Sentences with phrase «of vulnerable people in»

Canada's prison agency is close to establishing new rules that would prohibit the placement of vulnerable people in solitary confinement and increase the time segregated inmates can spend out of cells.

But when vaccine protection fades, the number of vulnerable people in the population becomes unusually large, and some previously - avoided cases occur.

«Although the tough economic climate is taking its toll on us here in the UK, its impact is being particularly deeply felt by millions of vulnerable people in developing countries, who don't have a safety net to fall back on.

We're living up to the God - instilled power of the Church when we rush to the aid of vulnerable people in times of crisis.

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«Creating a space in which people can feel vulnerable means a person can walk into their boss's office to admit a mistake without fear of losing their job.

Meanwhile, the number of people in «vulnerable» employment — such as self - employment — increased, adding to an outlook of the global employment landscape as precarious at best and deteriorating at worst as the global recovery takes time.

Sobolewski, who has been in the police about 14 years, said progress was being made but it was a difficult as traffickers often target the most vulnerable people who are lured with false promises of well - paid jobs.

While both companies have a substantial base in the People's Republic — 10 percent of Walmart's business is in China, as is 20 percent of Apple's — Cramer said Apple is the most vulnerable.

The law would provide justice to some of the most vulnerable people in our nation: young people who do not have homes and do not have the strong family support needed to keep them free from people who would exploit them.

He specializes in employment discrimination and the treatment of vulnerable persons.

He was alone and vulnerable and in the jungle you are really aware of how dangerous a place it is, particularly for young unaccompanied minors because of all the mafia that are there and the people trafficking that goes on.

«Low - income elderly people are the most vulnerable group in Hong Kong, given the lack of retirement protection,» he said.

That centralizes the potential for and magnitude of abuse, with Big Data used to discriminate against groups, steer vulnerable people to financial scams, and meddle in U.S. elections.

While the misuse and exploitation of information people share with companies does not constitute the type of «breach» or theft discussed in the previous chapter on security (because the information was not technically stolen), the potential for harm to individuals and to vulnerable categories of people is nonetheless very real.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP)-- Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once - fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.

VICTORIA — B.C. youth and New Democrat health critic Judy Darcy are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to protect the health of vulnerable young people by banning the sale of flavoured tobacco in British Columbia.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

Take advantage of the most frightening and vulnerable time in a person's life to impose your vile fantasies of a tortuous after life.

«Additionally, the UK Government's # 1.1 billion commitment is helping hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people in Syria and the region to rebuild their lives and next month's Syria conference in London will raise significant new funding from the international community.

Every day, faith inspires people to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable people in our world — people who are threatened by disease, poverty, oppression, hatred and violence.

The isolation of Scripture study from the believing community of faith (nuda scriptura) disregards the Holy Spirit's work in guiding the witness of the people of God to scriptural truths, and leaves the interpretation of that truth vulnerable to unfettered subjectivism.

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

Christianity in particular, seeks vulnerable people, beats them down like a brutal abusive spouse, by telling them they are evil and sinful, and can not be strong and good by themselves, and then gives them a prosthetic of religion to prop them up again — the very weapon used to beat them with to begin with.

The pairs in this experiment are opposites on a number of foundational issues — yet by being vulnerable and sharing about themselves as people, there was an instant empathy and trust that developed — regardless of their backgrounds and presuppositions.

One might be concerned that antiabortion laws ignore and devalue women's interests, but if the unborn are full persons — and the court in Roe never really confronted that central claim — they surely are the most voiceless and vulnerable persons of all.

It seems to us these examples that we gave were illustrations of what were really egregious targeting of really valuable programs to the poorest and most vulnerable people in America.»

He added: «There's a lot of concern over there because people in the southern coast are the most vulnerable in terms of poverty and in terms of infrastructure.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Religion is a corporate and political structure bent on destroying things that help the most vulnerable in society with no guarantee of filling the void.They claim they can do it better, but since you can not make people be charitable and so many megachurches are focused on the bottom line, I don't see how this is going to pain out.

As Filip Mazurczak explained in a First Things article in 2013, «Romero avoided the blinkered anti-communism of Argentina's bishops and defended the vulnerable against military violence, seeing the hypocrisy of rulers who claim to be Christians yet persecute the people.

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To be a people of justice is to act with and on behalf of those in our society who are vulnerable to injustice.

She has helped with the establishment of bereavement counselling and projects for refugees and vulnerable people, and has opened her own home as a refuge for people in need.

This puts me in a more vulnerable position because 1) it exposes me to the criticisms of people on both sides of the debate, 2) it could lead to serious disappointment, should I find that my intellectual integrity and my faith are indeed incompatible, and 3) it leaves me in the awkward position of being uncertain, undecided, and maybe even a little confused for a while.

It is the essential vulnerable nature of a free society that we all walk down the sidewalk trusting in strangers we don't know who might be carrying a small nuclear device and looking like a regular person.

Just this past week, on Good Friday in fact, the formation of a «new Christian coalition, called the Circle of Protection,» was announced, intended «to resist budget cuts that undermine the lives, dignity, and rights of poor and vulnerable people.»

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

He adds that the sign character and servant role of the church demand that in the face of the oppressive situation of the people, the church must «organize itself into peoples» movement for liberation» cutting across the boundaries of religion, caste and culture; and here transparency of the church requires that we have to conceive of an open church with flexible structures, boundaries, rules and rituals making Christian identity vulnerable.

You stepped in to protect the interests of the most innocent and vulnerable person in this human tragedy, the dying father whose suffering is being unnecessarily increased by the theft of his pain meds.

A life transition is a time when people are unusually vulnerable, a time when they can learn to see and trust the power of God's grace in their lives in some new way.

«Our concern would be that if you have a pocket of people who associate and think alike, if they don't believe in immunization there's going to be some other vulnerable people,» Jones said.

There are instances where religious agencies have taken advantage of people in a vulnerable position, wrote Theos, a Christian think tank in the United Kingdom, earlier this year.

Just 18 months after deciding to leave his position, his rapidly growing Castle Community Bank has helped some of the most vulnerable people in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.

Dr Peter Saunders, the campaign director explained the decision: «The judges» ruling was really pretty emphatic... there's been over ten attempts to change the law in British parliament in the last 15 years but all have failed because of concerns about public safety and the ramifications for vulnerable people».

I don't object to the government i.e., we the collective people of American, being «charitable» if by charitable it is meant to give to those in need, the most vulnerable among us; to sustain them.

Let him bring to his words the witness of his own struggle with the Scriptures, his own contention with God in prayer, his own vulnerable love for his people, his own «daily pressure... of... anxiety for all the churches.»

Where is your passion for changing the hearts and minds of the people vulnerable to the Taliban in your home country?

Crisis theory, as developed by Erich Lindemann and Gerald Caplan, holds that when a person is in a state of crisis, he is especially vulnerable to change.

The Gospels are filled with stories of Jesus physically healing the most vulnerable and despised people in his society.

(1) We have seen that there may be biochemical factors and that there most certainly are psychological factors in the soil of addiction which renders certain persons vulnerable to alcoholism.