Sentences with phrase «of leading to violence»

Counter demonstrations always run the risk of leading to violence.

To David as well as to Cain, Yahweh might have said, «Sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it» (Gen. 4:7 b) Neither Cain nor David does master it, and the sins of both lead to violence.

Not exact matches

But the delays have also caused increased consternation among company officials and led to growing violence between law enforcement and protesters, with both sides decrying the actions of the other in recent days.

As part of its turn rightward, the NRA has developed its own media profile led by spokeswoman Dana Loesch, who stars in videos that present an ominous view of an America engulfed in a barely contained conflict that threatens to explode into violence.

That lack of support can lead to tension, and even violence.

Their tactics, coupled with fighting between groups jockeying for access to the racket, have led to a surge of violence in cities like Salamanca, home to a third of the fuel taps discovered in Mexico in 2016.

Although gun violence is one of the leading causes of death in America, it is also one of the most poorly researched, according to a January 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

«DOI's investigations exposing and preventing the types of corruption that fuel violence have resulted in more than 30 arrests of Correction Department officers and staff over the last two years and led to dozens of reforms,» he said.

A spate of violence in the 1980s and»90s that culminated in a 1996 shooting that left 35 dead led Australian Prime Minister John Howard to convene an assembly to devise gun - control strategies.

Frazier's decision to step down from the council came after President Trump failed to immediately condemn head - on the white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend led to violence — including the brutal death of a 32 - year - old counter-protester.

The Russia investigation, allegations of domestic violence by a top White House staffer, reports of outlandish spending by Cabinet officials, and just general frustration with Trump's chaotic management style have led to a number of departures from the Trump White House.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

A report Thursday night of a vehicle in a Fairbanks ditch led to a man being taken into custody on domestic - violence assault charges, according to Alaska State Troopers.

The woman at the center of a domestic violence incident that led to an explosion and fire in North Haven, Conn., Wednesday night had been held hostage for several days before alerting authorities, according to law enforcement sources.

The investigations could lead to charges of bank fraud, money laundering, and threats of violence — all state crimes.

The decline has been dubbed the «Trump slump» and led to Remington Outdoor Co. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday, a day after hundreds of thousands of people worldwide took to the streets protesting gun violence.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

Several children and families that have fled their homes in Myanmar to escape military - led violence are now living in refugee camps in the neighboring country of Bangladesh and require certain necessities while they await placement.

Ukraine's «special operation» against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country has led to heightened concerns of all - out violence in the troubled region.

He said that his observations lead him to conclude that the default of people not ruled by love and justice is brutal violence and chaos.

Francis's #prayforpeace day brought more categorical condemnations of war: «Violence and war lead only to death,» the pontiff exclaimed, «they speak of death!»

He travelled to Selma from his home in Atlanta to encourage passive resistance in the certain knowledge that this would lead to violence on the part of the city sheriff's department.

Not amount of study would lead one to conclude that Islam has a history of, or is presently engaged in violence (don't confuse Arab / Asian leaders with Islam).

Violence under the guise of religious speech has lead to millions of killings throughout world history.

Leading up to the 2012 elections in Ghana, Christians and Muslims worked together to reduce tensions and the prospect of violence — too frequent at such critical periods.

With good leadership mankind can rise above the greed and violence that leads our world right now but it will take all of us together to end war, hunger, bigotry, etc...

In the U.S., the number of abused women falls to one in four, but domestic violence is still the leading cause of injury for women between the ages 15 and 44 — more than car accidents, muggings, and rape combined.

Americans should care because the community, whose membership exceeds tens of millions in 194 countries around the globe, is one of the leading movements in Islam to bring Muslims out of the dark ages — divesting them of the fanatical beliefs that have been the source of so much bloodshed and violence in the world today.

As Piereson usefully reminds us, they followed the lead of a mainstream media that bathed Kennedy's assassination and Oswald's subsequent murder in a torrent of introspection about an America fearful of the world, terrified of social change, and addicted to violence.

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

I think rather that what he is saying is this: Revolutionary violence is to such a degree the only possible expression of the Christian faith that, if I suspect that my faith is leading me to become less violent, I am mistaken about the content of the faith and must abandon it; because, having decided for violence, I am sure that I am in the true Christian succession.

So goes the first line of argument that leads Christians to accept the idea of violence and to associate themselves with violent movements.

Eating, drinking, or smoking in public during the month of Ramadan is sure to bring heavy censure and in some regions, such as the Northwest Frontier and the tribal areas of Pakistan, it may even lead to physical violence.

«Huckabee: Lack of religion in classroom leads to violence in schools» - must be why Canada and Sweden and others have such low violent crime rates.

As we have just seen, Christian realism leads to the conclusion that violence is natural and normal to man and society, that violence is a kind of necessity imposed on governors and governed, on rich and poor.

Thus, whatever its milieu, its motif, its basis or orientation, idealism always leads to the adoption of a false and dangerous position in regard to violence.

First, they decide that the conditions obtaining are bad, and then... So, like it or not, all this leads back to a theory of just violence!

I refer rather to the slow, sanctimonious extermination of the Indians, the system of occupying the land (Faustrecht), the competitive methods of the leading capitalist groups, the annexation of California along with the retrieval of Texas — all this and much besides show that the United States has always been ridden by violence, though the truth was covered over by a legalistic ideology and a moralistic Christianity.

But the theological error that underlies this idealization of violence leads them into a new, a sociopolitical Manicheanism which (like the earlier, metaphysical Manicheanism) is also an idealism, a simplifying resource to help people participate in a complicated world where, they know, they had better do what the powers that be recommend and take sides.

The Christian who, having accepted the communist regime in the U.S.S.R., protests the violence of that regime, should be «all things to all men» — not to show that a Christian will acquiesce in anything whatever, but to lead some of his compatriots to Christ; that is, in this connection, lead them to renounce violence.

In March 2012, he became the Director for the Lifelines to Healing Campaign with the PICO National Network, a campaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people of color.

Christian politicians (if there are any left) should not support any person, group, agenda or movement that promotes a sinful lifestyle, because quite frankly every sinful lifestyle leads to things not beneficial to society (crime, violence, scams, breakdown of the family, etc.).

Just a bit farther north in Africa, in the Sahel region just south of the Sahara Desert, water is so scarce that discussions about how to use it often lead to political conflicts and, sometimes, violence.

All over the empire, Christian factionalism led to a perceptible increase in the climate of violence.

Hence we are led to conclude that today's theologians of violence are pharisees, terrible distorters of Christian truth.

Idealism, on the other hand, always leads to the adoption of a false and dangerous position in regard to violence.

Be that as it may, his being a revolutionary (and, as I have said, I believe that Christianity is profoundly revolutionary), his participation in the suffering of men, may lead a Christian to use violence.

Leading thousands of people in prayer for the victims at the Vatican on Sunday, he said that they died in «another act of ferocious violence» after refusing to renounce their faith.

Without forgiveness, murder leads to a cycle of violence that ends only in annihilation.

I suspect there is a name for the reason that Schwartz remains on the fence» for her near vision and her inability to bring herself quite to denounce biblical monotheism as the cause of violence and indulge the ressentiment her subtitle reasonably leads her readers to expect.