Sentences with phrase «against individual persons»

A public forum is a place to voice one's opinions and to not place personal attacks directly against individual persons.

Victims of human rights violations in foreign nations (including terrorism) had made successful claims under the ATS against individual people, but the...

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The people behind them may be happy to see the company plead guilty provided no charges are laid against individual executives.

«Going forward, we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people,» the company wrote in statement on Thursday.

He starts out with a clever definition of what bullying actually is: «Bullying is what happens when an individual with power exercises that power against people who don't fit in.

In October, the site implemented a ban on content that «glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people.»

And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.

You hear people complain that the deck is stacked against the small individual investor.

If those 100 people held a rally — a form of social organization designed to amplify individual voices — and at that rally chanted slogans for or against a particular candidate, that would be perfectly legal.

«Marginless will bring the good old times where individuals will have an opportunity to place a wager against other people directly on almost any sport or other activity.

Some argue using a permission blockchain would help as it would only allow a few people to fully access the records, but the possibility of having a government official (or just the regular public) know how an individual vote goes against the premise of free and fair elections.

Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

Your statement that «all the comments on this subject (concerning atheists) do not come from happy people... who despise, are upset, have nothing, are not thankful and... have nothing to live for» goes against the very way that both Jesus and the apostles taught when speaking with individuals who do not share their view.

Secondly, I find it appalling that people would use the criminal actions of some individuals to generalize against an entire faith followed by 1.1 billion people in the world.

And when we are at a loss against the hypocrisy and the casual violence of certain individuals and institutions, we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the disenfranchised and the marginalized.

The protest is NOT against science and structure, rather, the protest is against the «dehumanization» of the human being by reducing him / her down to only matter and rules, and is against dismissing the «spirit & soul» which give every individual his / her unique «person.»

Although the family physician usually should be the key person in arranging treatment of the mentally ill person, the minister occasionally has an important role in counseling with the family concerning their decision about whether or not to hospitalize the individual against his will.

I hope the Muslim world sees this for what it really is, one individuals attempt to hate on another religion and just calm down against innocent people who had ZERO involvement with this.

People need to weigh their passionate feelings with careful thought before they chip away at the inviolability of individual conscience, and those who believe it can be legislated against should beware of hypocrisy; they are often the same people who argue that when it comes to abortion, a woman's own mind — her individual conscience and reason — outweighs what used to be called «conventional morality.&People need to weigh their passionate feelings with careful thought before they chip away at the inviolability of individual conscience, and those who believe it can be legislated against should beware of hypocrisy; they are often the same people who argue that when it comes to abortion, a woman's own mind — her individual conscience and reason — outweighs what used to be called «conventional morality.&people who argue that when it comes to abortion, a woman's own mind — her individual conscience and reason — outweighs what used to be called «conventional morality.»

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

Carl Henry, for example, was able to respond to Jim Wallis's characterization of the communal, over against the individual, nature of the gospel by saying that he agreed with Wallis's communal definition.67» But Henry's individualistic view of people within human society, while allowing for the community of the church, the importance of the family, and a limited function for the state, remains largely atomistic.

Instituting a «designated persons list» for individuals who violate religious freedom and authorizing the president to issue sanctions against those who participate in persecution.

What makes it different from, say, a hate campaign against a public figure is that it tends to revolve around a single incident and inspires people who never had any prior dealings with the individual to focus white - hot anger at them (usually demanding that they be sacked).

If human beings could communicate among themselves by direct sympathy, then they would be as mutually dependent upon each other as the body and mind are; and this condition would deny individual persons freedom and distinct individuality over against one another.26 Although the relationship between one's body and mind seems to be immediately social, Hartshorne holds that interchange between human minds is almost never by direct contact and generally through mediation of vibrating particles of air and other kinds of «matter.»

When Our Saviour Yeshua Mashiah came it is importnat to note that he didn't try to change the Romans i.e the government at that time as His thing was not against them, he came to help people as individuals and its only when we as people change can we begin to see change in the world and this is why God is a very personal experince and not religious, we need teachers but not the religious types, we need teachers who guide us to God with us and this is what Our Saviour did, we have the freedom to choose but we can only choose if we have what to choose from and being informed helps us to do this

I wish to be emphatic here: any «real revolution» must not minimize individual medical guidance as to the contraceptive least likely to endanger a person's health while protecting against pregnancy.

In the early days in Palestine, before outstanding individuals appeared in the prophetic succession, bands of prophets represented the most fanatic patriotism of the Hebrew tribes, and Saul's espousal of his people's cause against their enemies followed his falling under the spell of the prophets» frenzy.

The Conference called the churches to bear courageous and unflinching witness to the nations that the base purposes of people, whether individuals or of groups, can not prevail against the will of the holy and compassionate God.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of human activity, a need for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the human person over all the economic and social mechanisms which oppress him.

So you can support an ideal or institution but when those at the said entity go against or prevent the spirit, ideal or purpose of that entity then you stop supporting the individual (for obvious reasons) unless you are a mindless droid type person with little intellect or reasoning.

I want an approach which is more targeted against extremist individuals, but that impacts much less on the good people of our communities.

Fascists are against individuality; the expression of liberty, and view individuals only in relation to their people.

It's difficult to appreciate why some learned persons at bar or bench would often make some «political utterances» against certain individuals or group of persons perceived or believed to be affiliated to NDC with impunity.

But Dignity in Dying campaigns for dying people to have the right to die well, not for an unfettered right to die, and we believe legislation must balance the rights of the individual against the needs of society.

For example, if we did away with the individual mandate to buy health insurance, but continued to ensure that insurance companies did not discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, then young, healthy people may forego health insurance, leaving the industry with a disproportionately high number of sick people, driving up the cost of health care.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger and freshman Assemblywoman Monica Wallace also voted against the bill, which among other things, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from detaining individuals based on immigration status and would provide for legal representation for people without documentation who otherwise couldn't afford it.

While it's hard to argue against anything you wrote (i agree with most points), specific examples - especially of people citing those specific individual reasons - would improve this answer a lot.

If you polled those supporting Trump and Moore, they'd probably come in heavily against molesting people who are legally minors, if you removed specific context or individuals and polled on the topic, alone.

We KROBOS are very wise, peace - loving people and will not allow ourselves to be incited against any other tribe in the region and the country as a whole for the political interest of few self - centred individuals.

He said each agency must act in the interests of the individual child, but stressed: «If we take the view as a society that we should not discriminate against people who are homosexual, you can not give exclusions for people on the grounds that their religion or their race says we don't agree with that.»

This can add weight in some people's perspective, yet are still weighed against the perceived credibility and honesty of an individual.

The definition of «person» includes religious institutions, businesses and associations, which opponents say is effectively opening the door to state - sanctioned discrimination against LGBT individuals.

Specifically, any unsolicited actions of others that physically affect an individual's property or person, no matter if the result of those actions is damaging, beneficial, or neutral to the owner, are considered violent or aggressive when they are against the owner's free will and interfere with his right to self - determination and the principle of self - ownership.

«Whereas we have restated our total support for the war against corruption, we insist that Mr. President's unceasing blanket negative labeling of citizens, in a country where millions of honest and hardworking individuals / firms are genuinely contributing daily to the development effort, is indeed a disservice and injurious to the nation and the people.

«While freedom to criticise religions or aspect of religious belief or practice should be defended, we should not tolerate the stirring up of hatred or suspicion against individuals or groups of people simply on account of their religion.

«If the United States is seen as showing its so - called fist at a moment when the people themselves are speaking out, it could have the adverse effect of rallying those individuals against the United States and not against their government,» the Democrat said.

In addition to the former aide, Joseph Percoco, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan intends to bring public - corruption charges against a number of other individuals in connection with the wide - ranging investigation, these people said...

I have written this piece much against the counsel of well - meaning individuals who believe that Mr. Femi Fani - Kayode, the loquacious controversial lawyer is better ignored anytime he throws all cautions to the wind as he is no longer worth the attention of right - thinking people.

«It is instructive to further state that the desperate move by the Presidency to politically prey on individuals is mere foolhardiness and a totally decadent approach to pit key leaders against the people on an issue that has already been thrown overboard.