Sentences with phrase «civil society like»

Making specific exemptions for specific religions is fun at first, but at the end of the day, just cough over the dues for a (somewhat) healthy and (somewhat) civil society like the rest of us.

Not exact matches

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Like many Catalan independence supporters, including Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, Rufian wears a yellow ribbon to highlight the continued imprisonment of separatist figures Oriol Junqueras, the leader of Esquerra, former interior minister Joaquin Form and civil society leaders Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart.

He added: «In the United States, President Trump would like to establish a mafia state, but he can't, because the Constitution, other institutions, and a vibrant civil society won't allow it.»

Generally these discussions include representatives from industry, NGOs, government and civil society and, like dialogues, are conducted in accordance with Chatham House Rules.

It ignores the leadership of civil society, including religious leaders; the political value of religious ideas (real theology) in creating a functional future for these nations; and practices like forgiveness that allegedly prevent the just application of punishment.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

This reported situation is one of many shameful incidents in what we would like to refer as a civil society.

Primordial groups, like publically consequential religiosity, are incompatible, in Seligman's view, with the autonomous individualism the civil society tradition has required.

Big government is like a big bull in civil society's china shop.

Just like integralism today, it identified liberalism as its greatest foe, and diagnosed the dichotomies of modernity (spiritual - temporal, public - private, state - civil society) as the cancer that is eating civilization.

Does he mean that in the present state of affairs, where the prospect of a confessional state is next to nil, we should prudently strive incrementally to achieve a lesser good, like a merely civil society, postponing the direct pursuit of a sacred public square and a confessional state until prudence dictates?

Because he, like Cnaan, does not frame the issue as a struggle for political power, he sees this homogenization as the greatest threat to civil society.

Finally, Charles Villa - Vicencio takes up the new work of making liberation theology not just a theology of resistance but of reconstruction in places like South Africa and El Salvador, where civil war has ended but the crushing burdens of building a more humane society continue — in a new world order with less and less compassion or creative insight for the plight of the poor.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

Since this unconditioned love is impossible of practice in a world where unredeemed sinfulness must be considered the general characteristic, common civil society and its individual members as well as institutions like the family, the economic order, nationality and the State necessary for the preservation of humanity are to be ordered according to the Moral Law inherent in their nature.

Having a Dream Crusher as a gatekeeper is like giving a bitter civil servant having the power of a brilliant, possibly society changing emigrant standing hopeful in front of him.

I am glad to see that forums like EAT Stockholm Food Forum brings together a wide array of experienced actors from the scientific community, government, business and civil society to discuss the issue of food waste, looking into common solutions and increased cooperation.

«We seek to align with other civil society organisations for a much more loud advocacy that ensures that people who are seeking to occupy the high office of our land do not have such questionable track record like Mr Mahama,» Ernesto Yeboah said.

They essentially, like termites, hollow out the structure of the civil society and other institutions, for the purpose of creating conditions under which the jihad will succeed.

CODEO and other like - minded civil society organizations after the 2016 general elections, advocated the need for total disbandment of identified political vigilante groups.

He urged world leaders not to make the mistake of equating institutional security with democracy; while democracy promotes security, he insisted institutions like the rule of law and a strong civil society must come first.

Events like these help them to develop a broader awareness of civil society, and give them greater opportunity to have their voices heard, now and in the future.»

Now, with Clegg and Cameron looking like the embodiment of bourgeois bleeding - hearts — all «Big Society» promises and strong talk on civil liberties — some Labour people seem to have come to a truly stupid conclusion: that the Con - Dem coalition has to be outflanked on the right, because the proles demand it.

We would like to see how seriously the commission is taking it, in building consensus with civil society and the rest of Nigerians to deal with the issue.»

Moreover, the greatest threat to a robust, autonomous civil society is the ever - growing Leviathan state and those like Obama who see it as the ultimate expression of the collective.

«A call for a moratorium with signatures from 170 civil society organizations, was this like the virgin birth?»

That was when movies like Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Captain Marvel, and Avengers: Infinity War were announced, in addition to the surprise reveal of Captain America: Civil War, which originally had a fake - out title of Captain America: Serpent Society.

And it's why the vestiges of discrimination are being eradicated from our schools and society, through laws like the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Like many other actors working for Peace, Radijojo is a grassroots civil society - driven organisation; a small social system that can «objectively «be described in workflows, mission statements and financial reports.

Like civil society that «mustbe understood in relation to the state», if not in «oppositionto it» (Schwartz) 37 (emphasis in original), the concept of global civil society can exist beside a sense of belonging to a nation or a state.

We would also like to engage the participation of the civil society and let their voices be heard, including those vulnerable and marginalized minorities, in the public environmental policy making processes.

Ennahda entered into a number of agreements and compromises with the Congress for the Republic (CPR), the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), and Ettakatol to secure an understanding about what Tunisian political culture and civil society might look like in a post-authoritarian setting.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

In other words, are there simply a couple initiatives you really want to push, or do you intend to prioritize overarching governing principles like subsidiarity, enhanced civil society activity, and incremental change and opposition to federal mandates, technocratic thinking, and sweeping reform?

Social change and peace movements / campaigns, once considered the dangerous work of local grassroots indigenous activists and civil society, have now transformed into «global crowdfunded - change your Twitter avatar - update your Facebook status - like my page» campaigns.

Nor am I an engineer like the volunteers from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) who answered technical questions throughout the weekend about the Bridge's engineering and architectural feats.

It had the air that bordered on rustic rural and civil society, with their book - exchange shelves home to the likes of Candide translated into Danish or a Murakami translated into Spanish.

In order to join the international community and make this announcement something civil society can embrace, KfW must follow the steps of other major institutions — like the European Investment Bank and the U.S. Export - Import Bank — and announce an Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) that restricts the carbon intensity of power plant investments.

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

FLNG sidesteps the «civil society» risk of environmental opposition to development of huge industrial facilities in greenfield locations like the pristine Kimberley coastline.

How is it that activists and policy wonks like me can get the message across to civil society that their governments will have no interest in doing anything until something gets shoved down their throat by the people who elect them?

From meeting rooms to civil society constituencies to the media to the rest of the world, the messaging of the political realities of the conference was like a giant game of telephone.

We'll tell the story of this exciting transition, speaking with civil society activists like Astrid Puentes Riañio, co-executive director of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, who are driving this change.

The work of civil society on climate change has helped fix the world's attention on the problem like never before.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

Law societies are now like an elected government without a civil service.

As a result, Canada's law societies are like an elected government without a civil service.

«As organizations granted standing at the National Inquiry, we have serious concerns about the direction of the Inquiry, its capacity to undertake the necessary systemic review, and the conditions of participation for civil society groups, like ours, that are crucial to informed outcomes,» said Dr. Pamela Palmater.

Like the other «original» professions of medicine, priesthood and military service, law and lawyers — as I understand it — arose to further the interests of civil society and protect the rights of fellow human beings.