Sentences with phrase «such as victims»

Our office has more than 95 years of experience helping victims of injuries, such as victims of animal bites, recover for their injuries.

Being denied for too many recent credit applications, however, is a frequent issue faced by cardholders regardless of their credit, such as victims of Chase's infamous «5/24 Rule.»

Due to the fragmented and limited mental health staff resources in refugee camps, those refugee who were judged to be at high risk — such as victims of violence, unaccompanied minors, single young women and men, and elderly people — were given prior ity (Gong - Guy, Cravens, and Patterson 1991).

Several studies underline the importance of taking into account sociodemographic variables such as victims» sex to better understand the phenomenon.

They say the process should be more transparent, and stakeholders, such as victims, should have more input.

«On a general level, there can be practical barriers to pursuit of a criminal case, such as the victim company's fear of embarrassment, reputational damage, or the perceived risk — real or not — that their trade secrets will be exposed in a court proceeding,» said Brooke French, shareholder at law firm Carlton Fields.

Whether the new treatment can benefit Ebola patients — such as this victim of a 2007 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — remains to be seen.

Using evidence and details in the vision, such as the victim's five senses, you have to point out contradictions in the scenario.

In criminal investigations, the person under investigation (as well as any other formal party to the proceeding, such as a victim of the crime duly constituted) will be given an opportunity to comment on the completeness of the investigation before its formal closure.

Per the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, «although the law doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).»

Not exact matches

They learn about using the media to look like the victims of state violence, and about police tactics such as the use of «pain compliance» — holds that cause pain without causing injury that could result in an assault charge.

Col. Patrick Touron of the gendarme service said DNA samples have been taken from objects provided by victims» families, such as combs or toothbrushes, that could help identify them.

To fall victim to such bogeymen comes across as undoubtedly more defensible than succumbing to weak or inept opponents.

For decades, he has negotiated and determined the size of settlement payouts for victims of such tragedies as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

As such, the average Joe or Jane will usually be the «victim.»

«A victim is always at the heart of an investigation, and in the majority of cases permission will be sought to obtain data from devices such as mobile phones.

Big companies such as Target, Home Depot, Michaels, P.F. Chang's and JP Morgan fell victim to data breaches, and 2015 is already heading down a similar path.

Benchmark claimed it would never have allowed the three extra seats if it had known about Kalanick's «gross mismanagement and other misconduct at Uber», citing scandals such as Uber's «Greyball» software to deceive authorities, and an executive apparently accessing a rape victim's medical files in India.

Plus, if you believe you're a victim, you'll be treated as such.

While some have been criticized for not giving enough attention to the murder victims, the shows no doubt are contributing to the debate over the role that factors such as race, class, privilege, and (sometimes) plain bad luck can play in matters of criminal justice.

Victims of identity theft can face issues such as lost job opportunities, problems with securing a loan or harassment from debt collectors.

Affinity Fraud: Victims often belong to the same group or ethnicity, such as common nationality, church, synagogue, country club, or other organization where they have common interests or beliefs.

People prefer safe investments such as Treasury bonds because they realize that banks have lobbied to deprive victims of financial fraud of their rights.

When prompted for a second - factor authorization, such as a code sent via SMS, the malware can hijack it directly from the compromised device without the victim ever seeing the message come in.

Father John Harvey states (in The Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care) that some homosexuals may be victims of truly compulsive behavior and as such deserve our special sympathy and understanding; but even these unfortunate individuals, he notes, may exercise the choice to seek help.

It is important to distinguish here between the socio - economic consequences of the claims that are advanced on the basis of the victim status of blacks (such as the pressure for racially preferential treatment) and their symbolic, ideological role.

A victim told the court: «To have trusted institutions such as the church and the legal system allow lawyers to try and discredit me - to seed doubt of my character into the jury about how trustworthy I was - has stayed with me and led to a deep rooted mistrust of myself.

A large church constructed nearby displays photographs of victims, a small collection of personal items (such as shoes and glasses) recovered from the site's mass graves, and icons of those who have been canonized.

Whereas in some countries rape victims are left behind to tell the tale, in others, such as Iraq, they are systematically sold into sex slavery by their captors.

The charity said in a statement: «After years of calling for justice to be done to the victims of genocide in Iraq, the UN has at last heard a plea for the forgotten minorities such as Christians and Yazidis who have been erased from their homelands.

Hence, for me to refuse to go to Germany under these circumstances would be tacit assent to the assumption that the Holocaust was an eruption of such primordial, unintelligible evil that the human beings who perpetrated it were as powerless as its victims.

If your statistics regarding the donations are correct, then I believe a quicker way to real results would be independently investigating the organizations (such as the Red Cross) receiving the donations to insure their accountability and focus is meeting the needs of the victims of the system we have in the US.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Though many don't realize it, the after effects of sexual abuse are deep and painful, and worldviews of abuse are often distorted and adopted by victims, such as fear of intimacy, unhealthy views toward sex, and even hatred of one's own body.

War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «victims of wanton aggression.»

Its such a shame that you are unable to see the truth in your obsession to see yourself as a perpetual victim of everybody.

At any stage of development, man as a person in community and also the community of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.

There are many things in your bible that are immoral and are still practiced today, such as a woman being forced to marry her ra.p.ist, since apparently the «stain» of her no being a virgin is far worse than ra.p.e... all the ra.p.ist has to do is pay 50 sheckles of silver and the victim is then forced to marry her attacker... is THAT moral... of course not, but it IS IN YOUR BOOK, and is still practiced today in Morocco.

I think I speak for all victims when I say that no person should be called property and treated as such.

Not to mention the reports of some having seen things that could only be seen by a «soul floating up out of the body»... such as near - death victims identifying items on hospital rooftops where their physical bodies had never been...

Such a feminist reconstruction of Christian origins requires a disciplined historical imagination that can make women visible not only as victims but also as agents.

Such a feminist strategy needs to abandon both the dualistic conceptualization of women as mere victims of patriarchal religion and the submissive collaboration of women in patriarchal religion and church.

It is ironic that the very activists who emerged from this new environment developed the strategy of claiming victim status through the use of such symbols as the pink triangle.

To think and act as if such creaturely occasions were divine is to fall victim to idolatry, where the creature is worshipped as if it were the creator.

No prophet can claim to bring a final message unless he says things that will have a sound of reality in the ears of victims such as these.

Systems such as economies and governments and other institutions tend to be very adversarial, competitive and cruel, and they can find and create new victims daily.

Regardless, faith - based nonprofit organizations such as World Vision and the Salvation Army are aiding the disaster victims.

Natural elements such as water, trees, and shrubs often play a part, along with victims» names inscribed in a way that invites touching, as with the bronze panels surrounding the 9/11 footprint - cavities.

«Without exception, church members must not submit for proxy temple ordinances [rituals] any names from unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims,» the statement read.

Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.