Sentences with phrase «other than violence»

As much as the developers should be lauded for trying to deliver an experience where your primary interaction with a world is something other than violence, the scope of that ambition in terms of execution is far too narrow.

For one, analysis of state - level discipline data (including information I gathered for the reports I wrote in 2005, 2006, and 2007 for the Indianapolis Star) indicates that more often than not, suspensions are more likely to be meted out for reasons other than violence, drugs, or weapons possession; most suspensions occur in categories such as disruptive behavior and attendance, while students are also expelled for chronic truancys.

Other than violence modern technology needs to be used as part of the game control where there is any doubt, as we do in rugby league.

Not exact matches

• Violence — Instances of workplace violence need to be handled very rapidly, and they can be even more delicate than other types of investigations because of the potentially explosive Violence — Instances of workplace violence need to be handled very rapidly, and they can be even more delicate than other types of investigations because of the potentially explosive violence need to be handled very rapidly, and they can be even more delicate than other types of investigations because of the potentially explosive results.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

The model for other studios to follow here would seem to be to, first, test your potential audience with more than just a vague idea and then deliver a product that is both true to its source material while also offering something beyond what viewers have already come to expect from typical superheroes (in this case, that would be the comedy, sex, and violence).

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

This misses the entire problem — the issue that keeps America's gun violence at higher levels than any other developed nation.

Aboriginal girls are 4 times more likely to be the victims of sexualized violence in care before the age of 12 than other children.

And in The New York Jewish Week, Ari Goldman, who covered the riots for The New York Times, chides his former paper for portraying the violence as something other than anti-Semitic:

I am much more comfortable with deliberate acts of violence — waging war, self - defense — than many other feminists and womanists I know.

And the New Testament highlights Jesus's nonviolent response to violence as a pattern to follow more than any other aspect of His ministry.

This new Kingdom is the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom built upon forgiveness and mercy, grace and generosity, love and kindness, rather than a kingdom built upon blame, victimization, persecution, and violence toward others for selfish gain.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Death by violence is higher in the U.S. than ANY other first world nation.

In fact Father Maillard, the director of Frères du Monde, actually declared: «If I noticed that my faith [true, he did not add «Christian»] separated me by however little from other men and diminished my revolutionary violence, I would not hesitate to sacrifice my faith,» A clear statement of the conviction latent in Shaull's writings; namely, that revolution is more fundamental than the faith.

Last year, a Pew survey found that 70 percent of white evangelicals believed that «Islam encourages more violence than other religions.»

Once a man has begun to use violence he will never stop using it, for it is so much easier and more practical than any other method.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

When someone believes there religion is better than other religions they plant the the seeds of violence.

But the book is less than half - way finished... and if I can not prove the thesis to my satisfaction, I see no way out of the dilemma about how to reconcile the love of Jesus with the violence of Yahweh other than to say that in some way or another, the Old Testament is wrong in its portrayal of God.

Today the existence of an international order depends on our discovery of some method (other than war or revolution or similar acts of violence) for the changing of the status quo.

Muslims today are, as indviduals, far more likely to commit acts of violence in the name of their religion than other groups.

More violence and wars than any other country.

However, the Middle East has seen more war, more violence and bloodshed in the past 10,000 years, than in any other place in the world.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Guns do save live more than we realize by preventing gun violence because «the other guy» may shoot back.

The royal commission, noting that no one seriously defended violence or denied its presence, offered 87 recommendations for control and regulation of the media, but without including any explanation of the phenomenon of increasing violence — other than passing references to economic pressures and competitive necessities.

I assume that as with others, many of whom, like myself, had become close friends of the archbishop during the three brief years of his leadership, the call to honor his memory was stronger than the hovering sense of possible mass violence.

It is a fact that people in the U.S. are more prone to violence than are people of any other industrialized nation.

And other than auto accidents, gun violence is the leading cause of death of people under 20.

White, young Americans are more than twice as likely as all others to commit lethal violence and then live to reach a happy ending.

And if I have encouraged just one man to speak up rather than hiding in aocohol, or violence to himself or others, isoloting himself or other ways of unhealthy coping then i will have done a service in what I am shring.

violence for any reason other than the defense of yourself, your property, or your family is just violence with no cause.

This meant a period of Christmaslessness — after all, the only birthdays mentioned in the Bible were those of Pharaoh (Genesis 40:20) and Herod (Matthew 14:6), and they both celebrated with violence against others rather than birthday cake, let alone mince pies and turkey.

But a much more important part ofthe answer is that, more than any other agency, it was the BBC, particularly through its online service, who first wrenched the Pope's words from their context and then spread them through the world in a form which would inevitably lead to violence and destruction.

Religion has been responsible for more violence, human suffering and death than any other cause.

Such a charge is not unfounded, for when the actual calls for violence and bloodshed are tallied, the Bible has more bloody texts than the Muslim Qur» an or any other religious holy book.

for example, that the dignity of all persons ought to be respected, that tolerance is a virtue and discrimination is abhorrent, that peaceful resolution of conflicts is superior to violence, that generally truth - telling is superior to lying, that democratic government is morally superior to totalitarianism and authoritarianism, that one ought to give a day's work for a day's pay, that saving for one's own and one's country's future is better than squandering one's income and relying on others to attend to one's future needs.

Hey black pastors how about you focus on black on black violence, or blacks low graduation rates and low education, or the drug epidemic, or the fact that black men abandon their children at a higher rate than other races... yeah ga. y marriage should be a big issue... what a fvcking joke...

yeahright, no you're the stupid one, if you think that prejudice, lying, hate, stealing, violence, greed, poverty, perversion, war, and men sleeping with each other even then, until this day, and adultery, has changed since the days of old, you are delusional, and dumber, than dumber.

But as you read, just recognize that there are other ways of dealing with the violence in Scripture than by assigning these activities to God and calling them «good and just.»

Far less controversial is the idea that when such landscapes are attacked in this way, the process does violence to things other than the landscapes themselves.

For, make no mistake, the risks can be no less catastrophic than the original crisis: the further spread of violence and instability, an increase in the number of refugees and other victims.

Work can be no true vocation while it is turned directly or indirectly to the forging of instruments of destruction, — or can play be more than momentary escape from the abiding fear of violence so long as the nations are related to each other in hostility or uneasy alliance.

Prayinng to (or trusting) anything or anyone other than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is a waste of time and energy and will only lead to anxiety and violence.

Without it we'd have far fewer atheists and agnostics than we have today, which would be a pity, and we would have much more sectarian violence like other places where religious conviction is allowed to go unchecked.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 63 percent of white evangelicals, 63 percent of Republican - leaning voters, and half of all Americans over 65 believe that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths.

Two - thirds of white evangelicals believe Islam is not part of mainstream American society and contend that it encourages violence more than other faiths, according to Pew.

About two - thirds of white evangelicals said they don't believe Islam is a part of mainstream America; a whopping 72 percent said, «There is a natural conflict between Islam and democracy; 38 percent believe that «half or more U.S. Muslims are anti-American»; 51 percent believe there is a «great deal / fair amount of extremism among U.S. Muslims»; 63 percent said «Islam encourages violence more than other faiths.»