Sentences with phrase «important than justice»

Can the solitary Marshal save not only the town but the small family who have taken him to their hearts, and will he find something more important than justice and revenge?A romantic western trilogy...

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The nuns are RIGHT, social justice is vastly more important than crawling on the ground to kiss the ring of some fat cat cardinal or a professed ex-nazi in the vatican.

What is more important, the earlier critics did less than justice to the fact that the Bible has its own doctrine about the nature of history, which deserves to be understood and appreciated in itself.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

But equally important is the other pole, the commitment to the welfare of humanity, the commitment to justice, the commitment to peace, the commitment to an environment that promotes life rather than threaten to extinguish it, the commitment to eliminate toxic drugs and nuclear weapons» (A Source Book for the Community of Religions ed.

Making «control» more important than love or social justice speaks volumes about the leaders of this religion.

Love is central in God's relation to man and is more important than fear of God, justice, or righteousness.

That is, they can easily be interpreted as supporting the contention that God also believes «justice» (maximized freedom for the greatest number) to be more important in some contexts than the maximal preservation of freedom for each individual.

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

I've seen this sort of theology applied to global warming, («God is going to destroy the world anyway»), humanitarian aid, («It's more important to give people the gospel than to give them food») and to social justice, («Just let God straighten it out in eternity»).

A change in the meaning of truth or of justice is far more important than a change in the government of any given territory.

But as important, and even crucial, as it is to appreciate this difference, the God implied by faith and justice necessarily implies at least some world of creatures other than God, even as any such world of creatures necessarily implies this one and only God as its sole primal source and its only final end.

He says that the Episcopal Church's «revisionary teachings on sexual behavior is unique in our church's development,» and that appeals to «justice» and «love» over the particular and defined words and actions of scripture suggest that a general principle has become more important than the lordship of Christ.

In our justice system, we believe it is more important that innocent people do not go to jail, than making sure the guilty do.

Dr Philp characterised the latter point as simply a time - sensitive version of Hume's view that it is under moderate scarcity that justice is important, rather than under absolute poverty or abundance.

Sometimes even running the day to day of the city seems less important to the mayor than getting his message on inequality and justice across to the public.

... The risk of false accusation's appears [to be] more important than victims having access to justice.»

Last year, a separate group found that holding a heavy clipboard makes us perceive social - justice issues as more important: In a theoretical scenario, volunteers holding a heavy clipboard were more likely to support a student grievance with a university committee than were those holding a light clipboard.

Meticulous block by meticulous block, Qu builds a picture of a society in which there's always something more important than securing justice for abused women and children.

More important than anything, though, is the need for the central conflict, represented by the battle between freedom and control, between justice and authority, between Captain America and Iron Man, to feel genuine and earned.

Equity and justice in funding, resources, and opportunity is far more important in our schools than integration.

How does, for example, Cards Against Humanity do important work to affect social change even as the game itself is more about debauchery and poor taste than justice?

In the Supreme Court hearing, the majority opinion written by Justice Roberts stated that these federal courts abused their discretionary power and felt Navy operations were more important than marine mammal health.

As long as people get away with outrageous propositions of the kind that «climate change is a top important problem the mankind is obliged to wrestle with», the common understanding of justice will have a lower priority than the ideology which is why illegal and unethical behavior will continue.

Any material which paints the private prosecutor as someone other than a dispassionate Minister of Justice — as motivated by greed or too easily controlled by his client — could make an important difference to how the factual issues are ultimately judged.

What is more important than the financial recovery is the satisfaction of knowing you stood up for yourself and demanded justice.

Volunteering is important to ensure that those less fortunate than us are given access to justice.

This does not mean that I think that a strong settlement culture is any less important now than then — and clearly there is still a great deal of work to be done there that is integral to modernizing the justice system and responding to user needs and goals — but I have found my attention shifting to more fundamental questions of client service.

Taking vengence out of the hands of the person harmed was a rather important step in creating a world where one could expect justice from the King, rather than having to engage in a vendetta with your attacker.

Humanity is different from, but no less important than, justice.

Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley was founded on the principle that justice for injured people is more important than insurance company profits.

With the government's intent to sell justice on the open market, it has never been a more relevant and appropriate time to promote the Magna Carta and increase public awareness; in doing so achieving the important goal of prioritising access to justice, rather than simply facilitating it.

Studies demonstrate cost (in particular), complexity (another important factor) and time (to a lesser extent than the other two) are significant factors that influence people's decisions in civil justice matters.

Regulation of paralegals, whose fees are much lower than those of lawyers, is «an important component» of access to justice for B.C. residents, says Van Ommen.

«Sometimes when this topic is introduced one sees the audience's collective eyes glaze over as they say, «Oh not again — we've been there, we've done that, things are a lot better now than they were, let's just get on with something important,» and yet the subject keeps coming back everywhere you look,» said Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in her keynote address to the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association's annual national conference yesterday.

«It is more important than ever that we work to improve access to justice for families.

This report from the Treasurer» Advisory Group on Access to Justice (TAG) Working Group proposes a framework for change which would see the Law Society lead and innovate on these important issues, rather than have change imposed upon it.

The result is that getting it right the first time is far more important in American justice than in European justice.

The views of Alberta legal professionals on important current issues in family law favour change and improving access to justice to a greater degree than those of their counterparts in the rest of Canada and are surprisingly at odds with Alberta's generally conservative social values.

In my view, the real reason for cases like Mitchell was for the Court of Appeal to flex its muscles and to show practitioners that the new world of economics was more important than any traditional notion of justice.

Looking Forward Racial Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion No challenge, no opportunity for growth and improvement, is more important to BayLegal today than aligning the core mission of our field — to break cycles of poverty and ensure that poverty is never a barrier to civil justice — with the ongoing struggle for racial justice and for equityJustice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion No challenge, no opportunity for growth and improvement, is more important to BayLegal today than aligning the core mission of our field — to break cycles of poverty and ensure that poverty is never a barrier to civil justice — with the ongoing struggle for racial justice and for equityjustice — with the ongoing struggle for racial justice and for equityjustice and for equity and...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explained that the «brief is ever so much more important» than the oral argument.

«[M] ore than one quarter of respondents (26.7 %) felt that the civil justice system offered limited value as a forum for solving important problems; and only 28.8 % felt that the civil justice system could help people like them solve important problems most or all of the time.»

Or, as Justice Brandeis characterized the doctrine, it is usually «more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right.»

In a series of interviews with legal writing expert Bryan Garner, Supreme Court Justices affirmed the importance of briefs to the appellate process and the need for lawyers to write clearly.7 In a recent study, Judge Richard Posner found that judges view writing as equally if not more important than oral advocacy.8 Continuing legal education programs offered by state bar associations frequently address the need for effective legal writing.9 No one disputes that lawyers should write well.10

This was an important contributing factor in the miscarriage of justice which occurred and led the Commission to state that «anything less than complete disclosure by the Crown falls short of decency and fair play» (Vol.

As we enter 2016, the mission of Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to justice, is more important than ever before.

But more important than the assistance the ABA offers to solo and small firm attorneys, Klein stressed the importance of attorneys from all firms stepping up to help the ABA advocate for the most basic judicial right — equal access to justice.

It found that procedural justice considerations were more important than demographic factors in explaining perceptions of state courts.

Perhaps «justice» is more important to lay people than «law.»