Sentences with phrase «use of violence which»

It means the unsanctioned and illegal use of violence which caused destruction of property, injury or death by an individual or group for the express or implied purpose of achieving a political, ethnic, or religious goal or result.

Carol's methods involve no use of violence which is very important to us.

Not exact matches

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.»

Gorsuch disagreed, saying prosecutors must look to the statute's verbs for their accurate meaning, which he argued only supported one count of using a firearm during a crime of violence.

Alternatively, a more subtle form of violence is «political violence,» which would be the creation and use of laws to marginalize others.

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.

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.

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.

All of them are subject to the same necessity: to tyrannize over and use others; that is, they are subject to the order of violence, which is a necessity.

The important thing is to make him see that he has to draw the consequences of his faith; and perhaps he will verify the fact that it is impossible to be a Christian and at the same time to conduct a successful politics, which necessarily requires the use of some kind of violence.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

And he did say that the use of violence to impose religion is to act against reason, and to act against reason is to act against the nature of God, for God has revealed himself as logos — the word and the reason by which all came to be and in which all coheres.

I know my view is a tough sell, but only because we are so used to the traditional view which became commonplace after Emperor Constantine started using violence to advance the cause of Christ.

We can use these stories as evidence for our need for God: a bigger picture way of thinking about them, which allows us not to get too hung up on the swearing and violence they might contain.

It is a different word, which primarily connotes not larceny but violence, and was appropriately used of a highway robber or a gangster.

Since the implementation of the anti-LGBT law in Russia, violence against LGBT people appears to have increased and includes incidents in which neo-Nazis use social media websites to lure young gay men to torture and beatings.

And therein lies the great tragedy of his premature death, for with the violence of his passions, Camus may have eventually used them up had he lived longer, and at last found some interior space in which to seek God and to listen to him.

By contrast, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) which represents approximately 22.5 per cent of all South Africans, and the Roman Catholic Church, which claims 9.5 per cent of the population, have recently endorsed the use of violence as a «necessary evil» to «free» black South Africans.

In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reauthorized the private use of lethal violence against life in the womb, the Supreme Court admitted that its original abortion ruling might have been wrong, but upheld it anyway.

Do you think that there are times in our lives in which it is right to use violence in the defense of others?

I think everyone knows that there are other verses in the Koran which contradict the use of violence.

The idea of someone doing something generous for us which undoes our complicity in lies and violence while itself being a completely nonviolent act takes a lot of getting used to.

In one chapter of his book, Engaging the Powers (which is a book every Christian should read), Walter Wink lays out the history of nonviolent resistance and shows how when it is properly used, nonviolent resistance is more successful than war at stopping evil and violence.

So by causing violence to be ascribed to God, and by using violent religion to «cast out Satan,» Satan had developed the perfect cycle of violence from which there seemed to be no escape.

What do you think of this idea of Satan using religion to cast out Satan, which in reality, is nothing more than Satan using violence in the name of God to solidify his own power in this world?

In that regard we have been very successful and are seeing increasing success in preventing State encroachment into the doors of the churches or using that power and threat of violence (which is inherent in all State actions) from mandating you act according to their religious beliefs.

More than that, the stories seem alien because we'd rather not face the history of violence which underpins our use of electricity.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

The real question posed by the conflictual nature of human existence is, What is the norm by which we judge our use of violence?

These scientific socialists, then, were devoid of an explicit human - affirming norm which could guide and criticize their use of violence.

So in the gospel a new kind of tension is stressed, in which it is the entire complex of sacrificial violence — both the «good» peace it brings and the bad violence it uses — that becomes the bad thing.

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Ty Cobb was a former baseball hall of Famer, although he began to gain a reputation for violence and racism, which may have deterred some from using the name.

He said: «But because most of us will not be allowed into Europe, I think as ordinary citizens, we will have to make some very hard choices, whether we want to use violence to get somebody into power; of which we won't get any of the trickledown effects, destroy our country and become refugees somewhere else.

What's more, fascism regards violence as a moral imperative; which is distinct from other ideologies which accept the use of violence as a means to an end, but do not promote violence in itself as morally good.

Perkins holds the Harlem seat that used to belong to Gov. David Paterson, which is why his call for the governor not to seek re-election and step down if, in fact, allegations that he had meddled in David Johnson's domestic violence case were true, were all the more potent — and hurtful, in the eyes of Paterson's allies.

Let us shun violence and refuse to be used for short - term political gain which can only cause our country pain and grief... We have been neighbours, we are brothers, we are sisters... Kenya belongs to all of us.»

Unfortunately I am in possession of credible information which suggests the president indeed refused to allow federal agencies to be used to defeat the will of the people, but what remains difficult to understand is why government and security agencies allowed such large - scale violence and deaths.

Yes, the Antifa - short for the German Antifaschistische Aktion - is an anti-fascist movement consisting mostly of young people, which may or may not use violence in their resistance to fascism.

We refuse to see our movement, which is associated with your leadership, used to launder the reputation of an organisation and individuals who have shown a well - documented disregard for the interests and experiences of survivors of sexual violence.

«We refuse to see our movement, which is associated with your leadership, used to launder the reputation of an organisation and individuals who have shown a well - documented disregard for the interests and experiences of survivors of sexual violence...» the letter states.

He however lamented that some people in the North were illegally in possession of firearms which were often used to perpetuate violence in the Northern Region.

As I have been saying since I first introduced this measure in 2010, the use of County owned facilities to host shows which promote weapons, as well as other various symbols of violence and hatred, is not what we as a County should be doing,» said Legislator Jenkins.

In November 2016, the City Council Women's Caucus rolled out its first - ever «legislative equality package,» which included bills calling for a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices; sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers; support for a state bill that prohibits employers from asking potential applicants for their salary history; and another state bill that gives domestic violence survivors access to breaking leases.

He added that «But because most of us will not be allowed into Europe, I think as ordinary citizens, we would have to make some very hard choices, whether we want to use violence to get somebody into power; of which we won't get any of the trickle down effects, destroy our country and become refugees somewhere else.»

Musa regretted the use of inciteful words, especially by highly placed politicians like Governor Nasir el - Rufai in the state, which according to him was capable of fermenting violence, adding that security agencies should hold such individuals accountable.

Officials say thousands use the Human Rights Act, which guarantees the «right to family life», or fears about violence in the countries they left as a way of dodging deportation.

Deliberate heritage destruction, which attempts to remove all traces of the past, is often used as a tool of ethnic and sectarian violence.

The system also uses keyword and textual analysis to quantify and track the level of violence and racial hatred expressed on a Web site or forum — a measure that can be used to determine which groups might be most threatening and to alert investigators to follow up.

AIDS is increasingly affecting women; and marriage — in which there can be frequent episodes of male violence and sex with multiple partners — has become a serious and significant risk factor for acquiring HIV.13 In Uganda, for all its relative progress, rape and domestic abuse have been important factors in sustaining the epidemic.14 Is it too much to hope that the searing catastrophe of AIDS may have put before women and men an issue that they can use to confront male violence, exploitation, and stigma?