Sentences with phrase «just about justice»

Not exact matches

The recent meetings in Washington between Goldman and the Justice Department may have just been an opportunity for the firm to help the government gather material about other targets in the 1MDB investigation, of which there are many.

I can't state it strongly enough: This is not just about social justice - it's about seizing an opportunity.

Hundreds of young people of color gather to learn about climate justice and just transitions through an innovative agenda that is entirely developed and implemented by youth leaders.

The Trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade regime.

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

: Gopher bloviates on and on about how «just» god is, then does everything he can to AVOID that justice.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

Just like he references a conversation he had, about God as follows: «When I talk about God, I mean love and justice and reconciliation, not a man in the sky.

The faith of the West too easily devolves into philosophical rationalization about divine Justice, rather than faith in the covenantal relationship with a just and loving God.

Kirsten: There's an article in The New York Times about Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens basically making this argument that for the first 200 years of the country it was just accepted that the Second Amendment was understood to protect a well - regulated militia.

Bishop Harris is a living, breathing reminder that just about anything can happen when two or three are gathered in the spirit of justice.

It is about justice and whether societies are just or unjust.

Traditional Catholic thinking about international relations was based on an older understanding of and appreciation for individual political communities as the loci within which a social order embodying justice in all its aspects might be established and maintained, thereby securing peace as the tranquillity of that just order.

Bartchy never talks about eternal life at UCLA, just the social justice side of Jesus.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

8 Obvious horse sense — especially if you are not too sure about the administration of justice in your local court — but it was not just practical advice for litigants.

have you ever thought that maybe hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and floods were already happening and the people who wrote the Bible just wrote about them to scare us that its God's divine justice?

The Apostle's Creed presents us with the Trinity (that is not all it presents, but just an example), which gives us the basic idea that the Gospel is about community, which then needs to be expanded through the teaching in the church to explain social justice, kingdom living, responsibility towards earth - care, etc..

Because let's face it, true justice and compassion requires more than not just being a dick yourself, but also doing something about the harm caused by others» dickishness.

As I thought I had made reasonably clear in my article, the just war way of thinking about the moral exigencies of world politics begins with a presumption for justice — a presumption that the magistrate has the moral obligation to defend the common good, even at the risk of his own life — and then proceeds to a moral analysis of the various means available for securing justice, which can include proportionate and discriminate armed force.

Just soldiers and commanders are sorry that evil exists to such an extent that acts of force are necessary to bring about justice, but they are not sorry about their acts of force.

noone wants Catholics to pay for all pedophiles — just wanting justice for the guilty pedophiles accused by any credible witness (es) and all fully aware Catholic hierarchy right up to the Pope for every crime they ignored, facilitated, hid, and lied about.

The sectarian punchinello, instead of that, has a private theatre, i.e. several good friends and comrades who represent the universal just about as well as the beadles in The Golden Snuffbox represent justice.

You can be as «green» and as enthusiastic about «justice and peace» as you like — for an atheist teenager this is just icing on a non-existent cake.

I just knew intuitively that something was seriously wrong with studying theology during the peak of the civil rights era and never once reading a book about racial justice in America or talking about it in class.

Because of the financial demands of commercial broadcasting, the electronic church can not afford to talk much about suffering, shared need, or requirements of the cross, about justice and humility, and giving one «s self (not just one «s checkbook) in love to one «s neighbor.

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

So my view is that we should stop talking and arguing about «social justice» and instead, just try to follow the example of Jesus.

If you just talk about justice, either people are not going to have a clue as to what you're talking about, or they're going to think you're talking about God being passionate about criminal justice, as chief prosecutor, or something like that.

Funny you should talk about apathy, since you seem to have no empathy just like the rest of your kind you want to repackage greed as a form of social justice.

RELEVANT spoke with Stevenson about the movement for racial justice and what needs to happen in American society in order to create a more just society.

Because God is something more than just natural existence, it leaves room for Process theologians to speak about there being real values, like love and justice, existent in the universe, even though they don't exist materially.

There's a lot more to say about all this — about why justice demands wider distributism, about the possible mechanisms of more just distribution, and about whether those mechanisms would interfere with the very innovation that gave us, for example, computers in the first place.

While demanding respect for women who decide what is just for themselves, she views questions about the right to abortion (e.g., by Justices O'Connor and Rehnquist) as irresponsible acts of judging.

He admits that «any indication in my book that truly Christian conservatives are not just as concerned about justice as liberals are may be a failure on my part.»

Just when the culture starts asking questions about economic equality and issues of international justice for the poor, the church also starts teaching and writing about similar issues.

There were just too many pictures (as you can see by the post about the 2011 Life is Good festival recap) and I felt I could not do it justice...

Just Produce / Food Justice (13 min) David and Johnathan are young African - American men passionate about their jobs managing a fresh produce stand in an East Bay «food desert.»

Because I couldn't possible do the topic justice, I just want to rave about my absolute favorite baby carrier, the Calyx.

«Andrew Cuomo putting his personal political ambitions over the needs of grassroots organizations fighting for racial and economic justice tells you everything you need to know about him, and it shows just how terrified he is of Cynthia Nixon,» said Rebecca Katz, a senior strategist for the Nixon campaign.

In this day and age, you can't just talk about economic justice without talking about racial justice — they're not mutually exclusive,» said Renata Pumarol, the deputy director of New York Communities for Change.

``...... This is not just about dollars — it's about justice,» Stringer said in a statement.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

«The Board of Elections was just ensuring that everyone that spends money on our elections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center for Justice.

ALBANY, NY (05/28/2013)(readMedia)-- Just weeks after scathing reports about the abysmal failure of the Close to Home juvenile «reform» program diverting youthful offenders from state juvenile justice facilities to inadequate New York City based programs, the Cuomo administration is doubling down on bad policy and moving to close two more centers.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has faced UKIP leader Nigel Farage in a debate about the EU - with human rights legislation, and its impact on the UK's criminal justice system, just one issue that the men had very different opinions on.

«One of his main platforms was economic justice and providing for the middle class and government standing up for the little guy and that's just what this is all about, this $ 15 campaign and standing up for the little guy and standing up to the powerful forces.

«Brian has been a leading voice in the fight for comprehensive criminal justice reform, and has shown a deep commitment to not just talking about issues of social justice, but actually delivering results.

And it could arise this time on the Left side of the aisle in opposition to Trump because they may be worried about his potential for demagoguery or worried about mob justice or the federal government just being too powerful in general.