Sentences with phrase «much as justice»

It might be an indication of the fact that ministers, law makers, and presidents of supreme courts don't see themselves very much as justice innovation leaders.

There's a lot to learn, as interviewing style varies as much as the Justices» personalities.

Not exact matches

As one expert explained, the Justice Department's case against Cohen, and possibly Trump, is «much stronger» than the case against Edwards, which he said was «rightly» prosecuted.

The much anticipated «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,» had a record - setting weekend at the box office, as it took in an estimated $ 166.1 million domestically.

The phrase «social justice warrior» has become a pejorative, much as «PC culture» was mocked in the»90s — as if over-earnest young people are the worst thing.

And how much was the timing of Trump's decision shaped by events spiraling out of his control — such as Monday's testimony about Russian interference by former acting attorney general Sally Yates, or the fact that Comey last week requested more resources from the Justice Department to expand the FBI's Russia probe?

Because no legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.

It doesn't seem like this is being driven by an ancient justice system as much as typical group dynamics amplified by religion.

I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.

For us, to serve Christ is just as much to feed the hungry, to teach people to read, and to help them in their struggle for justice, as it is to baptize them.»

But as much as John Paul appreciated the United States, he kept his independence and issued a series of declarations about social justice and peace that challenged many Americans — both on the domestic front and in foreign affairs.

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.

It is a romantic heresy to suppose that once the poor and the oppressed are ministered to with charity and justice, we in the church have done as much for them as God could wish.

Is it unreasonable to expect that we spend as much on food and medical care and justice for the whole rest of the world as we do on luxuries for ourselves?

Religions are as crutches (spiritual aids) the atheist whom having no time for religions (claiming not religious) be at a more advanced spiritual stage than of christians / muslims etc (such not a direspect to muslims christians) but rather bringing some clarity to situation / as justice to the atheist / whom much villified.

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.

In very many situations justice is not second - best to love but, as Joseph Fletcher rightly says, as much love as the situation can contain.

Ask yourself if you are truly doing the man's teachings justice, and you admit to doing this blogging to fuel your own ego, which is as much for your own self - benefit as those you detract doing it to make a buck.

But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services into corporate naval gazing that never moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of God, the Bible would call this idolatry).

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy by making it appear to be an institution influenced by politics.

As Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieAs Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieas much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieas the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communities.

It was pragmatic in the sense that it becomes increasingly aware of the contingent circumstances of history which determine how much or how little it is necessary to emphasize» such regulative principles as justice, equality and liberty.

But, then, the dirty little secret is exposed: non-religion (or secular humanism, as Torcaso v. Watkins admitted) is just as much a religion as any other, except that by pretending to not be a religion, it becomes the Constitutionally established faith and religious test, not just for public office but anything public (public policy, the public square), whose content is defined by the clerisy of a five justice «theocratic majoritarianism.»

No other religion could do as much as Christianity to promote justice and peace.

This summary of certain phases of the Pauline theology — a summary much too brief to do even scant justice to the power and majesty of Paul's thought — is necessary as a background for the fuller discussion, to which we now turn, of the way in which Paul interpreted the significance of the earthly life of Jesus as related to this saving act of God.

Christian ethics starts from the position that God created the world for good and that war involves great evil, and calls us to a stewardship that enjoys much convergence based on agape as redeeming love, but also significant divergences over the best strategies to establish peace with justice.

It is rather the fullness of justice, leading to that tranquility of order which is much more than a fragile and temporary cessation of hostilities, involving as it does the deepest healing of the wounds which fester in human hearts.

With the increasing discrimination of the individual, however, as a center of keen interest, it became clear that the problem of life's justice to him is a much more complicated and difficult affair.

The heart of God is not so much reflected in sunshine and rain as it is in the cross, where God literally turned the other cheek to the enemies of goodness and justice.

In particular, he kept seeing the baffling personal injustice involved when «the wicked doth compass about the righteous,» and, even when he thought of the nation's collective problem, his solution was not so much to blame present social tragedy on antecedent social sin as to believe that justice, now denied, would come in time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.»

Reinhold Niebuhr in particular has pointed out how actual structures of justice in history represent balances of power informed by fear and self - defence as much as by any kind of love.

But the opponents of natural determinism lump Wilson, Dawkins, and Herrnstein and Murray together as the enemies of equality and the commitment to make the world a much better place by the achievement of social justice.

After the era of Gandhi, India does not give much emphasis on the renaissance of Hinduism as the dynamics of social justice.

Every revolution can be opposed on the grounds that it will adversely affect someone's freedom, and arguments about how many will be affected how much and in what ways can function as a serious impediment to the struggle for justice.

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

... The public school is as much committed to the maintenance of justice as is the court.50

I find that the goals of conservative Christians express just as much compassion and concern for justice as do those of my liberal friends.

The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law - abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.

It suggests that the teachings of these traditions on the relationship between God's grace and human works of justice and compassion simply do not differ as much as we have been told in the past.

I'm still as much of a planner as ever, but when life hands you beautiful brown eyes and a smile belonging to someone who is smart, witty, caring, and a continuation of adjectives that will never do the real person justice, you embrace the welcome detour that takes you from Point A, to B, to C, rather than the original journey from Point A to C, and never look back.

The photo below does not give the room justice as it was an awkward angle from where I was sitting (there is a much nicer photo on their website).

But as for our offensive being much worse because we have filled his role with someone that may be a step down is hardly doing justice to the rest of the squad.

He's been scrutinized both legally, by the media and by social justice... and as much as I didn't like him, almost everyone deserves to get another chance.

A key contribution was also made by the Dublin government, who stressed its desire for justice for the Irishmen — who as Walker so ably points out, were statistically much more likely to be punished, due to contemporary perceptions of the Irish as temperamental and unreliable.

It seems to me that the current call for «social justice» is not so much related to any specific leftist policy as much as an appeal for the basic values of democracy.

But only a little and as much as police and secret justice believe is right and proper.

The justice secretary may not have as much time as he believes, however.

We want to improve the justice system as much as Grayling.

I've been proud to work as his partner for more than a decade, for safety and justice, for affordable housing, for economic opportunity, and much more.