Sentences with phrase «fewer human rights»

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

While the small kingdom on the edge of the Himalayas has a few human rights ghosts in the closet, the country is making remarkable progress in transitioning to one of the more enlightened places on the planet.

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He declined to give further details but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain - based monitor of the war, said the handover had happened on Monday and involved fewer than 10 villages.

Google (goog) has invited all the news publishers on the web to use its Project Shield service, which it has been testing with news and human rights sites for a few years.

But killing off their few fellow human inhabitants may not be the right answer for the characters in the long run in a world full of the undead.

GENEVA U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders who meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in the next few weeks must not neglect human rights, the U.N.'s North Korea human rights expert said in a statement on Wednesday.

Which is an incredibly chilling response when you consider how few rights — including human rights — Chinese citizens have.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

Over the last few years Canadian HR Reporter webinars have been recognized as an industry standard and include partnerships with a number of leading organizations including the Human Resources Professionals Association, the Human Resources Institute of Alberta, the Human Resources Association of New Brunswick and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

While some studies indicate that harsher punishments deter certain crimes, few show this effect for major human - rights violations, and the ones that do are much disputed.

Associated Press and Human Rights Watch UN peacekeeping forces, some of which were only a few minutes away, were notified via electronic messages of the attack minutes after it happened.

Domestically and internationally, Ahmadinejad is regarded by not a few as a capricious dictator whose presidency has included serious human rights violations, routine defiance of the United Nations, development of capabilities for nuclear weapons, and massive student protests against his government.

Its an issue in human rights and separation of church and state and that all people have rights despite the wish of a few relgions to push their personal beliefs on others.

In just a few weeks, the Human Rights Council will once more review the «defamation of religions» resolution in Geneva.

In the political order, there are few concepts as important as basic human rights, and our obligation to protect them, especially where they are being grossly violated, is a primary ethical concern.

A few more judicial dicta are apt to grasp the noble amplitude of the human right to life.

Though two speak of «freedom of choice» and a few give no real theological rationale for their position, virtually all the statements of this type are concerned not with human freedom or women's rights, but with articulating solid theological and philosophical reasons for the position they take.

In fact if this is the worst you can do (because according to many of your anointed profits we are worse then we have ever been) either you have really lost it (remembering what you did to the first born of Egypt or your nasty little temper tantrum flooding the world and destroying every human except your favorite few) or maybe the atheists are right and you don't (and never did) exist?

Americans are one of the few peoples on earth that fight for the freedom and human rights of others, something the Jihadists will never do.

The presently discussed theory and practice of human rights are very much as evolved in and by Western society during the past few centuries.

And few people who are serious about human rights are naive enough to believe that democratic institutions can never be used to violate human rights.

I shall later write a few more words explaining all this; but right now we must remember that ultimately every human race, every people, every religious, political, and social group has its own style of thinking and speaking.

Everyone will have a slightly different version of what this implies, but I think a few global principles emerge and they are often the powerful fundamental human rights explored by Keats and other philosophers.

David R. Carlin presents a believable argument in the first few paragraphs of «Rights, Animal and Human» (August / September).

A few days later, in a press conference, that bishop repeated that, while he didn't know the particular circumstances of every case, the right of conscientious objection is a human right and enters into every human right, for government officials and for everyone.

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

Together with the Nuremberg and UN charters, it would overturn a longstanding doctrine of international law that left human rights, with few exceptions, within the domestic sovereignty of each nation.

A few months ago, when he visited Ecuador and Bolivia, Pope Francis mingled with presidents Rafael Correa and Evo Morales, avowed disciples of Fidel and Raul Castro with tyrannical tendencies, but he refrained from speaking about their human rights abuses.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

The violation of human rights is the consequence of the power being in the hands of a few and its misuse by them.

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Human rights violations measured as a body count are fewer, but intimidation remains constant and the structures of repression are maintained.

A few viewed the uprisings as a heroic struggle for freedom and human rights by disenfranchised youth.

This intellectual marriage yielded a rich, complex, and (to use the precisely right word a few centuries before its time) deeply humanistic vision of the human person, human goods, and human destiny.

El Pibe, here are just a few quotes from hundreds from the Christian book of nasty AKA the bible, that show what a complete ass hole and human rights abuser your nasty sky fairy would have to be classed as, if he existed:

I'm a little late getting to this, but I wanted to say a few words about Fernández Martínez v. Spain, the church autonomy case the European Court of Human Rights decided last month.

And this is during a time where teams actually have fewer human scouts because the data is all right there on the web.

Breastmilk is always available, it's the right temperature, it comes in attractive «packaging» and very very few if any infants can not digest human milk.

I can only hope that our Constitution and the principles it stands for is still strong enough to reject blatant violations of human rights and threats to a woman's bodily integrity... take few minutes to remind your elected officials & representatives of their obligations to the people they serve!

In our societies we are always talking about human rights, respecting people, wellbeing, human dignity... And few would disagree on these fundamental values.

«If the government had been clear from the beginning and sold the benefit of human rights consistently for the last ten years we wouldn't have had to listen to some of the nonsense of the last few months.»

«Just a few days ago, David Cameron insisted that human rights will be raised on the trip, but the business secretary appears to have contradicted that today.

There can be no doubt that if gay marriage were legalised, within a few months there would be a case before the European Court of Human Rights demanding that a gay couple be allowed to get married in the Anglican Church.

If a future Tory government carries out its plan, and withdraws from the European Convention, the UK government would be embracing pariah status; the first worldwide to introduce a new bill of rights with the aim of providing fewer rights to its citizens.Without the protection of European human rights law, UK citizens will be left systematically vulnerable.

They say, he should be the last person to speak for anybody on human rights abuses, having harshly ousted an employee of the NIA, a few days ago, without any just cause.

What we asking the Attorney General to do is to review its position on this matter, it may too late in a few weeks time and we will not forgive him if he goes to make a mockery of the Ghanaian judicial system at the African Court of Human and People's Rights.

The U.S. annual report on global human rights violations, released in Washington D.C. on Friday afternoon, said the administration of President Buhari «took steps to investigate alleged abuses, but fewer steps to prosecute officials who committed violations, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government».

Efforts to replace the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights just resulted in a few guffaws from Clarke and Nick Rights Act with a British bill of rights just resulted in a few guffaws from Clarke and Nick rights just resulted in a few guffaws from Clarke and Nick Clegg.

The students in the program meet every Monday afternoon and have guest speakers like County Legislator Lyndon Williams, Westchester County Human Rights Commissioner and US Army Reserves Lieutenant Colonel Mark Fang, Former Mayor Ernest D. Davis and Councilman Andre Wallace, just to name a few, to give the young men examples of men in strong leadership positions.

It's unclear why Tony Blair is better placed to advise the country on its profound human rights issues than the skilled global NGOs and international organisations who have, year after year, offered Kazakhstan advice on how, for instance, it can hold free elections, not murder striking workers and not silence bloggers or the country's few remaining independent journalists.