Sentences with phrase «rather than a victim»

The call was to become the master rather than the victim of my fate, and the captain rather than the passenger of my soul.

But as Solnit suggests, we are beginning to see shame returned to its rightful owners, that is, those who commit, protect or perpetuate the violence, rather than the victims.

One needs a little power before one can recognize one's true identity: a sinner who can be forgiven, rather than a victim who can protest.

His acts are really a reflection of his needs, rather than the victims» or their families».

I and other advocates lost a lot of friends and important connections... people who obviously wish to align themselves more with the church, authority, leaders, and success stories, rather than victims.

The inevitable tensions among the various constituencies — between blacks and Hispanics, for example — create conflicts that not only complicate political activism, but threaten to make the overall political effort look like a collection of interest groups seeking advantages, rather than victims insisting on justice.

rather than the victim.

The primary belief that human beings are creators rather than victims is foundational.

Hitting upon the tone of Shockie's experience — making him someone focused on the bomb rather than the victims — was a breakthrough.

We need to have the vision, drive, and agility to do something about the answers so we can become an agent of change rather than a victim of change.

He also seems to think Facebook is an accomplice rather than a victim.

The only problem is that many of them are the primary cause of problems rather than victims of the other person.

An analysis of calls made by male victims to a national domestic abuse hotline (Hines et al., 2007) revealed that many men indicated having sought help in the past but having been turned away, laughed at, not taken seriously, and treated as batterers (rather than victims) by agency workers.

Not exact matches

State lawmakers in New York and Washington recently passed measures restricting the use of so - called non-disclosure agreements for sexual harassment claims after the attorneys general of all 50 states urged legislative action in February to ensure that victims can bring lawsuits before judges rather than being forced into arbitration.

By all accounts, this was a bizarre trial, with the defense rather than the prosecution clamoring to bring in more alleged victims.

We're victims to bad habits rather than being the champions of good habits.

She thanked him and said, «I thought for a brief moment about exposing him, but this isn't about a personal vendetta - for me, this was about highlighting a situation that is all too common and how the onus is always placed on the victim to remove themselves from the situation, rather than deal with the aggressor.

Rather than taking their profit money and getting out, Ponzi's victims often reinvested, exposing them to the scheme's risks anew.

With the victims of lung cancer we have the good sense to respond at the point of human suffering rather than the point of moral judgment.

By placing the focus on how the abused SHOULD behave rather than how the abuser should, you clearly set the stage for shaming the victim and empowering the perpetrator to continue to abuse others.

What WOULD «preach» would be all the parties comprehending, communicating, cooperating, co-building, cohabiting and communing around a monument to the culture and life of the victims (both those directly affected and indirectly) rather than a monument to the culture the deluded offenders proclaimed.

But not so the idea that it is the obligation of the victim's family, rather than of a central government.

• The burden of her later work is blaming Jewish victims rather than anti-Semitic perpetrators.

Referring to those with the disease as «persons with AIDS» rather than AIDS «victims» or «patients» is intended to convey respect for their dignity and multidimensional personhood.

Pastors are often the victims, rather than the bullies.

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

Maybe we can take some collective ownership of this thing and be a movement full of leaders rather than a few leaders with a bunch of victims.

Instead, Dante uses irony to undercut the alluring words of sinners who present themselves as victims rather than as perpetrators of outrage in the eyes of God.

The demon's victim is again female, only this time she is a young adult named Casey (Hannah Kasulka) rather than a child.

As far as justice for the victims, society failed them rather than a University.

Instead, an athletic department decided to DO NOTHING rather than prevent other victims from being assaulted... same as churches.

But instead comes Easter, which rudely interrupts all the minatory and sententious moralisms of the tragic chorus, just as they are about to be uttered to full effect, and which cavalierly violates the central tenet of sound economics: rather than trading the sacrificial victim for some supernatural benefit, and so the particular for the universal, Easter restores the slain hero in his particularity again, as the only truth the Gospels have to offer.

DH «I am in favour of recovering the biblical understanding of shaming in the sense that «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» 1 cor 1:27... as an encouragement to anyone who is a victim (and therefore considered weak in the eyes of the world) that there is a greater power to call on in order to shame... any person in a position of power in the church that is using their power to oppress rather than serve... Does that help or hinder?»

If science and technology are ever to be liberated from tutelage to the dominative powers of history, if the drama is to be «interrupted» redemptively rather than destructively, then Christian theology, which has itself been enticed time and again to legitimate dominative power, can contribute to that future by mediating more dialectically to the present the subversive memories of God's identification with the struggles of victims everywhere in the mystery and message of Christ Jesus.

In other words, he's not too bright so he just made an ignorant, insensitive gesture rather than doing anything that would actually help, like donating to the victims» families.

On the other hand, we have seen that a person with whom we can interact and whose concrete presence we enjoy is able to be genuinely other, and in a positive way, rather than just as a victim or as suffering.

The concepts reported in this paper represent the author's attempt to analyze the impact, upon general audiences, of constant media disaster viewing, rather than focusing on victim's families.

She could ask the condo as.socation for special permission, but would rather play the victim card than obey the rules of the condo.

Rather than considering the possibility that such narrations reflect genuine conflict over the question of selective abortion, Rapp suggests that these women are unwitting victims of both pro-life propaganda and an atavistic ambivalence about the entry of women into the workplace.

Gains have been made since the depression of the 1930s, and the serious victims in our society are about one - sixth of the population rather than one - third; but one - sixth represents many millions, and its presence indicates the need for a continuing revolution.

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

It was a book whose title was to prove more memorable than its content; during the two decades since its publication «blaming the victim» has remained on the lips of politicians and intellectuals as a codified rebuke to any suggestion that people are poor because of what they have done or not done rather than because of what has been done to them or not done for them.

Most of them have voted to treat assaults on pregnant women as crimes with one victim rather than two.

Too often I see people treat such victims with bandages rather than with the serious interior work...

The church said: «Highpoint leadership has come to recognise that it was defensive rather than empathetic in its initial reaction to Ms. Jules Woodson's communication concerning the abuse she experienced, and humbly commits to develop a deeper understanding of an appropriate, more compassionate response to victims of abuse.»

Some of these organizations have been accused of blaming the victims — even those who were children at the time of abuse — and pressuring them to forgive their abusers rather than report them.

There could be a case to argue if incorrect refereeing decisions kept going against you (as they did with West Ham last season) that you have been the victim of misfortune; but if it is simply your players not being able to do there job effectively (e.g. by converting goal - scoring opportunities) then this is a reflection of ability or coaching rather than luck.

Rather than seeing their weight as a deficit, obese bullies will use their size to their advantage, allowing them to wield more power over a smaller victim.

It only repels them causing them to turn into another victim rather than your baby.

Your children will not only fight less, but will learn to feel compassion and to get along without winners and victims, seeking peace rather than justice.