Sentences with phrase «believe less violence»

Not exact matches

The politicians, bankers, and realtors, Levine and Harmon claim, believed that Jews would put up less resistance to this incursion of blacks, and that the violence associated with the later busing of blacks into the Irish area of south Boston could be avoided.

Conversely, the person who grows up to engage in the forms of violence that endanger others suffered from the alienation, marginalization and exposure to violence and indoctrination that led them to believe their rights to their beliefs are superior to those of others, to see others as less than human, and to see the lives of others as not worthy of value, to not trust others, the rule of law, institutions or governments, which leads to the use of violence as legitimate to advance their means.

For instance: if you support gun control policies, you will likely pay more attention to studies about gun violence (because they reinforce what you already believe) and less attention to reports of gun control policies precipitating higher gun violence (because it conflicts.)

It is possible that authors use Bill names after they have become law because they believe it is less confusing for the reader to hear about the familiar and specific name (e.g., Bill 168) than to have to learn about a more general Act (e.g., Part III.0.1 — «Violence and Harassment» of the OHSA).

However, I believe that if we frame our conversations in terms of human rights, that is the internationally recognised standards that governments have already committed to, we have a less confrontational and potentially more transformative way to talk about lateral violence.