Sentences with phrase «violence is on the increase»

It is no wonder that violence is on the increase.

Tornadoes, twisting winds that descend from thunderheads, and derechos, winds that race ahead of a straight line of storms, are just two varieties of extreme weather events whose frequency and violence are on the increase.

Not exact matches

VICTORIA — A report showing an increase in domestic violence deaths and calling on the Clark government to do a better job of helping victims was released by the BC Coroners Service on Wednesday, proving that Premier Christy Clark's declaration of...

Even though the incident did not occur on school property, the shooting confirms some of the fears about what could go wrong if teachers were to carry guns in school — that the mere presence of more firearms would increase the risk of gun violence.

Many of us are shocked and depressed by the current state of America — its hardness of heart to the most vulnerable; its contempt for the poor; its violence abroad and at home; its corrupt sexual morality; its increasing intolerance and persecutory zeal (with ourselves as targets); and so on.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Could it be that the scapegoat imagery of Leviticus 16 that God wasn't just telling Israel that their sins were carried away into the wilderness by a goat, but that He Himself was bearing their sin on His own being, so that they might be delivered from the ever - increasing spiral of violence that threatened to consume them?

In Canada, the provincial government of Ontario appointed a royal commission to study (among other things) «the increasing exhibition of violence in the communications industry; to determine if there is any... relationship between this phenomenon and the incidence of violent crime in society...» Two of the commission's research studies found that 24 per cent of the news items on television and in newspapers dealt directly with violence and 40 per cent were violence - related, while radio news was concerned with violence and conflict almost 60 per cent of the time!

There is enough evidence that antidepressants cause increased risk of suicide and violence for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its Canadian counterpart to require that drug companies include a «black box» warning to that effect on their packages.

Violence committed on them is on the increase.

Violence on the screen has increased tenfold... Today, there's a general numbing of the audience.

There can be no doubt that the violence unleashed on minority communities that resist the pan-Hindu identity has increased.

The catalyst for this plethora of enquiries was the growing community concern that violence in Australia was on the increase, stimulated particularly by the multiple murders in Hoddle Street and Queen Street in Victoria in late 1987 and the proximate massacre in Hungerford in the U.K..

He and his coresearcher, Dr. Neil Malamuth, Chair of the Department of Communications at UCLA, believe that the increase in «slasher» films and R - rated violence movies in general («I Was a Teenage Werewolf,» «I Spit on Your Grave,»» Maniac,» «Texas Chainsaw Massacre,» and «The Toolbox Murders») are creating a serious problem in homes where such films are now readily available via cable television and home video.

If your child regularly plays games with plots based on violence and aggression, research shows he is at risk for increased aggressive behavior.

There are a number of valuable Webinars and presentation materials that medical home teams can access to increase their knowledge related to exposure to violence and its potentially lifelong impact on children and youth.

Any final verdict will probably depend on whether there are further strikes from the U.S., upon Russia's and Syria's reactions, and particularly whether the strikes can be shown to increase or decrease the levels of violence and acts of barbarism from Assad.

While lamenting the increase in domestic violence and child abuse cases in the State, the Commissioner noted that, many of such cases are been reported at the Ministry on a daily bases.

Labour MEPs opposed an increase in the budget because of continuing waste on the common agricultural policy, and were campaigning on violence against women, assistance for disabled people, allegations of corruption against EU officials in Kosovo, commitment to science and, with Steve Rotheram MP, on tyre safety.

MANHATTAN — Violence at Rikers Island is on the rise even as the number of people housed at the troubled jail has declined and spending per inmate has increased dramatically, according to a report released Friday by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Hope for Future Generation made this known in an interaction with the press in Tarkwa of the Western Region on 24th November 2017 and according to HFFG, the rampant increasing of sexual violence, rape, forced marriage, Human trafficking and defilement are still canker and threat to the country as many communities practice defiant behaviours.

«With increasing violence on our streets and people too scared to go out at night, the government's approach to tackling anti-social behaviour is simply losing respect.»

«Instead, we should be addressing the root causes of gun violence by reducing the number of guns on our streets, limiting access to these deadly weapons and increasing mental health services to ensure the kind of healthy environment that will allow kids to grow and thrive.

New York state's Orleans Correctional Facility at Albion was placed on lockdown Saturday «as a result of increased violence and contraband,» a union official said.

2015 is just a week old, but we have already seen two worrying trends for Syrians fleeing the violence of war: first, an increase in restrictions imposed on those seeking to settle in neighbouring countries such as Lebanon; and secondly, even more refugees boarding boats and taking risky journeys in the Mediterranean.

Labour MEPs opposed an increase in the budget because of continuing waste on the common agricultural policy, and were campaigning on violence against women, assistance for disabled people, allegations of corruption -LSB-...]

While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.

«I am pleased that this budget response contains $ 2.6 million in increased funding for senior case management to bring caseloads down from an average of 80 to 65 per caseworker, and $ 190,000 for the Richmond County DA for the Staten Island Family Justice Center to address the impact of domestic violence on Staten Island,» she said.

NYPD responses to domestic violence incidents have been on the rise across the city, increasing from 234,988 responses (or more than 600 a day) in 2008, to 257,813 (more than 700 a day) last year.

Among the findings was that lifting restrictions on concealed carry guns increases violent crime and that laws restricting gun ownership for people convicted of domestic violence reduced killings of female domestic partners.

While previous studies had examined the impact of climate change - induced weather patterns on violence and the increased danger of violence in weak or failing states, this is the first study to demonstrate that the combination of the two risk factors is even more dangerous than they would be separately.

While teen dating violence prevention programs increased knowledge and changed student attitudes to be less supportive of such behavior, they did not actually reduce dating violence, according to this meta - analysis of research on middle - and high school intervention programs, report investigators.

Joint Statement of Key Principles of Online Dating Site Safety Page 2 o Links to the Safety Tips may be displayed on the website's home page, on That's Not Cool is dedicated to decreasing teen dating violence due to technology, and is increasing awareness for healthy teen relationships online.

As dawn breaks on a bleary night out, Moll is walking along the Jersey coast with a sleazebag she met in a club: he makes an advance, she resists, and he presses on with increasing violence, until a stranger emerges from the dunes and levels a hunting rifle at his head.

Based on the novel «The Siege of the Trencher's Farm» by Gordon Williams, it came out the same year as «A Clockwork Orange,» «The French Connection,» and «Dirty Harry,» causing quite the uproar from conservative Americans, who were worried about the increase of violence in movie houses....

Abstract: More than twenty years of statelessness and related insecurity, including the proliferation of armed groups, the fragmentation of politics along clan - based lines, economic disruption and large scale population displacement, have had dire consequences on the rights and protection of women and young girls in Somalia; resulting in an increase in gendered patterns of violence as disillusioned and armed young men have been turning against women and girls with impunity.Implicated are Africa Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers, government soldiers and some men within Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mogadishu, with allegations that tantamount to protector turning to perpetrator and exploiter.

But my students» performance on the district midterms and finals is relatively mediocre because I skimp on the mandated curriculum — in Fall 2005, because we spend time on Hurricane Katrina instead, and in Spring 2006 because students want to investigate the increase in youth violence in their neighborhood.»

They expressed concerns about the escalating violence on Brazilian streets and how this is being used as an excuse to fast track the approval of bills within the Brazilian Congress which restrain Brazilian democratic rights and tend to increase the criminalization of social movements.

Johnson takes no stand on the argument that the increasing use of violence and sex in the games and on TV is having deleterious effects on society, but he does note the drop in murder and crime generally that has occurred in tandem with the rise of the video game (and he might also have pointed to the drop in teenage pregnancies).

«During the 20 years since the Beijing Declaration on women's empowerment was adopted, we've seen increased activity and interest in stamping out gender - based violence.

Job demands on principals have increased, staff and student mental health issues are on the rise and unacceptable levels of offensive behaviour, bullying and violence are often part of the growing problem.

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Schools» use of zero tolerance policies has been increasing since the 1980s as part of a societal movement to crack down on drug abuse and violence among youth.

While reasons for the influx are many, experts commonly attribute the increasing drug violence in the migrants» countries of origin for the rise in reliance on smugglers to get them across.

Dog fighting still goes on and animal cruelty appears to be on the rise (not surprising considering the increased violence toward one another, since there is a Link to human violence).

This point is readily conceded by those pointing to the increases in frequency and violence of storms: no single storm can be blamed on CO2.

Environmental activists, and particularly indigenous activists, are at increased risk of violence because they often live in remote regions, rather than big cities; they aren't on Twitter to protest their treatment.

The majority of the coverage was about two specific stories and came on just four days, and the networks rarely noted the trend of increasing anti-LGBTQ violence nationwide in their coverage.

While this is, from a legal point of view, a highly interesting case with regard to the relationship between EU law and international law, it amounts, more practically speaking, to good news for all those in search of shelter from violence - ridden regions on a continent marked by an increasing reluctance to welcome foreigners (note most recently the successful Swiss referendum on limiting mass immigration).