Sentences with phrase «threatened by the authority»

If one party feels threatened by the authority, aggression or some other advantage of the other, it's a major barrier to authentic communication.

Resistance is real, as is the fecklessness of many who are entrusted with political power and who are threatened by any authority other than their own.

Who: Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Clarke, Guy Pearce and Gary Oldman What: Set in the Depression - era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.

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They feel like you're trying to make yourself into the big person on the top of the hill, and they're threatened by the possibility they don't have any power or authority.

This did not do away with the factual domination of society by Rome, although it threatened the Roman authorities sufficiently that they crucified Jesus and persecuted his followers.

CNN: My Take: Catholic bishops» election behavior threatens their authority Vincent Miller, Gudorf Chair of Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton., argues that «By putting voters in a «with us or against us» bind, some of America's bishops have risked eroding their own authority.»

Men often feel threatened by the intellectual and authority roles of these women and by their ability as pastors, and therefore are reluctant to initiate or share a close relationship.

Then the German authorities started to harass the people and the first step they took was the persecution of the Jews by which they threatened the Church.

However, as governmental authority rested on the notion of divine right, it was threatened by those who denied the existence of the local god.

The conflict which he led broke out over a foreign baal, supported by royal authority and symbolizing the entire system of alien customs, selfish luxury, and iniquitous commercialism that threatened not alone Yahweh's worship but Yahweh's social justice.

Bloomberg has spent the past week threatening that installing an inspector general would put the public and officers at risk by undermining the police commissioner's authority.

Three persons, Alistair Nelson, Godwin Ako Gunn, and Salifu Maase, aka «Mugabe», were cited for contempt by the Supreme Court for lowering the authority of the bench when they threatened to kill justices of the court during a discussion on political talk show Pampaso, hosted by Mugabe on Accra - based Montie FM.

The resolution was submitted earlier this month by Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, shortly after President Donald Trump threatened to defund municipalities that did not cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

The Bureau notes that the rights of self - expression and media freedom are enshrined in our constitution, and several governmental and not - governmental institutions such as the National Media Commission (NMC), the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and other Civil Society Organizations, recognized by statute or otherwise, have a primary responsibility to regulate the communication sector and avoid inflammatory commentary that has the potential to threaten the peace and stability of the country.

Sean Ryan [email protected] The early draft (PDF) of a plan to break the impasse over a southeastern Wisconsin transit system threatens to multiply the squabbles by setting up separate authorities and forcing them to unite.

Last December, shortly after negotiations for a successor agreement between the parties had begun, Thruway Authority Executive Director Thomas Madison sent an email to CSEA represented workers threatening that layoffs would occur unless the union agreed to management's contract demands for severe concessions by April 3.

The president has also threatened to strip sanctuary jurisdictions of federal funding if they do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities in detaining undocumented immigrants arrested by police.

A South African court has sentenced a rhino poacher to 77 years in jail, the heaviest penalty imposed by authorities desperate to halt a wave of poaching that is threatening the population of the endangered animals.

Each database tracked the presence or absence of organisms either listed as threatened or endangered by state or federal authorities, perilously close to being listed, or species of concern to The Nature Conservancy, which maintains biodiversity databases nationwide.

Many fishermen here feel threatened by a sweeping new set of fishing limits imposed this spring by authorities trying to rebuild fish stocks they say are depleted by overfishing and facing pressures that include climate change.

Quinoa was discovered by Europeans during the Spanish conquest, but its religious significance appeared threatening to colonial authorities, leading to a suppression of the crop.

Alek shows Margaret a video of Darby and Beau having sex together, and threaten to turn it over to the authorities unless Margaret can come up with $ 50,000 by 5 p.m. the next day.

Being struck or threatened by a student can undermine a teacher's authority — especially if the teacher loses control when reacting to the experience — and it can frighten other students.

Any deal that threatens their survival on the high street still further should receive proper scrutiny by the government and competition authorities.»

Now, seven years since the Military Lending Act came into effect, government authorities say the law has gaps that threaten to leave hundreds of thousands of service members across the country vulnerable to potentially predatory loans — from credit pitched by retailers to pay for electronics or furniture, to auto - title loans to payday - style loans.

This means, in effect, that priority is given to dogs in stray kennels and pounds via a Local Authority Officer, dogs threatened with a court destruction order via a Court or Police Officer, dogs referred by Veterinary practitioners having been signed over for euthanasia, dogs referred by Social Services or other Authority on behalf of a client or dogs referred by a GP or NHS facility on behalf of a patient.

For this reason many Modernists of the postwar generation felt that they were the most important bulwark against totalitarianism, the «canary in the coal mine», whose repression by a government or other group with supposed authority represented a warning that individual liberties were being threatened.

I was reporting a huge authority figure for triggering my PTSD regarding authority figures by, among other things, THREATENING TO REMOVE MEDICAL CARE.

It threatens to withdraw the moral authority loaned to liberals by climate science.

The toolset of denialist restriction - by - authority is always the same: rudeness, abuse, anger amounting to rage, personal profiling, selective enforcement of arbitrary rules, legal threats, enemy lists, and outright censorship of threatening ideas — always with a view toward sustaining a «protected bubble» for denialist beliefs.

I hope it's not too techo to point out that Steyn is being sued by Mann, not arrested by legal authorities and threatened with imprisonment.

It is really just thuggery by members of Congress who feel threatened, who don't feel comfortable with transparency, who simply don't like the notion of accountability, and use their authority to harass journalists and documentarians, simply because they can.

But government whose authority depends on an ignorant or apathetic citizenry is threatened by every act of open civil disobedience, no matter how small.

That the bill presents a case for judicial consideration arising under the laws of the United States and treaties made under their authority with the Cherokee Nation, and which laws and treaties have been, and are threatened to be still further, violated by the laws of the State of Georgia referred to in this opinion.

Re T (A Child)[2017] EWCA Civ 1889 (23 November 2017)-- Family Law Act 1996 Pt 4 non-molestation order is available to local authority for child in care against molestation (threatened attempts to contact child) by mother and her cohabitant.

The threatened swinging increases in fees payable by local authorities on the institution of care or supervision proceedings (see NLJ 15 February 2008, p 259) have been brought in despite widespread protest.

The extent of those injuries was not immediately released by authorities, though they were not believed to be life - threatening.

A person who, without lawful authority, manufactures, possesses, sells, delivers, sends, mails, displays, uses, threatens to use, attempts to use, or conspires to use, or who makes readily accessible to others a weapon of mass destruction commits a felony of the first degree, punishable by imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life or as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084, and if death results, commits a capital felony, punishable as provided in s. 775.082.

If his lawyers are to be believed, he was also threatened by American authorities with being gang raped or tortured after being transferred elsewhere.

The warning notice published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Monday threatens disciplinary action against lawyers who recommend non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases.

Microsoft has already been threatened by Data Protection Authorities in the EU in regards to how it collects data on users in Windows 10.

I am being threatened in order to silence you... a message delivered to me back - channel by a supposed «friend» and ally that if I don't act to silence your criticism of Karen Woodall then I will face «complaints to Police and regulatory authorities» about my Posts.

The mediator shall disclose a participant's threat of suicide or violence against any person to the threatened person and the appropriate authorities if the mediator believes such threat is likely to be acted upon as permitted by law.