Sentences with phrase «fundamental purpose in life»

Not exact matches

Inserting additional questions on demographics which will likely result in invalid population totals must be avoided to preserve the fundamental purpose for the exercise — obtaining an accurate count and geographical distribution of individuals living in the U.S.

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

And in the same breath, you claim that there were no intelligent design, no fundamental laws, order, logic or purpose in the life with «purpose» that you all live.

Judging the book by its title, I was expecting just another account of the various «coincidences» found in the fundamental laws and constants of the universe, which seem amazingly carefully chosen to allow the emergence of life, and which therefore point to the existence of a Cosmic Designer who brought the world into existence for just that purpose.

Everyone in the house listens to President Jimmy Carter's «crisis of confidence» speech in which he claimed that the «fundamental threat to American democracy» came from a crisis of confidence, reflected in the growing doubt about «the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.»

With the earliest purpose thought to be as simple as a light source at night to modern day understandings of its effect on the Earth's rotation and tides, the moon has found itself playing a fundamental role in the lifespans of all forms of life on this planet.

Maps exist for innumerable purposes in life, because they are, always have been and always will be, one of the fundamental means by which human beings represent information; with which we translate, codify and make reality intelligible.

Moreover, Justice Susan Himel ruled that the laws that forbid running a bawdy house, communicating for the purpose of prostitution, and living off the avails of prostitution were unconstitutional and are not in accord with the principles of fundamental justice.

They are all similarly situated with respect to the purpose of the Code because any type of work is «one of the most fundamental aspects in a person's life, providing the individual with a means of financial support and, as importantly, a contributory role in society.

For a rule or principle to constitute a principle of fundamental justice for the purposes of s. 7, it must be a legal principle about which there is significant societal consensus that it is fundamental to the way in which the legal system ought fairly to operate, and it must be identified with sufficient precision to yield a manageable standard against which to measure deprivations of life, liberty or security of the person.

The Carter majority thus concluded at para. 315 that the Rodriguez court's articulation of the legislative objective of the existing law was not restricted to the narrow purpose of only protecting the «vulnerable», but also with the «societal concern with preserving life» in general, and therefore that concerns over the fundamental shift in societal values that would arise if the state permits some citizens to kill others in certain circumstances, can not be simply brushed aside.