Sentences with phrase «while perpetrators»

«Since the time when the Review Panel made the decision to strike an Inquiry Committee to investigate allegations against Douglas ACJ, significant academic, legislative, and social changes have taken place that support the growing recognition that women whose intimate images are distributed without their consent are victims of a gendered form of abuse and worthy of protection while the perpetrators are morally culpable and deserving of criminal punishment.

And while perpetrators may look to bankruptcy as a way to escape the financial obligations of a civil judgment against them, Grace points out that the federal Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act exempts civil damages arising out of sexual assaults from the debts released by a discharge under the Act.

The video footage was released into the public, and the government, feeling embarrassed, proceeded to issue a statement of apology to the said officer, while the perpetrators were left without any reprimand, an act that can embolden their operations.

I too felt verbally assaulted while the perpetrators would try to convince me to not take what they said literally.

Entire villages would gather and hear and acknowledge the testimony of victims, while perpetrators would tell their stories and often be led to repentance and a desire to make amends.

«All were of the opinion that the biggest risk was being sued for assaulting an alleged mugger, and going broke paying lawyers to defend them, while the perpetrator would be underwritten in his lawsuit by the government.»

Happy Slapping - Happy slapping is a term used to refer to a situation in which an unsuspecting victim is attacked while the perpetrator or an accomplice records the assault (commonly with a camera phone).

Not exact matches

While online perpetrators can be criminally investigated or sued, it takes significant resources for lawsuits to happen.

The perpetrators then posed as a vendor while communicating with a professional services company that was hired to handle the details and logistics of vendor payments for the American corporation, the lawsuit said.

It's like many churches I've encountered, willing to throw stones at the most likely perpetrator and forgetting that while we can't ignore injustice we need to comfort, forgive, and be good to even our enemies.

Despite the strong public sentiment against such convictions after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, a perusal of public statements made by the leadership of the historic peace churches clearly indicates that, while they have repeatedly called for the perpetrators to be held accountable, they have not backed away from their commitment to nonviolence.

And while there's certainly a danger in being overly sensitive to differing opinions, there is also a risk in not being willing to stand up against the perpetrators of actual injustices.

It remains to be seen what further action is taken and if the perpetrator is identified, while for Barca, their focus will have to quickly switch to bouncing back against Real Betis on Sunday night to maintain their healthy lead at the top of the La Liga table.

For a while Botham, as if hypnotized, went along with all this, and at one point it seemed that he would indeed land a film part, albeit one as a psychopathic killer, in something called The Perpetrator, a Ramboesque movie which, in fact, was never to be made.

With the prevalence of children and teens online, bullying has only gotten worse because now the perpetrators can bully other while they hide behind a computer screen.

«To emphasis the punishment for filing a false report while not emphasizing the seriousness of sexual harassment is exactly the type of intimidation that has silenced so many through the years and encourages perpetrators to attack accusers,» said Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat.

Even in Malala's case, while politicians in general have shown unanimity in condemning the act of violent, but they have carefully chosen not to make a pinpointed reference to the perpetrator.

While seen by some as overly alarmist, this perceived threat increase is in part symptomatic of a broader development: the rise of the internet in assisting potential perpetrators in implementing elaborate acts of violence.

The GOC also commended the VC for not closing the University as doing that will have scored a cheap point to the perpetrators of the act while calling the university community to provide security agencies with relevant information that will aid them in the stemming the tide of suicide bomb attacks.

They said while they commend the NSCIA for its effort to resolve this crisis initiated and executed by the military, that an independent judicial commission under the watchful eyes of the international community be set up to unearth the truth and the perpetrators of the Zaria incident of last year.

While the Nigeria Police Force, once again commiserate with the Government and people of Kwara State, most particularly the people of Offa, the Force will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that all the perpetrators of the Offa Banks Robbery are arrested and prosecuted.

The statement read, «The Acting President also calls on all the different groups of people in Ile - Ife to live in harmony, remain calm and keep the peace while police investigation is in progress, assuring them that perpetrators of the acts of violence will be identified and brought to book according to law.

«The perpetrators of the malicious statements are out to cause disaffection, disunity and insecurity while creating public unrest, detrimental to the well - being of Nigerians and other foreign nationals in the Country.

While the committee called the community remedy a «welcome addition» to anti-social behaviour laws as a way to satisfy victims without exposing the perpetrator to the criminal justice system, they expressed concern that «individuals could use the trigger in a malicious, vexatious or indeed prejudicial way».

He condemned in strong terms the prevalence of Hate Speeches in the country and warned that the government would henceforth deal with perpetrators according to the law, while emphasizing that the government would continue to foster peaceful coexistence, national cohesion and stability in its march towards actualizing the full potential of Nigeria.

«While we know the perpetrators of these atrocities have a wide variety of political views, my comments are in response to a question about the failure to prosecute illegal gun crime.

Yamu said that more police men have been deployed to the area while investigation has already commenced with a view to arresting the perpetrators.

«While we know the perpetrators of these atrocities have a wide variety of political views, my comments are in response to a question about the failure to prosecute illegal gun crime,» Tenney said in her statement.

«While we know the perpetrators of these atrocities have a wide variety of political views, my comments are in response to a question about the failure to prosecute illegal gun crime,» the statement said.

Aside the injuries sustained by the ACN supporters, two branded vehicles belonging to the campaign organisation were also driven away while some other vehicles had their windscreens and side mirrors shattered According to Onogu, «the perpetrators must have been disturbed by the large turn out of ACN supporters at Ibaji, Idah and Ajaka.

Governor Aregbesola while addressing residents of Ile - Ife at the Ooni's palace shortly after his inspection tours to the scenes and areas where the incident occurred, promised to bring the perpetrators to justice.

While also noting the recent massive security equipment and vehicles donated by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode - led administration to security agencies to beef up security in the state which has considerably curbed armed robbery cases, Bello said the State Government in consonance with the Police and other security agencies in the State will continue to do all within its means to halt the trend of kidnapping in the State and bring perpetrators to justice.

He stressed the need for synergy between residents of the council and the police, while urging residents to be always courageous in giving useful information to the police that will assist in arresting perpetrators of crimes in the area.

While she welcomes the app as a «great tool» with which women can begin fighting street harassment, she points out that the perpetrators could also consult the maps.

The researchers believe participants who slept were more likely to use an «absolute strategy,» in which they compare each person in the lineup to their memory of the suspect, while participants who didn't sleep were more likely to use a «relative strategy,» in which they compare the people in the lineup to each other to determine who most resembles the perpetrator relative to the others.

Male soldiers reported that men were the perpetrators 52 percent of the time, while the other incidents involved both a man and a woman or a woman alone.

Since the Nazis destroyed most written records and so few Reinhard prisoners survived, previous studies of the sites have leaned heavily on the firsthand testimony of just a handful of prisoners and perpetrators — which, while important, conveys only certain aspects of what happened at the camps.

While in pursuit of the perpetrator, scientists from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interacted with a few scientists from academia who possessed the knowledge and experience needed to identify the strain and potential source.

While the sexual abuse of children is currently an issue at the forefront of public life, concern has focused on the protection of children and the identification of perpetrators.

The challenge that this fickle formulation of trust poses for law enforcement is that while it might be relatively easy to gain admittance to a forum, it wouldn't be efficient to attempt to identify perpetrators.

She feels her perpetrator is living free of his actions while she and her family take on daily challenges that come with surviving sexual assault.

Bermudez, who speaks in America and abroad about the power of persistence and the need for justice reform, calls his story «a cautionary tale against this happening to others as a public safety problem that allows true perpetrators to escape punishment while families are ripped apart.»

Rachel Griffin, CEO of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, said: «While dating is mostly a fun and enjoyable experience, our research shows that the majority of those who have had concerns for their safety simply block perpetrator profiles, with 15 % of daters feeling their report would not be acted upon by the service provider, 12 % saying there wasn't an easy way to report the concern on the dating website, and 7 % feeling too embarrassed to report it.

He wants to lead the righteous civil liberties mob against the right perpetrators while providing an appreciative moral context to the actions of Edward Snowden, America's most famous fugitive.

While at the dining room table, they are viciously attacked from unseen perpetrators who begin using crossbows, axes, and booby traps in order to slaughter the family for reasons that aren't immediately known (except to anyone who picks up on the clumsy clues and tells strewn liberally around the movie).

Jake Gyllenhaal's committed performance carries this straightforward biopic from versatile director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) about Jeff Bauman, a blue - collar man who was wounded in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, then became a hero after helping to identify the perpetrators while having both of his legs amputated in the hospital.

But there's a lot of variety and incredible filmmaking here as well, and the two perceived front - runners — Amy and The Look of Silence — could not be more different in style; Amy director Asif Kapadia compiles reams of archival footage to tell the tragic story of Amy Winehouse, while in The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer continues the story he began in The Act of Killing to present interviews with survivors, and perpetrators, of the Indonesian genocide.

while chasing the perpetrator through the streets with torches in a manner reminiscent of the bloodthirsty mob scene in Frankenstein.

But Church attorneys had repeatedly run interference for the perpetrators by settling claims out of court while simultaneously swearing the plaintiffs to secrecy via non-disclosure agreements.

Six years ago, while researching the history of the atrocities at Facing History and Ourselves as an intern, I noted the tension between these extraordinary acts of violence and how utterly ordinary the perpetrators were.