Sentences with phrase «overall order of our society»

Establishing / Reinforcing / A Sense of Professionalism Leaders in the more successful law firms establish / reinforce among their attorneys and staff a sense of professionalism regarding client service and the role of their lawyers in the resolution of disputes, the conduct of business, and the overall order of our society.

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Hence, even in this highly complex case, it is the collective agency of the entire structured society or overall field of activity which is at work to support a «thread of personal order» among the living occasions.

Their range of choice will shrink; the overall level of pluralism and diversity in society will decline; the financial pressure of government subsidies will tempt religiously affiliated organizations to abandon their religious witness in order to serve more of the needy.

Indeed, our whole society instead of ordering economic matters for the sake of overall human and social well being has subordinated itself to the market as the instrument of producing wealth.

But in any case, it is clear that Whitehead means that there are various levels of «organisms of organisms,» or hierarchical societies, which are to be contrasted with those types of societies which do not have a hierarchical order and hence no overall unity of activity.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

If they would not give evidence, dangerous criminals would walk free and both society and the administration of justice would suffer; (ii) it was settled law that the paramount object had always been to do justice and that if, in order to do justice, some adaptation of ordinary procedure was called for, it should be made, so long as the overall fairness of the trial was not compromised; (iii) recent case law supported the adoption of protective measures; (iv) the Strasbourg jurisprudence, properly understood, did not condemn the use of protective measures; and (v) the defendant was protected from the risk of unfairness by the prosecutor's duty of disclosure.

In Raggett v (1) Society of Jesus Trust 1929 for Roman Catholic Purposes (2) Preston Catholic College Governors [2010] EWCA Civ 1002, [2010] All ER (D) 116 (Aug) it was held that in a sexual abuse claim where the abuse was historic, the order in which the judge approached issues of liability and limitation did not affect the substance of an overall assessment as to whether it was appropriate to exercise judicial discretion under the Limitation Act 1980, s 33 to disapply the limitation period.

An estimated 1,560 children died because of maltreatment, with the highest rates of victimization in the first year of life — 20.6 per 1,000 children.1 Research demonstrates that outcomes for children who survive child maltreatment (defined as neglect, abuse, or a combination of the two) are poor, with performance below national norms in a range of outcomes areas, including psychosocial and cognitive well - being and academic achievement.2, 3,4 The costs to society overall of these children not reaching their full potential and the lower than expected productivity of adult survivors of abuse are estimated at as much as $ 50 - 90 billion per year in the U.S. 5,6 These findings underscore the need for strategies to prevent child maltreatment in order to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.