Sentences with phrase «about unjust»

The reason for my choice was straightforward; studying and also knowing about an unjust system did not allow me to be ad hoc or piecemeal in my approach to law.

Yet, the decision started discussions about the unjust nature of our Act.

Note that there may be equitable remedies such as the presumption of resulting trust, but all the warnings about unjust enrichment apply here as well.

«In cases like these, where Ronnie Chang will face a jury of his peers, jurors may be faced with decisions about unjust laws.

I'm doing it as an act of controversy to make people think about the unjust nature of the world economy.

Also mounting good campaigns are talented candidates with good ideas like Brian Kavanagh, former chief - of - staff for Council Member Gale Brewer, and aide to former Mayors Ed Koch & David Dinkins; Chris Papajohn who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's committee on disability law when they discovered that U.S. Post Offices are often not accessible to people with disabilities; Gur Tsabar, an aide to Speaker Gifford Miller, is articulate and well - informed on many issues, and authored an editorial in the April 14 Town & Village newspaper about unjust redlining of disabled New Yorkers due to budget concerns; Darren Bloch, a former Con Ed spokesperson who is a member of Community Board 6, is well - versed on housing and homelessness issues.

There are no petitions to free him, no colleagues complaining about his unjust persecution.

Paul could have complained and argued and become bitter about his unjust arrest and the false accusations being made against him.

At the present time, we are seeing a number of authoritarian expressions born of the frustrations people feel about the unjust and incomprehensible world in which we live.

It is election time and suddenly the politicians have some humanity to talk about unjust practice in the USA toward Muslim American.

And yes, venting is allowed as well: Someone finally owning their own feelings about an unjust situation at work, at home, or at church.

To give explicitly his own, Christian affirmation of what we might call these proto - feminist complaints about the unjust foundation of «the noblest and most brilliant city Greece ever had» would have, of course, deeply and needlessly offended the ruling men of his time.

Not exact matches

«That seems to suggest that there's something that we need to be concerned about and inquire further because, on the face of it, there seems to be a discrimination — whether it's just or unjust is a matter for the proceeding.»

«Making up childish nonsense fairy stories about heaven, (In Hebrew culture ALL souls went to Sheol, the just and the unjust, and Sheol was NOT where Yahweh lived),»

This is for you yeah you hateful little bigot About this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and impious towards God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices.

We must seem very strange to Christians of the Third World, for example, in talking about love but then building economic dams so that we can control those rains God sends from heaven on the just and on the unjust.

Those saying God was unjust about the flood have it wrong!!

A doctrine about hell being everlasting torment for all sinners is (to most people) self - evidently unjust and disproportionate.

The Belhar Confession, originally drafted in 1982 and formally adopted in 1986 by the DRMC of South Africa, came about as white and black Christian leaders wrestled with the gospel and the unjust social systems of their land.

He claimed that the judgements that were pronounced were unjust and that there was nothing godless about Christians, but everyone shouted him down and the governor did not allow the just claim he put forward.

About this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and impious towards God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices.

It is about justice and whether societies are just or unjust.

There is a verse that applies to all mankind, this is not about the harshness of an Eternal God, this is a reality all mankind must deal with no matter ones faith or non-faith: The Rain Falls on the Just and the Unjust... God did not cause cancer!

After all, He knows a thing or two about facing a violent government system, turning unjust laws on their head and living as a child of God.

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

Not only is it important to know about one's own faith but I feel you must also know about others as these influence the actions of those around you and therefore many of the policies made by governments around the world - many of the policies being unjust!

Franklin Graham's sin is similiar to many statements about the poor and unjust judges in Isaiah.

I am not at all convinced that it is, provided that steps are taken to alleviate any unjust hardships brought about by this.

As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.

One does not find that the church as a whole is enough concerned about the evil and unjust results of race discrimination and the color bar.

When Gombis and others talk about the weakness of Jesus, they are thinking of his pliant submission to arrest, unjust trial, execution.

It is also important to remember that the poor that Jesus preached about were deprived of opportunity or free will by an unjust state.

I suggest he give some thought to St. Paul's words about Christ dying for us «while we were yet sinners, the just for the unjust.»

But where is Christian leadership in the building of a new world view about the sinfulness of multinational structures that are living off the backs of the poor by giving unjust wages and benefits but will spend 165 billion dollars of bail - out welfare for the rich in the S&L's?

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

«ABOUT this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and impious towards God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and abused themselves with Sodomitical practices.

What they liked most was the president's warm words about Poland and her historical struggles for freedom, which sounded particularly topical at a time when the country and its government have been an object of massive and unjust attacks by EU officials.

And when I talk about encouragement, I'm not referring to encouraging an unjust system to continue in its carnage just because it's the church.

One can, of course, differ with the thesis of Donald Kagan's Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, but to suggest (as the April editorial, «How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained,» does) that the work has anything in common with «deconstructionism»» «made up,» «fabricated,» the product of «myths» and «creative misinterpretations»» is totally unwarranted and patently unjust to Kagan, who is a distinguished historian in the classic, traditional mode.

There can be no mistake about the prophetic intent: the popular proverb is denied in its pointed use as a declaration of the innocence and the consequent unjust suffering of the prophets» own generation (see also Ezek.

We strut around the globe, all puffed up about our civil righs and how intolerant and unjust other countries are and then we come home and bash and spew hatred and ignorance.

But surely the Christian cause would have derived an incalculable gain if, at the loss of even millions of dollars, it were to bring about a day when the bogey of intermarriage could no longer serve as an excuse for perpetuating our unjust social discrimination against our colored brothers.

We may be bothered with the problem of whether this or that action is a violation of the sacredness of life; or we may be worried about whether a particular action is just or unjust; or whether a particular choice is the violation of a promise, etc..

There, Jesus tells a parable about widow who is trying to get justice from an unjust judge.

The Pope had expressed support for the English Bishops in their concerns about the planned law, and noted that «the effect of some of the legislation... has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.

It is simply not accurate to say that «any sacrifice is unjust,» especially when you are speaking about a very particular kind of sacrifice.

But those who led the fight were clear about this integral relation with the gospel and the transformation of unjust structures.

In a survey reported by the financial - services firm Rothstein Kass in December, more than 80 % of the 178 athletes polled — each with a minimum net worth of $ 5 million and two thirds under the age of 30 — said they were «concerned about being involved in unjust lawsuits and / or divorce proceedings.»

Wigan may well be a watching exercise in the meantime, best left well alone before they win half - a-dozen games on the trot and make my childish comments about their new signings look ridiculous and unjust.

Failing to teach kids with privilege that they have to be more conscientious about choosing how to act, puts them in a position where they may be blindsided by their peers, who know better, and who won't stand for unjust treatment.