Sentences with phrase «weak rule of»

While I grant that the acknowledgement of the failure of the War on Drugs is an important first step, security will not be achieved in the Americas until we take seriously the issues that create the environment suitable for insecurity — a weak rule of law, punitive judiciary systems and the inability of many members of society to achieve a dignified standard of living, among others.

Lahore and Karachi share a tattered public transport network (slightly less so in Lahore thanks to the Metro), weak rule of law, and high costs of vehicle ownership.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, while the Beer Festival's organizers may have been within their rights to establish rules of decorum for their event, the reasons offered by the event's organizers were weak ones.

But that call for a review was significantly weaker than an earlier draft, seen by Reuters, that requested a 180 - day delay in the scheduled April 10 effective date of the rule, which is already on the books.

The new rules combined with the Italian banking system's structural flows and weak markets globally could test the government's credibility rapidly, especially if a number of banks fail and Italians start pulling their money out in a move of panic.

The Trump administration plans to argue the weaker rules will lead to cheaper vehicles, boost sales and employment and improve safety by prodding faster turnover of older vehicles, people briefed on the matter and Carper's letter said.

While the positives include the unemployment rate falling to 42 - year lows, a weaker pound sterling is leading to a spike in consumer inflation; in the event of a negative outcome in the negotiations with the European Union, the UK currency could slide further, leading to a rise in consumer prices and leaving the Bank of England in a very precarious situation in which easing interest rates will be ruled out due to high inflation, and hiking rates will lead to a slowdown in economic activity.

While CoreLogic figures typically show a downturn in May, the weaker performance was a consequence of tighter credit rules after banking regulator APRA in March strengthened its policies on lending to investors and worsening housing market sentiment as seen in this month's Westpac Melbourne Institute report, Mr Lawless said.

The problem with those rulers is that even though they won over a group of their subjects there are always those who perceived that type of leadership as weak and unfit to rule and therefore a ruling style of oppression and domination would be more effective.

Nevertheless, many contemporary critics (including Jewett) insist that everything in the letter must be directed by Paul to the historical circumstances of his first readers: everything in chapters 1 - 13 should be understood in terms of the community differences described briefly in chapter 14: the strong are contemptuous of the weak because of their observance of dietary and Sabbath rules, while the weak are judgmental of the strong for their failure to observe the same.

In this effort I hope to show that Hartshorne's thought is an improvement with respect to some of the weaker features of virtue ethics as it has been defended by some recent philosophers, in particular regarding the allegation made by virtue ethnicians that deontology and utilitarianism are defective because they depend on abstract rules.

The larger point, however, is that those, like yourself, who accept perceived authoritarian edicts and decline to independently develop rationales to justify the rules are more likely to be complicit in atrocities and are less likely to defend the weak and vulnerable (See «Oliner and Oliner, The Altruistic Personalty: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe»).

The very existence of power relations, the inequality of the strong and the weak, the mastery of the former over the latter, the differentiation between ruler and ruled was attributed by nineteenth century liberals to autocratic government and is attributed by contemporary Marxists to the class structure of society.

Problem is, a set of dogmatic rules leaves people weak, rigid, and not apt to change, and most people don't actually follow a moral system in their day to day lives, but proclaim «jesus is the chosen one» «prasie allah» etc..

Going back even farther than Christianity and even Judaism, one discovers that many religious customs thought of the divine as feminine, as female like, but than came along the pastoral times and men began to rule the nest and place themselves up as divine, demoting anything feminine as weak and not to be trusted.

Tribal and nationalistic deities in particular have commonly been associated with the dominant customs and the ruling class, have been regarded as committed to the support of national policies, have become often gods of the powerful rather than of the weak, of the rich rather than of the impoverished, of the existent system rather than of social reformation.

Prophetic politics is not only the criticism of the despotic powers that have violated the covenant with God in oppressing the poor and the weak; but also and specially a projection of the shape of the Sovereign Rule of God, which does not allow any absolute despotic powers, but which subjugates the powers into the form of «Servant» to the Sovereign God.

In prophetic politics the Sovereign Rule of God is just, in that the poor and the weak are protected against imperial and despotic rule, both of which are rebellious against God the SovereRule of God is just, in that the poor and the weak are protected against imperial and despotic rule, both of which are rebellious against God the Sovererule, both of which are rebellious against God the Sovereign.

R. R. Reno cites Charles Murray and Mary Douglas for the compelling proposition that the abolition of clear social rules wreaks greater havoc among the economically and educationally weak than among the strong, inter alia because the latter have more resources to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty («War on the Weak,» August / Septembweak than among the strong, inter alia because the latter have more resources to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty («War on the Weak,» August / SeptembWeak,» August / September).

If capitalism is amoral in a neutral process of buying and selling, then it is not inherently unjust, and can, like all other societal activities, be guided within a framework of individual rights and rule of law to prevent the mighty from overtaking the weak.

The ground rules of dialogue provide the weaker party with a foothold, recognition, and some safety, while obligating the stronger party to stop, listen, and at least pretend respect.

Like a crude form of natural selection, the function of the NFL is to provide a proving ground where mentally and physically tough men like Fred Dean rule, and where the weaker of the species tend to become extinct.

As Elliott and his lawyers have jostled with the league over the legality of the discipline, Jones has taken aim at the commissioner he once championed, calling his suspension an «overcorrection» after years of weak rulings in similar cases.

Global impact: The proposed new rules take no account of the global impact of foods exported from the EU, the need to ensure that they are in the right language, or how they will help corporations lobby for weak global trading standards and agreements (such as TTIP 14 or Codex 15).

The producer countries are lobbying to promote the status of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body with weak Conflict of Interest rules, whose meetings are dominated by industry (often 40 % of the delegates).

But walking through the expo hall, it was clear that the food industry is having no problem meeting the new nutrition rules (a sign of how weak they are).

Don't forget about the economy of Turkey, it's very weak in comparison with the rest of the largest countries of the UE, the other problem is that Turkey is Muslim and they don't respect most of the women rights, and they try to others to take their own rules.

«Terrorism has been described as the «weapon of the weak» - to counter it we must have the moral strength not to debase our values human rights, freedoms, rule of law.

Cultures with a weaker history of rule of law tend to have a culture of honor where personal reputation (honor) is highly...

Their crusade against the public broadcaster has no basic standard of decency, and using its attempt at intellectual consistency as a way of painting it as a weak - willed terrorist sympathiser is apparently well within the rules of the game.

No matter how smart and modern you make the Moneypenny character, the rules of the game must put the woman in a weaker position.

Other rules that contribute to weak parliamentary oversight of the government are the strict anti-defection law and the precedent of not putting private member bills to vote.

That is the real rule of the strong over the weak.

None of those recommendations have been progressed under the coalition government, since they were ruled out by both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at the 2010 election, while Labour's always unrealistic projection of 400 - 600 million passenger movements in the UK by 2030 was further undermined by a weak economy.

The Moreland Commission held several hearings, including an intense grilling of state Board of Elections officials for failure to enforce the state's already weak campaign finance rules.

«Hillary Clinton is weak, ineffective, pandering and, as proven by her recent email scandal... she's either a liar or grossly incompetent,» the Republican nominee has stated in the lead - up to the GOP convention — a refreshing blast of common sense from a political rebel who refuses to follow Washington's go - along - to - get - along rules.

Far from doing anything about it, the government relaxes local planning rules and sucks money from local councils, making them even weaker in the face of these companies, who are meanwhile made richer with George Osborne's cut to corporation tax.

The rights of the few and weak are protected even though the majority rules.

Corruption, a very corrosive and ravaging cancer that has virtually destroyed the weak fabric of our society can not be defeated outside observance of the rule of law and by trampling on citizens» rights and cherished freedoms.»

After 14 years of continuous Labour rule Wales has a weak economy, underfunded schools and an NHS that costs more but delivers less.

The Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee will hear SB 668 on Wednesday, February 13, at 10 a.m. SB 668 is one of the ballot access reform bills pending, but it is by far the weaker of the two.

Despite Republican efforts to paint Democrats as weak on national security issues, slightly more Americans seem to believe the threat of terrorism would increase under Republican rule.

But some economists, including McDonnell's adviser Simon Wren - Lewis, of Oxford University, who has been involved in drawing up the new rules, believe that making spending cuts at a time when growth is weak can simply suck demand out of the economy and exacerbate any slowdown.

It's already clear that the result rules out many theoretical models of inflation — most of them, in fact — because they predict a signal much weaker than the one detected.

It may rule the realm of the stars, but its effect on particles is weak.

The general rule of thumb is this: If the person's birth date has no other «1» apart from the «1» in the weakest millennium position, then it's negative.

The latter is sorely needed, as Commodus, who historically was truly nuts (he proclaimed himself the reincarnation of Hercules and tried to rename Rome after himself), comes off in the original release as merely too weak and sniveling to rule the Empire effectively.

He is an exiled citizen who believes that T'Challa is too weak to rule and seeks to replace him as King of Wakanda.

While it starts out as a critique of social networking, it soon becomes more about what our society may be reduced to in the absence of all authority — where the strong rule and the weak have no freedom.

Franklin argues that correcting students is the weakest way of teaching rules.