Sentences with phrase «booked on assault»

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«I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun,» he wrote in his 2000 book, «The America We Deserve.»
An updated and revised edition of his award - winning Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America will be released by Encounter Books next spring.
Wilson's book about the Enlightenment assault on belief appears at a time when, in the world of academic theology, the Enlightenment is in eclipse.
This assault has been conducted in books (e.g., Paul Gifford's The Religious Right in Southern Africa), newsletters (e.g., Crisis News), on the pages of prestigious academic journals (e.g., Journal of Theology for Southern Africa), and through the putative research of mainline religious organizations such as the Institute for Contextual Theology.
Some might say it is a presumptuous book, so frontal is its assault on some conventional ways of thinking.
A revised and updated version of his award winning Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America will be released by Encounter Books next year.
As Martin Malia argued in a series of profound books, culminating in his 1999 Russia Under Western Eyes, there was nothing distinctively Russian about this nihilistic assault on the very pediments of civilized order.
When Paulson announced that Arazi would prepare during the winter in France for a May assault on the Kentucky Derby, the colt immediately became everyone's winter - book favorite for the race.
Schumacher's assault - hip first - left Battison unconscious on the floor, minus a few teeth, and out of the game while the German goalkeeper escaped without so much as a booking before playing a major role in the subsequent penalty shoot - out that decided the game.
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.»
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Actress Rose McGowan has finally gone public with the graphic details of Harvey Weinstein «s alleged sexual assault — writing in her new book that he cornered her next to a Jacuzzi and performed oral sex on her while pleasuring himself.
The stated purpose of Cuomo's press conference was to announce legislation that would make it a Class D felony for assaulting a worker at an airport — the same penalty on the books, Cuomo said, for attacking an employee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Several days after some journalists were assaulted by security guards of the governing New Patriotic Party [NPP], at the party's headquarters in Accra, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), is calling on the leadership of the NPP to ensure that the culprits are brought to book.
New York State has an anti assault weapons law on the books, but Cuomo says it's outdated and needs to be tightened up.
His previous book, Consciousness Explained («In Search of the Mind's I», Review, 28 March 1992), was an ambitious assault on one of Western civilisation's major, long - standing intellectual problems.
He has written books on global warming, the changing Arctic and the assault on the Amazon rain forest, as well as three book chapters on science communication.
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In 1993, while I was chairing the JCC's annual Bookfair, we brought Dr. Lipstadt to Dallas when her book, Denying the Holocaust — The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory was first published.
At a time when audiences were still recuperating from the day - glo assault of Joel Schumacher's moronic Batman and Robin, X-Men offered reassurance that you didn't have to be on Ritalin to enjoy a comic - book movie.
As St. Aubyn told The New Yorker in 2014, the books track Patrick as he tries to move forward from addiction «with dignity, from an impossible assault on dignity.»
Gangster Squad is a heavily fictionalised account of the Los Angeles Police Department's post-war assault on organised crime, loosely based on the non-fiction book by Paul Lieberman.
Her first encounter with Irving (Timothy Spall) comes during a reading from her book «Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.»
Whole TV networks have been built on the bones of dead children, and we've lost count of the number of books, plays, and movies that have assaulted our tear ducts — sometimes honorably, more often not — with untimely mortality.
Part war movie, part doomed romance, overfull with artful and exciting action sequences (the No Man's Land assault led by Diana is worth the cost of admission alone), and all told some pretty subversive content for a populist DC superhero film ---- and easily the best outside of Nolan's Batman films, from that expanded universe ---- this is a charismatic, crowd - pleasing, comic book conversion that works on every conceivable level.
And, impressively, Deadpool 2 ends up being funnier than the original, assaulting its audience with a consistent stream of wickedly insightful jokes that lampoon everything from the current landscape of comic - book properties to Reynolds» own roller coaster ride as a celebrity, both on the screen and off.
Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate by Juan Williams Crown Publishers Hardcover, $ 24.00 304 pages ISBN: 978 -0-307-95201-1 Book Review by Kam Williams «Is it possible to talk about Muslims and terrorism without being called a bigot?
This week's podcast looks to the stars with Star Ocean: The Last Hope, the warzone with Killzone 2, and sci - fi and comic books with Watchmen: The End is Nigh and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
Ethan Hawke (Lord of War, Assault on Precinct 13) adapts and directs this big screen version of the book he published back in 1997 of the same name, also giving himself a role as the father who would remain largely absent from his boy's life after the dissolution of the relationship.
In the last third of the book, Seidenberg launches a full frontal assault on what he derisively refers to as the «culture of education,» which contributes significantly to reading underachievement.
Besides her work on behalf of the women who say Bill Clinton sexually assaulted them, she has sued a university claiming that she was discriminated against because she was white and helped edit a book that attacked the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Check out our new chapter in the book Assault on Kids and Teachers: Countering privatization, deficit ideologies and standardization of U.S. schools.
In an interview with Comic Book Resources, J. Michael Straczynski said, «The story that I've always wanted to see visualized, and that I think other fans of the movies have eagerly anticipated, is the battle that set all of the movies into motion: the assault on Skynet, the Terminators going through and what happens afterward on both sides of the timeline.
The lone issue of Musings now serves its turn in Audible Signs: it has been revised, expanded and mounted as one piece of artillery in my fourfold assault (Chapter 4) on Alex Ross» best - selling book on 20th - century music, The Rest Is Noise.
Colonel Doug Beason contributes SF thriller ASSAULT ON ALPHA BASE, David Farland gives THE GOLDEN QUEEN, first book in his military SF space opera series, and Andrew Keith and William H. Keith, Jr. offer the first novel in their bestselling Fifth Foreign Legion series.
There's tilting at windmills, yes, and blood - drenched beatings, burning books, horse - on - pony sexual assault, serial vomiting, cruelty, burlesque and all manner of lunacy.
On the third episode of the Rocky Mountain Writer podcast, mystery writer Gwen Florio calls in from Missoula, Montana where she played a key role in the reporting that led up to Jon Krakauer's new non-fiction book, «Missoula,» about rape and sexual assault at the University of Montana.
The book was not so much an attack on stock brokers as it was an assault on the entire idea of actively managed investing.
At issue were a number of assertions in» Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory,» a book first published in 1993 in the United States by Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta.
Although I don't necessarily agree with him on every single matter (but I do on several key matters), if I remember correctly, Al Gore raises concerns about the relationship between media (and news) and money in his great book, «The Assault on Reason.»
Al Gore's book, The Assault on Reason, cites a Union of Concerned Scientists 2006 report showing that «Exxon Mobil has funneled nearly $ 16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that seek to confuse the public on global warming science.»
My talk, on Wednesday, was about the subject of my new book, Fool Me Twice: fighting the assault on science in America, and ways NASA scientists, particularly NASA climate scientists, can communicate complex science in the face of antiscience attacks, such as those by global warming deniers.
He has written books on global warming, the changing Arctic and the assault on the Amazon rain forest, as well as three book chapters on science communication.
A bestselling author, Vice President Gore has published five books on the climate crisis and its solutions, Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis and The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
And with the whole month of August to go — typically the worst month for wildfires in the province — it's likely this year will continue its assault on the record books.
-- John Rowley, founder / editor www.peopleandplanet.net «Lester Brown has produced another «planetary survey» book that tells us how to get off the wrecking train we are on by courtesy of a dozen environmental assaults such as climate change.
«Lester Brown has produced another «planetary survey» book that tells us how to get off the wrecking train we are on by courtesy of a dozen environmental assaults such as climate change.
His book Assault on Reason — published in April 2007 — stated that: «Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several «tipping points» that could — within as little as ten years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage of the planet's habitability for human civilization.»
George Washington University epidemiologist David Michaels, who is President Obama's nominee to head the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), wrote a meticulously researched 2008 book called, «Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health.»
As I said in a media interview on the subject, one of the victims in this case had come out openly on the assault and wanted it televised, and had even written a book on his experiences, which would seem to minimize some of the concerns over privacy.
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