Sentences with phrase «not less violence»

but refuses to look at all the problems and is so narrow minded that they only want one ultimate goal... less guns, not less violence.

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«Of course that doesn't mean violence has disappeared, just that it occurs at lesser rates than it used to.»

They put a spotlight not just on mass shootings, but also more common types of gun violence that are less likely to make national front pages.

Republicans and Democrats Agree Arming Teachers don't make schools safer TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Florida Republicans are playing politics with public safety and embracing one of Donald Trump's most widely derided proposals to reduce gun violence.

This doesn't give me any more or less authority to speak to violence against women, but it does give me proximity.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

If people knew this peace, which surpasses all understanding (because it requires faith in God that, though we can know from the Bible, we can not know how he IS, for only he knows that), there would be less violence.

Do not doubt for a second that if more of us left our bubbles, abandoned culture wars, locked up our guns safe behind our legal right to own them and brought the physical presence of Christ into the communities stricken by violence, we would see dramatically less devastation — by gun or otherwise.

But the book is less than half - way finished... and if I can not prove the thesis to my satisfaction, I see no way out of the dilemma about how to reconcile the love of Jesus with the violence of Yahweh other than to say that in some way or another, the Old Testament is wrong in its portrayal of God.

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.

There are just too many Muslims who take their freakin» koran literally... and too many other «not - muslim - enough» muslims who couldn't care less about the violence done in the name of their cult ideology called Islam... hence the problem on both ends!

We would no less need an analogous social order that was perfect in its own way but that, at a minimum, did not kill us by war and violence or spoil life by meanness and other forms of private misery.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

Even though you and I and many others would long and hope for there to be less suffering and violence, especially from our God, I don't know if as Christians we have learned and understood God's ways enough to make such definitive statements.

Christians bear a special culpability for this prompt perversion, with less right to claim that we knew not what we did: our sacrificial violence toward Jews proclaimed the very sin it practiced.

It means parenting without violence, relying instead on respectful communication and seeking to see your child not as someone lesser or weaker than you who you can and should control, but rather as a partner in your life and a source of potential joy and loving interaction.»

Ina May Gaskin's C - section statistics over 40 years: 1.7 % American hospital C - section statistics: 32 % not including routine episiotomy and so on... Oh yes, I know who I would trust for my child's birth... And if the price of an intact body and a peaceful birth was «gentle stimulation» I would accept it with no hesitation... Of course I live in France where obstetric violence is the norm and home birth nearly considered as criminal by the establishment, but where puritanism is long gone (thank God)... You may remove this post as you did for my previous one... It's OK we've got lots of you this side of the Atlantic telling us what's good or bad for us and we trust them less and less.

He can decide voluntarily to part with it, but trying to take from Sting (who probably doesn't need it any more), and divide it among the less well - tuned among us will involve violence.

Theoretically, nonviolent crime receives noticeably less media attention and does not carry the heightened degree of sensitivity that comes with firearm violence.

While teen dating violence prevention programs increased knowledge and changed student attitudes to be less supportive of such behavior, they did not actually reduce dating violence, according to this meta - analysis of research on middle - and high school intervention programs, report investigators.

There was no association between discrepancy stress and average daily use of alcohol or drugs, but men who felt less masculine, and who weren't worried about it were the least likely to report violence or driving while under the influence.

My work in Chicago, which followed 6,200 kids (though not all were immigrants) for eight years, has showed that first - generation kids tend to have much lower violence rates, 50 percent less, than the third generation.

That's a consequence of large populations acting as a buffer against war casualties among noncombatants, not a lesser appetite for violence, the researchers contend.

It has a good deal less violence, obscenity and sex than Homer's «Odyssey,» and not nearly as much as the average American folk song.

This means that his own journey can't end with his violence unto others, and moreover, that his serial sacrifices for the white child so abused by every adult in sight — save for him — make him less admirable than frightening, a specter of payback that extends far beyond his own experience or representative capacity.

The horrors of the world she inhabits, too, are far meatier and less flippant than something like Atomic Blonde but with multiple sexual assault scenes, extreme torture, violence and gore it's not exactly a bunch of laughs.

The best thing that can be said about Rob Schmidt's Crime and Punishment in Suburbia — aside from the fact that it's over in less than two hours — is that it doesn't glorify violence committed by sexy teens.

Jackie Brown is a subdued piece that attempts to shock you not with graphic violence or tough talk, but with the sight of two middle - aged people — of mixed - race, no less — finding each other in the midst of a complex financial double - cross.

I can not help but wonder if a little more action and a little less violence would have made for a more satisfying watch.

What Sightseers gets right where Seven Psychopaths (out today and reviewed here) gets it wrong is that this film does not try to admonish itself for including violence, and incidentally is much less indulgent in the violence, along with having a much more coherent plot with better direction, writing, acting, and presumably better catering too.

For my taste McQueen lingers too long on scenes of brutal floggings and assaults (though the sex is not tastelessly explicit), which may be what white viewers need to be reminded of — except excessively explicit violence is a staple of many modern films, where the old saying that «less is more» has long been forgotten.

If he had been our villain in the Fifties, he was our hero (not to mention the new ugly - beautiful) in the Sixties, when the Good and the Bad were less superficially differentiated and ¬ violence was an undeniable fact of life.

From this serenity and quiet, the film then becomes almost unbearably terrifying — but no less hypnotic — when the carefully laid plans of the teenagers start to derail: mistakes and emotions do not fit within their disaffected frame of mind, and each incongruous element cuts into the serenity of the cinematography with shocking violence.

Given the vulgar themes and percussive violence, it may not be an image you want, but it is never less than mesmerizing to look at — every shot a brutally gorgeous image.

The gigantic Brigitte Nielsen is a less than convincing baddie, there's an OTT fascination with violence and, worst of all, the laughs just don't come.

The state of nature is, therefore, the state of freedom without external law, that is, no one can be obliged to respect the rights of others also and can not be sure that others will respect their rights and much less can be protected against acts of violence of others.

The violence is less, the younger kids defuse the older and the academics are at least as good if not better.»

While character education is not a panacea to ridding schools of violence, it creates environments where negative and anti-social behaviors are less likely to flourish or go unnoticed and unreported, in the long - term.

Conversely, the person who grows up to engage in the forms of violence that endanger others suffered from the alienation, marginalization and exposure to violence and indoctrination that led them to believe their rights to their beliefs are superior to those of others, to see others as less than human, and to see the lives of others as not worthy of value, to not trust others, the rule of law, institutions or governments, which leads to the use of violence as legitimate to advance their means.

Some view this «training tool» as an acceptable way to curb an unwanted action by your dog; others will argue it's a horrible act of violence against our canine companions, and was designed only for those who don't want to spend the time with alternate, less invasive means of training.

It's got two lesser known classics in the form of The Combatribes (Super NES, Aksys Games, Players: 1 - 2, E 10 + — Violence, 800 Wii Points), a not so well known, but ridiculously fun brawler, and Solomon's Key (Arcade, TECMO, Players: 1 - 2, E (Everyone, 600 Wii Points) and action puzzler of some repute.

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In the Street Fighter games, for instance, when Chun - Li and Ryu fight each other, this isn't considered violence against women, because the two characters are presented as being on more or less equal footing, and because Chun - Li is an active participant who isn't being targeted or attacked specifically because she's a woman.

Not only that, but following the pessimistic pathways means that we will have already have inflicted so much violence on the atmospheric chemistry that the extra damage caused by the permafrost feedback will be felt relatively less strongly.

This proved to be very successful as everyone knew they couldn't prey on weaker inmates and I can say that there was less violence in that area.

Lawyers from Alberta were considerably less likely to say that they always screen for family violence when referring a case to mediation than were lawyers from the rest of Canada, and a higher proportion of lawyers in Alberta who do screen for family violence reported that they do not use a standardized screening device.

Finally, not only are lawyers in Alberta less likely to screen for family violence than lawyers in the rest of Canada, they are also less likely to use a standardized tool when they do screen for violence.

Lesser acts of violence may not be grounds for dismissal after the contextual analysis has been applied.

Without a designated judge, victims of domestic violence have substantially less recourse against perpetrators if they live on - reserve than if they do not.

She also argues, pointing to empirical evidence, that «violence against transgender people is not taken as seriously as violence against cisgender people, leading anti-trans assaults and murders to be less investigated, perpetrators to be less frequently apprehended, and accused to face reduced punishment».