Sentences with phrase «grave injustices in»

Mercy's political origins are important to remember, because it's very easy for a flawed application of mercy to lead to grave injustices in real life.

The terms of trade for the raw materials of the poor countries are a grave injustice in our world system.

Marking a grave injustice in the history of civil rights, the Harlem Six were sentenced to life in prison.

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In actuality, grave injustices occur under this system also.

Long before Joseph Smith, some early Christians believed that the Son brought his celestial flesh down with him from heaven, but the Church Fathers thought this idea did a grave injustice to Mary, because it treated her as an empty vehicle through whom Jesus passed» in Valentinus» chilling image» as if through an aqueduct.

However, preemptive strikes in cases where a threat is both imminent and grave have been permitted by some voices in the tradition on the grounds that such a threat constitutes an actual injustice.

Every few years, beginning in 1967 with Death at an Early Age, Kozol has brought forth another book exposing what he regards as some grave injustice of American society.

The just - war tradition, rooted in the ethical theories of Plato and Cicero and formulated within the Christian tradition by Augustine, Aquinas and the Protestant Reformers, defends military force as a last resort against grave injustice.

In an even graver baseball injustice, the day before Gibson's fifth loss, National League owners voted to award new franchises, at an admission price of $ 10 million apiece, to San Diego and Montreal.

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the lack of an inquiry was a «grave injustice», while her party colleagues joined her in criticising the decision in the Commons.

She said she was bullied for not «kissing the ring» of party boss Rep. Joe Crowley — who has been vocal in his support for Moya — and said it's a «grave and horrific injustice - not only to my candidacy, but the civic process.»

«We have received an outpouring of support and hope the court will recognize that a grave injustice has been done,» he said in a statement.

In her writings, nowhere does Kopp reflect upon the patent ridiculousness of her expectation that loads of cash donated by corporations that exploit inequalities across the world — such as Union Carbide and Mobil, two of TFA's earliest contributors — will help her solve some of the gravest injustices endemic to American society.

The words Auto Expo 2018 would automatically conjure up visions of the latest car and bike models, futuristic concepts, etc, but to put down the largest automobile exposition in the country to a parade of hot wheels would be doing grave injustice to it.

We need to stop labeling exotic pets as dangerous because it makes no sense and results in a grave injustice to exotic animal owners whose animals can not be considered a public safety threat no matter how you look at it.

They were a team that stood up to a prosecutor who had engaged in what the court called egregious misconduct; a team that listened to him and exposed the junk science that helped lead to his conviction; a team that humanized him before a judge with the courage to correct a grave injustice.

Mabo identified the existence of a grave injustice, even if the recognition of native title has since developed in ways that may ultimately prove incapable of providing appropriate redress.