Sentences with phrase «sit in judgment»

The board will sit in judgment over the $ 50 - $ 100 fines.
The second lesson is broader: Allowing a judge to literally sit in judgment over you and your parenting of your child is risky.
A State can not purport to sit in judgment on its own performance.
After reading these lines, I would rather that he (and indeed his colleagues) not sit in judgment on a constitutional challenge that would, in effect, be an «attempt to... compromise the system,» to change it radically and not merely to make it «even better than it is.»
Berger J.A. concludes that the 3 judges of the Court of Appeal who will sit in judgment on the ultimate appeal should benefit from the unique perspective of the applicant interveners; that written submissions will assist the Court in a meaningful way.
A judge who presides over candid pre-trial discussions involving counsel for both parties ought not thereafter to sit in judgment over triable issues.
There's really no statutory authority for the AIG takeover... I won't bother noting that the DC Circuit, were it to sit in judgment on whether the Fed could buy the world's largest insurer, would undoubtedly conclude that the plain language of its governing statute (which is to make emergency loans, not require takeovers in exchange) would not permit the takeover under Chevron USA v. NRDC.
They will justifiably sit in judgment -LCB- sic -RCB- on our failure to have prevented its devastating consequences knowing that we chose to look the other way.
It applied equally to the university itself, which may have been embarrassed to find itself in the dock as much as the scientists on whom it asked Russell to sit in judgment
The king is the embodiment of justice, someone who is fit to sit in judgment of others — like King Solomon.
In preparing the IPCC text, [Lead Authors] sit in judgment of material of which they themselves are likely to be a major player.
Or the artist may sit in judgment, telling us what would be best
Finally, you can always head back to Skyhold — which will eventually become your main base of operations — to bum around your fortress, engage in political intrigue with your followers, craft more gear, pick out new patterns for the drapes or your throne, spend money improving the defenses, or even sit in judgment at the trials of various criminals the inquisition has captured.
I do not sit in judgment of them.
Failing to take your service obligations seriously can lead to resentment among colleagues who may sit in judgment when you're up for tenure.
For the record, long - time Silver ally Kevin Cahill says he will say little because as a member of the Assembly Ethics Committee (and its former chairman) he might have to sit in judgment of Silver.
Am I to understand that a bunch of Made Democrats, the same people who brought you the rape of Hillary Clinton, the bank and real estate bailout, Ben Ghazi, Solindra, Obamacare and so many many other lowlights of government ineptitude, have the integrity to sit in judgment of a local Republican project?
Duncan Smith said it may be right to end the way in which MPs have the sole right — apart from the non-voting lay members of the standards committee — to sit in judgment on the findings by the independent standards watchdog.
In a sign that the government acknowledges the damage from another row over expenses, Duncan Smith said he was open to a proposal by Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), to end the right of MPs to sit in judgment on their peers.
He argued that tribunal was properly constituted, as only two members were required to form a quorum to sit in judgment on a case.
«Nowhere does the United Nations» charter abrogate the right to some [countries in the West] to sit in judgment over others!
«While I do not sit in judgment of his conduct I would think that the voters will at some point take it into account and question whether or not he has the temperament to serve as county executive,» Meyer said.
Its power to sit in judgment over fellow MPs should now be removed.
«Judge Sattler has failed to protect the rights of women and is not fit to sit in judgment of other women who come before her.
in the end, it's not our place to sit in judgment of a woman who's just lost her child.
Albert Einstein: Morality Concerns Humanity, Not Gods I can not conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.
Certainly the background of the patriarchal age is reflected — frictions between tribes; a level of sexual morality upon which for a number of reasons we may not sit in judgment; and a consistent representation of Jacob who rebukes his sons not on moral but on utilitarian - prudential grounds (34:30).
A country that has [killed] a million and a half of its own people... every year for the past seventeen years» almost thirty million people» is hardly a nation able to sit in judgment on others.
Repeatedly the Christ of the Fourth Gospel denies that his function is to sit in judgment on men, although in Jewish Christianity that aspect of his commission was magnified: «I came not to judge the world, but to save the world»; (John 12:47) «Think not that I will accuse you to the Father»; (John 5:45) «God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world.»
And, by the way, if anyone has the right to sit in judgment on others, it would be Jesus.
Whatever we do, let neither scripture nor Jesus sit in judgment over us, because we are going to sit in judgment over them.
I am talking about us as individuals trying to sit in judgment on other people about the decisions they have made in their own lives.
The extraordinary thing is that while at times we may think that we can sit in judgment upon Jesus, all the while it is really he who judges us.
When we sit in judgment on others, because they believe something different or behave in ways we think are wrong, we mimic Satan rather than God.
The know - it - all who told me to «calm down» was way out of line, and I still can't believe that they would sit in judgment of me, especially on a website devoted to the «wrongness» of judging by Christians!
Rest assured, fellow Christians, it is for righteousness and truth that we are persecuted, reviled, mislabeled, and falsely accused by those who seek to sit in judgment over our faith.
This is also seen in the difference between those who see Jesus as in some way embodying a universal principle, as is the case of theologians in the tradition of Schleiermacher, and those, like the great Swiss theologian Karl Barth, who stressed that humans can in no way sit in judgment on God's revelation.
It is tempting to sit in judgment on others.
Wilson believed «that reason is given to us to sit in judgment over the dictates of our feelings.»
The same ethicists who gave John Coates» AOC a clean bill of cultural health now sit in judgment of Cricket Australia.
In the world of municipal politics, it is relatively rare for Council (normally chaired by the Mayor) to sit in judgment of the Mayor as chief executive.
ASmith, It is more a matter of people sitting in judgment and pointing their finger at another group.
I need to mention another mark of Molly's mind: in her anger, she sits in judgment on Mort.
Will he be with them in feeling, or will he be sitting in judgment as they pour out their hearts?
So this law sits in judgment over us.
We have sat in judgment on the New Year, atoned for our transgressions on the Day of Atonement and celebrated Divine providence during the Festival of Booths.
Surely, though, our tradition offers a much better image than that of God sitting in judgment on our earthly lives and then imposing a final destination as a separate interventionist act.
Pilate sat in judgment on Jesus but now Jesus sits in judgment on Pilate.
Because the minister is perceived as a «superego figure» by many people — as one who represents the «oughts» of society — counselees may believe that he is sitting in judgment when he is not.
Essentially, Psalm 82 is where God, the judge of all, sits in judgment on corrupt human judges.
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