Sentences with phrase «great abuse of»

The rest of it is Spielberg clockwork: great suburbs, great special effects, great abuse of an expositive score (here Jerry Goldsmith fills in for John Williams), great overuse of the slow push - in, great hot mom, great irrelevant dad, great plucky little kids.

His character arc is a fairly recognizable awakening of alarm and horror at the great abuses of power in the name of security.

That is the greatest abuse of all in this context.

Not exact matches

The best picture Oscar winner of 2016, this look inside the investigative newspaper team that uncovered the child sex abuse going on among Boston priests is a powerhouse of great acting and storytelling.

Symptoms include lack of energy, changes in appetite and sleep patterns, substance abuse, anxiety, and thoughts of self - harm, which, while clearly not great for mental or physical health, also take a toll on economic productivity.

The risk of abuse is greater when bankers are required to sell a certain number of products to meet performance goals.

A bipartisan majority of senators has chosen to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression by handing big banks and their lobbyists a package of deregulatory gifts, increasing the risks to financial stability and the likelihood of consumer abuse, including racial discrimination in mortgage lending.

April 1, 2013 at 8:59 am Report abuse Reply LMBO What a great example of tolerance.

The rate of abuse within the Catholic Church is no greater than outside the Church.

He appeared to have little regard for womens rights and considering he had the ear of dad he blew a great opportunity to prevent the chronic abuse of women today in many religious countries.

Sex» of which there is a great deal in the story» actually becomes the adversary, resulting in abuse, depression, mutilation, gender - confusion, and self - loathing.

This is for you yeah you hateful little bigot About this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and impious towards God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices.

I can only guess that black people embrace the religion which seemed to dehumanize them for the same reasons millions of women continue to embrace Christ though their «Biblical submission» to their husbands has resulted in great emotional and physical abuse.

Before he became Pope, he oversaw a tightening of procedures and reform of the way that the Vatican deals with sexual abuse cases that come to it in order to deal with more cases, more efficiently and with greater justice for the victims.

It never says anything of public school districts, where reports say children are at far greater risk of abuse.

At the same time, however, humor has a power that can be abused by drawing attention away from unanswered questions or by making wisdom seem unwise; so, I think that the power of humor must be handled with great care.

I love it because of your honesty, and I love it because I think it echoes what a lot of people experience in churches when they suspect abuse, but don't say anything - the ignoring of the intuitions, the pull of «belonging» to the greater group, the shame associated with telling, the pain when they * do * tell and then are immediately ostracized (so painful, when I'm guessing you thought you «belonged» at the table, and were only participating as you thought you had right to?

We would expect to see greater levels of abuse amongst groups in which celibacy is a normal way of life (such as Catholic priests), and by extension lower levels of abuse in groups in which celibacy is unusual.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

The reason why the belief in something great is so key to recovering from substance abuse is that it is the 1st step in acknowleging that you are not in control of your life - if you were, you would not be an addict, would you?

In the SGM scandal, one of the most important outcomes was a much greater awareness of the necessity of reporting of all incidents of sexual abuse in churches.

In the Dricoll / Mars Hill situation, a desired outcome would be a greater awareness of the level of transparency and care that is required of pastors and the mechanisms needed when there are repeated, substantiated reports of pastoral abuse with failed systems of accountability.

About this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and impious towards God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices.

Is it possible that the most oppressive parents find in the atonement a conscious or unconscious validation of the abuse of children for a greater good?

That SOME of these have GROSSLY abused their positions, both priests and Bishops, makes our need for ever more perfect examples of manhood even greater.

Simply recognizing that Capitalism offers great opportunity for abuse of the poor is not a complete rebuke of that economic system.

Troll, I attest from experience, that church abuse is directly and derivatively the greatest source of unbelief in Jesus Christ.

Morals do not come from belief and in fact we can find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape; human sacrifice; animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.

Certainly the sexual abuse of teenage boys» which is what the scandal is mainly about» will not be treated cavalierly as it often was in the past, and that is a great gain.

Suppose also that if the rung boys subjected to family abuse could have access to this MAOA therapy so that when attaining adulthood they would possess a greater sense of social responsibility exercised through greater self - control.

At no point are they sickness» [«substance addiction begins as the sin of drinking or using drugs, progresses to the greater sin of excessive use (abuse), and ends as a sinful habit» — a view Clinebell attributes to rescue missions].

(resulting in a great deal of young women killing themselves to get out of the abuse YOUR religion says is good.)

Great — so, either these four young men never were abused, but simply saw an opportunity to shake down an individual with a questionable reputation (the «where there's smoke» strategy), and Pastor Long either caved in to the pressure, or sought an expedient route (possibly used before) to make the problem go away; OR, these really are four young men who've been abused, but rather than make the pastor answer for what he did to them in a court of law, and spare other young men in the future the trauma they experienced, they allowed their silence to be bought.

Abusing their trust, global governance agents of change use the fuzzy expression «gender equality» in the developing world allowing it to be understood as a policy enhancing a greater recognition of the inherent equal dignity of the woman, while in fact it hides their own agenda.

What I fear happening is that by focussing on control and particular individuals there is potential healing that could happen that isn't happening, a perpetuation of abuse and those that are pastors that are doing great jobs might find themselves under difficulty as shared in a culture of fear and retribution as they are treated as if they are abusers when they are not.

Actually, I DID have a great deal of spiritual oppression during the abuse, and again years after it reappered in the same way.

The great issues that face world society, such as the poverty and hunger of millions, the endemic violence, the drug trade, or the abuse of the environment — to name only a selection of key concerns — all have a spiritual and moral dimension.

If you give these people power that will look like child's play in the great hall of torture and abuse history.

(CNN)- Retired Pope Benedict XVI says he never tried to cover up the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests, breaking his post-retirement silence to address one of the greatest threats to his legacy as a church leader.

That allowed the NCR's guns to be turned on to an even larger target: «The cover - up is the product of secrecy, privilege and a lack of accountability that are major elements of the clerical culture in which the sex abuse scandal flourished... It was made worse because officials either ignored or downplayed the claims of victims and went to great lengths in many cases to protect the abusers.»

But even greater measures must be taken to protect our children, including digging to the insidious roots of the problem of sexual abuse, the abuse of the children, and the abuse of power by the church.

BT: The greatest failure of the church / Christian organizations when it comes to responding to abuse is institutional self - protection.

However, one of the great tragedies I have encountered is how the Church has so often failed in expending itself in love to so many survivors of abuse.

Yet the institution of rule itself carries with it, inevitably, the likelihood of inequality and, hence, the possibility of much greater conflict: on one side, insensitivity and abuse of power, on the other side, abasement, envy, and resentment.

«ABOUT this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and impious towards God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices.

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

I have the greatest sympathy for those who suffered as a result of abuse, but legally and in the media, we should proceed with caution here.

«With a great sense of pain and shame, it must be acknowledged that within the Christian community, innocent young people were abused by clerics,» a high - level Catholic Church committee found.

Much more importantly, it's one of justice for the great majority of child abuse victims, nearly all of whom are being abused outside the Church.

Well after my experience with the Catholic Cult er Church there is a great upside to Atheism, you no longer have to deal with the Alpha Male Wan na Be's who abuse children and abuse their followers in a number of ways.