Sentences with phrase «beings in a civilised society»

Law ultimately governs all the interactions between human beings in a civilised society.

Not exact matches

To be honest I wouldn't even want to make a profit because I think it would be so great if this social service existed in every civilised society.

Hospice care for the dying should, in a civilised society, be provided as standard for all who need it.

Nobody should be homeless in a civilised and caring society.

Truth is many on the left, both professionally in the party and socially via the vote, supported section 28, believe homosexual practice to be wrong, thinks the EU erodes their freedom not enhances it, and finds state - funded baby - killing to be a poor indicator of a supposedly «civilised» society: whatever the middle - class metropolitan «progressives» might sneeringly say.

In my view, social mobility is a hallmark of a civilised society.

Mr McCarthy said teaching was the «foundation for civilised society» but suggested the curriculum was too narrow and the focus of the curriculum could be in the wrong place.

In reconsidering, Mr Grayling may care to reflect that universal access to justice is the cornerstone of any civilised society.

A civilised society is a civil society - in the literal sense of being civil to one another.

She told Labour MPs and supporters: «Everything we're proud of — from the NHS, to the minimum wage, to equality legislation which has civilised our society — is there because we were in Government.

David Bowles, the head of public affairs at the RSPCA, said: «Foxhunting is a barbaric and brutal practice that has no place in civilised society.

Fact is, in the civilised society, no woman is «for sale» or can be ordered through a mail order system.

A haunting and revealing series of photographs are to go on show in south London, demonstrating the sad history of racial violence in our supposedly «civilised» society.

This is not exclusive to science and is why in civilised societies witnesses are cross examined.

It is only our «civilised / tech» society» that will be broken with such natural disasters... we who have come to these shores wit all our goods and chattels in the last 200 yrs.....

But really, by the time we've crossed 750ppm, there's no chance for our society, so the planet can have a carbon party after that and humanity won't be around in a civilised form to give a rat's.

It is not fit for purpose in a modern, civilised society,» he said.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.