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And we do violence to the memory of those who sacrificed for us.
But all of these policies and practices do violence to the lives of thousands of Charlotte residents.
For this court to force such compliance would do violence to the essentials of Free Speech guaranteed under the First Amendment.
There's such a willingness to do violence to each other personally, professionally, emotionally, and yet people seem to kind of rebound, ultimately.
If we continue to allow conservative operatives to hijack religion or co-opt it to do violence to others we are complicit.
Alves said he believes that "a lack of understanding of the disease transmission mechanism" is the motive when people do violence to primates.
Florida state law describes an assault as any "intentional, unlawful threat" to do violence to another person that causes that person to actually fear that violence is imminent.
Their secrets will be not only forgiven but embraced, only so long as they inspire a call to adventure, the creation of space for men to do violence, to conquer.
If you reduce the complex array of identities that make up a human being into one crude ethno-political category, you're going to do violence to yourself and everything around you.
Doing so would trample on the interests of California and other states that have relied on the waiver to set policies for their benefit, and do violence to core principles of federalism.
But sanctions against India would do violence to a host of American priorities, including efforts to bolster Afghanistan; counter China and Pakistan; and ramp up sales of American oil, natural gas and military equipment.
"In far too many cases the revised drafts do violence to the plain meaning," write James Seymour and Patrick Yuk-tung Wong of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in a recent paper on the topic.
If only the liberal elites of the Democratic party — whose base includes people of color, LGBTQ people and religious minorities — had been more sympathetic to the opposing party's biases, perhaps they wouldn't have voted for a president who'll do violence to them.
"When we depart from the law and create nebulous legal standards out of a sense of sympathy for the personal circumstances of a respondent in our immigration courts, we do violence to the rule of law and constitutional fabric that bind this great nation," Sessions said Monday in a speech to newly hired judges.
Mario Untersteiner comments: "If death follows according to nature, why torment its opposite, life, which is equally according to nature? By appealing to this tragic law of existence, Antiphon, speaking with the voice of humanity, wishes to shake off everything that can do violence to the individuality of the person."Mario Untersteiner, The Sophists, tr. Kathleen Freeman (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, p.
Before he can do violence to his daughter, his comrades drag Graumann back to the pub. To calm her mother down, Grete pretends to be happy to marry the landlord. But when her mother leaves her alone in the room, she jumps out of the window and hurries away to find Fritz. Grete cannot catch up with Fritz, and falls exhausted on the bank of a lake.
Certainly, punitive damages cannot > reasonably be classified as gifts, nor do they come under any other > exemption provision in the Code. We would do violence to the plain meaning > of the statute and restrict a clear legislative attempt to bring the taxing > power to bear upon all receipts constitutionally taxable were we to say that > the payments in question here are not gross income.Id. at 432-33.
When the reported sentence is negative, it is common to use the verb rather than :Allen & Greenough (1903), p. 375. : (Nepos)Nepos, Phoc. 2.4. :'Phocion denied that there was any danger / said there was no danger' Similarly is used in preference to : : (Caesar)Caesar, B.G. 6.23.9. :'they do not think it is right to do violence to a guest' In the same way 'I forbid' is used in place of .
" Olson says that, as a consequence of this point, Arminians only believe in libertarian free will to avoid making God the author of sin and evil, and because it is an experienced reality necessary for responsibility: > "Classical Arminianism does NOT say God never interferes with free will. It > says God NEVER foreordains or renders certain evil. [...] An Arminian COULD > believe in divine dictation of Scripture and not do violence to his or her > Arminian beliefs.
The last antecedent rule is a doctrine of interpretation of a statute, by which "Referential and qualifying phrases, where no contrary intention appears, refer solely to the last antecedent."Behind the Scenes of the Comma Dispute by Kenneth A. Adams (Globe and Mail, Aug. 28, 2007) The rule is typically bound by "common sense"The Free Dictionary and is flexible enough to avoid application that "would involve an absurdity, do violence to the plain intent of the language, or if the context for other reason requires a deviation from the rule.".Link v.
During his 1919 trial for allegedly obstructing American military recruitment during World War I, at which he testified in his own defense, the prosecution asked Nearing whether he was a "pacifist socialist." Nearing's reply was illuminating; he replied that he was a "pacifist" and left it at that. Prosecutor Earl B. Barnes was taken aback and asked for clarification: > Q: You are a pacifist even to class struggles? [Nearing]: I am a pacifist in > that I believe that no man has a right to do violence to any other man.
His signature contribution to constructivism has been to bring the domestic into the theorization of how states acquire their identities. This provides a mid-range constructivism, below systemic, but avoiding the psychologism of individual levels of analysis. Hopf has also been a force in advocating the adoption of as many mainstream social science methodological techniques as possible so long as their adoption does not do violence to the interpretivist roots of constructivism. Most recently he has been exploring how habits contribute to a constructivist understanding of social order in world politics.
The Hamleighs' men at arms retreat, fearing damnation if they do violence to the churchmen, leaving the quarry available for Philip's use. In retaliation, the Hamleighs work with Waleran to try to have the cathedral moved to Shiring, thus depriving Philip of the properties tied to it, by claiming that Kingsbridge lacks the resources and manpower to build a cathedral. At the advice of his allies, Philip calls across the county for volunteers to work on the cathedral as penance for their sins. On the day of an inspection by Bishop Henry of Blois that Waleran had arranged, they arrive en masse, and Henry is convinced to not move the cathedral.
Yet who would think of awaiting death, which > comes so easily, on account of the difficulty of preserving life? You value > proper conduct and righteousness in order to excel before others, and you do > violence to your feelings and nature in striving for glory. That to us > appears to be worse than death. Our only fear is lest, wishing to gaze our > fill at all the beauties of this one life, and to exhaust all the pleasures > of the present years, the repletion of the belly should prevent us from > drinking what our palate delights in, or the slackening of our strength not > allow us to revel with pretty women.
Chuck's personality stands in contrast to the role into which he is thrust, a conflict which drives the series from several angles. Chuck is portrayed as a sincerely well-meaning underachiever, so when he is caught up in a larger struggle, he has to draw on his potential and become something new to meet the threat, while trying to maintain his good nature. Chuck, who has an aversion to violence"Chuck Versus Santa Claus" and a low tolerance for pain, unwittingly enters a world of people willing to do violence to him. He is caring and sensitive, and those around him are often placed in danger.
Although some women had fought valiantly in the Mexican Revolution, even in dangerous combat conditions, and had achieved military rank up to captain and colonel based on the merits, their grade and achievements were officially annulled almost immediately after the revolution. In 1916, circular #78 by the Secretary of War declared that "all military appointments of women and girls are null and void, whatever their contributions may have been." This not only blocked their path to reenlist in the army, and the right to belong to the Legion of Honor in their capacity as veterans, but also blocked their military retirement pensions. When peace came, they not only bypassed women for honors and pensions, but ignored their contributions entirely, as their mere presence would do violence to a patriarchal institution.
But if you wish me to come to you, so that the respect due to bishops may be preserved, let me come to you, but do you descend at once from your lofty throne and meet me and offer your head to my hands, asking for my blessing. And then let me sit down, but do you stand respectfully, and sit only when I bid you, when I give the signal. If you accept this, I would come to you; but in any other way, you cannot give so much nor be capable of such great deeds that we, neglecting the honor due to the bishops, would do violence to the divine order of priesthood.” When this message was reported to her, she swelled up in her soul, not considering it endurable to accept such words from Leontios.
The levy was a surplus produced from the total income after agreement had been reached as to the expenditure to be incurred by the second and third respondents: To read "gross or rates income" as meaning "net income after allowing for all expenses of the substructure" was to ignore the inclusion of the words "gross or rates" in the phrase, and thereby to do violence to the provision as a whole. The levy was accordingly not based on gross or rates income, and therefore did not comply with the requirements of item 23(c).Paras 92-95, read with para 74. Per contra, Kriegler J (Langa DP, Mokgoro J, Sachs J and Yacoob J concurring) held, firstly, that the attack on the imposition of the levy based on the contention that it fell foul of the requirement of section 178(2) of the interim Constitution, because it was not "based on a uniform structure for its area of jurisdiction," could not succeed.
Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st-century CE philosopher, is recorded as having said about Aesop: > like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble > incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it > the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more > attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their > own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story > which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he > did not claim to be relating real events.Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of > Tyana, Book V.14 Earlier still, the Greek historian Herodotus mentioned in passing that "Aesop the fable writer" was a slave who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE.The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus. trans.

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