Sentences with phrase «vigilantes taking»

Denzel Washington's vigilante takes a very R - rated, incredibly violent route to serve justice — with the help of power tools.

«What Happens When Oligarchs and Vigilantes Take Over Public Safety in a Big City.»

Fearing the actions of a god - like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City's own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis» most revered,...

Not exact matches

Executive producer Dominic Guay adds to that: «You can take any context in which you give freedom and power to the player and do something bad with it, but then the whole game system is going to tell you and give feedback on how that impacts the city and how the game wants you to be a vigilante.»

Vigilante groups initially took a decisive role in turning the tide against the Knights Templar in Michoacan State, which is only 200 miles west of Mexico City.

Russell Moore, head of the convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, took a stronger stand, saying that regardless of the verdict, Zimmerman was wrong to take «upon himself some sort of vigilante justice.»

Shortly thereafter, Daily Stormer's site appeared to be the victim of a hack from the internet vigilante collective Anonymous, but all was not as it seemed, as Anonymous — who are generally quick to take credit for their actions — disavowed any involvement.

Indeed, in the Bible, the well - known case of the woman taken in adultery in John 8 is an instance in which Jesus faces and responds specifically to a vigilante mob.

However, ad hoc hangings of blacks under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan and other white vigilante groups could not have taken place without benefit of social sanction.

Antigovernment sentiment takes on a different dress in the activities of vigilantes — from the Regulator movement in the backcountry of colonial South Carolina to the Ku Klux Klan to abortion clinic bombers.

Unlike insurrectionists who resist government because it is repressive, vigilantes «take arms to do the government's work because the authorities are not repressive enough.»

Some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

Yet it is precisely the privilege of Dillard's background that she knew would clip her wings and force another life upon her: the country club and its obsessive cultivation of a suntan; years of dancing school and white cotton gloves; the fate of young ladies to take custody of unquestioned codes, to be «vigilantes of the trivial,» to accept their destiny («to marry Holden Caulfield's roommate, and buy a house in Point Breeze, and send our children to dancing school»)

Also, some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

The footage which was taken by CCTV cameras at the seat of government on January 9, 2017 — President Akufo - Addo's first day in office — showed members of the vigilante group chasing ASP Nanka as he drove out of the Flagstaff House.

According to Nana Essah Boakuro, the Kintampo Invincible Forces, a vigilante group of the NPP forcibly took over management of the tourism facility without accounting to anybody.

Citizen Vigilante, Martin Amidu, has descended heavily on the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, saying the latter takes delight in insulting people older than him.

Our outfit wishes to draw the attention of the president HE Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo to the worrisome situation where his party supporters and vigilante groups are violently besieging and taking over state businesses and their premises which is creating fear and panic among many ordinary Ghanaians barely 72 hours of his swearing - in as president of the state.

As though the NEC had apportioned the personal and character attacks between the Deputy General Secretary and the National Organizer, the latter, Kofi Adams, the next day 9th August 2017 took over the baton from the former to publish to the whole world that: «' The incessant attacks by Citizen Vigilante is borne out of envy, jealousy and hatred for Former President John Dramani Mahatma because he was not given another opportunity as running mate of the party, National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),» Mr Kofi Adams has said.»

There have been several instances in the past where vigilante groups affiliated to political parties have taken the law into their own hands and vandalized state properties.

Ghanaians took to social media to commend the President for his selection of the «Citizen Vigilante» to head the Office.

Mr. Citizen Vigilante, I have few questions for you and I hope you take it kindly.

Soon after, he was sworn into office by the President, in fulfillment of his pledge and Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser Amidu, the man who earned the nickname Citizen Vigilante, took the oath of office with a pledge to smoke out corruption.

«There are seeming levels of insecurity in the country given the activities of the vigilante groups trying to take our laws into their own hands, which is very disturbing, and has no historical precedent in our country.

His statement follows series of attacks on journalists reporting from the headquarters of the ruling party, with the most recent being the slaps received by Multimedia Adom FM journalist who was assaulted by famous NPP one - woman vigilante Hajia Fati in a case of «mistaken identity», as according to Hajia Fati, she mistook the journalist for an onion seller and gave her a sound slap for taking pictures of her without permission.

The Borno youth vigilantes, commonly called Civilian JTF had Tuesday afternoon refuted ongoing media reports that Boko Haram insurgents have taken over the authority of Bama...

Since the NPP won elections in 2016 and even before Nana Addo was sworn in to take office as the sixth president under the 4th Republic, Delta Force, a known NPP political vigilante group, the party of the sitting president, has been on the rampage.

One studio decides to release a vigilante film and two others follow with their own takes on the same theme.

Batman's a vigilante and Superman's a god, which is the basis of their disagreement, though, lord almighty, does the movie take a long time laying that out.

Unflinching and compelling, this gutsy documentary blames governmental failure for the rise of vigilante groups who are taking on drug cartels either side of the Mexican border.

/ Rick becomes a masked vigilante, allowing Tim and Pedro to take a break from their busy workaday lives.

When the cops don't show enough interest in a drive - by shooting, a pair of grieving mothers take matters into their own hands in «Lila and Eve,» a vigilante thriller with a twist: Featuring an awards - caliber performance from Viola Davis and flavorful support from Jennifer Lopez («Guess I'll get my Tina on!»

Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez become accidental vigilantes on the streets of Atlanta after their children are killed in random shootings and the cops don't seem to take much notice.

Prisoners - September 20 Hugh Jackman, Paul Dano, and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this vigilante thriller about a child kidnapping father who takes matters into his own hands to apprehend the criminal.

One, Heineman's documentary takes us directly into the true - life murderous conflict; it introduces us to real people on both sides of the border and puts actual faces to the growing vigilante movements both deep in Mexico and, north of the Rio Grande.

The movie delivers an unprecedented view into the lives of two modern - day vigilante leaders who have taken up arms against the murderous Mexican drug cartels on separate sides of the Mexico and U.S. border.

Members of Autodefensas, a vigilante group in Michoacán, Mexico, rally before taking the fight to drug gangs in the documentary «Cartel Land.»

A sprawling look at life on the front lines of the war against drug cartels in Mexico, this gripping film by Matthew Heineman explores the dangerous and messy moral dilemmas that arise when vigilante groups on both sides of the border take action.

It's this lack of rule of law that pushes many men like imprisoned vigilante leader José Manuel Mireles to take up arms and avenge the death of a loved one.

Nine months of filming took him on patrols with American vigilantes on this side of the border and into cartel - run meth labs and hideouts of the Autodefensas in Mexico.

In the Blood (R for profanity and graphic violence) Vigilante thriller about a woman trained to kill (Gina Carano) who decides to take the law into her own hands after her husband (Cam Gigandet) is suddenly kidnapped while on their honeymoon in the Caribbean.

Bruce Willis plays a heroically murderous vigilante who takes the law into his own hands.

Zaror, who made a memorable but all too brief appearance in last year's Machete Kills, stars in this Chilean - set tale of a hit - man turned vigilante who takes the law into his own hands in hopes of atoning for his previous sins.

Paul does a slow burn to fulfill his vigilante destiny; he doesn't take it on lightly.

Unflinching and compelling, this gutsy documentary blames governmental failure for the rise of vigilante groups who are taking on drug cartels either...

Seeing an opportunity for vigilante justice and some more cash, Erica decides to seduce Will and take him down.

Putting his own life at risk, he follows border vigilante militias in Arizona and citizen anti-drug-cartel militias in the Mexican province of Michoacán as they each, in turn, try — in their own words — to take back what is theirs.

Perched somewhere between the relentless goofiness of 21 Jump Street and Starsky and Hutch and the slightly more serious - minded Spider - Man and Batman franchises, Michel Gondry's decidedly odd take on the radio / TV / comic classic mixes dark vigilante justice with candy - colored irreverence.

Set in an alternate 1970's during an oil crisis, the game pitted the criminal Coyotes against the Vigilantes, a team of civilians who take the law into their own hands.

The desperate father will do whatever it takes to find the girls, but in doing so, he may lose himself, begging the question: When do you cross the line between seeking justice and becoming a vigilante?