Sentences with phrase «of other assaults»

But to give the Great Barrier Reef a fighting chance of survival in current or future temperatures, it needs to be protected from an array of other assaults it is being hit with.

Not exact matches

Lauer's ouster is the latest in a long (and growing) list of high - profile men in media, entertainment, and other industries who have lost their jobs over a flood of sexual harassment, assault allegations, and other misconduct, including Charlie Rose, Garrison Keillor, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey.

Called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, it is supposed to monitor an operator's vital signs, give them increased perception of the surroundings, and offer other high - tech functions.

The reports detailed other examples of people having their warnings of sexual assault at Mexican resorts taken down on the same basis as Love's, or because the website claimed they were second - hand information.

DeVos and others argue «a preponderance of evidence» — evidence that means there's a 51 % likelihood — is not enough to punish someone accused of sexual assault.

An undocumented Mexican Donald, sneaking across the border into California or New Mexico, for example, will have the direct costs of a «coyote» (guide) and other direct costs associated with trekking from one country to another (food, clothing, shelter, transportation and identification), and indirect costs associated with removal from one community and insertion into another, and, of course, the costs associated with the possibility of assault, sexual assault or murder.

«We are horrified that [Love] experienced this assault on her vacation in Mexico, and other travelers should be aware of this incident,» TripAdvisor said, claiming that its policies and procedures have evolved since 2010, and that it was creating a notification system to warn about health and safety or discrimination issues at businesses.

At the other end of the spectrum, if the worst case scenario is true, then the CBC was faced with the prospect of an employee being potentially charged with multiple accounts of both common and sexual assault.

Roy Moore, the party's candidate for what had been one of its safest Senate seats, lost after allegations arose that he had sexually assaulted a 14 - year - old girl when he was in his mid-30s and had pursued other teenagers.

But the center is on shakier ground in assuming that articles about «pornography, sexting, BDSM, group sex, anal sex,» or other topics of sexual pleasure are connected to issues of sexual assault and harassment.

I'm thinking about enterprises like Uber, Airbnb and other peer - to - peer or sharing business models that are using the advantages of today's technology to launch an assault on an established business sector.

October: Tech blogger Robert Scoble was accused of sexually assaulting two women and behaving inappropriately with other women in the tech community.

The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

Others assaulted a bus full of tourists in Barcelona, painting over its windscreen and giving passengers a fright.

She shared a photo of a short note that urges others to stop blaming victims of sexual assault.

(Some people worried that water fluoridation would lead to widespread poisoning; others feared it for a different reason: that it was the vanguard of «socialized medicine» and an assault on individual medical privacy.)

Others have accused Weinstein of sexual assault.

The tourism town, where the majority of Miami - Dade's estimated 11,500 housekeepers and other hotel workers are employed, may soon be the nation's next city to enact laws aimed at protecting hotel workers from assault or improper advances by hotel guests.

Following two investigative pieces by The New York Times and the New Yorker in October 2017 accusing Harvey Weinstein of decades of sexual assault, several other of Hollywood's biggest names have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault.

Trump himself is the subject of an array of sexual assault and other misconduct allegations, none of which has been properly investigated by congressional Republicans, who prefer to stay in the dark.

In the days after Ashley Judd, Asia Argento, and several other women publicly accused Harvey Weinstein of harassment and assault in the New York Times and the New Yorker, Weinstein was fired from the Weinstein Company and kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In the wake of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, some have argued for a reinstatement of the nationwide ban on assault weapons, while others have suggested that the solution lies in improving access to mental - health care.

Its staunch advocacy of free speech around the world - nothing other than direct personal threats are barred from Twitter - has helped it become an important avenue through which news and viewpoints are shared, from the first inklings of the U.S. military assault on Osama bin Laden's compound to Obama's tweeting «Four more years» when he won re-election.

This harassment, apparently retaliatory, included loss of work responsibilities, demeaning comments in the presence of other employees, loss of entitlement to a pay enhancement and to disability accommodation, and physical assault and false imprisonment.

In a new complaint seeking class action status, two women — who are maintaining anonymity — are asking a court to force the $ 69 billion ride - hail company to change many of its driver screening and other practices on behalf of all U.S. riders who were «subject to rape, sexual assault or gender - motivated violence or harassment by their Uber driver in the last four years.»

The Running List: Since Harvey Weinstein resigned from his company amid sexual - assault allegations, 68 other men have been accused of sexual misconduct.

They said they would consider other gun control bills before the session ends in March, but none of those measures is expected to go as far as banning assault rifles.

Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.

Passing a law to ban the sale of assault weapons like the ones used in Las Vegas, Orlando, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, Sandy Hook and, most recently, to kill 17 innocent people and injure more than a dozen others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

It's also possible that discovery could turn up evidence of other crimes — an assault, for example, or campaign finance violations.

We forget that every venomous word we speak or write to others is an assault on the heart of a man or a woman made in the image and likeness of the Almighty.

But when a woman in this country wears a hijab people make fun of her, assault her, bar her and humiliate her even though wearing the hijab gives women dignity, it displays modesty, it prevents men from staring at her, and besides, what's the harm in wearing a hijab other than the weather getting a little humid outside?

The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.

Dick's plot was slight: the struggles of Frank Frink (would - be artist, Jew - in - hiding) to survive in San Francisco; the efforts of select Japanese and Germans to prevent a German nuclear assault on the Japanese Home Islands; and the search by Frink's ex-wife Juliana and others for the eponymous Man in the High Castle.

She and 22 other Columbia students have filed a Title IX complaint against Columbia for improperly handling accusations of sexual assault, but now Sulkowicz is going one step further to draw attention to the case.

Pell is also said to have assaulted Scott during an «evening stroll,» in the presence of the other boys, and to have put his hands inside Scott's swim trunks as Scott swam or walked in the waves.

It was because we were advocating for other victims of sexual assault within the evangelical community, crimes which had been perpetrated by people in the church and whose abuse had been enabled, very clearly, by prominent leaders in the evangelical community.

Psychologists report that people who sexually assault others do not do so because they need an outlet for their sexual frustration (there are many easier means of accomplishing that).

He reserves his most ferocious verbal assaults for «zealots» like Nellie Gray; he attacks Phyllis Schlafly («Why anyone paid any attention to this lady is one of the mysteries of the 80s»); he turns on Carl Anderson, who perhaps more than any other single figure in the Reagan Administration was responsible for the success of Koop's confirmation process, and berates him unmercifully for his opposition to the condom solution for AIDS.

He is said to have accomplished this assault several times inside a tent, during sessions of wrestling or pillow - fighting, in the presence of other boys — who in every instance were «seemingly oblivious,» so busy were they «horsing around.»

Much in the same way that you would be horrified to find that your sibling, or parent, or uncle, or one of your mates, had engaged in the sexual assault of anyone, and would feel shame for the behaviour of your relative / friend, so such disgusting actions by Catholics appal and horrify other Catholics.

Attempting to force others to obey the dictates of our consciences on non-predatory behaviors is boundary invasion, an assault on the freedom and dignity of others and that is unconscionable.

Here are some of the signs: (a) The person believes that others are attempting to harm him, assault him sexually, or influence him in strange ways.

That's how one Baghdad woman describes the dire predicament faced by her and other Iraqi Christians, a dwindling community that is enduring another string of anti-Christian sectarian assaults in Baghdad and in Mosul.

Women are often victims of sexual assault and other gender - based violence, but the government doesn't offer them any recourse, protection or support.

How then could it be that other disadvantaged communities have a way of overcoming such assaults and temptations?

This discussion should be about expanding that ban to include other «assault» type weapons and weapons of war and has nothing to do with every fundiots fear of having their rifle taken away.

Put - downs, crass joking, harassment, groping, stalking, verbal and emotional abuse, sexual assault and every other form of violence is never acceptable.

Humanists and other secular groups, many of whom are religious, are fighting back against this assault on our educational and political system.

... Why there assault on the beliefs of others and then not be held accountable?