Sentences with phrase «seems unjust»

The police may intentionally be exercising discretion not to press charges because it seems unjust to do so, or the perpetrator had some justification, or otherwise deserves a second chance.

The whole point of the BAFTA's is to celebrate British film, and it seems unjust to not acknowledge such a strong British performance.

With its inviting plethora of lightly connected narrative strings and transitory rambling watching the film analytically seems unjust and inconsequential, but its humbled viewers will try, because Museum Hours will let them through the door and pat their backs, allowing every soul to become lost within the alluring enigma.

Remember, part of proper growth and development is knowing how to follow rules while also being able to speak up when a rule seems unjust.

Though this seems unjust, people explain that it only seems unjust because we are sinful human beings and think that some sins are not as bad as others.

When all seems hopeless, God provides possibilities for hope; when all seems unjust, possibilities for justice; and when all is unsustainable, possibilities for sustainability.

If the way that money is created and distributed by central or commercial banking institutions seems unjust to you then you may enjoy the possibilities that Bitcoin enables.

Because, Hell might seem unjust — you know, getting punished * eternally * for some * temporal * evils you committed?

Not exact matches

«That seems to suggest that there's something that we need to be concerned about and inquire further because, on the face of it, there seems to be a discrimination — whether it's just or unjust is a matter for the proceeding.»

We must seem very strange to Christians of the Third World, for example, in talking about love but then building economic dams so that we can control those rains God sends from heaven on the just and on the unjust.

That one should suffer penalty for another's sin or for the group's sin as a whole seemed to him essentially unjust.

No doubt aware that his words would seem strange, and even dangerous, likely to bring him to an unjust death, John insisted on God's compassion and mercy.

On this account, to refuse marriage to gay couples is not to say that they may not marry (which might seem arbitrary and unjust) but simply that, given the very nature of marriage itself, they can not marry.

It seems likely that unjust acts will be committed, also by our side, and when they are known they must be condemned.

It may seem somewhat trite to invoke the freedom of creation as part of the works and ends of divine love, or to argue that the highest good of the creature — divinizing union with God in love — requires a realm of «secondary causality» in which the rational wills of God's creatures are at liberty; nonetheless, whether the traditional explanations of how sin and death have been set loose in the world satisfy one or not, they certainly render the claim that an omnipotent and good God would never allow unjust suffering simply vacuous.

It seems indifferent to the radical distinction between conventional religion — which throws the aura of sanctity on contemporary public policy, whether morally inferior or outrageously unjust — and radical religious protest — which subjects all historical reality (including economic, social and radical injustice) to the «word of the Lord,» i.e., absolute standards of justice.

Those who claim that «modern war» is inherently unjust seem to me to have missed all this.

Stabilizing the world as it is seemed to suggest stabilizing its unjust relationships.

Like the concept of the Chosen People, election has often been regarded as an objectionable idea because it makes the deity seem arbitrary and unjust to many.

An assumption of the point of view of benevolent power, rather than that of unjust powerlessness, seems almost the necessary outcome for even the most well - intentioned concentration on love.

But eternal punishment for lack of belief certainly seemed cruel and unjust, two things that did not reconcile with a God who IS love.

It seems clear from such an example as Jesus» Parable of the Unjust Steward in Luke that the biblical steward managed the affairs of his master as though the property were indeed his own.

First of all, it meant that the majority of the human population went to hell without ever having the chance to be saved, which seemed remarkably unfair, unjust, and perhaps even evil.

Self - defense implies abstaining from unjust acts of violence against others: unfortunately this requires both honest self - awareness and empathy (qualities that seem to be short supply).

So it would seem that every human law is unjust.

Peters does wonderfully well in defending Leo against the charges of being meddlesome, corrupting the youth, and making the unjust speech seem more attractive than the just one.

Like Mehta, Lewis objected to God on the basis of the evil he saw in the world, but his conversion mirrored that of Leah's as he realised that his objection only made sense if a moral realm existed: «My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust.

While some were still itching for a ballot box fight, others seemed resigned to absorbing unjust blows in the short term and girding for the difficult long - term task of rebuilding a societal structure that has at least partially collapsed.

So as painful as it might seem and unjust is the atonement that comes with it, that makes it beautiful.

First, it would seem to need to use some body of critical social theory as a tool to help unmask and analyze unjust distributions of power; and second, it would seem to need rigorous and critical reflection, such as is found in the second position, to examine what it means to say that we experience God in experiences of personal relationship and indeed how that could be possible.

On one hand, if we say God arbitrarily chooses us then it seems to leave God in an unjust position.

Liverpool had been his preferred destination, but the Saints forced the Reds to apologise for their unjust pursuit of the Dutchman which unsettled him, and there seems to be tension around their dealings currently.

For example, studies show that teens are willing to comply with parents when they think the rules are fair (like moral choices or ones involving safety), but they resist when the rules seem personal (e.g., what clothes to wear) or unjust.

Techniques such as putting elastic bandages on her fingers will seem like unjust punishment to a toddler for something so innocuous.

And methods such as putting an elastic bandage on his thumb will seem like unjust punishment, especially because he indulges in the habit for comfort and security.

It seems somehow unjust that Ashley Madison should return to business as usual.

So I paid $ 34k for the car, I was assured was in great condition and within minutes of being off the truck (and in reality while it was coming off the truck) it can't be driven!!!! I have never been a party to a more fraudulent, unjust, deceptive transaction and the service / parts director Joe Deitrick just doesn't seem to care... specifically service / parts manager Joe Deitrick has shown zero sympathy, and zero customer service skills, and just doesn't return phone calls, and has taken no initiative to make it right in any way shape or form.

The suffering these animals face seems even more unjust, because most of the identities of their breeders have been kept secret by the USDA — the very agency charged with protecting dogs in puppy mills and keeping bad breeders in line.

It's somewhat unjust of me to single out Rohrer, given that he seems like a cool guy who takes risks and tries new things (more than we can say for many of his peers).

While I can understand your defensive stance, given how many people seem to have an unjust ignorance against anime, I should point out that I do indeed know what anime means.

My main point was just to defend Amazon against what seemed to me a particularly unjust criticism.

That book, which asks what a judge should do «when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive,» will be or seem to be of renewed interest under the current regime.

Delivering the lead judgment, Lord Toulson said: «It seems instinctively unjust for a person to suffer injury as a result of the malicious prosecution of legal proceedings for which there is no reasonable ground, and yet not be entitled to compensation for the injury intentionally caused by the person responsible for instigating it» (at [43]-RRB-.

It seems fundamentally unjust that at a time when they are introducing a ceiling of # 400, and when landlords are going to evict people who can't pay their rent that people will lose access to free legal advice.

What may seem just in a purely commercial transaction may appear «highly unjust» in a transaction between husband and wife or two cohabitants.

The issue seems to be that the customer feels entitled to compensation for benefiting you (a benefit you accepted) by taking efforts that he had no obligation to engage in, in order to cause the first package to be returned to you, on basically a theory of unjust enrichment.

For a book as stridently reform oriented as Unjust by Design, that seems a curious and frustrating omission.

For good measure, Laws LJ added that, if wrong on this, he would have found for the claimant on her secondary claim of unjust enrichment by the trust and, although expressing no firm conclusion, seemed to give a favourable view to a possible third ground of breach of trust and confidence by the trust in assuring the claimant that the payment she was agreeing to had been lawfully determined.

County court judges seem increasingly perplexed that they are compelled to make orders within a rigid system, with the potential for inequitable and unjust results.

At first this may seem a bit unjust.