Sentences with phrase «searching for justice for»

«Machete» — which tells the tale of a woman searching for justice for her excruciating paper cut — is hilarious without tipping over into flaming sledgehammers or explosions for the cringeworthy laugh.

Wesley, Wilberforce and Charles Finney's evangelical abolitionists stood solidly in the biblical tradition in their search for justice for the poor and oppressed of their time.

And in your search for justice for infants and young children, you gained international recognition and worldwide praise for your breastfeeding promotion work.

Not exact matches

The Justice Department's application for the search warrant for Rosen's Gmail account reveals the extent of the administration's Orwellian maneuvers.

The Justice Department imposed conditions on the acquisition, forcing Google to maintain separation between its search and travel flights businesses and to submit to government monitoring of complaints for five years.

For now a Department of Justice internal bulletin has instructed that, unless border officers have a search warrant, they need to take protective measures to limit intrusions, and make sure their searches do not access travelers» digital cloud data.

The search for Yoo's replacement may have already begun now that the U.S. Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Uber's software practices and Google's parent company Alphabet has filed a lawsuit over allegedly stolen self - driving car technology.

A court in Berlin on Tuesday referred to the European Court of Justice a dispute in which German publishers want search engine providers such as Google to pay them for displaying parts of their newspaper articles online.

«The searches were authorized by a federal magistrate judge, who had found probable cause to believe that the premises and devices searched contained evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities of conduct for which Cohen is under criminal investigation,» the Justice Department's filing said.

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

OTTAWA — Ten years after a suicide bomber took the life of diplomat Glyn Berry, newly released documents depict a frustrating — and fruitless — search for justice in what proved to be the first shot in Canada's long, bloody combat mission in Kandahar.

According to Department of Justice policy, an application for a search warrant of a lawyer's office such as this is so serious that it usually requires approval of either the U.S. attorney for the district, or the assistant attorney general.

In search of any evidence of White House pressure on the Department of Justice, AT&T asked the judge overseeing the case for access to White House correspondence, which the judge denied.

If one searches for news on LIBOR (= London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e., the rate at which banks lend dollars to each other in the euro - dollar market), they are currently dominated by Deutsche Bank getting slapped with a total fine of $ 775 million for the part it played in manipulating the benchmark rate in collusion with other banks (fine for one count of wire fraud: US$ 150 m.; additional shakedown by US Justice Department: US$ 625 m., the price tag for a deferred prosecution agreement).

I joined a socially liberal Catholic parish that focusses on social justice activities and prayer for self - searching.

It contains reference to the sacred character of the area as the homeland of the three monotheistic religions and, more important, its guiding motif is the search for justice, a category not without theological roots.

So shouldn't I be craving a new kind of Christianity that will undo my traditional evangelical upbringing while satisfying my newfound love for diversity, social justice, and, of course, soul searching?

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

That means we lay down our search for justice knowing the gravest injustice of all, our own sin against God, has been justified through Christ's blood.

This papal - inspired project, led by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi aims to hold cultural meetings involving theists, agnostics and atheists who share the common belief in and search for truth, justice and peace.

Agape bids us seek justice here, not the stale justice of combat and compromise, but the justice of a search for a new economic, political, and ecclesiastical order in which sexuality can be fulfilling for each in a life which is a support and not a barrier to the love which binds all together.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

In search of alternatives McFague offers imagery that well serves the World Council's interests in peace, justice, and respect for the integrity of creation.

Christian Aid is on the search for a group of creative young Christians that have a passion for social justice.

And even though I continued to search for a more traditionally orthodox basis for my political commitments, I drew much inspiration and solace from the witness of Christian people of more liberal theological convictions who modeled for me a courageous commitment to the biblical vision of justice and peace.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

Samuel Escobar, «Evangelism and Man's Search for Freedom, Justice and Fulfillment» in Let the Earth Hear His Voice, ed.

The search by the Hebrews for a true understanding of God, from Abraham to Egypt, from the Promised Land to exile, witnesses as a whole to the love of God and to the requirement for justice on our part, and forms the matrix out of which Jesus» teachings developed.

There is much in these books that constitutes the foundation on which he built: the story of this people's search for understanding of God and the notable calls for justice and righteousness.

The Church has always linked personal asceticism and the search for holiness with this demand for mercy and justice to the poor; the Lenten trilogy of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving is both fundamental and structural.

Whether that impulse comes through the preaching of a George Whitefield, the spiritual search of a Martin Luther, the passion for justice of a Sojourner Truth or Martin Luther King, or the humility of a Pope John XXIII, renewal always comes from a rediscovery of the spiritual power of the gospel.

The search for justice is a many - sided task.

Hauerwas reminds us of writings in which he has talked about cooperation with others in the search for justice, and he now flatly asserts, «Something has gone wrong when the church is not learning from the world how to live faithfully to God.»

The search for truth succeeds, sort of; justice is served, to some people; the case is closed.

When we thus argue for involvement of love in the search for justice we are only transposing into a more general framework the Hebraic conception of the covenant.

But Mr. Stringfellow leaves no basis for a meeting of people of different faiths in a search for principles of human justice.

To seek an answer to that question is to search for principles which articulate the conditions of justice.

But the purpose stands sure in God's providence; and every good deed, every right and brave action, every move towards justice and good will amongst men, every search for truth, every creation of beauty, above all, every humble and holy life, plays its due part in the accomplishment of that purpose.

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

The very search for a solution to life's problem was to the writer only «a striving after wind,» (Ecclesiastes 1:13 - 14) and in the end, seeing wickedness in the place of justice and evil men where the righteous should have been, (Ecclesiastes 3:16) he «hated life,» (Ecclesiastes 2:17) denied all moral government in the world, and concluded that although a man, in the intensity of his search, «see no sleep with his eyes day or night,» he will never understand what life is all about.

It is part of the social Gospel that thinks all mans search for Justice and peace in society can be found in the Bible, yet the truth is, all societies are sinful because it is in the very cry for justice that sins arise, much of thJustice and peace in society can be found in the Bible, yet the truth is, all societies are sinful because it is in the very cry for justice that sins arise, much of thjustice that sins arise, much of the time.

Detailing the general Indian revulsion against the violence in Gujarat and the search for justice by its victims, she highlights the «ability of well - informed citizens to turn against religious nationalism and to rally behind the values of pluralism and equality.»

Wars will not cease from the earth until the universal demand for autonomy is subordinated to the search for truth and justice — that is, until democracy is founded more in devotion than in desire.

you no longer have to search for the truth (or justice).

Thus the search for justice exposes man's real situation.

This is beginning to happen, but, paradoxically, the interfaith movement which draws together people of all faiths in the search for justice and peace at the same time often makes its members very critical of the compromises that many faith communities have made with the abuse of power and social injustice.

This fundamental debate between historic Christian theism and Enlightenment deism is one that activists can not ignore if we want to ground our search for peace and justice in Jesus» resurrection.

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian Ecumenism has given up the church's traditional pietist and negativist approaches to modernity and has been involved in the attempt to redefine the forces and values of secular culture within the framework of Christian anthropology.

However tempting it may be to paint a picture of villain - and - victim that fits some model of liberation from oppression, historical and biblical honesty compels us to search more deeply for a way toward justice and reconciliation in the Holy Land.