Sentences with phrase «of justice challenging»

During her tenure, NAR has faced significant legal challenges, including an antitrust lawsuit in 2005 by the U.S. Department of Justice challenging NAR's policy on the display of listings on the Internet.

Not exact matches

King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.

This week, as it celebrates the 70th anniversary of its establishment, the women of Barnard have ignored the challenges it has faced, the threats to its existence that it has overcome, and most importantly, the legacy of equality and justice that it has bequeathed to the modern Middle East.

In September 2017, the European Court of Justice rejected Hungary and Slovakia's challenge to the quotas, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has vowed to fight on.

The Obama administration had brought the muscle of the U.S. Justice Department into Texas to help challenge both the maps and voter ID law.

The Virginia residents challenging their state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative districts.

As part of Verizon's settlement it is also paying about $ 355,000 to the U.S. Treasury and withdrawing a challenge to the FCC - New York City agreement while the Justice Department will end a False Claims Act investigation.

What sets humans apart is love, i.e. our feeling for justice, our creativity in the face of challenges, our ability to empathize deeply and respond wisely.

In March, the US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Colorado's legalization of the drug, and, in May, the US Department of Justice dropped its four - year effort to shutter Harborside Health Center — the largest medical - marijuana dispensary in the country.

The challenge is particularly important because it's one of the first business cases to be heard, and potentially decided, with just eight justices, following the death of Antonin Scalia in February.

They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.»

The $ 117 million deal addresses «a key concern of the U.S. Department of Justice in its challenge to the Aetna - Humana transaction» by giving seniors more options for Medicare coverage, Aetna said in a statement.

Challenging limits of the Speaker's unwillingness to impose standards on this place and the extent to which viewers are willing to have their intelligence insulted, Conservative MP Blaine Calkins and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson used a scripted exchange on the Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act to criticize Mr. Trudeau's public speaking.

The five lawsuits to block the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule continued to move forward in July in separate venues, but the Department of Justice strongly defended the rule in a Washington, D.C., federal district court challenging the suit filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities, or NAFA.

Likewise, last October, the Department of Justice released a memo telling its federal agencies to allow maximum discretion to those claiming religious exceptions on the grounds that it was not the government's place to challenge «the reasonableness of a religious belief.»

In 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical deals.

One official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said that Mr. Trump was sympathetic to the plight of the young immigrants, known as Dreamers — many have known life only in the United States and have few connections to the countries of their birth — but had been told by Justice Department lawyers that his predecessor's program would not survive a court challenge.

TJN is an extensive and multi-sectoral network uniting environmental, civil society, student, Indigenous, cultural, farming, labour and social justice groups whose aim is to challenge the scope and secretive nature of most free trade agreements.

The Law Society of Upper Canada («LSUC») has filed a motion to have the application of law professor Dr. Ryan Alford challenging the new «Statement of Principles» requirement transferred to Divisional Court from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

As a social justice - minded person, I try to especially keep track of films that challenge me and my way of life.

Acutely sensitive to all of the technological and philosophical challenges of our day, Wytsma wrestles with questions of faith and doubt, justice and happiness, love and vocation.

«I sat on the edge of my seat as this preacher challenged us to participate in the cause of justice, not to slumber while the world changed around us.

This passage challenges Christians to lay foundations on which communities of peace and justice can be constructed.

But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.

Joseph Bottum's prudential claim («Christians and the Death Penalty,» August / September) that Christians must deny secular democracies the right to enact stories of high justice is challenging and attractive.

How challenging it is to even want to pray for one's enemies rather than strike a win for justice in the battle of the moment.

But as much as John Paul appreciated the United States, he kept his independence and issued a series of declarations about social justice and peace that challenged many Americans — both on the domestic front and in foreign affairs.

Noll explains that abolitionists had a far more challenging task, for they had to appeal instead to the «broad sweep of Scripture» and to generalities regarding justice, love, and common humanity.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

I preached one Sunday on the challenge of racial justice.

Politically, the lordship of Christ challenges systems of domination in the name of God's passion for justice.

A Challenge for Process Theology,» George Pixley has put decisively before all process thinkers a host of issues arising from the struggle for justice and humanization which are at the heart of the conflict within the world today.

But the primary intent of such challenge is for the sake of justice and to redress injustice, and not to secure benefits for the disadvantaged groups.

The lesson to be learned is the value of diversity; our challenge today is to develop, with equal imagination and enthusiasm, a diversity of spiritualities that corresponds to people's diverse needs, keeping in view the love - justice that unites all of us and a common faith in creation and incarnation.

«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.»

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

America's Roman Catholic bishops write that the «challenge of today is to move beyond abstract disputes about whether more or less government intervention is needed, to consideration of creative ways of enabling government and private groups to work together effectively» (Economic Justice for All) The truth of this declaration is evident in the U.S. housing...

Stressing the endeavor for social justice as a complement to the task of evangelism, recognizing the inadequacy of benevolences to meet the challenge, and therefore seeking concrete, structural, political involvement based on a Biblically informed concept of «social justice,» editor Smedes argues that the church's action will «find its way on the ridge between harmless generalities and divisive particularities.

The spiritual challenge of our time is to realize our sacred humanness, that there need not be a conflict between the natural and the supernatural, between the finite and the infinite, between time and eternity, between practicality and mysticism, between social justice and contemplation, between sexuality and spirituality, between our human fulfillment and our spiritual realization, between what is most human and what is most sacred.

Sarah Bessey's reflections on faith and feminism and Osheta Moore's practical guidance on justice and peace challenged me to live as a more faithful follower of Jesus in those quiet, unpublicized moments when faithfulness really matters.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

In this emerging world community our challenge today is to look around at the other religions of the world and their prophets and to see what insights we can glean from them in the struggle for justice and freedom.

Contextual theologies, justice causes, the voices of women and of the global South enrich, but also challenge, traditional theological thinking and styles.

So infanticide, revenge, murder, maiming and even massacre are all part of the sprawling plot, but in a genre - challenging twist, justice is rarely served.

No matter how challenging the endeavor has made things on occasion, pursuing justice has brought me closer to the heart of God than ever before.

The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.

This seems to many to he too much to ask, but nothing less will do justice to the challenge of the burden of the proof.

10 Pixley's observation comes at the end of «Justice and the Class Struggle: A Challenge for Process Theology,» PS 4:159 - 75.