Sentences with phrase «history of abuse of power»

Admitedly the Catholic church no longer sends the inquisiton after people who disagree with it, but the history of abuse of power still stains the church.

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«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

There's reason to believe that internet providers will abuse their power absent net - neutrality oversight: They have a history of doing so.

Hell, look at its history, it is littered with rampant abuses of power.

It's like every time someone with an EC financial / power / tribal interest comments here, they just further confirm the history of control and obfuscation and corruption and abuses that have remained hidden, but are now coming to light.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

The misuse and abuse of religion to consolidate and maintain power is not new to history, but this new threat, in new guises and involving such huge numbers of people, is sufficiently ominous to merit major reexamination and modifications of what we mean by the terms «God» and «Christianity.»

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

This will go into the history books as the Comey / Cohen attack... they will study it at military schools as a complete abuse of military power.

To the detriment of all New Yorkers, he and his family are being victimized by a federal prosecutor with a documented history of abusing both his power and the law.

Juxtaposed against Going Clear's damning claims of Miscavige's abuse of power and history of physical violence against particular church members, it's the bizarreness of this last image that raises necessary questions: To what degree is Cruise aware of such incidents?

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most fascinating studies in history, right up there with Milgram's fake shock treatments, showing us how easily humans turn into sheep and how naturally those with power abuse it.

Publishers have a long history of abusing their power.

However, the abuse of the power of this type of technology is completely left out of the equation, and only by digging deeply enough into the brilliantly compiled linear notes on the exhibition's website detailing the history of surveillance from 1274 BC to 2016, written by Berit Gwendolyn Gilma and Hanno Hauenstei, can one even begin to realise the implications.

However, mediation is completely inappropriate where there is any form of power imbalance or a history of abuse between the parties.

(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.

Eighty heterosexual dating couples provided information about their gender, individual histories of abuse in their current relationship, attachment styles, perception of and satisfaction with relationship power.

Mediation may not be an appropriate means of dispute resolution if there is an imbalance of negotiating power between the parties, where there are psychological issues with one or both parties, subtle intimidation by one against the other, where there has been as history of domestic abuse, or other issues.

Divorce mediation may be disfavored or present special challenges with parties having vast differences in their power (financial sophistication, bargaining savvy, and most significantly, where there is a history of intimate partner violence or abuse).

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