Sentences with phrase «not arbitrary power»

God is not arbitrary power acting immediately upon the world, as it were, without any mediation, controlling everything in it and, hence, directly responsible for what takes place.

Not exact matches

Regulations in family and classroom can be used as a basis for developing a high concept of law, when they are presented as approximations to right — not as arbitrary impositions, not as expressions of superior power, not as absolute rules which can never be questioned or modified.

They can not respect parents and teachers who either exercise arbitrary power over them or are guided primarily by their wants and wishes.

But here it is necessary to point out that when we speak of the reigning Christ we do not mean the monarchical concept of an arbitrary exercise of power.

Each of these concepts is under attack today, to a point where it is forgotten that their purpose is to limit, not expand, the arbitrary use of power.

The idea that the capacity to receive from another or to be influenced by another is truly indicative of power is not derived from an arbitrary linguistic decision to extend the term «power» to include the receiving of an influence.

Though the term arose when the nations were monarchies, and it had a more realistic symbolism then than now, it connotes power exercised, not in arbitrary dictatorial authority, but in loving concern.

applies to be sure only where law is created not by some arbitrary decree but by a process which can reflect the public mind, 43 But where this process exists, the man who finds the law lying across his path is confronted not only with a political power but with a moral judgment.

His dormant powers of reason — which is, at bottom, the capacity to separate and combine, to see otherness and sameness — are awakened by this confrontation; the names he gives the animals may he arbitrary, but the differences ratified by the different names are not.

Not God as overwhelming and arbitrary power or as freely willing agent of intervention, but God as the source in being and / or goodness that «stands behind» or supports or clarifies the meaning of what comes to be and is.

The other point to be clear about is that sacraments are not merely arbitrary rites agreed upon by social convention, but possessing no inherent symbolic power.

This latter norm prohibits the exercise of arbitrary power by state legislatures, and means that not every law that they enact is by that fact alone constitutional.

Decentralizing power and removing arbitrary power, in ways that don't create new injustices or power inequalities, can be something labour can get radical about and excite the electorate with.

Thus while both anarchism and republicanism share a principled commitment to opposing arbitrary power, for the republican there are forms of states that will not exercise arbitrary power, while for anarchists state power is inherently arbitrary.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

b) the exercise of the discretionary power shall not be arbitrary, capricious or biased either by resentment, prejudice or personal dislike and shall be in accordance with due process of law»

That view attributes to the state a wildly exaggerated capacity to provide security — not only because of the all - too - apparent limitations of the competence of state officials to keep us safe but also because, as the arbitrary power of the state increases, the more the state itself becomes a source of insecurity.

The citizens of the Soviet Union were not more secure because of the immense arbitrary power of the Soviet state — they were less secure.

And so even though they give the President that power, again they put a check on it so that it's not done with arbitrary discretion» Mr. Mahama explained.

The fact that he shows he's smart and that all whites are stupid isn't at all comforting, as it simply underlines how arbitrary the distribution of power is.

You're not getting oversteer under power like you would in a rear wheel drive car, you're getting it at arbitrary times.

Also, as an FYI, as a power - consumer of ebooks, the WORST formatted ones, with arbitrary pages of space between paragraphs, etc, are from the major houses, which presumably (but not necessarily) have dedicated html people.

The symbolism of standing guard to prevent senseless damage to books is not lost on those of us who are reminded almost daily that our right to read is being threatened, either intentionally or not, by an abundance of entertaining electronic media, funding cuts to libraries and schools, even moronic, extremist book banning in our public education institutions by those who wield arbitrary power over curricula.

These attitudes expressed themselves through petty vindictiveness and arbitrary displays of power that not only caused needless animal suffering, but created a climate of fear and intimidation that caused volunteers stress and anxiety not just for the animals, but for themselves and each other as well.

It loads / installs / downloads everything way too slowly given its power, it takes irritatingly large chunks of internet bandwidth for arbitrary reasons, its party chat still doesn't work nearly as consistently as it needs to and several important features are still buried under too many menus.

That materials come into radiative balance with the power spectra impinging on them (APL at http://CoSy.com) is not disputed — tho the computations for arbitrary spectra for even this most computation are astoundingly poorly taught or widely groked.

To sustain a clean, reliable and affordable power supply, federal, regional and state regulators need to recognize that a market - driven diversity of attributes, not an arbitrary, government - mandated fuel mix, will lead to the lowest cost and most reliable power for consumers.

In the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary power.

Thomas J. Farrell, an attorney who assisted the ACLU on the matter, added that «the police practice of detaining and charging people for impolite behavior gives the police arbitrary power to harass citizens they do not like.

But the court held that the licensing board was not vested with arbitrary power or an unfettered discretion; that its discretion must be exercised with