Sentences with phrase «stable order of society»

The recognition of native title by the High Court in 1992 was a recognition that law did govern Aboriginal society when sovereignty was acquired by the British and that Indigenous law was a subtle and elaborate system which provided a reasonably stable order of society.

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The social order will be all the more stable, the more it takes this fact into account and does not place in opposition personal interest and the interests of society as a whole, but rather seeks ways to bring them into fruitful harmony.»

And even though for Whitehead human social interrelationships are primarily instinctive (owing to the «sympathetic» nature of human experience), nonetheless it requires the repetitive occurrence of inherited social activity to establish a social order stable enough to secure the continued social interaction of individuals, and therein the endurance of society as a whole.

One possible positive message is the script's exploration of how societies depend on an ability to trust their members in order to stay stable and sustain a sense of humanity.

In her reasons, the judge wrote that she has «no doubt that the right to a climate system capable of sustainable human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society,» and that «a stable climate system is quite literally the foundation of society without which there would be neither civilization nor progress.»