Sentences with phrase «rights in the eyes of the law»

He stated categorically that, the decision to arrest and detain Koku Anyidoho's for two days was not right in the eyes of the law.

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When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

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.

What happens to the precarious shalom of the little village of Bethlehem when the Torah is disregarded, when every individual is a law to himself or herself, doing whatever is right in his or her own eyes (Judg.

It allows gay and lesbian couples to enjoy the same rights as straight couples in the eyes of the law.

• The same - sex marriage law (2005), publicly defended as an initiative to grant equality of rights and to allow gays and lesbians to look others squarely in the eye.

«Because everyone's eyes are on election matters right now, we wanted to take this moment to make very, very clear that New York City and all of us here are going to be very, very actively engaged in a campaign to change state law in the coming months to finally make this a state that's voter friendly, to finally make this a state where people can participate and not be disenfranchised.»

«There can't be a vacuum and as servants of the law, we must be seen at all times to be people who are duty bound to uphold the law and to do the right things at all times in the eyes of the law.»

But the inexperienced Europhile Alexander, unlike Laws, has little credibility in the eyes of restless, right - wing Tory backbenchers.

In the eyes of the law, he says, driving is a privilege, not a right.

For all their shortcomings, label laws would at least partially disarm the conspiracy theorists and nudge the mainstream debate in the right direction: toward a clear - eyed, case - by - case discussion of the costs and benefits of specific GMOs.

Those two things are nowhere to be found in Ted 2, despite the oddly topical storyline centered around the concept of Ted (MacFarlane) and John (Wahlberg) fighting for the bear's civil rights when it turns out that he somehow slipped by the legal system all these years and is now suddenly deemed property in the eyes of the law, as opposed to a human being.

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Reinforcing the frustration felt by all, the words of Marina Parvin, from the Indigenous Mundas community in Bangladesh and representing the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) were read by Carmen Capriles of Bolivia to bleary - eyed delegates around 3:00 AM in the closing moments of the extended negotiating session, «I have travelled all the way from Bangladesh, leaving my home and family, hoping to see a commitment to an effective and equitable new agreement that is binding, ambitious and transformative; a commitment to uphold human rights, gender equality, and the rights of future generations.»

Through two seminal victories, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the civil - rights movement had won equality in the eyes of the law, but the economic and social legacies of centuries of slavery and racial discrimination remRights Act of 1964, the civil - rights movement had won equality in the eyes of the law, but the economic and social legacies of centuries of slavery and racial discrimination remrights movement had won equality in the eyes of the law, but the economic and social legacies of centuries of slavery and racial discrimination remained.

For example, a society that believes in the law of retaliation («an eye for an eye») holds, at a legal level, that two wrongs do make a right.

Unfortunately, animals are considered property in the eyes of the law, not individuals deserving their own rights.

The 2004 Act ended generations of inequality by giving same - sex couples not only the right to have their relationship recognised in the eyes of the law but also to equal rights with those of married couples regarding tax, property, death and other matters.

In a recent talk, Lolita Chavez, co-ordinator of the K'iche People's Counsel, an indigenous human rights defender from Guatemala, spoke about how the law is used to wear people down, outside of the eye of the cameras, by creating false claims which must be answered and require money activists don't have.

Most importantly, we are committed to ensuring your rights are protected, and that employment laws are served in the eyes of the law.

He explicitly declines to take a firm position regarding which of these models is the most plausible one, but he appears, at least in my eyes, more prone to side with the direct rights model, especially in view of the analogies with human rights law (see also his analysis here).

Good character means «qualities which might reasonably be considered in the eyes of reasonable men and women to be relevant to the practice of law,» including «an appreciation of the difference between right and wrong, and the «moral fibre to do that which is right... and not to do that which is wrong....»

Many Muslim couples do not register their religious marriage, so that on breakdown of the marriage, or the death of one spouse, there is no possibility of obtaining a civil divorce or exercising their rights as a spouse, because they are simply not married, either in life or on death, in the eye of the law.

«A very simple, but wise, little book literally changed the way I looked at my career and life... I know, eyes are probably rolling, but when I left my large law firm after 16 years, and in my 40s, to start a new firm with a group of lawyers and co-workers, this book confirmed I was making the right decision.

When the Quebec Civil Code came into force in 1994, replacing the Civil Code of Lower Canada, the Department of Justice began a process to review federal law with an eye to harmonizing it with the new code, essentially in areas where federal law deals with matters that in other respects fall within «property and civil rights within the province.»

While it's progress for same - sex couples to be equal in the eyes of the law, a civil right step forward shouldn't equal a financial step backward.

This is consistent with human rights norms, which require the conceptualisation of native title in a manner which promotes its resilience, rather than its fragility and susceptibility to extinction forever in the eyes of the law.

This is consistent with human rights norms, which require the conceptualisation of native title in a manner that promotes its resilience, rather than its fragility and susceptibility to extinction forever in the eyes of the law.

This form of separation, since not recognized as a legal separation, may result in the spouse's legal rights being impacted (since in the eyes of the law, you are still married).

When the British arrived on our lands, rather than respect our rights, laws and customs, the story of terra nullius was fabricated: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples simply did not exist as fellow humans in the eyes of our colonisers.