Sentences with phrase «state of terror»

I was in a state of terror.

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government or international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government of international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.

This dog, who was being called Eclair at the shelter, was completely shut down emotionally, in a state of terror known in both human and animal behavior as «collapsing immobility.»

UN Security Council will adopt Resolution 1566 in 2004 and gives a definition of terrorism as «criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.»

Not exact matches

Accused of genocide in the country's Darfur region, al - Bashir is officially listed as a sponsor of terror by the United States and wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton along with other New York leaders rang the opening bell at the NYSE ahead of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.

Jennifer Willoughby, one of the two women who leveled accusations of domestic and emotional abuse against the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, says she lived in a state of «low - grade, constant terror» with him.

Today we better understand the exaggerated fears that sparked the paroxysm of state violence that was the Great Terror.

In another case, a video ad from a pro-Ted Cruz Super PAC (Reigniting the Promise PAC) was the inadvertent prelude to a video produced by an official media outlet of the Islamic State terror group.

The party's anti-immigration and anti-European Union stance is resonating with voters amid a climate of fear of terrorism and social instability, especially after last month's attacks, for which the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility.

(DealBook) Christopher Hitchens on the current state of the War on Terror.

Mr. Justice Affleck interrupted, stating «You needn't convince me of the terrors of last summer.

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Dr Antony McRoy's been speaking to Premier after Mr Choudhary was convicted of terror offences, having encouraged people to join Islamic State - a banned organisation which has waged war on Britain.

«The brand the «war on terror» creates the illusion,» Northcott writes, «that the United States is engaged in a global war with a range of enemies who include Islamists, anti-globalisation activists, environmental and animal rights activists.»

In a dramatic turnaround from his election campaign calls for the 16 - year war to be brought to an end, Trump unveiled a new south Asia strategy designed to prevent a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, target Islamic State and al Qaida and stop mass terror attacks in the USA.

I am disturbed... by calls from both federal and state officials for an end to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, These refugees are fleeing terror — violence like we have witnessed in Paris.

And how about the news made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, when she was asked about the elimination of the phrase war on terror: «The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself,» Clinton said....

Surely if that's what you really believe, you should live in constant terror of the unknown state of your future, because * you simply do not know what will happen or how you will change * between now and your death.

Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;

As Robert Dykstra states, «The capacity to be bored may serve as something of an antidote to the emotional terror hidden in the act of being boring.»

Saipov had allegedly rented the pick - up truck an hour before the rampage from the state before unleashing terror on the streets of New York.

The United States also managed the repression and terror utilized by the contras in Nicaragua as part of a proinsurgency campaign against a popularly elected government.

The United States also encouraged the use of more selective terror in which government leaders, teachers, health workers, land - reform promoters, and others associated with the development of social programs of the government were targeted for assassination.

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.

Furet argues that Stalin was able to mask the terror of the Soviet state, and indeed to widen its appeal to many in the West, by assuming the mantle of anti-fascism.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsestates, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unseStates - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

(CNN)- The pastor of a Florida church says his congregation has decided to call off the burning of the Quran that was to be held Saturday - the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States by the al Qaeda terror network.

I thought from the beginning that this might be related to the two country states between Palestinians and Israelies... since the supervisor about the agreements is Oslo but then when few said not related I thought about the joining of the islamic Turkey to the Euro union... after all both issues are hated by the Israelies and I wouldn't be surprised if they were found to be behind recruiting this guy to do their terror work for them to bring an issue and change balances by reactions...!

Though living through a period that witnessed the birth of an independent United States, the French Revolution and the Terror, the Napoleonic wars and the rise of revolutionary romanticism, the evangelical revivals and the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, she focuses on a few middling gentry families in rural England.

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As Israel moved through the violence and terror of the years approaching the birth of Jesus the hope for a Davidic King and a perfected state yielded to the vision of an apocalyptic shattering of this world in the final clash of God's power with the power of Satan.

The number of wars and armed confrontations since 1948 with Arab neighbors, the continued occupation of neighboring territories, and the prevention of the formation of the independent State of Palestine, has made Palestinians, Arab neighbors, and a large section of the Muslim world perceive the State of Israel as the aggressors and perpetuators of terror against the Palestinian people.

However, he does recommend more reliance upon imaginative diplomacy than upon weaponry; and he also decries the use of terror bombing of civilian populations, as was sometimes employed by the United States in World War II, in even the fiercest of wars.

But as laws in a traditional government are of a negative nature, defining the boundaries of behavior, but insufficient in themselves to inspire it, so terror is insufficient in a totalitarian state to motivate and guide human behavior.

In public statements Hindu nationalists tried to make their campaign against Muslims seem part of the US - led war on terror, and, as Nussbaum writes, «the current world atmosphere, and especially the indiscriminate use of the terrorism card by the United · States, have made it easier for them to use this ploy.»

In early November 2006 (just after the midterm elections here in the United States), N.T. Wright, the well - known New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop of Durham, delivered a public lecture in Durham Cathedral asking, «Where is God in «The War on Terror»?»

In 2014, Boko Haram became the world's deadliest terror group, ahead of the self - proclaimed Islamic State, according to the Global Terrorism Index.

Nevertheless, after the hurricane of terror it is probable that a sector of the working class grasped what comfort it could from the ideology of the corporative state and gave it its tacit consent.

A prolific writer and editor, her publications include: Augustine and the Limits of Politics, Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, and, most recently, Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic Books, 2008).

On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision - making, according to a «whistle - blower» witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress

And, finally, I don't have to write about a first - place vote for Ohio State, because Notre Dame caught up to the Buckeyes» 10 wins over FBS teams, which should logically have ended OBNUG's reign of Buckeye - backing terror... but OBNUG didn't submit a ballot this week.

The British National Health Service also states that night terrors may be more common if there is a family history of sleepwalking.

Physiologically and emotionally, she may still be living in a state of inner terror.

More upsetting for parents than for the children that have them, night terrors or sleep terrors are a type of sleep disorder that causes a person to wake up in a terrified state.

These features distinguish nightmares from night terrors which occur in the first half of the night and are associated with little or no recall and a confused state of awareness.

Going to bed with a calm state of mind can reduce the risk and frequency of common sleeping problems such as nightmares, sleep walking and night terrors.

The archbishop of York has warned that extending the time terror suspects can be held without charge to 90 days is getting close to creating a «police state».

Their removal - after which they were cleared by security staff and allowed to board a later flight - came as all UK airports were on a high state of alert following fears of a terror plot to blow up several transatlantic flights.