Sentences with phrase «addressing injustice»

«We are extremely grateful to peers in the House of Lords and to Emma Lewell - Buck MP for tabling amendments to the Children and Social Work Bill aimed at addressing the injustice that some parents could be legally unrepresented in court proceedings that could determine that their child was to be adopted.

We are grateful for Senator Lautenberg's unwavering commitment to addressing this injustice faced by Peace Corps volunteers, and look forward to working with him and his colleagues to pass this legislation.»

Zembylas and Chubbuck state that emotions are «socially and politically formed components of action, serving a crucial role in either addressing injustice or sustaining the status quo.»

Dean Osofsky's over 50 publications focus on improving governance and addressing injustice in energy and climate change regulation.

«No one in South Africa thought about going to the courts as a means of addressing an injustice.

In this regard, a just war people will devote time and energy between wars to developing means of addressing injustice short of war.

This criterion legitimates the resort to arms after other feasible means of addressing the injustice in question (such as mediation, negotiation, arbitration or referral to international tribunals — but not compromise or appeasement) have failed.

«But this is a protest that addresses injustices not only happening here in St. Louis but around the country.»

As people of faith, we are called to address the injustices of the current health care system; as investors and professionals working in the field, we are called to address its inefficiencies.

Likewise, this criterion asks of us the patience, hope and commitment to pursue other avenues short of warfare to address injustices that rise to the level of just cause.

It also ignores the fact that black Christian pastors, leaders and civl rights activists used the pulpit as a means to address injustices.

We have learned that the great weakness of localism is that it fails to address the injustices that are part of local custom, and that face - to - face communities are often intolerant of difference.

That movement had its unity not in a theology but in the conviction that the Christian churches had the responsibility to address the injustices of the class society being produced by industrialization and that the Bible, properly understood, required concern for these social issues.

Yet I am not persuaded that the hope of another life answers the problem of life's unfairness and suffering, and if it diverts us from addressing those injustices, it offers us comfort at the expense of the agony of other people.

«The tribunal would no longer be able to address the injustice that is caused to a social welfare claimant by the application of regulations that breach their rights protected by the Human Rights Act,» Lucy Cadd of Leigh Day solicitors said.

The key to tackling this problem is improving the energy efficiency of our housing, to address the injustice that sees our poorest households spending # 1 billion more a year on energy compared to non-fuel poor households.

As such, the United Kingdom has a moral obligation to address this injustice and recognise Isabella and her family's right to stay in this country.

On the value of these delegations in giving a first - class intensive examination of the issues impacting on the peace process and Palestinians living under occupation and blockade, Caabu Director Chris Doyle writes: «The overwhelming majority of delegates return energised by what they have seen and with a sense of duty to address the injustices they have witnessed.

There are faster or slower ways of addressing these injustices.

Over the course of the last 50 years, one woman has been an integral part of momentous historical changes, addressing injustices pertaining to women and minority groups.

Building student agency beyond exercising grit and self - determination, to recognize injustice in current and historical contexts while building school climates that make it safe for students to employ SEL — empathy, perspective - taking, self - regulation, and social problem - solving skills — to humanely and effectively address injustice when they encounter it

The blind adherence to what my friend Jeremy Lott calls the democracy of the dead can often result in conservatives being unwilling to address injustice by those institutions even when it is morally and intellectually justified to do so.

Skinner addresses these injustices with just the right tone.

Starting in January, the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, where she lives, has addressed this injustice by mounting her first career retrospective.

Our assignment is to create art for a demonstration or performance that communicates an effective message about a subject, using imagery and text that address an injustice or belief that you are passionate about.

In this letter, the signers emphasizes the importance rebating the money raised back to DC households to ensure that the policy does not harm poor communities, but can instead address the injustices that climate change poses to DC's most vulnerable populations.

The success of this pathway to change relies on stories, wins and demands that bring the moral urgency to address an injustice into the public spotlight.

Bill 76 contains half - measures; it fails to address the injustice of workers dying of compensible illnesses, often with long latency periods, who receive no entitlement to lost earnings if not diagnosed before they have retired or left the workforce.

These responses dwell on the lawyer - client relationship and view the lawyer as the central agent in the quest to address injustice.

The proposed reform will not alone be sufficient to address the injustices of extinguishment.

Oprah was the collective voice of women who felt empowered to say, «no more» and address injustices, which had occurred over many years in Hollywood.

In order to address this injustice, I recommend legislative amendments to address the Court's inability to consider the reasons for interruptions in continuity.

Not exact matches

Top Starbucks executives and about 40 Philadelphia clergy and community leaders met in what local leaders say was the beginning of an effort to push the coffee company to play a leading role in addressing racial injustice.

Held almost universally in the international community, the liberal peace stands as the global orthodoxy for addressing past injustices.

Supporting free markets and limited government doesn't even begin to address the question of how citizens should behave in the market: Can a citizen be guilty of injustice in how he uses his wealth?

This Sunday, Hillsong New York pastor Carl Lentz took to Facebook to explain why the church has embraced Black Lives Matter and addressing racial injustice.

Some Christians believe their faith must involve «turning over tables» and political action to address social injustice.

If one considers that such God - maligning thoughts as those in the image above spring from a common root (the supposed injustice of God), addressing that root would seem to be the best response.

Forgive us for refusing to make right the wrongs and injustices we could address and for refusing to repent of our sin and seek peace.

In recent months, we've seen a civil rights leader address an evangelical conference and clumsily call out the pro-life community for a failure to address racial injustice.

A just war is a limited war to address a particular, declared injustice.

In addressing past injustice and its legacy, how do we create a different foundation for the future?

The faith of the privileged person or dominant race failed to address or even recognize the injustices of their practices toward the other.

More to the point, he addresses what he sees as the specific failures within the Reformed movement to take racial injustice seriously.

Various nuclear - pacifist and pacifist liberation theologies are addressing the systemic injustices of militarism by intellectually and religiously supporting egalitarian communities committed to halting the arms race and developing nonviolent forms of legitimate defense.

Liberation theologies in Third and Fourth World countries, as well as political theology in First and Second World countries, are addressing these systemic class injustices by intellectually and religiously supporting and fostering egalitarian communities committed to more just economic and political orders (CBCC, CLT, LT, FSUW).

[25] This metaphysical approach to social transformation comprises a practical application of spiritual principles to directly address the violence, injustice, and suffering that exist in the world.

As in the classical contexts, so in the modern, there were many efforts to address the increasing injustices arising from classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.

In part two of a series on racial issues and Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Leonce Crump shares his thoughts on systemic injustice and asks when white Evangelicals will address this issue.

But that raises the question of who can read and appropriate such a text, since it is addressed not to the carefree scions of privilege, but to those who, like the early Christians, are in some manner oppressed and who, at the same time, under the impulse of ressentiment, wish to free themselves from prevailing injustices.