Sentences with phrase «objector who»

If the plan does not relate to a bargaining unit and a review officer effected a settlement under subsection (1) with the agreement of the objector who filed the objection under subsection 15 (7), only an employee or group of employees to whom the plan applies, other than the objector, may file an objection.

That is certainly the case with his latest film, a rousing wartime drama about a conscientious objector who insisted on serving on the battlefield in WWII, saving lives rather than taking them.

As someone who's long had an armchair historian's interest in World War II, I was intrigued by Hacksaw Ridge, which tells the true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector who nonetheless wanted to serve his country as a medic.

Arguments from evil take us beyond the position of our objector who claimed only that a Godless world is also possible.

Our debates over pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.

Christian Isolationism ran so strong that in 1941, just before the war started, there was a propaganda film made to counter it about a religious contientious objector who became a war hero — «Sergeant York.»

From the colonial period through the twenty - first century, federal, state, and territorial governments have an unbroken tradition of protecting conscientious objectors who can not abide the government's mandate to kill, cut, or medicate another human being.

Jia Lee, MORE candidate and teacher at the Earth School is one of the conscientious objectors who refuses to administer the NY State Test this year.

However, it's not just the objectors who cause problems for Damien.

Not exact matches

In a matter of weeks the objector was gone, but before she left, she made a point of posting the Ben Franklin - attributed quote: «Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security».

It does indeed: Whitehead is very much the Anglican who has a duty to «the State» or «the nation» which in time of danger such as war leads him to condemn Russell's «heedlessness» in protesting injustice to conscientious objectors.

Objectors to the scanners, and indeed the two women who forfeited their flight last month, have an unlikely ally in Pope Benedict XVI, a man who is likely to be waved through airport security for the rest of his life.

In these circumstances, the democratically elected representatives who determine an application have no counterpoint by which to judge the case presented by the objectors.

But the objectors are also fighting to protect two semi-official rackets that are as much a part of the Capitol's culture as the pledge of allegiance: outside compensation from firms who soak up their government stature and the ability to accept unlimited campaign money and spend it however they please.

Despite attempts during conference to smear as traitors those who, like Siobhain McDonagh and Joan Ryan, called publicly for a leadership contest, the two women ended up looking more like conscientious objectors.

Plot: The true story of private Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) who joins the army during WWII but refuses to bear arms due to being a conscientious objector.

Ginger (Elle Fanning) is the daughter of a smug leftwing lecturer (Alessandro Nivola), who's written a book called The Idea of Freedom and is still traumatised by his time in jail as a conscientious objector in the second world war.

Suddenly Paul — a conscientious objector in the Korean War, a man painted by his cynical co-workers as a «bleeding heart liberal,» a natural marksman who hasn't fired a gun since a distant childhood trauma — has a lot more to think over.

After several years of improvisational tone poems cobbled together in post-production, Terrence Malick makes his triumphant return to genuinely scripted, more conventionally structured drama with Radegund, about the life and death of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943.

Lew Ayres, who starred in the classic 1931 anti-war film (and Best Picture Academy Award winner), «All Quiet on the Western Front,» was so affected by that movie, he became a conscientious objector and served as a medic in World War II (and was later to earn a Best Actor nomination for «Johnny Belinda»).

The adulterer in question is Ginger's father Roland (Alessandro Nivola), a left - wing academic who spent time in prison as a conscientious objector.

SYNOPSIS: The World War II movie Hacksaw Ridge, which tells the story of a conscientious objector, Desmond Doss, who achieved heroic feats on the battlefield as a medic despite not carrying a -LSB-...]

As someone who has been a conscientious objector of high stakes standardized tests and is actively involved in the opt out campaign in our state, the decoupling of standardized tests scores from the teacher evaluation does not get at the root of the issues.

«There was one serious conscientious objector in the Bush / Obama era — Bidder 70, who disrupted an auction of public property for fossil fuel exploitation.

And even when talking to the more scientifically literate objectors, it is often then difficult to separate the genuine sceptics from the cynics who will never be convinced no matter what.

Maybe «deliberate irrational objectors» should be the term for people who strive to create doubts regarding the best understanding of the results of the climate science even though their familiarity with «all of the available information» should not lead them to try to make the claims they try to get away with.

In the case of military conscription, someone who does not serve due to a moral opposition to war in general (and not just a particular war) is called a conscientious objector and in most countries, is usually allowed to perform alternative mandatory government service in lieu of military service if conscripted.

CRIA is being represented by Glen Bloom of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, who had represented the plaintiffs / appellants in CCH and who is also now representing the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), the lead objectors to the Access Copyright proposed tariff now before the Copyright Board.

We want to be viewed as someone who is on the same page as the objector.