Sentences with phrase «protested against justice»

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, who protested against justice secretary Chris Grayling's ban on prisoners receiving books earlier this year, has been made a dame in the new year's honour's list.

Contrary to the protests against Justice Scalia's speech, a responsible use of judicial reasoning, as well as intellectual objectivity, would seem to require such humility.»

Not exact matches

The provocative 33 - year - old former editor of alt - right media website Breitbart News has turned railing against feminism, Islam, social justice and political correctness into a money - spinning show, sparking protests along the way.

Completely realistically and, indeed, sympathetically conceived and presented, he protests, in the name of a regular and quite proper Jewish concept of justice, against the unfairness, to him, of the whole proceedings.

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have joined a march for «Peace and Justice» called by the Catholic Church, the second massive demonstration in less than a week following a wave of deadly protests against social security reforms.

Bill McKibben, whose book The End of Nature was one of the first to protest against the effects of climate change, offers us, in Eaarth, one of the most important books on environmental justice in the 21st century.

But from the exile onwards the sense of corporate existence became rather less intense and the awareness of personal individuality became more pronounced.6 Ezekiel protested against the injustice of expecting one man to suffer because of the sins of another and proclaimed that God's justice would be meted out to men according to their individual deserts.

It was a protest against God in the name of divine justice; a protest atheism in search of a God who is for us, for humanity, for social justice.

Given the league's status as a pioneer on social justice and the recent comments by Donald Trump against the NFL and the NBA, we could see another form of protest before Sunday's Game 1 between the Lynx and Sparks.

The nationwide gender justice movement that emerged following the horrific Delhi gang rape and persistent popular protests against official corruption are testament to India's capacity to mount pro-rights collective action.

US Ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm made a similar statement on Monday, after a new massive protest in Bucharest and other Romanian cities on Sunday evening against the proposed changes to the justice laws -LSB-...]

Protest against prisoner book ban takes unusual new direction, after bestselling author announces she» l name the villain of her new novel after the justice secretary

«The Human Rights Act is our bill of rights, and already provides legal protection against torture and slavery, and enshrines in law the right to liberty, to open and fair justice and to protest.»

Romania's president says the European Union, after triggering proceedings against Poland for its justice system overhaul, may do so against Romania as well due to its own legal system changes that have sparked widespread protests.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN)- The group «Showing Up for Racial Justice in Buffalo» organized three protests against Sheriff Tim Howard yesterday.

The group «Showing Up for Racial Justice in Buffalo» organized three protests against Sheriff Tim Howard yesterday.

Mr. Cuomo, reacting to the mass protests against police brutality that have convulsed the country since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., argued that «today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.»

Originally, it had been planned for the rally to also protest against the decision of the Justice Ministry to label the Dynasty Foundation — a prominent private research funder — as a «foreign agent,» which could result in its closure.

Then - U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy would dispatch officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to the County in order to assess how the federal government could help.21 In a summer of student protests against the continued closures, black and white leaders in the County finally landed on a plan to temporarily operate free private schools for black students.

«The need for this vigil is, in itself, a troubling reflection of the current state of affairs, in that those protesting against the cuts to legal aid and the wider justice system feel driven to take direct action to make their concerns heard.

Protests against the government's civil legal aid changes are being planned by the Access to Justice Alliance.

«like Charles Evans Hughes, Sr., later Mr. Chief Justice Hughes, who stood up for the constitutional rights of socialists to be socialists and public officials despite the threats and clamorous protests of self - proclaimed super patriots — men like Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., and John W. Davis, who, while against everything for which the Communists stood, strongly advised the Congress in 1948 that it would be unconstitutional to pass the law then proposed to outlaw the Communist Party — men like Lord Erskine, James Otis, Clarence Darrow, and the multitude of others who have dared to speak in defense of causes and clients without regard to personal danger to themselves.

In 2007, something called The Lawyers» Movement began a complicated and sometimes violent series of protests against the suspension, in March of that year, of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry by President Pervez Musharraf, who alleged misconduct and misuse of authority by the chief jJustice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry by President Pervez Musharraf, who alleged misconduct and misuse of authority by the chief justicejustice.

At 20, I was put in jail for three months with a group of other students for protesting against Perón, and my concept of myself changed again: I became an Argentinian Jew who was committed to social justice.