Sentences with phrase «civil debate when»

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«When have you ever seen a national debate about civil liberties?

Santorum is condemned for when he told an Iowa crowd last November that, «our civil laws have to comport with a higher law: God's law,» while Gingrich is criticized for a remark he made at a CNN debate on October 18, 2011, in Las Vegas.

You sound just like the people in the dark ages did when they were against civil rights for African Americans and women, you're the one on the wrong side of the moral debate with no facts to back yourselves up.

When potential for the violation of civil rights and the abuse of privacy are mentioned in the debates, the president and other defenders of the status quo say, in effect, «Trust me.»

He defended his vote when asked about it at debates and other appearances, saying same - sex marriage was an issue of civil rights.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

While the debate on Oteh's saga was yet to subside, a coalition of youths, led by human rights activist and President of Civil Rights Congress, Shehu Sani, queried the rationale behind the appointment of a new Chairman for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) when a northerner, Kabir Mashi was already in the position and improving the revenue base of the agency, especially VAT collection for the Federation Account.

We like to publish differing opinions and have heated debates, but we've found in the past that the amount of spam we received, plus the comments that were less than civil, required a fair amount of moderation, which often stymied discussion when the iron was hot.

... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

However, in Wilkinson v Kitzinger [2006] All ER (D) 210 (Apr) the President of the Family Division, Sir Mark Potter, distinguished between marriage and civil partnership on the basis that the former must be between a man and a woman as provided for in the MCA 1973, legislation which was originally debated in the late 1960s at a time when homosexuality had only been legalised by the Sexual Offences Act 1967.

The current debate around the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline centres around political posturing, provincial jurisdiction, investment priorities, climate change, coastal protection and consent by First Nations communities, but when the pipeline was originally being built in 1952, civil defence and the threat of war with the Soviet Union was a going concern.

And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.