Sentences with phrase «by the injustice which»

Leicester midfielder Adrien Silva insists he was «disgusted» by the injustice which has left him in exile

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That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

It sided instead with the Irish privacy watchdog, the Data Protection Commissioner, which said any delay could create a «risk of injustice» by allowing the data of millions of Europeans to be processed unlawfully.

That scenario of injustice became systemic, social injustice in a wicked institution like slavery, in which the very opportunity of the enslaved to reflect the imago dei (image of God) was compromised by exploitation and violence.

I'm not defending their current policies which need more transparancy and alterations to allow anyone to believe in any religion they want, but this article masks real religious injustice of the discrimination against Tibetians and their religious practices by making it a «Christian» persecution thing.

The setting of the empiric story shows an often anomalous world in which signs of the sacred are belied by their link to folly and injustice.

The state - ordered assassination of terrorists, as currently practised by Israel, simply aggravates still further the hostility, hatred and sense of injustice, which were the original causes for the rise of terrorism.

In revealing to us the social structures, categories and expectations by which we exclude those most in need of acceptance, it unmasks our pretensions, our unjustified feelings of contentment and self - satisfied smugness in the face of a world characterized by injustice, hunger and depression of the human spirit.

The church should be ready to expose the fallaciousness of social myths by which the injustices of a society are perpetuated and to suggest ways of action which demonstrate the wrongness of such fantasies.

I'm talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name — modern slavery.»

Second, Korean Christian faith, unlike the «ghetto faiths» of many other Asians, bears witness to the ways in which Korean Christians, moved by their deep faith in Jesus Christ as the Suffering Messiah, joined other Koreans to resist historical forces of injustice that were denying Korean people of life, justice and dignity.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

A common basic element in all five of these forms of social injustice is domination by which egalitarian relations towards others are denied and oppressed.

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

Regardless of many mistakes (made by man, always by man), problems, injustice, lack of work, sometimes mediocre preachers and scandals, The Catholic Church is and always will be the one founded by Christ and the depository of the Sacraments which are the way to God.

Although Barth himself was one of Hitlerism's «most determined foes,» Barthian theology abetted Hitler's type of reactionary politics: «Here,» said Niebuhr, «religious absolutism which begins by making the conscience sensitive to all human weakness ends in complacency toward social injustice» (June 6, 1934).

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

It is to see in history a process in which term - making achieves significant results through the struggle of men of different persuasions with the stubborn facts of human life guided by a developing «sense of injustice».

Nevertheless, he insisted that there are objectively discernible goods, the participation in which constitutes the good life, and that such a life is irretrievably damaged by acts of injustice, even if undertaken for the «best» of reasons.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

The suffering which Jesus was to undergo, which was a result of many individual sins (the betrayal of Judas, the envy of the Sanhedrin, the cowardice of Pilate, the injustice of the crowd) was seen by the Son of God against the background of Sin itself as an assault on the will of an all loving Creator uttering it forth through his Word.

To the credit of the authorities, and in part because of the international sympathy aroused by an unusual amount of publicity, significant steps were taken to, ameliorate the plight of the victimized women; nevertheless, the incident clearly dramatizes not only the vulnerability of women to this particular form of violence but also the injustice of a culture, sanctioned by religion, which regards the woman's sexual integrity as primarily the concern of husbands and male relatives whose honor is at stake: bluntly, she is property, not a full person in her own right.

Discussing the language of war, Aldous Huxley focused on the word «force»: «The attempt to secure justice, peace and democracy by «force» seems reasonable enough until we realize, first, that this non-committal word stands, in the circumstances of our age, for activities which can hardly fail to result in social chaos; and second, that the consequences of social chaos are injustice, chronic warfare and tyranny» (The Olive Tree [Harper & Row, 1937]-RRB-.

And love and loyalty are what a society torn by injustice (and which isn't?)

What is remarkable in these theological constructions is that they do not retain the biblical perspective which sees the state as ordained by God, in harmony with the divine order, and at the same time as the Beast of the Abyss, the Great Babylon; as wielder of the sword to chastise the wicked and protect the good, but also as the source of persecution and injustice.

It seems to me, nevertheless, that he suffered, at the hands of the BBC This World programme in particular, and the media in general, a profound injustice, and that this injustice was made possible only because it fed into a narrative which Catholics have endured over recent years for the most part without protest, so great has been their numb horror at the seemingly endless procession of abusive clergy who have been dragged from the shadows by police and media.

When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.

On Ash Wednesday, as the people come up to receive the ashes, they hear the words: «Polvo eres The ashes of the beginning of Lent are a curious and mysterious religious expression of the Mexican tradition which finds its full socio - religious meaning when coupled with the Holy Water which is blessed during the Easter Vigil — when, through God's power, justice triumphed over injustice in the resurrection of the innocent victim from the death inflicted upon him by the unjust «justice» of this world.

The goal of the Christian social vision is, therefore, a society in which all people [are]... committed to work together for the common well - being of all and for the removal of all forms of injustice and divisiveness, united by the bond of love for the realization of the one new humanity.33

Since God transcends any of the categories of human intelligence into which we may try to fit Him, the only question is whether we do less injustice to His majesty by referring to Him in personal pronouns, or by using impersonal abstract nouns, such as «Ground of Being» and «First Cause.»

I wonder how he would feel if the introduction made mention of the fact that Christianity has been used to support slavery, war, genocide, inquisitions, murders, and all kinds of injustices, including recent wars in Uganda in which children are kidnapped and forced into the «Lord's Liberation Army» by a man claiming to act on behalf of the God of the Bible.

Jay Z announced plans to produce a documentary series and full - length movie based on two books Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It by journalist Lisa Bloom who covered the trial against Martin's killer, George Zimmerman, and Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, which covers Martin's life and the aftermath of his death by Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.

You testified against us which acted to uphold injustice and inequality that is growing by the day.

The prime minister said he was «profoundly sorry» for the «double injustice» which had occurred after revealing how the reputations of the victims had been muddied by completely unjustified accusations of hooliganism.

«The NASUWT is continuing to support its members in challenging these injustices, but much more action is needed by Government to affect the systemic change which is needed to ensure that no pupil or teacher is held back because of their ethnicity or faith.

He was the source for the Sun's headline «The Truth», which sought to blame the crowd rather than the policing of the event for the deaths and led to what prime minister David Cameron described as a «double injustice» suffered by the victims» families.

«It was under this cloud that members of the APC made the appeal to me to join their party, with the promise that the injustices and failure to abide by its own constitution which had dogged the then PDP, would not be replicated in the APC and with the assurance that the vision other founding fathers and I had for the PDP could be actualized through the All Progressives Congress.

We write in our capacity as citizens of the Republic of Ghana invoking the powers of this Commission under Article 218 (a) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and section 7 (1)(i) of the CHRAJ Act 1993 (Act 456), as amended, which states «to investigate complaints of violations of fundamental rights and freedoms, injustice, corruption, abuse of power and unfair treatment of any person by a public officer in the exercise of his official duties», to investigate a case of professional misconduct bothering on official corruption and corruption - related activities involving ACP Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah, the current acting Director - General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.

This is a unique moment to secure lasting change, change which would protect us against terrorism in the future by removing at least some of the injustice committed daily against the Arab people.

The use of the «Post Code Lottery «is only to draw attention to the fact that people are placed in n invidious position to one or another extent, for many its amounts to a # 10,000 one time tax based on the roll of a dice and that a mile away others avoid the axe only heightens the sense of injustice OK Personally I am unconvinced by the minor sub theme of localism which has after all been tested to destruction by the likes of Enver Hodge and Hit Man Hatton but this is a very different context but is it not possible to have localism for some things, planning for example, and not others... why yes I think that might actually be possible even for dim witted bureaucrats.

«Not discharging the interim injunction will cause greater hardship, damages and injustice to the Lagos State Government which can not be compensated by the plaintiff,» Pedro had argued.

But Dorfman's play, which has now become a movie directed by Roman Polanski, is less a record of injustices in the past than an attempt to imagine how such wrongs might be transcended.

There's a certain minimalism to this story concept that is exacerbated by its interpretations own limp areas, but Oscar Wilde's personal story is as captivating as any of his stories, particularly during its climax, which shines an almost haunting light on dark secrets and how society interprets them, and establishes a pretty solid deal of potential, done a degree of justice and injustice by either overambitious or lazy storytelling.

Miyagawa and Takemitsu contribute once again, and although the first half of the film setting up the pair's flight is a bit rote and conventional (featuring far too many plot devices advanced by one character clandestinely overhearing the conversation of another), the movie gets its blood boiling during the second half, which depicts the injustice of their plight and the rage of Iwashita's family, who want to kill her for her shameful misdeed.

LA Cops is an offensive and sh.tty video game, which does itself injustices by mixing terrible writing with bad and incredibly frustrating gameplay.

Ford was the brother of Yance Ford, the director of this film, which is the story of how a tragic loss followed by an injustice can ripple outward for decades, a shock wave that never stops reshaping a family.

I wept, and sobbed, and sniffled, and wailed through the bittersweet adventures of two immigrants - a bear from Peru in London, and an improvised sushi chef from Syria in Helsinki in Paddington 2 (truly a work of comedic wonder, which also made me cry tears of joy) and The Other Side of Hope; the dredged up pain of Folsom Prison inmates in The Work; the anger of racial injustice and prejudice exposed through James Baldwin's words in I Am Not Your Negro - and the blow of that Kendrick Lamar song that comes with the end credits; the disconnection of fathers and daughters in the corporate capitalist world who discover they can still duet by the piano in Toni Erdmann; the pangs of the teenage heart with the real girls of All this Panic.

Journalism, which is the film's central focus, should seek out and bring to light the injustices perpetrated or aided by the systems within the public trust.

Four black NBA superstars opened this year's ESPY awards with a powerful speech decrying the current state of race relations in America, which they described as plagued by «injustice, distrust, and anger.»

This injustice is made even more onerous by the rising importance of standards - based school reform, which seeks to hold all students and schools accountable to higher levels of learning.