Sentences with phrase «of land justice»

A historic meeting of Traditional Owners of Victoria was convened with the meeting endorsing a statement calling on the State Government to consider a raft of land justice measures.

The land fund commitment was realised through the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) which continues to operate today, but does not always provide an effective and accessible alternative form of land justice when native title is not available.

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But Isai kept servicing U.S. players — a move that landed the company in considerable legal trouble, which eventually ended in a $ 731 - million settlement with the Department of Justice.

A civil complaint filed by Justice Department officials in the United States said that some of the funds landed in the hands of Mr. Najib's friends and associates as well as officials and executives from Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund.

Successive administrations followed with major initiatives in trying to broaden land ownership, sometimes getting embroiled in political battles and important issues of justice.8

Jennifer Lopez may have built a career around her famous backside, but that booty may have landed her in some serious legal trouble after a televised concert in Morocco drew the ire of Islamist members of the ruling Justice and Development Party and at least one educational group.

kevinite The laws of the land are enforced by a Criminal Justice System that we can actually see in action.

(Roe's theory of «substantive due process,» which was also the basis for Dred Scoff and Lochner, has always landed the court in trouble, because it strikes down properly enacted laws that interfere with whatever the justices conclude is an important «liberty»)

Jubilee, justice, swords into ploughshares, all for the restoration of both lives and the land.

The series comes to a dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records of this dark land».

Now in this country of traditional Christian values, a land which may well lead the world in matters of justice and liberty, it is very easy to underestimate the powers of evil.

ringing out from angry, defiant protestors on behalf of racial justice across the land, whether we have a clear conception of what this «freedom thing» really is, of what being free and responsible participants in this democratic polity actually requires of us.

-- Exodus 15:3, NKJV LITERAL: This is saying to punishment of justice for what they did to Israel because Israel was victim and were the owners of the Jerusalem land.

He is Abdel Majoud Awes, one of the millions whose personal problems are compounded by the perversions of justice in the Holy Land.

While appreciating the immense value of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights we must work for its amplification to include global racial justice, in relation to population and land and resources.

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The search by the Hebrews for a true understanding of God, from Abraham to Egypt, from the Promised Land to exile, witnesses as a whole to the love of God and to the requirement for justice on our part, and forms the matrix out of which Jesus» teachings developed.

To be successful in addressing issues of justice, land reforms must be accompanied by the development of «infrastructures» such as credit for the poor, agricultural extension services, conservation education, and supportive industrial development.

The Prophets, even when stressing God's sovereignty over all of humanity and his eventual establishment of universal justice, emphasize the role of the land as the place in which international disputes will be settled and the divine word sent forth to all of humanity (Isaiah 2; Micah 4).

Those who work in theological education are also aware, however, that we must also avoid intellectual or spiritual tourism — the tendency to explore the range and quaintness of the world's wondrous variety without asking about the truth - claims of various cultures, without attempting to discern the relative justice of alternative social practices, or without seeking commonalities that may overarch multiple lands and religions.

Today, land issues are central in the struggle for justice in South Africa, in other parts of the continents, small farms are giving way to commercialized plantations that take away land without providing employment.

Sin just means missing the perfect mark (in this case, God's holiness; in our justice system's case, breaking the law of the land).

This spirituality celebrates the slow, deliberate movements of Tai Chi; the love of the land; the power of the oral tradition; the importance of family and the cry for justice.

For Coetzee, it is almost as though the land has a power and sense of its own, even a power to do justice.

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Jesus, who came to bring good news to the poor and let the oppressed go free, who embodied the Jeremiah 23 dream of one who would «reign as king and deal wisely, and... execute justice and righteousness in the land,» would have hated those rich boys too, we think.

It declares in substance, «When the gods named me Hammurabi to cause righteousness to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from plundering the weak, to enlighten the land and to further the welfare of the people... I established law and justice in the land and promoted the welfare of the public.

So in Montgomery we can walk and never get weary, because we know that there will be a great camp meeting in the promised land of freedom and justice.

The movement as a whole seeks to bring the segregated South to «the promised land of racial justice.»

In fighting for the land - rights of the tribal people, Christian missions brought justice to them and also without being fully aware of it, reinforced the central place of land in your traditional way of life.

On the other side was a tribal brotherhood of nomads where, amid the penury of the wilderness, all must be for each and each for all, where land and water were never private but always communal, where none was very rich or very poor, where every one was known to all and the exigencies of desert life forced a rough but sturdy justice.

Among those signing on are Bill Hybels (pastor of the influential Willow Creek Community Church), Al Mohler (President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), Stephanie Summers (CEO at the Center for Public Justice), Samuel Rodriguez (President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference), Russell Moore (head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission), and Moore's ERLC predecessor Richard Land.

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

However tempting it may be to paint a picture of villain - and - victim that fits some model of liberation from oppression, historical and biblical honesty compels us to search more deeply for a way toward justice and reconciliation in the Holy Land.

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.

For the religious settler movement Gush Emunim, «Bloc of the Faithful,» the idea of «justice» means that God will restore to Israel all the land lost to the Romans and later conquerors over the past 2,000 years.

«While we are glad to see and commend the local authorities under international pressure acted swiftly and fairly to resolve the church's land with this right decision, we are still deeply concerned about the justice for this family of martyr which is still not done,» stated Bob Fu, China Aid's president.

Its aim is not geographical, territorial and numerical expansion, but transformation of the whole cosmos» 11 God's saving activity has a threefold dimension calling persons to commit to the Kingdom of God, justice and peace in society and ecological health in the land (Amos 9:14 - 15).

Commitment to life - affirming values, and structures, solidarity with the poor in their struggle for justice and for their forests and land, and dialogue with other faiths directed towards a liberative ecumenism are some of these.

There is a deficiency of justice not only Vitamin A. Land, farmers and food systems must be liberated from the control of corporate greed, GMOs and toxic products to combat malnutrition, hunger and poverty» said Nazareno.

While you're waiting for the gavel of justice to land upon your lunch, here are some things for you to read.

Men at Work may have to rework their lyrics for «Land Down Under» because 6» 4 ″ and full of muscle hardly does these two justice.

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Opponents of the proposed 23 - story Queen City Landing on Lake Erie won a victory in state Supreme Court, with Justice Catherine Nugent Panepinto allowing their case against the project to continue.

He said: «Persons who violate the laws of the land in a manner akin to what has happened in the late Captain's case would be dealt with accordingly,» adding: «The police is prepared to collaborate with stakeholders to cure this canker of instant justice» and ensure that it is «permanently stamped out of the society.

These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.

«This attack is a major assault on the civilisation of the land because when you attack the major instrument of justice then you are also attacking the common man on the street.

Lord Justice Lloyd Jones said: «The law of England and Wales recognises proxy marriage if valid by the lex loci celebrationis (law of the land).

Justice Abban who worked in Ghana's Lands Commission and further served at the Supreme Court of the Gambia shed tears during the inauguration of «Urgent call to Repentance» message.

In August 2014, Justice Ajet - Nassam ruled in favour of Nana Oteng Korankye, chief of Brekusu and Comet Properties as plaintiffs in a suit against the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in respect of a 3,984 acres of land arguably belonging to Abokobi.