Sentences with phrase «use of physical force against»

Child physical abuse has been defined by the World Health Organization as the intentional use of physical force against a child that results or has a high likelihood of resulting in harm for the child's health, survival, development or dignity.2 Legal definitions of physical abuse typically require physical harm to have occurred; governmental definitions of abuse and neglect are not uniform.

A federal statute defines «crime of violence» as «(a) an offense that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or «(b) any other offense that is a felony and that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.»

The act defines a violent felony as: «any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year... that — «(i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another; or (ii) is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.»

Not exact matches

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.

I want to emphatically reject the idea that because of Eric Garner's prior arrests, that it somehow allows the use of excessive force — of deadly physical force by the police against any unarmed person.»

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another Domestic Violence Prevention Centre is a non-government community based organisation that provides specialist domestic violence support services to the

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another

Especially later in the game, Child of Light has frequent encounters with enemies that are highly resistant to either physical or magical attacks, thus forcing you to use the appropriate attacks against them.

States like California define robbery / burglary as the stealing of a property or money by the means of using physical force or fear against their victim.

(2) Deadly physical force may be used only if a person reasonably believes a lesser degree of force is inadequate and: (a) The actor has reasonable ground to believe, and does believe, that he or another person is in imminent danger of being killed or of receiving great bodily injury; or (b) The other person is using or reasonably appears about to use physical force against an occupant of a dwelling or business establishment while committing or attempting to commit burglary as defined in sections 18-4-202 to 18-4-204; or (c) The other person is committing or reasonably appears about to commit kidnapping as defined in section 18-3-301 or 18-3-302, robbery as defined in section 18-4-301 or 18-4-302, sexual assault as set forth in section 18-3-402, or in section 18-3-403 as it existed prior to July 1, 2000, or assault as defined in sections 18-3-202 and 18-3-203.

In other cases, the unjustified use of physical restraint or force against nursing home residents has resulted in convictions for nursing home abuse.

The observed cross-loadings of individual items as well as items that belonged to other domains than in the conceptual model may reflect that female victims often are not exposed to one form of violence in isolation of the other.32 For example, the sexual violence item «Forced me to have sex against my will by using his / her physical strength (by hitting, holding me firmly or threatening me with a weapon),» which loaded in both the physical and sexual IPV components, is hard to divide into one or the other category.

The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation.