Sentences with phrase «not reparation»

These are not people wealthy countries are simply tasked with accommodating, they are in part victims of a phenomenon that they have had little hand in creating, which deserves some recognition, if not reparation.

I'm for legalizing marijuana and I like Cynthia Nixon but putting pot shops in our communities is not reparations.

«I'm for legalizing marijuana and I like Cynthia Nixon but putting pot shops in our communities is not reparations,» Rev. Al Sharpton tweeted following Nixon's comments.

Not exact matches

We do not have painful war reparations from the Treaty of Versailles to deal with.

The nations that had been victorious in World War I demanded reparations from Germany, which could not be paid in German paper currency, as this was of suspect value due to government borrowing.

Similarly, if it is God before whom we stand, «we certainly do not make reparation merely by ceasing from evil.

My being quiet does not make reparation for the earlier insult.

Pastoral care of the guilty proceeds, however, with still a third step that is not to be taken lightly — an appropriate act of reparation for wrongs done.

While agreeing with Robinson's account of the situation, others contend that reparations are not the solution.

As even this brief description of the debate indicates, the demand for reparations raises issues that can not be resolved entirely by courts or legislators — issues involving relationships and tensions between groups divided by ethnicity and class.

I will bet on monetary restltution, at the very least, and maybe some reparations are in order, but I do not envy the Queen her position at such a time and in such a place.

The call for reparations is not new; it began as soon as slavery ended.

Those for whom this way of paying reparations was not justice enough, or else the wrong kind of justice, would have to argue in a higher court than Lincoln had ever practiced in.

In other words, it was the victims who paid reparations, not the victimizers.

There are two other equally difficult problems standing in the way of reparations for slavery that were not present in the other reparations cases.

In 1921, reparations were based on the damages inflicted by outright war, not social or political wrongs, and they were imposed by the winners on the losers.

This, of course, is where the notion of group identity enters into the reparations argument, since the crime of slavery — by the logic of modern reparations — was committed, not against individuals, but against a group (African - Americans) and therefore reparations can be paid to a group (African - American descendants).

But if the Japanese and Swiss examples offered an incentive for demanding the reparations Forman described, they did not offer much in the way of useful guidance, since three fundamental problems that did not exist in the Jewish or Japanese cases stand in the way of slave reparations.

The idea that one party to a conflict can end up owing financial reparations in some form or other to the opposing party is not a new one.

But if they are not all that vulnerable legally to reparations demands, corporations are vulnerable in other ways.

What raised eyebrows about these demands was not their size but the fact that they came from an ethnic group, rather than a nation or state, and a group which was asking that its ethnic identity become the basis for the reparations.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Few people took Forman seriously in 1969, but as money began to flow to Holocaust survivors and Japanese - American internees, it became difficult for African - Americans not to wonder bitterly why they should be denied a place at the reparations table.

It not only reversed the conventional direction of reparations, but it legitimized demands for reparations for past injustices by groups who had no specific national identity of their own.

The truly penitent not only has a change of mind and a confession of the mouth, but also proceeds with some visible, demonstrative acts of restorative reparation, or deeds of penance.

This does not affect the forgiveness always and immediately forthcoming from God to a repentant sinner who turns inwardly to God; reparation, satisfaction and punishment were linked with the Church's formal sacramental ratification of repentance and forgiveness.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sanctioned four produce companies that did not pay Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act reparation awards.

You'll be amazed that your child will actually try to make reparations, once she doesn't feel pushed into it.

... When you don't give the child any chance to get back to the good, there's no reparation and they're stuck in that really ugly situation.»

Above all, we have a moral imperative not to take advantage of other's suffering and its lasting effects, which can take the form of either an active denial of reparations or a passive denial of the duty to give up benefits.

It can help develop the moral vocabulary, emotional intelligence and offer a level of reparation for the victim that punishment alone can't always deliver.

Japan shall be permitted to maintain such industries as will sustain her economy and permit the exaction of just reparations in kind, but not those which would enable her to rearm for war.

Cuomo's proposed reconciliation commission sounds limited to improving community - police relations, not the investigations, accountability, and reparations we have called for in a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission,» Hawkins said.

«A speedy prosecution will serve as a deterrent and ensure that Nigerians, particularly those in the northeast whose human rights have been violated, are not denied justice and reparation.

To be clear - the Caribbean nations are not asking for reparations for historical harm.

So the boisterous, outlandish, fiercely intelligent Django Unchained is at once an act of provocation and reparation — not just for slavery, but for Hollywood's decades of saintly Negroes and sass - talking sidekicks and its relentless whitewashing of history, from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to The Help.

The story in Reparation does not always mesh together logically and sometimes seems internally contradictory, but it is interesting and mysterious enough to hold the viewer's attention.

Make: Fiat (as in Fix It Again, Tony) Model: Mk1.2 Panda 750 (5 speed manual, pre-euro 1 (carb + manual choke)-RRB- Year: 1992 Kilometers: 73 000 (not to be trusted) Recent reparations: Bougies, Bobine, Air...

But it's not all presidential politics with Coates — two of the most thought - provoking essays included in the book are «The Case for Reparations» and «The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.»

After much public debate, they were not euthanized, because, as Malcolm Gladwell, wrote, «The betrayal of loyalty requires an act of social reparation.»

They could of at least tried to make reparation for incoming sh #tstorm, but they didn't even do that!

The issue here seems to be that HR found in favour of the defendant, but the claimant is still not satisfied and wants some kind of reparation.

They're seeking reparations for «blatant and prolific infringement,» though they haven't mentioned a number yet.

Some are arguing that such climate change reparations should total trillions, not just hundreds of billions.

I can't see why Africa and other developing nations should be ready to refrain from demanding hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations given that Nicholas Stern and other green campaigners and government officials claim that the West is liable for current and future climate disasters.»

You would think that the UN / IPCC would be on board with this, but they are so obsessed with their doctrinal approach of redistributive economics through climate reparations, they can't handle the truth.

We must redirect the dollars now pouring into military and big business to the people who need it to adapt to and recuperate from climate change — not as charity, but as eco-colonial reparations.

I thing the «reparations» idea was mainly supported by the poorest of poor countries, not so much China, Brazil, or Russia.

I've pointed out that the climate science indicates that blame for the dessicating assault on US soil that we have experienced must be laid at China's feet and a (not very large) tariff should be imposed to exact reparations for damages.

Communities may sue for reparations based on violation of their human rights — something not always easy to prove — but the forest itself has no voice.