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O'Connor believed in this, and for her, the use of violence in stories like «A Good Man Is Hard to Find» was a way of grace.
Meanwhile, a Lagos - based security analyst and Information Technology expert, Dr. Simon Olorunfemi, has warned against the use of violence in the July 14 governorship election in the state.
Just as there are possible justifications for inequality (and for the use of violence in its defense), so there are also possible justifications for resort to violence against existing structures of power» (PPT 27f.)
If media violence, especially when that violence is in its nature sexual, in fact does threaten the quality of American life, then how do the creative and managerial people in television feel about the use of violence in their productions?
The message is unqualifiedly opposed to the use of violence in order to achieve good, but also a deeply disturbing reminder that violence is made almost inevitable when the legal and political system is unresponsive to the deepest convictions of millions of Americans.
Jesus, while not explicitly condoning the use of violence in self - defense, implicitly suggests the need to be prepared for it when he tells his disciples to buy a sword if they do not have one, «now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
The appeal to and use of violence in Christian action increase in exact proportion to the decrease in faith.
Not exact matches
They learn about using the media to look like the victims of state violence, and about police tactics such as the use of «pain compliance» — holds that cause pain without causing injury that could result in an assault charge.
«We voted on the first of October and now we have to defend our vote and defend our republic in the polling stations and this time they aren't going to use violence against us,» says Eduard Morell, an activist for the ERC in Terrassa.
Police used water hoses in below - freezing temperatures to keep about 400 protesters at bay, a move criticized by activist groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and elected officials concerned about freedom of expression and the escalation of violence.
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 herIn 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 herin 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 herin Brazil last year was forcing executives to rethink the use of cash payments and admit they had underestimated security risks here.
«Regardless of the individual or organization in question, we work to ensure that our services are not used to accept payments or donations for activities that promote hate, violence or racial intolerance,» PayPal said in a statement.
Adding further detail to the situation discussed in Vaughn's lawsuit, Tesla referred to a number of «conflicting accusations and counter-accusations between several African - American and Hispanic individuals, alleging use of racial language, including the «n - word» and «w - word,» as well as the threat of violence towards one another.»
I would not use gratuitous sex and violence — as in Game of Thrones — but make sure the violence, for example, was appropriate to the story, its historical setting, and to my characters.
And then he watched in awe and horror as students began posting intimate and often offensive remarks about their peers — including sexual histories, accusations of drug use, and threats of violence.
Hun Sen has warned potential protesters against burning effigies of him in Sydney, saying: «I will follow you all the way to your doorstep and beat you right there... I can use violence against you.»
Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»
«Just as you can't throw more touchdowns during the fourth quarter than the total number of times you have thrown a touchdown, you can not use a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence more than the total number of times you have used a firearm.»
For many centuries after Constantine I, the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 A.D., backed Christianity as a common religion for the Roman Empire in the 4th century, Christians used violence and the threat of death to expand and maintain their control of populaces.
They both feel justified in using power to control the lives of others, whether it be through political or physical violence.
This social transformation represents a remarkable, unparalleled experience; in barely the span of a generation, and with comparatively little violence, a despised and largely disenfranchised minority descendant from chattel slaves used the courts, the legislature, the press, and the rights of petition and assembly of the republic to force a redefinition of their citizenship.
They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.
If the US went insane like this anytime Christianity, Catholicism or any of the major US religions was insulted, our country would never get anything accomplished and still be in the dark ages... so maybe these nations that apparently haven't evolved to the point of being able to tolerate an insult like the rest of us have had to should take a lesson and use their energy to better their own country instead of using any insult as an excuse to violence... grow up already and get over yourselves, everyone else has had to.
So, what guiding principle would you use to determine the acceptable level of violence in pursuing the destruction of ISIS?
The violence - prone masculine psyche drives us to racism, colonialism, imperialism and other types of oppression which are in fact extensions of the male - female pattern that lets us project the dark side of ourselves onto the other and so allows us to use / abuse other human beings for our own selfish ends.
WHEREAS, conditions in various parts of the Muslim World have deteriorated dangerously due to the use of violence and armed struggle as a tool for settling conflicts and imposing one's point of view;
In order to reduce individual violence as well as drug use, we have created a prison population of two million.
You've heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers sowing gender confusion with the hearty support of administrators; violence and widespread drug use in the tony prep schools that train tomorrow's elites; depression, eating disorders,....
I'll advocate to reduce the glorification of gun violence in video games and movies if criminals or the mentally ill are using those images to validate violence.
Instead, Shaull offers an admirable formula: «There can be situations in which the use of violence alone can set the process of transformation in motion.
As Karl Kautsky said, in criticism of Eduard Bernstein: «Why, in a world of violence, should only the proletariat not have the right to use violence?»
``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»
The man who, in whatever way, uses violence should realize that he is entering into a reciprocal kind of relation capable of being renewed indefinitely.
Once you choose the way of violence, it is impossible to say, «So far and no further»; for you provoke the victim of your violence to use violence in turn, and that necessarily means using greater violence.
All this amounts to an acknowledgment of violence as necessity And indeed violence is not only the means the poor use to claim their rights; it is also the sole means available to those in places of power.
I am aware that the reader will answer at once: «You have shown that violence is inevitable and necessary in undertakings of any kind; therefore violence is legitimate, it must be used.»
When we use political or revolutionary means, when we declare that violence will change the social system we are thus fighting in defense of the disinherited, our violence demolishes the spiritual power of prayer and bars the intervention of the Holy Spirit.
Faith in the Resurrection — which is the supreme, spiritual violence because it is victory over the necessity of death — excludes the use of every other violence.
That is why the Christian, even when he permits himself to use violence in what he considers the best of causes, can not either feel or say that he is justified: he can only confess that he is a sinner, submit to God's judgment, and hope for God's grace and forgiveness.
In my judgement he hits a new low by stating: «The twenty - first century was born in violence, with the «terrorist» air attack on New York on 11 September 2001...» In English one uses inverted commas when quoting someone or when conveying the sense of «so - called»In my judgement he hits a new low by stating: «The twenty - first century was born in violence, with the «terrorist» air attack on New York on 11 September 2001...» In English one uses inverted commas when quoting someone or when conveying the sense of «so - called»in violence, with the «terrorist» air attack on New York on 11 September 2001...» In English one uses inverted commas when quoting someone or when conveying the sense of «so - called»In English one uses inverted commas when quoting someone or when conveying the sense of «so - called».
If the Christian, because of his solidarity with the poor and the oppressed, joins their movement of redress, stands with them in their revolt, he may never use violence himself nor even unreservedly condone their violence.
So unstinting has been the effort to portray as virtuous the ending of the lives of the weak that it brings to mind Pope Benedict's words to the College of Cardinals in 2012: «We see how evil wants to dominate the world,» he said, and how it uses cruelty and violence, but also how it «masks itself with good and, precisely in this way, destroys the moral foundations of society.»
The revolutionaries who claim for themselves the right to use violence but deny it to the state, who demand that the state act correctly, in the light of love, justice, and the common weal, are guilty of hypocrisy (such as Mr. Debray exhibited during his trial).
Moreover, violence is always used in the conviction that it is the only means adequate for attaining a noble end — social justice, the nation's welfare, elimination of criminals (for the political or social enemy is always considered a criminal), radical change of the economic structures.
Just a bit farther north in Africa, in the Sahel region just south of the Sahara Desert, water is so scarce that discussions about how to use it often lead to political conflicts and, sometimes, violence.
Be that as it may, his being a revolutionary (and, as I have said, I believe that Christianity is profoundly revolutionary), his participation in the suffering of men, may lead a Christian to use violence.
Across most of the region — in Sudan, Somalia, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria's Niger Delta area, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia — the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization in 2006 identified tension or outright violence over the use of water - rich land or water itself.