Sentences with phrase «of outright violence»

Not exact matches

One need only consider the perspectives on violence in Tertullian's Apologia and De Corona Militis, Origen's Contra Celsum, the Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs, the Martyrdom of St. Marinus, St. Paulinus of Nola's Letter 25, and Book XIX of the City of God, to see that significant Christians of the first millennium either rejected violence outright or were profoundly uneasy with it.

Persecution of Christians does not always manifest itself in outright violence; it comes in subtler ways.

Across most of the region — in Sudan, Somalia, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria's Niger Delta area, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia — the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization in 2006 identified tension or outright violence over the use of water - rich land or water itself.

Repeatedly Hauerwas and his students have been told by church members that they are drawn to a vision of discipleship at odds with a world bent on violence, but that they need some more accessible materials, if not an outright plan of action.

He would proceed thereafter to fulfill his own indefectible purpose — despite outright betrayal, the apathy of disciples in Gethsemane, the shiftiness of political leaders, the fickleness of crowds, and the violence and isolation of the death which he knew would follow.

As a result, this leaves all of the religious extremists / zealots today free to interpret their «faith» however they see fit... This allows crazy individuals to justify ANY level of violence, up to and including outright genocide, in the name of God or at least their understanding of God.

Regardless of Depp's guilt, or Heard's motives, the outright rejection of Heard's allegations is representative of the fears so many victims of domestic violence live with.

The last group is that of the ethnic - power politicizers, who claim not only that their group is beautiful, but also that the preservation, maintenance, enhancement and survival of their group depend upon the achievement of political power, whether it be through benign quotas, proportional representation, community control, caucuses — or in a few cases, outright secession, rebellion or the use of violence.

In a general fashion the dominant classes are trying to avoid a situation where the people take part in debates so that they can manipulate opinion (thus maintaining the appearance of democracy), or by planning outright violence.

At the same time, a public sympathetic to the physical protests seems to be changing its collective mind as they see violence creep in at the edges and a handful of outright predators take advantage of the naïveté of some of those assembled.

«To give meaning to militancy and violence, a group of brigands and outright criminals have been assembled and given such blood clotting names as Invincible Forces, Delta Forces, Kandaha Boys, Volta Crocodiles and also given official covering from the seat of government to perpetuate their illegal existence,» Mr Portuphy said.

Though it has far less outright violence than Gomorrah, whose oppressive criminal atmosphere it shares, Matteo Garrone's Dogman is just as intense a viewing experience, one that will have audiences gripping their armrests with its frighteningly real portrayal of a good man tempted by the devil.

Walter Hill's first outright failure, this revisionist western draws on the major themes of his work — the relationship of pursuer and pursued; the beauty of clean, planned action; the attraction to violence and resultant moral revulsion — but none of them ignites.

We have been hardwired by the survival imperatives of evolution to pay close attention to conflict in all its forms, from simple disagreement to outright violence.

While the original title's portrayal of violence and gore was shocking at the time, the console reboot that came nearly 20 years later can be outright gross, and even appalling, by comparison.

In Australia, out of the courts but in the public sphere, this has led to an unhealthy obsession with our Prime Minister Julia Gillard's attire, and «femininity», characterized by outright hostility and calls to violence against her.

Men often face barriers to getting help when it comes to domestic violence programs, however, since most of them are structured with women in mind and may even exclude men outright.

Threats or actual displays of physical violence, or outright attempts to belittle the other person and undermine their self - esteem, are the most destructive forms the exercise of control can take.

In the name of their «protection» Aboriginal people who had survived the early «disorder», the outright violence and particularly «governmental form of warfare», were herded into missions and reserves by the «ordering» state.