Sentences with phrase «doing much violence»

I find it hard to believe that they were doing much violence in God's time and when you explained about the devil blaming God I felt some release.

Not exact matches

None of that's actually true — employment numbers are up and violent crime is down — but that Trump believes misogyny and sexual violence are «a distraction» implies he doesn't know all that much about real America after all.

Outlined in the documents are rules about what kinds of statements are considered too offensive to allow, how much violence the site allows in videos — including Facebook Live, which has been the subject of significant controversy recently — and what to do with sexually suggestive imagery.

-- George S. Patton And nowadays it doesn't even take that much violence.

A common counterpoint to the evidence on gun control: If it works so well, why does Chicago have so much gun violence despite having some of the strictest gun policies in the US?

Life will never be fair, no matter how much violence and force is used to transfer other's property to the deserving party du jour.

It doesn't take much to understand conformity (faith), especially when it's backed by irrational thought and violence.

We don't need much imagination to imagine that to be free of hatred, of enmity, of the endless and hopeless effort to oppose violence with violence, would be to have life more abundantly.

For Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful future.

But why do we see the victims of gun violence so much more clearly than the victims of criminal violence more generally?

If you, as I, do not accept any of these ways of rejecting much of Scripture, then you can reasonably conclude that violence and even killing itself is not sinful when used to prevent evil acts and punish evil natures.

Broadcasters are considered by their stockholders to be acting in an economically responsible way if they provide programs that are produced very cheaply — even if the programs contain much unnecessary violence — if, in doing so, they reach the largest possible audience and make the largest number of sales and highest possible profits.

i remember now seeing this one movie with mid-east people drama in it — don't remember to much about the movie except this one scene of men in mid-east dress advancing in protest in mass upon these soldier guards over something these people in mass thought was rightfully theirs (a freedom from violence was one of these things they thought was rightfully theirs).

Just as the revelation of a loving Father is central to all of what Jesus said and did, so also, this truth about the violence that resides in the hearts of mankind also lurks beneath the surface in much of what Jesus teaches.

But it is impossible to ascribe such a view to Jesus without doing too much violence to the tradition.

What does that point to but either that there is no one that is «right» (thus the fight continues) or that God is pretty much a creature of violence.

Much research has been done trying to assess the impact of TV violence on viewers.

I have been doing a lot of reading on violence and warfare recently, and this book is one I wanted to read, mainly because I so much appreciated Vance's book on Calvinism.

Yet when the Protestant Reformation took place, he did not join it, partly because he was a man of moderate and tolerant temperament who abhorred violence, and partly because he was repelled by the anti-humanist element in so much of the Protestantism of his time.

People acting as if non-violence is not an answer — but I am not saying we don't get involved — let's not pass into the idea of how much violence we will use — because that's dangerous «evil» territory — allow a little in and soon we are talking about how much gunshots fired into a person is «normal»?

Just goes to show you that there are some in the Christian community that would resort to violence and bullying LGBT people... I know that there are plenty of Christians who aren't that deluded but there are a vocal minority like this sorry excuse for a man that hates what he doesn't understand so much that they feel it is their responsibility to wipe it out.

The Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) have brought much pain and suffering upon the people of Earth with their hatred and violence... subscribers to all three of these religions would do well to stop their hating and focus on making amends.

Those inclined to argue that Jesus now would advise us precisely the opposite of what he did in the New Testament — this on the basis that, regarding both tax demands and military activity, our U.S. Caesar is so much worse than his Roman one was — these people should be warned against reading Martin Hengel's little book Victory Over Violence.

However much we may wish to assert the goodness and even the playfulness of sexuality (I remain persuaded that we both may and must assert this against all defamations of God's gifts), we must not forget that we assert this in the face of a fallen condition in which sexuality has become perilous, fraught with the temptation to do violence to one another.

The dreadful Star Wars prequels were briefly eclipsed by The Matrix, whose blend of religious allegory, pop philosophy, and balletic violence aimed much higher than George Lucas ever did (though The Matrix descended into pretentious incoherence in the later installments).

Children who were in a single traumatic event which did not involve interpersonal violence, like a hurricane, fared much better when they were with their parents.

There is a real irony in Diaz hosting Abrazo Boricuaparticularly with his expressed desire to «protect» his community.I guess that desire doesn't extend to the women of his community (excuse the pun) because the Grand Poobah of the parade this year is a wife beater — who SERVED TIME IN PRISON for the crime.His enablers at the Puerto Rican Day Riot committee attribute his violence to a youthful error — ignoring the fact that he was in his FORTIES at the time.Check out which politicians march and which do not and ask yourself if they'd ignore a violent anti — semite or racist or homophobe being so honored.Once more women in that parade are relegated to the position of tarted up and half naked — even the pre teens — but not worthy of respect.So much for Diaz» «protection».

But much of this does violence to the evidence.

(They typically don't get much coverage, not because of bias, but because they simply aren't as interesting as are conservative - led violence.

Martin Amidu stated, adding «This is a new office, corruption has done so much damage to this country, it is an invincible violence that kills millions without any one seeing it, it deprives people of good health, education and all developmental institutions.»

The Senate President said: «I think this is an area that we still have much work to do in Africa and the sub-region and that is the area too that creates a lot of violence where people know what they voted and they sit down in their homes and they hear another type of results.

«However we know we have much more to do; we will continue to work hard to drive down violence in the prison and to support the victims of violence and support those prisoners in crisis.

I wish that the centre - left blogosphere would put as much effort into organising a defence of these activists as it has done demanding a ritualistic «condemnation» of violence.

Another interesting question the reporter could have asked is: how much money did NYC pay in each of the last couple of years for settlements and jury awards involving police brutality and / or threats of violence against citizens by the NYPD?

Paterson's attorney said the PIC should hold off until after former Judge Judith Kaye weighs in on this matter, much like it did in the case of the David Johnson domestic violence scandal.

And they do much more than respond to school violence.

But intervening on the front end does not stop at addiction; the roots of violence often begin much earlier, in inequalities that have been present from early childhood and even birth.

The news media doesn't report on acts of kindness as much as they cover violence, war and depression.

Adding a scene of inexplicable hippo violence in an otherwise generic disaster movie does nothing except remind me of how much wasted potential is up on the screen.

Yet the film moves so quickly and fluidly and with such unnerving violence that it doesn't give you much time or space to think through the serious, urgent issues it raises.

The film does clearly want to state that the kids need help, as cases of suicide and violence are common and cleverly chosen as a way to enforce the view of the institution and not theirs of the way that they are treated and how much they need to be rid of their sickness.

Michael Bay is a director who love slow motions and explosions and it's normal because he is doing it right he is very good at this but in that movie they are just too much and interesting is that there is so much fights and violence in this movie and the death count is: 0.

Michael Bay is a director who love slow motions and explosions and it's normal because he is doing it right he is very good at this but in that movie they are just too much and interesting is that there is so much fights and violence in this

The other problem is there is actually too much needless violence and blood, nothing wrong with a bit of violence and blood, but here it just feels excessive and unnecessary, it doesn't actually add anything to the action.

Dexter treats extreme violence much in the same way that GoodFellas did: as something horrifying, intoxicating, seductive and thrilling, all at the same time.

Yet, much like Chris Nolan did with «Batman Begins» or David Cronenberg showed with «A History of Violence», it's one of those great examples of the difference that a visionary director can bring to relatively conventional material — making a solid movie into something far deeper and more rewarding.

It is hard to imagine how so much bloodshed and violence could be dull, but Stone manages to do this.

All we get from him is a lot of leering, much violence and the movie's only good line, as when he taunts Louie: «Why do you let me hit you.»

Characterised by violence and beautiful woman, giallo is a genre that doesn't appear to have much of a feminist bias.

And while the movie is extremely violent (without much blood), he does find clever ways to show violence, and even seems to be commenting on the cinematic pleasure of seeing well - orchestrated, creative, gleefully over-the-top fights in films as a kind of catharsis.