Sentences with phrase «individual rights language»

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The very language upon which it depends for articulating its moral and political ambition — e.g., equality, gender, humanity, rights, etc. — was predicated upon reality being more than a linguistic construct or the creation of individual egos.

The liberalism of the past generation expressed the ethos of the welfare state in terms of individual right and entitlement, a language ill - suited to the needs of community.

The post-moderns have something right, we think, when they point out that our personal angle, our individual experience of our environment as we encounter it, is foundational to the semantic of our language.

Given that the Constitution is grounded in a recognition of individual rights — rights which must be reinterpreted due to the document's «exceedingly vague» language — Arthur quickly dismisses the jurisprudence of original intent.

Michael Ignatieff expresses this sentiment well: «Human rights is the language through which individuals have created a defense of their autonomy against the oppression of religion, state, family, and group» (emphasis mine).

But even though the 5 - 4 majority ruling makes an intellectual end run around the language of the Second Amendment to get to their ruling, they very clearly state that society (government, convened to collectively protect us from what we can't protect ourselves from as individuals) has the right to, and legitimate interest in controlling gun ownership, in several specific ways.

So, we have a document that defends the individual's rights on both sides of the scale, a document written at the birth of the nation, and written in beautiful language promoting the highest ideals by people in history that remain popular.

Using a special imaging technique, Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the toxic build - up of amyloid protein is greater on the left side of the brain — the site of language processing — than on the right side in many individuals living with PPA.

Researchers found that after their left side of their brain is damaged, these individuals used the right side of their brain for language.

A Fantastic Woman (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, sexual content, nudity, a violent assault The lowdown: This Chilean feature, honored as best foreign - language film at the 90th Academy Awards, is a stunning and well - crafted drama about an individual's right to live her life as she sees fit, despite the prejudice and scorn of others.

Some civil rights organizations say lumping together different types of students, such as English - language learners and students in special education, makes it much tougher to see how individual groups are progressing relative to other groups of students and the student population as a whole.

Specifically, TransACT ® Parent Notices provides standard and customizable communications in all languages, as well as guidance on usage to all staff in a state or district to reduce cost and enable ESSA, Civil Rights Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act compliance.

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.

In his vertical poems, Andre experimented with form and the disruption of language by taking words from their common architectural orientation (horizontal lines that read left to right) and re-ordering them to create a new system of reading; the words are stacked on top of each other as individual particles, but still construct a readable sentence.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

(4) An individual who is a Roman Catholic, a French - language rights - holder and an owner or tenant of residential property in the area of jurisdiction of a French - language separate district school board is entitled, on application under section 16 of the Assessment Act to the assessment commissioner for the area in which the property is located, to have his or her name included or altered in the assessment roll as a French - language separate district school board supporter.

(3) An individual who is a French - language rights holder and an owner or tenant of residential property in the area of jurisdiction of a French - language public district school board is entitled, on application under section 16 of the Assessment Act to the assessment commissioner for the area in which the property is located, to have his or her name included or altered in the assessment roll as a French - language public district school board supporter.

Why is translation of decisions a cost individual users must bear, but access to cases in their original language is something we consider a fundamental right?

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples sets out the individual and collective rights of Indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other iRights of Indigenous Peoples sets out the individual and collective rights of Indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other irights of Indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other irights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.

Comment: One commenter pointed out that language in the definition of individual in the NPRM that grants a minor the rights of an individual when he or she «lawfully receives care without the consent of, or notification to, a parent * * *» would have the effect of granting rights to an infant minor who receives emergency care when the parent is not available.

We have changed the language in § 164.502 (g)(3)(i) of the final rule to provide a minor the right to act as an individual when the minor can obtain care without the consent of a parent and the minor consents to such care.

The «recovery and well - being» language used in the strategy is itself rooted in a human rights perspective where the disabled are not viewed as subjects worthy of charity, but rather individuals who have a right to dignity.

Concise resume language gives the feeling that you're a no - nonsense individual who gets right to the point.

For the majority of Indigenous Australians the rights to Indigenous knowledge are generally owned collectively by the Indigenous community (or language group, or tribal group) as distinct from the individual.

As an independent, multidisciplinary, transnational organization, we assert equal rights and just treatment of all individuals, regardless of race, nationality, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, language, age and ability.

Current thinking about trauma supports the effect of childhood trauma on right - left brain integration (Teicher, 2000) and that more sensory - based interventions be effective because they do not rely on the individual's use of left - brain language for processing and are predominately right - brain driven.

Or tie up the property with language in purchase contract that lets you assign to someone else and sell rights to another individual.