Sentences with phrase «right ordering of society»

O'Donovan was our Erasmus Lecturer last year, and that was the occasion of a very lively and productive exchange on biblical truth and the right ordering of society.

Not exact matches

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

Countries and societies especially the US are carried away with everything under the umbrella of freedom and rights your governments should learn from third world countries true values and laws.certain lines should never be crossed and such movements need to be exterminated for the sake of youngsters that must learn true values and acts in order to be a well being and not end up in jail and on the long run in hell.

The exercise of rights and freedoms is limited «for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order, and general welfare in a democratic society.»

We affirm democracy as the type of government that holds the most promise for the just and good ordering of society and that best protects human rights and dignity.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Marty's new book is a resource for people of conviction who want to be good citizens in a pluralistic society: «You want to do the right thing by your God, your tradition, your country, the public order, the law and the courts, and your fellow citizens.

The work of Evangelicals and Catholics Together has continued unabated over the last twenty years, issuing documents pertaining to theological questions (such as the nature of justification) as well as those affecting the proper ordering of society (such as the rights of the unborn).

It is also being asked whether women and youth and minority groups and even white men have to play just the roles they have been assigned in the past in order to maintain just the right balance of energy and repression in an industrial society.

The right to life, to inviolability, to freedom is an indispensable part of any moral order of society.»

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

It follows too that because of the enduring continuity of its now definitive social order, the society as a whole transcends individual constituent activity and survives in its own right despite the constant changes in its membership.

«The future of Burma must be peace, a peace based on respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society, respect for each ethnic group and its identity, respect for the rule of law, and respect for a democratic order that enables each individual and every group - none excluded - to offer its legitimate contribution to the common good,» he said.

There would be no external standards of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution of moral beliefs to generate values which would continue to underpin the market order.19

«The order of society» (in mediaeval Christendom), writes David Edwards, «was at bottom upheld by religion... It was God who decreed the acceptance of the rights and duties of each grade in society.

The very great advantage to this «system» was that society was organized on a classical and Christian tradition that understood the tension of human existence, in right order, as a function of Plato's metaxy, e.g. the movement of consciousness between immanence and transcendence.

The worldly church is usually a church which seeks to maintain the old order in society and with it the power of the monarchs and aristocrats, of the owners of property and of other vested rights.

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

To my way of thinking, the Whig tradition — and particularly the Catholic Whig tradition — offers the world's best statement of philosophical principles and practical guidelines concerning how and why free citizens should shape new societies worthy of their human rights and ordered liberties.

I believe we are experiencing in the West right now an upheaval comparable to that which the fourth century produced, with the end of the Roman order and the general spread of Christianity: the moment when the ancient world was plunged into another world, another society, another conception of the universe.

«Drawing on powers vested by Section 45 (1) of the Constitution, and Section 97a of the Penal Code, the governor signed an order declaring the IMN as an unlawful society in the interest of public order and to protect the rights and freedoms of all persons in Kaduna State, he said.

Perhaps it is time for mainstream left - wing and right - wing parties to unify within and across European countries in order to champion policies that promote inclusivity over exclusivity in their visions of society.

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.

I am a 6 and have always ordered a 6 with Sole Society - they have almost always fit just right, except for a couple of sandals in the summer that ran a bit big.

Isn't it a bit ironic to stay out of society in order to find the right person in society to spend your life with?I'll admit, I do know people that have met through internet dating that are now enjoying amazing marriages, but I'd like to...

Isn't it a bit ironic to stay out of society in order to find the right person in society to spend your life with?

In the area of promotion, activities of different types are carried out on diverse themes (forgotten conflicts, rights in the city, emerging rights, human rights in the street...) but with a common objective; to spread the culture of human rights in our society in order to make effective the respect, enjoyment and guarantee of fundamental rights.

are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others (Art. 9 (2), ECHR)

And that's just detrimental to the good and fundamental order of society, right?

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US society needs to make the right choices today in order to assure adequate, affordable supplies of both energy and water.

Generally what separates the left and right is that the right favour preserving the existing order and tradition of society, and usually only support modest reforms in line with their goals.

In her reasons, the judge wrote that she has «no doubt that the right to a climate system capable of sustainable human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society,» and that «a stable climate system is quite literally the foundation of society without which there would be neither civilization nor progress.»

The bitter varieties of this risk irony are virtually endless; among them is the fact, that, in order to protect their populations from the danger of terrorism, states increasingly limit civil rights and liberties, with the result that in the end the open, free society may be abolished, but the terrorist threat is by no means averted.

I am involved right now in a case to which the respondent Law Society of BC was easily able to secure a court order sealing the record and denying the public access to any hearings, though it is not clear to us on what basis that order is supposedly justified.

If a person pretends such a marriage, and proclaims it to others, the law considers it as a malicious act, subjecting the party against whom it is set up to various disadvantages of fortune and reputation, and imposing upon the public (which for many reasons is interested in knowing the real state and condition of the individuals who compose it) an untrue character; interfering in many possible consequences with the good order of society, as well as the rights of those who are entitled to its protection.

Through their counsel, Mulgrew and Postmedia argued that they should not have to fulfil production orders by the law society and turn over notes made by the journalist, because to do so would violate both s. 7 and s. 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

It provides a set of principles for the law as it affects persons with disabilities in order to counteract negative stereotypes and assumptions and reaffirm the status of persons with disabilities as equal members of society and bearers of both rights and responsibilities: Law Commission of Ontario, Framework for the Law as It Affects Persons with Disabilities, online http://www.lco-cdo.org/en/disabilities-final-report-framework.

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.

Both of these freedoms may be made subject to limitations embodied in statutes, and which are necessary in a democratic society in order to maintain public safety, protect health or morality or to defend the rights of other persons.

It noted the requirement under Article 9 (2) that any limitation placed upon that right must be prescribed by law and necessary in a democratic society in order to serve a legitimate aim, including the rights and freedoms of others, which could be invoked by the defendant in this case.

The order was justifiable under Article 10, since it was both prescribed by law and necessary in a democratic society in order to protect the integrity of the legal proceedings and A's article 3 rights [69]- [76].

The mission of the ILRC is to work with, educate, and enhance the capacity of immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector, in order to build a democratic society that values diversity, dignity, and the rights of all people.

In a recent judgment, Justice Lynne Smith of the British Columbia Supreme Court identified grounds upon which to reopen the question of the constitutionality of the criminal prohibition against physician - assisted dying, claiming, in effect, that while the Supreme Court had at the time of the Rodriguez been correct in stating that a blanket prohibition on physician - assisted dying would be rationally connected to the goal of protecting the most vulnerable people in Canadian society, such a prohibition is overbroad (you don't need to deny everyone the right to physician - assisted suicide in order to protect society's most vulnerable persons) and grossly disproportionate in its effects.

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.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

While at UNL, Ms. Trent - Vilim served as an executive editor of the Nebraska Law Review, was voted into the Order of the Coif, a national legal honor society, and received CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Appellate Advocacy and International Human Rights Law.

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