Sentences with phrase «facing loss of liberty»

So now you are accused of a felony and facing the loss of your liberty.

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As Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky observes, the Eastern Church regards choice as the mark not of freedom but of fallenness, as a debasement of true liberty, as a loss of the divine likeness: «Our nature being overclouded with sin no longer knows its true good... and so the human person is always faced with the necessity of choice; it goes forward gropingly.»

Should politicians and others in public office, also paid by the public purse, condone such examples of obvious misconduct (by staff and bureaucrats in the University) indicates they are party to an even larger problem the nation faces — the deliberate incremental loss of freedom and liberty.

We have made sure legal aid continues to be available in the highest priority cases, for example where people's life or liberty is at stake, where they face the loss of their home, in domestic violence cases or where their children may be taken into care.»

Whether you are facing incarceration, fines or loss of liberty, we have decades of experience trying cases in criminal courts.

However, even the smallest change must be calibrated toward a goal we all share: maintaining the fine balance between protection of the public and protection of the individual within that system who is faced with a potential loss of liberty.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees that a person accused of a crime and who faces loss of life or liberty as punishment has the right to a lawyer even if he or she can't afford one.