Sentences with phrase «stand against crime»

It seems every politician wants to take a stand against crime and criminal activity and every candidate wants people to think they aren't criminals and thus people should have respect for political figures, but when push comes to shove, actions speak louder than words, and right now everyone remains silent.

Casting the discussion in these terms allows liberals to deplore black crime with a clear conscience; the focus on black victims establishes a connection between their new stand against crime and the older excoriation of the effects of white racism.

Not exact matches

However with all the knowledge we have today about mental illness, we need not make excuses for people who stand behind religion to commit crimes against humanity.

If any other organization committed such crimes, only pedophiles would want to join but the Catholics are condoning the behavior with their refusal to take a strong stand against their church.

The glorification of violence as a means to solve conflict is everywhere in our culture and I was that lame person that couldn't stand mixed - martial - arts battles and railed against video games and movies that depicted war or crime as an adventure, even arguing we are «a generation of virtual sociopaths.»

But when we gravely ask ourselves whether this wholesale organization of irrationality and crime be our only bulwark against effeminacy, we stand aghast at the thought, and think more kindly of ascetic religion.

To support an urban style of Christian life against the rural romantic piety of most American Protestantism is not to defend the crime - ridden, auto - infested ruins we have heaped up where cities once stood.

THAT «S what defines Islam today... CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY... a religion of promised murder and the lowlifes that act on the command of this «peace - loving prophet» that would slit your throat given half a chance if you stood up and challenged this phony.

«I said on Sky that what we witnessed at the Etihad was a crime against football and I stand by that view in my column.

Ms Smith said: «One of the issues, of course, as the Chief Constable made clear in Liverpool, is that we need people in local communities to be willing to firstly stand up against gun crime, but also to give information to the police [and] to be willing to come forward.

William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta are to stand at The Hague for crimes against humanity committed during the 2007/8 post-election period.

His plan to «grow industrial manufacturing and high - tech jobs through enforcement of intellectual property and enforcement of the is standing order for compliance with federal sanctions against products from other countries like China,» can potentially end poverty, crime, the heroin epidemic, and even the Syrian refugee crisis, Kravtsov said.

TO ALL FIRE CHIEFS IN ERIE COUNTY: New York State Executive Law § 837 (effective April 1, 2000) requires that applicants for membership to volunteer fire departments undergo a non-fingerprint criminal history check against the State's criminal history files maintained by the Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) to determine if they stand convicted of the crime of arson in New York State.

Together as a community — unified as one — we will continue to take a stand against hate crimes in a City that is known for equality, acceptance and diversity.»

Robert Mugabe may stand accused of crimes against humanity, widespread corruption, anti-white racial discrimination, human rights abuses, suppression of political critics and economic mismanagement.

Justice A. S. Umar of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Monday, June 19, 2017 admitted in evidence two documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, who is standing trial for alleged corruption.

This law barred the city jail system from complying with ICE requests to detain anybody not accused or convicted of a crime, not listed in federal gang or terror databases, or without a standing deportation warrants against them.

«They blindly stand with Israel no matter how outrageous its crimes against the Palestinian people.»

BP Ruben Diaz says Christians must stand with their Muslim neighbors against those who commit hate crimes.

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 dismissed the «no - case» submission brought by the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, who is standing trial on a 7 - count charge bordering on illegal diversion of funds meant for the procurement of arms preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

A spokesman for Corbyn said the Labour leader attended a Stand Up to Racism event on Saturday co-convened by a senior member of the SWP as he «wanted to show his support for the campaign against racism and xenophobia, particularly given the rise in hate crime since the EU referendum in June».

Nyako and the others are standing trial before Justice E. Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja in a 37 - count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, stealing, abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of N29 billion preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The lesson for now is that an independent press with the resources to investigate crimes and stand firm against the government is essential.

It's not long before he's forced back to a life of crime by Mr Gang and Billy (Chaplin), his irritating underling, but Mitchell takes a stand against the duo.

A tangled web of violence, drugs, greed, power, friendship and betrayal - all played out against an evocative and recognisable Dublin background - Stuart Carolan's brainchild proudly stands in the company of other seminal crime series from around the world.

That's too bad, given the long - standing allure of vintage LA and the fascinating source material for the film: Paul Lieberman's crime saga, «Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles,» which was based on the work of a secret LAPD unit that aimed to guard the city against gangsters.

commits so many crimes against itself, but the one that stands out the most is the underwhelming use of Jake Johnson.

Kingsley's roundhouse climactic speech reveals evil as a beast not easily classified and explained, but it's not until the epilogue that Polanski unleashes his film's final, and most powerful, punch — a supple crane shot inside a concert hall that both evokes the inextricable web of deceit, violence, and shame that binds Death and the Maiden's three crippled characters, and stands as a superlative evocation of how man's crimes against his fellow man are frequently hidden beneath a façade of everyday decorum.

«Stand up straight and against the wall» he ordered, a desk lamp the only source of light, as he prowled the room waiting to accuse someone of a crime against the state.

In 2008 Hansen called for CEOs to stand trial for crimes against humanity.

In Minnesota, a panel of twenty - three citizens who hear evidence against a person accused of a crime and determine whether that person should stand trial.

In a novel version of «Perry Mason,» the fictitious (mostly TV) lawyer called the actual perpetrator of the crime to the stand, as a direct witness because she had declined to testify for the prosecution (against Mason's client).

They say the MLS business model — giving people only a taste of a house and directing them to an agent for more — won't stand up against competitors that will give you every detail about a house and its surroundings, including local crime stats, school reviews and previous purchase prices, along with 360 tours and a break on the commission.