Sentences with phrase «threats of abduction»

Child abductions are more common when the abductor has family in another area (or country), if nothing is keeping the abductor in your community (such as a job or home), or when the abductor has made threats of abduction.

Not exact matches

This means that we calculate the commonness of something by how quickly we can recall an example, which is what makes plane crashes and child abductions seem like much bigger threats than they realistically are.

The violence has spilled over into Ukraine, where leaders of the Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine said that pro-Russian Orthodox militants had subjected their members to «abduction, beating, torture, murder threats, and damage to houses of worship, seizure of religious buildings, and damage to health and private property of the clergy,» the Free Beacon reported.

The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

Alfred Sacchetti, an emergency room doctor in Camden, New Jersey, and spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, says it's common for parents to worry more about their child being abducted by a stranger than about his riding in a car without a seat belt or playing near an ungated swimming pool — even though car - and water - related accidents pose a far greater threat to kids than abduction.

The government responded to this threat of parental abduction by instituting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Actabduction by instituting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention ActAbduction Prevention Act (UCAPA).

Parents worry endlessly about how to protect their children from stranger abduction and violence, but many overlook one of the biggest threats to their children's safety and well - being — their own home.

The events of 9/11, terrorist abductions of journalists, and the threat of chemical weapons are all brought to mind.

If you see concrete warning signs of abduction — plane tickets, packed luggage, recent passports, serious threats of kidnapping — you should also act immediately by alerting local authorities.

The government responded to this threat of parental abduction by instituting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Actabduction by instituting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention ActAbduction Prevention Act (UCAPA).