Sentences with phrase «between liberty»

The provisions «force prostitutes to choose between their liberty interest and their right to security of the person,» said the judge, in finding that the laws breached the Charter of Rights.

The last line of defense between liberty and a lengthy prison sentence is your criminal defense attorney.

Not surprisingly, the leitmotiv of the Court's Opinion is the challenging balance between liberty and security.

The law deals with the same sort of questions as politics: what makes a just society; the balance between liberty and security, and so on.

And I assume Rummy liked to show it to media types as a shorthand even we could grasp: this is the difference between liberty and economic growth, on the one hand, and a socialist psycho - state, on the other.

As Allen writes in Our Declaration, «Political philosophers have taught us to think that there is an inherent tension between liberty and equality, that we can pursue egalitarian commitments only at the expense of governmental intrusions that reduce liberty.

The balance between liberty and opportunity is at the core of who we are as a nation and comes up in many, if not all, political issues.

We're surrounded by surveillance and the threat of violence, and this film asks us to judge the proper balance between liberty and security — and the amount of collateral damage acceptable to maintain the latter.

Strikes an uneasy compromise between liberty and justice.

Aldrich shows that GCHQ was facing two serious challenges relating to the balance between liberty and security and the breakdown between internal and external threats.

But the HRA has, nonetheless, had an important impact on the political discourse in our country — it has acted as a totemic reminder of the need to strike a balance between liberty and security, and to preserve the liberties that grew up naturally as a result of our common law.

In Parliament we have debated these issues, considered the balance between liberty and security and voted on the legislation.

Berlin was never willing (or perhaps able) to sort out the tensions or define the boundaries between liberty and justice.

Barton cites approvingly John Jay's claim that Americans should «select and prefer Christians for their rulers,» and views George Washington's survival at the Battle of the Monongahela as evidence that God was preserving Washington for his later role in the Revolution, which Barton interprets as God's struggle between liberty and tyranny.

The difference between a government that stays out of the way so we can pursue our own definitions of happiness and a government that presumes to measure and guarantee happiness on our behalf, is the distinction between liberty and happy - face statism.

The rest of Scripture reveals the repetitive cycle between liberty and bondage that the Israelites experienced, so that by the time John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth began their ministry, the Hebrew people were once again in a state of bondage to a foreign power, this time to the Roman Empire.

He told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: «What people need to know is intelligence - gathering in this country by the UK is governed by a very strong legal framework so that we get the balance right between the liberties and privacy of people and the security of the country.

Not exact matches

Hogan, one the wrestling world's lead figures in the 1980s and»90s, emphasized a distinction he drew between his true personality and the bombastic persona he used professionally with «artistic liberty.»

Freedom to speak, on campusAt CEIBS, a non-profit joint venture between the Chinese government commerce department and the European Commission, professors and students have the liberty to speak their opinions in the classroom, says the marketing department's Chason.

The increasing role played by non-elected technocrats, increased voter abstention and curbs on civil liberties are among the main symptoms of this global malaise, the EIU said, noting that almost half of the 167 countries covered by its index registered a decline in overall scores between 2006 and 2016.

In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored constituencies, ever increasing dependencies, spiced with an anti religion agenda that would force religious non profits and charities to choose between their service missions and following the precepts of their faith (through the Free Birth Control / Sterilization / Abortifacient Rule for now, more later).

It requires the biographer, for instance, to take too many liberties in reconstructing the relation between father and son.

He represents pride, liberty, and individualism — qualities often defined as Evil by those who worship external deities, who feel there is a war between their minds and emotions.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

In particular, the report, which reviewed religious liberties in 198 countries, singled out Egypt, where there have been clashes between Muslims and Christians and there been several attacks against Copts.

In the 18th century Baron Montesquieu admired the English constitution whose durability and protection of liberty he ascribed to its division of powers, including a balanced relationship between King, Lords, and Commons; an independent judiciary; and the jury system.

Don't forget that our best libertarians, such as Tyler Cowen, have lost confidence in the connection between techno - liberty and fairly egalitarian prosperity.

Rather, it is a set of Lochner - like expansions (in my judgment) of the Founders» understanding of natural rights (which itself may be the correct understanding of Locke, or not, and which, to necessarily complicate things even more, itself was usually moderated in practice by most Founders holding elements of the communitarian - classical view) that is the real ground of my distinction between the natural rights conception of liberty and the economic autonomy conception.

The natural rights principles are central and primary, but they do not capture the broader vision of liberty Americans had from the beginning, let alone the dialogic conflict between various conceptions of liberty that developed over time.

Since political principles identify the proper relations between humans, and since these relations are not constitutive of happiness, freedom has meant the absence of authority or coercion, i.e., the liberty to pursue happiness without human interference.

Between the failed dream of communism and the rising dream of peace, plenty and personal liberty lies a world reeling dangerously between false idols and social disintegBetween the failed dream of communism and the rising dream of peace, plenty and personal liberty lies a world reeling dangerously between false idols and social disintegbetween false idols and social disintegration.

George Will argues that American politics is divided between conservatives, «who take their bearings from the individual's right to a capacious, indeed indefinite, realm of freedom» and progressives «whose fundamental value is the right of the majority to have its way in making rules about which specified liberties shall be respected.»

WHEREAS, this year marks the 1,400 th anniversary of the Charter of Medina, a constitutional contract between the Prophet Muhammad, God's peace and blessings be upon him, and the people of Medina, which guaranteed the religious liberty of all, regardless of faith;

The critical method finds its way between the horns of a dilemma: It rejects restraint from without upon liberty of interpretation, and at the same time excludes an arbitrary or capricious use of liberty by accepting the intrinsic control of the historical movement within the Bible itself.

If this is seen simply as a struggle between a somewhat venal monarch and aggrieved barons, the Church's role in promoting basic liberties is completely obscured, as is the significance of Magna Carta for religious freedom in this country.

The fight for religious liberty is the age - old contest between the King and the Church, between Caesar and the Truth.

«Equality is only a transition between two hierarchies, just as liberty is only a passage between two disciplines».

For one thing, it brings into sharper relief the distinction between individual and communal religious liberty.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

... We understand that people of good faith can disagree about the relationship between religious liberty and anti-discrimination laws in our country, and how that relationship should best be structured.

The relations between religion and liberty are complex and operate upon many levels at once.

There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all human affairs.

Even my very conservative Roman Catholic brother gave me kudos when I said that if nothing else, as a Baptist, my two cherished beliefs were in soul liberty and seperation of church and state... so, if god was there and I was completly wrong not to believe in him, then at least he knew every step of my journey, and in the end my salvation, or lack of it, was between me and god.

Justice involves the promotion of economic equity, political participation, and personal liberties among and between humans.

In sum, authority, lying as it does between domination and persuasion, is a form of social control that implies both the right to command and the liberty of those to whom commands may be issued.

Who expected that a clash between sexuality and religious liberty would be focused on a restaurant company mainly known for its chicken sandwiches?

Thomas Jefferson felt this overwhelming sovereignty of God over all things, because he wrote (in his bill for religious liberty in Virginia) that no sooner did a person become aware of the proper relation between creature and Creator, to whom the creature's very existence is owed, than the creature becomes aware of a self - evident duty to worship and give thanks to so infinitely superior a Being.

By accepting from Austin and Holmes an overly sharp distinction between law and morality, by largely abandoning the search for the common good, and by permitting individual liberty or equality to trump most other values, mainstream American law may have had a part in fostering a set of cultural conditions inhospitable to communities of memory and mutual aid.

The show takes some liberties that should feel comfortable for all believers, such as recreating imagined dialogue between Thomas and the other disciples in the days between Jesus» death and resurrection.

Beyond the issue of civil liberties lies a more prosaic political point: the possibility for a greater alliance between African - American Christians and white evangelicals.