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"self-protection" Definitions
  1. the act of protecting oneself, one's property, or one's group : SELF-DEFENSE

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" As for what type of self-protection, she says "There are a lot of self-protection courses.
They also would not be armed unless necessary for self-protection.
I carry around a 380A pistol for my personal self-protection.
"It was a kind of self-protection," he told the Holocaust Museum.
Self-protection, I discover, is a huge reason many Americans own firearms.
She seeks revenge as a means of self-protection, not blood thirst.
It was, to a significant degree, an act of political self-protection.
Then, I learned that I could say no for my own self-protection.
In my opinion, the main purpose of the Chinese government is self-protection.
A lot comes down to self-protection, but also protecting my own community.
I imagine that the next kind of self-protection will go through this process.
Justifiable self-protection has always been linked to the infliction of death upon others.
As crime went up, the idea of gun ownership as self-protection took hold.
The paradigm of police work will now change from community policing to self-protection.
When was the first time we as women learned that self-protection life hack?
" Pam says she wants perpetrators punished, but adds women need the "ability of self-protection.
Establishing Self Protection Areas (SPAs) requires economic and social structures, governing institutions, and humanitarian assistance.
More than 80 percent of the force's resources are spent on logistics and self-protection.
And that will essentially push the burden of self-protection onto the victims of harassment.
The weapons' purpose is blackmail and self-protection, with no Cold War grand strategy involved.
If they go public, should their powers be used for profit, self-protection or altruism?
For self-protection, they needed to show themselves to be exceptional, experienced, brave, and seasoned men.
And the Church's use of external, worldly arbiters is meant to assuage suspicions of self-protection.
It asks participants to answer questions designed to make people push past politeness and self-protection.
Join us in the fight to protect YOUR right to own a firearm for self-protection.
Were self-protection the issue, the Price daughters would have secreted kitchen knives about their persons.
"My first thought was self-protection, the survival instinct," Toensing told the Washington Post in 22019.
He said the constitutional right "to keep and bear arms" extends beyond the home for self-protection.
Perhaps it's a form of self-protection not to despise someone you once built a life with.
During periods of ethnic strife in the 20th century hyphenated-Indian communities turned inwards for self-protection.
He answers questions with reticence, all his self-protection shifting from adult swagger back to younger silence.
Sia told The Observer last year that the effort to hide her face evolved from self-protection.
As a single mother living in Arizona, escaping an abusive relationship, she was concerned about self-protection.
The Bergen County sheriff armed the Kopps for self-protection and later appointed Ms. Kopp a deputy.
For some students there on Tuesday, the demonstration was an act both of protest and self-protection.
Reasons also vary for civilians to own guns legally, including hunting and sport as well as self-protection.
I'm not an advocate of assault weapons, but I am an advocate of self-preservation and self-protection.
Mr. Stanley's supporters have used the episode to call for American-style "stand your ground" self-protection laws.
Though Diane's ability to kill is ultimately a form of control and self-protection, it feels disconnected from anger.
Giuliani's comments are in the same vein as Trump's efforts to demean women as a means of self-protection.
All gun buyers were required to have a genuine reason to qualify for a license (self-protection didn't count).
In Germany, gun licenses can normally be obtained to hunt, for target practice, or in rare cases, self-protection.
They vowed to smash the rules, but it turns out it was mostly for self-enrichment and self-protection.
In another, a woman folds her arms across her bare chest in a gesture of devotion or self-protection.
I understand that the US is a lot bigger, and people might need more self-protection in remote areas.
And the opening passage repeats the words "brother to brother" until they become a wall of erotic self-protection.
The writer is the author of "Vigilance: The Savvy Woman's Guide to Personal Safety, Self-Protection Measures and Countermeasures."
"As for necessary military installations, they are mainly for defence and self-protection and are legitimate and lawful," it said.
While it does benefit from the strength of NATO, its neutrality gives it extra incentive to think about self-protection.
But Sansa's mode of self-protection has given her a unique perceptiveness that Arya has struggled with in the past.
Due process of law is a vital constitutional principle and Americans have a right to own firearms for self-protection.
Panic after a Republican loss could strain party unity as lawmakers from less conservative districts focus increasingly on self-protection.
What seem likely, however, is that this weekend's deaths may just drive more Americans to want guns for self protection.
Germany has already taken delivery of five A400M transporters but they did not have a self-protection system, the spokeswoman said.
What happens when people can fulfill the basic need for self protection and preservation without the tragedy of taking a life?
Those lining up at gun stores insist they are arming themselves only for self-protection, but frightened people often act irrationally.
Heller holding for the first time that an individual has a right to keep a handgun at home for self-protection.
Obama went on during the town hall to argue that he respects people who want guns for self-protection, hunting and sportsmanship.
It will examine the pathology of power in the service of self-gratification and self-protection — from the law and from accountability.
SUGGESTIONS FOR SELF-PROTECTION In 2013 the SEC published answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) related to personal liability at broker-dealers.
The self-protection system on the new A400M includes a projectile warning system, a radar warning receiver and can launch decoys, she added.
We haven't found any better methods for self-protection other than sending a small ball tearing through human skin and bone and blood?
I think he brought this on himself because he wants to distance himself from us, from everyone, as a form of self-protection.
A senior Administration official told me that members of Trump's national-security team are not convinced that Kim will stop at self-protection.
So often, self-protection in summer comes down to a choice of which feels less nasty on the skin: sunscreen or bug repellent.
There were taxi drivers and bodega store clerks in the Bronx and Manhattan and Queens asserting their Americanness, sometimes out of self-protection.
"Every firearm death is tragic, and both firearm owners and non-owners should know about safe storage, self-protection and suicide," Betz said.
"As for necessary military facilities, they are primarily for defense and self-protection, and this is proper and legitimate," the Defense Ministry said.
Dropping public accommodations from these bills would disproportionately affect trans people because it can be difficult to hide our trans status for self protection.
And, as a third measure of self-protection, they measured female haemolymph's microbicidal potency by watching its effect on bacteria in a Petri dish.
Not only did vaccination represent a feat of medical science, it reflected a widespread understanding that self-protection and social protection are inevitably intertwined.
The number of people who cite self-protection as the reason for owning a firearm has grown, said Mr. Smith, the social survey's director.
Modern Love A culture of consent, one woman argues, should be less about self-protection and more about genuine care for the other person.
Yet an attack like this is certainly unlikely on any college campus or classroom, given larger amount of room for escape or self-protection.
They are also the type of guns lawfully possessed by many people in this country for legitimate purposes like target shooting and self-protection.
We're just not thinking about the planet when we shop; holding the reality of our impact on the environment at bay is self-protection.
To the Editor: We must model self-protection strategies and behaviors for our children, especially our daughters, so that they grow up more savvy.
The Second Amendment says it is for the self-protection, but is it not clear that guns are more often used for crimes and violations?
In a bizarre state of affairs, women travelling in metro trains in India's capital city of New Delhi, can now carry knives for "self-protection".
Through his personal YouTube account, Swanson subscribed to channels by gun and self-protection groups, as well as conservative channels like The Dave Ramsey Show.
The civil protection service warned that northern and central Greece could also be affected on Sunday and called on citizens to take self-protection measures.
Indeed, developing a Self-Protection Area requires local leaders to deliver food, shelter, safe drinking water, medical care, sanitation, schools, health care, and humanitarian assistance.
For years there have been complaints that St. Clair inmates are heavily armed — some for self-protection — and allowed to move freely about the compound.
"Principles aside, from a basic sense of self-protection, how could they not perceive the risk of being labeled union-busters?" he asked in amazement.
" There's a strain of this in contemporary lifestyle minimalism, which offers self-protection and retreat: "Your bedroom might be cleaner, but the world stays bad.
Creating new restrictions for rifles and shotguns, she said, would deprive law abiding adults ages 18 to 20 of their constitutional right to self-protection.
In an interview with Elle, she explained how her comments in the press used to be very surface-level as a means of self protection.
All 40 women revealed they had felt "threatened and unsafe" at some point during their journey, often taking desperate self-protection measures as a result.
"It is a body bent on self-protection," said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, a government watchdog group, referring to the Legislature.
In what amounts to an outbreak of intelligent self-protection, the citizens of San Diego, polls show, have opposed building a new stadium with tax dollars.
However, I think the opposite should happen as many of us have basked in retreat far too long, holding back out of fear and self-protection.
The Army Ministry said the missiles were intended for the "self-protection of a French military unit deployed to carry out intelligence and counter-terrorism operations".
"These laws simply protect and expand the ability of law-abiding citizens to exercise their constitutional right to self-protection," said Jennifer Baker, an N.R.A. spokeswoman.
They are also, the report said, lousy with corruption and rife with drugs, cellphones and large, sharp knives, which many prisoners consider necessary for self-protection.
It is a record of failure that in most other nations would produce a certain kind of fatalism, if only as a form of self-protection.
Policymakers must set clear direction and set aside the self-protection and slow incrementalism that constrains legislation to the point of instant irrelevance and exploitable weaknesses.
And while pro-gun advocates often tout the importance of self-protection, studies show that bringing a gun into the home puts everyone at a greater risk.
In a democracy, allowing the pardon power to be used for self-protection creates an inherent conflict of interest and undermines confidence in the rule of law.
"The 2008 Heller decision guarantees an individual's right to keep a gun in your home for self-protection," she added, referring to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
"I think it's going to be a mixed bag," said Mike Holtzclaw, a municipal public safety official in Atlanta who owns guns for hobby and self-protection.
But far from being some sort of epidemic requiring a campaign of self-protection, being falsely accused of sexual assault is very, very uncommon for American men.
"National Guard personnel will only be armed for their own self-protection to the extent required by the circumstances of the mission they are performing," he said.
My own research has shown that when people are cognitively depleted or physically tired, they feel more vulnerable and are more likely to engage in self-protection.
The troops have been barred from interacting with migrants or any people that Border Patrol agents detain, and would not be armed unless necessary for self-protection.
But Mitko is a wily manipulator, motivated at times, perhaps, by genuine affection for the narrator, and at other moments by a durable instinct for self-protection.
In addition to its self-protection module against SQL and XSS injections, Sqreen now provides an in-app Web Application Firewall, protections against account takeovers, bad bots, etc.
" Leaving clinical assessment aside, he regards her as "basically delusional... I think we're dealing with someone who is quite delusional, and there's an element of self-protection, too.
I do not own a gun, but am entirely sympathetic to those who love to hunt, participate in competitive target shooting, or keep a weapon for self-protection.
Her friendship with Heather is symbiotic, messy, and a touch co-dependent, and their dynamic increasingly chafes—only for them to later work beautifully together in self-protection.
Russia has relatively strict gun legislation, with handguns generally prohibited and extensive background checks required, but her group wants to normalize gun ownership for the purpose of self-protection.
Yet absent these "old way" factors—supposing you actually attempted to rely on blockchain's self-interest/self-protection to build a real system—you'd be in a real mess.
Heller found an individual right to own guns for self-protection, but no civilian needs a weapon capable of shooting 26 people in 32 seconds to ward off burglars.
"Miss Americana" pulls back the curtain (slightly) as the pop star grapples with a formidable opponent — the patriarchy — and shows how her self-protection instincts have begun to thaw.
As Janice Min, the former editor of The Hollywood Reporter, said in an email, hiring at "these increasingly corporate studios" does not involve innovation as much as self-protection.
Though there are certainly opportunities which have been out of reach altogether, we thought of the many others we've chosen to give up ourselves as a means of self-protection.
Progressive artists and academics are perhaps acting with a mixture of solidarity and self-protection as they will be under attack in coming years from emboldened bigots and anti-intellectuals.
"As for necessary military facilities, they are primarily for defense and self-protection, and this is proper and legitimate," the Chinese Defense Ministry said about the weapons on the islands.
In a statement sent to reporters, the Army Ministry said the missiles were intended for the "self-protection of a French military unit deployed to carry out counter-terrorism operations".
The Americans were equipped with their own side arms — standard issue for self-protection — and could be seen climbing into and driving in tan pickup trucks mounted with various weapons.
Letter To the Editor: "Guns in Tiny Hands: In a Week, Four Toddlers Shoot Themselves" (front page, May 6) highlights the tragic folly of keeping a firearm for self-protection.
A tax break on safes and locks is a great idea, though I admit I've always wondered how a gun locked away can be effective as a self-protection tool.
One of the victims, it's probably necessary to point out, happens to be a theater critic, but it's not only for reasons of self-protection that I enjoyed the show.
Over the weekend, Mr. Bolsonaro announced he would issue an executive order allowing civilians without a criminal record to purchase weapons to keep at home or work for self-protection.
City Index Eleventh said in a statement the planned poison pill measures, to be implemented without shareholders' approval, are for management's self-protection and buck corporate governance progress in Japan.
City Index Eleventh said in a statement the planned poison pill measures, to be implemented without shareholders' approval, are for management's self-protection and buck corporate governance progress in Japan.
Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Holger Neumann told reporters the German air force was able to meet its military requirements despite the issue with components needed for the warplane's self-protection system.
They need to better communicate with other groups that have established similar structures, in the hopes of linking together the neighboring self-protection areas as an alternative to the Assad regime.
The N.R.A. and other gun-rights advocates argue that the weapons should not be called "assault rifles" at all, and that they are usually used for hunting, marksmanship or self-protection.
" Instructing Mr. Hoffman to streamline the granting of gun permits, Mr. Christie wrote that state law must "reflect the appropriate level of government regulation of this fundamental, individual right to self-protection.
The monotony of everyday life melts into the asphalt, where my main interest is self-protection, and my brain strips away to reveal the threat and promise of my immediate physical surroundings.
And so the film was kind of conceived as a self-protection mechanism, where he could discuss that, but do it with one person, rather than a whole lot of different people.
As with any group of people who practiced a martial art historically, fighting sports function as a means of self-protection when a trained individual found himself or herself in dire circumstances.
They claim that the Constitution prohibits the president from pardoning for the purpose of self-protection, for the same reason it forbids using the pardon power for the purpose of financial gain.
But they were networked with other predators who helped them skate through to the next assignment, and the larger ecclesiastical entity saw its own self-protection as more important than their punishment.
With a creature who knew no other way of being than in the here and now, I could drop my methods of self-protection and let my tender, real, vulnerable self be seen.
While some self-protection is wise, asking victims to limit their worlds is not a sufficient response to the problem of stalking and cyberstalking alone, as it burdens victims for their own victimization.
In contrast, Kristeva and Sollers's presentation of their marriage seemed the work of two people who think openness equates with exposure, and thus were more involved with self-protection than with truth-speaking.
For Mr. Vernon — or Mr. Ocean, or Lorde, or Feist, or Adele, or any number of stars who take their damn time — keeping quiet is first and foremost an act of self-protection.
So far, administration officials have said the troops have been barred from interacting with migrants or any people that Border Patrol agents detain, and would not be armed unless necessary for self-protection.
Other details come to the fore: the prosecutor also told people that he did not trust his own private security, and he made a point of acquiring his own weapons for self-protection.
For more than a decade, this has been the tug-of-war central to the singer and songwriter's art and her public image, but recently, her self-protection instincts have been thawing a bit.
Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 18-20 years old from acquiring rifles and shotguns effectively prohibits them for purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection.
It made me feel like this fat that I was perceiving as self protection wasn't a flaw that I needed to shed, but rather a healthy comfort that was healing for me psychologically and physically.
This voice comes from a place of self-protection, not self-hatred, and has often led me to what I imagine self-love "should" feel like: short-lived bliss, a very temporary state of okayness.
Then, for all the time we spend not having the thing we want, such as a romantic relationship, our brains have to justify and validate our stance in life as a form of self-protection.
Francis's predecessor, Benedict XVI, ultimately came around to removing many offending priests, but expectations were high that Francis would tackle the culture of secrecy and self-protection in the Vatican that has perpetuated the problem.
That type of response "is a common, instinctive reaction - it's a form of psychological self-protection," added Shirakawa, who became pregnant because of the rape, which she didn't report to police, and had an abortion.
Among Israel's Arab minority, which makes up more than 20 percent of the population, there is a proliferation of illegal weapons, mostly kept for self-protection or used for criminal purposes or in internal feuds.
While banning semi-automatic assault rifles won't end all gun violence, it may save a few lives without significantly interfering with the rights of gun owners to use other firearms for recreation and self-protection.
Like many of his fellow G.O.P. contenders, Cruz is a stringent supporter of the second amendment – although it seems for him, it may be more about the quality of his breakfast than concerns over self-protection.
" In his letter, McQueen goes on to request a renewal for his gun permit, "as it is the only sense of self-protection for my family and myself, and I certainly think I have good reason.
The internet told me that bottle-feeding and stroller-using would be perceived as sins in progressive, urban communities like mine; the fact that I was doing both meant these measures toward self-protection were necessary.
ROME — Pope Francis apologized on Wednesday for the flash of anger — or self-protection — that he exhibited while greeting the faithful around the Vatican's giant Nativity scene after a New Year's Eve liturgy the evening before.
Today dreams of a post-nationalist future are dying and the idea that peoples need a place that they can call home for reasons of both self-fulfilment and self-protection is once more on the rise.
Add that half of gun owners now say they own firearms for self-protection, up from a quarter at the beginning of the century, stir in lobbying by the National Rifle Association (NRA), and change looks impossible.
Treating safe spaces as hermetically sealed sanctums is both a form of self-protection and a means of liberation, fostering a sense of anarchic freedom, and a world apart from the unequal one outside the rave's confines.
Yes, a dog picks up those signals because it's empathetic — as are many social animals that live in packs and herds — but the base, evolutionary reason for reaching out to calm the owner/handler is self protection.
But most of all, we circled around a primal wound inflicted on Jacobs as a child by his mother's mental illness, which left him with a taste for high emotion and a heightened instinct for self-protection.
Sensible laws regulating the sale, ownership and licensing of guns and gun owners would not prevent gun ownership for self-protection, hunting and sports shooting, but might have prevented two deaths in 1971 and many more since then.
A critical test of whether Donald Trump will be able to turn the DOJ into an instrument of harassment, revenge, and self-protection is if this act of subversion results in some kind of similar reassertion of independence.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's air force will get an Airbus A400M military transporter with a self-protection system for the first time towards the end of the year, a spokeswoman for the Defence Ministry said, almost a year behind schedule.
"This poor versus rich differential propensity to invest in self protection means that air pollution exposure exacerbates quality of life inequality in Chinese cities because the poor are exposed to more risk," Kahn and the paper's other authors write.
Though each garment came from a different designer, together they created the impression of a woman who has found the glamour in self-protection, and who is gradually tailoring the unwritten rules of her role to her own specifications.
In the 3-0 schools decision, Circuit Judge John Owens said California could rationally decide that retired peace officers could have firearms on school grounds for self-protection, based on their prior exposure to crime, and protect public safety.
"So the system is smart enough to identify those common things that take place, common risks and hazards, and then it apply self-protection, which means it protects before damage occurs," Superpedestrian founder and CEO Assaf Biderman told TechCrunch.
The following day, Eichenwald wrote in a series of tweets that he would be taking a break from Twitter while working with law enforcement to track down the culprit: For self-protection, I am taking a short twitter break.
"Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 18-20 years old from acquiring rifles and shotguns effectively prohibits them for purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said.
"Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 85033–20 years old from acquiring rifles and shotguns effectively prohibits them for purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said.
TEL AVIV, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems Ltd said on Tuesday it won a follow-on $46 million contract to supply additional direct infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) self-protection systems to NATO for its Airbus A330 tankers.
In 2008 and then in 2010, the court ruled that, within certain limits, the government could not prohibit people from having handguns in their homes for self-protection, declaring that the amendment guaranteed that right for Americans as individuals.
Then I also told him, against every instinct of self-protection I've developed over the past three years, that I was arrested too, that I'm a felon, and that before Lily was born I was hopelessly strung out on heroin.
Some of these beliefs — about the need for independence and self-protection — date back to the days of my mom's stern warnings and the threats about strange men in our neighborhood who would steal me if I got too close.
"We believe the evidence will show that Miss Hubers is not guilty of this crime [and] that she was privileged to have self-protection where she was acting under extreme emotional distress," defense attorney James Eldridge said during the retrial.
We teach firearm safety, train how to shoot safely, teach self protection, teach the laws regarding the legal use of firearms, educate on safe storage methods to keep guns out of prohibited hands and provide safe methods for transporting firearms.
The Dallas ambush sits at the intersection of two of the primary stories America tells about guns today: as a protection against tyranny (or a threat to government), and as a threat to public order (or a tool for self-protection).
At present they have only the very limited self-protection of supporting their own lives so far as possible from their own land — that is, by producing their own food and fuel, and by harvesting energy from their own sunlight.
"To avoid the loss of tens of thousands of lives we must order an immediate shelter-in-place," Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said on Friday, using a term that has commonly referred to self-protection measures exercised during mass shootings.
"Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 18-20 years old from acquiring rifles and shotguns effectively prohibits them for purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection," said NRA Public Affairs Director Jennifer Baker.
"Despite what [Clinton] says to try and get elected, she would stack the Supreme Court with anti-gun justices who would overturn our fundamental right of self-protection," Chris Cox, chairman of NRA's Political Victory Fund, said in a statement Wednesday.
The component issue, first reported by Spiegel Online on Tuesday, centers on a so-called "grease nipple" that is part of the system that cools the wingtip pods that house elements of the self-protection system, which was designed by BAE Systems.
Despite a recent uptick captured in a 2012 survey, hunting has declined over the past three decades, which means that gun sellers need to find ways to get people who have already bought a gun for self-protection to buy more weapons.
""And we will be setting it out with more detail when it is the right time to do so because we absolutely appreciate that it is a very big ask of the elderly and the vulnerable, and it's for their own self-protection.
In those cases, defensiveness, what relationship expert Dr. John Gottman describes as "self-protection in the form of righteous indignation or innocent victimhood in an attempt to ward off perceived attack," feels like it's protecting you but really it's keeping you jailed.
The failures in the first weeks "greatly reduced the vigilance and self-protection of the public and even medical workers, making it harder to contain the epidemic," said a study of the epidemic by 313 medical experts from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Shot in 16-millimeter color film, it is a direct, sympathetic, humanizing introduction to the Panthers — which had formed in response to police brutality — with images of party members carrying guns for self-protection that help crystallize why they became government targets.
Her characters are forever trying to analyze their own emotions, primarily as a form of self-protection: If they can fully understand what they are feeling and why, they seem to believe, their emotions will no longer be able to hurt them.
According to Shugerman and his co-author, Ethan J. Leib, the Constitution says that the president cannot pardon people for the purpose of self-protection, which means he cannot pardon himself or others in order to shield himself from a criminal investigation.
Christopher Krueger, a gun industry analyst at Lake Street Capital Markets in Minneapolis, said that an even bigger area of sales for gun makers like Smith & Wesson was small, semiautomatic handguns that can be carried concealed — weapons that appeal to consumers concerned about self-protection.
"Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 18-20 years old from acquiring rifles and shotguns effectively prohibits them from purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection," Jennifer Baker, an N.R.A. spokeswoman, said in a statement on Thursday.
Guns may well be a tool of self-protection, but they do much more: With guns, men both rework their personal codes about what it means to be a good man and transform lethal force from a taboo act of violence to an act of good citizenship.
They know full well that most voters are not asking to scrap the Second Amendment, but for common-sense gun laws that could prevent or reduce more school shootings and would not interfere with any decent Americans' right to own guns for hunting, sports or self-protection.
" Chris Cox, the executive director of the NRA lobbying arm, said Tuesday that the NRA, a majority of the American people and the Supreme Court, "believe in the Second Amendment right to self-protection and we will unapologetically continue to fight to protect this fundamental freedom.
For teenagers today, the internet is both a stage onto which to step boldly and a minefield through which to step gingerly — a double bind that has given rise to whole new habits of living online, in which self-expression and self-protection are inextricably linked.
After running on the promise he would relax Brazil's onerous gun ownership regulations and make it easier for the police to kill criminals, he said on Twitter that he would, by issuing an executive order, allow civilians without a criminal record to buy weapons for self-protection.
In the era of our nation's founding, regulations in major cities like Boston and New York effectively made it impossible for people to keep loaded guns in their homes, even as those living outside the city limits could and did rely on guns for hunting and self-protection.
The NRA, however, is opposed: "Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 18- 20-years-old from acquiring rifles and shotguns effectively prohibits them for purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection," Jennifer Baker, an NRA spokesperson, said in a statement.
"These fraternities have drink, danger and debauchery in their blood — right alongside secrecy and self-protection," Lisa Wade, an Occidental College sociology professor and the author of "American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus," wrote in a Time magazine essay that called for an end to fraternities.
" The radical Whigs, though they, too, were implanted within establishment circles—grouped around William Pitt and the pro-American Marquess of Rockingham, with the devilish John Wilkes representing their most radical popular presence—were sympathetic to Enlightenment ideas, out of both principle and self-protection, as analgesics to mollify "the mob.
Her argument was two-pronged: She suggested that Hollywood's emphasis on extreme beauty has insulated her from the worst forms of harassment throughout her career, and she described the acts of "self-protection" — including dressing down and modifying her behavior — that have helped her ward off unwanted attention from men.
Paradise as a character deals with the fetishization of the body — both literal female body, and the island-as-body — and the thesis presentation Her current work has also expanded to incorporate machetes as an iconic tool and weapon in Jamaican culture, but also as a symbol of self-protection.
And we've been very careful recognizing that, although we have a strong tradition of gun ownership in this country, that even though it's who possess firearms for hunting, for self-protection, and for other legitimate reasons, I want to make sure that the wrong people don't have them for the wrong reasons.
But he fell over himself to praise most gun dealers and gun owners as responsible, to note that suspicion of an overbearing government is a hallowed American tradition, and to promise that he has no intention of trying to restrict the right of law-abiding citizens to buy guns for self-protection.
"As for the limited and necessary self-defense facilities that China has built on islands and reefs we have people stationed on, this is consistent with the right to self-protection that China is entitled to under international law so there should be no question about it," Wang Yi told reporters in Beijing.
So Silicon Valley's leaders use corporate wokeness, diversity initiatives and progressive virtue signaling as a kind of self-protection, a way of promising that they're mostly men but they're the good kind of men, so that discrimination lawsuits and antitrust actions and other forms of regulation are less attractive to their critics.
The 24 jets were upgraded with the installation of a new modular mission computer, Link 16 data links and a self-protection suite under a Foreign Military Sales package worth $750 million before delivery to Indonesia, although one was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 2015 after running off the runway during its takeoff roll.
Using official time, law enforcement professionals were also able to describe their working conditions that led to a reintroduction of the Osvaldo Albarati Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act of 2017, which would require the warden of every BOP-operated institution to provide a secure storage area where workers can store their personal firearms carried to and from work.
Thorne juxtaposes an image of militarized police with one of Black Lives Matter activists; one of Sitting Bull of the Lakota tribe against an image of the 7th Calvary; the opium magnate Sackler brothers and the Columbian cartel-heading Ochoa brothers — all complicating the question of what it means to organize like-minded people in the name of violence, opportunity, or self-protection.
Embracing this outlook in a profession so dependent on the whims of (mostly white, mostly male) executives feels like an act of self-protection, but could just as easily be an act of shrugging self-care when dealing with an industry that's clearly liked having Oh around, even if it never seemed quite sure what to do with her for reasons that go beyond race.
Although I'm fairly familiar with the popular theater genre where people place themselves in Houdini situations for fun [shudder] that goes by the term "escape room," my mind usually goes to the Jodie Foster movie (which also featured a super young Kristen Stewart for all of you escape-room-loving millennials), and the whole neurotic phenomenon of self-protection for the elite from the rabble (although there's actually a long and sympathetic history of safe rooms — they're even in the pyramids).
As the movie's audience, we see the rituals and routines of the house through Billy's cynical eyes, such as the pre-dinner "hands in," but we also see the hopefulness and uncertainty of his now-foster sister who's about to head to college (and age out of the system), the disengagement and self-protection of the foster brother who's there in body only, and the open-armed plea for affection of the younger foster sister, who wants the security of togetherness.
"President Trump does not pretend that his pardon of the Defendant is based upon the considerations of grace that usually justify the exercise of the pardon power "The pardon here is not based upon 'circumstances which may properly mitigate guilt,' but is intended to defeat the Court's authority to punish disobedience to the Court's orders — 'an independent means of self-protection' — and perhaps is even intended to endorse the Defendant's contention that he was a 'sovereign sheriff' beyond the power of federal courts.
The column I was writing before the fire was mostly a lament for what the document's reception betokened: A general inability, Catholic and secular, to recognize that both the "conservative" and "liberal" accounts of the sex abuse crisis are partially correct, that the spirits of liberation and clericalism each contributed their part, that the abuse problem dramatically worsened during the sexual revolution (a boring empirical fact if you spend any time with the data or the history) even as it also had roots in more traditional patterns of clerical chauvinism, hierarchical arrogance, institutional self-protection.

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