Sentences with phrase «justice practices in»

As an Assistant Principal, Tessa has also implemented a mindfulness curriculum and adopted restorative justice practices in her approach to managing student behavior and created a more empowered student culture.

Lake Effect's Mitch Teich interviews organizers of an upcoming conference exploring restorative justice practices in schools.

My colleagues and I are hoping to further learn about and implement restorative justice practices in the upcoming year so our students can succeed academically.

Not exact matches

«Chief Justice Roberts could have serious misgivings about the unprecedented implications that Hobby Lobby's position could have in upturning centuries of corporate law practice,» Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel Constitutional Accountability Center says.

The Obama administration Justice Department, for instance, has opened 23 investigations of law enforcement agencies, including police departments in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri, for unconstitutional practices and has reached court - enforceable consent decrees with many of them.

Trustee practices are under the microscope in Justice Kapnick's courtroom because Bank of New York Mellon is the trustee overseeing all 530 Countrywide mortgage deals covered by the proposed $ 8.5 billion settlement.

In 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealIn 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealin which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealin practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical deals.

Now the bank is in negotiations with the U.S. Justice Department to settle a slew of investigations into questionable mortgage practices.

Girls, young women, subject matter experts from the justice, law enforcement, and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors, along with educators, parents, program workers from across the country participated in consultations to identity gaps, challenges, promising practices, and recommendations for strategies to end cyberviolence.

In Alberta, a similar practice was stopped in 2010 by then - Justice minister Alison Redford after it was revealed that local returning officers had been appointed from a list submitted by the Progressive Conservative PartIn Alberta, a similar practice was stopped in 2010 by then - Justice minister Alison Redford after it was revealed that local returning officers had been appointed from a list submitted by the Progressive Conservative Partin 2010 by then - Justice minister Alison Redford after it was revealed that local returning officers had been appointed from a list submitted by the Progressive Conservative Party.

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.

I hope we can all agree in principle that discrimination, marginalisation, oppression in practice, attitudes or any form is not OK and requiring of equal attention and justice wherever it comes from.

Chief Justice Roberts, joined by those freewheeling constitutional interpreters Justices Scalia and Thomas (among others), engaged in judging practices familiar from the common law.

After college, my ideas turned into practice, and life marched on in a series of how to be the best possible Christian, with a social justice flair (eschew money, buy fair trade, advocate for social justice causes, create programs for the needy in my neighborhood).

Such a God reeducates our disordered desires and calls our heartless society back to the spiritual practices of compassion, solidarity and justice - building with the marginalized and the humiliated in our midst.

They want some big splashy teaching, like for instance — a course in miracles, rather than putting into practice in very practical ways with the people around them what the Isaiah says God requires (i.e. — love, patience, prayer, meditation, hopefulness, justice, etc).

The other side of this is whether Milbank can do justice to the particularities of history, such as the practice and teaching of Jesus in its Jewish context, and the complexity of crises, conflicts and points of tension.

If we metaphysicians, on our side, spent more time showing how metaphysics shapes practice in a variety of fields, the dichotomy between our field and the crucial issues of justice and survival could be overcome.

As a result, U.S. Supreme Court justices are left in many cases to intuit whether a particular practice leans too far toward either extreme to be acceptable.

In practice, then, a delicate balance between justice and mercy must be maintained.

By showing Abraham their common ground about the principles of justice, God enables Abraham to gain His perspective on the practice of justice in the political realm.

But woe are we, dearly beloved, we are undone, we are lost, if the church is silent, if no powerful, corporate, prophetic protest is made when in this Jezreel palace of ours there is violence instead of justice, a vast cry (increasingly bitter and militant) from the world's dispossessed instead of righteousness, and the practice of the right of force instead of the force of right.

Prayer as practice of the presence of God; reloving of family, workmates, and church members; compassion for the oppressed and disadvantaged; unmasking of the world's claims of God's sanction for its unjust structures; integrity of mission interweaving witness, acts of mercy, and acts of justice: all are areas of continuing growth in grace as long as we live.

If just war is premised on the intention of justice and yet we know we are not pure in our intentions for justice, examination and confession become central to the practice of just war.

The right to participate in the widest possible moral discourse, through which social practices are legislated and justice is pursued, is also a formative condition of emancipation.

Only a God who in some way transcends the world, who has special care for the downtrodden, who calls humans (if among the oppressors) to practice justice, and who calls humans (if among the oppressed) to demand their rights — only this God can or will say no to oppression and invite others to do as well.

In a letter to Justice Minister Mohammed al - Issa seen by Reuters, eight judges complained about foreign trainers who shave their beards contrary to purist Islam, the minister's meetings with diplomats of «infidel» states and plans to let women practice as lawyers.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

The political order embodies justice in the sense of making it possible and of putting limits on the practice of injustice.

He has completed a Masters of Global Leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary and is completing a Doctorate at Fuller where he is exploring the anodyne influence of the collective church at the intersection of race, justice, and the practices of peacemaking in the public square.

Under the liberal policy of the empire, which allowed a fair degree of local autonomy, the Sanhedrin exercised wide jurisdiction as a court of justice, especially in matters arising out of the peculiar practices and institutions of the Jewish religion.

With the support of the American Center for Law and Justice, as well as other Christian watchdog organizations, efforts to ensure Christians are legally able to practice their faith in Russia continue.

In the face of injustice, we practice justice and mercy.

Sociological theology has focused on questions of justice, but as it has recognized that the effects of human beings on their environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions of the sustainability of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference of the amount of attention given to these two issues of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements on important issues.

Daniel, the gifted Jewish dream interpreter — gifted, surely, because of his rootage in faith — counsels Nebuchadnezzar to practice mercy and justice (4:27).

This book helped me put legs and feet and arms and a voice to the stirrings towards social justice, intentional community, contemplative practices, and activism in my own life.

To bear witness as a spiritual practice means to keep in mind these things while pursuing a life of justice.

Those for whom this way of paying reparations was not justice enough, or else the wrong kind of justice, would have to argue in a higher court than Lincoln had ever practiced in.

Science, technology, and scholarship are ideologically and systematically distorted to the degree that the subjects doing or practicing them, and the institutions in which the practice occurs, repress or oppose this intrinsic orientation to social justice (CPST, TKH, CIR).

In the Genesis narratives, for example, Abraham is depicted neither as a religious philosopher nor as a reformer but as someone whom God «makes his own» and ordains to be the progenitor of a family - nation that would serve as a pilot - people for humanity by keeping God's way — the avoidance of violence and the practice of justice under law (Genesis 18:19).

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»

Those who work in theological education are also aware, however, that we must also avoid intellectual or spiritual tourism — the tendency to explore the range and quaintness of the world's wondrous variety without asking about the truth - claims of various cultures, without attempting to discern the relative justice of alternative social practices, or without seeking commonalities that may overarch multiple lands and religions.

By this time I'd earned an M.S. in Criminal Justice, my focus in this degree was case law and judiciary process, which of course included an extensive study of policing histories and practices.

In an investigation of feminist practices at least three themes emerge within each practice: justice, dialogue and imagination.

Each of the Christian practices we explore depends on and fosters our spirituality — for example, keeping Sabbath forms us in rest and gratitude but also draws us into thinking about social justice, family patterns and so on.

In the meantime, it's our job to practice true justice: get rid of legalized plunder through government redistribution of wealth, and each of us give freely and voluntarily to care for our neighbors.

Their pious acts are of no avail, for God's pleasure is in justice that must «roll down like waters» and in righteousness that must be «like an ever - flowing stream» (Amos 5:24) The people have not practiced justice or righteousness.

If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my righteous will (covenant).