Sentences with phrase «less violent peoples»

Maybe Calvinists wouldn't have this problem, but the fact that there were more and less violent peoples (as in, the Assyrians were horrifically violent; the Israelites were much less so, all things considered) challenges the «utterly depraved» idea.

Not exact matches

I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.

Ex-heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman once said that boxing «makes young people less violent».

A person could be born with a predisposition for violence, and once they commit a violent act, it is no less a crime or sin because of their genetic state.

It was assumed by many white people that blacks were less intelligent and more violent and that was used against them in the past as well.

But I would like my grandchildren to live in a world less violent than the one I have navigated, and it would be a moral failing if I refused to play my part in creating this world because I was too proud to change my mind or too mistrustful to work with people whose experiences may be different but who grieve as I grieve and share my prayers for peace.

As a matter of fact, the term «populism» is commonly (assuming more or less sensible and reasonable people) used for a way of unreasonable, partly violent, acting, ignorant thinking (not necessarily uneducated) and hostile feeling.

«Now in less than three months, violent clashes have occurred in Enugu State in Awgu, Nike, Abbi and Nimbo between suspected Fulani herdsmen and our people.

And he says as fewer people are convicted and sentenced for lesser drug crimes, the inmate population overall has grown more violent and dangerous.

He also says as fewer people are convicted and sentenced for lesser drug crimes, the inmate population overall has grown more violent and dangerous.

Now in less than three months, violent clashes have occurred in Enugu State in Awgu, Nike, Abbi and Nimbo between suspected Fulani Herdsmen and our people.

In addition, people who live in modern - day nations are not less violent than their ancestors or people who currently live in small - scale hunting, gathering and horticultural societies, Falk said.

While a variety of studies have found that people are less likely to remember brands linked to violent media content, almost all of those studies looked at television and print media.

As populations scale up, the proportion of people killed in battle scales down, suggesting we're no more or less violent than our forebears who lived in smaller societies.

Although studies to date are small, evidence suggests that people enrolled in this kind of program are three times less likely to be arrested for a violent crime in the future.

Many people are going to be quick to compare «Kingsman» to «Kick - Ass,» but while the former boasts the same punk - rock attitude, dark plot twists, and kinetic, no - holds - barred action sequences (including an extremely violent set piece inside of a church that rivals Hit - Girl's blood - soaked exploits), «Kingsman» feels less like a satire of an entire genre than the product of a filmmaker who grew up loving spy movies.

Less likely to question — several characters mention that the heat and drought are bound pt make people snap; in fact one character wonders who will be the next to snap and do something violent.

The violent crime rate is very low - less than one incident per 1,000 people - and the typical income for a college graduate is nearly $ 60,000, one of the highest on our list.

People here are markedly less violent than in the West Indies or Latin America.

Studies have also shown that people who play violent video games are less violent afterward.

And you know when we were talking a couple of weeks ago about Splatoon and we were talking about Overwatch as well, with the idea of making FPS games that are more accessible and less violent and more a little bit kind of cartoony and friendly to a wider range of people?

Twitter will also permanently suspend accounts where profile information includes violent threats and racist or sexist tropes, that incite fear, or reduce people to less than human terms.

When a person feels more in control, feels like they have the skills and knowledge needed to escape a situation, they are less likely to freeze if they are faced with a violent situation.