Sentences with phrase «right kind of society»

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On one hand, society wants institutions entrusted with educating the young to provide a suitably safe setting, and arguably one that fosters the right kinds of enculturation.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

And yet, if same - sex marriage is to be truly equal to natural marriage in the eyes of society and the law, then all the rights and privileges of marriage — including those involving the procreation and rearing of children — must in principle belong to both kinds of marriage, irrespective of the motives impelling a couple toward marriage or whether, once married, they exercise these rights and privileges.

I'm not arguing here that this kind of society is right and just, far less that it is the biblical pattern — although I could point to Joseph's anti-famine measures in Egypt as a parallel.

If, instead of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language of «rights» — then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in society at large.

Hauerwas and Sider are right to argue that it does make a difference what kind of society is going to war, for not all societies are the sort that are liable to fight justly.

Robert T. Miller of First Things commented that «Wielgus, long ago, did some seriously wrong things, but they were the kinds of bad things that generally good people might do — low - level collaboration, which he probably perceived to be harmless, in exchange for things that in any decent society would have been his by right, such as the ability to travel to pursue his studies.

Even granted the unspeakable crimes committed in the 20th century by communist nations (a close inspection of the history of the century, however, would disclose that such societies have had no monopoly on unspeakable crimes) the morbid anti-Communism of the American right, and the tendency to assimilate every kind of socialist or even liberal position to that of Communism, indicates, I believe, some serious failure to come to terms with the balance between dependence and independence, solidarity and autonomy, that are part of any mature personality or society.

As Montesquieu said a despotic society will have despotic customs — the arbitrary use of power, dependence of inferiors on superiors, slavery — that will produce a person primarily motivated by fear, just the right kind of subject for a despotic polity.

The religious right, at its best, modeled the kind of civic engagement and civil society that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton wanted for this country.

Developed through the four cardinal virtues — prudence (practical wisdom), justice, courage, and temperance (perhaps better styled today, «self - command»)-- freedom is the method by which we become the kind of people our noblest instincts incline us to be: the kind of people who can, among other possibilities, build free and virtuous societies in which the rights of all are acknowledged, respected, and protected in law.

With this aim in mind, homosexual marriage and the right to adoption for same - sex couples appear as nothing more than a means for exploding the foundations of society, making possible all kinds of unions, finally liberated from an ancestral morality, and therefore definitively doing away with the very notion of sexual difference.

I teach my daughter to be kind to others regardless of their differences not only because I want her to grow up to be a kind, compassionate member of society, but also because her peers will be right there alongside her as she grows.

But when we come to think about questions of what kind of society we want, to what extent broadly thinking do you think we should be relying on the language of rights as a defence against these types of abuse?

As she paced up sobbing, she murmured «our whole society is rotten to the core, it goes down, down and there is no one doing things right, but we need the rightful kind of faithful leaders who have compassion for the nation.»

By the way, why do so many politicians - especially the young and ambitious - need to be reminded that civil rights are not some kind of bonus, granted to a «lobby» with an agenda, but a defi ning characteristic of the free society which they have been elected to serve?

«This is a woman who thinks that to be loved she has to be famous, which is kind of an epidemic in our society right now,» Diaz said.

Enid (Birch, Dungeons & Dragons) and Becky (Johansson, The Man Who Wasn't There) are the geek - girls of their graduating class, the kind of girls that rejected society and everything popular right after they were rejected by the same.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Not just about the prevention of animal cruelty, the ASPCA has all kinds of information including tips on how to find the right cat for you, a poisonous plant for cats list, and much more.

Does that give you a right to practice the worst form of cruelty on an animal, anesthetized or not, which is the cutting off and removal of their balls and the cutting off and removal of ovaries, the complete destruction of their joy and energy and motivation, just because you think of yourself as some kind of «do - gooder» for society's idiots and their unwanted pets on the streets?

The Duplo-esque production design evokes just the right kind of simple nostalgia, the blocky characters and solid trees calling to mind a time when we could just sit on the carpet and build societies out of disparate toys.

In many respects this event — part of a series of responses to police brutality, corruption, and racist policies aimed at undermining the rights of Britain's black population — was the first of its kind to unfold within the context of the BBC's nightly news.1 At an early moment in British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequities.

A number of civil society organizations are working to define the right kinds of projects for the GCF to fund, which will lead to real and necessary transformations.

It's not like we have achieved any kind of cultural consensus on right and wrong, even in our own societies.

Any act of terrorism is a painful hit to any society and its innocent members — it should always be strongly underlined that there is no justification for targeting any human's life due to any form of extremism, and one must bear in mind that often it is not about the death itself, but to intimidate the nations in order for them to become more vulnerable, and to limit widely understood human rights as this kind of society, namely the threatened society, is much is easier to be governed.

Speech by Sir James Munby (president of the family courts) to the Society of editors: - «I have said this many times in the past but it must never be forgotten that, with the state's abandonment of the right to impose capital sentences, orders of the kind which family judges are typically invited to make in public law proceedings are amongst the most drastic that any judge in any jurisdiction is ever empowered to make.

The Executive Director informed the Massachusetts Society of Medical Assistants of legislation that would clarify the right of medical assistants who have completed a qualified medical assisting program to be delegated the administration of certain kinds of injections — including vaccinations / immunizations.

These requirements impose the burden of determining continuity of existence of their native title rights and interests upon the applicants at least by inference or extrapolation from various kinds of evidence... If by accident of history and the pressure of colonisation there has been dispersal of a society and an interruption of its observance of traditional law and custom, then the most sincere attempts at the reconstruction of that society and the revival of its law and custom seem to be of no avail.