Sentences with phrase «few years of abuse»

They are holding up pretty well, too, even after a few years of abuse.»

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However, Delta claims steep increase in the number of animals on flights over the last few years reflects an abuse of the policy.

It's not surprising that the people who create movies are as affected by the racism, sexual abuse and violence that has pockmarked the news for the past few years as the rest of us, but Hollywood is only offering a diagnosis here.

Others: Having been sexually abused by a man in our church myself at the age of 12, and having had to endure the consequences for the last 42 years, and having been the target of several righteous / religious attacks over the last few years, the abused have a right to speak and be heard even if it makes you uncomfortable.

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

Yes, we need a serious dose of what I write in Christianity Today a few years ago: Curing Christians Stats Abuse.

He said that data gathered from top insurers of Protestant churches a few years ago showed that there were 260 reports a year of child sex abuse by church leaders or members of the congregation.

This is one of the few ventures in which union and management are united, and while there's no telling how many people have sought refuge in the program (confidentiality is a key principle), Daneyko says that in the past year, he has learned of several players and family members who have made calls to the program, for alcohol and other substance - abuse problems.

Health risks: A few years ago, in my work with the survivors of relationship abuse I came across a woman who during a routine screening in pregnancy tested positive for chlamydia.

Anyone who has worked with teenagers these past few years is well aware of the abuse that is going on, regardless of predictable disclaimers from drug company officials or school administrators.

Efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federal level.

To give a few examples, apart from those from outside the European Economic Area who can not lawfully work at all, there have been restrictions on migrants from new EU members states (to self - employment for a period of seven years), those on Tier 2 visas (to a named employer), on students (who may work, but not full time or in a profession), and on domestic workers (who may not seek another employer even if abused).

Over the past few years the Albany Catholic Diocese has been hit heavily by charges of sexual abuse by a number of its priests and by the appearance of a cover - up.

«That would be a complete abuse of the system that we have evolved in this House over the last few years, which is to be a check and balance on the government,» she said.

Over the past few years, cuts to legal aid and changes to lawyers» fees have made it harder for alleged victims of human rights abuses by UK - linked companies to have their cases heard in UK courts.

Here are just a few examples of the type of abuse women have experienced this year:

«That would be a complete abuse of the system that we have evolved in this House over the last few years, which is to be a check and balance on the government,» Baroness Royall said.

Additional numbers included in the survey found 80 percent of state residents agreeing the United States is in the middle of an opioid epidemic and 83 percent think the problem of opioid abuse has gotten worse over the past few years.

The past few years have seen an explosion of heroin abuse and deaths from opiate overdose.

Science ultimately published the paper later that year, and it was replicated a few years later in the first - ever brain imaging study of psychopathy, a collaboration between Hare and the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center substance abuse clinic.

I had no connections, no education, few positive role models, and making matters worse, my self - esteem had been crushed through years of secreted childhood bullying and abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

«This is very consistent with data from the [U.S.] Drug Enforcement Administration that shows a great increase in the trafficking and availability of synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl over the past few years,» said lead researcher Christopher Jones, of the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

After a few years of relative happiness, the relationship runs into serious difficulty when the literary agent drifts into drug abuse.

12:15 am (20th)-- TCM — Broken Blossoms A few years after D.W. Griffith's controversial Birth of a Nation and epic Intolerance, he made this much smaller, much quieter film about a Chinese man (the non-Chinese Richard Barthelmess — and no, Griffith has not quite got over the racism that plagued Birth of a Nation) who becomes enamored with a young girl (Lillian Gish) whose father abuses her.

As I chronicled here, the district was caught flat - footed earlier this year when a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing students revealed that, under the terms of a contract negotiated with United Teachers Los Angeles (the local union), complaints against educators that don't result in disciplinary action are disregarded after only a few years (unsurprisingly, the teacher in question had a long paper trail).

A government report a few years ago detailed hundreds of instances of abuse and several deaths over two decades.

He had always known he was gay and being free of Beaumont Texas, he soon met his unbelievably supportive partner who stood with him through years of alcohol abuse, trysts in which he found himself waking up in strange towns, losing a few jobs and ultimately, a near death experience.

Whitton says the regulations have become much tighter in the last few years, thanks to abuse of the system by parents whose children didn't attend post-secondary institutions.

A single pair of unsterilized cats or dogs and their unsterilized offspring and their unsterilized offspring and so on, will be responsible for the births of thousands of unwanted kittens or puppies in just a few years that could end up abandoned, neglected, abused, hit by passing cars or euthanized because homes can't be found for them in time.

They live so gratefully in the present that even a few days knowing love and safety outshines the years of abuse or neglect that they may have experienced before you.

Much has been written about it over the last few years, it is a program that entrenches the vulnerability of the workers, exploits many of them, can be abused by employers and drives down wages.

Loretta Merritt is one of the few lawyers in Ontario who has more than 25 years of experience representing men, women and children in sexual assault and abuse lawsuits.

A few years ago I was court appointed in a Department of Social Services abuse and neglect case as the lawyer for a twelve year old who was accusing her stepfather of sexually molesting her.

The stories of police abuse, corruption and incompetence are legion — and in the last few years became a deluge as incidents are regularly documented with solid video and / or audio evidence from mobile phones, security and dashboard cameras.

After a few years in civil litigation and property law, Mike became a Deputy District Attorney in Fresno, where he saw the effects of prosecutorial abuse on people who were trying to recover in the face of serious charges.

But the abuse of Facebook's search tools — now disabled — happened far more broadly and over the course of several years, with few Facebook users likely escaping the scam, company officials acknowledged.

Effects were more consistent on physical abuse, however, with mothers in the treatment group reporting fewer instances of very serious physical abuse at one year and fewer instances of serious abuse at two years.54 In Alaska, the HFA program was associated with less psychological aggression, but it had no effects for neglect or severe abusive behaviors.55 Similarly, in the San Diego evaluation of HFA, home - visited mothers reported less use of psychological aggression at twenty - four and thirty - six months.56 Early Start also reported small effects in terms of lowering rates of severe physical abuse.57

A fifteen - year follow - up of the Prenatal / Early Infancy Project in Elmira, New York, showed that the nurse home visits significantly reduced child abuse and neglect in participating families, as well as arrest rates for the children and mothers.35 The women who received the program also spent much less time on welfare; those who were poor and unmarried had significantly fewer subsequent births.

Good Shepherd's Kathy Landvogt said highly discriminatory proposals such as where people will no longer be able to qualify for the Disability Support Pension on the basis of their substance abuse alone (estimated by Whiteford to affect fewer than 450 people each year, saving about A$ 22 million over five years) ignore the connection between mental illness and drug addiction, and threaten to breach basic human rights and that drug testing welfare recipients «comes dangerously close to criminalising poverty.»

Over the last few years, Washington has been one of the top ten states for rates of drug abuse.

Developed, refined, evaluated and validated through research over the past 25 years, it has been recognized as one of the few evidence - based programs for substance abuse disorders and has been listed on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Registry of Evidence - based Programs and Practabuse disorders and has been listed on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Registry of Evidence - based Programs and PractAbuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Registry of Evidence - based Programs and Practices.

A few years ago, I spent a good bit of my time crisscrossing the country lecturing on the topic of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)-- a mental health disorder common among children who were subject to severe abuse and neglect during critical stages of brain development in infancy.

The good news is that guidance and support provided by trusted advisors to parents during pregnancy through the first few years of a child's life can help prevent child abuse and neglect.