Sentences with phrase «rights than justice»

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The Justice Department argued that it violated the Civil Rights Act, putting the state at risk of losing more than $ 1 billion in federal funding.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

The nuns are RIGHT, social justice is vastly more important than crawling on the ground to kiss the ring of some fat cat cardinal or a professed ex-nazi in the vatican.

Here you are putting the blame on al Islamic branches for one Islamic branch although the as branches contradict each other and they are always in disputes among them and that's was the reason they became branches rather than one Islam so really it is not fear to hold all at guilt for one misbehave or abuse... nor it is fair to address the whole Islam belief, Quran and Prophet of God for the fault of ones or few that are not in the right track of Islam being the religion of peace and justice to mankind..

Governmental indifference to contraception was soon construed to imply governmental indifference to abortion, via the misconstrual of abortion as a matter of sexual privacy rather than as a matter of public justice; and the «right to abortion» soon became a defining issue in our politics.

It really shouldn't affect all humans any more than something your great, great, great, great, great grandfather did should affect your life, but who ever said that God's sense of «justice» was ever fair, right?

Without foundations, there are no truths that can mandate radical change, and the stereotypes of left and right by which he defines «social justice,» along with his religio - patriotic flights of «pure, joyous hope» in limitless change, seem no more than quaint and fanciful.

Could it be that greenness is a sexier commodity right now than justice or peaceableness?

With the old presuppositions having fallen away, there will be no limits to rights claims, other than the fiat of whoever is in power — most likely a majority of Supreme Court justices.

On purely moral issues, judges are no more competent or trustworthy, as Justice Scalia observed in Cruzan, the Missouri «right to die» case, than «nine people picked at random from the Kansas City telephone directory.»

The sailors on board the ship reveal a better understanding of God, and life, and justice, and right and wrong than Jonah reveals in his answers.

He was closer to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius than to the Gospel of Mark, but the Meditations are an improvement on the right - wing talk radio or left - wing social - justice utopians of the moment.

A democratic political system makes possible both more equality and more liberty in the right sense, and hence more justice, than any other alternative system.

How can our striving for justice for the weak be any more right than a totalitarian state's will to absolute power?

In both cases, the sailors on board the ship reveal a better understanding of God, and life, and justice, and right and wrong than Jonah reveals.

The truth is that many Supreme Court justices appointed by pro-life presidents have voted to uphold abortion rights, so the issue is far more complex than we are often willing to admit.

It's pretty bad when the unbelieving world has a better sense of justice and a better understanding of right and wrong than Christians.

But rather than look to leaders to change direction, start doing in your own community what needs to be done to restore justice and right all wrongs.

I was glad to join, because I suspected that the convergence of new ecological issues and old issues of social justice called for fresh ideas, more radical than those of the traditional left or right.

«Peace,» said Allan Boesak, the human rights campaigner in South Africa, «is more than the absence of war, it is the pursuit of active justice.»

It remains laissez - faire in its approach to social welfare and justice, and justifies this stance by claiming the state has no ability (rather than no right or no reason) to intervene in such matters.

Though far from perfection, and with each manifesting much to be done before liberty and justice for all are fully served, such societies afford protections for basic rights more broadly and efficaciously than was ever accomplished in any traditional, pre-modern, pre-capitalist, or pre-republican society.

, 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).

Dignity is much more inclusive than freedom, and means much more than just the absence of humiliation and includes nine governance - related needs, which are: reason, security, human rights, accountability, transparency, justice, opportunity, innovation, and inclusiveness.

The justice secretary's painful appearance in front of a Lords committee suggests the Tory human rights bark is worse than its bite.

An example that is particularly relevant since the question alludes to the use of the criminal justice system to enforce property rights is that in Germany and some Nordic countries, they punish many less serious criminal offenses with «day - fines» rather than incarceration.

There may never be a more appropriate epitaph for Chris Grayling's time as justice secretary than that offered when he addressed the Joint Committee on Human Rights last year.

With figures from the British Crime Survey showing that twice as many people believe the criminal justice system is fair to those accused of committing a crime (80 %) than meets the needs of a victim of crime (36 %), there is a clear need to ensure the rights of victims are protected.

The criminal justice system must place higher priority on the rights of people who keep to the law than on those who break it, Tony Blair has insisted.

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department Friday announced that it is dispatching more than 780 federal observers and monitors to 23 states to watch for potential problems which would violate voting rights protected by federal law.

Justice Olatoregun held, «It appears to me that the interested party (Union Bank) is a busybody, who is crying more than the bereaved, having transferred all its rights on the property, the subject matter of this suit.

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«We encourage you to investigate whether these and other predatory practices are more widespread than previously reported, whether there is a growing trend of property owners using our judicial system to intimidate or extract money or other concessions from tenants, and whether these practices are out of line with the norms and standards of our justice system and tenants» right to due process.»

Observers are expecting Grayling to start several battles in the Ministry of Justice as he takes an altogether more right - wing approach to crime and punishment than his predecessor.

«This new law will help us protect the civil rights of the more than one million New Yorkers with disabilities and special needs who for too long have not had the protections and justice they deserve.

On criminal justice and asylum, the Lib Dems give a different weight to rights and responsibilities, and they favour more proportional voting systems, although with Labour's support for a referendum on the alternative vote this is now a debate about the nature rather than the principle of reform.

«If they want to challenge the incumbent surely the basis of natural justice and the British sense of fair play, that incumbent has to be in a position to defend themselves in the arena of debate so that the 250,000 people who voted for him less than 10 months ago at least have their say, that's surely the right way to do this,» he told the Today programme.

«The time for justice, the time for equality, the time for equal rights can never be any more urgent than right now.»»

Dukes said Moskowitz had «hijacked the language of civil rights» when she said at a protest less than a mile away that the denial of an additional co-location at the school was about «educational justice.»

«I think the right honourable gentleman ought to do something more useful than just read the newspapers,» Cameron observed, before pointing out that shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan had called the sentencing approach a «perfectly sensible vision».

On civil liberty and criminal justice, they have remained true to liberal values and human rights in ways that the other parties, Labour more than the Tories in some respects, have not.

Anti-corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem, has suggested the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) probes the corruption allegations by Kwame Asare Obeng, aka A-Plus, against two presidential staffers, saying that will be considered more credible than that of the police.

«Now more than ever, we need a Supreme Court Justice who is independent, eschews ideology, who will preserve our democracy, protect fundamental rights, and will stand up to a President who has already shown a willingness to bend the Constitution.»

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is considering allowing anyone sentenced to less than four years the right to cast a ballot.

More than 100 feminist leaders and social justice groups called for passage of the Right to Know Act at a press conference at City Hall.

«This new law will help us protect the civil rights of the more than one million New Yorkers with disabilities and special needs who for too long have not had the protections and justice they deserve,» the governor said in a statement.

ALBANY — Maybe that's why state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is more concerned about the rights of the predators than justice for victims.

If «Wonder Woman» provided a glimmer of hope that DC Comics movies might start looking, moving and sounding differently than before, Justice League plops us right back into «Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice» territory, albeit with a little more wit and humanity.

Had they really wanted to do it right, rather than get SO SO vocal talent, they would have cast real Broadway thespians who could do the songs the justice they deserve.

Lemkin's semantic - based search for the right word to galvanize an effort — the actual creation of the word «genocide» — is an ideal example of the film's realization that this fight for justice is more of a battle of words than actions.