Sentences with phrase «than a victim of»

But why do we see the victims of gun violence so much more clearly than the victims of criminal violence more generally?

Probably less than the victims of the Inquisition or the crusades though.

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

The church system that is more worried about its reputation than the victims of abuse.

Homeowners suffering flood damage from Harvey are more likely to be on the hook for losses than victims of prior storms — a potentially crushing blow to personal finances and neighborhoods along the Gulf Coast.

Flint raised the issue again later in an adjournment debate tonight, arguing that singling out rape defendants for anonymity carried the clear inference that rape victims were less reliable, less credible and less trustworthy than victims of other violent crimes, such as domestic violence or child abuse.

«We have waited 72 days, seven times longer than victims of Hurricane Katrina waited,» Christie said, delivering his annual State of the State address before a joint legislative session in Trenton.

«We are living in a society where sometimes we allow our emotions to take control over situations, to the extent that sometimes accused persons get compassion from the public more than the victims of the offence, probably due to our alien legal system.

Remember, it is better to be paranoid than a victim of the circumstances.

Far better to be a net beneficiary of even modest interest and dividend income than a victim of it.

For Fulford - Dobson, a major motivation in pursuing the project was her desire to depict the women of Afghanistan as something other than victims of men, war and religious suppression.

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.

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

We have included reviews of the treatment as well as prevention of «child abuse» on the grounds that treatment of abusive parenting can prevent the development of mental illness concomitant on abuse and could have beneficial effects on children other than the victim of abuse.

Not exact matches

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

Wong asserted the excerpt suggested Thiel «may sympathize more with Trump — who has recently been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by several women — than with his victims.»

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.

The recent Lassa fever death in Guinea — the first in more than two decades, as the Washington Post notes — is worrisome for a number of reasons, but one of those is where the Guinean victim died: next door in Liberia.

Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct.

Given that 75 percent of all victims experience retaliation for reporting, the chances are pretty good that harassment is happening a lot more frequently than we think.

According to a recent survey, more than 40 percent of small businesses report that they have been the victims of a cyber attack — and it has cost them thousands of dollars.

While the prank sounds a little cruel towards the apartment hunters thinking they have found their new dream home, in the commercial, the victims of the hoax seem more than happy to laugh and accept free burgers.

More than 70 percent said their company had been victims of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, where hackers overload a network with requests to make it inaccessible to its intended users and perform data theft.

More than 1 million minors were victims of identity theft or fraud last year, many of them age 7 or younger.

In short, the Senator argued, Equifax has far more to gain from its data breach than it does to lose, with the average victim of a data breach receiving a payout of just $ 2 in restitution, she said.

The Treasury Department reports that more than 10,000 victims have collectively paid in excess of $ 54 million as a result of tax phone scams since October 2013.

More often than not, hacks are more of an inconvenience for the victims than a traumatic life event.

Caspersen's mother, Barbara, and at least two of his brothers were victims, investing more than $ 3 million, the report said.

«We can't get into specifics on the victim side other than to say that the potential is millions of credit cards,» Ward said.

Nothing did more damage to Kalanick's reputation than Uber's response to a reported rape in India; an underling of Kalanick's obtained the victim's medical records in hope of proving she was faking her claim to hurt Uber and help a competing service.

Nearly 3,000 victims have collectively lost more than $ 14 million as a result of telephone scammers asking for personal information.

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.

There are worse problems to have than being a victim of your own success, but Colorado can't afford to ignore its growing pains.

In less than 24 hours, the advocacy group Equality Florida has raised more than $ 2 million for the victims of the Orlando shooting at a gay night club called Pulse that left 50 dead and more than 50 injured over the weekend.

«Those who were victims of cyberbullying were more depressed, they were more irritable and angry, and they were more likely to not feel like themselves than those who were not victims of cyberbullying,» they wrote.

More than 60 % of the attacks took a whole business day to clean up, and more than a third of victims lost revenue as a result of the attacks.

More than 40 % of victims paid up.

Victims included 12 members of Carter's crew and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who financed the excavation and died of blood poisoning less than a year later.

Males were nine times more likely than females to be victims of gunshot injuries, and men ages 20 to 24 were at the highest risk, the study found.

The incident, coming shortly after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister Randi, a Silicon Valley executive, said via social media that she had been a victim of sexual harassment on an Alaska Airlines flight, highlights a risk to airlines: they need to do more than just respond once an incident goes public and their brand comes under fire.

The United States Postal Service is the latest victim in a long list of organizations to have recently experienced a data breach, saying it believes more than 800,000 employees» personal data — including Social Security numbers, names, dates of birth, addresses among other information — may have been compromised, the Washington Post reports.

That said, the actual number of victims and ransomware losses are likely to be higher than the FBI's estimates because the agency counts only what has been reported to it.

In 2016, more than 15 million Americans were victims of identity theft, up 16 percent from the previous year, according to Experian, a global information services group.

In the process of buying a mattress, you'll likely be pitched all kinds of different accessories to get, and if you don't go in with a clear idea of what you want, it's easy to fall victim to those pitches and spend way more money than you thought you would.

More than 236 of the victims were in Sarpol - e Zahab county in Kermanshah province, about 15 km (10 miles) from the Iraq border.

According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 23 transgender or gender - fluid people have been homicide victims in the U.S. so far this year, one more than the coalition tallied in all of 2015.

The program was a victim of the sequester, and more than 100,000 people petitioned to get it back.

Police say they have recovered a list of 3,700 names — regarded as potential victims — but so far had been in touch with fewer than 200 people.

Whether it's donating a portion of profits to support groups helping rape victims, giving free ad space to charity groups, or creating a new catalogue that is focused around stopping date rape, something substantial must be done for Bloomingdale's to come back stronger than before the ad release.