Sentences with phrase «political order like»

But if you start there, you will rightly be criticised for «pushing your religion down someone's throat,» which is disallowed in a political order like ours that prizes religious liberty.

Not exact matches

People like to pick and choose half - quotes from the Bible in order to to fit their political agenda.

Focusing on religion is something the political theocrats like to do — Bachmann and Perry, for example — in order to whip up divisiveness and intolerance.

In recent years, conservative Aristotelian - Thomists like Patrick Deneen and Alasdair MacIntyre have made the argument that a moral philosophy entailing a substantive account of human happiness or fulfillment is simply incompatible with the American liberal - democratic political order.

Like the true artist, the political leader must be «violent and willing to use power,» but without normal constraints — in Heidegger's words: «lonely, uncanny, without expedients without law and limit, without structure and order, because as creators, they themselves must lay the foundation for all this.»

That religious groups or viewpoints, especially those mobilized on a national scale like the Religious Right, may pose peculiar dangers to our political order is an important concern, but it does not rise to the level of a constitutional concern.

It must clearly be noted that this was in essence far more a demonstration of political loyalty than of religious worship; and it must still more clearly be noted that Rome was the reverse of intolerant, and, if a man made this confession of political faith, he could then go away and worship any god he liked, so long as that worship did not conflict with public decency and order.

For the institutional church, like the political left, justice for the lower orders consists only of rights and claims.

It is a political, warlike, militaristic and ideologic concept which Muhammad wrapped up like a burrito in the trappings of a religion, in order to have armies who would obey him like robots.

Not only clear rational alternatives to the present irrational economic order are needed; political organization, whether in an old structure like the Democratic party or in some new structure, will be needed.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

Like the late - medieval humanists and Reformers, they search the sources for indications of present direction in «an effort to combat the culture of political despair, spiritual pessimism, and moral relativism in order to preserve the hard residue of humanistic values... against the barbarian threats of Nazism and Stalinism.»

And when this limit, which is God's honor, is reached by man, there is a twofold temptation, either on the one side to pass the limit, to take up God's cause, to try to avenge God's honor oneself, to use political means in the service of the living God in order to do this, or on the other side to remain within the limit but to continue political action as though it did not exist, in other words, to separate the two kingdoms, to argue that while God's honor is there at the limit of politics, and I can do nothing about it, nevertheless in my own sphere I can still act like a shrewd and effective man, pursuing politics to save what can be saved by human means.

Open preferential voting is a hybrid electoral system which allows voters to either express a rank ordering of individual candidates in the same manner as STV, or to select a list of candidates chosen by a political party, much like a closed list proportional representation system.

What ideologies do, then, is to try and harness the meaning of political language — concepts like freedom, justice and equality — in order to motivate action.

@ Luis Enrique (and a bit @ Thomas): A conception of what political philosophy does might be something like: attempts to systematize political structures, in order both to provide as coherent an explanation as possible of our current intuitions, and extrapolate from them to prescriptions for how they might be improved / made more consistent.

Political parties are a bit like Dr Who — periodically they need to regenerate in order stay fresh and remain successful.

Few of Trump's actions have touched a nerve among Latinos across the political spectrum in the United States quite like his pardon of Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who was found guilty of criminal contempt after defying a federal judge's order to stop targeting Latinos based solely on suspicion of their immigration status.

Thoughtful Labour politicians like Katwala and Ken Livingstone are right to see a need to reach out beyond their own party in order to rebuild a progressive political coalition.

Cuomo says the restructuring board could also provide political cover for local government leaders who need to make unpopular decisions, like laying off workers in order to consolidate services, or reducing the number of city councilmembers or supervisory boards.

Democratic Assemblyman John McDonald of Cohoes — who has balanced his political work with his family - run pharmacy — said he would like to see either the state comptroller or attorney general examine how state lawmakers earn outside income in order to see if there are conflicts.

Tom the DEMOCRAT does not like the electoral college so he orders the Pigeon to lay another political egg!

Too often it seems those in the State House these days act more like Washington insiders than citizen legislators, constantly seeking issues to divide us in order to score cheap political points.

But now Speaker Quinn has moved to the hard right, in order to win political support from the billionaire Rudin real estate family, for example, by fast - tracking their real estate developments over public health, like what happened with the closing of St. Vincent's Hospital.

The 2014 elections, in short, look less like the eruption of a new political order than the partial solidification of the one that erupted a year ago.

To his credit, the current comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, has banned, by executive order, the use of third - party «placement agents» like Mr. Morris and doing investment business with political donors in comptroller races for two years after they make a contribution.

So even though they look like they're in control, all that is needed is for this hypothetical Householders» Union to conduct a general strike — but only after electing a particular political order into Congress, one willing to back the people.

Others are turning to niche dating sites for those with the same interests, political leanings, or religious backgrounds in order to find more like - minded relationships.

In order to deal with political rivals and other threats he needs to work with Nova, the Ghost that was at one point the protagonist of an action title created by Blizzard, and she - in turns - recruits a few other familiar faces, like Rory Swann and Matt Horner.

• Because voting patterns are shaped by the political culture of a district, unions in conservative districts sometimes find themselves supporting candidates who are less pro-union than they would like in order not to lose.

Like so much in education this panel has been selected for political purposes driven by ideology in order to «prove» that, for example, free schools and academies do things better.

Political Animals is being developed by a small studio of veteran Filipino game developers whose work ranges from indie hits like Prison Architect and card games by Gameloft like Order and Chaos: Duels.

As he explains, «Like continental drift at the beginning of the world, the new cities will search for their positions in the air in order to find their place in the universe... [this structure is] capable of imagining more elastic and dynamic border rules (political, geographical, etc.) for a new space / cyberspace.»

The May 1 executive order illustrates the strategic political advantage for the White House of using regulatory coherence schemes, especially those rolled out pursuant to international treaty obligations like the TPP, to achieve deregulatory ends.

In Westminsterian governments (Australia, UK, Canada) whilst political bodies (the parliament, senate or House of Commons) can order investigations they do not conduct them, the investigation is handed over to actual investigators like judges, lawyers and police (oh crap, these are government employee's too, thankfully I'm not a paranoid nutbag).

In a 2015 press release from Drexel University, he called for the greater involvement of sociologists in the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.»

If a political body (like the U.N.), however, assembles a group of scientists to manufacture the impression of a strong consensus in order to further their personal beliefs and preferred policy changes... then, I think, we might end up in dangerous waters.

Not just individual sciences but science as an institution is in dire straits because the idea of understanding reality at a fundamental level has been discarded in favour of far more mundane attractions like money, social allies, and political support where a genuinely scientific granting body would ignore or reduce support in order to foster wider research.

UCS has done little experimental science, but has concentrated on literature searches of scientific papers to find those that agree with their political goals, and generating polls or petitions seeking the views of known scientists of like - mind in order to feed media claims for current campaigns, asserting that «science has spoken.»

The president, like his globalist cadres at the UN, is working feverishly to use climate change to remake the political order of the globe — before the wheels come completely off the global - warming bandwagon — so that countries and their peoples kowtow to a new international socialist regime based out of the UN, a regime that literally tells individuals what they can and can not do.

It's been widely documented that just like today's mainstream news media, science has gone down the rabbit hole of fakery, lies, deceptions, omissions, trickery, and just plain pure fraud in order to pursue favored political agendas.

Prof. Grove traces this change of political heart to the aftermath of desegregation decisions, showing that even those politicians who, like President Eisenhower, had originally seemed to accept resistance to court orders as legitimate then came to condemn it.

But still, broadcasters have been subject to rules aimed at ensuring people have access to the political information needed in order to vote and engage in political life, like the fairness doctrine, which required that broadcasters devote some programming to controversial political issues and that when a broadcaster endorsed a candidate, the news outlet still had to give airtime to the other candidates in the election.