Sentences with phrase «as verbal threats»

Few studies have examined how attachment insecurity (i.e., attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance) is associated with the more subtle and less severe forms of sexual coercion, such as verbal threats and partner manipulation.

Bullying does nt have to be as dramatic as verbal threats or as violent as shoving an underclassman into a locker.

Not exact matches

CALGARY — Days after a female candidate cited intolerable abuse as her reason for pulling out of the race for the leadership of the Alberta Conservatives, a male candidate says he has also had verbal threats aimed at him.

While the band was definitely in danger of being detained as political bargaining chips, you know damn well that those verbal threats of execution by the «high ranking members» were nothing more than just that.

As such it is the promise antithetical to the threat in 8.38: `... of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father...» This parallelism of function between 8.38 and 9.1 is matched by a verbal parallelism in their final clauses: `..

If violence means the imposition of one's will upon another, it is not limited to acts like rape and murder but also embraces such deeds as boycotts, verbal threats and oppressive economic structures.

Salma details the threats and verbal abuse she was subjected to, as well as the feeling of powerlessness she experienced.

According to Schneiderman's formal complaint, over a dozen anti-choice activists initiated «a barrage of unwanted physical contact, as well as verbal abuse, threats of harm, and lies about the clinic's hours and its services,» directed at the clinic's patients.

As a Special Constable in London I have spent 8 years working side by side with regular officers and experienced first hand the verbal and sometimes physical threats which the police all too often face.

After he actually became governor, Cuomo reiterated his threat, using it as a verbal cudgel with which to beat legislators into passing his ethics reform package.

Dating Abuse is defined as a pattern of coercive behavior in which one person attempts to control another through threats or actual use of physical violence, sexual assault, and verbal or psychological abuse.

Violence includes verbal and physical threats, the monstrous personification of a house, encounters with the dead and dying, bullying, scary moments, situations of peril, depictions of violent video games and guns, as well as explosions.

Full of jump scenes, perilous situations, verbal and physical threats, ghoulish gossip, as well as encounters with the dead and dying, this movie is instead geared to an audience roughly the same age as the protagonists.

As a child of two linguists, Alia believes that the interpretation of verbal and written language has dis - served particular communities and presents more of a threat than a means of understanding.

Other conference observers in contact with people in that session disputed the story's characterizations of the discussion as a verbal brawl or containing veiled threats, noting that Kerry's statements — separate from the characterizations — were consistent with his message since he arrived at the talks.

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OHSA) defines «workplace violence» as «violence or the threat of violence against workers» that involves any physical assault, threatening behavior, or verbal abuse occurring in, or related to, the workplace, and includes behaviors ranging in aggressiveness from verbal harassment to murder.

A review study [25] reported that 72.7 % of children exposed to IPV witnessed psychological IPV and that 90.1 % were exposed to physical IPV, such as hearing verbal threats and seeing slapping and kicking.

They used mother ratings and observation checklists looking for characteristics such as rejection, teasing, insulting, verbal threats or yelling, and disobedience.

I watched over the years as his sense of self slowly eroded from the verbal abuse, the threats, the bullying and the relentless criticism.