Sentences with phrase «human rights a thing»

Organisers called on the new government to make «illegal wars, torture, extraordinary rendition, and the flagrant and shameless abuse of human rights a thing of the past».

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ONE MORE THING: The New York Human Rights Commission is inquiring into The Wing, the women - only club and co-working space that recently raised $ 32 million in funding from WeWork and New Enterprise Associates.

Looking at those maps, one thing is clear: no human in his or her right mind would want to manage that.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

(Others have suggested raising the profile of human rights and democratic expression may help improve those things in Mexico.)

«I was reading about things that were of concern to me, the environment, hunger, animals, human rights.

Right now, the human worker who does, say, $ 50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things.

Ma, a former teacher, says he always warns government leaders to also «pay attention to education,» because right now we're teaching children the wrong thing: that machines are better than humans.

One more thing CA... I contribute every day to your country... Whenever I shop at Subway or WalMart or Target... some of that money goes directly back to your country... so suck it up and learn to stay on topic... this isn't about who lives where, this about some religitard dictating basic human rights!!!

You're right, everyone is human, and everyone can be one or all of those things at one time or another; but the fact is that women are more that way.

In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good things in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the human person) goes a long way to putting the passions in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole).

So much, in fact, that First Things editor R. R. Reno announced in the May 2016 issue that he has become increasingly opposed to human rights and pledged that «First Things will never call for dialogue.»

As we see today, the hatred is right in the scriptures, but it takes humans to take scientific things and fly them into buildings.

The Equal Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission, EHR) spent a great deal of your money and mine in telling schools to ban books which showed boys taking the lead or doing adventurous things, on the grounds that such books were «sexist».

you would have shown your admiration for the human spirit; you wouldn't have castigated those who do the right thing in the name of religion; and lastly, you wouldn't have made yourself seem like an a ss hole.

She convincingly argues, among other things, that «where repression is especially severe, where institutions (schools, trade unions, churches, professional associations) have been purged and subject to constant governmental vigilance,» little discussion of human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 ff.).

If you need a government contract, sanctioned by the government and granted by the government to make sure you are not discriminated against — for rights to make decisions in a hospital or to pass on your SS benefits or for other human rights — work towards that kind of thing.

But if you insist then I would say, Lahwla Walaqwa Alla Bilah, and then thank you for helping me to know and understand that those things you call for are not possible and all just ink on paper, unreal and just was and is being used for what is called propaganda and that all we will harvest being over here are flags in the name of practicing your human rights or your freedom of speech.

Human Dignity, Human Rights Michael Novak Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 97 (November 1999): 39 - 42.

Why did Jaime do the right thing — the human thing?

There is no such thing as human rights.

To be an actual working solution that respects everyone's human and civil rights would require strict protocols with effective oversight — things that are currently impossible in today's world.

The difference is that your God doesn't appear to be like our society, and plenty of Christians like to criticize things like «human rights» precisely because they're not like God's Law.

But the affirmation that all human individuals have certain substantive rights democratic communities should secure is one thing, and the assertion that these rights should be stipulated in a political constitution is something else.

A Christian who doesn't think there are moral absolutes (things that are right or wrong no matter what humans think) is like an Atheist who thinks there are.

Humans see the world in a perspective of «if things are good I must be doing something right» and if not, I must have done something wrong.

Whether or not some efforts are «counterproductive»» and the law of unintended consequences is always hard at work» it is a great and necessary thing, and a thing necessary to American greatness, that this country be the champion of human rights, and of religious freedom in particular.

The hard thing would be to manage these efforts without maiming art, treading on human rights, and repeating all the imbalances of some past reformations of manners.

I do the right thing for the right reasons, treat my fellow citizens (and non-citizens) well, unless they encroach on my right to a peaceful life, and donate to various charities I feel represent my outlook in serving our fellow humans.

Society could not agree on the right thing if the fate of humans on this planet were under immediate threat.

We are indebted to the Enlightenment for many things, but our charter for human rights is in the prophet's insight that each person, including the weak and oppressed, is the subject of infinite worth and divine love.

Human beings should lead moral lives not to please some invisible being in the sky, but because it is the right thing to do and our society will benefit from it.

What I'm really going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

Our laws, both civil and human rights motivated, are the only thing keeping us from devolviong into that sad state I'm afraid.

I just hope you are willing to admit that the human condition is a flawed one, which means all groups are not going to do everything right, but many will do good things.

With that said, I think they do want the general belief in God, a general sense that goodness orders the universe, that love and peace and joy are all good things, that human rights actually matter, and that we can experience some sort of mystical communion with God / the universe / whatever through spirituality.

She is certainly right that our human notions of justice do not seem to be backed by the laws of nature as we know them and the way things happen on this planet.

No human being can say the right words or do the right thing in what you are facing.

The Bible, as a unified collection of God's setting the world to rights over time through a specific covenant people, primarily located in one geo - political area, records only a thin slice of human experience in the grand scheme of things.

this is certainly wrong, gay people are humans and deserve the same rights, but don't kid yourself the black ministers are preaching the same thing toward whites, just don't get the press.

For one thing, it recognizes the right of duly constituted civil authority to exercise control — and this at a point before which human nature is chronically reluctant, the payment of taxes!

A human being requesting the same basic human rights is the same thing as a suicide bomber on an airplane in your mind?

The Church teaches many things about the way in which society should work: about the laws we make, about how we treat one another and respect each other's rights, about behaving justly with our money, about the value of human life and the duties we owe to the communities in which we live.

Or we hear of St. Paul «caught up to Paradise» where he heard «things that can not be expressed in words, things that no human being has a right even to mention» (2Cor 12:4).

OOOOO i du n no, because atheists preach compassion and doing the right thing for the fact that it makes you a decent human being whereas religious folks do the right thing for fear of eternal damnation to hell for instance.

«But:» challenges the traditionalist, «as weak and imperfect human beings we are incapable of doing the right thing and living the right way until we have been saved from the power of sin, whether you view this power emanating from within us or from Satan.»

No, to find a time when I could comfortably say, «This is a thing with no human rights,» I had to go to the first part of the first trimester.

Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, said: «The Rohingya have been stripped of so many things but their name should never be one of them, and we hope that the Pope will use the word Rohingya in his Mass (on Wednesday).»

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.