Sentences with phrase «human violence while»

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While violence is certainly part of the human condition look at the numbers.

While Smedes and the other editors of The Reformed Journal do not deny the need or desirability of Christian acts of compassion, they argue that structural violence demands social redress that goes beyond benevolence, being based first of all in the human rights of the victims.

The hardest task, the more courageous task, the task to which Jesus calls all His followers, is to seek alternative methods to dealing with violence that both affirm our inherent dignity as humans, while at the same time, refusing to resort to violence.

«Reports of violence and human rights atrocities from North Korea are pervasive, while the situation faced by Christians in Afghanistan may be underestimated.

But here, too, the traditionalist is placed in a bind, for Macklemore has captured and co-opted the image and sentiments associated with justice, kindness, fairness, progress, equality, love, patience, kindness, care for the individual person, and human rights, while the tradition gets linked to poison, hatred, bigotry, discrimination, inequality, violence, and war.

While Teilhard's later naturalistic definition of humanity (as a function of evolution) threatened human freedom and responsibility, his fundamental concern for persons never allowed him to acquiesce in the violence which necessarily accompanies any process of totalization.

While early humans used cooperation and creativity to hunt and create art, Fuentes said that they leveraged the same traits when engaged in coordinated violence.

Instead, an official report that accompanies the legislation notes that while it includes language to prohibit the CDC and other agencies from funding activities to advocate or promote gun control, «the Secretary of Health and Human Services has stated the CDC has the authority to conduct research on the causes of gun violence».

The team advances the case for «mindfully observing» employees and found that human resources professionals and supervisors can advance health, wellbeing, and performance while averting danger and violence by identifying and managing high - risk employees, anticipating their needs and providing support and resources.

Corman is adept at creating human moments between the plot points, reminding us of the little guys caught up in the war and the human cost of the violence, while the narration provides the death dates of each character in their respective introductions.

Nightcrawler certainly borrows much of its themes and tone from previous movies such as Network, Taxi Driver, Peeping Tom, Drive, but Gilroy recycles those ideas and places them in a contemporary setting and allows us to examine one of society's more questionable career paths, while also taking a glimpse at our human nature in relation to crime and violence.

A serious - minded and decidedly adult fairy tale about a virginal young woman who learns from her brother (Malcolm McDowell) that they are descended from a race of human - panther hybrids doomed to revert to their murderous feline state while making love to anyone outside of their own bloodline — a problem as she has just fallen in love with a sweet - natured zookeeper (John Heard) who specializes in big cats — this is a film swimming in sex, violence, poetry, philosophy and swanky visuals in such extremes that it always seems to be on the verge of becoming utterly ridiculous but it somehow never goes over the edge into camp because of Schrader's serious - minded handling of the material; it may be nonsense but he never treats it as such.

While we don't see any graphic human violence, cars and buildings are blasted to bits.

Human - Security - Report (2012:159) notes that while peace agreement might have fallen short of bringing about lasting peace, they have in return redunced armed violence and helped to save lives.

It is about learning that verbal and physical violence, while sometimes understandable, are abuses of power and a failure to respect the dignity of another human being.

Han says the question that haunted her while writing The Vegetarian was about the nature of human beings, about human innocence and human violence.

«While it is acknowledged that a crime such as serial murder is incredibly rare, this relationship between animal cruelty and aggression towards humans may explain why some individuals commit acts of violence towards animals prior to attacking humans.»

Munroe's personal version of the contemporary zoo was inspired by his interest as an undergraduate in the «human zoos» that exhibited Native Americans and Africans through the 1950s, as well as his memories of death and violence while growing up in the Bahamas.

Legs III's empty nylons, hung high on the wall, can be seen as shriveled stand - ins for the reduced human body, while in Window Piece, fluid - blurred kitchen knives are directed at a cut - out figure of an entertainer, suggesting violence, albeit one tinged with absurdity.

Intercepting the composition with this painterly mark - making, Alsoudani adds further complication to his disordered scenes, while highlighting the role of the human hand in the creation of violence.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

He questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions and he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today while condemning the excess of destruction due to the humans excess violence against the Earth.

While Yves Klein's deep blue sculpture of a female torso represents an idealization of the human body, A.R. Penck's phallic and roughly hewn wood sculpture, Untitled (1983), is imbued with a certain violence and existential isolation.

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

His photorealist flower paintings of the late 2000s spoke of humans» relationship with nature, while his tapestries of contemporary conflicts, a series that he began in 2011, explore violence, and how conflict is portrayed in the media.

While human instinct is often to turn away from stories of violence, loss and pain, in the case of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, people should lean in.

The campaign's principal spokespersons Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams, roboticist Professor Noel Sharkey, and Human Rights Watch arms director Steve Goose addressed the conference, while campaigners were present from the non-governmental organizations Action on Armed Violence, Amnesty International, Article 36, Human Rights Watch, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and PAX (formerly IKV Pax Christi).

While our human needs are unmet there will continue to be conflict and lateral violence in our communities.