Sentences with phrase «points by abusing»

Once you figure out what angle and how much power you could put into a shot, you could score a good amount of points by abusing that position.

Not exact matches

Galea, a physician and epidemiologist by training, is quick - to - the - point and unflinching — even brutal, at times, in his directness, particularly in the chapterettes on firearms, substance abuse, and incarceration.

«By removing the ability to customize link metadata (i.e. headline, description, image) from all link sharing entry points on Facebook, we are eliminating a channel that has been abused to post false news,» explains Matthew Robertson in a post on the Facebook Developers Blog.

This was dubbed the «Boyfriend Loophole» by critics who pointed out that it still permitted gun ownership by convicted domestic abusers who were unmarried or did not live with the partners they abused.

Quite possibly, BUT the whole point of the matter is how the abuse was handled, or rather mishandled, by the Church.

By asking lots of clarifying questions, the members slowly began to realize the level of abuse they had experienced from this pastor and came to realize that all the people who had left their congregation had been publicly berated by this man at some poinBy asking lots of clarifying questions, the members slowly began to realize the level of abuse they had experienced from this pastor and came to realize that all the people who had left their congregation had been publicly berated by this man at some poinby this man at some point.

Yet He suffered emotional trauma, overwhelmed by impending physical and emotional abuse, abandonment and betrayal: «My soul is deeply troubled, overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.

I think it's pretty likely that the person reporting the abuse thought the point was to condemn Christianity by saying Hitler was Christian, rather than to establish the facts in response to the erroneous claim that Hitler was atheist.

While I understand the move by some to seek forgiveness and ultimately reconciliation, I hope the notion that all can be redeemed is not pushed to the point that it protects the abuser at the expense of the abused.

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live in.

no this drought is caused by your god for an entirely different reason; because your god taught humans nature belongs to them, they has abused it to the point of natures first man made drought.

Once the shock wore off though, I realized that money abuses and issues, while endemic within churches, still only account for a portion of the many ways in which churches have wounded people and thus there is undoubtedly plenty of people in search of a safe place who do not have any of the same issues that I have with linking money and spirituality, so really you were only excluding a certain portion of people from safety by attaching a price tag to it, those for whom money issues are a sticking point and of course those who simply don't have the extra funds to commit.

If I were to argue against abortion the way you argue for it, I would point to late term abortions, regretted abortions, or the abuse of abortion by people who use it as a form of birth control, etc..

For decades, the mystery surrounding the death of Sister Cesnik has haunted officials in Baltimore, but recent details — some uncovered this year in a new journalistic investigation — point to some extremely disturbing possibilities: The young nun may have been murdered because she was preparing to expose a horrific pattern of sexual abuse and even sex trafficking perpetrated by priests and involving law enforcement.

Then comes defiance, which really is despair by the aid of the eternal, the despairing abuse of the eternal in the self to the point of being despairingly determined to be oneself.

Sandro Magister points out that Pope Benedict appointed, as his own replacement at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop William J. Levada, one of the four bishops responsible for the effort against sexual abuse committed by priests in the United States.

So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.

, could have simply made your point about the misuse and abuse of religious beliefs for political gain by focusing solely on the NPD Task Force and the political parties without disrespectfully addressing God.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

At this point, the best solution is for Christians to err on the side of being loving when dealing with people who have been abused by the church.

Many of those outraged by the allegations against Penn State, including that Paterno had reportedly been told about the abuse but declined to notify authorities, have pointed a finger at what they say was the school's and its football program's commitment to maintaining a sterling public image, drawing parallels to the church.

Absolute nonsense, so this site is being abused by people to ramble on about anything they want regardless of what people put up as discussion points.

Syracuse had abused Boston College by 20 and 17 points during the regular season, but this time Williams ordered patience.

Others have suggested that it was sparked by a local man receiving abuse from the visitors while it is also claimed that the chanting regarding ISIS was seen as an insult given the large Muslim population in Marseille, although nothing has been confirmed at this point despite being reported by the Mail.

Newspapers reports that he racially abused a member of staff by saying «f ---- white b ----» in German, at which point airport security and police were called.

A spokesman for Corbyn said: «Trolling and abuse on the internet and abuse on social media has been absolutely roundly denounced repeatedly by Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership, he's made a particular point of saying he completely rejects it.

The Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling also complained that FOI was being abused by journalists (though the Daily Mail pointed out that he was quite a fan of FOI in opposition).

Robert Buckland (Swindon South): What evidence has he found of abuse in the points - based immigration system that was introduced by the previous Government?

The campaign of Levy's primary GOP rival, former Rep. Rick Lazio, responded by pointing to Lazio's own policy agenda released last week, which included a call for stricter Medicaid means testing and greater investigatory powers for the state to reduce fraud and abuse.

«In all the serious researches on the best known administration of justice systems, it is evident that at various points in their histories, the institutions were challenged by falling standards, corruption, and abuse of office.

Legislator Ed Day voted for both resolutions, pointing out that not only law enforcement officers were endangered by the map, but also people such as survivors of domestic abuse and others whose personal information could put them at risk.

The bill, known as the Child Victims Act, would expand the statute of limitations for victims of abuse, had opposed by the Catholic Church, but pushed for by victim advocates and The Daily News in a series of pointed front - page headlines.

Opponents point out that in countries where police officers are already equipped with electric shock weapons, officers frequently abuse them by causing unnecessary pain to suspects which could be subdued in other ways (not necessarily representative example: the «don't tase me, bro!»

Jeffrey Monsour, a longtime employee and critic of the state Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, has been cleared of allegations that he psychologically abused a disabled person by pointing out that the person's dog was being inappropriately fondled by another resident of a group home.

The Labour leadership election has been a case - in - point: the commonest piece of abuse thrown at Liz Kendall for daring to suggest, for instance, we should not be knee - jerk hostile to parents who want to improve the outcome of the state education system by setting up challenger schools, is that she is a Tory.

Research by Saad Omer, an epidemiologist at the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta, Georgia, points out similar abuses: he and his colleagues have found that medical exemptions are up to six times more common in states that have lax medical - exemption requirements or don't allow philosophical exemptions.

The researchers point out that despite its low status and variable content and quality, school based SRE is seen as vital by policy makers for protecting young people from ill health, unwanted pregnancies, sexual abuse and exploitation.

And a year after South Korea introduced a law in 2007 that required users of popular websites to register with proof of identity, abuse had fallen by only 0.9 percentage points.

Those concepts actually get abused (in the opinion of some people anyway) by people who want to oversimplify to make points; but without the abuse of the concepts these groups of people might not interact at all.

Richter pointed to some tactics suggested by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

He did this by working on countless patients at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, who he used to experiment with reflexology occidental works like iridology (iris - reading), endonasal reflexology (activation of pressure points near and around the nose), and auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture).

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When Boreman came out with stories of violent abuse, beatings, threats at gun point, and gang rape, she found supporters in Gloria Steinem (who, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, ended up in the cutting room), Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon (whose radical feminism does not appear in the film, even though MacKinnon is credited as an adviser).

The sentiment was underscored by Joanna Lumley, who as the ceremony's first solo female host pointed out that exactly 100 years ago, the historic building had hosted the women of the British suffragette movement, whom she noted «laid the groundwork» for Time's Up and led to this moment, which is about «the determination to eradicate the abuse of women the world over.»

Persons found tampering with or abusing any aspect of this Program, or who are otherwise not in compliance with these Terms of Participation, as solely determined by Bandai Namco, will be disqualified and all points will be void.

Ben's father - in - law - played with grit and righteous anger by Frank Langella — sees his grandchildren's upbringing as child abuse with Ben resembling something less a father, more a Manson - lite cult leader, and he has a fair point.

I'm not sure if the upset stomach was because I was already a tad woozy from the flu, but the splitting headache was no doubt caused by this production which stars absolutely no one and elicits no laughs whatsoever, unless one finds things like projectile vomiting, urinating on people, being drunk and stoned to the point of annoyance, being spanked with a cricket bat, automobile accidents, people being thrown from balconies and beaten senseless, animal abuse, making fun of the mentally ill, parental violence and, probably worst of all, a throbbing and brain tumor - inducing rap soundtrack that pulsates ceaselessly throughout this unmitigated disaster, fun.

With a Sarah Palin-esque President giving the military carte blanche to operate inside America using any means necessary to deal with «illegals» blamed for the zombie outbreaks, Dead Rising 3 scores point after point by attacking the concept of a surveillance state, pro-fascist propaganda, and especially the US's colonial abuses in Central America.

A new report out of New York City suggests that policy makers should identify troubled schools by their absenteeism rates — a relatively easy data point to obtain — and then work to fix the schools by addressing each one's unique problems, from homelessness and child abuse to teacher turnover and safety.