Sentences with phrase «other than justice»

We ran across an excellent example of such a competition on C - SPAN of all places, who televised George Washington's Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition in which non other than Justice Antonin Scalia hear the arguments in the finals along with Judge Marsha Berzon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

* If you want to be the best, learn from the best — writing tips from none other than Justice Kagan.

Why, that would none other than Justice Anthony Kennedy himself!

One by one the crowd that gave cover to Begley shrinks until only he remains, and he is exposed as a racist who cares more about judging others than justice.

Not exact matches

I've never seen the Justice Department do this, other than with Hoffa,» he said, likening Holder to Robert F. Kennedy and suggesting that like the investigations of the infamous Teamsters boss, the bank may not be getting its due process.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

The parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice says the Liberal government has no plans currently to legalize or decriminalize «any other drug» than cannabis.

The poll, conducted by Environics Research Group for Trade Justice Network, found that 75 per cent of respondents had not heard of the TPP, which is being negotiated with 11 other Pacific Rim countries and would cover more than a third of the world's trade.

Other than maybe a justice of the peace any Reverend, preacher or priest ought to be excommunicated by the church.

Not talking about race will not magically change the fact that the criminal justice system is much harder on black and other non-white suspects than it is on white people.

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.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

The Prison Reform Trust has said children in care in England and Wales aged 10 - 17 are five times more likely enter the criminal justice system than other children of their age.

Here you are putting the blame on al Islamic branches for one Islamic branch although the as branches contradict each other and they are always in disputes among them and that's was the reason they became branches rather than one Islam so really it is not fear to hold all at guilt for one misbehave or abuse... nor it is fair to address the whole Islam belief, Quran and Prophet of God for the fault of ones or few that are not in the right track of Islam being the religion of peace and justice to mankind..

Child soldier rescue, fighting sex trafficking — some justice issues sound more «exciting» than others, but what about the unsung work?

I believe in justice and fair play (though I don't know exactly how we achieve them, other than by continually trying against all possible odds of success).

Whereas in contexts other than the church, interest in the environment has sometimes been separated from concern for justice, this has not happened in the church.

The media hounded Tim Farron for his Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold views other than those of the political elite, or the majority, Similarly, our belief in the personhood of the unborn child and the sanctity of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

QUESTION: Does anyone know if or how often SC Justices are tested for dementia (among other issues) and if there are mechanisms for removal other than voluntarily stepping down?

The tragedy is that, even with the best of intentions, our egoistic narcissism (falling excessively in love with ourselves rather than a Divine [or even a human] Other blinds us to justice which is the minimum requirement for love.

Most of us, religious or otherwise, believe, as Asch puts it, «there are things other than «happiness» that matter: peace, justice, equality, wisdom.

End Religion writer, Justice has not been done because he did not break any of their laws other than to be a different Religion than Iran.

People in the church came to realize — some quicker than others — that asking the state to do justice is sometimes a futile exercise.

The Jewish writers of the New Testament introduced the «ecclesiastical attitude» and other distortions that led to what Rauschenbusch calls «ascetic Christianity,» a religious attitude that thinks in terms of heaven, divine intervention, and personal salvation rather than social justice.

With the old presuppositions having fallen away, there will be no limits to rights claims, other than the fiat of whoever is in power — most likely a majority of Supreme Court justices.

But equally important is the other pole, the commitment to the welfare of humanity, the commitment to justice, the commitment to peace, the commitment to an environment that promotes life rather than threaten to extinguish it, the commitment to eliminate toxic drugs and nuclear weapons» (A Source Book for the Community of Religions ed.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

Bishops who promised to be fathers to their priests toss to the wolves the innocent and the guilty alike, all in the name of «protecting the children,» but protecting, in fact, themselves and an institution that has no reason for being other than to minister the justice and mercy of God.

Better than any other conservative theorist, Tocqueville appreciated both the comparative justice of modern democracy as well as the threat it poses to the higher excellences of human nature.

Ivor Leclerc (3) has recently shown that although Whitehead has - done more than other atomists in explaining the kind of unity possessed by compounds and organisms, he still fails to do justice to the distinctive characteristics that emerge and function at these supraparticle levels.

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.

It is too bad that an almost incurable anthropocentrism has marked so much of our western ways of theologizing that we have tended to do less than justice to the other aspects and areas of the creation which are not directly related to the human enterprise as such.

There are still others who see other characteristics such as justice, self - fulfillment, or truthfulness as of greater worth than love.

They can not, among other things, «awaken the child to cultural values» or «affect [children's] hearts and minds» in a way that will lead to a society where racial justice and reconciliation are the norm rather than the happy exception.

Drunks both with regard to passion, and with no «Nocturnal Council» to make their drunkenness speak to some sort of truth, let alone justice, the RNC leaves us with nothing other than used tissues and a tawdry shame the next morning.

Enhancement will serve justice both by equalizing those gifts and making it clearer than ever that being who we are depends on the conscious intention of other persons.

A democratic political system makes possible both more equality and more liberty in the right sense, and hence more justice, than any other alternative system.

I think, for instance, of Chuck Colson, who did more than any other man in the last probably 100 years in American life in calling the Church to remember prisoners and to think about implications of the justice system.

We are moving toward the close of the 20th century with a religious community largely adjusted to the status quo — taillight behind other community agencies rather than a head light leading men to higher levels of justice...

«DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same - sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others,» Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.

The fact that this activity is carried out with others is one reason for designating it as a specific type of justice; it requires a broader range of social skills than do acts of individual justice.

Because let's face it, true justice and compassion requires more than not just being a dick yourself, but also doing something about the harm caused by others» dickishness.

So I shall use the word «appraisal» in the remainder of this chapter, rather than the word «judgement»; the latter fails seriously, for us today at any rate, because it is so tied up with notions of law - courts, assizes, and the other paraphernalia of «justice» in the legal sense.

@cheese: So you believe «justice» is something other than «legal»... sound fascinating... please elucidate on the concrete existential foundations of «justice»...

The idea of God pre-destining someone to hell with no POSSIBLE way of anything other than that happening is repulsive to me and offends my sense of justice.

But it's easier than ever in others — due largely to the techno - successes of modern science and the effective justice of the modern science of government — and far from impossible overall.

And I believe that many independent centers of power (church, media, economy, schools, the state) rather than one center of state power controlling all the others leads more surely to peace, justice and freedom.

These two great principles, then — love and Justice — must be rather regulative of our application of other principles than taken as immediate guides to social policy... It can all be summed up in a phrase: the aim of a Christian social order is the fullest possible development of individual personality in the widest and deepest possible fellowship.

One position is that value is simply what any given individual says it is; hence there can be no «external» justification of morality (virtue, justice, etc.) in anything other than one's own desires or feelings; i.e., value is entirely a matter of «taste.»