Sentences with phrase «use of force against»

The failure by the UN Security Council to explicitly sanction the Russian use of force against Georgia defeats any possible justifications for such use of force.

It works as a bar to criminal charges of murder, manslaughter, assault and other charges arising from your use of force against an intruder.

While the law concerning the use of deadly force against police officials in self - defense is relatively developed, the law regarding the third party use of force against police officials is slim...

Section 35 -41-3-2 of the Indiana Penal Code provides the clearest and, simultaneously the most controversial legal pronouncement regarding the use of force against public servants in defense of others.

National Security Law Use of Force against Syria: The law is an ass so what to do about Pandora's Box?

Establish independent investigations into arbitrary arrests and the excessive use of force against protestors and human rights defenders.

The findings, published Sept. 16 in the American Journal of Sociology, show that two fatal shootings of police officers by black suspects in New York City increased the use of police force against blacks substantially in the days after the shootings, while the use of force against whites and Hispanics remained unchanged.

The settlement, papers for which were filed July 1, include installing cameras, reducing use of force against inmates, and an agreement to stop jailing offenders under the age of 18 at the facility.

The NYPD will also track use of force against officers.

«While we did not specifically investigate the use of force against the adult inmate population, our investigation suggests that the systemic deficiencies identified in this report may exist in equal measure at the other jails on Rikers,» prosecutors wrote in the report.

This agreement, approved today by the Westchester County Board of Acquisition and Contract, implements a resolution of the Government's findings regarding the Jail's use of force against inmates, its use of isolation as a method of discipline for minors incarcerated at the jail, and its provision of inadequate medical and mental health care to inmates.

All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

The deadly use of force against people of color has been a near - weekly occurrence in America, sparking a decade of protest, city - by - city.

While at first he urged the authorities to be moderate, he later came out against the more radical features of the extreme reformers and urged the use of force against what he called the «murderous and thieving hordes of peasants.»

And Roach's references to the Middle East carry the message that he assumed that the use of force against Saddam Hussein's military would produce a regional conflagration.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Of course there were others at the same time making similar claims, just as President Carter made them a decade later in the context of another debate over the justness of the United States» use of force against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

The use of force against those who did not share the Christian faith, be they pagan, Muslim or Jewish, was taken for granted by almost all Christians at the time.

Governmental use of force against religious groups was up also: 42 percent of countries used force against a religious group between 1 and 200 times in 2015, up from 30 percent in 2014.

Main Anthony Arend interviewed on the use of force against the Islamic State»

After four years using VieVu's body cams, the OPD reports a significant reduction in use of force against civilians.

Not exact matches

Therefore the salesperson must be a passive yet firm presence against the force used by the difficult customer, reminding himself that the customer feels out of control and is trying to gain control.

There's no good that could come out of police using force against indigenous peoples and others who are protesting,» said DeCarlo, who is also a former police chief.

In February, Reuters reported that a surge in violence against Uber drivers in Brazil last year was forcing executives to rethink the use of cash payments and admit they had underestimated security risks here.

And as a nice side - effect, it provides protection against Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS), the most common brute force method that bad guys use to take a website down, by simply routing web traffic around the stoppage.

The city is weighed down with debt, billions in unfunded pension obligations, declining credit ratings, a police department often accused of using excessive force against African - Americans, a rising tide of murders, and a host of other troubles.

«The grand jury's decision does not negate the fact that Michael Brown's tragic death is part of an alarming national trend of officers using excessive force against people of color, often during routine encounters.

In these pages, papal biographer and theologian George Weigel rejects the notion that any thinking about just war ought to begin with a «presumption against the use of force,» as it seems Pope Francis has done.

Perhaps more disturbingly, it found a pattern of police using excessive force against people with mental illnesses, with little or no follow - up investigation in such instances.

When the winds of doctrine try to blow our beliefs to the ground, we turn our open hand into them, using their ideas to force our beliefs more firmly against the hand.

The «presumption against war» is sometimes expressed as a presumption against violence, with violence defined as any use of lethal force.

The Wahhabi movement in Arabia was a reaction against the worship of saints, but it made use of force rather than arguments, and failed to establish a general reform.

In 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland Japan.

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

The idea that Catholic just war teaching begins with a «presumption against war,» more recently phrased as «a strong presumption against the use of force,» first appears in the United States bishops» widely read 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace.

Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.

These are pseudo-virtues, which you try to shame us into accepting, by directing a polemic against the Church, whose moral force is due simply to its use of certain radical chic cliches that we were all taught to grovel before back in the 1960s.

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

The Hebrew Scriptures take for granted the use of force in implementing earthly rule and defending the nation against external threats.

A law against blasphemy is the absolute best indicator that you can not substantiate your beliefs with good reasoning and instead must rely on a cowardly and primitive use of force.

Sorry Terry, but no where in any of the accounts of Jesus clearing the temple in the Gospels does it show Jesus using «violent» force, and it only shows him using physical force against non-human objects.

Whatever it is called, it is the unlimited right to the private use of lethal force against innocent human beings.

But there is no record that they ever resorted to force of arms to settle their disputes or that they ever used weapons to defend themselves against external enemies.

The purpose of our Armed Forces is not about building churches and stomping around according to their manipulative and subversive machinations behind the scenes using simple mind - control techniques against our own military's usage of mind - control in training.

The section on just war theory closed with a warm affirmation of the value of a pacifist witness within the Catholic Church, claiming that it shares with just war theory «a common presumption against the use of force as a means of settling disputes.»

The helmet of salvation is God's helmet which he has given to us, for our use, as His soldiers in this war against spiritual forces.

These are of course broad theoretical visions not to be used, as Bellah reminds us, «as a procrustean bed into which the facts of history are to be forced but a theoretical construction against which historical facts may be illuminated.»

By 1941, he was half - apologizing to American audiences for his use of German: «It is in this language that we have, throughout our lives, fought against the self - glorification of nationalism and... the force of nationalist criminality that is laying waste to our world.»

Whether bombing is or is not the solution, I'm not getting into as ex Air Force I am not against the use of minimum force in order to have pForce I am not against the use of minimum force in order to have pforce in order to have peace.

It seems that whatever tack you are taking, if part of the argument is that Jesus defines God's character with respect to using force against some, you have to consider the things he said in places like Matthew 24 are part of who Jesus is.