Sentences with phrase «by committing acts»

A more holistic approach — one capable of ending sexism and sexual violence within military practices — would be to acknowledge the values intrinsic in militarism that condone and promote an idea of hypermasculinity, which is determined upon one's ability to express power through the devaluation of others by committing acts of violence.
It's both a «true crime» movie and a poetic account of two young men who, by committing an act of unspeakable brutality, unleash the furies against themselves.
A self - proclaimed dropout of the art world, Lozano rejected the commerciality of the art scene by committing an act of defiance, in four parts: General Strike Piece, a performance that began in February 1969 as a protest to the banality of the existing artistic atmosphere; Decide to Boycott Women, a twenty - seven year hiatus from contact with her female supporters, including artists, gallerists, and critics, begun in August 1971; Dialogue Piece, an invitation to dialogue that blurred the roles between artist as sender and viewer as receiver.
Most crimes can not be proven merely by committing the act — known as actus reus — but also require proof of criminal intent, known as mens rea.

Not exact matches

Doctors are obliged to abide by medical secrecy unless their patient explicitly tells them he or she plans to commit an act of violence.
At this point, the indications are that Aghdam's attack was the kind of event that has become all too familiar in American society: an isolated act committed by a person with a shaky grip on reality.
Not everyone agrees on what is noble, for example, and there have been atrocious acts of history committed by people who sincerely believed they were acting on a moral ideal.
Specifically, the exemption requires that the advisor, the institution issuing the product and client enter into a contract that clearly commits the advisor to acting in the client's best interests, using the care, skill and prudence that would be exercised by prudent person under the circumstances (the definition that generally governs a fiduciary's duties in other contexts).
The province is due to announce its next phase of climate action, but it has not committed to act on any of the recommendations developed by the Climate Leadership Team.
While members are still liable for fraudulent and illegal acts they commit, they're not liable for LLC debts or for decisions made by company representatives.
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(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).
Those horrible acts committed by by athiests were not committed in the name of athiesm, they were not athiestic causes, whereas the Christian crusades, Islamic Jihad and even the Israeli occupation of Palistinian land have been and are openly and proudly purpotrated by the «faithful.»
And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?
to claim to be against acts of terror while permitting those to commit them to live amoung you, be funded by your people is to support terrorists.
«By protecting these laws and failing to bring Shahbaz Bhatti's killers to justice, the Pakistani government is further emboldening extremists to commit ever - more violent acts against religious minorities.
I think Jesus is in hell for spreading bs and committing acts of lunacy by saying he was the son of god.
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So they see nothing wrong with continuing to commit so many Satanic acts, since they are already condemned to be eaten by the worm for ETERNITY.
who care who gets offended by the burning of the koran... I'm offended by 9/11 and all the other terrorist acts committed against my country and my fellow Americans... loss of life is what offends me.
If any of those answers are no, then you don't want God to control every violent act committed by humans.
@colin You have a nasty habit of putting words in other peoples mouth, no one said the acts committed were acceptable.Lot, by the very testimony of the story was not culpable in the matter.Replied previous, but cnn put the reply on its own thread two pages ahead.Same basic response, little more information.
For all those who have committed acts of injustice by trusting in wealth and power and showing contempt for the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentance.
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
In recent months there has been several public executions of residents for committing acts that are seen as socially unacceptable by the radical Islamic militants.
From the at of two people, Adama dn Eve, Or from the acts committed by people having nothing to do with Adam and Eve and the so - called Fall?
And by sitting, many of us are committing the even worse sin of failing to act when we should be helping others.
The review found the Church acted in good faith and that it was right to acknowledge cases of sexual abuse committed by the clergy.
For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).
There have been twenty - eight countries in world history that can be confirmed to have been ruled by regimes with avowed atheists at the helm (NOT Including Stalin, Mao), These twenty - eight historical regimes have been ruled by eighty - nine atheists, of whom more than half have engaged in democidal acts of the sort committed by Stalin and Mao...
Yes there are / were some terrible acts being committed by Priests, but lets not throw the baby out with the bath water.
Studies have shown that men and women are roughly equal in committing premeditated crimes (like poisoning and forgery), but that violent, dangerous acts such as assault, robbery and rape are predominantly committed by men.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives an appealing but also a very self - committing description, saying that consent is the act «by which the spouses mutually give and receive one another» (no. 1639).
In this way, the life - giving act becomes the love - making act — a seal of their committed union of heart and mind by a true bodily union.
Many people sometimes, or for a while, act contrary to sincerely held convictions (by committing a sin), and other people, given time, come to recognise past behaviour as wrong (they may repent and convert).
God has already maligned Himself by inspiring biblical writers to record horrendous acts against people, many of which appear to be on the same level as those crimes committed by men like Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein.
The issue now is how the present act of self - determination should be affected by promises made or sins committed in earlier acts.
It seems likely that unjust acts will be committed, also by our side, and when they are known they must be condemned.
The article is describing how people are finally waking up and realizing that yes natural disasters MIGHT be caused by a celestial being but that again does not mean in ANY way that it is because the human race has sinned or committed some specific act that warrented a natural disaster as punishment.
But over 90 % of terrorist acts are committed by Muslims... usually in the name of Islam.
It is easy to blame our problems on religion or God, but when it all boils down, it was not religion who committed the horrendous acts done by the Nazis or the Crusaders.
And being god, he obviously knew what would happen to him by committing such acts.
He argued that the constitution of the Federal Republic committed the state to uphold marriage and family and that by honoring a lesbian activist, the state was acting in contradiction to its own basis.
The reason i say the person has religion is that most people who commit this type of act try to justify the evil they do by saying it for the greater good that religion has taught them, but you never know and we wont till all the facts are in.
We don't value those traits anymore, war is now something more to be avoided rather than envied, and yet you still rationalize that even though you dislike war, that the god in the bible committing this war is justifiable just by the simple act that he's god?
Committing suicide is not a rational act by most standards especially since suicide in and of itself is considered an irrational act.
It is true that there have been those who committed violent acts in the name of Christianity, but I submit to you they were not true followers of Christ evidenced by their use of religion for their own personal gain as they rejected the tenets of their faith as set forth by it's founder.
I made no such assertion, because it doesn't make the comparison between ra - pe, which is a violent act committed against a person's will, and an abortion, which is a concious decision made by the woman any more accurate.
This does not make only the USA guilty of great wrongs done / there's many nations ruled by tyrants / psychopaths / / those blinded by greed the great injustice by Israel against palestinians but sums up the horror that nations being capable of committing / heartless acts of inhumanity of cruelity / / based on halfbaked ideas / beliefs / religious brainwashing.
He discredited himself by an act of his own will to commit massive plagiarism.
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