Sentences with phrase «against unjust»

To preclude a civil litigant from relitigating an issue previously found against him in a criminal prosecution is less severe than to preclude him from relitigating such an issue in successive civil trials, for there are rigorous safeguards against unjust conviction, including the requirements of proof beyond a reasonable doubt and of a unanimous verdict, the right to counsel, and a record paid for by the state on appeal.

It gets some information wrong, but argues in favor of jury nullification as the last line of defense against unjust laws, citing numerous cases of people being arrested for minor offenses.

And issuance of a harsh penalty may chill other lawyers from speaking out against unjust policies in the future.

Young people across Colorado used the week to speak their truth against unjust disciplinary practices that are contributing to the School to Prison Pipeline.

He compared that to accepting segregation and not taking any action just because it goes against unjust laws.

In each of our projects, we're fighting against unjust laws and policies that keep children from getting the great public education they deserve.

For example, in the teacher quality lawsuits, we're helping families fight against unjust laws that keep poorly - performing teachers in the classroom and make it harder for schools to keep their best teachers.

There's lots to absorb from this curated package of resources focused on helping families protect themselves during ICE raids and on helping educators speak out against unjust immigration laws and practices.

Boots Riley / Sorry to Bother You (U.S.A.): A black telemarketer with self - esteem issues discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.

Boots Riley (writer / director) / Sorry to Bother You (U.S.A.): A black telemarketer with self - esteem issues discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.

But then came video cameras on cell phones, recording the very acts that have been perpetrated on many black communities throughout the country and honestly, I look at the same song as an honest and powerful protest against an unjust system that at times treats minorities as sub-human.

This film depicts Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) fighting back against an unjust world.

The CSC itself ostensibly campaigns against the unjust American embargo of Cuba, but in practice uncritically parrots the Cuban government's line on just about everything.

An important aspect in the struggle against the unjust globalization is weakness of the poor themselves.

In particular they should be warning aginst the weakening of collective bargaining rights and against the unjust rewarding of failed CEOs.

They also took a very negative view of worldly society and some of them were prepared to countenance rebellion against unjust and ungodly princes.

According to those norms, one may defend oneself against an unjust aggressor, but, if at all possible, this must be done by nonlethal means.

But the significance of such a law is not only that it puts the coercive power of the state against the unjust discriminator, but that it puts the moral power of the state against it also, T. V. Smith's statement that laws «represent the maximum of private conscience which can at any time become social fact.»

But this has never prevented the Church from defending herself against unjust attack.

The modern, secular version of the just war tradition has effectively reduced just cause to self - defense against an unjust aggressor.

An example: «One of the most important goods of human societies is that their defense against unjust aggression is fully justified.»

There has been a solid Reformed tradition which has explicitly argued that Romans 13 does not preclude resistance against unjust rulers.

How do you feel justified in telling people that they can not dissent against unjust behavior?

«It is to the credit of Mother Pascalina that she endured it, and to Pius XII that he defended her against unjust attacks.»

We should praise the many excellent things he has done, defend him against unjust allegations, and offer our sincere counsel in areas where we think he needs improvement.

Not exact matches

Uber subsequently emailed users to make clear that the company thinks President Donald Trump's immigration ban is «unjust, wrong, and against everything we stand for as a company,» though much of the damage may have already been done.

The lumber duties are «unjust and punitive» and Canada will continue to push back against American industry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Brampton, Ontario.

Our philosophy is to work closely with a customer to resolve issues if they are encountered, however we will also strongly defend ourselves against claims that are unjust or lack merit.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you are so against Representative Boehner because of his unjust policies against the nation's poor, then why in God's name are you paying him to speak at your university?

We would have raised on outcry against the tax itself, and how it was unfair and unjust and way more than Caesar needed, and how the Roman government was wasting what money it did have.

There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority, that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.»

Father Regamey makes the same distinction, but in more classic fashion: «The violence that is an unjust aggression, from outside, against persons, is bad violence, even though this injustice be called order.

He reminds us that the deepest presumption in Christian thought is not against violence, but in favor of protection of the weak and the innocent from unjust attack and oppression.

So powerful is the force of social influence that unjust racial appraisals infect the consciousness both of those who are discriminated against and of those who discriminate.

Your organization's mission is supposed to be «to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens.»

I am against discrimination based on personal opinion because it's unjust.

CSW chief executive Mervyn Thomas said: «While we applaud the dropping of the capital charges levelled against pastors Haghnejad and Irani, and deacon Rabbani, it is completely unacceptable that they have faced trial once again on unwarranted charges and that their unjust prison terms may be extended even further.

Instead of peace, 2012 brought increased persecution in which vigilante murder, unjust arrest and outright discrimination against Ahmadi Muslims continued.

Everyone: Christians & Non ~ Christians alike need to stop blaming God for everything they feel goes wrong or is unjust in their eyes in this world and realize that when Satan was cast out of Heaven along with a third of the Fallen Angels who betrayed and rebelled against their God ~ ~ God cast them down to this very Earth.

Only because of the unjust king hengry the protestant did protestants prevail against the catholic church and moreover coming to the new world.

Similarly, bearing false witness against other persons and communities, or casting unjust and uncharitable suspicions upon them, is incompatible with the gospel.

At the Reformation, there was disagreement whether a Christian should submit to unjust rule, and some radical Christians upheld the right to rebel against a tyrant.

Unless it were demonstrated that Hussein's regime posed a clearly identifiable and imminent danger to the U.S. (or to Iraq's neighbors), the war against Iraq would be manifestly unjust.

But I beg you to please remember that not all Christians who speak out against gay marriage are bigots or homophobes, and calling them those names is as unjust as it is unkind.

Self - defense implies abstaining from unjust acts of violence against others: unfortunately this requires both honest self - awareness and empathy (qualities that seem to be short supply).

Person 1: «When that hurricane leveled my house and killed my child I was so mad, so distraught that I railed against God because it just felt so unjust.

Remember that Jesus experienced many unjust and false words against Himself.

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

Instead of telling people that their interpretation is wrong, you can remind them that other religious texts have been used in the past to justify atudes and laws that are recognized today as morally wrong and unjust — such as discrimination against women, people of color and religious minorities.

Peters does wonderfully well in defending Leo against the charges of being meddlesome, corrupting the youth, and making the unjust speech seem more attractive than the just one.