Sentences with phrase «against adopted people»

The world uses adoption to describe, qualify, dismiss and even discriminate against adopted people.

Not exact matches

If more people adopt the van dwelling lifestyle and rebel against the rental market, «it can only be a good thing.»

In addition to these arguments against Harnack and his followers, adopting his historical exclusivism would make us into a certain kind of people.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq War.

But I do agree with judging ideas / theologies and concepts — since these are things people adopt and they can be discussed to help make a better society — but no shot at the person has to be done in those discussions (since it against no one person).

She supports a woman's right to an abortion, is against the death penalty and corporal punishment, is not in favor of adopted children digging up their biological parents against their wishes, and believes that Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the incurably ill people who turn to him for painless deaths should be left alone.

The Court, if it had wished to rely upon Jefferson to determine the true and original intent of the First Amendment, could have served themselves and the American people well by referring to Jefferson's warning to Judge William Johnson regarding the de-ter-min-ation of the original intent of a statute or a con - st - itu - tion On every question of con - struc - tion, carry ourselves back to the time when the Con - st - itu - tion was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.»

We must remember that Paul, the narrator, is a biased party in the dispute and that he uses the event to bolster his argument against persons in Galatia who would like gentile converts to adopt such Jewish customs as circumcision, religious holidays and dietary restrictions.

A few weeks ago, my friend Kristen at Rage Against the Minivan blogged about actions all of us (particularly people who aren't in a position to adopt) can take to address the global orphan crisis.

I admire people in the US who adopt vegetarian diets, both because it usually goes against prevailing habits and they may face a lot of opposition, and because they would have to learn new ways of cooking and eating from how they grew up, a very difficult thing to do.

She spent her later years warning the young people in her adopted hometown of Vancouver, Canada, not to be complacent but speak out against Nazism and fascism in all its forms.

Adopting the motion sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu (APC, Lagos Central), titled 2016 Children's Day Celebration with the theme; «stop violence against children'the Senate mandated its joint Committees on Women Affairs and Health to visit the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and look into the health and welfare of the women and children and recommend appropriately to the Senate.

«Because the Mediterranean diet is based on food groups that are quite common or easy to find, people around the world could easily adopt this dietary pattern and help protect themselves against heart disease with very little cost,» Georgousopoulou said.

Lydia X. Z. Brown (Autistic Hoya) is a gender / queer and transracially / transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer, and speaker whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply - marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing.

Lydia X. Z. Brown (Autistic Hoya) is a gender / queer and transracially / transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer, and speaker whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply - marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing.

Costner's half - hearted media apology to the Indian nation for the atrocities committed against them in the name of unrivaled, unapologetic, rapacious greed (for which the people of One Nation Under God have made good - not) makes for a nice pass of time even if the lead characters are ironically Caucasians (though adopted by Native Americans).

Not long ago, I offered up a retrospective review of the minor 1980s hit, Soul Man, in which I somewhat questioned the merit of the filmmakers for adopting this formula: exploit as many stereotypes against Black people for easy laughs, because in the end, it will go for affirmation of the ridiculousness of such stereotypes.

Mr. Fernandez has given the districts until the end of this month to either adopt the teachers» guide, called «Children of the Rainbow, First Grade,» or propose alternatives that conform to the board of education's policy on educating to eliminate discrimination against various groups, including people with different sexual orientations.

UN Security Council will adopt Resolution 1566 in 2004 and gives a definition of terrorism as «criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.»

If other Federal agencies plan displacements in or adjacent to a demonstration program project area within the same time period as the project acquisition and relocation actions of the demonstration program, the Secretary shall adopt measures to protect against inconsistent treatment of displaced persons.

The advocacy group says the company monitors and controls interactions between drivers and customers, and should adopt and enforce policies to prevent discrimination against blind people with service animals.

Yes they also turn people against shelters when more and more should be helping the shelters and adopting straight from them.

appy Hound Rescue does not discriminate against people applying to adopt dogs based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, sexual orientation.

Many people who are unable to adopt their own cats are able to visit with them responsibly; instead of bringing a cat home against a landlord's wishes or without the financial means to care for one.

It provides crucial safeguards against the introduction of dogs carrying infectious and zoonotic diseases and parasites, which hurt consumers who buy or adopt them and can spread to other animals and people.

Lydia X. Z. Brown (Autistic Hoya) is a gender / queer and transracially / transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer, and speaker whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply - marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing.

A survey of major shelters and humane societies around the U.S. found many who are firmly against declawing, and some will not even adopt a cat to a person who intends to declaw.

Lydia X. Z. Brown (Autistic Hoya) is a gender / queer and transracially / transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer, and speaker whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply - marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing.

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

There are better qualified people than Jensen (he's a metallurgist) who have adopted a credulist position so his qualification is no guarantee against it.

Given some of the arguments against AGW, and its close relationship with oil & gas and mining, some people might have expected that GSA may have adopted either a neutral or skeptical position on AGW.

The Chief Justice also adopts Justice Cromwell's positioning of the standard of occupation, from the common law perspective, as lying between the minimal occupation which would permit a person to sue a wrongdoer in trespass and the most onerous standard required to ground title by adverse possession as against a true owner (para 40).

The appeals court focused on a federal statute adopted in 1965 that says: «No person shall receive any preference or priority or be discriminated against in the issuance of an immigrant visa because of the person's race, sex, nationality, place of birth, or place of residence..»

States recommended that Canada improve its relationship with Indigenous peoples, and encouraged Canada to adopt international conventions (that is, Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment).

The European Court of Justice adopted a different approach however and held that: «It is important to protect all natural persons against discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin.

Lydia X. Z. Brown (Autistic Hoya) is a gender / queer and transracially / transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer, and speaker whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply - marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing.

More and more people of influence are encouraging non-Indigenous Australians to consider how they would be affected if their children were forcibly removed from them, or if as a child they had been taken from their loving family against their will and raised in an institution or adopted out.

The UN General Assembly adopted this landmark declaration outlining the rights of the world's estimated 370 million indigenous peoples and outlawing discrimination against them — a move that followed more than two decades of debate.

Lydia X. Z. Brown (Autistic Hoya) is a gender / queer and transracially / transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer, and speaker whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply - marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing.

The Court also noted that Congress adopted this expanded definition «to preclude discrimination against a person who has a record of, or is regarded as having, an impairment but who may at present have no actual incapacity at all.»