Sentences with phrase «political abuse of»

«Dr. Koryagin has been in prison for the last four years for actively opposing the political abuse of psychiatry.

on Proposed Interior Dept scientific integrity policy fails to address political abuse of science

It fails to distinguish between the political abuse of «science» by authority which deliberately ignores, covers up or otherwise (perhaps using «peer - review») renders effectively secret vital facts («hide the decline») and a theory which considers all of the evidence.

If you want to distinguish between «science» and «political abuse of science», why not distinguish between «religion» and «poltical abuse of religion»?

Political abuse of science is the discovery that you can hit harder with a big piece of wood than you can with your bare hands and conquering territory with your newly invented club, in the very brief interval you have before your opponents discover that there is a lot of wood around and they can use clubs too.

Not exact matches

But the political environment surrounding the Olympics is fraught with the specter of human rights abuse.

BELARUS: The EU has long had difficult relations with Belarus, one of Moscow's closest allies, and has sanctions in place because of human - rights abuses and treatment of political opponents.

So while there are few checks and balances on the abuse of power, the leadership's priorities remain the same: keep the country relatively stable, head off political risks, and avoid a financially ruinous military conflict.

«The main lesson from Mr. Comey's book is that Mr. Trump's abuse of political norms has driven his enemies to violate norms themselves,» wrote The Wall Street Journal's editorial board.

At no time did I ever submit a request for personal or political purposes, or to voyeuristically look at raw intelligence, nor am I aware of any instance of such abuse by anyone else.»

In the not - so - distant future, miscreants will abuse this steroidal form of photo - shopping for political ends, tricking people into forming false memories.

Greece's political leaders, more accustomed to screaming abuse at each other in parliament, issued an unprecedented joint statement after a day of talks at the president's office backing efforts to reach a deal with creditors.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

This week was full of startling, scary news about how carelessly Facebook treated user data, and how Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy previously led in part by Steve Bannon, abused access to that data, possibly for Trump's presidential campaign.

But the proper response to abuses and attempts to corner a market is coordinated pressure and political pressure by allies together with us of the WTO dispute process, not tariffs.

The abuse of Facebook's platform for political purpose

First announced amid a slew of updates Zuckerberg offered up in March as the scandal around abuse of user data by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was first coming to light, the new bounty program is modeled off of Facebook's attempts to combat hackers with a $ 1 million bug bounty.

Policy initiatives on transparency and government accountability, along with formal (albeit belated) responses to injustices in Wukan and other rural communities indicate a willingness to redress human rights issues involving abuses of political authority.

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

Tuesday was also the first day of F8, the social network's annual developer conference, where it was expected to address many of the privacy changes and quality - control measures put in effect since it was reported that data firm Cambridge Analytica allegedly abused the private information of up to 87 million Facebook users for political operations.

I'm sorry Pastor Evans but I think those «Christians» who abuse what Jesus stood for and his teachings to shove them down the throats of others and / or use them for political gain who do Jesus quite the disservice.

The Spanish Inquisition is another example of abusing the Christian faith for political purposes.

Critics argue the law suppresses free speech and makes South Korea like its northern counterpart, known for its human rights abuses and oppression of religious and political minorities.

There are just men of all political and religious stripes abusing the vulnerable.

It may not be so much the form of socio - political structure that is of concern but whether that structure has matured into a form that balances its potential for abuse of power at both the top and the bottom.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Demanding respect for these freedoms and blocking the possibility of abuses by the Catholic Church and other powerful institutions are the motivations behind recently increased political participation by Mexican evangelicals.

Any given political or economic system that goes unregulated is ripe for abuses of power.

If I had to guess, I'd say he's an atheist that straddles and abuses the cultures of religion for political objectives.

The just war tradition continues to provide helpful set of serious moral issues concerning war and peace The misuse and abuse of that tradition, however, are among the most terrible facts of political, and religious, history.

Khalidi is also critical of various Arab and Muslim countries where human rights abuses, economic exploitation and a lack of political participation help create a context that fuels violence and extremism.

Jacques Berlinerblau's Thumpin» It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Presidential Politics offers a thoughtful, biblically informed, and wickedly funny analysis of how Scripture has been incorporated both effectively and ineffectively in contemporary political discourse.

There have been many uses and abuses of a non-trinitarian or trinitarian legitimation of political systems.14 However, a closer look reveals that such legitimation is very limited.

They hold media industries accountable for what they produce and distribute, and propose critical analysis of the cultural, social, political and economic influences on media messages, the development of creative production centers that create community, and taking personal and public action to challenge government and industry abuses.

As we rest secure in the sight of a new President, elevated to that office by unusual circumstances, yet acting with full authority and confidence, we are obliged to recognize exactly how our surviving insecurity and doubts arose, what made us see how fragile are the ligaments of political trust, how easily abused the tissues of our confidence.

Tubbs has his finger on a central tension in any liberal political order: Because a free society requires morally responsible citizens who won't abuse their liberties, that same society must take serious interest in the development of children.

, 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.

For the time being, I'll close with what I find most disturbing and unbecoming about Tooley's post: His alarmist abuse of elitism or elite theory, which have recently become convenient, but unhelpful and terribly inconsistently applied, shorthand for all sorts of political fears from people on the left and the right.

These priests who are denying the Eucharist to people because of their political positions are abusing their position as a priest and making spurious interpretations of the Catechism.

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

When we compare the importance of protecting political institutions to our need to care for those who are abused, the latter should win every single time.

Christianity has been far abused by the conservative religious nuts that the likes of Franklin, Glen Beck, Hanity, Palin, Al Sharpton, Jesse J, have been ordained knights to fight, not a spiritual warfare but a religious political ideologies that have no scriptural basis.

-- Empowerment and development of inclusive national narratives — Global knowledge of cultures and histories — Cultural respect and understanding — Communication, exchange and exposure — Global citizenry through responsible media and political statements — Global values and equality — Avoidance of dehumanization of the other and abuse of knowledge — Other moral truths and views.

Last December, South Korea's parliament decided to impeach President Park over a controversy that centres on her relationship with her friend Choi and accusations of abuse of political power.

The story of continuity also ties to perceptions of impunity — no one in Burundi has thus far been prosecuted for political murder -, to lack of progress on questions of justice and memory, lack of trust in the newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (which interestingly only appeared on the scene months before the election, in December 2014), and perceptions of corruption, abuse of office, the sense of being «used» by those in authority (people speak of being their «bridge» to other objectives).

While that independence may be a good in itself — because it allows for self - realisation, the living of a more rewarding life than one of dependence etc. — its primary objective must be to contest the abuse of political and economic power in concert.

A coalition of human rights groups, including Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International wrote to the home secretary saying: «We are very concerned that new measures, made in good faith but in a heated political environment, will overextend powers in ways that would be susceptible to abuse, restrict legitimate, free communication and expression and undermine people's privacy.»

Unlike Okudzeto Ablakwa who conveys the impression in his articles that constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law mandate that I should have protected the crimes and graft I exposed simply because of membership of a political party, I take the right and correct view that the constitution enjoins every citizen to uphold and defend it by exposing any activity of any person or group of persons who abuse Article 55 on political parties for criminal purposes.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

Surely he's aware that other presidents, most notably Richard Nixon, have abused the power of the Internal Revenue Service to harass their political opponents.»