Sentences with word «nonperson»

They are not repressed so much as simply treated as nonpersons.

(All well and good, but why is the team's Chinese - American member, played by Elaine Tan, treated like a virtual nonperson?)

That judge too, though seemingly sympathetic to NhRP's arguments, ultimately ruled in July that — as nonpersons — Hercules and Leo could not legally challenge their detention.

That dear one who offered to do this as made to feel like a nonperson.

He languishes in confinement month after month, a cipher among the nonpersons of our fallen world, seemingly beyond the reach of either justice or demonstrated love.

Theology, to be worthy of the name, must now address «nonpersons» as well as «nonbelievers.»

Other forms will prove more clearly postmodern, such as Gustavo Guttierez's powerful reflections on contemporary theology's need to face the reality of the «nonperson» of the oppressed in the massive global suffering surrounding us, as distinct from modern theology's more typical concern with the «nonbeliever»; and the many alternative forms of postmodern theologies in feminist, womanist, African - American and global liberationist struggles and theologies.

Persons share with some nonpersons such qualities as being mammals, animals, and living things.

All persons are at least equal with respect to those qualities by which they are distinguished from all nonpersons.

This happened, for example, when the Supreme Court of the United States, in a ruling that helped to precipitate the Civil War, held in Dred Scott v. Sandford that blacks were noncitizens» and, for all practical purposes, nonpersons» possessed of no rights that white people must respect.

Yet society appears to have little use for this object lesson and prefers to seclude the mental patient as a nonperson with whom society's other members share no common destiny.

In the Third World, as Gutiérrez puts it in one of his best - known formulations, the theologian's conversation partner is not «the nonbeliever» but rather «the nonperson.»

On the other hand, since the nonbeliever is by no means the only person excluded from the social and political order in which the traditional witness of faith is implicated, to think of theology as having to give answer to the questions of the nonperson is more likely to take account of all those to whom theology owes a serious response.

One of the most powerful things for me has been to see people who are weakest, who are most marginalized, who well know that they are «nonpersons» in our society, and to see what happens when one centers a community on them — honoring them, seeing them as gifts of God, of having vocations, of having gifts, of being able to love and be loved.

For too long we have had to make either - or choices about whether to regard the fetus as a person or a nonperson.

In either case, a fetus or a slave is legally considered a nonperson, a subhuman.

Presley, 28, had become a nonperson, or rather non-third baseman, with the Mariners, and was elated by the trade to Atlanta (the Braves sent pitcher Gary Eave and minor league third baseman Ken Pennington to Seattle in return).

During her own birthday party, where she is treated like a nonperson, Moll decides to venture out to a nightclub.

; and (c) can nonsensically ascribe human emotions to a nonperson («Hopefully, it won't snow tomorrow.»).