Sentences with phrase «hold women hostage»
«Accidents happen, coercion happens, and there is a public - health imperative not to hold women hostage by hampering them from timely access to postcoital contraception.»
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A man holding a woman hostage implies she should provide sexual favors (she doesn't).
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Before, during, and after the trial, Shkreli has cultivated a reputation as America's most hated man, increasing the price of a life - saving drug by 5,000 %, holding an anticipated Wu - Tang album hostage, harassing women on Twitter, and for his smug court appearances.
Watch North Carolina's Charlotte - Mecklenburg police confront, then shoot and critically wound a suspect who was holding a pregnant woman hostage.
The woman at the center of a domestic violence incident that led to an explosion and fire in North Haven, Conn., Wednesday night had been held hostage for several days before alerting authorities, according to law enforcement sources.
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP)- A Connecticut woman's call to police to report that she had escaped after being held hostage for several days led to a standoff and explosion in a barn behind her home that left one person dead and nine police officers injured, officials said Thursday.
When ISIS snipers shot at women and children as they tried to flee Fallujah, after holding the city hostage, those fleeing were Sunni Muslims.
Either way, the «university» looks really bad from this, and they have held the woman's transcripts hostage and have robbed her of a degree.
«During the encounter, the troops killed 10 Boko Haram terrorists, captured two alive and rescued a woman with her baby held hostage by the terrorists,» Usman said.
Reverend Ruben Diaz Sr. was not only an accomplice in holding the State Legislature hostage for his own gain, but has been a vocal opponent of women's rights and marriage equality.
Multimillionaire commodities trader Adam Haber, who's trying to buy a State Senate seat, raised school taxes, opposed the property tax cap, and supports holding legislation ensuring equal pay for women hostage so that non-doctors can perform late term / partial birth abortions.
Because Republicans have refused to pass the Women's Equality Act in its entirety, instead approving the other nine plans individually, Democrats have accused them of holding the act hostage and being opposed to everything from pay equity to cracking down on domestic violence and sex trafficking.
«Adam Haber will have every opportunity to explain to voters why he supports holding equal pay and other important protections for women hostage unless they are directly tied to allowing non-doctors to perform late term / partial birth abortions right up until the moment of birth.»
Planned Parenthood has been complicit in holding sensible reforms that would benefit women across the state hostage to an expansion of later term abortion.
«Five aged women held hostage by the terrorists were also freed during the operation.
The plan also created tension among some women's rights groups that didn't want other pieces of legislation to be held hostage because of the abortion plank.
Rev. Gabriel Ansah said the most exciting part is that an older woman will not feign pregnancy to hold a man hostage in the relationship.
«On 23rd February 2016, troops of 21 Brigade in conjunction with troops of MNJTF on clearance operations at Kumshe general area, rescued 250 and persons, mainly women and children held hostages by Boko Haram terrorists and brought back 800 refugees from Cameroon.
«When you say that we're holding this hostage, I would submit to you that you have held this hostage for two years now; these are nine good pieces of legislation that women need, want and should have had two years ago.»
Nigerian army said Saturday that its troops fighting the war on terro, on Friday killed 10 Boko Haram terrorists, captured 2 terrorists alive and rescued a woman with her baby that were held hostages by the terrorists.
«It's not an expansion but to hold the other nine points hostage, to say that women can't have the other nine points unless they give up rights they have now, I think is unconscionable, it's not the world I want my children to grow up in.»
A struggling Bronx woman's dream of becoming a lawyer has been held hostage for three years because a former employer she is suing for sexual harassment has challenged her truthfulness...
«Planned Parenthood on our watch will not be attacked or held political hostage and it will never be defunded when the Democrats get to political office... and when we have our first woman president,» said Schumer (D - N.
The Top 3 Hormonal Myths that are Holding your Sex Drive Hostage and Keeping you from Feeling like the Vital, Full - life Embracing, Pleasure Desiring Woman that You Are!
Adds Ron Herman denim buyer Brian Kaneda, «Women have been kind of held hostage by the skinny - leg phenomenon.»
Room, a drama about a woman and her son held hostage in a garden shed, is reckoned by many as an Oscars frontrunner; the Baftas appear less keen.
Split stars James McAvoy as Kevin, a man with 24 different personalities who kidnaps a group of women and holds them hostage in a windowless room.
Men with guns hold women in a strip club hostage.
While revolutionary forces were overrunning the embassy and taking hostages, including the 52 men and women who were held for 444 days, five Americans fled undetected.
Perhaps that's because the hero is an unscrupulous valet (Robert Sheehan) who plans to rob a Maserati owner (David Tennant), except that after he breaks into the home, he discovers that a woman (Kerry Condon) is being held hostage, leading to a cat - and - mouse showdown.
This straightforward metaphor for ruthless capitalism turns even more bizarre when our hero refuses to obey: the woman then holds his family hostage and threatens to kill everyone on the train if he doesn't follow her orders.
Next Mother's Day, Gabrielle Union stars as a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security.
Gabrielle Union stars as a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security.
This has caused many critics to accuse the woman of holding the domain hostage, as so - called domain squatters have done in the past; these people — whether thugs who drive up the price or smart business people who capitalize on their foresight by purchasing domains before anyone needs them — typically sell to the business or person who wants that domain for a nice profit.
A young woman in a crushingly loveless marriage seizes freedom in the only way left to her; a mother is forced to confront a chilling, unforgiveable crime she committed out of love; an ambitious servant seduces both master and mistress; a young prostitute quietly, inexorably plots revenge on the madam who holds her hostage; a husband and wife must forgive each other for the death of their child.
In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.
He dodged into a fenced area, grabbed a woman, and held her hostage, threatening to kill her.
Painter Deborah Brown's latest work both embraces and critiques the concept of the Chimera as she reimagines narratives taken from mythology, religion, and literature by placing a powerful female figure at the center of these stories in which women are typically symbols of moral virtue or seductive evil, often held hostage by male desire to possess.
A border police woman was held hostage and released only when some of the young men held in police custody were let go.
Such as Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, who held an immigrant woman hostage in an attempt to block her constitutional right to obtain an abortion?
From holding immigrant women hostage to deny their right to safe, legal abortion to attacking more than 62 million women's access to birth control and evidence - based programs such as the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), Trump appointees have abused their power to advance an anti-reproductive rights agenda — and they show no sign of letting up.