Sentences with phrase «of them women and children from»

Erected in 1906, it commemorates the thousand lives lost, most of them women and children from German immigrant families on an early - summer outing, when the steamer General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River.

The continual exploitation and murder of women and children from the Caribbean (called the Caribbean to justify enslaving Native Americans by accusing them of cannibalism) to the Navajos in Western United States (justified because whites were saving their souls by Christianizing them.)

Helen has been recognized for her leadership in building the women's funding movement, including the following awards: the National Creative Philanthropy Award from the National Network of Women's Funds, Gloria Steinem's Women of Vision Award through the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Equity Leadership Award from Nontraditional Employment of Women (NOW), the Laura Parsons Pratt Award for outstanding Achievement on Behalf of Women and Children from the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, and as an Honoree of the Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family.

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Eight women and children from a caravan of hundreds of Central American migrants have sought asylum in the U.S. after officials allowed them entry from Mexico.

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

And from a gender standpoint, women are the sole or primary breadwinners in 40 percent of households with children.

When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

Toms now produces 40 percent of its giving shoes in these countries; it has made child care, meals, and transportation to and from its facilities available so that more women can work.

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Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

«Women with children are often excluded from full participation in the labour market due to challenges in balancing work and family life, or they work part - time, which often means lower wages and fewer benefits, including lack of a pension, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as less job stability,» the document states.

«We're so proud to stand in support of women and children who have made the brave decision to walk away from violence.»

General partner Tracy Warren said at the lunch, which was attended by 20 women from CVC and VC funds: «Astarte Ventures is dedicated exclusively to the health and wellbeing of women and children.»

Over at Pine Trails Park, down the street from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a group of mothers of children too young to walk out spent the day signing up new voters with representatives from the League of Women Voters and getting anyone interested to sign various petitions.

You seem to believe that you are aware of what everyone is thinking, as this is the second time you have made a sweeping blanket statement... but to answer your question: I can assure you if that woman did see an angel telling her to kill her children, it certainly would have been a fallen angel, or demon if you prefer and not from God... If you had even a basic understanding of angels and fallen angels and the protection of God, this would be a moot point... but it appears that you want to play the game of how ridiculous can I be...

Women are taught that their importance comes only through having a husband who holds the priesthood (which they have erroneously been denied) and having lots of children and not from obtaining their education as their career should «be solely in the home».

From blaming the victim to the way lyrics which glorify rape and smacking or killing your «bitch» seem to go unnoticed by people who should be in an uproar about it, to the ridiculously light sentences handed out to perpetrators of rape and even murder of a woman or child, our culture is tacitly condoning this mind - set by their very silence.

No, I think he meant the belief that suffering is a «kiss from Jesus», that women can't make decisions about their own bodies, that the RCC's wealth, power and reputation are more important than doing what is right, and that children are there for the pleasure of the clergy.

Thats Right... The orthodox jews have been wearing Tefilin for over 3000 yrs daily (apart from the sabbath)... and none of them has ever used it as a reason to murder women and children... Why cant you all admit... some of us out there are really losing it...

Children are a gift from God (my husband and I are currently expecting our first) but some women may never get to become mother's due to reproductive issues that can be helped through the use of oral contraceptives.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold deand CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold deand immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold deand the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold deAND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold deand here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

When you say that love is the most important thing, I hope your heart includes loving those women who have made the unthinkable, unbearable decision that spared an embryo from being born into a traumatic, awful experience... from a situation of pain and suffering... from an environment where people are incapable of loving the child or providing for that child's basic needs.

Certainly not much is said about defending the land from God's enemies as the Hebrews, for all their military might in killing women and children, always seem to get their asses handed to them when a professional army of men invades.

Osama Bin Laden often hearkened back to the Isreali / American campaign in Lebanon in the early eighties, stating «as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.»

I live on the other side of the world, and far from home and through my kindness i watched you burn flags, beat women and children.

Regarding Amy Wax's discussion of abortion and child support: As long as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),....

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

After the remarkable healing of a woman who had suffered for 12 years from hemorrhages and after the raising of the dead child of Jairus, Jesus goes home to Nazareth accompanied by his disciples.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, most Protestant churches worked together to enact legislation that would protect women and children from the factory system, limit the hours worked by all, and improve wages.

«Most refugees from the Middle East are women and children who have suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war,» said NAE president Leith Anderson.

Some scholars who reject the tradition of a virginal conception say that the idea arose from a misreading of Isaiah 7:14, which in the New English Bible reads: «Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son and will call him Immanuel.»

I'm thinking of the basic Calvinism that says God loves his children, but not all are his children... and the intrinsic misogyny of keeping women silent, disqualified from teaching and leadership.

I guess that in a world where 39,000 children die each day from preventable disease, where around 90,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, where the current global food crisis causes a child to die every seven seconds, where 47 million Americans can not afford basic healthcare, and where women and children continue to be murdered in Darfur — nothing says «God is pro-life» better than a bunch of wet democrats.

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

Examples set out in the study include a ruling that no Muslim woman may marry a non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam and that any children of a woman who does should be taken from her until she marries a Muslim.

Religious members of the movement are embarking on our 40 Days for Life campaign, in which we pray, fast, hold vigil, and perform community outreach, all in service of saving men, women, and children from abortion.

And if I might add, I know a lot of women who regret having had babies, who've been mentally unbalanced (some unhinged all together) from having children.

I think the reason why I asked the question of you is partly because of the fundamentalist background I came from which places value on women based upon their child rearing, homekeeping, and service roles, basically serving men.

The Book of First Maccabees in the Old Testament Apocrypha witnesses to his resolve: «They put to death the women who had their children circumcised, and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers» necks» (1:60 - 61)

Most refugees from the Middle East are women and children who have suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war.

As we think of the women and children in these pictures, and all the ways in which this water will nourish and cool and cook and clean in their community, two prayers from Jan Richardson (In the Sanctuary of Women) come to women and children in these pictures, and all the ways in which this water will nourish and cool and cook and clean in their community, two prayers from Jan Richardson (In the Sanctuary of Women) come to Women) come to mind.

Jewish people do tend to understand the sanctity of life for all people, but it does not seem (from my observation) that women and children are always shown the same respect as men.

I met the woman who ran a local shelter for abused women and children, most of them from poor homes.

Accidents will happen but hopefully we can prevent or stop a crazed killer from taking the lives of defenseless men, women and children.

@hebgb - i guess you are exactly right and America has NEVER had crimes committed against women, children, elderly, special needs nor have any «red blooded» americans ever blown up their own people... come out from the rock you live under and get some fresh air of reality.

Angela Atim Lakor, a survivor of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been honoured for her contribution to building peace, tackling stigma and supporting women and children recovering from war.

She seeks to do this through promoting truth - seeking expeditions, advocating gender equality, educating the Church on abuse, and aiding the rescue of men, women and children from spiritual, emotional and physical poverty.

Eager and ambitious men, women, and children vie with one another for pre-eminence in production in order to secure a larger share of the rewards that accrue from these efforts.

On the morning of the following day the priest had all the people, old and young, men, women, and children, gathered together, and standing before them he began to tell them about the revelation he had received, dwelling on the great manifestations of regard and the many acts of kindness they had received day after day from their god.