Sentences with phrase «as assault because»

«I had to privately confront my attacker because when I told my friends and the organizers of the event we were attending, they told me that it didn't count as assault because he was gay,» says Couto.

Not exact matches

The reports detailed other examples of people having their warnings of sexual assault at Mexican resorts taken down on the same basis as Love's, or because the website claimed they were second - hand information.

Defining levels of bad behavior is important, because we shouldn't lump sexual assault in the same bucket as a sexist remark, she writes:

Because the guidelines don't require that those accused of sexual assault be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they lack due process, as required by U.S. law.

But it's jumped onto the priority list of some members of Congress as a kind of compromise because the accused 19 - year - old shooter legally bought the assault weapon.

It is not the sort of issue, such as assault weapons, on which the commission needs to act because the Legislature has shown that it won't.

(I'll let that last one sink in for an extra second — as I hear tell of «American patriots» who wander into grocery stores with assault rifles dangling off their shoulder because it is apparently their constitutional right.

Science by all means can comment and deny it because there's no proof but religion (and by extension, religious people) take this as an assault on them and their beliefs and so fight back.

But we could not watch on as a vicious political assault was unleashed simply because Coles is supporting a campaign to improve the lives of animals.

I bought Dr. Bock's book because my son has severe food allergies and Bock asserts that the exponential rise in life - threatening food allergies as well as the 1,500 % spike in autism in the last 20 years is due in part to the assault on our children's bodies of «deadly modern toxins.»

While police treat the assaults as a «high priority,» Bratton also downplayed the slashings, saying that the six this month were unrelated and are getting more attention because the police and media are focusing on them.

It also requires that when students are found responsible for sexual assault or other violent offenses and are suspended or expelled as a result, it should be noted on their transcripts that they left because of a code of conduct violation.

«Additionally, two - year colleges haven't traditionally offered the same resources as many four - year institutions because they are commuter campuses and most do not have residential facilities, which is understandable, but those students are also among the population at risk for sexual assault.»

It could be that the nerves in my Dad's heart might be misbehaving because they are abnormal AND because they are being assaulted by stressors resulting from his very standard American diet such as systemic inflammation, calcifications, reduced blood viscosity, reduced nitrous oxide, or any of the other chronic insults to our hearts and vascular system that results when we eat animal proteins, lots of fat, especially saturated fat, and highly processed junk plant foods.

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I actually would recommend players try to make it through the missions before starting in on assault or endless modes because they serve as a great tutorial for some of the strategy required to do well at higher difficulty levels.

«Though OCR may claim to be under - funded, its resources are stretched thin largely because it has so often chosen to address violations it has made up out of thin air,» the pair wrote, citing as prime examples efforts to curb bullying, to reduce differences in how white and nonwhite students are disciplined and to get colleges to step up sexual assault investigations.

But the VADIR data has been criticized as misleading because it uses penal code terminology to classify crimes; for example, an incident in which a child throws a crayon at another child would be classified as assault with a weapon under VADIR.

Jewish and Muslim fundamentalists have all experienced modernity as a devastating assault, and their activities often hit the headlines because they pose a grave danger to the Middle East peace process.

«BROKEN PLACES succeeds as the gritty memoir of a woman who was sexually assaulted when she was young and the author's story of survival will surprise the reader because of its candidness and unexpected ending.»

A: Because you assaulted it, or did something that it perceived as an assault.

The following document is a bit technical but worth the read because localized, and even generalized ischemic skin disease is becoming increasingly common as dogs are exposed to and assaulted by an ever - increasing range of unnatural substances.

not enough weapons and attachments games maps etc, the snipers are ridiculously overpowered but the scopes are useless theres virtually no recoil on assault rifles so people spray you from far away you get spawn killed over and over again because each spawn has like 2 exits so enemy snipers lock them down also on the mission based online mode defending is pointless out of about 30 games i think the defenders won once or twice as theres so many areas for enemy snipers that you get pinged almost right away.

Although the game does quite a bit to persuade players that the careful, stealth approach is the best way to the game, it doesn't hold you back from simply grabbing a Thompson machine gun and going for the frontal assault, but it's not advisable because as mediocre a stealth game Sniper Elite III is, it's a far worse third - person shooter.

That's because whilst Assault Android Cactus is great as a single player title, it can however also be played in multiplayer form, whether you go to it with friends or via the unlockable AI co-op mode.

Armed Assault plays pretty much the same way as Operation Flashpoint mainly because it's created by the same developer, Bohemia Interactive.

In 1994 the Congress saw, as matter of national security, to outlaw the sale of assault rifles, because the they saw no purpose in civilians owning weapons with the singular purpose of killing other civilians and their design made it possible to too easily convert these weapons to fully automatic operation.

As New York Times reporter Luanne White reports in this article, In New Orleans, Rust in the Wheels of Justice (11/21/06), in the aftermath of Katrina, «as many as 500 defendants, mostly in drug, theft and assault cases, have been freed because of problems with evidence, including difficulty in finding the witnesses who have moved away.&raquAs New York Times reporter Luanne White reports in this article, In New Orleans, Rust in the Wheels of Justice (11/21/06), in the aftermath of Katrina, «as many as 500 defendants, mostly in drug, theft and assault cases, have been freed because of problems with evidence, including difficulty in finding the witnesses who have moved away.&raquas many as 500 defendants, mostly in drug, theft and assault cases, have been freed because of problems with evidence, including difficulty in finding the witnesses who have moved away.&raquas 500 defendants, mostly in drug, theft and assault cases, have been freed because of problems with evidence, including difficulty in finding the witnesses who have moved away.»

These cases are commonly referred to in Georgia as negligent security cases because the legal inquiry focuses on whether the complex took adequate security measures to protect tenants against assaults given a history of prior crime.

We are to «treat as such» that «assault» is an independent crime, but then it goes on to contradict this by saying that in the present case we can include the «battery» as being part of the «assault», because the two are «generally synonymous».

I do agree as well that part of the reason for the complexity is because the stakes for an accused in a sexual assault trial are incredibly high.

Also sometimes referred to as a drug - facilitated sexual assault since it involves cases in which drugs or alcohol are used to rape an individual, date rape is doubly abhorrent to prosecutors and jurors because of the highly personal nature of the assault.

Consequences Because assault and battery are classified as violent crimes, their sentences tend to be rather harsh.

This was because it was generally believed, on the authority of cases such as Trotman v NorthYorkshireCounty Council [1999] LGR 584, that an employer could not be vicariously liable for sexual assaults committed by his employee on the basis that the assaults were inherently outside the scope of his employment.

You may have had to spend time in a hospital for your physical injuries, lost time from work because of your injuries or the fear and anxiety you're experiencing in the wake of the crime, or been disfigured such as by a brutal assault or a stabbing.

Because of the difficulty of proving innocence in certain types of cases, we usually can not help in the following situations: (1) where a defendant admits to killing (or assaulting) someone, but claims that it was done in self - defense; (2) where a defendant admits to sexual contact with a person, but claims that the person consented to the contact; (3) where a defendant was convicted as an accessory (or as a party - to - the - crime) and seeks to show that he or she did not play a major role in the crime.

We can not post the transcripts as a whole on ABlawg because they contain the name of the complainant and the usual publication ban for sexual assault matters applies.

The reason the Crown sought such a stiff penalty was that the Client was said to be one of the Riot's «early instigators», and because the Client had not only taunted police, but had «sucker punched» and thereby assaulted a citizen who, as it turns out, was trying to put fires out (though that was not known to the Client).

Their vision was to «break the silence» and begin a discussion about experiences that are often hidden because of personal shame as well, in law school, fear of the professional consequences of coming forward to disclose incidents of sexual harassment and assault.

Name neighbourhoods in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, etc. where people would have legitimate fear of an increased risk of assault by reason of being LGBTQ walking hand - in - hand (as opposed to anyone having legitimate fear because the neighbourhood itself is a high - crime area).

Many younger and more naïve women lawyers believe that because they have joined a profession that is dedicated to upholding justice and the law that lawyers (as opposed to other professions) are much less likely to harass or assault them.

You might as well think I'll start assaulting people on the street because I tend to sort of kick my vacuum around the house and might have once said «For f*ck s sake, how are you full already?»

The extra-high refresh rate also comes into play for gaming, because even though most apps are capped at 30 or 60 fps, Razer is working with developers like Nexon and Respawn to bring full 120 fps support to apps such as Titanfall Assault and others.

As a parent or foster parent, realistically we know that it's important to start conversations about safety with your children, because sexual assault is real and it happens...

Thus, when adolescents are perceived as different from others, whether because of their ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, the probabilities of being assaulted by their peers rise [31].