Sentences with phrase «to engage in violence»

To accept this would be to say that any nation or community which engaged in violence against another would similarly lose its right to exist.

Nowhere in international law or in historical precedent is the idea supported that through engaging in violence a people thereby lose their right to exist as a state.

There are differing arguments as to why youth engage in violence or criminal activities.

From what was, at times, a confused and halting justification for this position your correspondent gleaned three interrelated strands of argument: that the lands of Judea and Samaria are the Jewish people's «homeland;» that while the area is also claimed as a homeland by the Palestinians this merely means the territory is contested and does not detract from the Jewish claim and finally; that the Palestinians lost their right to this land by engaging in violence in 1948 and 1967.

Due to his view of progressive revelation, he frequently mentions that since people of the past did not have the full revelation that we have today, God had no choice but to occasionally accommodate their violent tendencies by engaging in some violence Himself.

As long as there is the possibility in your heart of engaging in violence toward others, non-violence is not recommended.

But because you are nonviolent today, does not necessarily mean that you won't engage in violence tomorrow.

The Jewish people expected a warrior Messiah, and since Jesus resolutely refused to engage in violence toward sinners and the Romans, the Jews rejected Him as the Messiah.

The community that once pointed to their love for enemies and refusal to engage in violence as proof of Christ's lordship now pointed to their ability to violently defeat enemies as proof of Christ's lordship.

This was an undercover operation in which the police took two marginalized people, who had done no more than verbally fantasize about engaging in violence for jihadist purposes, and skillfully manipulated them into participating in an act of terrorism that was planned almost entirely by the police and which could not have been executed without overwhelming assistance from the police.

Not amount of study would lead one to conclude that Islam has a history of, or is presently engaged in violence (don't confuse Arab / Asian leaders with Islam).

I do not believe God engages in violence or commands His people to do so.

To what degree, then, can the disciples of the Suffering Servant engage in violence without abandoning their Jesus model?

«It is also important to note that if IPOB engages in violence and disrupts the election and their activities lead to a declaration of a state of emergency on Anambra state, it is IPOB that will lose its social capital.

Within days, Senator John Cornyn of Texas mused: «I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in violence.»

These men engage in violence that is more frequent, more physical, and more likely to escalate when the partner tries to leave.

An event can be disbanded if it causes violence or unreasonable disruption, but if others engage in violence in response to a demonstration, that does not invalidate your First Amendment rights («The police must permit the speech and control the crowd; there is no heckler's veto», Cox v. Louisiana 379 U.S. 536).

He alleged that the Fulani leaders were committing a conspiracy of silence by allowing the herdsmen to engage in violence against the country.

«He serves as a mentor to young people at risk of engaging in violence, and he is working with community groups to make them aware of the occurrence of violence... [and] to develop approaches to solving some of the problems.

Sensing that this assertion carried little moral weight, Dayan then argued that while Israel was willing to accept partition in 1948, and at that time accepted the Palestinian's moral claim to some of the land, the Palestinians then lost this claim by engaging in violence.

Marx seems to encourage his followers to engage in violence as an instrument of social change, whereas Jesus seems to command his disciples to renounce violence.

What do you think about the statement that sin is not necessarily breaking God's commandments, but about engaging in violence and the things that lead to violence?

It is no accident that in the Gerbner TV - violence profile, lower - class and nonwhite characters are depicted as especially prone to victimization, as more violent than their middle - class counterparts, as paying a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).

This is probably true, especially for a Christian reading the Bible... but there are many direct commands to the Jewish people to engage in violence, and if history is any guide, Christians have often used these commands to justify our own violent behavior toward others.

Christians should realize that whenever they engage in violence in the name of the persecuted Christ, they directly deny Christ.

We engage in violence to cover up the violence we have already committed.

His Kingdom was «not of this world,» and the proof he offered Pilate in support of this claim is that his followers would not engage in violence, as defenders of worldly kingdoms invariably do (Jn.

Maybe because it would insight idiots like you engage in violence against innocent Muslims free to practice thier religion in this country.

Or we could give ourselves permission to engage in the violence of electricity production by saying (in the manner of Reinhold Niebuhr) that the kingdom that Christ's life makes visible is an «impossible possibility» which stands at the edge of history as its judge rather than being the truth about history.

Refugees who have offered assistance — albeit indirect or involuntary — to a group that engages in violence can no longer enter the country.

Wrath is when we engage in violence against others, and do so in God's name.

In other words, boys are more likely to be drinking more likely to be drinking heavily, more likely to be using drugs, more likely to engage in violence, and more likely to be successful in committing suicide.

Children and young adults who perceive a sense of connectedness or community at school and / or home are less likely to engage in risky behaviors (smoking, using drugs, engaging in violence).

She said, the current economic hardship, which has led to high unemployment and school dropout rates, has made a large section of the youth vulnerable to the entrapments of some mischievous politicians, who would like to recruit them to engage in violence in the November 7 general elections.

While partial territorial confiscation as punishment for losing war was normal in pre-modern times there was never a case where an occupying power justified their absorption of the entire territory of a state and displacement of its population on the moral grounds that they lost the right to it by engaging in violence.

«But I think that rather than engage in violence, they should think of how to build on the sacrifices of the generations before them,» he said.

In a 2012 study offering evolutionary perspectives on the behavior, researchers noted: «Far more time is spent in engaging in cooperation, or at least peaceful coexistence, than spent in engaging in violence.»

Linked to this will be increased hostility towards the enemies of that identity — the US and its allies, in other words — and an increased willingness to engage in violence.

Children who often go hungry have a greater risk of developing impulse control problems and engaging in violence, according to new UT Dallas research.

The interesting thing is that there is a level of humanity when he has to engage in the violence that seems to follow him wherever he goes.

Were significantly less likely to engage in violence and heavy drinking over the course of their lives

«We're aware of the perception that Lara's a killer, but when she engages in violence, it's a matter of life or death,» Smith explained.

The application judge, in finding that the appellant had engaged in violence, relied primarily on the testimony of Town Hall employees.

The program, in existence for more than twenty - five years, is designed for youth between the ages of eleven and eighteen who are delinquent, abuse drugs, or engage in violence.