Sentences with phrase «of violent encounters»

With Black Lives Matter protests in response to the conference, and continued news stories of violent encounters between police and citizens, the conversation of de-escalating law enforcement...

Knightfall is deadly serious and full of violent encounters.

The fragments» surfaces and their orbits today should preserve a record of that violent encounter, Nesvorný believes.

Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a lagoon is unique evidence of a violent encounter between clashing groups of ancient hunter - gatherers, and suggests the «presence of warfare» in late Stone Age foraging societies.

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«The safety and well - being of our passengers is the highest priority for United pilots, and this should not have escalated into a violent encounter,» says a letter from United Master Executive Council, the union representing United's 12,500 pilots, Business Insider reports.

Though he provides a vivid account of Pascal and Jansenism to illustrate the divisions within seventeenth century French Catholicism and emphasizes the violent opposition encountered by Catholic reformers like Charles Borromeo and John of the Cross, Eire's treatment of the divisions within Catholic reform in general is less vividly realized than his treatment of the corresponding tensions with Protestantism, though Catholic reform could be every bit as fiercely contested and divided.

At the end of January, Mayor Bill de Blasio said a senior NYPD official will handle city encounters with ICE moving forward and maintained the city only cooperates with ICE for incidents involving immigrants who've committed one of 170 serious or violent offenses.

The district attorney with jurisdiction over the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, Andrew Wylie, said that his office was reviewing the case of an inmate, Leonard Strickland, who died there in 2010 after a violent encounter with prison guards.

She also drew a direct line between the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, Walter Scott in Charleston, and Tamir Rice in Cleveland — all unarmed black men killed in encounters with police — and Freddie Gray, the man whose mysterious death spurred the violent riots in Baltimore.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Friday there's a «gang - up - on - police mentality» where zealots jump on Twitter every time there's a violent encounter involving cops — as they did when one of...

But some anthropologists said his 1968 ethnography, Yanomamö: The Fierce People, exploited the tribe by breaking their taboo on using the names of the dead; others argued that its emphasis on violent encounters helped governments justify invasions of Yanomamö territory.

However, earlier studies which proposed that giant planets could possibly eject one another did not consider the effect such violent encounters would have on minor bodies, such as the known moons of the giant planets, and their orbits.

That's the conclusion from a computer simulation of the solar system's evolution, which suggests the fifth giant was hurled into interstellar space some 4 billion years ago, after a violent encounter with Jupiter.

After violent encounters last year, another group of previously isolated Korubo recently made contact with local settlers and government officials.

«We can also say that, as with violent encounters between different peoples, on one of those violent meetings the loser — the Neanderthal — was eaten by the winner,» he says.

Violent encounters of galactic proportions are thought to significantly alter the 3D shape of galaxies by mixing the stellar orbits.

Reliving a disturbing or traumatic event — a violent encounter, the sudden death of a loved one — is a hallmark of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which shares some features with anxiety disorders.

An encounter between the British troops and a mob of protesters quickly becomes violent and the resulting skirmish leads to Hook being separated from the rest of the British Army and subsequently trapped behind enemy lines.

Expectations were high when the Drive duo of director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling re-teamed for another dynamic encounter, but the former paid heed to his silent but violent resume rather than the anticipation garnered by the repeat occurrence.

Happy Birthday After encountering each other on opposite sides of a violent protest, a policeman and his rebellious daughter reach the Final Straw.

The stars» selections varied (not all of them strictly speaking sex scenes), and among them were a number of great moments in Criterion films — from the chaste love affair of David Lean's Brief Encounter to the violent eroticism of Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses.

A violent encounter with a heckler lands him in prison, followed by 100 hours of community service.

The violent nature of Charlie, usually involving shooting anyone he encounters without remorse — trails the trio of Marty, Billy and Hans, inflicting collateral damage as he gets closer to retrieving his dog.

Violence includes verbal and physical threats, the monstrous personification of a house, encounters with the dead and dying, bullying, scary moments, situations of peril, depictions of violent video games and guns, as well as explosions.

It isn't long before Kick - Ass encounters actual competent heroes, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage, Astro Boy) and his sidekick / daughter Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) who are in the midst of their own violent war with crime lord Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong, Sherlock Holmes).

The relationship between these two old fighters with a shared violent past recedes into the background of the largely episodic narrative; among the twisted reflections they encounter are a grieving frontierswoman (Rosamund Pike) and a condemned murderer (Ben Foster) who relishes underlining the film's themes.

But the longer they stay waiting for Harry's call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor (Jordan Prentice) shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloë (Clémence Poésy), who may have some dark secrets of her own.

Jeanne, a doctor, is recovering from a violent encounter with the disgruntled husband of a patient, while Francois is dealing with the imminent death of his ailing grandmother.

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They are veterans of the recent conflicts in the Middle East, dishonorably discharged after a violent encounter.

Even the final instalment in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Bill Condon, 2012), teased audience's ever longing expectation of a violent vampiric encounter with its prophetic vision of a battle between the Volturi and the Cullens.

A series of violent incidents in the city's schools — including contentious encounters involving police — have eroded trust and divided some students, teachers, and administrators, making the district's efforts to revamp school security challenging.

The book, with the decidedly un-PG title «Cum For Bigfoot,» is just the first of 16 fiction ebooks that Wade (a pen name) has written about the legendary beast sometimes known as Sasquatch, each detailing a series of graphic and often violent sexual encounters between the apelike creature and his female human lovers.

Death was not a thing unknown to the town's first hearty residents, but they seemed to have badly misjudged how much of it there'd be, how much ground would be needed to accommodate those lost to harsh winters, violent encounters with savages and all manner of illness.

History and adventure are smoothly entwined in this accessible narrative of the 1820s whaling voyage whose disastrous, violent encounter with a sperm whale inspired Moby Dick.

Philbrick's accessible narrative of the tragic 1820s whaling voyage whose central disaster was the violent encounter with a sperm whale engages readers with descriptions of Nantucket's unusual commercial, religious, and social characteristics, the class and racial aspects of Nantucket whaling, and other issues raised by the Essex's final whale hunt.

None of this matters to Ken Kaneki, a bookish and ordinary boy, until a dark and violent encounter turns him into the first ever Ghoul - human half breed.

First - person games can offer so much more than the cliché violent encounter with aliens, orcs or other creatures of the night.

Along the way, Bigby encounters a number of other Fables from the comic series, as well as a few new ones: the businesslike Snow White, the cantankerous Ichabod Crane, the callous Woodsman and the violent Tweedledee and Tweedledum, among others.

Together they will encounter and fight enemies such as «the adorably deadly hedgehogs of the Owl Woods, the violent Goat Clan along the Old Man Mountains, Hairclump spiders deep in the Stinky Swamp, and the most enemiest enemies of all: the clueless crossing guards around Bad Town.»

Mondo encounters all manner of violent adversaries in his global trek to fulfill contracts for ridding the world of its most nefarious criminals.

While delving into the dangerous mansion — as well as other places connected to the plantation property, such as a bizarre and noxious greenhouse — you'll encounter grisly creatures and numerous members of the twisted Baker family, all of whom are more than willing to end your expedition with violent haste.

Tomb Raider Lara Croft has already proven herself to be a survivor after escaping a violent shipwreck onto a mysterious island and a disorienting underground encounter where a tribe of island inhabitants tried to capture her.

Having observed the portraits and read the quotes, viewers ultimately encounter at the end of the passageway a work of art made by a notorious local criminal, and a donation box for the support of victims of violent crimes.

Based on a video of a cruise ship caught in a storm between the Republic of Vanuatu and Auckland, New Zealand which the artist found on Youtube, Pacific Sun follows the full narrative arc of the ship's violent encounter in the Tasman Sea.

Facts of the Case At 9:47 p.m. on Aug. 31, 2009, former Ontario attorney general and CEO of Invest Toronto Michael Bryant, driving home after dinner with his wife, had a violent encounter with a younger man on a bicycle, Darcy «Allan» Sheppard.

In the Inferno Dante encounters nine circles of hell, of which the 7th Circle of Hell houses the violent.

Do they also cover other risks the participants may encounter, such as theft of personal property, slips and falls, personal injury resulting from violent clients or allegations of breaching the Human Rights Code, to name a few risks which may be relevant depending on the circumstances?

The research consistently shows that at least half of the lawyers surveyed have experienced violent or threatening conduct and a high percentage of those experiencing one incident go on to encounter two, three or more incidents.

It's the latest indication of how law enforcement encountered warning signs about Cruz's violent behavior before he attacked students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day.