Sentences with phrase «people commit acts»

Likewise, you don't know that all humanity is evil, even though some people commit acts that are commonly referred to as evil.

Seeing as the person committing the act states they are in FACT committing the violent act because of their religion.

For a particular behavior to be considered evil, the person committing the act must be in a position to knowingly make a moral choice between doing something wrong and doing something right, choosing the bad action over the good.

But the two have taken opposite positions on the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act, with Serino calling for its repeal, and Gipson saying the law provides stricter penalties on drug dealers and persons committing acts of domestic violence.

A tort is a civil claim in which one person commits an act that causes injury to another person.

While auto insurance fraud is nothing new, the rise of the number of people committing these acts is attributed to the troubled economy brought about by the recent recession.

Not exact matches

But much more important is that you've gotten a lot of people to commit and make an act of faith.

Not only is it impossible to anticipate in such a code every possible variable or potential dilemma, but always «it is possible to satisfy the letter of the law while still committing an act that most reasonable people would consider unethical or immoral.»

«Instead of a watch list limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,» Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU's National Security Project, told The Intercept.

At this point, the indications are that Aghdam's attack was the kind of event that has become all too familiar in American society: an isolated act committed by a person with a shaky grip on reality.

«That is why we have committed to reviewing the Gender Recognition Act to look at ways of streamlining and demedicalising the process for changing a person's legal gender, as well as reviewing gender markers in official documents.

One of the very first acts of business between two of the most powerful people on Earth — a duo whose to - do list involves addressing pretty fundamental disagreements on, among other things, the trade relationship that supports both economies — was to commit, publicly and unequivocally, to tackling an issue that affects literally half of each of their constituencies.

Not everyone agrees on what is noble, for example, and there have been atrocious acts of history committed by people who sincerely believed they were acting on a moral ideal.

The social networking site took down his account after the attack, saying in a statement Tuesday, «There is absolutely no place on our platform for people who commit such horrendous acts.»

Then came the task of assigning people to act on those goals, committing the company's director of business development, for example, to drum up at least one new international business partner within 90 days.

Specifically, the exemption requires that the advisor, the institution issuing the product and client enter into a contract that clearly commits the advisor to acting in the client's best interests, using the care, skill and prudence that would be exercised by prudent person under the circumstances (the definition that generally governs a fiduciary's duties in other contexts).

Under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act (Unlawful obtaining etc. of personal data), a criminal offense has not been committed if a person has acted in the reasonable belief that he had in law the right to obtain data.

«Unless we can surveil them 24/7, they should be incarcerated,» Conservative MP says of people at high risk of committing terrorist acts

The bill also creates a «risk protection order,» allowing police to confiscate guns of people who are involuntarily committed under the Baker Act or who pose a violent threat to themselves or others.

Any person who breaches the Act, the regulations, a term or condition of a licence, or an order or direction of the Minister, is guilty of an offence (s 7) subject to a penalty of not more than $ 10 million (in the case of a corporation) or $ 1 million (in the case of an individual), for each day or part thereof that the offence is committed.

Why is it that wen Christians committ heinous acts of violence (and many, many Christians have, for centuries) they are called «bad people», but when Muslims commit heinous acts of violence, Islam is called a «bad religion»?

Unless there is a married person involved, no act of adultery is being committed.

Ironically, it is religious condemnation that drives the gay person into committing the very acts that are then used to condemn their lifestyle.

to claim to be against acts of terror while permitting those to commit them to live amoung you, be funded by your people is to support terrorists.

@colin You have a nasty habit of putting words in other peoples mouth, no one said the acts committed were acceptable.Lot, by the very testimony of the story was not culpable in the matter.Replied previous, but cnn put the reply on its own thread two pages ahead.Same basic response, little more information.

Yes, it might be satisfying to drag his dead body through the streets and then hang it from a bridge with his head on a pike — but then we would be as bad as the people who hate us and commit unspeakable acts.

@colin Please do not put words in my mouth, i nowhere said the acts committed were acceptable, only that Lot was not culpable, as you would have people believe.You focus on Lot as an active participant or an instigator, is a lie.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

From the at of two people, Adama dn Eve, Or from the acts committed by people having nothing to do with Adam and Eve and the so - called Fall?

I think the person who commits the act does not do it to be evil.

People of every race and religion have commited horrible acts, but as we know just because X % of group Y do bad things, does not mean group Y is bad or wrong.

27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, amen with men committing 1indecent acts and receiving in 2their own persons the due penalty of their error.

Right, just because it's in the bible and the people who commited some of those acts were not only never punished but still considered Gods faithful servants, shouln't be any sort of quide on what the bible allows.

The idea of a «devil» that tempts people to commit acts that will cause their damnation and then torments them eternally after they've been damned makes no sense if YHWH is benevolent.

We are all guilty of sin so people need to stop acting self righteous like they do nt actually commit sin anymore!

Other evidence of course may suggest a person with NPD has committed criminal acts, but many people who exhibit narcissistic traits do not commit crimes.

How many times have people committed some horrible act, convinced God told them to do it?

With its general increase in earnestness — Roger was on a crusade last week, and is on another this week; here comes Mona with her wise maternal zingers; and above all, listen to Freddy Rumsen's Tips For Changing Your Life — the series seems to be committing to the idea that selfish and / or self - destructive people can indeed become selfless and / or get their acts together.

How often have we turned on the evening news to yet another story of someone who committed some atrocious act and heard the reporter interviewing that person's neighbors and acquaintances and heard «We were shocked.»

Those people committed those violent acts in spite of what the Christian doctrine teaches, not because of it.

Many people sometimes, or for a while, act contrary to sincerely held convictions (by committing a sin), and other people, given time, come to recognise past behaviour as wrong (they may repent and convert).

God has already maligned Himself by inspiring biblical writers to record horrendous acts against people, many of which appear to be on the same level as those crimes committed by men like Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein.

The puzzle is that there are times when we speak of becoming a new person or judge that one is no longer responsible for acts committed long ago.

From my PERSONAL experience, I have never had a single person commit an «evil» act against me, in 51 years of life.

... (N) otice what Paul goes on to say: «Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error» (NRSV).»

It is the acts that people are willing to commit in the names of these deities where the problem lies.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

The article is describing how people are finally waking up and realizing that yes natural disasters MIGHT be caused by a celestial being but that again does not mean in ANY way that it is because the human race has sinned or committed some specific act that warrented a natural disaster as punishment.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Further, a person becomes a criminal in the act of committing a crime.