Sentences with phrase «powers over justice»

The menu would involve a renegotiation of powers over justice, employment rules, energy and agriculture - and lead to a referendum of the British people.

The government should unilaterally repatriate powers over Justice and Home Affairs, which it is entitled to do in 2014 under the Lisbon Treaty;

Why should lawyers still have monopoly power, gatekeeper power over Justice?

The Chief Judge of the Territorial Court has over-all supervisory power over Justices of the Peace.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block the deal over concerns about the companies» pricing power in the media market.

This would include winning over the Justice Department, which has the power to file an antitrust lawsuit to block a merger, and mollifying the incoming President.

Men in posts of great authority were called gods because they held power of Life and death over people, and administered justice.

In every issue of justice or injustice some element of «belonging» or possession is involved — whether of material goods, status and prestige, power over another, personal opportunity, or any other of life's many intangibles.

God's power «is the power that prevails over the chaos, that sets limits to the onslaught of the forces of destruction and ensures the conditions needed for human life and prosperity... God's power is his «justice» in action,» as exemplified particularly in the Magnificat.48

Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.

The most general definition of power is in Paul Tillich's Love, Power and Justice (Oxford): «Power is being actualizing itself over against the threat of non-being.&rpower is in Paul Tillich's Love, Power and Justice (Oxford): «Power is being actualizing itself over against the threat of non-being.&rPower and Justice (Oxford): «Power is being actualizing itself over against the threat of non-being.&rPower is being actualizing itself over against the threat of non-being.»

It has moments of profound beauty and resonance... the love and justice of God are ultimately communicated with a power that transcends the unsettling elements and sticks with you long after the story is over.»

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

In keeping with the authoritative tradition within Catholicism, it is the Bishops who hold final decision - making power over the direction of the Campaign, which they exercise in the first instance through the CCHD Subcommittee of their own Committtee on Domesitc Justice and Human Development, made up entirely of bishops.

A slave mentality There will always be a struggle between priestly authority and prophetic challenge in institutionalized religion because institutions are intrinsically conservative and will always choose social stability over justice which works to the advantage of the socioeconomic / political power - elites whose interests are served by sustaining the status quo.

On Ash Wednesday, as the people come up to receive the ashes, they hear the words: «Polvo eres The ashes of the beginning of Lent are a curious and mysterious religious expression of the Mexican tradition which finds its full socio - religious meaning when coupled with the Holy Water which is blessed during the Easter Vigil — when, through God's power, justice triumphed over injustice in the resurrection of the innocent victim from the death inflicted upon him by the unjust «justice» of this world.

Justice represents a victory over powers which threaten the destruction of the world.

The domination of a rich and powerful elite over the masses, religious and caste groups organizing to usurp political power, a virtual collapse of the secular framework of the Constitution, continuing misery of the poor and their exclusion from all decision - making process, new ethnic identities and their struggle for justice — these are some of them.

He demanded to know from the NPP if they promised the current Chief Justice, Her Lordship Justice Georgina Wood, her position for presided excellently over the committee that looked into the saga of the missing 77 parcels of cocaine when President Kufuor was in power.

Long added, «Having been on the front lines of the confirmation battles involving Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, I know firsthand what is at stake when the Senate exercises its «advise and consent» power over federal judges.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

Greater Manchester has negotiated these powers but has also agreed devolution of more powers over criminal justice and health and social care.

High - February 5th: Powersharing breakthrough - Deadlock over the devolution of policing and justice powers finally ended as Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party cut a deal.

A state Supreme Court justice has thrown out a petition by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove that sought to undo the state attorney general's power to take over cases in which unarmed civilians are killed by police.

Tell the Department of Justice that you're against these monopolies amassing illegal power over consumers, before it's too late.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

... «Superior Court» is to be construed historically, and that... it connotes a court having an inherent jurisdiction, in England, to administer justice according to the law, as and being a part of, or descended from, and as exercising part of the power of, the Aula Regia, established by William the First, which had universal jurisdiction in all matters of right and wrong throughout the kingdom, and over which, in its early days, the King presided in person.

And for the money, which the Department of Justice believes topped $ 474,000 over the course of the bribery scheme to help influence the corporate goals of a Maryland - based power company, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, a school teacher, worked between two and 15 hours per month.

Checks show that in the absence of the three men, the power of state ought to have been provisionally handed over to the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, who [constitutionally] is the fourth in the line of succession to the Presidency — in the absence of the President, the Vice President and the Speaker of Parliament.

The court presided over by Justice Kweku Ackaah - Boafo held the Lands and Natural Resources Minister exceeded his powers by assuming the powers of an adjudicator.

Negotiations over the devolution of policing and justice powers, as well as the management of contentious parades, have failed to result in a deal so far.

«All ideas of making people feel they have more power and control over government and their lives and the criminal justice system, those are all things we can look at,» he said.

«Buffalo is a better place today because Carl Paladino no longer has any power or authority over the lives of tens of thousands of children of color in the Buffalo Public Schools,» the Buffalo chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice, which has staged a series of anti-Paladino protests, said in a statement.

The Federal High Court, Ikoyi Lagos, presided over by Hon. Justice Rilwan Aikawa has affirmed the powers of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other...

High - February 5th: Powersharing breakthrough - Deadlock over the devolution of policing and justice powers finally ended as the DUP and Sinn Fein cut a deal.

There were many things wrong with the president's statements not least of all a suggestion of a presidential veto over the judiciary which is contrary to and indeed antithetical to separation of powers which underpins our constitutional order; and a severe misunderstanding and / or disregard for the presumption of innocence which is the basis of our criminal justice system.

She said the European Court of Justice would no longer have power over British courts.

He noted that the essence of power is not the privileges it carries but what it can be used to achieve for the people over whom it is exercised, saying, It is imperative then that justice, fairness, kindness and pursuit of righteousness should be the purpose and pursuit of the throne.

Plans backed by Gordon Brown to increase the Scottish parliament's remit — including giving it greater control over income tax, borrowing powers and criminal justice — are now in great doubt after the Queen's speech made only a fleeting reference to the proposals.

The collapse of talks between Sinn Fein and the DUP over the devolution of policing and justice powers prompted Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey to warn that fresh assembly elections could come in a matter of weeks.

Watch for heightened debate - and finally some decisions - about recurring issues: the state's Brownfield Tax Credit program, justice reforms (see below), renewing the New York City mayor's power over its massive school district, and, of course, school funding.

Raw, intriguing and energetic despite its flaws, the film fades in dramatic power over its final stretch and doesn't always do justice to the the potential richness of its subject, but until then, it makes for an authentic, distinctive and watchable blend of the tough and the tender.

The four dissenting justices pointed to the considerable authority the state enjoyed over school districts, including the «wide - ranging powers to consolidate and merge school districts, even without the consent of the districts themselves or of the local citizenry.»

Artists Todd Gray, Hank Willis Thomas, Swoon, Andrea Bowers, Nancy Chunn, Lyle Ashton Harris, Damon Locks, Maya Hayuk, Sage Vaughn, and over a hundred more have created work around the themes of JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, POWER, and ACTION.

The new paintings consider how our global justice system abandons and disregards the lives of those incarcerated, and how power is yielded over a desperate and vulnerable margin of society.

The icebreaker question, raised by Field Foundation president Angelique Power during last week's Practicing Utopia over Breakfast program, gets at the aim of this year's art and social practice Open Engagement conference: critically examining and supporting social - justice - oriented artmaking and administration.

For years, Alcoa had been mired in a dispute with environmentalists and the federal Department of Justice over emissions from its coal - fired power plant operations on the site.»

But the current development of wind power alternatives provides a great sense of local community control over the next round of energy development across the Great Plains, and many of the tribal representatives consider tribal wind power an environmental justice issue.

Noteworthy, the G77 got language reinserted into the COP21 draft in Bonn last week that again calls for an international «climate justice tribunal» with apparent enforcement powers over developed but not developing countries.

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