Sentences with phrase «social lives of law»

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«It's indicative of the progress that LGBT people have made, both in terms of social acceptance so there are more LGBT people willing to live openly, and developments in the law,» she said.

If you are going to be a successful entrepreneur as a woman, you absolutely can not care one whit what your neighbors, colleagues, in - laws, or anyone else thinks of your social life or your parenting abilities.

The heart and soul of American life remains in what Professor Glendon calls the «law - free spaces, where social life is left to the regulation of norms other than those of state - guaranteed law.»

These and other principles of just war arose out of Christian convictions about the value of human life, social order and the rule of law.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

To secure a larger combined influence for the Churches of Christ in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the people, so as to promote the application of the law of Christ in every relation to human life.»

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

Familiar examples of such action would include the advocacy of social services aimed at the redistribution of material well - being so that there would be some agreed - upon level of affluence for all, including refusal to live above this parity level, unilateral disarmament, pacifism, nonviolent refusal to abide by existing laws that perpetuate injustice with the willingness to suffer the penalties that existing laws demand.

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

We can not allow laws, social arrangements and psychological adaptations designed for this age to corrupt our vision of the one who is «not God of the dead, but of the living.»

And so in Christianity we again come upon that mysterious law of additivity and social heredity which in every field governs the processes of Life; while at the same time the fundamental role of education is again manifest, as the human instrument of divine instruction.

We can attempt to articulate this tacit understanding by suggesting that both camps are working with the inchoate idea that tyranny is present when a law or a governmental policy or a social practice in some way harms human beings by adversely affecting the developing course of their life.

The existence of a powerful, wise, and benevolent Divinity, who foresees and provides the life to come, the happiness of the just, the punishment of the wicked, the sanctity of the social contract and the laws: these are its positive dogmas.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

In the view of these Muslims, the Western nations are degenerate because they are ruled not by God's laws but laws of their own invention that separate religion from politics, from social life, and even from morality, a fact that is, they claim, embarrassingly evident in the U.S..

The Jewish people, more faithful than any similar group in the keeping of the moral laws they share with the Christians, more assiduous in the practice of repentance, more diligent in forgiveness, have indeed survived to this day and so demonstrated in a fashion the social relevance of their faith; but it would be difficult to describe the sort of existence the Jewish race has enjoyed as «fullness of life.»

I'm pretty sure to a Middle Eastern person, what Westerners call social progress is actually backwards progress towards the barbarity of a life away from the laws of Allah, their god

If each person were simply an individual unattached to any structure of social life, entirely independent of the orders, laws, and institutions which surround him, there would be no answer to those who say that to love is purely an individual and personal matter.8

This Indian is a saint in personal life; he teaches the law of love and soul force as its practice; and he seeks the establishment of a new social order, which shall be a Kingdom of the Spirit.34

The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and political history in nations where Muslims (of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks of» mosques and political NGOs that defend the rights of Muslims and shape their participation in civic life, including the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases.

Recent political events have compelled us to ask how we may know our way when it comes to law, morality and the tests of loyalty demanded by complex political and social lives.

What is the law in the perspective of ethics supposed to mean when it comes to the needed growth of genuine social morality and the injection of hope itself into human lives?

While striving for this end, the natural goals (the secular purusharthas — artha, kama, and dharma — pursuit of wealth, happiness and duties of one's social station) of civil society are organized according to the laws of sadharana dharma of ahimsa, varnasrama dharma of four social vocations and the asrama stages of individual life.

It is shown also in the social laws, which were to keep the life of the people healthy and vigorous.

In this I believe I am not far from Pound's interest... [in his effort] to understand how a system of law comes to embody and perpetuate a general way of looking at social life - a special system of values.

Space does not permit elucidation of the specific principles on which they worked, but it may suffice for our purpose to note that the law, the shari`a, as built up by the founders and generations of commentators, embraces all the rules of God's prescription for the conduct of men — domestic life, political and social activities, religious and ritual duties.

In so far as men are men they possess common elements; and in their political and social life those elements inevitably emerge and are recognizable in custom and law... Such natural law represents the permanent portion of human law in general, and it is prior to and superior to positive legislation, which is only a supplement thereto.»

The clear principles of Catholic social thought and the rationally accessible ¯ and highly persuasive ¯ lines of argument from natural - law philosophy provide better grounds for discussion of how to order our lives together.

A pervasive quality in human life which everywhere sets before all men a standard of better conduct and ideals — here is clearly that concept which has played a very large part in the social and political life of the Western world under the name of natural law.

When, therefore, we have recognized that lawlessness is a rampant peril, we must also see close alongside it the multitudes of people who are merely law - abiding, who accept the dead level of general mediocrity as standard, who are no better than the enforced average, and who in consequence are living alike for themselves and for the social welfare utterly unsatisfactory lives.

My mom passed away when I was eighteen, my grandmother lives out of state, I'm not close with my mother - in - law, and I was the first in my social circle to get pregnant.

Parental feuds and high - conflict divorces can fuel anxiety that negatively impacts a child's schoolwork, social life, sleep and overall well - being, says attorney Nadia A. Margherio of Sodoma Law in Charlotte.

He believes that life begins at conception and wishes that the laws of our state reflected that view... Tavarez believes that marriage is more than a personally rewarding social custom.

Laura Schaefer (R - Westbury) said the change to the social host law is necessary to battle an opioid crisis that claimed the lives of some 600 Long Islanders last year, including about 200 in Nassau.

A few things here: 1) You can see the result of a living wage law right on Goulden and Kingsbride; empty facilities that cost the community to maintain and add nothing to the social well being of the Bronx.

Live and let live I say, but what happens when the majority of residents on multiple moral peaks pass laws that force those in the minority on other peaks to help pay for their programs of social well - being for everyLive and let live I say, but what happens when the majority of residents on multiple moral peaks pass laws that force those in the minority on other peaks to help pay for their programs of social well - being for everylive I say, but what happens when the majority of residents on multiple moral peaks pass laws that force those in the minority on other peaks to help pay for their programs of social well - being for everyone?

To do that means encouraging tens of millions of Chinese to move to cities to live while creating a social safety net and laws, particularly on land ownership, that will give them the confidence to do so.

«The dream of reductionism,» Kauffman says, «is that when all is said and done, science will provide us with a linked set of laws that begin with particle physics and take us through life all the way to social systems.»

I'm always having to think to plan the running of the household (hubby, 3 kids, an in - law in the granny flat, 2 adult stepkids not living with us but with their own problems), appointments for a 2yo with gross motor delays, sometimes doing stressful paid work for extra dosh, time poor, difficulty recovering from 6 years of sleep deprivation, poor social life, dissatisfaction with cluttered house but no time for non-essentials, the list could go on.

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The film purports instead to show the rigidities of Victorian life: the social pressure to avoid divorce or annulment at all costs, the men's club aspects among the upper classes, the comparative freedom in Italy shown through the unhappy couple's trip to Venice, and especially the portrait of Margaret Cox Ruskin (Julie Walters) as the mother - in - law from hell who does not approve of her son's marriage, perhaps because she wants to continue bathing him.

The PTA has worked to advance social changes that improved the lives of young people, including championing the creation of child labor laws, reorganizing the juvenile justice system, and improving a variety of children's services.

Theatre of Law participants are encouraged to develop a variety of important life, literacy and social skills through their involvement in the project.

To date, Lives in Limbo has won five major book awards, including the Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award, the American Education Research Association Outstanding Book Award, and the Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Award.

Presently, working in an International judicial environment, she has focused her professional life on International Criminal Law, European Law and International Human Rights, combining her favourite field of interests of Social - and Forensic Psychology, and Neuro - pharmacology and Neuro - biology.

a supervised, publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations including, but not limited to, shelters operated or approved by the State or local department of social services, and residential programs for runaway and homeless youth established pursuant to article 19 - H of the Executive Law; or

He's an outspoken critic of pretty much any legislation or social movement that might give LGBT people equal protection under the law or say, a chance at life.

Plus, how small business owners may be in danger of screwing up their Social Security, how the new tax law lets you save big money if you're taking required minimum distributions, and Joe's fear of commitment is further cemented by the story of a fella who lost 60 % of his life savings in a divorce.