Sentences with phrase «rights claim based»

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WASHINGTON, April 24 - Foreign corporations can not be sued in American courts for human rights abuses committed overseas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan - based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The Spaniard, one of the top right - backs in the division, claims he is already reaping the benefits of a plant - based diet — but admits two of his teammates tease him by trying to put meat on his plate as a joke.

WASHINGTON, April 24 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign corporations can not be sued in American courts for human rights abuses overseas, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan - based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Meraj Faheem, a Hyderabad - based serial entrepreneur and the Founder of The Hacking School — India's first coding bootcamp in 2014 as he claims, highlights the path to finding the right bootcamp.

Cambridge Analytica, co-founded by former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and billionaire Trump supporter and extreme right - wing ideologue Robert Mercer, claimed it could create «psychographic profiles» of people based on their Facebook data.

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

We should demystify Zionist claims that the Jews» ancestral homeland is Israel, rather then North Africa and Central Asia, and that there is no historic basis for the Right of Return.

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Spin it how you will, religion constantly gets a free pass in this country and when its ever called out for its discriminatory practices and beliefs it claims religion has the right to discriminate based on those beliefs... but everybody else doesn't have the right to even make the accusation that religion is getting all kinds of special rights allowing them to justify their own discrimination.

What is amusing to me is that when an atheist claims to be «good» without God, they are generally basing their judgement of right and wrong on Western European value systems.

so questioning their right to claim christain on your definition is in fact making that decision based on the fact that you think they are wrong.

The fact that President Trump's executive order allows the government to prioritize individual claims of religious - based persecution from religious minorities — whether Christian, Yazidi, Jew, Muslim, Bahá» í, Buddhist, etc. — should be welcome news to every Christian and everyone concerned with human rights and religious freedom.

There can not be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.»

First, justice must be based on universal claims of right.

If you claim that hindu's or muslims or buddhist's are not serving the right God and therefore will spend an eternity being tortured just based on the fact they were born into a certain culture and taught a different religion by their peers, I don't think that would qualify as a «choice».

How can anyone who claims to be a defender of equal rights for all people regardless of gender or race, be opposed to a law which would make it illegal to discriminate against unborn babies based on their gender or race?

You do realize you're basing your fantasy on a book written by men, claiming to be the voice of god, right?

Both claim to be right based on their, I hate to say it as it isn't the same, belief.

At issue was whether school officials can be sued for violating the First Amendment rights of what the students claimed was their «private, non-curricular speech based solely upon its religious viewpoint.»

Hence, while I believe that Griffin has every right to maintain that free - will theodicies are implausible and to encourage us to agree, I see no reason why I, or any other FWT, needs to admit (at least on the basis of anything that Griffin has argued) that FWTs can not defend themselves successfully against the claim that free - will theism «can not provide a plausible theodicy.»

All too often, politicians on both the left and the right cloak their public policy positions in vague claims that they are based in the Bible or Christian theology.

It stems from Faith in the triune God, a faith which is being granted to the other who equally claims to draw on it, as «right intention of faith» and reckons with the possibility that «the Spirit speaks within and through the others».66 Its first form of expression is the doxology and the direction towards the living, triune God, the basis of faith and theology.

Natural law is the bridge, so to speak, for Jews who want to leave the ghetto without becoming so assimilated that they abandon their religion: «What a natural law perspective does for Jews at this level is to enable them to make rights claims, but without having to adopt the type of all «embracing secularism that is antithetical to the covenantal basis of traditional Jewish life and thought.»

you do realize I was reversing them right, swapping a secular company for a religious based one, not as you say claiming HGTV «has an explicitly religious / metaphysical / ethical agenda».

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

Against that, the displaced people claim the right to life (Art 21 of the Constitution)... One of the aims of the struggle is to protect the material base for creative life - centred life - sustaining activities.

While Tinder never explicitly equates his notion of agape with rights - based claims, he is not as careful as he might have been to make clear the radical distinction between these two ideas.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

Replying to Gandhi's assertion that «Palestine belongs to the Arabs» and the Jews have no right to settle there, Buber, while granting and upholding the claim of the Arabs, staunchly upholds the prior and also vital claim of the Jews, which goes back some 3,000 years and is based on what they experienced as a divine mission to hallow a particular land and build a good society there.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

Its remarkable success in becoming universal can be claimed to show that no basis is needed, that in fact there is a universal common sense that supports its affirmation of human dignity and human rights.

We expect to see more consumer fraud claims based on the violation of state labeling statutes given that courts are increasingly finding a private right of action under state law concerning the FDA's labeling requirements.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

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Many of Aristotle's claims about friendship are based on seriously problematic assumptions about who has full rational capacity and hence who can be the right sort of friend.

However, with a complex economic situation and every leader and party claiming they have the right answers, people will make judgements based on who they believe in.

, but the constitutional basis for these claims is elusive, even more so than the conservative bugbear right to privacy (famously derived by Justice Douglas from penumbras of emanations from constitutional rights).

Good heavens!!!! Could it be that you and the other LibTards are basing your ENTIRE philosophical and political agenda on the basis of Justice Douglas» MISTAKE???? (You claim to have read The Federalist Papers, right?

It's on this basis that Jean - Claude Juncker, as the preferred candidate of the centre - right European People's party grouping in the parliament, claims his right to succeed Jose - Manuel Barroso.

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

Dominic Raab claims 89 % of successful human rights challenges are based on Article 8.

He said that Tarfa was entirely within his constitutional right to remain silent and did not violate the EFCC Act, on which the agency based its claim that Tarfa «refused and failed» to declare his assets.

Things are more complicated for claimants who live in a universal credit full service area where it may be no longer possible to make a new claim for tax credits.2 LITRG recommends that anyone in these areas who misses the 30 - day extension period and is concerned that they can no longer claim tax credits should contact HMRC or a local welfare rights specialist as soon as possible before making a claim for universal credit.3 Tax credits are paid to people who are responsible for children or young people and working people on low incomes, whether or not they have responsibility for a child / young person, and are based on household income and circumstances.

John McDonnell had taken to the airwaves to claim that departing shadow ministers were part of «a narrow right - wing clique within the Labour Party based around the organisation Progress».

When it comes to what politicians claim on a daily basis, there are initiative like Factcheck and Politifact that try to assess what is wrong and what is right.

The government's lawyers are due to lay out their argument in more detail tomorrow but at an initial hearing earlier this month, they claimed that a first tier tribunal only has the power to identify that legislation is incompatible with the Human Rights Act - not to rule on a case on that basis.

[1]- Ironically, many true liberals in classical liberalism sense are currently trying to re-brand things back, by reclaiming «liberal» label for their left - libertarian positions (one of the most notable examples is Dave Rubin), while branding former - progressives - now - called - «liberals» as «progressive» again, on the basis that current US progressive movement is claimed by many to be against many individual rights and the basis of classical liberalism

U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D - Jackson Heights), a long - time advocate for women's rights issues, sponsored the Girls Protection Act of 2010 April 26 after receiving disturbing reports from New York - based women's shelters, claiming FGM victims have recently visited or anonymously reported FGM cases.