or allows the animal to go without necessary veterinary care, or tortures, maims, mutilates or kills an animal.

An act of abuse, neglect or exploitation of an older person might give rise to one or all of the following types of proceedings:

Because cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress based on allegations of domestic abuse is continuing tort, 2 - year limitations period does not commence until last act of abuse.

For example, in S v W (Child Abuse: Damages)[1995] 1 FLR 862, the claimant sued her father and mother for sexual abuse by her father some 10 years after the last act of abuse.

Known commonly as «Shaken Baby Syndrome,» this act of abuse can cause lifelong brain damage in infants and, in the most severe cases, may even result in death.

Not exact matches

First, he says, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 made it more difficult for consumers to file for bankruptcy.

Yellen's final act at the Fed was to hit one of the largest U.S. banks, Wells Fargo & Co., with an unusual ban on growth that follows the San Francisco - based lender's pattern of consumer abuses and compliance lapses.

The best picture Oscar winner of 2016, this look inside the investigative newspaper team that uncovered the child sex abuse going on among Boston priests is a powerhouse of great acting and storytelling.

The Magnitsky Act leveled sanctions on high - level Russian officials accused of human rights abuses and corruption.

Adam Szubin, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Washington expected other governments and financial authorities to make similar moves to prevent Pyongyang from «abusing» global financial institutions to support its development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

In a lengthy letter to the judge, Weiner said that he «can't ever imagine not feeling regret» for his abuses and said that his «continued acting out over years crushed the aspirations of my wife and ruined our marriage.»

A good next move for Congress would be to launch a long - overdue update of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act from 1986, which makes it unlawful to break into a computer to access or alter information and, astoundingly, still serves as a legal guidepost today.

«This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?»

While complaints about China's abuse of intellectual property rights are not confined to the United States, Trump's global steel and aluminum tariffs announced last week under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 complicate U.S. efforts to recruit allies to put pressure on China.

In the six - count suit the airline alleges the pair broke Southwest website's terms and conditions by taking fare data off the site, broke trademark laws, and violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing Southwest's «computers without authorization or in excess of authorized access.»

Since 1970, marijuana has been on the list of Schedule I drugs, which defines chemicals under the Controlled Substances Act as a drug with high potential for abuse and no medical benefits.

ACT / The App Association, which represents about 5,000 app outfits, signed the letter and posted a link to the document on its web site, along with a blog post elaborating on what it calls «the growing danger of standards essential patent abuse.»

Subject: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Important changes to Canadian citizenship and immigration policy have broken into the headlines of late, from the introduction of the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act to serious abuses of the controversial temporary foreign worker program to refugee determination concerns.

Legal experts, speaking on a not - for - attribution basis because precise measures have not been announced, said one possibility is the government might change the Competition Act to say that «abuse of a dominant position» would include «exploitative pricing» or, in effect, charging too much.

In addition to any other requirements or restrictions set forth in this Agreement, you shall not: (i) utilize the credit available on any Card to provide cash advances to Cardholders, (ii) submit any card transaction for processing that does not arise from your sale of goods or service to a buyer customer, (iii) act as a payment intermediary or aggregator or otherwise resell our services on behalf of any third party, (iv) send what you believe to be potentially fraudulent authorizations or fraudulent card transaction, or (v) use your Merchant Account or the Service in a manner that Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover or any other Payment Network reasonably believes to be an abuse of the Payment Network or a violation of Payment Network rules.

The act of kicking a member out of the Academy is rare, but the AMPAS board in October did vote to expel Harvey Weinstein after a special emergency meeting in October, following bombshell reports the New York Times and New Yorker about decades of alleged sexual harassment and abuse.

The memo Duncan is referring to is a four - page memo written by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), which allegedly details abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the FBI used to wiretap Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential campaign.

The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.»

Here is one way Congress could do just that — call it the Undo the Fed's Abuse of Interest on Reserves Act:

YOU: even the most depraved beings are acting out some sort of abuse done to them.

But back to where we were... even the most depraved beings are acting out some sort of abuse done to them.

Reading the whole thing to a child would be a perverse act of child abuse.

Unless we climb out of those stands and go after those who abuse us as acting as if they are our voice, then we support what is happening.

Just this month, two top American cardinals, Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Timothy Dolan of New York, were called on to give legal testimony over lawsuits related to abuse of children, and the leader of Scotland's Catholic Church, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigned after allegations he had acted improperly toward four men studying for the priesthood decades ago.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!