Sentences with phrase «of justice goals»

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Lastly, Goal no. 16 on peace and justice urges us to «significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere.»

Focusing on Goal 16, about justice, an international law firm led a process to create a global roadmap of practical steps called «Business for the Rule of Law.»

«The greed at the expense of investors who are promised unmatched interest rates remained the only goal of the defendants despite the [July] decision,» Justice Marc Lesage of the Quebec Superior Court said, CBC / Radio - Canada reported.

Emerson Collective is Powell Jobs» recent enterprise, founded in the early 2000s, which has invested capital in a number of education - related ventures, as well as in social justice projects in keeping with the group's goal of «opening doors to opportunity.»

One of the goals of the revival was to pray for justice issues but also take a stand against what the organizers see as an unbiblical rise in American nationalism among Christians, especially since the election of President Trump.

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

In his speech «The Future of Integration,» Martin Luther King Jr. said, «Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.»

Bin Laden long undermined these goals and standards of justice.

Freedom also means liberation from pursuit, acquisition, accumulation and hoarding of wealth (arta), unbridled enjoyment of pleasures comfort (kama), without being regulated and governed by righteousness and justice (dharma), without orientation to the ultimate goal (moksha).23

That means leave your desputes behind and chase the race for the Holy Goal of ending corruption, mischief, bringing back justice and peace, end poverty and starvations, ending monopoly and unlimited greeds of men... But are doing that or not?

Much of the motivation for this form of action for justice depends on hope for success in achieving the declared goals within a foreseeable time span.

When asked to rate various goals for the nation, respondents gave top priority to having America serve as an example of liberty and justice to all nations.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

Both parties are in principle dedicated to the same goals — namely, justice in the nation and the welfare of all the people — but they have somewhat different convictions about what justice and welfare concretely mean and about how these benefits may best be secured.

When «justice» is noted as the basis and goal of social ethics, it is all too often left undefined.

Can there be a single coherent set of policy instruments to achieve the goal of justice and sustainability?

Rather than giving up when our hard work fails to result in perfection or to accomplish our goals, we are able to see that improvement in justice or compassion or social conditions can make a difference in the lives of our fellow human beings that really matters.

Justice is not a fully satisfactory goal in itself because it falls short of love, being dependent upon coercive power on the one hand, and requiring rational calculations in the balancing of rights against rights on the other.

As John Snow, a professor of pastoral theology, points out, the Christian family was seen in the New Testament as an agent of the coming community of love and justice, a new kind of «kingdom»: «Its goal was not to make a house a home for a family but to make the world a home for humankind.»

When society began to treat justice as a simple historical possibility, as many American Protestants did during the Social Gospel era, the prophetic task of the next generation of «Christian realists» was to insist that there are things that society can not do, goals that must remain «impossible possibilities.»

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.

The reports on the Summit indicate that the market economics of the G7 - TNC - IMF - WB - WTO combination dominates through their «global governance» not only the political UN but also the UN Special Agencies for social development and justice like ILO, UNESCO, FAO, Commissions on Human Rights, Women's Development, Indigenous People etc for their goal of economic growth.

But he does correctly show that the positive goals of contemporary liberals - in particular autonomy, distributive justice, and equality - are guaranteed to exacerbate the evils it is the negative task of liberalism to avoid.

This would appear to be the real goal of the secular school of contemporary theology, and I think it does full justice to the meaning of God - language for us.

The Kingdom of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only in the eternal order... The primary principle of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply as a person... The person is primary, not the society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three principles of a Christian social order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child of God and is destined for a life of eternal fellowship with Him... Love... finds its primary expression through Justice — which in the field of industrial disputes means in practice that each side should state its own case as strongly as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...

In concrete fashion the document advances three values against which energy policies and technologies may be measured for their consistency with the goal of ecological justice: sustainability, equity and participation.

A macro-organism is indeed a nested structure of small components with coordinated rhythmic activities, but the notion of «society» does not do justice to its goal directedness.

«Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.»

The goal of giving is not a vow of poverty but a vow of generosity for the sake of equality, sufficiency and justice.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.

I believe that the Christian contribution to a «secular» concept of humanity as essentially a Community of Persons can be best made if we maintain the message of the gospel that God became incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ to overcome the alienation of humanity from God and to create a Koinonia in Christ around the Eucharist, a Community of divine forgiveness and mutual forgiveness acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, transcending all religious cultural and ideological divisions with a mission to build a wider Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom of God.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all human endeavour, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.

As Whitehead and Deutsch imply, the ultimate goal of a fully interpersonal life is love, but justice is the necessary prior condition for the mutuality of love.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

I find that the goals of conservative Christians express just as much compassion and concern for justice as do those of my liberal friends.

This Cry grounds our concerns for truth and justice, not by assuring that our goals will be attained, but by calling us continually into the renewal of concern.

A community of persons supported by structures of justice is our goal.

Transformation of incumbent systems on a large scale is never easy, and we admire the food justice and sustainability goals Josh Tetrick and the Hampton Creek team are trying to hold fast and accomplish,» said Dan Skaff, Managing Partner Radicle Impact.

On one page of the journal that she started in the early days of Smoke Signals, she wrote: Long - term goal: Use my business for social justice, community organizing, and individual empowerment.

I think a 6.5 to 7 would do him justice — a 7 because of his goal.

the two assists do not give him justice as he was involved in at least four of the goals.

From being a first choice to being benched to being an understudy to one of the world's best goal keepers — this may not do justice to the journey of Szczesny over the past year.

What Xhaka has to realise, is that the only justice you get on the football pitch comes in the form of GOALS.

He said,»... human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concerns of dedicated individuals» like yourselves.»

Repealing the Second Amendment would be the best way to «weaken the NRA» and help the students who have protested around the country achieve their goal of sweeping gun control, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in a NY Times OpEd.

• Juvenile Justice Reorganization: With a goal of reducing wasteful spending, Governor Cuomo will undertake an immediate reorganization of the state's youth detention facilities with the goal of consolidation, while providing current staff the priority for relocation to other facilities, retraining, and / or reemployment opportunities.

[79] «The new sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations call for the international community to come together to promote the rule of law; support equal access to justice for all; reduce corruption; and develop effective, accountable, and transparent institutions at all levels.»

Juvenile Justice Reorganization: With a goal of reducing wasteful spending, Governor Cuomo will undertake an immediate reorganization of the State's youth detention facilities with the goal of consolidation, while providing current staff the priority for relocation to other facilities, retraining and / or reemployment opportunities.

Another method, if one goal was to smooth out sudden generational shifts, would be to appoint some larger pool of full Justices, not acting as subs, but as a full rotating roster, [something like one of those watches or clocks that shows phases of the moon], advancing by one justice per trial.)

And for the money, which the Department of Justice believes topped $ 474,000 over the course of the bribery scheme to help influence the corporate goals of a Maryland - based power company, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, a school teacher, worked between two and 15 hours per month.