Sentences with phrase «something about the justice»

Not exact matches

It's like being so assured that we are right about something, that we let our certainty and sense of justice consume us.

But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.

As passionate as young Christians are about social issues, we realize that both Jesus without social justice and social justice without Jesus leaves something to be desired.

The Chief Justice, in dissent, complained about the majority's «entirely gratuitous» aspersions against supporters of traditional marriage: «It is one thing for the majority to conclude that the Constitution protects a right to same - sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority's «better informed understanding» as bigoted.»

«I want to hear a song about the breakdown in your marriage, I want to hear songs of justice, I want to hear rage at injustice and I want to hear a song so good that it makes people want to do something about the subject.»

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

Knowing I have something of a national platform, I've been thinking a lot about how to use it more effectively — perhaps by focusing my best op - ed writing on one or two and using the rest of my influence to amplify those church leaders, activists, and artists doing the good work of justice all around the world.

Thus, Justice Stephen Breyer's callousness about something so close to infanticide highlighted as never before the discrepancy between the rigid, lethal logic of the Court majority and the more complex moral sentiments of most Americans.

Because let's face it, true justice and compassion requires more than not just being a dick yourself, but also doing something about the harm caused by others» dickishness.

Hauerwas reminds us of writings in which he has talked about cooperation with others in the search for justice, and he now flatly asserts, «Something has gone wrong when the church is not learning from the world how to live faithfully to God.»

It's about being a part of something bigger than myself and working for justice, making space for God, while defeating a core lie that I still, somehow, believe about myself and, perhaps, women.

I just knew intuitively that something was seriously wrong with studying theology during the peak of the civil rights era and never once reading a book about racial justice in America or talking about it in class.

If you just talk about justice, either people are not going to have a clue as to what you're talking about, or they're going to think you're talking about God being passionate about criminal justice, as chief prosecutor, or something like that.

It seems to me in pop / rock songs there sometimes is something about the soul that is crying out for something else and / or justice:

Because God is something more than just natural existence, it leaves room for Process theologians to speak about there being real values, like love and justice, existent in the universe, even though they don't exist materially.

In an op - ed in USA Today last month, she and two other stated reformers — Mark Dupree, a Kansas district attorney, and Miriam Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor — asked for something to be done about the current American justice system.

The second question is related to the above: a «free market» baseline of justice is about procedure - how outcomes are arrived at, who is involved in making decisions, has rights over their own actions, how actions are agreed by parties etc. (or something like that) whereas equality is an outcome, that may or may not be achieved under various procedural arrangements, and may or may not be viewed as desirable by people who hold different views about what forms of society - specifications over who has what rights to do what to who.

So there is something distinctive about the youth justice system which shows we can reduce crime and imprisonment at the same time.

Prisons should be about punishment and reform, something I've repeatedly said since I became shadow justice secretary in 2010.

He accused the National Security, Police, and «the Flagstaff House people» of «knowing something» about the creation of accounts in the name of the Chief Justice, The Inspector General of Police among others.

«It talks about liberty and freedom and justice — all tenets that are American, not African - American, so actually giving the entire body the opportunity to partake in something that's really an American standard.»

Yesterday, I spoke at the Jubilee Project conference about the juvenile justice system and coping mechanisms for adversity, and wanted to wear something comfortable yet professional.

Like most Pacino characters, Bergman — a former»60s radical — is something of a cocksure blusterer, loudly declaiming about justice and honor to cover his own insecurities.

What You Need To Know: Director / writer Scott Cooper demonstrated he could handle gritty and soulful with the music drama «Crazy Heart,» but «Out of the Furnace» should prove to be something tonally much darker and rawer — a story about cruel fate, justice, redemption and brotherly love.

Acerbic and witty, Crimmins railed against the Reagan administration and the Catholic Church, before revealing something incredibly personal about his past, and becoming a fighter for justice to stop abuse from happening in the future.

We were introduced to Cyborg, Aquaman, and The Flash very briefly in Batman v Superman, but despite a bit more information on each character, Justice League relies on its audience to already know something about them, which is a mistake given that many non-comic fans are walking into the film without background knowledge on any of the three new characters.

Taken sees something downright impotent about this quest for justice, given how easily the vengeance corresponds with the humiliation at the hands of those bourgeois motherfuckers who have made Bryan's life so difficult to live.

Given the national discourse at the moment, a film like Monster — adapted from a lauded young - adult novel about a black Harlem teenager navigating a biased justice system — seems like something that could demand serious attention.

Well, it says something about the dismal quality of «Justice League» that it managed to entirely squander the pathos and fear of Superman's (Henry Cavill) resurrection.

Johnson also expressed concern about the «schools - to - prisons» pipeline, something Foxx addressed during a speech last week when she suggested authorities were far to quick to arrest and prosecute Chicago Public Schools students for fighting on school grounds — decisions that bring them into the criminal justice system.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

Instead of discussing the responses filed by the three remaining defendants to the Department of Justice's price fixing law suit, I want to talk about something else.

Every time I see another social justice darling cannibalized by their own audience for something stupid, I am reminded that you may as well not care about offending people.

There is something magical about Mjelle and pictures just truly don't do it justice.

Namco Bandai Partners VP Oliver Comte recently spoke to MCV about how the current business model of the game industry «isn't viable» and how developers and publishers need to join forces in order to make something happen... kind of like a gathering of Justice League to fight evil!

It would also be a short term political win for the govt, in that it could get its legislation through and claim, with a little bit of justice, that it was «doing something about the problem».

For the sake of future generations, and to do justice to those who are trying to do the right thing in the present, something should go on record about the people on each side of the climate change action fight.

It's already started thanks to Robin Camp's egregious conduct, and the four Law Professors and the Justice Minister who were guided by their good conscience and courage to do something about it!

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

Can something similar be said about the civil justice system?

Without malice, too many of them (there are several heartwarming exceptions) see ABS as a way of being seen to be doing «something» about access to justice but without having to tamper with the real barrier and, well, if the low - cost small firm solicitors are badly harmed, well, they didn't really mean to do it and it wasn't their fault, and, well, that's progress isn't it?

As a litigator for a great many years I can not recall the last time I thought about justice or whether something was a just result.

What I would like to see, and so would the public, are sincere efforts to do something about the ruinously high cost of litigation, and an end to the campaign to harm the practices of small firm solicitors in the guise of «doing something» about access to justice.

By working full - time for people like those I was trying ineffectually to help in Hampstead I thought I could help to provide them with something approaching that equal access to justice which I naively thought the rule of law was all about.

The only reason we are even contemplating it is because we have «to do something» about access to justice.

RE:» We need benchers who want to do something effective about the real barrier to access to justice — the time and cost of litigation.»

Again, the ultimate conclusion may well be correct but Justice Erb needs to say something about how Eric becomes a trustee using the familiar categories: express trust, implied trust, resulting trust, or constructive trust (Water's Law of Trusts in Canada, 3d ed, at 19 - 22).

Something as important as justice, like other vital aspects of our society such as healthcare and education, does come at a cost and, over recent years, much has been said about the funding of personal injury claims, not least the use of conditional fee agreements.

The other relevant development is that, to the extent the politicians have in fact done something about the difficulties with access to justice in the courts, their response has mostly been to steer people out of the courts altogether, whether into alternative dispute - resolution fora or into administrative tribunals set up to take over the resolution of some common disputes that the courts would otherwise have dealt with in the past.

«Our office is very concerned about the high percentage of aboriginal young people that are before the courts,» Ahmed says, noting she is unable to, based on the data provided, comment on whether this is an indication that the Gladue Principles aren't properly being applied in the youth criminal justice context but adds «that's certainly something we would want to make sure was at the forefront of all consideration for youth that were before the youth courts.»