Sentences with phrase «upon the victim for»

Generally, only the closest surviving family members like children or a spouse, or those who depended upon the victim for support can bring a wrongful death action.

Not exact matches

All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you - name - it.

An initial package of $ 7.85 billion for Harvey victims was agreed upon, but with total costs expected to be as high as $ 190 billion — more than the combined costs of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — and with Hurricane Irma yet to make landfall in Florida, the federal aid amount could eventually run even higher.

All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they....

Blacks think we must cling to victim status because it provides the only secure basis upon which to press for attention from the rest of the polity to the problems of our most disadvantaged fellows.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

At the interfaith prayer service held in today for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing (including Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University, where I teach), President Barack Obama was once again called upon to play the pastor - in - chief at a moment of national tragedy.

I don't for a second think that Mr. Huckabee is blameing the victims for bringing the tragedy upon themselves, he is stating the facts.

What sets Americans apart from the Dutch, Thais, and Costa Ricans is a penchant for violence that forces the cruelest brand of bigotry upon victims.

They may object, for instance, to the proposition that God loves the creatures on the ground that it is a strange love which expresses itself by acting as God does, inflicting upon the loved ones numerous sufferings, the well - behaved ones being victims along with the wicked or unkind.

We focus upon personal vices and individual problems, failing to see that the great sweeping social problems of our time also are personal problems for all their victims.

Furthermore, what good does it do for God to pour out His wrath upon the innocent victim, Jesus?

The spirit of the Lord is upon me... to proclaim release for prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind; to let the broken victims go free.

But we can not presume to speak for the victim or, as reality, impose upon his or her world the expressions of our own desire.

The fulcrum of the see - saw moves too much between the perspectives of fundamentally capable, competent individuals who take life as it comes and make lemonade out of lemons, and those forever the victim whose ability to sleep at night is dependent upon their ability to blame others for their permanently disadvantaged situation.

For sheer fatuity, on this score, it would be difficult to surpass Martin Kettle's pompous and platitudinous reflections in the Guardian, appearing two days after the earthquake: certainly, he argues, the arbitrariness of the destruction visited upon so many and such diverse victims must pose an insoluble conundrum for «creationists» everywhere» although he wonders, in concluding, whether his contemporaries are «too cowed» even to ask «if the God can exist that can do such things» (as if a public avowal of unbelief required any great reserves of fortitude in modern BritaiFor sheer fatuity, on this score, it would be difficult to surpass Martin Kettle's pompous and platitudinous reflections in the Guardian, appearing two days after the earthquake: certainly, he argues, the arbitrariness of the destruction visited upon so many and such diverse victims must pose an insoluble conundrum for «creationists» everywhere» although he wonders, in concluding, whether his contemporaries are «too cowed» even to ask «if the God can exist that can do such things» (as if a public avowal of unbelief required any great reserves of fortitude in modern Britaifor «creationists» everywhere» although he wonders, in concluding, whether his contemporaries are «too cowed» even to ask «if the God can exist that can do such things» (as if a public avowal of unbelief required any great reserves of fortitude in modern Britain).

Part of his reply was a verse that essentially blamed the victim of sexual persecution in Uganda for their sin; that their sin brought this misfortune upon them.

Part of his reply was a verse that essentially blamed the victim of se.xual persecution in Uganda for their sin; that their sin brought this misfortune upon them.

The Holy Father's clear guidance is that the Church at large is still called upon «to enter a period of purification and repentance and of prayer for the victims of clerical child abuse».

The statues, which looked upon a visually stunning region of central Afghanistan for about 1,500 years, have been gone for 10 years, victims of the Taliban, who destroyed them as part of its campaign to destroy pre-Islamic artifacts considered an assault on the faith.

A prayer for his enemies, the conversion of a fellow victim, and (in John) concern for his mother — these are the utterances that characterize the Dying One; one may at least say of them that they are worthy of his message and in this sense they are not unfairly placed upon his lips.

He proposed that each build an altar, lay upon it wood for the fire, and on that place the victim, then call upon their respective gods to consume the sacrifice by setting the altar fire ablaze.

Maybe the player pool, diluted by expansion in recent years, has finally broken down into two groups, stars and victims for the stars to thrive upon.

Few minutes after the shooting, the driver of an O.A bus approached the patrol team and informed them that the police escort for his bus upon hearing of the ambush, had proceeded to the scene to help the victims.

Common issues include not building enough evidence upon investigation to sustain a case and then failing to safeguard the evidence that they do collect, not properly interviewing the victim and the suspect, and allowing for personal information, including past sexual experience, of the victim to be considered in court despite its illegality.

Freeport, NY - February 23, 2017 - Nassau County Legislator Steve Rhoads and Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joe Saladino were joined by architects, engineers, homeowners, house - lifters, civic leaders, construction workers, and more to call upon Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Rising to extend the deadline for Sandy - victim applicants to submit changes to the scope of project elevations.

Rhoads and others call upon Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Rising to extend the deadline for Sandy - victim applicants to submit changes to the scope of project elevations.

«Accordingly, Pastoralists being major victims of internecine tribal killings across Northern Nigeria for decades on end, we seize this opportunity to call upon the president to as a matter of duty extend his sense of justice to likewise arrest and punish all those who committed the genocidal killings of the over 1000 our men, women and children last June in Mambila, last November in Numan and Kajuru among others.

They deal with liars and scam artists, as well as innocent victims who depend upon them for daily survival.

They are laid about thickly, with the bird - lime side upward, in the track of a tiger, and as surely as the animal puts his paw upon one of the treacherous leaves, he becomes a victim; for, finding it stuck to his foot, he shakes it, and while scratching and rubbing himself to get free, some of the bird - lime poison gets into his eyes and blinds him.

For what cop Sal Frieland (Clive Owen: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Blood Ties) and his colleague (Colm Feore: Mean Dreams, The Amazing Spider - Man 2) stumble upon is a series of murders that can not be solved in the usual way, by merely looking at the last few minutes of the victim's Mind's Eye recording.

(In Japanese with subtitles) Once upon a Time in Anatolia (Unrated) Fact - based drama about a posse formed to search the grasslands outside the town of Ceskin for the body of a murder victim (Erol Eraslan) buried alive by a couple of inebriated brothers (Burhan Yildiz and Firat Tanis).

Taking it upon themselves to solve the mystery, the hero and like minded high school friends travel into the TV realm rescue the victims and find out who is responsible for the crimes.

Throughout Zombie's slasher yarn, there's inevitably a close - up, as the killer comes crashing down upon his prey, where the victims» eyes drift heavenward and a brief, unspoken plea for mercy passes between them and monster.

A common science - fiction trope (seen, for instance, in the X-Men series) depicts Western - style imperialism being inflicted upon white, Western peoples — i.e., a dystopian allegory of racism and colonialism with little - to - no representation of its real victims.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

Rape victims (usually women) end up on trial themselves for any behavior in their past which might have «invited» this crime upon themselves, while the raper is dismissed as giving into his natural urges; not optimum behavior but certainly not worthy of long prison terms.

For confirmed identity theft victims who live in California, you can get one free report each month for the first 12 months upon requeFor confirmed identity theft victims who live in California, you can get one free report each month for the first 12 months upon requefor the first 12 months upon request.

Taking it upon themselves to solve the mystery, the hero and like minded high school friends travel into the TV realm rescue the victims and find out who is responsible for the crimes.

ProyectosMonclova, Lodos, and Joségarcía, mx galleries called upon the international art community for donations to Topos, an organization founded in the wake of a devastating earthquake in Mexico City 1985 to rescue victims buried in debris.

While the results for people set upon by subsidy - soaked wind power outfits are a tragedy, the real tragedy is that those who are paid handsomely to protect them, not only ignore their plight, but side with the wind industry, protecting it from any attempt by their victims to regulate or control noise emissions from wind turbines.

Without adequate compensation for the harm placed upon them, victims and their families may find that these expenses prohibit needed medical care.

Yet a defendant threatened with punishment for injuring a nonparty victim has no opportunity to defend against the charge, by showing, for example in a case such as this, that the other victim was not entitled to damages because he or she knew that smoking was dangerous or did not rely upon the defendant's statements to the contrary.

Second, Parliament considered it important to take responsibility for enforcement of a non-molestation order away from the victim of domestic violence, thereby removing the pressure that often can be brought to bear upon a domestic violence victim by a perpetrator to persuade her not to take enforcement proceedings.

Upon conviction for domestic assault a judge can impose a non-communication order on the defendant which will prohibit him from having any contact with certain individuals related to the case (often the victim and / or witnesses).

If there is any comfort that can be taken at such a difficult time, it is in the fact that the law does afford injury victims the right and the opportunity to seek fair compensation for the losses inflicted upon them.

In the past, Florida was known among hotel owners, supermarket chains, and national stores (as well as insurance defense counsel and personal injury lawyers) as a great place for injury victims to file lawsuits based upon slip and fall injuries.

This might depend upon the nature of the evidence at trial - if A did not raise the failure of the prosecution to provide corpus delecti (i.e. a dead body) or the misidentification of an alleged victim's body as a defense and instead, for example, argued an alibi defense (e.g. he was in jail at the time of the alleged shooting).

Ontario accident victims are tired of waiting for OTLA litigators to step up and live up to the «fearless champions» mantle they so long ago bestowed upon themselves.

This is a very sad situation because the victims of this abuse are unable to care for themselves and are reliant upon their nurses for care.