Sentences with phrase «when violence against»

It's not healthy or safe when violence against women and children, and discrimination and racism are so prevalent.

Not exact matches

She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.

When Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine roadside stop in Minneapolis, and his death was filmed by his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds as her daughter sat in the back seat, the footage helped galvanize protests about police violence against blacks in the U.S.

But the issue became one of national security when those claiming to be responsible for the hack threatened violence against theatres that screen The Interview.

For now, the best response is that a program such as the above — applied when necessary beyond Iraq, Syria, and ISIS to other challenges against the international order — would buy the Middle East time for the modernization and internal transformation needed to anchor the nation - state principle and provide homegrown disincentives to violence and upheaval.

Asked why the team would continue employing Sneed when, already having pled guilty to criminal charges for violence against one woman, he allegedly physically assaulted another woman — who was also a team employee — Pittman declined comment.

That may seem like an unimportant thing to do when you're fighting against gun violence, but it was one small thing that we could accomplish.

Kelly — who first learned of the domestic violence allegations against Porter months ago — issued a glowing statement of support for Porter's personal character after the allegations first surfaced publicly Tuesday and privately urged him to remain on the job until the next day when his resignation was announced.

Dr Barry Morgan, along with the incoming Children's Commissioner Professor Sally Holland and other prominent Welsh figures, urged politicians to repeal the legal defence of «reasonable punishment» when they vote on the Violence Against Women bill.

When danger of street violence prevented Arieh Klausner from sending Amos to the school attended by the professors» children, he chose an Orthodox religious institution» not because he wished to initiate his son in religious practice, but because of animus against the alternative socialist orientation.

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

When we think of violence, what first comes to mind are violent acts by individuals or groups against individuals.

And when we are at a loss against the hypocrisy and the casual violence of certain individuals and institutions, we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the disenfranchised and the marginalized.

To them it seems obvious that when the forces of imperialism and colonialism contend violently against the peoples who are now assimilated to the poor of the gospel, those forces can be countered only by violence; it is only through fighting that man will win freedom.

Ten years ago I was shocked when a woman confessed that she feared she would use physical violence against her own children.

But the opposite also holds, namely, that the revolutionary or the rioter can not protest when the government uses violence against him.

It plays its role of violence with, before and against God (the struggle of Abraham and Jacob) only when it refrains from any other violence.

This was in the mid / late eighties, when fear about AIDS was still high, and where acts of violence and discrimation against gays and lesbians was still hight.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

In 1942 Morrison accused Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress and an ardent Zionist, of exaggerating the horror of Hitler's violence against Jews in Europe, when in fact, Wise's warnings were on target.

But when it comes down to it, Jesus was against violence and bloodshed; the same can't be said for Muhammad.

I would find it laughable if it weren't so disgusting that so many so - called «Christians» go out of their way to demonize gays, and incite violence and discrimination against gays, and yet when someone turns around and calls them bigots or explains why they think the «Christian» position is wrong, then they moan about how horribly they are being oppressed and discriminated against.

So, why are you trying to justify violent revenge when there was no violence by Ahmadi against your Sunni Muslims?

I When we think of violence, what first comes to mind are violent acts by individuals or groups against individuals.

Those titles sound rather timid when stacked against titles that appeared in the late «90s: The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity; Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa; and Aiding Violence.

This truth is important today, when global forces are constraining women's lives as never before, Amnesty International put it succinctly when it launched a 2004 global campaign to stop violence against women: «From the battlefield to the bedroom, women are at risk.»

We «fail to understand that in the murder of the Prophets people refused to acknowledge their own violence and cast it off from themselves» (Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 159 - 160), which is exactly what the people did when they crucified Jesus, and exactly what we do today when we seek violence against anyone else.

You're right, when I go to church we just sit there and plot bombings and violence against gays.

In any liberation struggle, especially when we are up against the entrenched force, certain eruptions of violence are inevitable.

David is basically saying some very simple things to Christianity in a nutshell — love your neighbor, do not committ vicious acts of violence against your neighbor, speak up when these acts happen, and be accountable for your actions (repentance)... simple really.

When Faludi touches on the rise in female poverty (directly correlated with the rise in female - headed households» there's no doubt about this relationship), the rise in violence against women, the rise of eating disorders, she blames it all on The Backlash.

When conscience seems to demand violence against others, we sometimes see sympathy on the basis of conscience.

In fact, in this line of thought, when a man uses violence the state has a right to apply all measures against him.

When militant Islamists become scapegoats for violence, the Mubarak regime gains brownie points from U.S. supporters for helping the fight against terrorism.

Best Reflection: Jenny Rae Armstrong at Red Letter Christians with «Liberia, The Nobel Peace Prize, and Me» «That's when I realized that violence against women isn't a social problem; it is a spiritual problem, a highly - contagious disease that eats away at the hearts, souls, minds and bodies of humanity.

Further, the shift in the focus of his argument from opposing capital punishment to opposing violence generally, even when it is exercised by the civil government against aggressors who would harm innocent people, would result in real injustice.

I suppose when Scott Lively and his team of evangelicals from the U.S. traveled to Uganda and incited hysteria and violence against gays, that had a lot to do with the situation we see today.

Wrath is when we engage in violence against others, and do so in God's name.

Yes, NL, it is hypocritical for us to condemn violence against artists by muslims but condone it when it's a christian.

Religion makes it seem like it is upholding traditional values, when in fact it is promoting rampant hate, discrimination, and violence against women.

Point being that relativism isn't a very applicable standard to use when we're talking about violence against minorities.

At some point, when feuding threatens to dissolve a community, spontaneous and irrational mob violence erupts against some distinctive person or minority in the group.

My focus was on why lethal violence is not appropriate against abortionists and their staffs, when it would be considered heroic to use force to save, for instance, infants under attack or to free concentration camp inmates.

The Church is called to strengthen the secular / civil base of politics, to deepen its commitment to the poor and marginalised, ensuring justice for all, especially the weaker sections, to give a prophetic criticism against the government when it perpetuates violence and oppression, to join with others in evolving a paradigm of development that is ecologically sound.

When the child gets slightly older, some mothers decide to explain in vague terms that the father committed some act of violence against her.

Every family experiences conflict, but when violence — or the threat of violence — is used against you or your children, it's time to get a restraining order.

My worry about this statement is that if indeed the US is against all political violence in Ghana which warranted the issuance of the aforementioned statement, why did they keep quiet when some members of the NPP killed their Upper East Regional chairman, Adams Mahama with acid?

Right wing men, who rarely comment on issues involving violence against women, suddenly become very interested in them when the perpetrators are non-white or non-British.

When I was there we weren't being shot at too much because despite what we were being told further up the chain we weren't so stupid as to not go into every village and say «we're not going to touch your poppy» and arguably the upturn in violence against coalition forces came in 2009 and in 2010 when the American marine brigade started saying «oh hang on, weren't we supposed to eradicating poppWhen I was there we weren't being shot at too much because despite what we were being told further up the chain we weren't so stupid as to not go into every village and say «we're not going to touch your poppy» and arguably the upturn in violence against coalition forces came in 2009 and in 2010 when the American marine brigade started saying «oh hang on, weren't we supposed to eradicating poppwhen the American marine brigade started saying «oh hang on, weren't we supposed to eradicating poppies?

With the events at Charlottesville, it seems like a final dam broke, where many agreed that the far - right must be countered with violence, and that traditional US freedom values are up to debate, when it comes to the «fight against the right».