Sentences with phrase «other forms of abuse of»

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As Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch was testifying before three congressional committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, fielding questions from a succession of irate and mostly tech - illiterate legislators, his boss was preparing to break it to investors that curbing Russian information operations and other forms of abuse on his platform will be expensive.

On the second page, Oppenheimer catalogues the family's many misfortunes and humiliations: «Drug addictions, alcoholism, overdoses, adultery, homosexuality, child abuse in the form of molestation, suspected kidnapping, a murder plot, a shooting, tragic accidents, suicide, attempted suicides, and other mayhem.»

Who are we as a church to decry one form of the same abuse when we allow and empower the other?»

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

I consider telling a child it's evil to be a form of child abuse and parents and others have long used religion to coerce and abuse children.

Australia's longest - running royal commission - which is the country» highest form of inquiry - has been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.

Put - downs, crass joking, harassment, groping, stalking, verbal and emotional abuse, sexual assault and every other form of violence is never acceptable.

The critical feature of all pornography is not that it deals with sexual themes, but that it eroticizes violence, humiliation, degradation and other explicit forms of abuse.

The state's intervention is justified only when it can show that rights beyond the realm of any religious community are being violated, as, for example, when people are being held prisoner in religious communities or being subjected to other forms of abuse.

Much suffering of people comes from the wickedness of others, as in child abuse, wife abuse, and many other forms of not loving a neighbor as oneself.

Ham writes that Nye is joining in with other evolutionists who say teaching children to deny evolution is a form of «child abuse.»

Like other forms of freedom it is easily abused, and the interpretation which individuals give to the revelation needs to be checked by various forms of corporate prophetic teaching.

This Lordship, unlike many other forms of Lordship in those traditions, never comes under our control and can not, even in principle, be abused, although we can certainly try with the inevitably tragic consequences.

islam and any other organization that allows this practice or any form of child abuse, and anyone that supports it, is disgusting and beneath contempt.

The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

Australia's longest - running royal commission - which is the country's highest form of inquiry - had been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.

It also had, often unadmitted and unacknowledged, a high rate of alcoholism and other forms of substance abuse.

Adultery is abusive: Emotionally, Sexually, Physically, Financially, and as I and others before me stated, it is also a form of abuse for Children.

I strongly encourage readers of this website (and the author of this article) to form their understanding of what abuse is by reading the published works of Anne Ganely, Michael Samsel, Lundy Bancroft, Bill Eddie, Alice Miller or any other competent LCSW.

According to neuroscientists who study the impact of stress on child development, the common thread among neglect, abuse, and other forms of trauma is that they communicate to the developing brains of infants and children that their environment is unstable, unpredictable, and chaotic.

I think that this could be true for other parents of post-institutionalized children, ones where their infancies of poor nutrition, neglect and possibly abuse all combine to affect how their brains are actually formed.

With increasing awareness and evolved societal norms, many people move away from spanking and other forms of physical abuse.

Depriving children of food or money, in order to make the other parent look bad, could constitute a form of child abuse, which can violate both family and criminal laws.

The details published in The New Yorker include allegations of choking, slapping and other forms of verbal and physical abuse by Schneiderman against women.

Suffolk County legislators, law enforcement officers, academics, treatment providers and school leaders plan to form a permanent advisory committee to address abuse of heroin and other opiates.

But on Thursday, other advocates praised the action in Albany, saying lawmakers and Governor Cuomo were ending what they termed a form of child abuse.

While appreciating the General Overseer of RCCG Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his wife, Folu Adeboye for dedicating efforts and resources to treat and rehabilitate people who have gotten addicted to one form of drug abuse or the other through the centre, the Governor said it was inspiring and instructive that the duo and others behind the initiative thought it necessary to use the platform of the church to join in the fight against the social menace.

Chief Dele Momodu is worried some persons have subjected him to all forms of verbal abuses after he featured the president in the latest edition of his magazine; revealing that he has for two decades been doing it in other countries.

Other workers were found to have falsified their time sheets, abused sick leave, and exaggerated the amount of time it took to travel form one job to another.

Despite the allegation involving funding for the DA's race — and another accusing Sampson of filing false Senate disclosure forms to conceal a $ 188,500 loan from a real estate developer — Carter insisted his case wasn't in the same category as a recent rash of other criminal cases accusing New York lawmakers of abusing their authority for personal gain or to cheat on campaign finance rules.

The Northern Regional Director of the NCCE, Alhaji Abdul Razak Saani, told Citi News that the program is aimed eliminating or reducing child marriage and other forms of child abuses and to get the children in school especially the girl - child, for them to have some level of formal education.

The study used self - reported data on bullying and mental well - being but did not include formal diagnoses of mental health problems, and did not include other forms of abuse or neglect.

The study findings also associate several other factors with an increased risk of developing BD, including preterm birth, head injury, drug exposures (especially cocaine), physical or sexual abuse, and other forms of stress.

Further scientific investigation is warranted to determine how the drug achieves its effects as well as how they might be used in the treatment of «the ennui and anguish of impending death» as well as «alcoholism and other forms of drug addiction,» argues Charles Schuster, a neuroscientist at Wayne State University and a former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in a commentary on the paper.

Although resources have grown to support women and girls in the aftermath of violence (e.g., access to justice and emergency care), research suggests that actions to tackle gender inequity and other root causes of violence are needed to prevent all forms of abuse, and thereby reduce violence overall (Paper 4).

Britain does not allow any form of gene therapy that alters the genetic material of future generations because of the potential for eugenics or other abuses.

Researchers have long suspected that abuse or neglect early in life can permanently alter people's brains, making them more prone to anxiety and depression, less able to handle stress, or even incapable of forming strong attachments with others.

These instruments have formed the foundation for the biochemistry cores of two NIH Centers of Excellence (the NIAAA - funded TSRI Alcohol Research Center and the National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA]- funded Scripps Center for Cannabis Addiction Neurobiology) and have directly supported other ongoing projects at TSRI (the Methamphetamine NeuroAIDS Research Program, NIDA - funded projects on immunopharmacotherapy [Taffe and Janda laboratories], a project with Dr. Steve Poceta to measure human lumbar cerebrospinal fluid in Parkinson's patients with Restless Leg Syndrome, and a U.S. Army grant), as well as assisting non-TSRI collaborators from The Sanford - Burnham Institute, The Salk Institute, and elsewhere.

And we've heard all kinds of other stories too, like the worry about youngsters in remote communities licking cane toads as a form of drug abuse.

However, just as with many other forms of stress (complications during pregnancy and birth, drug use, head injuries, etc) that appear to be important in the risk for schizophrenia (especially those who have a family history of the disease), scientists suggest that child abuse may likely also turn out to be a risk factor for some individuals.

In addition, the study authors found that these women were much more likely to have opioid abuse disorder, along with other forms of substance abuse, compared with the rest of the group.

Now is not a good time to work extra hours, drink too much, over exercise, or engage in other forms of avoidance activities that will only prolong your suffering while abusing your body.

Over 300 major brands use iovation's fraud protection service to protect their members from romance scams, spam, financial fraud and many other forms of online fraud and abuse.

And then the other form of abuse we encounter, which is not a scam per se but still a problem for us, where our site is used for credit card verifications.

A month membership goal tag can actually be earned with.com once you start sharing important dating info's, reporting any form of abuse in association to the, writing of press liberations or articles for promotional activities as well as making recommendation of the site on other dating forums and social mediums.

I, Tonya, on the other hand, feels like it belongs to the current moment, exploring as it does hidden abuses of power, the links between various forms of toxic masculinity, and the messiness of victimhood.

But that doesn't change the fact that when telling her story, she is describing the culture that has allowed sexual abuse, harassment, coercion, and so many other forms of misconduct to fester.

If we look at the parallels to other forms of power - based abuse (for example, sexual harassment, and spouse abuse), we see that society first tried to deny that there was a problem, then focused on changing the behavior of the target.

With regard to other forms of abuse, such as verbal confrontations on the school premises, it is also important for schools to have policies and mechanisms in place when it comes to dealing with this type of issue, so that teachers can be assured that any concerns that they raise about these issues are dealt with fairly and robustly.