Sentences with phrase «with less violence»

Recent studies confirm that high self - esteem is significantly associated with less violence (Fleming et al., 1999; Horowitz, 1999), while a lack of self - esteem significantly increases the risk of violence and gang membership (Schoen, 1999).

▪ For those who prefer their killing with less violence, we've improved the Low Violence mode in GORN with new textures and effects, because everyone knows beating the crap out of a piñata is okay.

Not exact matches

Smith says less - lethal weapons like stun guns could help police diffuse a tense situation without escalating violence, and keep a suspect alive, without endangering bystanders with gunfire.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Republicans and Democrats Agree Arming Teachers don't make schools safer TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Florida Republicans are playing politics with public safety and embracing one of Donald Trump's most widely derided proposals to reduce gun violence.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

The idea that a religion infested with violence, pedophiles and that views women as lesser beings, The idea THAT religion can teach morality is hilarious.

But the book is less than half - way finished... and if I can not prove the thesis to my satisfaction, I see no way out of the dilemma about how to reconcile the love of Jesus with the violence of Yahweh other than to say that in some way or another, the Old Testament is wrong in its portrayal of God.

In the 1970s, the projects in white South Boston were no less despairingly hellish — no less afflicted with alcoholism, drug abuse, gang warfare, domestic violence and teenage, unwed motherhood — than those in black Roxbury.

I'm answering to the question of religion preventing violence in terms of the sum total of violence — is there more or less violence with religion.

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

While some focus on its potential to inspire a bloody «cycle of violence,» the most potent critique of anger is actually made by those less concerned with drawing attention to its negative political consequences.

The politicians, bankers, and realtors, Levine and Harmon claim, believed that Jews would put up less resistance to this incursion of blacks, and that the violence associated with the later busing of blacks into the Irish area of south Boston could be avoided.

«The faith's obsession with genetic purity, racial supremacy and conquering supposedly lesser peoples is a recipe for violence,» said Josh Glasstetter, campaign director for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

A person could be born with a predisposition for violence, and once they commit a violent act, it is no less a crime or sin because of their genetic state.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

Christians bear a special culpability for this prompt perversion, with less right to claim that we knew not what we did: our sacrificial violence toward Jews proclaimed the very sin it practiced.

If we can find acceptable ways to deal with media violence, then solutions to other, less complex, problems in the media will become evident.

Ina May Gaskin's C - section statistics over 40 years: 1.7 % American hospital C - section statistics: 32 % not including routine episiotomy and so on... Oh yes, I know who I would trust for my child's birth... And if the price of an intact body and a peaceful birth was «gentle stimulation» I would accept it with no hesitation... Of course I live in France where obstetric violence is the norm and home birth nearly considered as criminal by the establishment, but where puritanism is long gone (thank God)... You may remove this post as you did for my previous one... It's OK we've got lots of you this side of the Atlantic telling us what's good or bad for us and we trust them less and less.

The research, carried out in countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico, and Rwanda, also found that men with more equitable attitudes were significantly more likely to participate in household tasks and less likely to use violence against a partner.

Given something that always involves violence (A) versus something that sometimes might involve violence, I choose the one with less potential for violence, i.e. (B) «all your stuff belongs to you».

He can decide voluntarily to part with it, but trying to take from Sting (who probably doesn't need it any more), and divide it among the less well - tuned among us will involve violence.

Theoretically, nonviolent crime receives noticeably less media attention and does not carry the heightened degree of sensitivity that comes with firearm violence.

Those that made it hard for people with domestic violence restraining orders to get guns had 19 percent fewer intimate partner homicides compared with cities with less stringent laws, the team reported in Injury Prevention.

While online dating itself carries less and less stigma allegations remain that it's fuelled a hook - up culture with a beehive of STD - s and is hi - jacked by predators to perpetrate fraud and sexual violence.

This means that his own journey can't end with his violence unto others, and moreover, that his serial sacrifices for the white child so abused by every adult in sight — save for him — make him less admirable than frightening, a specter of payback that extends far beyond his own experience or representative capacity.

Though it has far less outright violence than Gomorrah, whose oppressive criminal atmosphere it shares, Matteo Garrone's Dogman is just as intense a viewing experience, one that will have audiences gripping their armrests with its frighteningly real portrayal of a good man tempted by the devil.

The horrors of the world she inhabits, too, are far meatier and less flippant than something like Atomic Blonde but with multiple sexual assault scenes, extreme torture, violence and gore it's not exactly a bunch of laughs.

Jackie Brown is a subdued piece that attempts to shock you not with graphic violence or tough talk, but with the sight of two middle - aged people — of mixed - race, no less — finding each other in the midst of a complex financial double - cross.

Oh, the profanity and obscenities have returned, along with the strong violence — a touch less explicit this time, but more sadistic than ever — and the self - aware, knowing attitude about superhero tropes.

Franchise creators Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote and directed the pilot which featured the same humor, violence and characters and as the movie, but with less recognizable actors.

What Sightseers gets right where Seven Psychopaths (out today and reviewed here) gets it wrong is that this film does not try to admonish itself for including violence, and incidentally is much less indulgent in the violence, along with having a much more coherent plot with better direction, writing, acting, and presumably better catering too.

While the world of Atomic Blonde is a little more Bond - friendly than the dusty, desolate, dystopian world of Mad Max, both films exhibit her penchant for executing violence with grace — a hallmark attribute which makes the super spy less a murderous deviant, and more so a silent necessity to cure the world's ills.

The Buzz: Think of it as Lecter's «Wonder Years,» only with less Winnie Cooper and more acts of horrible, depraved violence.

This one is far less graphic sexually than the previous one, with minimal nudity but slightly more violence and spraying blood.

What's genuinely startling is how director Lone Scherfig spikes the romance and comedy with stark moments of violence, as characters we come to know and love succumb to German bombs and, sometimes, less predictable calamities.

Full of stupid people and smart dinosaurs, the movie provides non-stop opportunities for beasts to chase and rip apart something or someone, with more violence but less thrills as the original.

Unfortunately, along with these depictions there are frequent gunfire, a kidnapping and other explicit violence, meaning less time for developing a storyline — especially the romance between Tony and Pepper.

Less about actual driving than what drives people to behave the way they do, to violence, to flee, and to fall in love, the movie reminds us of what can be done with cinema.

Having lost his gunner, Wardaddy is saddled with Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman, «The Perks Of Being A Wallflower»), a newly enlisted, baby - faced typist who knows next to nothing about the social customs of war and even less about violence.

From this serenity and quiet, the film then becomes almost unbearably terrifying — but no less hypnotic — when the carefully laid plans of the teenagers start to derail: mistakes and emotions do not fit within their disaffected frame of mind, and each incongruous element cuts into the serenity of the cinematography with shocking violence.

The gigantic Brigitte Nielsen is a less than convincing baddie, there's an OTT fascination with violence and, worst of all, the laughs just don't come.

Students with strong school connectedness are less likely to engage in alcohol, tobacco, or other drug use (ATOD) or violence.

Though anti-discriminatory policies are adequately expanded in virtually all industrialized countries, in truth both females and persons with darker color of skin in numerous offices obtain less compensation, possess poorer education and inferior incomes, are more likely to be without a job and more likely to be subjected to violence.

A subset of detective fiction that is lighter in tone or with less explicit violence or sex is sometimes referred to as «soft - boiled,» though this is less a less common term.

Some view this «training tool» as an acceptable way to curb an unwanted action by your dog; others will argue it's a horrible act of violence against our canine companions, and was designed only for those who don't want to spend the time with alternate, less invasive means of training.

Most reported animal cruelty comes in the form of neglect, with direct violence occurring less.

But salvation is at hand with headsets: these beauties can allow us great audio experiences for less cash, and let us have the volume up to ludicrous levels late at night without the wife / girlfriend / husband or boyfriend threatening violence to us.

Think of it as Grand Theft Auto with less emphasis on violence and a heavy dose of deduction and reasoning.