Sentences with phrase «against the abuse as»

I am not forbidden from speaking against the abuse as a Catholic.

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New York attorney - general Eric Schneiderman subpoenaed The Weinstein Company as part of a probe into whether studio officials had violated the law in their handling of abuse claims against its disgraced co-founder Harvey.

This protects against corruption or abuse, and restores power back to the individual as information asymmetry is no longer a cost.

As abuse allegations against NFL players mount, Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings is the latest casualty of pulled endorsements.

As the Daily Mail was preparing to publish an article on Tuesday detailing allegations of domestic abuse against Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary, John Kelly gave the British news outlet an odd statement singing Porter's praises.

And even in cases where abuse is well documented — as in Ellen Pao's unsuccessful sexual harassment lawsuit against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — the men responsible are rarely punished, and the overall picture rarely improves.

But she apparently missed all the cautionary tales of abuse heaped on beauty brands such as SheaMoisture, Dove, L'Oreal's Elvive and more in social media the past year over slights against women of color — either real or highly enhanced by the outrage machine.

For centuries, he argues, courts in the United Kingdom, United States, and elsewhere recognized that wealthy people could use third - party lawsuits as a weapon against those they disliked — and had rules in place to prevent this power from being abused.

Another novel portion requires facilities to allow residents» families to monitor them electronically as a safeguard against abuse.

Many aligned on the left will see both of these as «making history,» finally striking a prophetic blow against the tyrannies of heteronormativity, discrimination, and the abuse of mother earth.

A Mexican resident who says he was sexually abused by a priest as a child is suing the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Los Angeles and Mexico's top - ranking Catholic cleric, alleging they aided and abetted the abuse by moving the priest between dioceses as allegations piled up against him.

The Florida case against Ferraro stemmed from allegations of abuse during his time as a U.S. Navy chaplain in Key West.

Some people say that it is pointless, as it can not actually do anything, but in my opinion it does do something; it shows moral and emotional support for those supporting the fight against child abuse.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

And this nonsense several keep spouting that to speak up against abuse is just as intolerant as the abusers are themselves is completely ridiculous.

Cruelty against children and worse than death as many victims suffer from the mental illness caused by the abuse.

In addition, the list also names archdiocese clergy still facing public accusations of child sex abuse, as well as those who died before public accusations of sex abuse against them could be fully investigated or were leveled in the first place.

As CT reported five years ago, the case against SGM claimed that the ministry had conspired to cover up abuse within its network.

Boots described emails and comments on social media as a «torrent of personal abuse» against their employees because of its original stance of refusing to lower the price of the morning - after pill.

It would cost to take a stand against these very prominent leaders, despite the fact that the situation we were dealing with is widely recognized as one of the worst, if not the worst, instances of evangelical cover - up of sexual abuse.

The full record, as I have read it, actually shows that Tony has actually written against Driscoll's spiritual abuses so many times that one might actually conclude Tony is an example of how the church DOES SOMETIMES CONFRONT ABUSE.

A Church of England inquiry into child abuse allegations against one of its most respected bishops almost 60 years after his death has been criticised as deficient by an independent review.

«A jury in Oregon ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $ 18.5 million to a former Scout who suffered se - xual abuse as a child at the hands of his troop leader — the largest such award levied against the organization, reports The Oregonian.

In his lengthy piece, Stetzer offers a forensic examination of Patterson's record detailing his intolerance of criticism along with a series indiscretions, including crude public comments about a 16 - year - old girl, scheming against the appointment of David Platt as new president of SBC's International Mission Board and his connection with Paul Pressler, who is now facing a lawsuit for sexual abuse allegations.

And how can the predatory abuse of human power in prisons against the most vulnerable in their midst be turned so as to allow willed spiritual vulnerability to be empowered by grace?

If I were to argue against abortion the way you argue for it, I would point to late term abortions, regretted abortions, or the abuse of abortion by people who use it as a form of birth control, etc..

The easy answer is to hate and judge, and most of the time I find myself seeking vengeance and venting against what I see as hypocrisy and abuse from those in power.

Even Paul, in at least one instance, claimed his rights as a Roman citizen against the abuses of officials.

A postscript on Cardinal Sodano: in my last article, I recounted the disgrace of Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legion of Christ, who has been suspended as a priest after investigations into charges against him of sexual abuse carried out by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.

As you may have seen, last week, Reformed leaders Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, Al Mohler, Don Carson, Kevin DeYoung, and Justin Taylor reaffirmed their support of C.J. Mahaney, president of Sovereign Grace Ministries, after a judge ruled that that nine of the eleven plaintiffs in the massive sexual abuse lawsuit against him and his ministry did not sue in time before the statue of limitations had expired.

Sandro Magister points out that Pope Benedict appointed, as his own replacement at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop William J. Levada, one of the four bishops responsible for the effort against sexual abuse committed by priests in the United States.

As we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liarAs we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liaras liars.

But not as many as people like you who do nothing really abuse except use it as an excuse to well up bigotry against Catholicism would have us believe.

The Passion narratives were long abused as part of a polemic against «the Jews,» who were blamed, collectively and of course wrongly, for the death of Christ.

As we become more outspoken against obvious abuse and broadcast it without restraint, abusers will go underground and become less obvious and more subtle in ways that will require a more wisdom and honesty to discern.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Speak out against abuses of using the Bible as a list of behaviors which are necessary to salvation!

He loved the legalist in me as He loved the rebel who, honestly, didn't want to rebel against God, but against a disease - causing religious system with its spiritual abuse and against those who once abused me sexually.

The main issue is not whether sex abuse occurred, as defense attorneys have pointed out, but how the Archdiocese of Philadelphia - Monsignor William Lynn in particular - handled the allegations against priests in the diocese.

Are you aware of the November 2010 declaration to the Los Angeles County Superior Court former LA Deputy District Attorney Donald H. Steier which included the alarming statement that as many as ONE HALF of abuse accusations against Catholic clergy may be «entirely false» or «greatly exaggerated»?

The original charges against Giuseppe Profiti had been embezzlement, but the court convicted him of a lesser offence of abuse of office after the defence argued the money was intended as an investment to benefit the hospital.

No other institution or society in the Western world seems to be so shot through with the spirit of rebellion against the secular system with its abuses, as is the church.

Kohut has now filed the first sex - abuse lawsuit against the Vatican actually naming Pope Benedict, previously known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as a defendant.

The memo continues, «It has risked sending a message to the authorities in all three countries — and to the international community — that minimal efforts are enough; that we as a government are not interested in upholding international norms, nor in holding countries accountable for ongoing abuses against children.»

Brian embarked on seminary, he was being drawn more and more to denominational infrastructures as a way to guard against some of the abuses that are sadly common to our faith background, and me?

Everything was kept under the strictest regulations of the entire community in order to guard against the abuse of freedom as well as the threat of selfishness.

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

According to our culture, my job as a parent is to defend against that pernicious evil that leads to everything from drug abuse to eating disorders to jail time: low self - esteem.

I believe that when Bishop Niederauer and many others caution against thinking of homosexual orientation as the cause of sexual abuse, they are asserting that we, and the Vatican, would do better to focus less on the content of a person's sexual fantasies and more on his or her ability to control his or her sexual desires.