Sentences with phrase «less than justice»

[23] What is at stake is nothing less than justice for the Aboriginal group and its descendants, and the reconciliation between the group and broader society.

Professor Rosenblum does himself less than justice: he is neither the simple mainline neoconservative that he pretends or the swinging elder statesman evoked by his repeated claims of solidarity with «art historians... of a younger generation» and «anyone under forty,» but an original and sometimes brilliantly eccentric critic, distinguished among other things for his persuasive work on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as well as for his astonishingly early and penetratingly intelligent recognition of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella.

«This is the year we will not accept anything less than justice!»

It would be interesting to show how the more conservative interpretations of Jesus, such as those of Edward Meyer, R. Otto, and H. Lietzmann, tend to do less than justice to the mystery of the presence of God in Christ.

Niebuhr was correct in insight and King in insight and practice: without love every endeavor toward justice can only produce something less than justice.

If we lose it, then the human forgiveness becomes either an echo of the divine, and while this would be true so far as it goes it would do less than justice to the dynamic of the teaching of Jesus, or it tends to become a means whereby we earn God's forgiveness, as is happening in Matt.

Both liberalism and neo-orthodoxy have done it less than justice.

It is too bad that an almost incurable anthropocentrism has marked so much of our western ways of theologizing that we have tended to do less than justice to the other aspects and areas of the creation which are not directly related to the human enterprise as such.

But true though this is from one angle, it does less than justice to that «local, unique sting» that should and does characterize our loves.

Love may go beyond justice — but it can never seek less than justice.

What is more important, the earlier critics did less than justice to the fact that the Bible has its own doctrine about the nature of history, which deserves to be understood and appreciated in itself.

Not exact matches

Less than an hour after news site The Intercept published a report on Monday detailing Russian hacking related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the U.S. Justice Department said federal investigators had arrested someone suspected of leaking classified information to the media.

Departing Washington less than three hours after he was confirmed by the Senate and sworn - in Thursday by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a fellow Italian - American, Pompeo rushed to Joint Base Andrews.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics has determined that lifers released prior to 1995 have the lowest recidivism rate of any group of offenders — less than one - third the rate of property or drug offenders, for instance.

Thus, as we deal with the concept of justice, let us not suppose that it is of lesser relevance or importance for the Christian than the concept of love,

Yes, along the lines of Pale Rider, it gives us a picture of the west that is more hard - bitten and less simplistically open to heroic adventure than typically provided in the golden era of the Western, but the classic plot of the cowboy serving the cause of justice is nonetheless there.»

Our calling is to invite all to turn from gods which are even less than human, and from idols like power, profit, property, creed, class, caste, language, race, success, technocratic progress, managerial efficiency and the ego, and thus experience the fulfilling realization of God's Reign which consists in justice, freedom and fellowship, tender love, universal compassion and equitable sharing of resources.

He would be the Caesar of a Jewish empire no less universal than the Roman; though it would be fair to say that the program drawn up for the «Son of David» in literature not far in date from the time of Jesus has more about justice and moral reformation than about bread and circuses.

But we come here tonight to be saved, to be saved less than freedom and justice.

On the whole the Niebuhrian generation of theologians were far less involved in struggles for justice than had been either Niebuhr himself or the social gospel writers he criticized.

It seems to me that the current general statements made by historians, literary historians, and sociologists about American civilization often do not do justice to the fact that a considerable part of the American ethos is still, though less than in earlier periods of American history, expressed in religious commitment and its sociological expression.

Hence they hesitate to limit the power of the rulers themselves, and settle for less justice than might otherwise be achieved.

«DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same - sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others,» Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have joined a march for «Peace and Justice» called by the Catholic Church, the second massive demonstration in less than a week following a wave of deadly protests against social security reforms.

All efforts for social justice are less than pure or sure, he continued.

We humans are called to be involved in the use of imperfect means to realize less than perfect ends of justice which alone history offers.

The Bible never treats justice as a lesser order than that required by love, but as the objectification of the spirit of love in human and divine relationships.

When we speak of «justifying,» showing the rightness or justice of a law, we speak about nothing less than establishing its moral ground.

For me the term «social justice» is a charged and negative term with many people who are less than godly associating themselves with the movement.

God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.»

«A freedom open to new creation is in fact less centered on subjectivity, on personal authenticity, than on social and political justice; it calls for a reconciliation which itself demands to be inscribed in the recapitulation of all things.

Justice John Paul Stevens (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) stated: «Although much ink is spilled today describing the gruesome nature of late «term abortion procedures, that rhetoric does not provide me a reason to believe that the procedure Nebraska here claims it seeks to ban is more brutal, more gruesome, or less respectful of «potential life» than the equally gruesome procedure [D&E] Nebraska claims it still allows.»

He argues that the bishops» concept of justice is less comprehensive than that of the Bible: «In the economy of God, the whole created order is the object of redemption, and justice is rendering whatever is required for the fullest possible flourishing of all creation» (p. 474).

And so this negative experience offers us an opportunity to unite, less, perhaps, in the positive planning of the freedom and justice we are seeking than in our critical opposition to the honor and tenor of unfreedom and injustice.

When there is a momentary break in the course of these disasters, when abundance is known, when peace timidly establishes itself, when justice reigns for a span, then it is fitting, unless we are men of too little faith, that we should marvel and give thanks for so great a miracle, realizing that no less than the love and faithfulness of the Lord has been needed in order that there might be this privileged instant.

Whiteheadian scholarship appears to have done less than full justice to Descartes in this respect.

Yet the biblical promise demands nothing less than the widening of our social visions and our sense of justice so as to include all those elements that we normally suppress.

The problems connected with them are so complex that nothing less than a complete presentation of our proposed solution would do justice to it or to them.

At the same time, the author believes that Justice Thomas was less than entirely candid in his claim that he had not discussed with others his views on the merits of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision.

In fact, this ruling came from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) which brought an end to females paying less for their motor insurance than men on the grounds that it was overtly sexist towards the male of the species.

Less than 24 hours later, news broke that Trump may have obstructed justice by asking Comey to end the investigation into Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser.

Your children will not only fight less, but will learn to feel compassion and to get along without winners and victims, seeking peace rather than justice.

This is nothing less than an attempt to pervert the course of justice, he continues.

This evening at about 6 pm on Friday 15th December 2017, I listened to Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh Member of Parliament for Juaboso express his displeasure and unhappiness on citifm evening news segment dubbed «Eyewitnessnews «about a certain conduct which many Ghanaians described as a «unpleasant posture» put up by no less a person than the Chief Justice herself Madam Sophia Akuffo in an open sometime this week.

An example that is particularly relevant since the question alludes to the use of the criminal justice system to enforce property rights is that in Germany and some Nordic countries, they punish many less serious criminal offenses with «day - fines» rather than incarceration.

Sometimes even running the day to day of the city seems less important to the mayor than getting his message on inequality and justice across to the public.

In fact any competent statistician will tell you that an enlarged database is less useful in obtaining justice than a small, exclusive database of serious criminals.

In his first filings since since the U.S. Justice Department dropped all corruption charges against him, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez raised far less money for his reelection than he did six years ago.

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 49 - year - old Christopher Hayden of Town of Tonawanda pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski to two felony counts of Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child Less Than 16 Years Old.