Sentences with phrase «just as a magistrate»
Essentially, Senate Democrats are pushing the notion that the court can still draft legislative lines itself, just as a magistrate did with the House districts.
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Each year when it is read I can hardly conceal a smile as the author lists (and not just once) the titles of the king's advisors — the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, justices, magistrates, and officials of the provinces — or as he takes delight (again not just once) in naming the musical instruments that called people to worship the golden statue — the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and the entire musical ensemble.
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.
The magistrate judge denied the motion, and noted that both claims «were more like pesky gnats and could have just as easily been shooed away.»
The Magistrates and Crown Courts are working overtime to prosecute those charged and as might be deemed right and just in the circumstances, they are punishing up to the limits of their powers.