Sentences with phrase «by victims as»

While stranger rape can be understood by the victim as a random, one - off event, the betrayal of trust in date rape can have a much more devastating effect on a person.

We have arrested the suspect and he has been identified by his victim as the person who broke into his house that fateful night.»

Peer victimization is defined as being on the receiving end of an intentional act of aggression by a peer of a similar age that is perceived by the victim as harmful.

Although noting that the Supreme Court has held that «[w] hen several words are followed by a clause which is applicable as much to the first and other words as to the last, the natural construction of the language demands that the clause be read as applicable to all,» (Porto Rico Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Mor, 253 U.S. 345, 348 (1920)-RRB-, the Fifth Circuit still determined that «[t] he structure and language of § 2259 (b)(3) limit the phrase «suffered by the victim as a proximate result of the offense» in § 2259 (b)(3)(F) to the miscellaneous «other losses» contained in that subsection.

While most cases of bullying are defined by the victim as being narrowed to one person, in her research, Michalak found that 58.4 % of lawyers subject to bullying confined it to a group, with 74.7 % claiming that the main perpetuator was older than them.

that the person compensate the victim, as the Tribunal may consider proper, for any or all additional cost of obtaining alternative goods, services, facilities or accommodation and for any expenses incurred by the victim as a result of the discriminatory practice.

The main question before us is whether the [Canadian Human Rights] Tribunal made a reviewable error in deciding that this power to order compensation for «any expenses incurred by the victim as a result of the discriminatory practice» permits it to order payment of all or a portion of the victim's legal costs.

the degree of force used by the offender and medical and other expenses incurred by the victim as a result of the offence.

In any of these cases, if the driver's rule or law violation or other incidence of negligence is determined to have caused an accident victim's injury, the driver may be found liable for the damages suffered by the victim as a result of his or her injuries in a negligence action brought by the injured victim.

Not exact matches

Last week, President Donald Trump came under fire after his responses to a plea for help from the mayor of San Juan were perceived by many as being racist and issuing blame on the hurricane victims.

As reported by WIRED, HBO fell victim to several hacks over the summer, most notably involving several leaked «Game of Thrones» scripts and episodes.

Col. Patrick Touron of the gendarme service said DNA samples have been taken from objects provided by victims» families, such as combs or toothbrushes, that could help identify them.

Feinberg, who most recently advised on compensation issues related to the Boston Marathon bombing, was hired by GM as a consultant to advise the automaker how to respond to families of accident victims whose vehicles are being recalled for possible ignition switch defects.

As robots enter daily life and workplaces, some have been victims of abuse by people in the workplace.

For Robyn Rihanna Fenty, the pain of the beating itself was augmented by the humiliation of the whole world seeing her as the victim of an angry lover, just like her own mother and Brown's.

As legend has it, giving a murder victim «cement shoes» has long been a favored body disposal method of mafia hitmen, and it's the origin of the phrase «sleeping with the fishes,» which was made famous by The Godfather.

In closing arguments, Gowdy gave a powerful description of victim Ricky Samuel's last moments as he was lured to a pond by the accused, who posed as a preacher to get Samuel's confidence.

A London Metropolitan police spokeswoman said: «The decision was taken for this investigation to be conducted by the Chinese authorities as the large majority of victims in this case are resident within China.»

But as the global fi nancial crisis spread, Ireland became one of its worst victims, with the IMF predicting its GDP would shrink by 13.5 % by 2010, the worst result for any advanced country, and among the worst peacetime economic contractions ever seen.

Managing that risk by recognizing and shoring up points of vulnerability is the difference between using data as a competitive advantage and being the victim of a catastrophic data loss.

In a defense outlined in papers filed in the foreclosure, the Kelleys are portrayed by their attorneys as victims of unsound lending practices by bankers.

Meanwhile, the 49 - year - old victim Elaine Herzberg was reportedly walking with her bike loaded with bags as she crossed the dark road, as seen on the video furnished by Tempe authorities during the investigation.

This makes Latin America the perfect victim for people trying to tamper with elections by presenting propaganda as actual news.

While the Thanatos attack warns that «files can only be decrypted by our decode tool,» it is clearly not the case, as reported by a number of victims.

One of the victims of this risk - off move has been Japanese equities, which, as measured by the TOPIX, is roughly flat for the year to date through May 1 (in local currency).

In June, Beijing banned online loans to college after a public outcry over students falling victim to aggressive debt recovery tactics — including requiring nude photos as collateral — practiced by loan sharks.

I'm also getting a lot of enjoyment listening to the breathless hyperbole by Nancy «Armageddon» Pelosi, Chuck «Fake Tears» Schumer and the gang denouncing the bill, plus the stories by their allies in the press about the «victims» of tax reform, neglecting to mention the «victims» at AT&T, Wells Fargo and all who are being given immediate raises as a result of the measure.

A former Highlandtown businessman just out of federal prison was identified as the victim fatally shot by masked men in a neighborhood barbershop Monday evening.

Like the others, North Carolina is not a victim of frequent earthquakes and its coastline is not typically as hard hit by hurricanes as states south of it.

He later went on Fox News to echo the sentiment expressed by President Donald Trump that seemed to cast blame on the victims and others for not alerting authorities about the shooter, pointing to the shooter's social media posts as overlooked signs of a troubled individual.

Advocates for victims saw the posts as a sign of favour for Law by church officials unrepentant about abused children.

These Orthodox women are among MANY Orthodox women who are forward - thinking, intelligent, considerate individuals who you are choosing to disrespect by treating them as victims without considering their ample agency.

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?

If I played the same game as you and took the number of Muslims killed by American ammunition, bombs, cluster bombs, missiles, sanctions, depleted uranium, etc., etc. and divided that into numbered points featuring the victims in groups of 50, 60, or 100, I'd be giving you a MUCH longer list of Muslim victims of America than the list of victims of Islamic terrorism that you provided to us here.

Cruelty against children and worse than death as many victims suffer from the mental illness caused by the abuse.

How else do some individuals provide so much information about a crime by holding an item of a victim, or visiting the scene, as to be able to help law enforcement solve a case?

As consummate victims, we lay ourselves at the feet of our fellows, exhibiting our lack of achievement as evidence of their failure, hoping to wring from their sense of conscience what we must assume, by the very logic of our claim, lies beyond our individual capacities to attain, all the while bemoaning how limited that sense of conscience seems to bAs consummate victims, we lay ourselves at the feet of our fellows, exhibiting our lack of achievement as evidence of their failure, hoping to wring from their sense of conscience what we must assume, by the very logic of our claim, lies beyond our individual capacities to attain, all the while bemoaning how limited that sense of conscience seems to bas evidence of their failure, hoping to wring from their sense of conscience what we must assume, by the very logic of our claim, lies beyond our individual capacities to attain, all the while bemoaning how limited that sense of conscience seems to be.

Whereas in some countries rape victims are left behind to tell the tale, in others, such as Iraq, they are systematically sold into sex slavery by their captors.

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

When I did come forward as an abuse victim, this part of my past was wielded like a weapon by some of the elders to further discredit my concern, essentially saying that I was imposing my own perspective or that my judgment was too clouded.

I'd started to scratch it down in my journal and that scratching started decoding a bit of my life: You end up drinking mud soup whenever you see yourself as the passive victim in your story, instead of an active co-writer of your story, when you act like you don't determine your responses to a situation — but your actions and responses are determined by somebody else.

Thank you for anyone who has the courage to apologize — the one thing I'd ask moving forward is that you don't qualify your apology by citing what the survivor of emergent abuse (I like this term better than victim) did or did not do — as we've noted before, when someone is in the throes of prolonged abuse and trauma, they will do / say things in response that will seem somewhat «batshit crazy.»

Personal commitment, personal choice, faith as pure subjectivity, social liberations advanced by organized groups of self - designated victims - these become the substance, or rather non-substance, of the Christian faith.

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

Though many don't realize it, the after effects of sexual abuse are deep and painful, and worldviews of abuse are often distorted and adopted by victims, such as fear of intimacy, unhealthy views toward sex, and even hatred of one's own body.

In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold for certain).

War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «victims of wanton aggression.»

I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian — who can not deal with it by violence — must make himself completely a part of it as representative of the victims.