Sentences with phrase «in fear for»

If there is ongoing and severe domestic violence, and you are in fear for your safety or the safety of your children, then you may need an aggressive lawyer to obtain a domestic violence restraining order (called an «injunction») and advocate on your behalf in court.

If you are not in fear for your safety, if you don't have the need for a judge tell everyone you are right, and if your spouse does not have a severe psychological or personality disorder, then your family should work together outside of court to constructively restructure via the collaborative process rather than to battle it out in court.

While Israel's deputies apprehended him within seconds, the draft of a county report said Israel and others didn't control the chaos, leaving passengers in fear for hours.

If she is now regretting this and in fear for her life, she should go to the authorities.

Three witnesses (the only witnesses in the case who had identified the appellant as the gunman) claimed that they were in fear for their lives if it became known that they had given evidence against Davis.

However, over time the harassment usually escalates to the point where the victim is in fear for their safety, or the safety of their family members.

This view ignores the fact that many victims are legitimately in fear for their lives during the rape.

Three witnesses, who identified the defendant as the gunman, claimed to be in fear for their lives if it became known that they had given evidence against the defendant.

@Patrick87: Maybe other people are braver than me, but if an intruder breaks into my home then I'm automatically in fear for my life.

No victim of domestic violence should live in fear for her and her children's safety just because she can't afford legal help.

It is also illegal which is why people like Assange are hiding in embassy's constantly in fear for the life, they're not just thieves, they're rude!

Jesus Christ, in the first hour of the Phantom Pain I watched a group of armed paramilitary commandos look scared, cock their guns, and back up in fear for 30 seconds no less than 5 times!

When we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc?

• Patches, a 12 pound Jack Russell terrier, who was shot by a 250 - pound police officer who claimed to be in fear for his life.

In fear for my other two children's mental health I have had to assess whether or not they were well enough for school due to lack of assistance available.

I never really wallow in fear for too long, and I think that's exciting to see in a protagonist.»

I didn't want to live in fear for the rest of my life,» she says.

Letters, interviews and other source material that he and his colleagues studied in their work with the book reveal that the participants in Operation Freshman thought being part of such a mission was exciting, but that didn't mean they were any less in fear for their lives.

«There is nothing as insulting as wealthy cabinet ministers dishing out tax breaks to the super-wealthy, allowing massive assets to sit idle in bank accounts doing nothing for the common good, yet working people wait in fear for the letter telling them the government is cutting their income and ponder joining the foodbank queue.»

«We're only knocking lightly on the door at the moment,» she said slowly, «but there is a time when we will apologise for keeping them waiting in fear for so long.»

There have been a protracted tension between supporters of the NDC and the NPP in the area which occasionally results in attacks and reprisals; something that has put residents in fear for months.

«These witnesses told the New York State Police that they were in fear for their lives that night.

I've never been put in handcuffs, never had to «spread»em» on the hood of the car, and never been in fear for my safety or my life from a police officer.

I returned him to Blair's conference speech of 2001, delivered in the stunned, time - slowed aftermath of the 11 September attacks, as the world waited in fear for the American response.

A driver is involved in a brutal crash of some nature that leaves you aghast, in fear for their well - being and wondering if they'll be able to walk away.

Tight end Greg Olsen pulled his kids out of school in fear for their safety and called for protestors to find common ground with police so «chaos» could diminish.

In fear for his very life (vs. 4), Moses turns to the Lord.

This is talking about a person who (as far as we know) was in fear for his life and responded.

A catechist and mother of three small children described her prayer for peace when the terrible violence had only recently broken out: «I prayed to God for peace; in my fear for my children, I asked him that all the evil men in the different gangs would kill one another off.»

Mr Prothero, I would venture to say that you have never been fired upon by an enemy combatant; never been in fear for your life in a foreign land; and obviously never been dependent on the man next to you for the protection he affords.

But whenever I read of people encountering angels in the Bible, they always tremble with fright, and fall flat on their face in fear for their lives.

It seems to me that they are all base in fears for you to have in order to be controlled and for me thats a freaky way to achieve the love of God, or the love of anybody; insecurity is a virtue for an easy prey where you can subdue victims trough the power you want to impose.

This time around it's Kirk (Chris Pine) and Scott (Simon Pegg) who do most of the heroic heavy lifting — co-writer Pegg has noticeaby beefed up his own role — while Spock (Zachary Quinto) keeps it suitably cerebral, wrapped up in fears for the future of his race and grief at the death of his older self.

Not exact matches

Chavez sat three seats behind the window that smashed and partially sucked out the passenger who later died and «prayed and feared for her life» as she contacted her children and prepared to die, according to the lawsuit filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

In other words, the simple act of opening for business is one of the most powerful ways a community can begin the process of overcoming its fears.

The offer follows a string of power outages in the state of South Australia, including a blackout that left industry crippled for up to two weeks, and stoked fears of more outages across the national electricity market due to tight supplies.

DACA recipients» fears are not unfounded — the same fear surfaced several years ago after the Obama administration in 2014 attempted to expand DACA and implement a program known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which sought to shield from deportation the parents of American citizens or lawful permanent residents.

And differences in food and etiquette can be made more difficult by a hesitation among many Eastern employees to ask questions, for fear of looking unprepared or unprofessional.

Successful people don't wish for success, they work at success in spite of their fears.

«As a company that is committed to the principle that everyone deserves to live without fear of discrimination simply for being who they are, becoming an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,» Schulman wrote in an open letter.

Ben's ability to convey, in an easy - to - read, engaging, and thought - provoking way, his thoughts, fears, and struggles about raising money, rapidly growing, restructuring, and ultimately selling his company makes this a must - read for any CEO who wants to build and run a great business.

You'd also expect people who believed the Or model would resist teaching their kids this model for the same reason — they'd fear their kids would think they could have both and, in trying for both, unwittingly sacrifice some of the one they valued.

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

On a somber human note, the storm is already being cited for some 20 fatalities — 10 of them in New York City — and officials fear that number may rise.

For all Bartomeu's fears, Barça has played a key role in the quickly rising inflation.

Planning to never update your desktop - only accessible website and continue to avoid Facebook for fear of negative comments in 2016?

Another reason why fears of dispute may be unfounded is the fact that China lacks any semblance of geographical claim in the Arctic, unlike in the South China Sea, said Andrew Holland, director of studies and senior fellow for energy and climate at non-partisan research organization American Security Project.

Of course, it's hard to resist giving in to a more cynical suspicion that reports like these are a vague attempt to drum up a bit of fear within the VC industry, which, in turn, will provide lucrative contracts for the branding agencies that will swoop in to «refresh» a VC's look.

Critics of the proposed FCC rules, which had not been made public as of the writing of this story, fear they will still allow large companies to pay for more robust connections to consumers, as Netflix recently did in a deal with Internet Service Provider Comcast.

Because of those fears, pot dispensary operators in the 29 states where the drug is legal, either for medical or recreational purposes, often find themselves nervously handling obscene amounts of cash.