Sentences with phrase «for such an injustice»

And compensating for such injustice meant softening many parts of American life - the criminal justice system, welfare programs, schooling, and more.»

You should never stand for such an injustice.

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This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

Such social criticism is useful for subverting injustice when it is writ large; it is also useful for transcultural solidarity with different peoples and cultures.

In fact such leadership might free the group up — allow them to stop constantly be looking inwards to their own structures and face out to the world that needs people with the balls to speak out for injustice.

The error of such free market economics is that it substitutes an automatic social mechanism for moral responsibility and thereby permits grave social injustices to occur.

Familiar examples of such action would include the advocacy of social services aimed at the redistribution of material well - being so that there would be some agreed - upon level of affluence for all, including refusal to live above this parity level, unilateral disarmament, pacifism, nonviolent refusal to abide by existing laws that perpetuate injustice with the willingness to suffer the penalties that existing laws demand.

He wishes to internationalize the holy places in Jerusalem, which leaves me shaking my head in dismay (such an intervention would lead to a chaos of injustice and violence that would make the present Intifada war against the Jews seem like a picnic and would have dire consequences for the holy places themselves» so far still untouched).

But the primary intent of such challenge is for the sake of justice and to redress injustice, and not to secure benefits for the disadvantaged groups.

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

Injustices, the demand for privileges, arbitrariness, prejudice, exclusiveness — all of the forms of oppressive behavior in which individual freedom and worth are denied — are a consequence either of deliberate self - seeking or of absolutizing limited goods, such as membership in a particular social class, nation, or family.

When you find yourself in such a situation, Jesus says there is a way for believers to deal with injustice in our lives, and that is not to get caught up in the trading of hostilities and lawsuits that the rest of the world operates by.

There are in India proverbs, teachings and cultural norms which are taught to a woman from childhood, preparing her for such a life of hardship and injustice.

There are many studies on justice and even on restitution and compensation, but not for the injustices of colonialism as such.

This means that ministers have no right to surprise people, even if to correct obvious injustices, for worshipers have a right to understand why they are being asked to change and then to assimilate such reasons fully.

Check with their oraganisation, they are more than willing to spew venom of injustice and reason for such insane cause / jihad.

(It is all too easy to substitute one injustice for another, such as changing all male pronouns for God to female forms.)

It does this first by having the patience amid the injustice and violence of this world to care for the widow, the poor, and the orphan... it is our conviction that unless we take the time for such care neither we nor the world can know what justice looks like.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

Why do we have so fierce a longing for justice and such burning outrage at all the myriad swamps of injustice that life drags us through?

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Nevertheless, he insisted that there are objectively discernible goods, the participation in which constitutes the good life, and that such a life is irretrievably damaged by acts of injustice, even if undertaken for the «best» of reasons.

Moreover, religious teachings that warn believers against such temptations as greed and envy provide a strong rationale for believing that it is these moral failings more than anything else to which poverty and economic injustice must be attributed.

Like others promoting a dialogue between religion and economics (such as Lorna Gold in The Sharing Economy), I believe that there must be a place for religion in our quest to find solutions to the deepening crises of injustice and inequality in the globalized economy.

For an agonizingly long time, such victims of torture and gross injustice had no access to justice.

For one thing, the play has expressed too firm (indeed, at times, too morally confident) a sense of social injustice to allow such an interpretation.

Such alienation may be expressed in resentment toward God for allowing such an injustice to happen to tSuch alienation may be expressed in resentment toward God for allowing such an injustice to happen to tsuch an injustice to happen to them.

This means that God takes sin seriously, and such condemnation may fall upon us, even in a professed state of righteousness, for our injustice, our indifference to human needs, or any other sin against the love commandment.

You are right that not everyone can pay for local food all the time, it's such an injustice that we pay less for food that comes from the other side of the world.

Toronto fans merit such congenial treatment; they have been grumping for nearly eight years over the injustice of archrival Montreal having a major league baseball team when they did not.

to om and gibbs, im not sure where your from but lets just wait for your international team to suffer such an injustice with so much at stake i take on board that mcgeady, and maybe keane, hav and do dive but to say we we whinging at diarra is a joke, the guy made a provocative and unprofessional comment designed to get a rise out of the players....

Without such understandings of the principles held by the protagonists, individuals, associations, parties, movements, and groups, along with the nature of the injustices they would not reconcile themselves to, the articulated desire to change a wretched present «for the happiness of all»: without reading their words, following their actions, we end up studying everything but republicanism and its revolutionary tradition.

Every day that we fail to rectify a past injustice constitutes a new injustice — even if the recipient of the injustice does not ask us for such rectification.

A context which puts to test an individual «s survival needs (such as deprivation, fear, humiliation, injustice or insecurity) will make the incentive for moral behavior secondary.

We have continued to work on this issue regardless, for instance with individuals such as Simon Binner and Jeffrey Spector, who have used their personal suffering to highlight the injustice of the illegality of assisted dying.

The group said it was even more embarrassed with the statement credited to the State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Funminiyi Afuye, denying the involvement of the State government in the arrest of Mr. Olayinka, adding that; «Denying such a glaring act of injustice and barbarism is an indication that something fundamental is wrong with the Fayemi - led government, especially in relation to honesty and sincerity.»

The latest edition of this edited volume includes an overview of social justice principles and public health; chapters on social injustice and its effects on the health of specific population groups; and the intersection of social justice and key aspects of public health, such as health care delivery; and a call to action that promotes human rights and social justice advocacy for improving public health.

I hope the day comes when it is viewed as the norm for people to interact in such a way that all preexisting biases and injustices, whether intentional or unintentional, are eliminated.

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

Another remarked that she appreciated the fact that the course didn't merely address the problem of injustice in our criminal justice system; it also allowed students the opportunity to research and propose reforms in such areas as afterschool youth programs and resources for transitioning incarcerated persons back into their communities.

For nearly six years as a founding leader of the ASD, I have had the privilege of working alongside just such dedicated warriors: educators, school operators, district and state leaders, community members, and student support providers all helping families zoned to TN's Priority schools get the attention they deserve; to be heard above the din of competing zoning, funding and political priorities that if left unchecked can perpetuate systemic injustice.

We have to address the underlying systemic issues that keep pet owners from accessing medical and other care for their pets — poverty, economic injustice and lack of infrastructure such as veterinary clinics and pet - welcoming rental housing.

For those who missed the first game, Injustice 2 is essentially a bloodless version of Mortal Kombat in which such DC Comics superheroes as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern, The Flash — as well as their arch enemies — all join a fight club, with a story driven by a Superman that went dark after being pushed well beyond the brink by The Joker.

On the other hand, Injustice 2 also features some excellent portrayals for a number of characters, such as Gorilla Grodd (who is a newcomer to the roster), Green Arrow, and of course, Batman.

This is the pattern for most games, especially fighting games such as the DC Superhero brawler Injustice.

The Nintendo eShop Winter Warm - Up Sale now offers 30 percent off action games, including popular titles such as Injustice: Gods Among Us, Race the Sun and Ninja Gaiden for the Wii U and Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven, Star Fox 64 3D and Retro City Rampage: DX for the 3DS.

they can grab it for the silly price tag that Greenman Gaming currently have it for, yet I can't help feeling that it's an injustice that a game of this calibre has been widely made available at such a cheap price (you would pay this for Aliens: Colonial Marines, just to put it into perspective).

There is a noticeable improvement in graphical capabilities when comparing Injustice 2 to the first game which is powered by a customised Unreal Engine 3 that was previously utilised by Mortal Kombat X. Injustice 2 features much improved facial animations that provide greater emotional emphasis and reactions to being on the receiving end of an attack, while graphical detail has increased for not only fighters, but also environments such as Fortress of Solitude possessing particle effects that were not present in the same stage in the previous game.