Sentences with phrase «law as his motive»

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

The primary motive of the laws is to deliver justice to those who are exploited, though they also act as a deterrent for further similar actions and thus drive social reform.

He firmly affirmed that no individual or group interest can override the interest of the nation and that democratic values provide for exploration of rule of law to advance any concern, not the resort to endless and misguided acts of brigandage, unless there is an ulterior motive as the extant instance tends to dictate.

Instead, you follow the lives of strangers: Matt Damon as a citizen experiencing his family and friends dying all around him while society crumbles; Laurence Fishburne as the Director of the CDC who not only has to face the media, but work with his team to find a cure for the HEV - 1 virus; Kate Winslet as a CDC field agent on her first assignment; Jude Law as the blogging internet prophet who may have ulterior motives behind his website; and Marion Cotillard as a doctor from the W.H.O as she investigates the origins in China.

And she questions the political motives behind well - financed groups like Parent Revolution, which rented out a five - bedroom house to serve as the parent union's headquarters and helped secure a law firm to represent parents pro bono.

She speaks with Lawyer Monthly about the changes the field of law and construction could undertake to ensure problems are solved in an improved manner, and the key skills and motives behind her success as an exceptional project manager.

As this article, from Working Mother magazine describes, law firms are more willing to accommodate flexible schedules these days — not necessarily out of noble motives, but because it's financially expedient to do so.

And while big firms certainly have a profit motive in pursuing IPOs, I also think that the blogosphere will help push the trend as well by continuing to provoke discussion between academics and large law firms on law firms IPOs.

«For administrative and labour law in Canada, it's a major decision because it is now clear that the workers can examine the members of decision - making authority, such as an administrative board, executive council or in our case, a council of commissioners about the motives leading to any disciplinary sanction,» she says.

As such, the Court of Appeal accepted the City's submission the Application Judge had erred in characterizing the By - Law — specifically finding that the concepts of purpose and motive were confused in the analysis: ``... the motives of individual Council members (or even the Council as a whole) do not of itself establish the pith and substance of the By - Law»As such, the Court of Appeal accepted the City's submission the Application Judge had erred in characterizing the By - Law — specifically finding that the concepts of purpose and motive were confused in the analysis: ``... the motives of individual Council members (or even the Council as a whole) do not of itself establish the pith and substance of the By - Law»as a whole) do not of itself establish the pith and substance of the By - Law».

The law recognizes as constitutional the principle that prosecutors must not act for improper purposes, such as purely partisan motives.

I'm voting to close this question as off - topic because the question of motive for a law is politics.

As I said in Death of Big Law, «firms have a strong profit motive to preserve their reputations for fair and honest dealings with clients and others.»

Some definitions of physical abuse do not include perpetrator intent; others reflect motive rather than injury type.3 Additionally, definitions of physical abuse are culturally determined, and what is considered abusive in one society may not be in another.4, 5 In many societies, physical violence against children as a method of punishment is endorsed by parents, sanctioned by societal institutions (such as schools) and allowed by law.