Sentences with phrase «on punishment for»

«For avoidance of doubt, the Robbery and Firearms Act Cap R. 11 LFN 2004 and Firearms Act Cap F. 28 LFN 2004 are explicit on punishment for illegal possession of Firearms, offence and punishment for receiving, punishments for parties to offences under sections 1,2,3 or 4 of Cap R. 11 and also the provisions for regulating the possession of and dealing in firearms and ammunitions including muzzle - loading firearms and for matters ancillary thereto (L.N. 32 of 1959) as cited under the Firearms Act.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins took issue with the change, saying that the policy's emphasis on punishment for false accusations «is exactly the type of intimidation that has silenced so many through the years,» Gotham Gazette reported.

Mr Dismore is a member of the standards and privileges committee which decides on punishments for errant MPs.

Not exact matches

Come down hard and it's natural for people to dwell on the punishment, and how unfair it seems, instead of focusing on improving whatever they did to deserve the correction or the discipline.

But I've yet to see a really robust version of that argument, let alone an explanation of why firing makes more sense, ethically, that this punishment alone is the right one, ethically, than all those other outcomes, or — for those who believe this is true — why he deserves everything on the menu.

And if, as Daoust seems to imply, the key reforms have already been implemented, a prohibition on federal contracts would be baldly punitive, a form of punishment for its own sake.

July 27 - Malaysia's Home Ministry suspends the publishing permits of The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily - both of which belong to the Edge Media Group - for three months as punishment for their reporting on 1MDB.

There's no apparent pattern for sexual - misconduct punishment at Yale, based on public reports reviewed by Business Insider.

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned self - ruled Taiwan on Tuesday that it will face the «punishment of history» for any attempt at separatism.

Gluttons for punishment will flock to «Nioh,» a gorgeous, fast - moving third - person action game that's available only on the PlayStation 4.

In his 1994 study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.

He has accused the state of breaching two clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights, one which prohibits «inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment», and one which guarantees the right of respect for «private and family life» and «correspondence».

Women are particularly susceptible, of course — just look at the cover of magazines on display near any supermarket checkout counter and you can see the punishment for being less than perfect in public.

Because of the lasting toll it takes on prisoners, President Barack Obama has called on state correction centers to reduce punishment by isolation and banned solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons.

The complaint warns that the intense stress placed on the execution team, and the lack of a pause between killings to allow for review, will heighten the risk of the inmates suffering unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment as they die.

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

I was on - air for two hours, talking about outreach approaches, successes, and failures over 20 + years of outreach, and took questions because I'm a glutton for punishment.

With hot - button right - wing populist issues like abortion and capital punishment largely off the table in Canadian politics, the long - gun registry took on disproportionate importance for that portion of the Conservative base.

The Chinese have drawn up their own list of products to incur tariffs in retaliation to the US$ 50bn tax that Trump will levy on Chinese goods as punishment for alleged theft of intellectual property and limits on foreign investments.

The punishment meted out to the Greek nation is a loss for them but ultimately the real loss will be on Spain, Italy, and, of course France.

The US slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and Trump has called for up to $ 150 billion in additional tariffs on Chinese goods as punishment for intellectual property theft.

The depiction of hell as a place of eternal punishment and torture of sinners has been an unnecessary roadblock to faith for many for it suggests a God who unfairly punishes sins of 70 years on earth as warranting eternal damnation.

It also forms the idea of justice; through our empathy for other humans, we seek to mete out punishment to wrongdoers on the same level of seriousness as the crimes they have committed.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violations.

His point is that he thinks it is completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings on the planet are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife».

But (for me) it's far wiser to stick to concrete consequences (like playing on the freeway, or choosing to play in a playground instead) rather than resorting to «eternal» punishments or rewards in order for people to make proper decisions.

I'd heard of him for years and several years ago I heard my own pastor preach a message on him condemning homosexuality... saying that his death from AIDS was God's punishment for his «abomination» and «backsliding».

Eugene Methvin, who has reported on the U.S. criminal justice system for more than forty years and who served (from 1983 - 1986) on the President's Commission on Organized Crime, has done extensive analysis on crime and punishment findings.

Meaning, Christ did not die on the cross for me because I refuse to let somebody else take my punishment for me.

Bad things are not punishments meted out by God for immorality or for «turning your back» on Him.

Religion has little to do with ethics... for example... is it right for you to allow someone else to accept your just punishment... of course not, we do not allow that in our legal system, because it is not ethical... but your religion is based on that one unethical behavior.

Partisans may be tempted to see such a result as condign punishment for the President's misjudgments; they may feel that he deserves to pay the price for his hypocrisy and cheap and demagogic attacks on his predecessor.

Remember, God provided a way for salvation through the blood of His innocent Son who took the punishment on the cross, that we might be declared innocent.

The major religions we see in the world today have evolved over hundreds or thousands of years, but they most follow the pattern I described, so for the most part they all involve some form of worship, the concepts of rewards, punishments, and obedience, and so on.

The United States currently has more than three thousand inmates on death row because so many citizens are reluctant to be hard - nosed about capital punishment for murderers of the first degree.

I am a believer that the punishment for the wicked is death, which is what God was exercising on the nations that were wicked.

There are several things on which Christian faith stands or falls, but support for capital punishment is not one of them.

For better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishmeFor better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishmefor instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishment.

He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests on government officers (Delaware, for example.

In the Old Testament not cruelty but well - considered judicial procedure, based on blood - brotherhood, was responsible for the wholesale destruction of a family in punishment for the sin of a single member of it, as in the case of Achan.

For the torture law to be similar, it would have to require that the torture could only be carried out by volunteers who were willing to choose to enact the punishments, and members of the Department of Corrections could abstain from participating on principle.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

For this reason, some Lutheran theologians prefer to speak of «orders of preservation,» taking into account what God is doing to sustain the world under the conditions of sin, even using means sin - laden themselves, such as war and capital punishment, to fight against still more serious attacks on the goodness of God's creation.

He bears vicariously the sin of the world, and by enduring the punishment for sin on our behalf he delivers us from death.

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

Johnny So, what's so immoral about taking the punishment for a loved one who wants to make amends but can not on their own?

For that, too, can be a part of the innocent one's suffering, that the world's injustice takes on the appearance of punishment — in the world's eyes.

Ok but can god take away a person from hell and put him in heaven and if god loves us so much then why he doesn't destroy satun or put him in prison forever and why doesn't he tells the holy spirit to forgive whatever any person says just like him and Jesus i want to know thst but i noticed in all your replies except one that you were telling me everything i was asking except this in short if i say «he allows us to hate him» and i also want to know that if a person is sent in hell for his sins then will he go back to heaven after completing his punishment or stay there forever and also will any person who have commited the unforgivable sin one day be freed and allowed to go to heven or be reborn on Earth and if god has infinite love for us why don't he force us to belive in Jesus just before dying and then as he goes to heven show Jesus to him and then give him a rebirth as soon as his turn comes and then countinue this becaude going to heaven would be better much more than going to hell especialy for those who have commited the unforgivable sin

However throughout both the old and new testament, we have many of examles of God instructing us on different punishments for different «sins» or «crimes» while we are here on earth.