Sentences with phrase «control over victims»

It all depends on how the abusers used their power to gain control over their victims.

In the domestic violence setting, animal abuse is not a problem with anger management, but rather a method to exert power and maintain control over victims.

The crossbow is an effective silent killer when outfitted with steel bolts but the potential for creative takedowns increases dramatically once you learn to make a bolt that gives you temporary control over your victim's twitching, shambling body — right up until he explodes in a cloud of bloody viscera and takes down everyone nearby.

From verbal, psychological, and emotional manipulation to physical, sexual, and economic abuse, relationship violence relies on the tactics of intimidation to establish power and control over the victim.

Not exact matches

But as the curtain continues to be pulled back, those victims have proved that there is strength in numbers — and in gaining control over their emotions.

Others voiced frustration with the complicated application process required to receive money from a crime victims compensation fund administered by Attorney General Pam Bondi's office — even though the steering committee has no control over the state fund.

Teen survivors of the Florida high school shootings, their parents and other victims took the politician to task over gun control.

Also, in the Protestant Evangelical world we put a great degree of authority on Scripture and, therefore, those who abuse often distort Scripture in order to gain access, control, and silence over victims and their families.

If you convince him that he has no control over anything in the world, he'll grow up believing he's a helpless victim.

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

PLATTSBURGH Over 150 people marched in Plattsburgh last Saturday to show their support for victims of the recent mass - shooting in Parkland, Florida and call for stricter gun control measures.

Failure of Christians to participate in politics, Makinde warned, would continue to make them victims of irresponsible governance, which they would have no control over.

It was gathered that the driver of the truck lost the control of the vehicle and ran over the victims working by the roadside.

The Democrat - controlled Assembly has passed the Child Victims Act several times over more than a decade.

«We are living in a society where sometimes we allow our emotions to take control over situations, to the extent that sometimes accused persons get compassion from the public more than the victims of the offence, probably due to our alien legal system.

Research that could help stroke victims with severe disabilities to regain control over their limbs has been produced by a team at Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) in Singapore.

Signals from these cells to the muscles weaken in victims, resulting in atrophy, speech disruptions and, eventually, total loss of control over movement.

Negative self - talk makes us feel like victims, as though we have no control over our lives.

Sir Michael, who in the past has drawn much criticism from teachers» unions, also warned that teachers» representatives should not portray themselves as «victims who have little control or say over their own professional lives».

Second, the victim will need to regain control over their behaviors by discussing the car crash and sharing the details that created the traumatic condition.

Court documents for the financial elder abuse charges show that Lisa L. Cole, the defendant, was the victim's power of attorney, which means she had legal control over the... [Read more...]

This belief also ignores the many other inciting factors of rape besides sex, including desire for power, violence, control and humiliation over one's victim.

In my experience with the Edmonton Community Legal Centre («ECLC»), I have noticed that abusive sponsors can use the legal system to exert power and control over immigrant victims of domestic violence in two ways.

This requirement gives victims control over decision making about their health information where their safety could be at issue, helps promote trust between patients and providers, and is consistent with health care providers» ethical obligation to seek patient authorization whenever possible before disclosing protected health information.

One of the main criticisms of the restorative justice regime has been that the victim has had little control or influence over its process.

The ECtHR said that if an invading state could be considered to have exercised, temporarily, effective control of over a part of the territory of the invaded state, and if it could be shown that at the material time victims were inside that geographic are, it would follow that they were within the jurisdiction of the invading state and not that of the invaded non-contracting state.

Should you fall victim to identity theft, an agent specializing in fraud can assist you in recovering control over your personal identity.

Should you become a victim, the coverage offered through your supplemental ID theft coverage will connect you with a fraud specialist who will assist you in recovering control over your personal identity.

Key Accomplishments • Proved instrumental in saving the life of a nine - year - old accident victim by taking control of the situation and providing immediate resuscitation services • Trained three groups of registered nurses in critical care over a period of two years

«More than 20,000 victims disclosed instances of economic abuse, in which the abuser forcibly took control of or manipulated the victim's finances in order to wield power over him or her.»

• want to protect everything — children, relationships, money, time and privacy • tend to be intelligent and educated, and have a higher than average emotional IQ • want a divorce that is «tailor - made» for their circumstances, not an «off - the - rack,» ill - fitting form used by everyone (and fitting no one very well) • want results more than revenge • want to be participants — not victims — in the dissolution of the marriage • want to assure themselves that nothing happens unless they agree to it • want control over the scheduling of events of divorce • want to retain some dignity through the process of divorce • want to end the relationship as positively as possible • see the big picture

(b) In determining whether there has been a history of domestic violence, the court shall consider whether a party has committed an act of domestic violence as defined s. 741.28, or child abuse as defined in s. 39.01, against the other party or any member of the other party's family; engaged in a pattern of behaviors that exert power and control over the other party and that may compromise the other party's ability to negotiate a fair result; or engaged in behavior that leads the other party to have reasonable cause to believe he or she is in imminent danger of becoming a victim of domestic violence.

An abusive spouse may be prohibited from entering the home of the abuse victim, and judges have the authority to temporarily order that only the victim have access to and control over the house.

These processes move the child away from being a victim and toward having a sense of control over his or her self once again.

Through such involvement Indigenous people and communities would be able to begin moving from being, in the words of Noel Pearson, victims of «passive welfare» towards being re-empowered through the exercise of greater control over their lives.

As defined by a Houston victim legal advocacy agency, Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence Fact Sheet: Domestic abuse is a systematic pattern of intentional intimidation that is reinforced by violence or the threat of violence, for the purpose of gaining or maintaining power and control over one's partner.

It's important to realize that bullying is about power and control by the bully over their victim.

Not only do many abuse victims suffer from shame and body image concerns, but when life becomes overwhelming, eating disorder behavior can provide the individual with perceived control over one's life and / or a way to cope with overwhelming feelings.

There is an invincible power or control the perpetrator of domestic abuse holds over his or her victim.