Sentences with phrase «even from the justice»

My worry is that as a society we are now turning away from the rule of law, lawyers, and even from the justice system.

Not exact matches

Some Republicans complain that Comey has been talking about the memos in his book promotion tour even as the Justice Department withheld them from lawmakers.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

I had hope for the new Pope with his emphasis on helping the poor (the importance of social justice is one of best things the Catholic Church gave to me even if I don't agree with most of their stands:)-RRB- but I don't much will change their stories of embezzlement, telling the Nuns on the Bus to settle down and the history of hiding and transferring pedos from church to church doesn't help them either.

Pope John Paul II forcefully articulated this logic in his great but oft overlooked encyclical of 1980, Dives in Misericordia, where he affirms the importance of justice» meaning rights and desert» but goes on to argue that justice alone, detached from love and untempered by mercy, is prone to collapse into spite, hatred, and even cruelty.

A majority of the Justices went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»

New presidents may appoint new justices, but that project also is long and uncertain: even after 12 years with President Reagan and the first President Bush, both committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, the key votes to reaffirm Roe in 1992 came from the Republican appointees Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter.

And that is before we even get into Catholic priests buggering little boys and then the pope trying to hide them from justice.

We can confuse a lack of fame with a lack of blessing, perhaps, when the truth is that a wide open and spacious life is waiting in even the smallest and most obscure of moments, an abundant life, healing, wholeness, courage, love, all hiding in the crucible of everyday life, everyday justice, far from applause.

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.

Even if, in our lifetime, we only move from Point A to Point M, at least we are moving towards God's heart for justice, at least we are being moved.

That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.

Gossip (undermining the good name of another, even if the faults spoken of are true) is one of the most common and most mean - spirited faults against justice: mean - spirited because one takes away from another without any gain to oneself - except the sad satisfaction of giving vent to envy or dislike.

Here we can borrow a bit from John Rawls's A Theory of Justice and assume that justice may be done even if the dam's location causes some individuals the inconvenience of having to move their resJustice and assume that justice may be done even if the dam's location causes some individuals the inconvenience of having to move their resjustice may be done even if the dam's location causes some individuals the inconvenience of having to move their residence.

Above all, churches should ask for justice from religious institutions that continue to ignore Hispanics» existence: monocultural denominational and ecumenical agencies; theological institutions that refuse to hire Hispanic professors (and even discourage Spanish - speaking students from working toward doctorates); religious journals and magazines that fail to publish materials dealing with the life and faith of Hispanic churches; and mainline churches that do not make an all - out commitment to ministry among Hispanics.

Based on that, even Justice Scalia would be hard pressed to follow the chapter and verse of Rome given the nuances of the meanings from the 1st Century AD.

The priests» shortcomings continually remind us that ultimate justice flows neither from human institutions nor ecclesiastical insight, nor even from the sensible practice of a moral life.

In the season finale, the justices delivered split opinions in two cases that had not even been fully briefed and argued on the merits — one about President Trump's limits on immigration from six majority - Muslim nations, the other about the right of a female same - sex spouse to be listed as a parent on a birth certificate alongside the birth mother.

Our calling is to invite all to turn from gods which are even less than human, and from idols like power, profit, property, creed, class, caste, language, race, success, technocratic progress, managerial efficiency and the ego, and thus experience the fulfilling realization of God's Reign which consists in justice, freedom and fellowship, tender love, universal compassion and equitable sharing of resources.

And even though I continued to search for a more traditionally orthodox basis for my political commitments, I drew much inspiration and solace from the witness of Christian people of more liberal theological convictions who modeled for me a courageous commitment to the biblical vision of justice and peace.

Matthew briefly summarizes Mark 3:7 - 12 and adds the interpretative quotation from one of the great servant songs (Isaiah 42:1 - 4) suggesting both that Jesus» greatness is his humiliation, and the fact that even though rejected by the Pharisees he would be known as the justice and the hope of the Gentiles.

And even here, justice is separated from and subordinated to love as being that which prevents love's denial.61

Bowman incorrectly» even dangerously» seems to think honor can be detached from ethics, which in the end becomes equivalent to Thrasymachus: «I say justice is the rule of the strong.»

From the playground, where even young children sense the difference between fair play and its opposite, to the relations of governments to their own citizens and to other states, justice involves the preservation or the securing of basic rights.

Even with the present democratic and Christian emphasis on the dignity of personality and concern for «liberty and justice for all,» we are still far from agreement as to what constitutes for every man «his due.»

Socialism must rescue the idea of the nation from its perversion by political romanticism, learning to affirm the nation even more deeply, yet hold it under the demand of justice, both at home and abroad.

Wednesday evening, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency appeals from the 10th Circuit Court, said the company failed to meet «the demanding standard for the extraordinary relief,» and that it could continue to pursue its challenge in lower courts and return to the higher court, if necessary, after a final judgment.

I want to contend that feminist theology both requires and contributes a process of education that is a training in justice, dialogue and imagination, even as it is an implantation of ideas from the past.

unless you subscribe to Miller's brand of the Christian faith... then he was only God's hand doling out divine justice against those that killed Jesus (even though that was a huge part of the Plan from the get go).

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

The Pope's prophetic, even otherworldly positions on ecumenism, capital punishment, third «world debt relief, and a host of other issues of contemporary politics seem to be grounded in this insistence that our notions of justice be derived from the perfect justice and mercy of God.

All too often there have been attempts to articulate the «demands of justice» coming from those groups or countries which have benefited from the dearth and scantiness of justice issues during the colonial (political or even theological) era, benefits which empower even now, in the era of «partnership.»

For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore justice and the love of God.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American parent to the child that babbles on his or her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges — even especially in our law schools; let it be written in textbooks, spelling books, and in TV guides; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

It is precisely Miranda's kind of one - sided, reductionist approach that offers comfortable North Americans a plausible excuse for ignoring the radical biblical Word that seeking justice for the poor is inseparable from — even though it is not identical with — knowing Jahweh.

«6 Christian concern for justice and for human relationships takes one even further from «rugged individualism,» toward provision of structures of order within which freedom can be creative.

Vengeance and retaliation could be outwardly administered; penal justice could be roughly managed by legality; but the more magnanimity was called for, the more inward quality was indispensable, until at last the Bible faced man with an ideal that put upon him a profound demand for interior regeneration — «Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.»

She compares research from biology, anthropology, sociology and theology on topics like «reason», «justice», and «love», but the incommensurability of the underlying models employed by these disciplines, and even within these disciplines, means she is often comparing apples and oranges.

Even if the justices were able to see on the basis of the French achievement that the political divisions they fear from religious controversy are not inescapable in today's democratic society, their own need for consistency as they fashion the developing common law would still prevent them from reversing themselves soon enough to enable the American people to take effective official action to save nonpublic education.

But my view from the sidelines of illness made me more fully aware of the impressive history of the Catholic faith, and of its sources of grace and justice, which even our Reformation polemics can not obscure.

Helping people overcome addiction to pornography or alcohol, creating space in our churches or ministries for people who are not yet followers of Jesus, or even getting to know the neighbors or co-workers who have emigrated from different parts of the world are all great ways of bringing justice in places other than the inner - city.

And when it comes to immunizing such «choices» from legal restriction or even private remonstration, the Court's liberals can be counted upon to flip on the switch of what Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in dissent, describes as «the ad hoc nullification machine that [is] set in motion to push aside whatever doctrines of constitutional law stand in the way of the highly favored practice of abortion.»

And yeah, i'm not even from the States so i won't get in to the legal side of things but it's fair to say that what your family have been through is a long, long way from justice.

The whole back four were solid throughout, even Squillaci saved himself from any embarrassment and did himself justice if looking for a move away in January.

, but the constitutional basis for these claims is elusive, even more so than the conservative bugbear right to privacy (famously derived by Justice Douglas from penumbras of emanations from constitutional rights).

New York governors, presidents from both parties and even the U.S. Department of Justice all have used similar staffing methods going back decades, he said.

A letter from the victims, organised by the Hacked Off campaign, makes their alarm clear after a series of reports suggesting David Cameron will give newspaper editors another chance to make self - regulation work — even if Lord Justice Leveson's final conclusions recommend otherwise.

for the right web address); and later she had recanted her testimony and falsely accused me at somewhere unknown to me (even till today) in the judicial system, which brought into our lives miscarriage of justice, with the collusive help of some cowardice and malicious judicial officers ZZZ / YYY / VVV who hided their real identities from us till today, though I as a victim have challenged them to clarify the case with CONFRONTATION all the time;

But reading his dissenting opinion during the ruling in which Justice Anin Yeboah described his lone stance as a «solitary path», the justice of the supreme court said «even though in the high court references were made to the constitution of the NDC, the constitution of the NDC can not be read in isolation from article 94 of the 1992 constitution which any candidate for parliamentary election must strictly satisfy&Justice Anin Yeboah described his lone stance as a «solitary path», the justice of the supreme court said «even though in the high court references were made to the constitution of the NDC, the constitution of the NDC can not be read in isolation from article 94 of the 1992 constitution which any candidate for parliamentary election must strictly satisfy&justice of the supreme court said «even though in the high court references were made to the constitution of the NDC, the constitution of the NDC can not be read in isolation from article 94 of the 1992 constitution which any candidate for parliamentary election must strictly satisfy».