Sentences with phrase «living with violence»

We see the roller coaster ride that living with violence creates, causing confusion and anxiety and sometimes leading to reactions such as depression, medical disorders and drug and alcohol abuse.

As a mother, her passion and research background is for the safety and wellbeing of children living with violence.

Older children currently living with violence and fear are anxious, highly aroused, and have raised cortisone, as do younger children.

Although many of our students live with the trauma of the refugee experience, statistics around child protection notifications, the rates of childhood sexual assault, families living with violence and the rates of students beginning school developmentally vulnerable paint a picture of students in classrooms across Australia living with trauma in their daily lives.

I don't remember ever not living with violence in the family.

«Because we have forgotten the biblical concepts of true authority and submission, or more accurately, have rebelled against them, we have created a climate in which caricatures of authority and submission intrude upon our lives with violence.

Children who live with violence in the home can become violent people.

It touches every one of us — either those of us who have lived with violence ourselves, or who have supported a friend through a violent relationship, an assault, a rape.

Decades of state neglect have shaped an uncertain life in Colombia's peripheral regions: a life with violence, but without electricity, drinking water and roads.

Not exact matches

With big names behind the camera as well — Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, Patriot's Day, etc) is the executive producer, and Cynthia Hill (A Chef's Life, Private Violence) directed the series — agreeing to the project seems like a no - brainer for Hendrick Motorsports.

«The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster... Specialization in verbiage, classification, and mechanized thinking has put man out of touch with many of the marvelous powers of «instinct» which govern his body.

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«Every mayor here talks as if they are the tourism secretary... and doesn't plan for residents so that they can live with a little dignity,» said Celina Izquierdo, of the Social and Gender Violence Observatory, which monitors security issues.

In particular, she was impressed with how social media advanced the conversation around Black Lives Matter, a movement to end violence against African Americans that started as a hashtag on Twitter.

Outlined in the documents are rules about what kinds of statements are considered too offensive to allow, how much violence the site allows in videos — including Facebook Live, which has been the subject of significant controversy recently — and what to do with sexually suggestive imagery.

In fact, one study from Stanford University that considered whether more guns save lives discovered that states with more relaxed gun laws had higher rates of gun violence than states with strict regulations.

We stand with these teens even from across the country, because this problem — gun violence — is not confined to one school, student, or state, it threatens every young person living in America.

Katie first came to Covenant House to escape a life filled with violence.

Oregon Live reports that the state has banned gun ownership by anyone convicted of domestic violence since 2015, but the law did not apply to abusers who were not married to, had no children with, or did not live with their victLive reports that the state has banned gun ownership by anyone convicted of domestic violence since 2015, but the law did not apply to abusers who were not married to, had no children with, or did not live with their victlive with their victims.

Sexual violence is known to affect 1/3 of all women and girls at some point in life, with the largest demographic being young women between the ages of 14 and 24.

You should meet the «honorable man and woman» who live above me and the way they model being married to their 3 children with Hate, filthy mouths, and violence.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

But I don't think we live in such a time, at least not with respect to the sadly familiar patterns of crime and police violence when it comes to race.

I have been threatened with my life and did not return with violence.

Considering the track - record of religious violence throughout history, I'd say that puts YOU on the list to have your privacy violated to save the lives of the people you are terrorizing and oppressing with your religious - motivated CHOICES.

I personally don't think Steve was «fair» with all of the biblical accounts of violence, since he often cuts off quotations in mid-sentence, but with all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God, it's hard to quibble over minor details like that.

The Church should be so invested in the lives of others, especially the «least of these» in society, that when someone exhibits unstable behavior or are threatened by violence, they are surrounded with biblical love and ensured the help they need.

We don't need much imagination to imagine that to be free of hatred, of enmity, of the endless and hopeless effort to oppose violence with violence, would be to have life more abundantly.

I've learned a ton of lessons about that by living in a neighborhood that has all kinds of reasons to hope, but also really struggles with an epidemic of violence, averaging about one homicide a day.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

On the other hand, the non-Christian — the one who, living under a tyrannous regime or in a society where, it seems, social injustice will never end, wants to kill the tyrant or destroy the society; the one who, exploited or degraded by a colonialist regime, wants to kill the oppressor; the man who, victimized by a racist society, wants to avenge by violence the indignities heaped upon him — all these, along with their violence, their hatred, their folly, must be accepted by those of us who are Christians.

Along with pastoring The Way Christian Center in the Bay Area, I serve as the director of the LIVE FREE Campaign, a faith - based movement committed to organizing the moral voice and actions of the faith community to end gun violence and mass incarceration.

For instance, the congregation might pray for anonymous victims of domestic violence, for those trying to make difficult decisions in their life, for family members who are disagreeing with one another, and for those members of the congregation touched by the hurt or despair of others.

So unstinting has been the effort to portray as virtuous the ending of the lives of the weak that it brings to mind Pope Benedict's words to the College of Cardinals in 2012: «We see how evil wants to dominate the world,» he said, and how it uses cruelty and violence, but also how it «masks itself with good and, precisely in this way, destroys the moral foundations of society.»

As the Akaranga Sutra says, «All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Those effected in the northern region of the young country live in an area that has suffered through three years of on - going ethnic violence, with fighting between rebel forces and the government claiming the lives of thousands.

This is how we Christians should live our lives: even though nonviolence is not necessarily the «most efficient or effective» response to violence, the fact is that «Jesus [is] calling us... not to return violence» with violence.

I get the impression that you grew up in the Middle East, and that your life has been filled with fear and violence.

That's why He invites us to live, not in a spirit of fear, but in His Spirit — with love that is more powerful than violence, with forgiveness that is more powerful than hate.

Seeing as people are getting smarter, and we are, and technology is advancing so rapidly, which it has (last 100 yrs), and we are supposedly honestly trying to solve the problems of mankind such as disease, famine, pollution, homelessness, VIOLENCE etc etc.... Why then, with all these «advancements», has life become worse?

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.

The doctrine of forgiveness, the doctrine of the Cross as a symbol of redemption, the myths and the mysteries surrounding the human body and human sexuality, the identification of sin and temptation with femaleness, the Image of God, the mind / body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation of creation... these are some of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.

In the nineteenth century, the existence of such failed societies, with abysmally low and falling living standards exacerbated by chronic violence, would have attracted the attentions of one or other of the colonial powers.

For years people have asked whether the amount of violence portrayed on movie and TV screens has anything to do with the growing violence in real life.

In Manchester where we live there are areas we would not go to as gangs with weapons carry out robbery with violence, thankfully this is not a regular issue in our country.

Just as Jesus rejected both the politics of the Sadducees and the revolutionary violence of the Zealots, so his followers must embody not with their weapons but with their lives a counter social ethic.

Gamer contrasts youthful curiosity about sex, power, and violence with real - life consequences» an artful process that demands sophistication and maturity to appreciate.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.