Sentences with phrase «against the exercise of»

They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the right: to bodily integrity and autonomy; to be free from sexual violence; to...

The deck is clearly stacked against the exercise of civil and political rights in Canada.

However, the Registrar is required to guard against an exercise of discretion that results in substantive inequality.

Not exact matches

«Through the exercise, the South Korean and US air forces have demonstrated the alliance's strong will and capability for strong retaliation against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats,» South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, according to Yonhap.

He starts out with a clever definition of what bullying actually is: «Bullying is what happens when an individual with power exercises that power against people who don't fit in.

Exercising regularly as we get older appears to help defend against some of this decline, both for healthy people who show normal signs of aging and for older people who may be on the path toward developing Alzheimer's disease.

Moyo told the civil service that the army was moving to protect them against the purge, and told the judiciary that the aim was to «ensure that as an independent arm of the state you are able to exercise your independent authority without fear of being obstructed as has been the case with this group of individuals.»

For shares that are delivered pursuant to the exercise of a stock appreciation right or stock option, the number of underlying shares to which the exercise related shall be counted against the applicable share limits, as opposed to the number of shares actually issued.

Canada's move to take the U.S. to the World Trade Organization over its abuses of globally agreed rules, made public Wednesday, is a clear signal that the NAFTA exercise is up against the wall and that the U.S. is preparing to trigger the six - month withdrawal notice.

Intermittent fasting, regular exercise and consumption of dietary phytochemicals can have a major positive impact on health by bolster - ing adaptive cellular stress response pathways that protect against and counteract a range of major diseases.

As such, its latest campaign comprises several films juxtaposing ordinary equipment such as the humble exercise bike against a backdrop of gritty «This Girl Can» - style footage showing people working out.

If the Floor Proposal is presented at the meeting, the proxy holders will have discretionary voting authority under Rule 14a - 4 (c) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the Floor Proposal and intend to exercise such discretion to vote AGAINST such proposal.

Still, I don't want to take a chance of having the short May calls exercised against me.

We are asking whether the pre-sale was actually a decentralized exercise, with decentralized results, that would militate against a finding of horizontal or vertical commonality.

In an editorial provocatively titled «Against Human Rights,» he argues that the concept of human rights has become an ideology that functions, at least in the West, as «an enemy of the responsible exercise of freedom,» indeed a «patron of negative freedom, pushing against demands and obligations arising from our shared culture.Against Human Rights,» he argues that the concept of human rights has become an ideology that functions, at least in the West, as «an enemy of the responsible exercise of freedom,» indeed a «patron of negative freedom, pushing against demands and obligations arising from our shared culture.against demands and obligations arising from our shared culture.»

This inevitably must come to an end, we have to grow up, exercise our free will, and live with the consequences of our decisions and live with or struggle against the decisions of others that affect our lives.

Mr. Keith Cressman, a Methodist minister, filed suit against the state alleging violations of his rights to freedom of speech, due process, and the free exercise of religion under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

We tend not to recognize, however, the amount of violence the national government is exercising in the war against crime and the war against drugs.

«You can pray» For prayer: Allowed to exercise their freedom of religion Against prayer: Allowed to exercise their freedom to leave

Either social conservatives will devise effective new political strategies now, in 2018, or the Republican party will turn against them, and Democrats will exercise their power more aggressively, unhampered by fears of opposition.

In the treatment of the relation between justice and love, in which «God turns against himself,» there is something of the «paradoxical» way in which God exercises his sovereignty.

• The United States has conducted ongoing military maneuvers and training exercises in Central America as part of its psychological war of intimidation against the Nicaraguan people.

Repetition of words — even great words like those of the Lord's Prayer — is mere muscular exercise, and our Lord himself warned against supposing that we could be heard for our much speaking.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

But in many recent cases they have tended to agree more readily on another thesis: that the free - exercise clause does not interpose protections of religious obligations and practices that it once did (from 1940 to 1981), and that the establishment clause does not have the, force against government action that it once did (from 1948 to 1985)

To sum up, Leclerc argues against Whitehead, as he understands him, that a complex physical organism exercises an agency proper to itself which is not simply reducible to the agency of its constituent actual entities.

nottolate — I have not seen the film, but unless it is promoting violence against Muslims, then the film is an exercise of free speech that should not be suppressed.

Against Childs and Levenson, he contends that «biblical theology is an exercise of the academy, and ecclesial use is secondary.»

SJP — I have not seen the film, but unless it is promoting violence against Muslims, then the film is an exercise of free speech that should not be suppressed.

The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

Jesus exercises his divine rights in ejecting the moneychangers and merchants from the Temple and in pitting his authority against that of the Temple rulers.

There is so much we come to fear over the course of a lifetime, so much we suppose will defeat us, that we make life an exercise in securing ourselves against our insecurities.

The amendment was intended to safeguard the right of individuals to exercise freedom of conscience in religious matters against encroachment by the federal government, and to ensure that such concerns would remain under the control of the several states.

The ever vigilant state charged her with illegal discrimination and took her to court, where the California Supreme Court ruled against her appeal to the free exercise of her religion.

The violence employed against the Minjung by the oppressive powers is not only physical but also economic, social, political and cultural; it is psychological and communal, corporate and spiritual, as the exercise of power becomes ever more sophisticated.

To highlight this usage is not deny some of uses of power are oppressive, but rather to suggest that exercise of power, especially state power, needs to be evaluated by some criterion other than whether the person who is on the receiving end of a powerful action has less power than the persons acting against them.

Undaunted, the supposed guardians of civil liberties — except the free exercise of religion, it seems — recently brought a case against a Catholic hospital for refusing to permit doctors to perform an elective hysterectomy as part of a sex - reassignment surgery.

Gandhi's conception of the strategy of non-violence was coupled with the doctrine of Satyagraha, soul force as a spiritual power, which is exercised in love against all material power.

On the other hand, the literature was used and transmitted because it manifested its ability to contribute to the life of the Church in the first place, was declared to be Scripture in recognition of this in the second place, and continues to exercise its influence (sometimes even against the Church) in the third place.

But papers like the American National Catholic Reporter (which has been on the warpath against Fr Degollado for years) have undoubtedly seen this not simply as a vindication of their stance in that particular battle, but as a victory in their general campaign against the way authority is exercised in the Church, and in particular against Pope John Paul II and his legacy.

Citizens have a natural right against the state to free exercise of religion; that's why they should have the civil right to such exercise.

Postmodernity claims the right to exercise one's freedom against the law of nature, against traditions and against divine revelation.

As it turns out, these poor fellows may not have been vagrants but merely exercising their constitutional rights: The Obama Administration recently filed a legal brief in a case out of Boise arguing that, in certain circumstances, outlawing sleeping in public violates the Eighth Amendment proscription against «cruel and unusual punishment.»

The exercise combines elements of a rite of passage with characteristics of an endurance contest, pitting attendees against overheated (or overcooled) auditoriums, crowded lobbies, middle - aged men who don't use Flomax, and small doorways unable to accommodate large crowds.

by saying: In three ways --(1) its members must fulfil their moral responsibilities and functions in a Christian spirit; (2) its members must exercise their purely civic rights in a Christian spirit; (3) it must itself supply them with a systematic statement of principles to aid them in doing these two things, and this will carry with it a denunciation of customs or institutions in contemporary life and practice which offend against those principles...

I will not engage in a contest of pitting «experts» opinions against each other as such an exercise is as pointless as biblical proof texting.

But when David writes about «authenticity», freedom, and honesty, and I exercise those principles, some of you jumped right on me — against exactly what David was trying to promote.

To wit, if God authorizes the magistrate to employ an instrument of death for «the good,» then God authorizes lesser exercises of state violence against criminals as well.