Sentences with phrase «than silence on»

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A Pew Research and Rutgers University study concluded that the spiral - of - silence effect is actually far worse on Facebook and Twitter than in face - to - face public forums.

But if the extremely wealthy, under a veil secrecy, can destroy publications they want to silence, that's a far bigger threat to freedom of the press than most of the things we commonly worry about on that front.

So, where is the Church's voice on mental health — other than simplistic Sunday School answers, guilt or silence?

While I acknowledge your point that expressing such ire can sometimes make engagement more daunting for the accused, in cases such as this one the support it lends the silenced more often than not outweighs the additional burden it places on those doing the silencing.

My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety.

Having being on the receiving end of the «man - hater» comment more times than I can count, seeing it listed as number one — in the form of «I like white males so much I married one» — rubbed me the wrong way.Being called a man - hater is often unfairly used as a way to silence women and dismiss their arguments outright, which is troubling, especially when it happens in the midst of a theological discussion.

Arnott said that the manifesto, which was launched less than an hour before the national silence to remember the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing, states that the public would be able to call a referendum on different issues.

It might be a bit of a stretch to say that during those periods of silence nobody was seeking him, but it might be true about God speaking more on an individual basis than a nation wide level.

There was an uncomfortable silence as she continued, «I wonder if more people aren't motivated by power rightly used and influence for the good than we've let on, only it's been socialized out of us?»

The so - called «militant atheist» is an insufferable trend — maybe not paramilitary, but certainly far more vociferous than their predecessors who tended to ponder their godlessness in silence (or on paper).

In seminaries as in churches, breaking the silence has a powerful impact on the community itself: student organizations sponsor films and speakers on the topic; campus incidents are addressed rather than denied; field - education placements in shelters are developed, or a session on sexual harassment is provided for field - education supervisors; resources on these issues are added to the library, and continuing - education programs are developed.

So I am calling out on this: the «church» is not simply part of the problem with domestic and family violence, it is far more complicit than that — it is showing its hand as being an active abuser; both encouraging abusers and silencing victims / survivors.

This speaking of God may ultimately only point to the question which is man himself and thus hint at God's mystery in silence, the result may be less adequate than any statement on another subject, the answer, aimed at God's bright «heaven», may ever again fall back into the dark sphere of man or may consist in inexorably upholding the question that transcends any definition, formula or phenomenon.

(And yet Hans Urs von Balthasar, who in many respects appears more cautious in his theology than either Rahner or Schillebeeckx, has endorsed, through his reflections on Trinitarian theology, the notion of a suffering and dying God much more strongly than most other Catholic theologians: «the death, and the dying away into silence, of the Logos so become the centre of what he has to say of himself that we have to understand precisely his non-speaking as his final revelation, his utmost word: and this because in the humility of his obedient self - lowering to the death of the Cross he is identical with the exalted Lord.»

The continuing secular popularity of Pope Francis, thought Sandro Magister, had a good reason, which «explains better than any other the benevolence of worldwide secular public opinion toward Francis... [and that is] his silence in the political camp, especially on the minefield that sees the greatest opposition between the Catholic Church and the dominant culture.

In 2015, the Congressional - Executive Commission on China (CECC) documented a that the Chinese government continues to «silence dissent, suppress human rights advocacy, and control civil society,» resulting in oppression that's «broader in scope than any other period documented since the Commission started issuing Annual Reports in 2002.»

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

It wasn't easy and I took on way more than I could handle (hence the radio silence in this space).

What better way to start than the second - leg against Monaco — with a 3 - 1 defeat suffered in the first - leg — this would be the perfect moment for Ozil to silence his critics, and spur Arsenal on to an epic Champions League comeback.

Arsenal tell a different story they win more games than Liverpool and than they put the icing on the cake by wining the FA cup and beating Chelsea truly well sending all the doubters with their banners to the silence corner Well done Arsenal

Greedy Stan Kronke is only concerned with making money, and if Usmanov sells up then we are in it deep cos Wenger will continue to steal a living from the club as will that clown Walcott.We are also rans, there is no real desire to spend a penny more than necessary and every year Wenger fiddles around at the edges of the team but never really completes the job, I'm sick of watching the same game over and over, Wenger waving his arms about but doing the like for like subs on about 70 mins as usual while Bouldy sticks to his vow of silence, we are a joke among the top teams, and if Wenger signs a new deal then I may have to take a 2 year sabbatical cos I'm sick of the man and his bu # * ~ $ t press conferences,

But surely the collective silence of Labour sites (other than Next Left) on the ACPOs issue, put in the context of the eralier virtual collective silence on the G20 protests policing issues, is striking.

Lord Heseltine is a frightful old humbug who divided the Conservative party more than anybody else in our modern history and a period of silence on his part would be welcome.»

It's unclear why Tony Blair is better placed to advise the country on its profound human rights issues than the skilled global NGOs and international organisations who have, year after year, offered Kazakhstan advice on how, for instance, it can hold free elections, not murder striking workers and not silence bloggers or the country's few remaining independent journalists.

«We chose early on to hold a fun party rather than a protest, now Camden Council is seeking to silence and marginalise us without any legitimate reason.

«Rather than speaking up and speaking out against discrimination in all its forms, after years of silence on same sex marriages, Donovan has chosen to oppose equal rights for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.

«The chairman of the committee on Science Space and Technology is making what to us is a pretty ludicrous assertion, that rather than trying to protect the rights of citizens to ensure that business fraud, and could be very significant business fraud we could talk about inflating up assets by many billions of dollars, their claim is that this is a politically charged effort to silence descending views on climate,» Schneiderman said on a recent visit to Syracuse.

Using the new data, Laura Carrel, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey, and Huntington Willard, a geneticist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, discovered that 15 percent of the genes on the inactivated X chromosome are actually not silenced — and most are likely to be expressed at higher levels overall in women than men.

After underlining to Stati the importance of prudence when dealing with earthquakes, and in particular that one should never state that there won't be further tremors, Bertolaso then went on to tell her what the experts were to say: «It is a normal situation, these phenomena [the tremors] happen, it's better that there are 100 magnitude - 4 tremors rather than silence because 100 tremors release energy and there won't ever be the damaging tremor.»

Both mice and humans with a silenced FMR1 gene have malformed neurons: Spines on their dendrites are longer, thinner, and more numerous than normal, and they also transmit weaker electric signals.

This weird chorus went on for more than five minutes continuously before silence returned and the ground ceased to tremble.»

The decision, which broke the committee's more than 40 years of silence on coffee, was driven by heightened interest in the caffeinated beverage as well as a growing anxiety about potential health risks associated with it, according to Nelson.

Acne Studios leather jacket, Silence + Noise t - shirt dress, Zara mules, Céline sunglasses Hate to make this post a lot shorter than I normally would but I'm currently running on low levels of energy (surprise, surprise, always before I'm about to travel) and I'm not sure if these sentences I'm forming are actually coherent.

As much as I love event planning, this one is always more stress than I anticipate each year — and more work than I can accomplish in a normal 40 - hour week, thus the radio silence here on the blog.

He speaks enthusiastically about the movie and keeps up the chatter without any significant silence breaks while giving us plenty of anecdotes and technical explanations rather than just pointlessly describing what's happening on the screen.

What strikes you most about A Thousand Words — more than the terrible jokes, the downright boring plot and dull pace — is that someone thought it was a good idea to take a man whose entire comic persona is that of a fast talker — indeed, at one point the most engaging comedian on the planet — and silence him.

Outside of its gestures toward genre heritage, Saulnier's story says less than it seems set on, despite its silences.

Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing is a more eye - catching and artistically adventurous than his follow - up, The Look of Silence, but steep yourself in the latter's rhythm and atmosphere for its entirety and you'll discover a movie that will haunt you, sit on your shoulders and whisper in your ear for a long, long time.

Best - case scenario: Depp silences the tedious carping about his recent work with a reminder of his eclecticism and charisma, while Cooper delivers on the promise of Crazy Heart and Out Of The Furnace with a movie that has a bit more swagger and style than those two well - acted but unremarkable dramas.

One part intimate old school Western recalling William Wyler's The Big Country, another reveling in the Italian Spaghetti theatrics directors like Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and Sergio Corbucci (The Big Silence) practically invented, the movie's most obvious comparison might actually be the works of playwright Tennessee Williams, the scenario at hand owing more to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof than it does Once Upon a Time in the West or Shane.

Many will point to Anthony Hopkins» Best Actor win for The Silence of the Lambs in the 1992 ceremony despite being on screen for less than 20 minutes of the two hour film.

Making matters worse is the fact that the book's atmosphere of tension and repression just turns to dead space and silence interrupted occasionally by Jon Ekstrand's blaring, overdone music on the big screen, with Hardy never giving the lead role much more than what's depressingly becoming the actor's usual: another handsome brooder who's quick with his fists and curt with his words.

He has come to trust his material on an instinctual level; «Silence» feels less like a feat of adaptation than an act of artistic submission.

A thousand times I was on the point of breaking out publicly and opening your eyes, but a fear stronger than myself held me back, and forced me to keep silence until my death.

Since I have BlackBerry Protect set up on my phone and rather than getting frustrated, I just log in to the BlackBerry Protect website, click that Loud Ring button, and moments later, my BlackBerry is making a horrid screeching noise, helping me to quickly find (and silence) the device.

While there are more volumes I'd put on must - buy lists than books I wouldn't, exceptionally notables for me include Fantagraphic «s Wandering Son (Vol.03), SuBLime «s Awkward Silence and Seven Seas «Jack the Ripper: Hell Blade (Vol.01).

Not at all, but Sony's silence around the series after ten years of almost annual releases between 2002 and 2013 is concerning, especially with its stablemates Jak and Daxter and Sly Cooper on ice and Insomniac now taking longer between releases than in years past.

I can't tell if the silence on their part is fear based on the criticism of their original plans, or if it's silence until they can do a big splashy announcement, but my gut is that it's the former rather than them having some big way to sell us on it as anything other them dipping - into the other console's cash flow they feel they've been missing out on.

I think the team worked on this in silence in order to actually release something to the public, rather than Nintendo squashing the project before it had a chance to be released.

But more than that, Settings comes with the option of toggling Rumble on and off and even the voices for both the player's character and opposing bosses can be turned off, allowing you to silence the grunts and groans of the characters voice actors and instead give yourself over to listening to the original soundtrack composed by Raito and even then that's not everything!