Sentences with phrase «matter of justice»

Now in this country of traditional Christian values, a land which may well lead the world in matters of justice and liberty, it is very easy to underestimate the powers of evil.

Justice and Marriage Matters of justice might seem to have little to do with whether one is a man or a woman.

The symposium brings together artists, lawyers, eyewitnesses, writers and academics to discuss how art may contribute to informing social attitudes on matters of justice in a time of global conflict, when the law has at times been absent.

From these passages, it appears that Jesus is not so concerned about people giving to the temple, or how much they give, but with the more important matters of justice for the oppressed, mercy to the repentant, and faith toward God in all things.

Personally, I'm suspicious of most piety as either being a seedbed of hypocrisy or a distraction from matters of justice.

The torah is a reminder that God's will focuses on large human questions and that we also may focus on weighty matters of justice, mercy and righteousness.

In matters of justice David Davis is a giant and Liam Fox is a very reliable hatchet man - with a proven track record.

The current applications for DNA in forensics laboratories are focused on matters of the justice system:

Issues such as the social needs or matters of justice involved in cases do get attention in some case - dialogue classrooms, but these issues are almost always treated as addenda.

Nor do the judgements made in parts of Australia, that money is the prime motivation behind telling the stories of forced removal, lessen the belief that compensation is warranted as a plain matter of justice.

Titled, at the top of the page, «Beyond Rhetoric: The Positive Record of the Nixon Administration in Matters of Justice and Peace, January — June 1969,» the editorial left the rest of the page blank.

For me this is a matter of Justice for the oppressed.

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

It is rather a matter of justice and equal opportunity for our children.»

A columnist in a newspaper outside of Zambia even proposed that, as a matter of justice, developing nations deserve to engage in a few generations» worth of wanton polluting.

It is in fact a matter of justice, said Dolan, to defend the definition of marriage and to resist any attempt to caricature such a defense as «discrimination».

After all, where there is love and above all committed love, matters of justice, of rights and wrongs, claims and debts, should be easily solved.

Finally, apart from being a matter of justice, it is also of course a question of faith and trust in God - always tests of the Christian life.

It is a matter of justice that binds whenever reasonably requested by the other.

Such a person needs tactfully to be instructed that charity for the poor is not merely an act of mercy but also a matter of justice: «When we administer necessities to the needy, we give them what is their own, not what is ours, we pay a debt of justice, rather than do a work of mercy.

Among other things, it looks at Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, and how he was not simply interested in «building bridges» nor in waiting for the white moderates to come around, because it was a matter of justice and something had to change!

I decided that even if I was not personally bothered by such terms, inclusive language was a matter of justice.

On the matter of justice, Harris thinks the only thing wrong with injustice is that it is bad for the conscious well - being of others.

What Jesus demands is a self - giving towards others who are in need because they are in need, not due to any strict right on us as a matter of 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 resurrection people, we must stand and speak up on matters of justice to bring the resurrection life Christ offers to those who need it most.

I think we are dealing here with a matter of justice, not of convenience.

In matters of justice and retribution, we are to follow the example of One who is not our implacable judge but who pronounces us - the guilty ones - as innocent.

... It is of crucial importance that the Church acting corporately should not commit itself to any particular policy... This refusal to adopt a particular policy is partly a matter of prudence... still more is it a matter of justice, for even though a large majority of Christians hold a particular view, the dissentient minority may well be equally loyal re.

This will at once reward philosophical achievement with money (a matter of justice) and reward the reader with an eminently clear and unimpeachable genuine exposition (a matter of wisdom).

For instance, the Qur» an instructs that in matters of justice, the witness of a woman is equal to half of that of a man: «Take as witness two witnesses from your men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women» (Q 2:282).

Reward and punishment are understood to be a matter of justice.

Mr Miliband told MPs: «The role of the justice secretary is to speak for the nation on matters of justice and crime.

A Matter of Justice: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries) Written by: Charles Todd Published by: William Morrow

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Animal welfare needs to be accepted as a matter of justice, not personal whim, and institutionalised within Government as an Animal Protection Commission (as proposed by CASJ).

However, it is clear that — as a matter of justice — consumers in the United States must be made whole when penalties and other remedies are determined.