Sentences with phrase «victim status because»

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.

Not exact matches

«When the question was raised about Haitians, for example — we have a group that have temporary protected status in the United States because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval.

The statement by the FBI says that Muslims will get equal status under the law, i.e. there will be no special treatment given to the perpetrator (s) because the victims are Muslim.

Victims of crime avoid the police because they know they can be detained due to their status, so are effectively denied security.

The government has been accused of abandoning victims of domestic violence because of their immigration status.

For example, 28 percent of US - born Latinos said they are less likely to contact police officers if they have been the victim of a crime because they fear that police officers will use this interaction as an opportunity to inquire into their immigration status or that of people they know.

We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed (religion), color, sex (including gender expression), national origin, sexual orientation, military status, age, disability, marital status or domestic violence victim status.

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

They are also narrower because they do exclude implied agreements to lease, and implied agreements are a common way that victims of domestic violence who are not parties to a written agreement attain the status of tenant — see «Who is a «Tenant» under the Residential Tenancies Act?».