Sentences with phrase «civil life today»

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The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

a universalistic millennial civil religion, the meddlesome vision of democracy, peace, and human rights that we live under today, «the first global civil religion.»

a) Divide the Mosaic law into 3 components: Moral, Civil, and Ceremonial The Civil Laws are gone because we are not Israelites living in Israel in that time period The Ceremonial Laws are gone because we have the Lamb slain once for all time (Jesus) As a part of this, the dietary laws are gone — see Acts 11 The Moral Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the New Testament church today, except the Sabbath Law, the 4th Commandment.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Many sincerely spiritual persons today are pressing for the church's recognition of their life style, whether that be commune living (singles, marrieds or celibates), single living, gay alliances, celibacy, or trial marriages that might be civil before they are religious.

Yet some of those soldiers today, carrying on in civil life with broken health, shattered nerves, lost limbs, need more courage than it took to see them through at St. Mihiel.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

Today, we lost a bright, spirited civil servant, one who dedicated his life to advocating tirelessly for his constituents and for all Bronxites.

«While we continue to fight for the unity of our country, while we continue to fight and defend territorial integrity, while we equally operate to maintain law and order in support of the civil authority, there is one very important aspect of the soldier's life, and this is what we will be showing to you today.

«His actions today are consistent with his life - long work as a civil rights leader and community organizer, including his efforts to steer passage of the Maryland Dream Act,» Jealous spokesman Kevin Harris said.

Two of the Council members joining de Blasio on the dais today, Levine and Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, have both sponsored legislation to establish a «right to counsel» for those face life - altering decisions in civil courts — something that has become an increasing concern of many legal professionals, including former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.

The McGill researchers found that most of the European DNA among blacks today probably entered the African - American gene pool long before the Civil War, when the vast majority of blacks in the U.S. were slaves living in the South.

To advocate effectively on behalf of students, principals and teachers must continue to support and uphold the constitutional, civil, and due process rights of all students.Student Achievement Schools should prepare students for the challenges that they will face as they transition from one stage of life to the next by helping students focus on gaining the skills, knowledge, and understandings today that they will need tomorrow.

Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.

She does not complicate the parallels between a woman's life before the Civil War and today, as in videos by Lorna Simpson.

As viewers follow the generations of Frazier women back in time, we rebuild our memory of the America those generations lived through, the industrialized America of progress and hope, the America of the civil rights movement, the America of post-industrial decline, and the America of today.

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Because the Endowment's principal remains intact, revenue from interest will provide an everlasting source of funds that changes people's lives — a safety net for civil legal aid today and for generations to come.

It has grown from insuring Civil War sailors and soldiers for disabilities and illness to offering today's family annuities, auto insurance, banking, dental, disability income, financial planning, home insurance, IRAs (Individual Retirement Account), life insurance, long - term care, and mutual funds and brokerage services.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook spoke out on privacy during an MSNBC interview hosted by Chris Hayes and Recode's Kara Swisher earlier today, saying that services that «[traffic] in your personal lives» are invading peoples» privacy and emphasizing that Apple sees privacy as a «human right» and a «civil liberty.»

The National Civil Rights Museum is live streaming the celebration today.