Sentences with phrase «justice work as»

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Ashley Schapitl, a spokeswoman for Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said the senator is working with the Justice and Treasury departments to get technical assistance as the bill moves forward.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

The most insightful work I know of on this topic is to be found in a brilliant 1996 paper by Caroline Whitbeck, called Ethics as Design: Doing Justice to Moral Problems.

He serves as a coordinator for Bet Tzedek Legal Services» Holocaust Survivors Justice Network, assisting Holocaust survivors and their widows / widowers obtain reparation pension benefits for work performed while residing in German - controlled ghettos.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

Conheeney thanked employees for their hard work and urged them to stay focused, and the attorney directed them to the Department of Justice's website for more information on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, known as RICO, the people said.

(It's not that surprising that Johns would be playing a growing influential role in the DCEU, as he's already worked on such TV series as Justice League Unlimited, Smallville, Arrow, and The Flash.)

I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

While working as a laborer in this program of infrastructure development, Saeed becomes pious and joins a social justice mosque; Nadia becomes a lesbian and moves to Mykonos.

New resolutions can act as a rallying cry for further work on racial justice and racial unity, allowing SBC entities, churches and organizations to point to this resolution as a reason for continuing to preach, teach and speak out.

Mr Cox went on to say: «I would like to see churches pray for increased opportunities to celebrate truth and justice in the media and for lives to be changed as a result, for Christians working in and with the media to shine for God and to become more influential.

Christian magistrate Richard Page, who has sat as a Justice of the Peace in Kent for 15 years, has been told that he must undergo «equality training» before returning to work after he blocked the adoption of a child by a same - sex couple.

As my husband, who works in criminal justice, always says — people are always very concerned for their children's welfare after the fact.

The metaphor of moving a mountain as it relates to doing the work of peace - making and justice - seeking since my first visit to Haiti crops up often in my life and work — in fact, I ended up dedicating an entire chapter of my book to this beautiful idea).

He put together a list of 12 virtues (frugality, sincerity, justice, etc.), and worked out a system of regularly focusing on one virtue a week while tracking his progress as he went.

Every structure of life must be examined as to whether it measures up to God's intention for it, whether in its current form it works for the common good in the service of justice, liberty, and community.

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.

She is involved in energising churches in Hackney to work for social justice as well as developing younger leaders and helping churches tell their stories.

«As Christ followers, we are called to work toward justice for all.

On the positive side: heroes increasingly display astute minds to match their muscles — or even as substitutes for physical strength; also, fighters for justice frequently work in teams rather than as lone operatives.

I do not expect that many who hold authority in the church or other dominant institutions of our lives will be converted, en masse or as individuals, to the serious work of justice - making with compassion and good humor as their top priority.

It is only as this fact is more fully recognized and wrought into our living that we shall have any semblance of human justice in our society.

«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.»

Recently as I was sitting in church listening to a rather good sermon on the importance of «working for justice and peace.»

«Do you promise, with the help of God's grace, to be Christ's disciple, to follow in the way of Jesus, to resist oppression, to work for justice and peace, and to witness to the compassionate love of God as best you are able?»

Unless Christians recognize that structures can work iniquity as well as justice, they will wash their zeal in frustration as they try to reform American society by reforming individuals.

In doing this, we have also seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human possibility.

Gary Haugen was 30 years old, working as a prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice when he was sent on an assignment that would change his life: He went to Rwanda to investigate the genocide that had killed hundreds of thousands.

There is a clear demand on the part of the Christians in India to work for economic justice especially in view of the swifter and greater marginalization of the poor as a result of economic reforms under globalization.

I write and teach about racism out of my own anxiety as a white person, and out of my own experiences of learning about racism and trying to find a way to join a larger movement of people working for racial justice.

• Capital punishment: I currently lean against capital punishment as an institutionalized practice or as a matter of justice, but am working through this one at the moment.

«As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who can not speak for themselves,» said the 74 - year - old Virginia representative in deciding not to pursue an 18th term after 34 years of service.

With a certain glee the existentialists turn their back on science, on l`esprit de geometrie, and letting the chips fall where they may as far as the scientific enterprise is concerned, they work to articulate the structures of human being, to do justice to human being.

In the eyes of some, this kind of justice work may not be as glamorous as overseas missions, or of fighting human trafficking or playing a role in the end of the orphan crisis.

Do we mean to identify such human works as the creation of justice through the state with the activity of God?

The task of religious leaders is to call their people to live citizenship as discipleship, which in this instance means using the arts of persuasion rather than the anarchic tactics of disruption to do the work of justice.

Jesus is as good as we hope, and everything for which you are longing — love, joy, peace, justice, mercy, home, good work — is real because it rooted in God's heart for us.

The works of the learned modern theologians since Schleiermacher contain ever changing presentations of the Christian religion which are dominated by the desire to do justice to historical and contemporaneous Christian experience as well as to all phases of modem knowledge.

We who have met under this theme of justice, peace and the integrity of creation have done so as part of our commitment to stand together and to work.

God's righteousness is his justice, and his justice is manifest in his working to put down the unrighteous, expose idols, show mercy, and achieve reconciliation in a new order which expresses man s dignity as bearer of the divine image.

It is tempting to pass this book off as propaganda, but no one should underestimate Carlson - Thies, who in 1992 began working, from his position at the Center for Public Justice, for the passage of Charitable Choice.

We are, then, resident in this world, with the task of making it, so far as may be, a replica of the perfect justice and utter charity of our homeland, but not surprised nor in despair when the work can not be brought to complete fulfillment because the conditions of our present place of residence do not permit, or our selfishness and pride interfere.

Both in its generally moral sense as right action and in its specifically political sense as right structures of society and culture, justice implies that it realizes the same divine interest in the interests of all that is expressed by God's own work of creation.

In any case, it is clear that, as every papal encyclical and major Protestant pronouncement in this century on labor has affirmed, trade unions are an essential instrument of justice for working people and an indispensable and positive part of democratic societies.

It is for practical reasons and not only theological ones that he stresses the importance for ecumenism of the Life and Work programs for justice, peace and the integrity of creation (as well as, to mention other topics of importance to him and his audience, the «celebration of diversity» and the need for an «ecumenical hermeneutic» to satisfy doubters that there is such a thing as the «apostolic tradition» to which ecumenism must be faithful).

Both as scientists and as Christians we have reasons to work for a social order providing the maximum freedom consistent with the operation of justice and equality.