Sentences with phrase «than the victim»

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.

In many cases, injuries to the neck, back and spinal cord are caused by someone other than the victim.

Insurance companies usually attempt to settle for less than the victim should receive.

However, these insurance outfits also know victims represented by a law firm receive over 40 % more on average for claims involving bodily injury than victims who represent themselves.

An injury may cost much more in the long - term than the victim originally realized.

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

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

How can they know more about the truth than the victims?

Let your child know that it's not his or her fault, and that bullying says more about the bully than the victim.

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.

The insurance company is better able than the victim to bear the costs of the serious injuries that a boating accident can cause.

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

They will then «force» the victim into a settlement that may be far less than the victim will need to cover ongoing expenses.

From that moment on and not a second sooner you become the creator of circumstance rather than a victim of it.

The other method involves the perpetrators sending the victim a check «by mistake» for more than the victim earned.

Criminals having more rights than victims?

Kenneth Clarke has abandoned these Conservative pledges and instead adopted the Liberal - left wing orthodoxies that society will be better served by letting more criminals walk the streets and that the offender is more important than the victim of crime.

With that, and the courage to accelerate towards them as opportunities, rather than slowing down to mount a defense, you too can be a winner, rather than a victim in today's uncertain but unlimited market.

When he compared the victims with the control group, however, he found that many more factors differentiated the two groups than their victim status.

Even if a sexual harasser were physically weaker than the victim, it's still very horrifying and disturbing for a victim to be touched or kissed unwillingly.

Strictly from the standpoint of «deserving,» murderers deserve no better fate than their victims, and this assertion applies not simply to the relatively small number actually sentenced to death but to a substantial percentage of the far larger number who receive lesser sentences.

It is easy to blame the opponents who hack him down, but as I said after the Man United game, Jack does his utmost to to wind up his opponents and has been known to do his fair share of crunching and mis - timed tackles himself, mostly ending up with Jack being more in pain than his victims!

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.

Past - year nonvictims also believed the training was more effective than victims, the study showed.

In this movie Eckhart is more Sam Jackson than he is Bonnie Bedelia as he's more of a partner than a victim.

The result of a deadly cocktail of predatory banks, hopeful middle - class people hoping to achieve the American dream, and a government more interested in bailing out the culprits of the crash than the victims, for many people this period changed what it means to succeed and survive in America.

ï ¿ 1/2 If feasible, it may also help to let the bully cat outdoors in a safe manner to help them burn off their excess energies on alternative things, other than the victim cat.

This, then, dramatically cuts down on the chances of your pooch deciding to sink his teeth into someone's hand just because he thinks he's closer to pack leader than the victim.

Coming from an objective viewpoint, he or she may have greater clarity than a victim who is angry, bitter and frustrated because of the legal maneuvers and tactics used by the other side.

If someone other than the victim negligently, recklessly, or intentionally acted or failed to act in a way that caused the victim's death some of the victim's surviving close relatives may have a claim for wrongful death.

And even when they do offer settlements, truck companies» insurers often offer settlements that are much lower than victims» actually deserve.

Unfortunately, the self - interests of individual victims, and the business interests of business victims, is much more powerful than these victims» interests in helping future victims by refusing to pay a ransom.

As Lady Hale pointed out «It would be extraordinary if the victim of a fraudulent misrepresentation, which had led her to compromise her claim to financial remedies in a matrimonial case, were in a worse position than the victim of a fraudulent misrepresentation in an ordinary contract case, including a contract to settle a civil claim.»

Often, claims of extortion are more complex and less straightforward than the victim tells the police.

Importantly, participants punished familiar bullies less severely than unfamiliar bullies when the familiar bully was better liked than the victim.

(4) Over the past two decades, supervised visitation centers have been established by abuser lobbies and parental alienation proponents, psych and interdisplinary trade promotion groups, and money - grubbing mental health professionals who can't make a go of practice without glomming captive divorce court litigants — and who for some goddamn reason are always more clever than victim advocate groups.

Its version of French Revolution Paris was beautiful, but it was plagued with more problems than the victims of its catacombs.

As usual, the perps have more rights than the victims.

... The risk of false accusation's appears [to be] more important than victims having access to justice.»