Sentences with phrase «civil liberties given»

While one hopes the learner will see the value in these expanded civil liberties given to same sex couples, they will also realize that comparable protections allow for their own liberties.

A recent assessment of political rights and civil liberties gave Australia the highest possible score for the attainment of political rights and civil liberties.

Not exact matches

The (hopefully direct) answers to this very simply - sounding question could give a window into presidential poise, but also into how the White House aspirants may choose to balance security with civil liberties.

The following year, Facebook outraged civil liberties groups with a new privacy policy that gave people less control over their what they could do with their data and made sensitive information like profile pictures, locations, and friend lists publicly available.

True, there are not yet concentration camps, but the civil liberties community (as they like to call themselves) has given little indication to date that it would put up much resistance to the idea.

An eminent historian of Slavic Christianity, Williams correctly notes that Wojtyla's Polish inheritance gave him an appreciation of civil liberties, e.g., «Our second emerging motif is the long tradition of civil liberty in Poland and the indisposition on the part of Poles to use coercion in the realm of conscience.»

«The Jehovah's Witnesses,» Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone once famously said, «ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties.»

In recognition of his record of achievement, in 2012, the ACLU - NJ gave Bill its Bill of Rights Award for the advancement of civil liberties.

It has given up on financial discipline, civil liberties or a principled foreign policy.

They rank Israel as a «flawed democracy», noting its high levels of pluralism and political engagement, but giving it a relatively low score for «civil liberties».

I am sure there are some Labour politicians who are sound on civil liberties, as there are also in the other parties, but given the record of Labour in government and the record of Tories in opposition (oh, how they cared back then) the evidence is emphatic: the state can not be trusted, and the politicians are either incapable or unwilling to control or restrain the state machinery.

The public would be given the right to sack corrupt MPs - a policy all three main parties have now adopted - and a freedom bill would re-establish many British civil liberties, the document said.

Fusing a concern for the poor, the environment and civil liberties with the issues more associated with the Conservative Party gives us the opportunity to become the natural party of government again.

Lords reform, tax reform, and some movement on civil liberties (the National ID card scheme, or the Digital Economy Act) would give visible evidence of their policy impact.

The fear is that Labour may be leaning towards the latter, especially given the party's abysmal record on civil liberties as well as an increasingly social conservative stance on immigration.

Civil liberties campaigners have reacted with outrage at the government's plans, contained in the Queen's Speech, to give law enforcers wider scope to monitor details about private phone calls.

It's been a while since Cameron has been able to bash Labour for civil liberties, given Miliband's previous enthusiasm for bashing his own party on the issue.

«These include everything from rolling back the surveillance state and giving people back their civil liberties, to prison and NHS reforms, fairer pensions, the ending of child detention and the scrapping of the third runway at Heathrow,» the briefing said.

In economic aspects, our ideologies don't align at all, but I'm sick and tired of the GOP propping up candidates that must tow the line of party leadership rather than giving us somebody principled who actually cares about our budget woes and civil liberties.

The Paul Selvin Award is named after Selvin, general counsel to the Guild for 25 years and is given each year to a WGA member whose script embodies the constitutional and civil rights and liberties.

The study guide and map offer an overview of the basic architecture of democracy, give historical background information, and provide a framework for comparing the state of political rights and civil liberties in different countries around the world.

By pardoning Arpaio, Trump gives rogue cops and police departments the carte blanche to engage in criminal abuse of immigrants as well as blessed all kinds of police brutality and other violations of civil liberties of all Americans.

However, an agency's ease of enforcement should never be given precedence over the protection of an American's right to privacy or any other civil liberty.

Growing up on the front lines of the fight for freedom, democracy and civil liberty, Kendell Geers, believes that the worlds of art and politics should not be divided, that it is only through embodied experience that the artist may give birth their creation.

Also, I reminded at how willing you were to give up your civil liberties based on the computer models that didn't do so well at predicting the weather next week.

Give your money to the ACLU (although it has already received record - shattering donations over the last few days) and know that it will always be on the side of maximizing civil liberties.

It is very easy for civil liberties to be compromised in a system where individuals are often unrepresented and face a large team of city council lawyers and police officers making statements and giving evidence.

James Madison, the drafter of the Seventh Amendment, would be puzzled by how we allowed this to happen, given his view that «[t] rial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.»

Jennifer Robinson from Doughty Street Chambers, a leading international free speech and civil liberties advocate, is working with Rose to make sure other women are given the help they need to speak out.

Contempt of court is the only civil proceeding that could result in jail and because of the potential impact on an individual's liberty, the formalities must be strictly complied with ̶ clear, precise and unambiguous notice of the specific contempt offence for which he or she is being charged must be given, and the elements required for a conviction proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

She gave a powerful speech in defence of the HRA 1998 and civil liberties; urging continual vigilance.

These civil liberties may include a car provided for your use or a house, given by the company.

The following year, Facebook outraged civil liberties groups with a new privacy policy that gave people less control over their what they could do with their data and made sensitive information like profile pictures, locations, and friend lists publicly available.