Sentences with phrase «violence is in decline»

Nationally, relationship violence is in decline.

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This is just one example to show that racism is more than just a matter of disaffection but of self - interest (Note: It wasn't some kind of pandemic transformation of «hearts» that caused the decline in violence but a shift in economics.).

As the book points out, for example, the «obviously inadequate instantiation» of caritas in medieval Christianity helped to precipitate the Reformation and its leaders» emphasis on doctrine; Reformation - era «authorities» breaches of caritas via confessional coercion created a reservoir of resentment sufficient to spring and sustain the secularizing, antireligious, liberationist ideology pervasive in the modern era down to the present»; and awareness of churches» collusion with European imperial colonial violence is linked to the steep decline in European churchgoing since World War II.

The Dodgers are under as much pressure to win as any team in the game, but they declined to finalize a trade for Chapman because of an ongoing domestic violence investigation.

Consider this, «Since more than 90 % of American parents admit to spanking their children, it's hard to accept that a decline in spanking is responsible for the purportedly escalating rates of youth violence and crime.

When Nickol was arrested in September, police characterized the case as domestic violence, but declined to specify Nichol's relationship to the woman.

«In an era of declining crime and detention, violence and costs at city jails should be decreasing,» Stringer said in a statemenIn an era of declining crime and detention, violence and costs at city jails should be decreasing,» Stringer said in a statemenin a statement.

John Conyers III, a Detroit hedge fund manager named as a possible successor to his scandal - rocked father, Rep. John Conyers, was arrested in Los Angeles this year on suspicion of domestic violence, but prosecutors declined to charge him.

But Bratton argued Thursday that gun violence has been on the decline in the Big Apple for decades thanks to stricter gun control and also praised a 1994 federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.

The Daily News reported Tuesday that Cuomo is considering an automatic review when grand juries decline to bring charges in cases of police violence.

The fact that violence has declined and what this implied for human nature were spelled out in both books, but I decided that those paragraphs deserved to be expanded into a book of their own.

A cocktail party features glasses of wine held by men and women and a few of each drink from their glasses, a man at a party sips from a glass of whiskey and another man chugs from a bottle of clear liquor (the label is hidden), a man drinks expensive whiskey in his office and his living room, a man holds an open can of beer on a sidewalk, four men in the back of a pickup truck drink from beer cans as the vehicle is moving, a man drinks from a small bottle of whiskey in his living room (the scene cuts to him lying asleep on the floor with the empty bottle, two crushed beer cans, and a cigarette butt around him), a man at a party says that he is wasted (implying intoxication, no drugs are seen or mentioned), a man offers a worker a 6 - pack of beer to bring a shovel and help clean a bathroom (please see the Violence / Gore category for more details), a man offers another man a drink and he declines saying that he is high on life, and a man holds a can that could be beer.

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Nevertheless, these tragic events masked the overall trend: a good deal of evidence indicates that school violence has actually been declining in recent years.

Violence continues to cause serious health problems for U.S. adolescents and is a prominent factor in the declining health of that age group, a study published last week says.

Yet another salutary trend is a 47 percent decline between 1994 and 2009 in the arrest rate of teenagers for violence - related offenses.

She declined, reasoning that, «in Thailand, murder and theft and violence were tangible.

Videogame consumption is associated with a decline in youth violence rates.

If it were true that video games were indeed making things worse we would be seeing a huge influx of violence and in fact it is in decline you can find the facts al over the place get off your ass and do something original; like start at home and create a real family environment then start looking outside the home.

Please read the entire article and consider the trend against what has been learned by scholars like Joshua Goldstein and Steven Pinker about death rates from war and violence; declines in deep poverty as shown by Max Roser; and child mortality rates from the World Health Organization.

We are suffering terrible climate change damage — consider the decline in run - off in the Murray Basin, rising temperatures, increasing frequency and violence in extreme weather events, increased ferocity of bushfires and length of the fire danger season, increasing acidity of the oceans and rise in sea levels, the decline in rainfall in the southern half of the country, the damage to the Great Barrier Reef, etc. — we should reduce our CO2 production levels for our own benefit.

Although the latest school violence study points to a decrease in the overall number of intentional school injuries from 2001 through 2010, the decline was slight.

The company declined to identify the exact accounts that would be removed by its newly enacted policy, but it did acknowledge that it would «review» accounts and ban groups that identify as extremist through their goals and engage in or promote violence against civilians.

The Regional Ethics Review Board located in Gothenburg gave approval for this study (Dnr: 527 — 08) and the WHO ethical and safety recommendations for research on domestic violence against women as applicable to a postal survey were followed.28 For example, a letter was sent to prospective respondents in advance to inform them about the upcoming survey; this provided them with the opportunity to decline the survey before receiving it.