Sentences with phrase «fundamental values of the people»

Being invited into the «rooms of power» certainly has its advantages, but I truly believe that unions, including teacher unions, can have a far great impact by standing on principle and reminding candidates that there is a price for turning their backs on the most fundamental values of the people whose votes they want.

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«America's leaders must honor our fundamental values,» said Frazier in announcing his resignation, «by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.»

America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.

«America's leaders must honor our fundamental values,» said Frazier said in a statement, «by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.»

He wrote on Twitter that «America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which runs counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.»

To the extent that these resources remain unique and differentiated and people get utility out of a secure, public, distributed ledger, Bitcoin will maintain some level of fundamental value.

«America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal,» Mr. Frazier said in a statement.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»

Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.

Amanda Spielman, the chief executive of Ofsted said some faiths schools «seek to isolate young people from the mainstream, do not prepare them for life in Britain or, worse, and actively undermine fundamental British values».

The problem is when people start taking things that are fundamental to the Bible, like male / female duality and the preciousness of human life established in Genesis 1, and saying, «Eh, these things don't matter,» and then go on to support causes that contradict these foundational values (e.g., gay marriage, abortion).

He spoke on the value of the human person made in the image of God, on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity that are fundamental to a just society, and on the dangers consumer culture poses to spiritual values.

It is a sin against the dignity of persons and their fundamental rights to reduce them by violence to their productive value or to a source of profit.

It is this sense of fair play, these shared majority British values, that are the fundamental reason why I love this country and its people.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson added, «Religious people currently have the legal right to marry in a ceremony that reflects their most fundamental views of the world, but humanists can not do likewise: they are denied legal recognition for a bespoke personalised ceremony that reflects the values of the couple involved, that they share with the celebrant, and that is built around them.

«It was really more of a reaffirmation of the fundamental New York values that many people feel have been challenged by some of the statements of the president elect and the resumes of some of his nominees,» Schneiderman said.

With these three films, Spielberg has crafted something like a Trilogy of Good Decisions, in which, at pivotal moments in our nation's history, more or less decent people took the opportunity to make the right choices based on fundamental beliefs in foundational American values.

But, how can you not teach the content of the virtues / values — at the same time you are empowering students to choose a service learning project; at the same time you are using cooperative learning (not merely a technique, but an opportunity to understand better the fundamental trait of «taking others seriously as persons — and yourself seriously»; at the same time you are connecting (relevance) with the students?

Reflecting societal values, Canadian law recognizes the historical vulnerabilities of persons with disabilities and the fundamental principle that such persons are entitled to have intrinsic worth and dignity validated through accommodations of their disabilities.

That view threatens the lives of people with disabilities and is deeply offensive to fundamental constitutional values and to legal traditions which recognize that parents do not enjoy unfettered power with respect to the lives of their children.

If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution... The tendency of those who execute the criminal laws of the country to obtain conviction by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions, the latter often obtained after subjecting accused persons to unwarranted practices destructive of rights secured by the Federal Constitution, should find no sanction in the judgments of the courts which are charged at all times with the support of the Constitution and to which people of all conditions have a right to appeal for the maintenance of such fundamental rights.

And so an institution of higher legal education — nominally concerned with quality of legal work, allegedly devoted to excellence, supposedly engaged in teaching people about fundamental American values like freedom of expression — dropped to its knees.

You want him to understand that he has a fundamental, unshakeable value as an ordinary, decent person, who has respect for the authenticity of his own feelings, needs, thoughts, and desires.

The student profile in this document is based on a humanist profile which «means focusing on a person - centered society guided by the fundamental value of human dignity» (Martins et al., 2017, p. 6).