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We can now descend thousands of meters into the Earth with relative impunity.
People outside that circle are treated as sub-human, and can be exploited with impunity.
They are raped, beaten up and sometimes killed with impunity.
What I fear most is power with impunity.
I mean, there are many other megarisks that are going to define fragility in our time, not least income inequality, poverty, climate change, impunity.
Mary knows that, but she also knows that the only way to stop them and to protect herself and her community is to expose their intimidation, to make sure they understand somebody is following them, to break the impunity they feel.
Impunity was broken.
We must end this cycle of impunity.
And certainly not for the same things that other young people with more privilege are doing with impunity.
The Department of Justice says that more than half of the rapes on a college campus take place by serial rapists, because outside of the university system, if they rape somebody, they'll be prosecuted, but when they get on a university campus, they can rape with impunity.
It's also good news if you want to browse for illegal pornography and if you want to buy and sell drugs with impunity.
And by the way, before I move on, in the interim of those 40 years, those perpetrators were allowed to continue to offend with impunity.
There are no clear power relations in the world, no global governance mechanisms that work, which means that we live in a situation where impunity and unpredictability tend to prevail, and that means that more and more people suffer, namely those that are displaced by conflicts.
And in the process of doing all of these things, we shape landscapes and seascapes and cityscapes with increasing control and impunity.
The way they abuse people, the type of cruelty that happens in all impunity under dictatorships are beyond human imagination.
But by the time I was documenting the migrant trail in Guatemala in the late 2000s, most Americans had no connection to the increasing levels of violence, impunity and migration in Central America.
Impunity thrives when all the state and governmental institutions fail to protect the individual.
So you see these astonishing demonstrations: Voodoo acolytes in a state of trance handling burning embers with impunity, a rather astonishing demonstration of the ability of the mind to affect the body that bears it when catalyzed in the state of extreme excitation.
But if corruption creeps in and people don't have the opportunity to have that protection of the rule of law, then if you can use violence, if you can use violence with impunity, you can reach out and harvest the vulnerable into slavery.
A land of arranged marriages, men who dally with mistresses with total impunity, and women who are expected to tolerate all this, will eventually come up short.
The director throws freeze-frame and slow-motion shots about with impunity.
This allows him to doing characterized spoofs of even evangelists with relative impunity.
Some commentators, ranging from the liberal Polish ex-dissident Adam Michnik to ultra-conservative US Senator Jesse Helms, oppose prosecuting Pinochet on the ground that, unless such dictators are allowed to retire with their impunity intact, it will be impossible to persuade them to relinquish power.
Amnesties allowed the development of what is often called a culture of impunity.
Another contributing factor to the culture of impunity is the difficulty in deciding how and where to try those whose crimes include the destruction of the judicial systems of their countries.
Denying dictators a guarantee of impunity will only rarely figure in whether they depart from power.
The Security Council’s permanent members thus remain legibus soluti , i.e., sovereign in the seventeenth-century sense of the word, meaning “able to do evil with impunity.”
How else can they explain it than as a complete confirmation of the status quo and of their own ability to act with impunity?
Jews, alleged by the Nazis to pose an existential threat to Germany, could be persecuted – and later murdered en masse – with total impunity.
Gone are the days when CEOs could disrespect female colleagues and contacts with impunity.
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