Sentences with phrase «often violent people»

The practice of silence, in other way, nonviolence is particularly vital to human service organizations because their exposure to violence and the risks involved with caring for chronically traumatized, often violent people is so high.

Not exact matches

Your phone is not as important as your life, and if someone is willing to attack you to take yours (which I'd be willing to bet doesn't happen as often as people just swiping it from your hand or purse), it would probably be best to let this violent person have the phone and walk away with your well - being intact.

Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

He often echoes King's attitude that this generation not only must stand against the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, but also must rebuke the appalling silence and indifference of the so - called good people who enable social stagnation.

This is probably true, especially for a Christian reading the Bible... but there are many direct commands to the Jewish people to engage in violence, and if history is any guide, Christians have often used these commands to justify our own violent behavior toward others.

And if you want to know why Christians are often seen as hypocritical and violent, it is because we defend the actions in the Bible as «holy and just» while condemning identical behavior in people of other religions.

In a country of 162 million people tensions often lead to violent uprisings between Christians and Muslims and being part of the religious minority can be an issue.

Did people just end up imagining God as a «he» because of his often violent behavior, or because those men just couldn't imagine having to answer to a female?

I often hear people say things like, «If Muslims really are a people of peace, then the leaders and clerics and peaceful Muslims must condemn violent radical Islamists, like the Taliban and ISIS.»

Freedom of speech is protected not because we are all supposed to only say nice things about one another so we aren't forced to be violent, speech is protected precisely because people are often unwilling to hear criticism of things which they hold dear.

The Quran was written by an opportunistic genius who (mis --RRB- appropriated many of Jesus» teachings, then added his own (often - conflicting) views and, via an army and violent tactics, forced people to «believe» in him or pay a heavy tax, or die.

People who believe that God is vengeful and angry will often be violent and unforgiving themselves.

People who watch lots of movies about murder and violence, often become more violent.

In my former employment and in our current work with the homeless I have often dealt with violent people and so far have always found ways to calm them down instead of hurt them.

But I often think that these studies give one group of people the most comfort — and that's the violent men themselves.

Researchers have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that measure blood flow in the brain to better understand why people often become aggressive and violent after drinking alcohol.

At that point, precisely those people not originally violent have the experience of being treated with hostility and often physical force.

When people playing violent video games focus on killing and maiming, they don't often remember the corporate brands they see along the way.

This probably entailed violent clashes between different groups of people, which is often reflected in the various violence - related injuries to the skeletons we find in archaeological excavations.»

«A lot of people still think that apes are fairly violent,» Hastie says, and she recounts how she often overhears zoo visitors describing a male gorilla's expression as mean and angry.

And so it is with the citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq, countries with myriad people groups and intricate, often violent, histories.

We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people — one in twenty - five — has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience.

In fact, more often than not, unless the person has demonstrated violent behavior, nothing can be done to compel treatment.

In arguing for the law's passage, supporters cited research that found people who abuse animals are often violent toward people.

Far too often, misguided ideas about felines have led to the violent persecution of both cats and the people who cared for them.

First launched in September 2011, its goal was to change the mindset of young people who often view the maiming and torturing of defenseless cats and dogs as a sign of «toughness» or «manhood» — a critical need in view of research that's borne out the fact that kids who abuse animals soon graduate to even more violent crimes.

I have been criticized for being a closet racist — not only for singling out a particular breed of dog, but also the people who live in violent communities where these dogs are kept for personal protection, often left in outdoor yards, and forced into illegal dog fights.

Time and time again, studies have shown that people who commit violent acts against animals will likely and most often times do, go onto commit violent acts against humanity.

We have long known a behavioral link exists between animal abuse and human abuse: violent behavior toward animals often acts as a precursor to violence against people.

Animal cruelty is often an early - warning sign of violent tendencies that may be acted out eventually against people.

This largely owes to the fact that a large amount of people were unsure of what the term ludonarrative dissonance was supposed to truly mean, and because it was most often used when talking about violent games it seemed that any title with high levels of blood was targeted as being guilty.

Across the world, people are being thrown off their land, often by violent means, to create plantations.

Unfortunately they are affected as the amygdala's response is to imprint behaviours on the brain such that anytime in the future that person undergoes any stress that releases adrenalin the response is the same: fight or flight, more often than not resulting in aggressive, violent (be it in word or action), abusive, loopy or otherwise inappropriate behaviour — this manifests in the personality as a type of narcissism, most commonly expressed as blaming others for one's own (negative) feelings, or of feeling superior.

These injuries are very common in car accidents and other motor vehicle accidents due to the violent forces people often absorb in collisions.

By driving them into unsafe streets, often leaving them at the mercy of potentially drunken, violent or sexually reckless clients who spurn condom use, it violates their constitutional guarantee to «security of the person.»

This may be one reason people often stay in violent relationships.

A person who has paranoia will often find it difficult to maintain a healthy relationship while the condition goes untreated, as untreated paranoia often leads an individual to become angry, violent, and resentful of others.