Sentences with phrase «justice issues did»

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Raisman's passion for justice emphasizes the reality that Nassar's abuse did not exist in a vaccum — and that targeting female athletes is a longstanding, systemic issue.

On Tuesday, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations that would ban bump stocks, after pressure to do more to curtail access to deadly weapons following the Florida shooting.

«Our conviction that Sino - Forest is a fraud has not wavered since we issued our report, and we look forward to seeing justice done,» Block said Friday.

In a statement issued yesterday, before the ban was enacted, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick emphasized the company would do everything it can to bring the perpetrator to justice.

The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice.»

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

And the great thing is that with our religious freedom, they don't have to wait to find the right church to take on social justice issues.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

Amnesty International is up to no good, and they don't want you to know about it.My friend Richard Stith, professor of law at Valparaiso University, first drew my attention to the issue on the Mirror of Justice blog about a year ago.

We can not do Prager's argument justice here, but readers who are weary of the propaganda of gay promotion and gay bashing alike might write for this issue of Ultimate Issues.

Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?

Because the truth is that we do all start from different places on different issues of justice.

That's why we cover life issues and culture next to social justice and spiritual growth — to look at the things relevant to our lives and world, and give voice to what God is doing in and through our generation.

QUESTION: Does anyone know if or how often SC Justices are tested for dementia (among other issues) and if there are mechanisms for removal other than voluntarily stepping down?

Issues of justice arise when there is a contract or a mutual agreement between two people by which one does something for the other and the other agrees to give something equivalent in return; this equivalence is what is termed the quid pro quo.

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

At the heart of the issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense of right and wrong, of justice and injustice, of good and evil.

Like all typologies, it will not do justice to all the factors, but its use will be defensible, I trust, if it makes a few of the main issues more clear.

the issue i have with creationism is that it does not do justice to the vast and beautiful intricacies of the universe.

There is so much thinking and research that needs to be done on this topic, and I am in no way doing the issue any justice through such quickly - written blog posts.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

They don't do so with all issues of social justice.

The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.

Here's to hoping you return to the logic that you claim to uphold so that regardless of which side of the issue you fall you will still do your argument justice.

Does the lack of explicitness in the Apostle's Creed leave open the possibility that a pastor or church could ignore the pressing issues of social justice, kingdom living, and earth - care, among many others?

A second issue has to do with justice — in this case, justice for the emerging new nations of the Third World.

There is no way I can do justice to this issue here, but this is my short take: as it was in the ministry of the incarnate Son of God, healing serves as a sign of the wholeness yet to come when «the knowledge of the glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the sea.»

Churches recognize that issues of justice in local and national development can not be addressed without a consciousness of the role of communication, nor can any group do so without the tools with which to make their views known.

Under the test, first proposed by Supreme Court Justice Sandra O'Connor in a 1984 case from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a display violates the Establishment Clause if it amounts to an official endorsement of religion, that is, if it suggests that the government approves a particular religious message (or disapproves such a message, though that issue does not regularly arise).

But here a basic issue is joined, and I conclude with Hartshorne's further explanation: «I think the truest way to do justice to the inaccessibility of the past, which nevertheless we somehow know, is to say that we indistinctly intuit the past itself.»

CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the issue of widespread hate campaigns by state and non-state actors against religious minorities in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against religious minorities.»

In doing so, certainly as right - relationships, justice, and a passion for Jesus and his ways grow issues of injustice will be addressed.

We don't ponder deeply about significant issues like justice, love and character.

When gospel - related themes about justice, peace, and equality are raised in the various elements of culture, the church may suspect that these issues did not rise solely out of the hearts and minds of unregenerate people, but were created by the gentle breezes of the Spirit upon all people in our society.

«Not only does ISL have the right to frame its own rules for the league and deal with related issues, including disciplinary issues, but in fact the AIFF has required ISL to regulate and sanction disciplinary issues,» said former Bombay High Court Chief Justice Kshitij Vyas, in a 21 - page order, according to The Times of India.

My interest in this whole issue comes from the fact that if our law courts especially the highest court in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a country?

Labour MP Toby Perkins later told the justice secretary he would raise the issue as a point of order if he did not correct the record.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

The circumspect wording of the Progress Report issued on 10 November 2015 does scant justice to the gravity of the political and economic situation in the country.

«The speaker laid out a comprehensive agenda this week on issues like education, reproductive rights and criminal justice reform, so we have a lot of work to do here in Albany and that is what we will be focusing on,» said Michael Whyland, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx.

Speaking to about 1,000 people Nixon cast her support as primarily driven by racial disparity in marijuana arrests, declaring that «I want to do it first and foremost because it's a racial justice issue.»

The labor - backed party also would like to see Cuomo do more on criminal justice reform and to address climate change, though Lipton allowed he has made «significant strides» on those issues.

Selous doesn't seem to have any background on justice or prison issues.

But this also part of a great picture of what our criminal justice system is doing, and it's not just a New York City issue.»

«This issue is so important to me, that if we don't have a top - down review of the criminal justice system, I honestly believe my speakership would be in vain, if we don't do this.»

«We're going to be out there campaigning on economic justice issues and we will take the fight to the Tories because there is a choice to be made: do we want to live in a society based on individualism and private provision, or do we want to defend the principles of the national health service and properly fund social care?»

«As I started to pay more attention to the social justice issues, the human rights issues, the good - government issues, I thought something needs to be done here,» Moss said.

The raise the age issue was a key policy concern for Heastie to have accomplished in the state budget, and Cuomo last week indicated he was satisfied with the passage of a budget extender bill that funded the government until May 31, but did not include the juvenile justice reform.

Glyn Fullelove added: «Nevertheless, this is a thoughtful paper that clearly reflects the responses to the earlier round of consultation from the CIOT and others and does justice to the practical issues raised.

Democratic lawmakers in that chamber already have a number of issues they have to get done: rent control, monitoring the regulations for the new teacher evaluation law and an extension of mayoral control for New York City schools and criminal justice reform, just to name a few.