Sentences with phrase «achieving justice in»

I have assumed that my conservative colleagues are equally concerned about justice; we simply disagree about the best way to achieve justice in today's complex world.

Through the narrative it shows the reader how an average American can achieve justice in an environment designed to benefit the wealthy, powerful and corrupt.

At Peter Thompson & Associates, we understand drunk and impaired driving accidents are serious and are dedicated to helping you achieve justice in your case.

The class action attorneys at the firm are skilled in assisting injured groups achieve justice in the courts.

But he should do so only where necessary to achieve justice in the matter at hand, not to entertain himself or bolster his reputation.

With these caveats in mind, the initiatives in the UK nevertheless remind us that it is crucial to the ongoing project of endeavouring to achieve justice in sexual assault trials that adjudicators (as well as other legal actors) disabuse themselves of discredited myths and stereotypes and apply sexual assault laws free from «ignorance, prejudice, and / or misconception about rape» (see Ellison & Munro, «A Stranger in the Bushes or an Elephant in the Room?

«Stolen Generations members are aging, and there is an urgent need to ensure they, and their families, don't face further trauma by a failure to achieve justice in their lifetime.»

Not exact matches

Private prisons» cost savings are «modest,» according to one Justice Department study, and are achieved mostly through «moderate reductions in staffing patterns, fringe benefits, and other labor - related costs.»

That's why Mattie, in a decisive sense, lacks faith: God doesn't provide justice; we have to achieve that for ourselves.

«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward mobility, they may become a little more conservative on social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many of the issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»

The Pope is confident that, once this is achieved, it will be possible to cooperate in a productive way in the areas of culture and society, and for the promotion of justice and peace in society and throughout the world.»

I believe in justice and fair play (though I don't know exactly how we achieve them, other than by continually trying against all possible odds of success).

We send criminals to jail instead to achieve social justice, and their sentences are deliberately measured in time behind bars: Offenders must be withdrawn from society for a period sufficient to allow them to realize the wrongness of their actions» and sufficient to protect society from them until they learn that lesson.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

It seems to me that in passage after passage the Bible condemns man's pretentious notion that his own powers are sufficient to achieve justice and secure his rights.

Is it not an element in Christian belief that in the Passion of Christ precisely that marriage of truth and justice with mercy which Professor Wisdom seems to desiderate was achieved?

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

(2) People who advocate the use of nonviolence as a force in society to achieve social justice, represented by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., «scandalously» (I Cor.

Much of the motivation for this form of action for justice depends on hope for success in achieving the declared goals within a foreseeable time span.

The possibilities are great for achieving social justice through this easily implemented change in the property tax.

We think of heaven as a place where perfect love will render justice unnecessary by showing how impossible it is to achieve in human terms, rather than as the place where the power of love will make justice finally possible.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

The formulation «The messiah reveals the participation of all things in the eschatological fulfillment that he accomplishes by his death and resurrection» does not do justice to the biblical witness that the eschatological fulfillment is achieved through two comings of the messiah, not one.

Smedes is not a Pollyanna in his expectations for achieving social, justice; but neither is he fatalistic.

Her political theology is a matter of loyalty to Jesus and strenuous exertion to achieve justice and righteousness in human society.

There are elements of justice, of freedom, even of brotherhood to be achieved through human effort in society.

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

Justification by faith in the realm of justice means that we will not regard the pressures and counterpressures, the tensions, the overt and covert conflicts by which justice is achieved and maintained as normative in the absolute sense; but neither will we ease our conscience by seeking to escape from involvement in them.

Achieving Our Country is a poignant cry for the left to return to what Rorty thinks is the real business of politics, which he frankly describes as «social justice» understood in terms of redistributing wealth.

Love seems at best a whisper of the spirit in the clamour of history; yet our age of power is headed for catastrophe unless a new justice can be achieved.

God's righteousness is his justice, and his justice is manifest in his working to put down the unrighteous, expose idols, show mercy, and achieve reconciliation in a new order which expresses man s dignity as bearer of the divine image.

The Christian sees that the striving of law is for justice, but knows that the justice men achieve has no saving power; it does not justify them, for justification of man is alone in Jesus Christ.

White Northern liberals represented themselves as the friends of the Negro and deceived King and many other blacks into believing that they really wanted to achieve racial justice in America.

Achieved good, accomplished justice, truth in its fullness: all these are forever «safe» in God, to whom alone (as a biblical text puts it) belongs immortality.

Freedom is not and can not be achieved unless the society is based on justice, radical justice, in which the worth of every life is equally affirmed.

What will it take for us to achieve racial justice in this country?

And I am concerned that the Church is indeed conforming to the world — every time it preaches violence as a way to achieve justice, every time it glorifies celebrity and success, every time it reduces womanhood to subordination and manhood to power, every time it justifies cruelty or unkindness in the name of proving a point.

But the age in which justice is to be achieved, and yet freedom maintained, by wise regulation of the complex economic interdependence of modern man, is powerless to be born.

So I do think that the rule of law is critical in achieving racial justice.

While we can not achieve perfect peace and justice in this world, we have a model by which we can achieve remedial justice.

Over the longer haul hope invests itself strongly in winning the game, getting the job, shortening the war, and achieving economic justice only if these seem to add up to something enduring.

(Though we need to note that while the Bible speaks consistently for justice and for siding with the poor it offers little that is unambiguous about policy and strategy for achieving it - another example of how God gives plenty of scope to us to participate in creation - redemption by using our imagination and initiative!)

As it is understood in this century, the common good can be achieved only through a delicate balance of foresight, self - sacrifice, self - actualization and justice.

He suggested and «hoped» that other penal and penitential measures might achieve justice, «favour the good of souls and avoid scandal» in an expedited way, especially relevant given Fr Murphy's precarious health.

«It's a job well done, to be honest it is hard to find the words to do justice to what he has achieved in English football.

But like in life, justice is not always achieved.

I am confident that the prosecutors in Florida have ample statutory authority to deal with the case and that the Florida law on self - defense will not be an impediment to achieving justice.

The second question is related to the above: a «free market» baseline of justice is about procedure - how outcomes are arrived at, who is involved in making decisions, has rights over their own actions, how actions are agreed by parties etc. (or something like that) whereas equality is an outcome, that may or may not be achieved under various procedural arrangements, and may or may not be viewed as desirable by people who hold different views about what forms of society - specifications over who has what rights to do what to who.

However, Professor Caney recognised a number of challenges which are faced in efforts to achieve intergenerational justice.