Sentences with phrase «as rape»

While serious crimes such as rape and murder can still fall under domestic violence, in most cases, domestic violence involves lesser forms of abuse.

The exams, known as rape kits, are required by state law to be free of cost to patients.

We need not require that the text blatantly describe this situation as rape in order to understand that mutual consent was unlikely.

You have been through a very traumatic sexual experience, which is defined as rape — sex without your consent.

He states that even something as serious as rape can be funny.

There are men (and maybe women, too) who believe there is no such thing as rape.

Also, I am just generally not a fan of his song because while it is catchy, it's about equally as rape - y.

We often only define sexual abuse as rape or intercourse.

Best to use a high burning oil such as rape seed to achieve that crunchy exterior.

Granted, when a film is billed as rape - revenge, that kind of comes with the territory — it's still no reason why they can't be good, though.

Students don't shy away from events as brutal as rape and murder in their narratives.

For example, mainstream law could apply to crimes such as rape, sexual assault and domestic violence.

Only that doesn't happen as often as one might think for something so serious as rape, according to the article.

It's a measure of Isabelle Huppert's versatility that she can switch from her searing, Oscar - nominated performance as the rape victim in Paul Verhoeven's psychodrama Elle to playing a long - forgotten pop singer in this sweet - natured little fable.

Utilising the grid structure, the artist has recently begun to rearrange famous paintings such as The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618) by Peter Paul Rubens and the Oath of the Horatii (1786) by Jacques Louis - David, scrambling these famous compositions into pixelated and codified puzzles.

The role of gender in employment features also in Feminist Law Professors this week in a post about gender quotas, as well as the rape shield rule's application to social media sites.

Akin's comments may therefore reinforce the traditional rape script (i.e., a stranger, jumping out of the bushes or a dark alley, attacking an unsuspecting woman), 6 and women who become pregnant from nonconsensual sex may be less likely to label their experience as rape if they believe Akin's position is itself legitimate.

Conflicts arise when a city councilwoman is killed by what is reported as a rape attempt, but clues surface that it may have been an assassination involving people who are a little too close to home for Murphy.

Day One, formerly known as the Rape Crisis Center of Rhode Island, has undertaken groundbreaking initiatives to ease the psychological burdens of the criminal justice process for victims of childhood sexual abuse and has been a leader in combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

Amazon, Barnes and Noble and WH Smith were just a few of the e-book retailers found by The Kernel, an online muckracking website based in the United Kingdom, to be selling e-books from self - published authors glorifying such topics as rape, incest and bestiality.

The survey of 1,559 UK teens found that in the last year almost a third of girls aged 13 - 17 years (31 per cent) have received unwanted sexual messages online from their peers (compared to 11 per cent of boys), while 1 in 10 have been targeted online by their peers with sexual threats such as rape threats.

He had practiced the sexual lynching known as rape on Merope and others, and his last mortal act had been a biocide.

Even the most secular moral standard based on «consenting adults» stands in the way of rap's push for self assertion as rape, degradation of women, and violence to get what I want pervade the lyrics.

In today's society also they are terrorized as rape victims, toys or dolls in media, lambs to follow men, brides to be burnt alive for dowry and baby - producing machines, who work with wombs, breasts, and hands in rearing children.

Alan Pardew describes Michael Essien's on ball battle with Ched Evans as rape in an episode of Match of the day 2.

It no longer is when a woman is violated at the point of a gun or a knife, we're now talking about — or identifying as rape — what really is a clumsy hook - up melodrama or a fumbled attempt at a kiss or a caress.»

The grass roots organization Improving Birth coined the term «obstetric violence» - which is playing out in labor and delivery units in certain parts of the world; the World Health Organization called for increased scrutiny of these disrespectful childbirth care practices, as women treated in this way, feel assaulted and violated, and must be taken as seriously as rape.

Exceptions exist for children born in multiple births, adopted children, non-parental care arrangements and what the Government call «non-consensual conception», more commonly referred to as the rape exception.

Despite dwindling state and local budgets, Holt noted that law enforcement and prosecutors are placing increasing emphasis on the use of forensic evidence and that forensic science labs are under pressure to clear case backlogs such as rape kits.

«Mr. President is angry over the overwhelming criticism and condemnation of the process by the international observers, who did not mince words in describing the poll as a rape of democracy» he said.

APGA National Chairman, Victor Oye while addressing the party supporters after the governorship election judgment which they lost, had described the judgment as a rape of justice and said that they would appeal against it up to the Supreme Court.

The Court of Appeal described the ruling by Justice Abang as a rape of democracy, and ordered Ikpeazu to retain his office.

Although their analysis does not include data after 2004, the researchers note that they doubt that the use of DNA identification technology would have much impact on false conviction rates — because DNA evidence is primarily used in cases such as rape rather than homicide.

But we can't say whether these couplings happened as rapes during violent battles between humans and Neanderthals or when individual Neanderthals were welcomed into human society.

The department says preference will be given to trials involving liquid petroleum gas (LPG), compressed natural gas and electricity (for adapted vehicles), rather than «biofuels» such as rape methyl ester (RME), derived from rape seed oil.

A Saudi millionaire has been cleared of raping a teenager after claiming he might have accidentally penetrated the 18 - year - old when he tripped and fell Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

SPOILER: Huppert, gaining heat as a rape victim with her own agenda in Elle.

Eastwood directs himself as a rather more compromising Harry in Sudden Impact (1983), a humorless revenge film starring Sondra Locke as a rape victim hunting down her attackers while a somewhat sympathetic Harry is on her trail.

Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has made hits («Robocop,» «Basic Instinct») and bombs («Showgirls»); his new film is a thriller starring Cannes regular Isabelle Huppert as a rape victim who stalks her assailant.

Collins also starred (in a very different role) in Natalia Leite's M.F.A. as a rape survivor discovers artistic inspiration from the death of her rapist and seeks to fuel that creativity by seeking out other accused rapists and giving them what she's decided they deserve.

Supporting work is solid and comes from Armie Hammer as Nat's plantation owner and master, Penelope Ann Miller (The Shadow, 1994) as the plantation matriarch who teaches young Nat to read the bible (not the white man books), Jackie Earle Haley (The Bad News Bears, 1976) as the villainous slave hunting ranch hand, Mark Boone Junior as the scheming Reverend, Gabrielle Union as a rape victim, and Aja Naomi King («How to Get Away with Murder») as Cherry (Turner's wife).

We learned that he, and one of the film's co-writers, had been accused of rape in college, which gave the film's added - to - history angle of Nat Turner as a rape avenger an entirely different feeling.