Sentences with phrase «much abuse of»

I've seen way too much abuse of all kinds covered up and whitewashed later on by parents who, all of a sudden, want to be involved again after all the damage they've done.

It leaves open for endless consideration and reconsideration the question of how much abuse of power or mutual destruction can be tolerated in one area before a wider community intervenes.

Not exact matches

Parents have to approve all of their children's contacts, can limit how much time they spend chatting, and receive reports whenever a child flags a message for bullying or other abuse.

But Zuckerberg himself has said being too «focused on the positive» for the first 10 years of Facebook's existence blinded the company to much of the abuse it was enabling as well as to emergent effects of social media like hyper - polarization.

But for users, who were getting sick of invite spam and other developer abuses of the API, not so much.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asked for user suggestions to improve the quality of discourse on the social network that has become known as the source of too much misinformation and abuse.

The takedown of Trump's account on Nov. 2 sparked concerns among Twitter users over how much power employees have over sensitive accounts and whether abuse of their power could lead to international incidents.

Evolution AI ranked some of the most abused politicians on Twitter and found that energy minister Claire Perry, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn all ranked highly — though none received as much abuse as Naz Shah.

The change made it «that much harder for women» who had suffered abuse, says Natalia Pankova, the director of a state - run domestic violence organization called Sail of Hope.

Legal experts, speaking on a not - for - attribution basis because precise measures have not been announced, said one possibility is the government might change the Competition Act to say that «abuse of a dominant position» would include «exploitative pricing» or, in effect, charging too much.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The maker of the much - debated painkiller Zohydro is seeking approval of a harder - to - abuse version of the drug which, if approved, could replace the currently marketed version of the pill by next spring.

While there are still abuses and incidents in some areas of the world, I can tell you that all the major mining companies have adopted much higher standards in the past 20 — 30 years.

It's been quite a media maelstrom for Uber in recent months, facing allegations of sexist abuse in the workplace, reports of an aggressive corporate culture, and much more.

Millennials, for all the abuse they take in the media and the narratives of the older generations, are by and large a much more put - together generation than we give them credit for.

You were most definitely expressing much more concern over how the victim of abuse should behave than for the abuser.

But in a week of coverage, much of which is sure to be either generically retrospective or gleefully judgmental (a Reuters article I came across yesterday made sure to note, in its final paragraph, that his papacy had been «besieged» by the sexual abuse crisis — a claim which, aside from its mild bias, is not exactly accurate), it's refreshing to read a piece that takes a longer view.

I must report at once that in Victims and Values: A History and a Theory of Suffering Joseph A. Amato has turned his apparently impossible assignment into an exciting book that is multicultural and multidisciplinary in the best sense of those much - abused terms.

The people of the Catholic Church are about so, so, so much more than the child abuse scandal or the celibacy of priests.

More of a grey area (but a MUCH bigger issue) is the mental abuse of children that is allowed because it's religion.

Having come to the conclusion several years ago (after a lot of abuse from the first church I was part of) that doubt is far from being a threat to our faith — if we enter it with questions for God — I realised it is actually the yeast in our faith, and in the discourse with God we grow (much like your cartoon).

«It is because of huge family breakdown, and so much abuse in this nation,» says Mary - Alice.

He spent much of his life dealing with said anxiety by beating his wife and children before moving on to verbally abusing gay man and lesbians.

It is part of a much larger pattern of abuse and exploitation, of the earth and of people, which has occurred in South and Central America, and which is itself part of an age - old historical pattern of ecological destruction.

I remember giving so much of my time without question and I got abused as a result — I wasnt looking after myself I wasnt respecting me and I did nt have personal boundaries and I was being walked over.

But over the last 25 years we have gotten much more clarity about the role of evil in the context of abuse.

The level of paranoia and fear about addressing the topic 25 years ago was incredible, and now not so much — frankly, due to Oprah and many others who have spoken about their own abuse.

matybigfro, I agree that there is much about the SGM / MH / EV stories that is reminiscent of the charismatic flavor of shepherding abuse.

I don't think every pastor who succumbs to abuse of power on a relatively small scale is a clinical narcissist; and yet I do see very similar behaviour patterns playing out, albeit on a much smaller scale.

So much of what we recognize now as serious patterns of church abuse originate not from the actual abuse but from the people deny and cover it up.

It may not be so much the form of socio - political structure that is of concern but whether that structure has matured into a form that balances its potential for abuse of power at both the top and the bottom.

When I first began to examine the doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture, it was because I saw so much Bible - abuse in our churches and from our pulpits, that is, people, pastors, and even seminary professors using the Bible in ways that made me extremely uncomfortable.

In the SGM scandal, one of the most important outcomes was a much greater awareness of the necessity of reporting of all incidents of sexual abuse in churches.

much less have all those present... second... I still sick and tired of this abuse of separation of church and state... you people need to get a history lesson in how it all came about and the intentions..

Having overcome so much in her life — including agnosticism, depression, broken relationships, and even child abuse (revealed in her moving book, My Peace I Give You)-- Eden has decided to make yet another courageous decision, recounted in her last chapter: to make a promise of consecrated celibacy to Christ.

More recently, the calumnies have become much darker, as the man who designed and implemented the Australian Church's first vigorous response to the sexual abuse of the young has been charged with being an abuser.

Jeremiah 18:21, 23) A notable amount of praying in the Old Testament is thus cursing, and lest Christians should assume too much credit in this regard, a similar abuse of prayer, all the more inexcusable because sinning against light, stands in the New Testament — «How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?»

All that to say, I think much of the abuse would be mitigated if the style of teaching was far more oriented towards discussion among equals.

This book has been recommended to me about a thousand times, but since I have never been the victim of serious spiritual abuse, I figured I wouldn't have much to learn from it.

This reverent modernism is the only true orthodoxy; the other variety of orthodoxy is a dead and ineffective traditionalism, in the worst sense of that much - abused and yet invaluable word.

I am learning that I can not teach christian theology constructively unless I am aware that, historically, the church has done much to damage women, Jews, people of color and the whole inhabited earth; and unless, as a christian, I am learning how our doctrine, discipline and worship continue to reflect and contribute to this abuse of power.

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live in.

To bring this back to Jesus Christ, keep in mind how much of his life required him to deal with abuse of power as opposed to hate.

In recent years there have been much - publicized incidents of the sexual abuse of boys and girls in Oblate schools.

No, this one doesn't have to do with gross abuse of women as much as it has to do with football itself — like, the actual ball.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

Nevertheless, the critique goes much deeper than the abuses of the late medieval - early modern Church.

The bishops did take action and by 1993 most dioceses had in place much more effective systems, often involving lay review boards, for dealing with charges of abuse.

Interestingly enough my usage of the term has become pretty widespread among those who have suffered much abuse and / or witnessed much hypocrisy at the hands of many who practice religion.

Look, we understand if you need a dog or a cat or something similar to help with any legitimate mental health issues, but there are plenty of people who are definitely abusing this loophole so they can bring their chimpanzee or whatever onto a Delta plane that's already going to be loaded with annoying things, thank you very much.

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.