Sentences with phrase «like physical assault»

If the police get information that a crime, like physical assault, may have happened, they will investigate the situation by talking to the people involved, as well as any witnesses.

His work shocked contemporaries and often sparked outrage — the flagrant Blue Nude, a provocative, perverse portrait of Amélie reclining in the garden sunlight was misunderstood and received by critics like a physical assault on the senses, language Matisse used himself to explain his almost violent process.

Not exact matches

Which is another reason why we can share how we feel and why; but can't be impute motives or be dogmatic except for the most obvious predatory acts like murder, rape, physical assault — those things that have been criminalized by enforceable laws, laws that have the support of an overwhelming public consensus.

With that said — if this guy physically attacked the other one simply because he said something insulting then it's a simple case of physical assault and it should have been tried like that.

Yes, this would have been a perfect opportunity to instruct the Muslim perpetrator regarding his rights and duties as an American resident, like respecting the rights of others to express themselves without physical assault.

Gay men, by contrast, not only need to deal with the potential embarrassment involved with approaching a straight man and assuming he's gay, they also need to worry for their physical safety, as even though we live in a more accepting environment than we ever have before, it's not like gay men aren't still assaulted for making an incorrect guess about a man's sexuality (or a man's comfort with his sexuality).

«An able recent writer on the dog considers the bull - dog as a sort of abnormal canine monster, a dog idiot, yielding to uncontrollable physical impulses, now of blind ferocity, now of equally blind and undiscriminating maudlin tenderness which renders him more addicted to licking, slobbering, and mumbling the hand, the boot, or any other part of any person to whom he takes a sudden and causeless liking, and who he is just as likely to assault the next moment, than any other of his species.»

There are no exceptions in any law that I've checked (though this was not exhaustive) for «defence against theft» when compared with crimes like assault or battery or homicide, where one may sometimes use the «defence against physical harm» or in some jurisdictions «defence against unlawful entry to property» defence.

Happy Slapping: An extreme form of bullying where physical assaults are recorded on electronic devices like phones, and then sent to others or posted online.

Saying something like «Sexual assault is by definition one of the gravest physical injuries possible» is not helpful, as there are a wide range of potential assaults, and obviously a wide range of potential physical injuries.