Sentences with phrase «more unjust»

It is time now for unequivocal change: no more ignoring a community that has fought tirelessly against stigma; no more ignoring the newest scientific evidence; and no more unjust prosecutions of people living with HIV.

The suffering these animals face seems even more unjust, because most of the identities of their breeders have been kept secret by the USDA — the very agency charged with protecting dogs in puppy mills and keeping bad breeders in line.

This is evidently unjust, although it is no more unjust than the men having to drop out if a man won the top job.

«Their answer is to return to a more unequal, more unjust past.

Ed Miliband says Nigel Farage's vision of a «return to a more unequal, more unjust past» was not what the people of the UK wanted.

(We want to make Britain more unjust.)

And who is more unjust than he who hideth a testimony which he hath received from Allah?

Study after study shows that societies characterized by the subjugation of women are more violent, more impoverished, and more unjust than societies that empower women.

And who is more unjust than he who conceals the testimony [i.e. to believe in Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him when he comes, written in their Books.

Could the precepts of identity politics actually lead to a more unjust and divided world?

Not exact matches

They win higher wages, better working conditions and more protection from unjust employer treatment for their members.

We would have raised on outcry against the tax itself, and how it was unfair and unjust and way more than Caesar needed, and how the Roman government was wasting what money it did have.

Father Regamey makes the same distinction, but in more classic fashion: «The violence that is an unjust aggression, from outside, against persons, is bad violence, even though this injustice be called order.

Opposing an unjust order, creating a state of disorder out of which (depending on how fluid the situation is) renewal may issue — this is acceptable, provided that the users of violence do not pretend that they are creating order; what they are creating is one more injustice.

(Matthew 6:8) Prayer was not begging a reluctant deity for his best gifts, as though he were an unjust judge or a surly neighbor in bed with his children unwilling to arise and answer a call for help — although if patience in prayer could accomplish its end even in such cases, how much more with the righteous and merciful God!

Religion is only one believe that professes the existence of some God, it would be unjust to only highlight criminal instances motivated by a believe in the existence of God when there are far more horrendous crimes which are motivated by a believe in no God!

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

Signifying loyalty to an unjust system, conventionally regarded as good manners, from a more fundamental view is bad manners.

To the recently freed hikers who believe America's policies towards Iran are unjust, this article is just one more example of why it is what it is.

The optimist will always tend to see the glass half - full and the pessimist see the glass half - empty; but the mature believer will be more inclined to chose the Cross rather than pursue his or her self - interest through unjust means or indulge disordered passions at the expense of others.

As a result of this all too typical pattern of unjust land distribution, for example, 77 percent of the land in El Salvador, where fourteen families control the wealth, is suffering from erosion, according to a recent study.25 A more just distribution of land would greatly reduce the negative impact on the environment.

What's more, I don't think wealth inequality is unjust per se.

Binge drinkers are more likely to commit illegal and unjust behaviors, including sexual assault and vandalism.

If an unjust judge can be importuned into responding to a poor widow, how much more can you trust the God who reaches Out to you in the word of forgiveness.

Face to face with an unjust sovereign, we may find that there is more — or less — to our character than we suspected.

When we move to the level of a moral judgment, we move away from statements of merely personal taste and private belief; we speak of the things that are more generally or universally right or wrong, just or unjust, for others as well as ourselves.

Rather it joins ethos and cosmos at the very point of their discordance: in suffering and, more precisely, in unjust suffering.

Peters does wonderfully well in defending Leo against the charges of being meddlesome, corrupting the youth, and making the unjust speech seem more attractive than the just one.

Some people work harder and have more, and «it would be unjust for such people not to be rewarded.»

He sought after false accusations and unjust reprimands as opportunities of humility; and such was his obedience that, when a room - mate, having no more paper, asked him for a sheet, he did not feel free to give it to him without first obtaining the permission of the superior, who, as such, stood in the place of God, and transmitted his orders.

But if it was unjust to link peace work and appeasement in the «40s, the suspicion was more understandable in the «60s, when some American antiwar activists made no effort to conceal their sympathies for an authoritarian regime in North Vietnam.

But no insurrection is ever right, however right the cause it seeks to promote... it generally harms the innocent more than the guilty... I am and always will be on the side of those against whom insurrection is directed, no matter how unjust their cause;... Those who read and rightly understand my teaching will not start an insurrection; they have not learned that from me.

In a survey reported by the financial - services firm Rothstein Kass in December, more than 80 % of the 178 athletes polled — each with a minimum net worth of $ 5 million and two thirds under the age of 30 — said they were «concerned about being involved in unjust lawsuits and / or divorce proceedings.»

Some patients may experience side effects including elf song, barrel riding, unjust imprisonment, longevity lasting more that 4 eons, and inappropriate and ill - advised film adaptations.

What's more, kids that maintain this mindset will begin to see the world as an unjust and unfair place.

Failing to teach kids with privilege that they have to be more conscientious about choosing how to act, puts them in a position where they may be blindsided by their peers, who know better, and who won't stand for unjust treatment.

They reflect the reality of what the UK has been becoming for some time - a more urban, educated and cosmopolitan society but also one that is more unequal and socially unjust.

But the time has come for a bolder step: one that will not just end unjust arrests, but will cut the crime rate by 90 % or more.

PA has long been home to some of the most unjust and frustrating ballot access requirements in the nation, requiring Greens and independent candidates to collect many thousands more petition signatures to run for office than their duopoly counterparts.

Now more than ever, funding to support and protect New York's immigrant communities is crucial as we face the possibilities of increased enforcement and unjust practices against immigrants.

Forefront at the problems that shall consume Nigeria is the unjust political structure in which corenorth was assigned excess number of states and local government areas, through which it produces excess number of legislators that spurn political reforms that do not yield more political benefits for the corenorth.

A pair of recent, unrelated developments in Massachusetts highlights that postdocs are even more vulnerable to the vagaries of professorial decisions and often have far fewer and less effective legitimate means of drawing institutional attention to treatment they consider unjust or unreasonable.

Day - Lewis» prominence on awards - season nominee lists is unsurprising; but it feels unjust that Krieps hasn't received more recognition.

Otherwise it is more or less myriad characters of unjust proportions brought on to tug at the audience.

Blockbusters such as Ryoo Seung - wan's The Unjust and Lee Joeng - Beom's The Man From Nowhere, as well as more thoughtful pieces such as Hong Sang - soo's Oki's Movie, have not only found a home in the major Australian and international film festivals this year, but within localised ambassadors such as the Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA).

Both of these actors are forced to try to put across dimensional characterizations in quick bursts, however, and their honorable efforts aren't enough to fully bring to life characters that have been conceived as no more than wax statues: Colin a totem of unjust suffering, Carl an icon of selfless idealism and persistence.

«Selma»: Ava DuVernay's biopic of Martin Luther King, Jr. couldn't be more relevant during these painfully unjust times — nor more full of heart.

Given the nature of the genre, it's no spoiler to reveal that the murder charge TV news channels keep trumpeting against Brolin's supposed criminal is thoroughly unjust, and that the real reason Winslet's hubby left only makes her all the more precious to her on - the - lam suitor.

But without also engaging the more fundamental ideas of learning, equality, and real opportunities for students, the battle itself is meaningless and, even worse, unjust.