Sentences with phrase «overt act»

More overt acts of love from her parents and she may not have been so focused on this family.

Instead of being a routine stage of predetermined refinement however, digital post-production for Blalock is an arena for overt acts of whimsy and destabilization.

In arguing that judges must follow the constitutional text, Marshall chose clear examples like the requirement that no one may be convicted of treason without «the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act.»

Mariam Webster says Treason is «the betrayal of trust: treachery; the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance...»

Furthermore, by holding «inner» intention and «outer» behavior together in a single dialectical whole, and by denying any difference in kind between mental and overt acts as acts, indeed, as bodily acts, it will subvert all tendencies to draw any systematic distinction between «interior spiritual life» and «engagement in the public realm.»

The laws that embodied God's will, whether primitive taboos or the demand of justice and mercy, regulated overt acts.

Society must be concerned with overt acts that disrupt peace and justice.

While we fully support and recognize the considerable value in these courses of action, we also believe that Marriage and Family Therapists have a direct responsibility to counter racism by better serving the individuals, couples, and families who present for our help — Clients who may not have experienced overt acts of racial violence, but are assaulted by the quiet, covert ways that racism and white privilege exist within and impact their lives and relationships.

Such repentance over a gross or overt act of sin is possible alike for Christians and non-Christians.

No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

Sin leads to death, not because of any overt act of God but because of the intrinsic nature of sin itself.

Like that of the prophets of old, this was an overt act designed to drive home the truth of the whole matter: a king bent on war rode a horse, but one seeking peace rode an ass.

The same principle is next applied (vv 27 - 28) to the seventh commandment, «You shall not commit adultery»; and again Jesus goes back of the overt act to the inner desire of the heart.

Their instruction should emphasize, not the overt acts in themselves, since these may soon become obsolete, but the fundamental democratic principles and ideals which the acts serve to dramatize.

But this constant and emphatic dwelling on the inward disposition rather than the overt act might well excite the suspicion of those who insisted on the deed as the sole visible test of obedience to the Law of God.

Jesus continues in effect: «The scribes tell you that the commandment against adultery is kept if you avoid the overt act of adultery.

The other Commandments deal with actions, and we might be able to refrain from the overt act of killing, committing adultery, or stealing, but this Commandment deals with the inner attitudes, and obviously it is far more difficult to prohibit attitudes than it is to prohibit actions.

We all know what it is right to do far better than we do it; we all, in our dispositions and overt acts, place premature limits around our love and our service to others.

Again Jesus moves from the overt act which a court of law might pass judgment on, to the inner disposition.

Faith is an overt act of self - assertion by which the man knows he is entitled to healing.

An overt act can be a phone call, a meeting or other innocuous act, as long as it helps promote the scheme.

An overt act is an element of any conspiracy case, and need not be an illegal act, just some conduct that helps advance the goal of the conspiracy.

One theory that remains intact is conspiracy — if prosecutors could prove that Cohen and administration officials agreed to take official acts in exchange for payments, and that one of them committed some overt act in furtherance of that agreement, then the crime of conspiracy could be established, even if no official act ever occurred.

It could, but only if Trump agreed to an illegal scheme and that someone would commit an overt act in furtherance of the scheme.

An overt act is different from an official act.

«The Nation does not take lightly this overt act of State aggression against the Nation and its people,» Snyder said.

The measure also would create an elevated felony charge of «aggravated threat of mass harm,» punishable by up to 4 years in prison, for individuals who make an overt act to follow through on the threat, including compiling a target list, drafting a plan and acquiring weapons, officials said.

«Both the complaint and the indictment are wholly silent with respect to any specific acts, overt acts, facts, criminal conduct or non-criminal conduct by the Buffalo defendants having occurred in the Southern District of New York,» one of the court filings state.

To working - class parents, it is the overt act that matters: the child should not transgress externally imposed rules; to middle - class parents, it is the child's motive and feelings that matter: the child should govern himself.»

This would be an overt act of theft rather than a covert one thorough Academies, and consequently harder to pull off without reputational damage.

The courts don't agree on whether conspiracy under § 1951 of the Hobbs Act requires an overt act for conviction.

An assault is [an overt act intended to do bodily harm to another together with the present ability to cause such harm; an overt act intended to place a person in fear or apprehension of bodily harm that creates in (him; her) a reasonable fear or apprehension]

Section 3 of TFA 1848 refers to overt acts or deeds that «intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament».

There were roughly 59 trades placed for Mr Hind in the 3.5 year indictment period with the FCA arguing that the men would sometimes insider deal seeking to prove this through six overt acts of insider dealing.

It's really just an extension on self - defense, for situations when an overt act of aggression was not actually taking place but it was perceived due to the fact that there was a felony occurring.

Although it is not necessary that there should be an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, to complete the crime, I have no doubt that there must exist an intention to put the common design into effect.

Reynolds v. United States 98 U.S. 145 held that «A party's religious belief can not be accepted as a justification for his committing an overt act, made criminal by the law of the land».

Now the Wisdom of the Law provideth for the blasting and nipping, both of the Leaves, Blossoms, and Buds which proceed from this Root of Treason; either by Words, which are like to Leaves, or by some overt Act, which may be resembled to Buds or Blossoms, before it cometh to such Fruit and Ripeness, as would bring utter Destruction and Desolation upon the whole State...

My research suggests that overt acts of hostility become more likely as victims become increasingly desirous of power over an offender.