Sentences with phrase «of social violence»

All three are focal points of social violence, that is, violence that is not necessarily physical but can be violent in their application (s)(law, politics and economics) upon individuals, groups and classes of individuals, and whole societies (ie aboriginal «empty land» doctrine, etc.).

Eugenics is a cruder version of the general science of biological determinism — the justification of social violence and inequity through their naturalization as biologically inevitable — which is alive and well.

Levels of social violence escalated.

In the final work, bodies are crisscrossed by sometimes violent slicing and fractures — vivid traces of the social violence that has caught up with them.

Carmen Herrera is of the same generation as Rama; they are artists who share a similar experience of social violence, yet their work could not be more different.

The general community shock that followed these events found expression in a strong suspicion that the media, particularly the television and video industry, contributed significantly to these and other expressions of social violence through the heavily violent nature of much of their news and entertainment programming.

Not exact matches

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24 - Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.

On social media, readers expressed intense loathing («I hate these people so much,») threats of physical violence («Dear god, I want to punch them in the face,») and a longing for karmic justice («I've never wanted the entire real estate market to completely collapse until now»).

In Canada, examples of social enterprise range from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore to Atira Property Management, a real estate management company that bankrolls transition housing and support services for victims of violence and abuse.

«Every mayor here talks as if they are the tourism secretary... and doesn't plan for residents so that they can live with a little dignity,» said Celina Izquierdo, of the Social and Gender Violence Observatory, which monitors security issues.

His youth was surrounded by family members who struggled with substance abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy, and lack of social mobility.

Some of that spending could shift to Facebook, Mahaney said, although the social network is facing its own challenges trying to block live videos of violence that appall viewers and advertisers alike.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has just given them a grant to start up the first international network for global research on the impact of domestic violence at work.

For example, anonymous social apps such as Whisper, which have faced pressure to step up content policing efforts, rely on TaskUs employees to manually flag inappropriate messages — nude photos, threats of violence, etc. — and keep them off its networks.

Profits from Solms - Delta estate, which produces 30,000 cases of wine annually under labels such as Cape Jazz and Africana, allow the workers and tenants to pay for health care, school fees, and a social worker to tackle issues of alcoholism and domestic violence.

A lot of young people that I know in Beijing — high school and college students, young professionals, musicians, etc. — were horrified by the violence that occurred in Paris and very eager to express a real sympathy for Parisians, which they did in the ways that young people express themselves today, via smart phones, social media, and all the other things that wouldn't have occurred to me.

And Trump's supporters have moved quickly to try and debunk the swirl of alleged incidents of intimidation and violence that have surfaced in social media.

Expected to be more politically active and socially conscious, this new generation of young people are fired up about changing laws, ending violence and prejudice, and screaming loudly in the name of social justice.

Ms Lucas also called for the recording and publishing of gender - specific violent crime data to be made a requirement for police, health and social services - the lack of which she said: «seriously obscures the extent to which women and girls are subjected to gendered violence».

The «morality» taught in the Bible advocates violence, slavery, misogyny, and a host of other social ills.

This social transformation represents a remarkable, unparalleled experience; in barely the span of a generation, and with comparatively little violence, a despised and largely disenfranchised minority descendant from chattel slaves used the courts, the legislature, the press, and the rights of petition and assembly of the republic to force a redefinition of their citizenship.

Pakistani officials have been cracking down on social media dissent in recent years, and even turning a blind eye to mob violence against alleged perpetrators of blaspheming.

That scenario of injustice became systemic, social injustice in a wicked institution like slavery, in which the very opportunity of the enslaved to reflect the imago dei (image of God) was compromised by exploitation and violence.

Other social overtones of rape likewise exemplify the violence - prone mentality of our male - dominant society.

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.

Overt violence on the part of husbands toward their wives, while not common, is a sizable social reality.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

After audio of old comments circulates on social media, Southern Baptist leader clarifies his pastoral approach to domestic violence.

Apparently it does not occur to him that the means of revolution are the exact opposite of forgiveness, justice, etc., and that revolutions generally propose the elimination of social groups by violence.

Thus they are carried away by a whole complex of emotions and ideas; authentic spirituality, aspiration for a true church, suffering with the poorest of the poor; but also, sociological conformism, assent to commonplace notions, a bad social conscience (which relieves the individual of his responsibility), extremist and excessive simplification (for it must never be forgotten that recourse to violence is always and above all an act of inhuman simplification).

What is important is not to know whether violence is required, but to know whether the use of violence, when it is absolutely necessary, is oriented toward a strategy of continuing struggle for limited changes, or whether its objective is the total destruction of the social order.»

Domenach writes that violence must be condoned as a means of combating social injustice or of coping with the violence of others — provided, however, that it be used for the benefit of others, not for that of its practitioner.

Hence the attractiveness of the power of money, sex, celebrity, violence, the power of social position and influence.

On the other hand, the non-Christian — the one who, living under a tyrannous regime or in a society where, it seems, social injustice will never end, wants to kill the tyrant or destroy the society; the one who, exploited or degraded by a colonialist regime, wants to kill the oppressor; the man who, victimized by a racist society, wants to avenge by violence the indignities heaped upon him — all these, along with their violence, their hatred, their folly, must be accepted by those of us who are Christians.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, for example, noted in its 2015 annual report the increase in reports of violence in India in recent years and observed that a «climate of impunity» against wrongdoers appeared to exist in a number of Indian states, «exacerbating the social and religious tensions among communities.»

Jesus calls us to renounce the misuse of money, sex, celebrity, violence, social position, and influence, so we can depend totally on the Father through the Holy Spirit» (p. 5)

When we use political or revolutionary means, when we declare that violence will change the social system we are thus fighting in defense of the disinherited, our violence demolishes the spiritual power of prayer and bars the intervention of the Holy Spirit.

Our remit: Understand issues pertaining to religious freedom and violence in India and take stock of the role of religion in social and economic development.

Moreover, violence is always used in the conviction that it is the only means adequate for attaining a noble end — social justice, the nation's welfare, elimination of criminals (for the political or social enemy is always considered a criminal), radical change of the economic structures.

Violence expresses the habit of simplification of situations, political, social, or human.

The politics of Hindu nationalism has erupted into social intimidation and violence on numerous occasions, and the Christian communities we visited expect more persecution in coming years.

World Vision released a report on Thursday that revealed that 67 per cent of displaced children in southern Syria suffer violence at school and that nine in ten children were getting no support in school to deal with their emotional trauma and social isolation.

Violence, and forced social control is not an example of true freedom, and the right to live, and choose.

After decades of bloodshed, violence, and terror in the wars of religion, however, many came to something like the opposite conviction that, in Pannenberg's words, «religious passion destroys social peace.»

And the countries of central and eastern Europe didn't regain their liberties by adopting the usual twentieth - century method of social change, mass violence.

This social structure, an extreme form of what characterizes several other parts of Latin America, is such a formula for social unrest that Colombia will experience continuing violence as long as it remains unchanged.

The questions of peace and security over against violence are to be understood on economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on social and political levels.

We need hardly remind ourselves of the social disorder and violence that prevails in these unequal nations.