Sentences with phrase «actions against society»

Tucked into the language about how under -18-year-olds should be treated differently than adults, is this: «we must ensure that the victims of crimes and the effect of criminal actions against society as a whole are also taken into consideration as we weight changes to criminal justice policy.»

At the same time, we must ensure that the victims of crimes and the effect of criminal actions against society as a whole are also taken into consideration as we weigh changes to criminal justice policy.»

Not exact matches

To be «conservative» about society means that you are against helping your fellow human beings in any way, as we can see from their actions.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

People who want to harm others to benefit themselves we call sociopaths, and as a society pass laws against such action.

It's basically this preoccupation with procedural justice, which goes with a highly individualistic society (we are all individuals competing; the rules have got to be the same for all of us) that accounts for the revolt against affirmative action.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

a) Revolt against Wittenberg: Muentzer «s theological reflection culminating in a theology of society and political action received its first impetus from Luther's opposition to medieval ecclesiastical authority.

A class - action lawsuit has been filed by the Legal Aid Society on behalf of tenants in two Sunset Park apartment buildings who alleged that the landlord discriminated against them and made them prove citizenship before agreeing to renew their leases.

This action by the two state security outfits has received massive condemnation across the country with some civil society organisations threatening legal action against the NPA, BOST, The MD and the security agencies if the decision is not reversed for proper investigation to take place.

The commission may take any punitive action against civil society and «do all such things incidental to its functions» under the Act.

A civil Society group in the mining sector, WACAM, is calling for a decisive action from government against all forms of what they term irresponsible mining.

A civil society organisation, Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism, CATE, has demanded explanation from the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) over its actions towards the...

Suffolk County's Conservative Society for Action (CSA) wants Altschuler off the Conservative ticket — it is petitioning for Republican candidate, Christopher Cox, to primary against Altschuler for the Conservative nomination in September.

A Lagos - based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, whose law firm was handling the matter, had said the actions of the security agency were against all known laws of a democratic society.

In 1976, the AAAS Board and Council jointly created a permanent Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility to develop policies and procedures to protect scientists, engineers and health care professionals against infringements of scientific freedom and responsibility, to monitor policies and actions taken by governments that might affect their professional rights and duties, and to promote attention to scientific freedom and responsibility within AAAS, its affiliated societies, and the general public.

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It isn't easy to break old, unhealthy habits, to rebel against mainstream society, to differentiate yourself from family and friends, to take a moral and ethical stand each moment of every day with every action you take, etc..

That is, will Keanu and his drug buddies, played by Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, and Rory Cochrane (reprising his role in Dazed and Confused), get politicized and take action against their not - too - distant - future surveillance society?

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The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on theiAction Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on theiaction from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

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The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society and they can't be solved by lots of testing and by punitive actions against schools that are not performing well.

Sentinel: Does the humane society feel proper action has been taken in the Leesburg case against animal control officer Doug Berwick, charged with animal cruelty in the shooting death of a dog?Troesch: Yes.

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The complaint filed by The Humane Society of the United States also urges the USDA to take enforcement action against Purebred Breeders for failing to obtain a license in light of recent changes to federal regulations that require retailers who sell puppies to consumers sight - unseen to obtain a federal license.

The attorney general also indicated that it will take no further action at this time against the Society.

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The Humane Society of the United States asks the Federal Trade Commission to bring enforcement action under federal consumer protection laws against 17 retailers for false advertising of fur garments.

On Aug. 4, the OHS cancelled its application for an emergency injunction, due to be heard this Monday, after six humane societies asked to be part of the legal action against the OSPCA.

He saw his destiny as a continual vanguard action against the forces of academicism in art and conservatism in society.

Reilly is a founding member of both The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) and the Women's Action Coalition (WAC)-- two organizations fighting discrimination against women in the art world and society at large.

His work has also been the subject of important group and solo shows throughout the span of his almost 50 - year career, including Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2013); superhuman, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim (2012); Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA (2012); The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (2010); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2009); Thirty Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008); Black Is, Black Ain't, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2008); Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning at Art Institute of Chicago (2008); Art After White People: Time, Trees, and Celluloid... at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2007); William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2007); 7e Biennale de l'Art Africaine Contemporaine, Dakar, Senegal (2006); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004); The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2004); Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York (2004); William Pope.L: the friendliest Black artist in America at ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, DoverseWorks Artspace in Houston, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, ME, Artists Space in New York, and Mason Gross Art Galleries at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (2002 - 2004); eRacism: Retrospective Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland (2002); eRacism: White Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York (2000); Eating the Wall Street Journal and Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston (2000); and Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 — 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998).

Per Espen Stoknes shows the way with this brilliant description of how to go with rather than against the flow of human nature and thus shift society to action.

In an unusual turn against its citizens, and despite being widely considered «free» in terms of civil liberties by independent watchdog organization Freedom House, the Australian state joins the ranks of countries that have shown a worrying trend in the suppression of civil society and peaceful action.

On September 1, 2015, Jagadish Shukla, president of the tax - exempt Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES), who is also a climate professor at George Mason University, led a group of 20 academics calling for RICO action against all climate skeptics, their organizations and fossil fuel companies.

To take effective action against existing and potential socio - environmental challenges, global society needs scientifically - based development of appropriate policies, education that raises collective awareness and leads to actions, investment to build new or improved technologies, and changes in economic and social structures.

The Law Society is threatening legal action against the Legal Services Commission (LSC) over its plans to introduce tendering for very high cost cases (VHCCs).

Therefore, the failure of law societies to take action against a problem the size and duration of unaffordable legal services, justifies government intervention under the federal government's «trade and commerce» power of s. 91 of The Constitution Act, 1867.

«Despite these multiple approvals, TWU now faces the necessity of legal action against the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Nova Scotia Barristers Society, and now the Law Society of British Columbia, related to their disapprovals of TWU's law school based upon the University community's religious beliefs,» said a press release.

Digital Journal reports that more than 5,200 international «researchers, professors, postdocs, [and] seismologists» have signed a petition supporting the seven defendants and the Seismological Society of America has denounced the charges as an «unprecedented legal action against members of the seismological community.»

In that case, three separate actions for malicious prosecution were brought against the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (the «OSPCA») who had charged three individuals with animal cruelty offences.

He has been a member of the Law Society's Clinical Negligence Panel since 1996 and a member of the Action against Medical Accidents Panel (AvMA) since 1998.

In August, the discipline committee of the law society issued a citation against Palkowski, alleging he committed professional misconduct related to actions in 2003 and 2004.

Mala is an accredited member of the Law Society's specialist clinical negligence panel, and a member of Action against Medical Accidents and the Medico - Legal Society.

Her main area of expertise is clinical negligence; she is a member of both The Law Society's clinical negligence panel and the referral panel for Action against Medical Accidents.

Our Clinical Negligence work is accredited by the Law Society and Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA).

The ruling follows a Law Society court action to secure an injunction against the «Solicitors from Hell» website to protect its members and the public, on the grounds the site was not a credible source of reliable information about solicitors.

A second action involved rent arrears, conversion of chattels, an action for possession and bankruptcy proceedings involving, on the way, a dispute with Railtrack over a parcel of land and another against the Law Society claiming compensation for the alleged illegality of the solicitors who had represented him.