Sentences with phrase «not brought to justice»

Meetings with the National Assembly and Senate Human Rights Commissions offered a ray of hope to the international delegation as parliamentarians pledged to highlight violations of human rights and address the impunity of officials who are not brought to justice.

The movie issues a warning that those who are not brought to justice and confronted about perpetrating such atrocities will simply be setting the state for more such holocausts in the future.

Not exact matches

Comey and his cohorts argued that obtaining the data on the device could aid not only in bringing «justice» to the victims on the deadly December attack, but perhaps also lead the FBI to other alleged terrorists.

These production numbers still don't do justice to Lady Ada because financial problems of the then - owner Viceroy Australia brought a premature end to the mine.

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But in the next year or two, don't be surprised if a global law enforcement brings them to justice.

Maksim Zaslavskiy contends the currencies did not qualify as securities under federal law and so the Department of Justice lacked jurisdiction to bring the charges.

Negotiators for Bank of America and the Justice Department have not met in more than a week and have no plans to do so after a flurry of meetings did not bring them close to a settlement amount, sources said.

Instead, the Justice Department simply hands out deferred prosecution agreements, putting the banks on three - year probation with a DOJ incentive not to bring further felony counts and deferred prosecution agreements until the three - year probation has lapsed.

Our passion for justice has brought us face to face not only with the world's brokenness, but with our own limitations.

You shouldn't hate the people and you shouldn't relish in vengeance, but «when justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.»

Their worlds are characterized by powerlessness, and so they seek not a meaningful word about God, but a powerful word from God — not to give God a place in their world but, on the contrary, to overcome their world and bring them into God's world, a new world of justice and liberty.

``... Borders soft with refugees Streets a» swimming with amputees It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart Days are nights and the nights are long Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine Now the wolves are howling at our door Singing bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round They're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high It's a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die...»

Here, I think, John Paul II's joining of abortion with the death penalty in Evangelium Vitae is exactly right: A culture that can not bring itself to rescind its license of murder in the womb is unlikely to understand the proper ways in which justice should be done.

I can't help but believe in God, I know He's real and loves us in spite of what I see happen in His name, and I know He will bring justice one day, but it sure is hard to wait for it sometimes.

Maybe God doesn't want to be famous, maybe God yearns to bring the dead to life, justice to the oppressed, wholeness to your body and mind and soul, and bring life more abundant, in the seeds of a right - now life.

When we seek instead to «pay something back to the victims and bring them closure,» we are doing a justice either lower (as in civil - court cases) or higher (as in repaying blood with blood)» but, in any case, something that should not be a model for how we deal with criminals.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

Our actions to promote peace, justice, and liberation are not on the same plane as the qualitatively other kingdom which God has brought from beyond our world of possibilities through Jesus Christ.

As if that's not enough, in many cases, their killers were never brought to justice.

They have been very important to me to show my CLEARLY why this «minister» and his wife have not taken any action to protect the innocent and bring the guilty to justice.

Then the king said to the wise men who understood the times (for this was the king's manner toward all who knew law and justice, those closest to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king's presence, and who ranked highest in the kingdom): «What shall we do to Queen Vashti, according to law, because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus brought to her by the eunuchs?»

I was not sued 30 years ago and the criminal has been brought to justice.

Jesus used it to help the community see that because they were not open to hear and accept the way of justice and righteousness brought by John, they did not repent and change.

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.

«However, this must not stop those who can help, from all nations, making the commitment to do everything they can to enable trafficking victims to escape the clutches of their captors and bring the criminals involved to justice.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

And may God bless you with enough foolishness... to believe that you can make a difference in the world, so that you can do what others claim can not be done, to bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor.

«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

It's not surprising that Pentecostal communities have brought justice to the poor and oppressed — that's the future breaking into the present.

Imperative Christianity does not ask whether the love of neighbor will bring forth a society in which all men will love their neighbors; it acts in hope, to be sure, but love and justice are its immediate commands and not its far - off goals.

If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my righteous will (covenant).

Just soldiers and commanders are sorry that evil exists to such an extent that acts of force are necessary to bring about justice, but they are not sorry about their acts of force.

We are, then, resident in this world, with the task of making it, so far as may be, a replica of the perfect justice and utter charity of our homeland, but not surprised nor in despair when the work can not be brought to complete fulfillment because the conditions of our present place of residence do not permit, or our selfishness and pride interfere.

I do not know whether our society can be brought back to believe in a transcendent order of justice, but of this I am certain: if we who recognize this standard do not act as though we believe in it, then no one will be brought by us to believe in it.

For Dewey, of course, democracy was a «way of life» not merely a way of public life — an ideal that «must affect all modes of human association» — and he would not have accepted Rorty's contention that «there is no way to bring self - creation together with justice at the level of theory» for that would have required him to give up a principal article of democratic faith.

The bishops who covered up sex - offending priests soon learned that they were not allowed to manage the crisis in isolation but were required to think and act globally and bring the offenders to a public justice.

Elliot: Fortunately your country protect the weak, the old and the young, and pedophiles are brought to justice, we can't say the same for the church..

The chief justice also said it was «very disturbing» that so many perpetrators had not yet been brought to justice.

Even in the early law codes, special situations were visualized where not retaliatory justice but positive mercy toward a foe was commanded — «If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

Similarly, in Jesus Christ, God has spoken the Word of power to bring both social justice and physical healing into this world, but we choose to continue in our habits of injustice, destruction and physical illness — withdrawing from the fullness of God's Kingdom — because we really don't want to pay the price of uprooting our lifestyle or entering the fearful desert wilderness of the spiritual realm.

Why is vowing to find those responsible and bring them to justice not a proper action?

Not content with dumb old signs, the Stockholm police have launched a full investigation into the missing bear, utilizing an extensive social media campaign that promises to rescue the poor bear and bring the perp to justice.

Now with the world becoming one, if it remains, and with our leading Western universities importing religious teachers from the East to teach students the religions that brought forward views like reincarnation, not to mention the success of missionaries in our midst from non-Christian religions, we Christians had better think long and deep concerning these religions, not only to be honest with ourselves, but to do justice to the central realities of our faith.

We are aware, much more deeply now that never before, that for the survival of our Mother earth mercilessly plundered by us human beings, for the peace of the world torn with division and bigotry, for love and justice to prevail in human community, and for worship of God to bring shalom to ourselves and to the community around us, we must learn to be repentant, each one of us acknowledging we have fallen short of God's glory, But repentance alone is not enough.

Work with allies and supporters throughout the world, find the perpetrators, root out their networks and bring them to justice, but do not punish innocent civilians for the actions of others.

Helping people overcome addiction to pornography or alcohol, creating space in our churches or ministries for people who are not yet followers of Jesus, or even getting to know the neighbors or co-workers who have emigrated from different parts of the world are all great ways of bringing justice in places other than the inner - city.

We know that it does not take «everyone on Earth» to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

It is wrong and it should not be happening and those breaking the law should be arrested and brought to justice.

«We shall not be able to achieve social justice without justice for natural environment; we shall not be able to achieve justice for nature without social justice» (Moltmann).2 Several dimensions of this echo - justice are now brought to the fore though the experience of the struggle of the marginalised.