In September 1510, a group of Dominican friars arrived in Santo Domingo led by Pedro de Córdoba; appalled by the injustices they saw committed by the slaveowners against the Indians, they decided to deny slave owners the right to confession.
All of these behaviors, though, are harmful -- and when they're committed by men in the context of patriarchy, they need to be understood as connected to how we, as cisgender men, are socialized within patriarchy to be abusive.
On a daily basis as gun-based murders and suicides don't even make the news unless they're committed by or target a famous athlete or celebrity or they're especially horrific?
To excuse similar atrocities because they are committed by regimes that are "only" authoritarian is to detach words from the realities they, are supposed to represent and clarify, and to hide human anguish behind a euphemistic phrase -- a practice more suitable for either authoritarianism or totalitarianism than for our democracy.
When they are committed by diplomats with impunity, the notion of "restoring diplomatic relations" is oxymoronic.
They were committed by the Marines, the Army, the Military Police, Navy Seals, reservists, Special Forces and on and on.
Mr. Broad and many of the newer, wealthier donors intend to distribute the money they have committed by their death or within a set time thereafter.
Its midnight offering to close out Halloween night on Thursday is a classic example: "Bloody Marys," about murders linked only by the coincidence that they were committed by women named Mary.
While awaiting trial, they set to making a film – called, improbably, Landscape of Lies – in the forlorn hope that its existence would erase the crime they had committed by not making one in the first place.
Mr. Laurino said he had sought the DNA testing in the two library rape cases because they were so close in time -- May 12 and June 17 -- and similar in manner that it seemed likely that they were committed by one person.
