Sentences with phrase «of justice causes»

Because climate change is a profound problem of justice those causing the problem may not use self - interest alone as justification for their policy responses to human - induced warming, they must respond in ways consistent with their responsibilities and duties to others.

In some of the most powerful language I have seen ascribing harm to the administration of justice caused by delay, Myers J. wrote:

The second identifies restrictions on digitalization of justice caused by the traditions and practices in place in the justice setting.

Not exact matches

And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

Former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski discusses his outlook on the fate of the AT&T and Time Warner deal now the Department of Justice has caused a snag.

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

The Trump Justice Department argues in its brief that antigay discrimination is permissible because women and men are treated the same, even though it causes differential treatment of gay and straight employees.

The inquiry Ramirez intends to launch could uncover data and evidence to be used by Congress, federal courts, the Department of Justice and other agencies to combat the harm caused by patent trolls.

So here's a way for the Dreamers to be protected, President Trump to be responsive to public opinion and for the Department of Justice to devote its resources to better causes (like keeping AR - 15s out of the hands of crazy people)-- end the appeals and allow the court rulings to stand.

WDN marshals resources for a number of issues — like reproductive justice, racial equity, and economic opportunity — but the cause closest to Hall's heart is civic equality for women.

«The searches were authorized by a federal magistrate judge, who had found probable cause to believe that the premises and devices searched contained evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities of conduct for which Cohen is under criminal investigation,» the Justice Department's filing said.

High - level Justice Department officials and a magistrate judge had to conclude there was probable cause that Cohen had evidence of a federal crime, that he could not be trusted to hand over evidence voluntarily, and that there was reason to believe Cohen had voided his attorney - client privilege by «engaging in crime or fraud,» attorney Ken White writes.

That payment is the subject of criticism from the watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice alleging it violated campaign finance rules.

The money, which Mr. Cohen has said came from his own personal funds, is the subject of complaints lodged by the group Common Cause with the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department.

In a complaint filed in January by Common Cause with the FEC and the Department of Justice, the organization charges that the failure to report this expenditure to the FEC violates not only campaign finance law but also violates federal law prohibiting false statements of material fact to the Federal government.

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

While Jesner suggests that five justices likely would rule that the federal courts should not recognize an ATS cause of action against American corporations for their overseas activities, several federal appeals courts have exhibited little willingness to limit the scope of ATS liability unless directly ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

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January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

The watchdog group Common Cause has filed complaints with the commission and the Department of Justice, arguing that the payment violates election laws.

US officials refused to prosecute HSBC for money laundering in 2012 because of concerns within the Department of Justice that it would cause a «global financial disaster», a report says.

«Unfortunately, when there are trade tensions or any type of economic competition between countries, and this isn't specific to Asia or China, but generally — that causes similar tensions with respect to race and ethnicity,» John Yang, of Asian Americans Advancing Justice said.

God will cause them to suffer in due course, but you know — God just doesn't smite people the way He used to and sometimes one can just get sick and tired of waiting for divine justice.

They hope by the march to set themselves at peace with the Lord, so that the justice of their cause will be purified of lesser motivations.

This is what G - d expects: «Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean; put your evil doings away from my sight cease to do evil, learn to do good, devote yourselves to justice, aid the wrongd, uphold the rights of the orpha, defend the cause of the widow.

The Charter has caused serious problems — of theology, justice, and morale — which continue to bedevil and undermine the Catholic priesthood in the United States.

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.

Those looking back upon this curious period will likely be puzzled that the oldest of our national struggles, that for racial justice, should have been subsumed in the homosexualist cause.

Those who will seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the cause of the fatherless, and plead the case of the widow, Those who will seek to reconcile more than separate, Those who will seek to co-operate more than compete, Those who will seek peace more than power.

Yeah, it makes me feel better denouncing baptist cause of my family's involvement with the KKK to become a catholic and the hate by socialism and such from conservative uncompassionant individuals on the moral question of social justice issues.

The causes, no doubt, are many: For example, the Court attached itself at the outset, in its 1947 Everson decision, to Justice Hugo Black's superficial and selective account of the religion clause's history and purposes.

Causing the death of an unborn child is in the Bible, for in the Bible at Exodus 21, it says that «in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices.

If just - war theory is in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.

The classic civil - rights movement was determined to reshape America through moral reason; distorted into a twisted parody of itself through the victim culture, it was followed by a moralism self - consciously detached from reason that would prove incapable of calling anyone, black or white, to the great cause of equal justice for all.

«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.

Not to put too fine a point on matters, we do a tremendous disservice to the cause of justice by suggesting that those who have done the silencing have some right to expect any sort of deference when called upon to answer for their misdeeds.

After college, my ideas turned into practice, and life marched on in a series of how to be the best possible Christian, with a social justice flair (eschew money, buy fair trade, advocate for social justice causes, create programs for the needy in my neighborhood).

Moreover, this conception of justice leads to assimilating the cause of the poor with socialism.

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

I believe our collective compassion has a short attention span in the church and that even those who want to be supportive of justice work grow weary of the same cause if it is not resolved within a certain time frame.

In a careless creation When there's no «above» There's no justice Just a cause and no cure And a bounty of suffering It seems we all endure And what I'm frightened of Is that they call it «God's love»

Always, it is because Christians have not been concerned for the poor, have not defended the cause of the poor before the powerful, have not unswervingly fought the fight for justice, that violence breaks out.

Indeed, they are so convinced of the justice of their cause that they are quite pleased with themselves for being on the «right side.»

In the great psalms of thanksgiving — the 103d, for example the physical basis of life was not forgotten as a cause of gratitude, but thankfulness ranged up into other areas also, such as forgiven sin, the visible execution of divine justice, and the saving experience of divine mercy.

It is cause for both amazement and gratitude that, in a century when the promise of Europe migrated to a New World which, or so we are told, offers the prospect of the nearest thing there has ever been to a universal history of freedom and justice, Abraham Lincoln was President of these United States of America.

The causes in question may be peace, or justice, or the environment, or some mixture of these.

If feminists are to participate in Christian theology, they must display the justice of their cause through their interpretation of the one revelation.

It is of no moment that historic wrongs may have caused current deprivation, for justice is not the issue here.

«Shucks,» says the Lone Kitty modestly, «we heroes stop at nothing to further the cause of justice.»

Here we can borrow a bit from John Rawls's A Theory of Justice and assume that justice may be done even if the dam's location causes some individuals the inconvenience of having to move their resJustice and assume that justice may be done even if the dam's location causes some individuals the inconvenience of having to move their resjustice may be done even if the dam's location causes some individuals the inconvenience of having to move their residence.