Sentences with phrase «well as civil rights»

However, the adoption of this equipment and failure to establish critical policies regarding its use presents substantial risks to privacy, as well as civil rights.

We also have lawyers who focus on criminal defense as well as civil rights issues such as gender and racial discrimination, enabling us to meet the needs of the largest number of people possible.

J. Jude Basile, with offices in San Luis Obispo and San Diego, specializes in cases of personal injury, accident, product defect, insurance, elder abuse as well as civil rights discrimination.

First, Congress, by passing Title VII as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1866, has made clear its hostility to racial discrimination in employment.

For the first time, he met blacks in leadership positions and was mentored by the longtime director of the Milwaukee area's anti-poverty commission, Donald Sykes, as well as civil rights champion Howard Fuller and others.

WHEREAS, the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Civil Rights Law of the State of New York; and

Cuomo's move has earned him high praise from Hispanic legislators as well as civil rights groups and law enforcement officials.

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in anti-trust and intellectual property, among other things, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in antitrust and intellectual property, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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We've been compiling incident reports from civil - rights groups, as well as news reports, social media and law enforcement records.

Hefner had been a supporter of civil rights as well, and regularly featured African - American guests on his TV shows during a time that was frowned upon.

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

I answered the door and was surprised to meet a well - dressed man and woman who introduced themselves as agents of a well - known American federal agency that investigates terrorism, counterintelligence, cybercrime, public corruption, civil rights, organised crime, white - collar crime, violent crime and weapons of mass destruction (and which shall remain unnamed here).

Recalling that internationally - recognized human rights include social, economic, and cultural rights as well as political and civil rights, we should acknowledge that economic relations and human rights are mutually supportive dimensions of our mature relationship with China.

More than 150 organizations spanning consumer advocates, civil rights and faith organizations across the country as well as 20 state attorneys general agree with Congresswoman Waters.

Leaders in the civil rights organizations as well as in the halls of Congress remain wedded to a conception of the black condition and to a method of appealing to the rest of the polity that undermine the dignity of our people.

Yes fighting for someone civil rights has always been viewed as good by history.

White people also participated in the civil right movemen t as well.

Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.

Today's civil rights orthodoxy is to denounce as «racist» ordinary people's revulsion at behaviors among blacks that offend and threaten them, as well as policies such as affirmative action that strike them as basically unfair.

Today's civil - rights orthodoxy is to denounce as racist ordinary people's revulsion at behaviors among blacks that offend and threaten them, as well as policies such as affirmative action that strike them as basically unfair....

It would not have been a civil case only (as the victim would retain the right to sue in civil court as well) but a criminal matter, punishable by time in prison.

But then, the National Council and its member churches are marvelously insouciant about the denial of religious, political, and civil rights in China as well.

«Strategic concerns are critical for the lesbian and gay civil rights movement, but they include choosing where as well as what battles are fought.»

Amen — do these idiots not realize that disagreeing with President Obama on one issue is not reason enough to abandon the ONLY true leader who is looking out for the best interests of ALL Americans??? If Romney wins, these pastors are going to find out what real discrimination and backwards return to fighting for their Civil Rights as human beings will be like again.

Actually my comprehension is fine actually its better than yours because you dismissed the question and actually didn't answer it, and when he came back you didn't answer at all so care to now??? I would also like to know why it isn't his civil right just as much as the gays??

However, with that said, Gay Marriage is a Civil Right, as well as a Religious Rite.

The NFL Players» Union issued a statement defending its members right to free speech, saying «It is a source of enormous pride that some of the best conversations about these issues have taken place in our locker rooms in a respectful, civil and thoughtful way that should serve as a model for how all of us can communicate with each other.

No one actually takes the Monarchy seriously any more as the «Divine Right of Kings», and maybe it provides a good opportunity for discussion of precisely that wierd and anachronistic notion and the origins of state and civil authority in Western Civilization.

The Colorado Civil Rights Commission, as well as the lower rulings in its favor, instead argue that for - profit businesses remain subject to antidiscrimination rules designed to protect race, sex, and sexuality.

Already, the conscience division has drawn criticism from civil groups concerned that the protections will be used as a license to discriminate, particularly against gay or transgender patients, as well as from abortion rights groups.

Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 XIII That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and be governed by, the civil power.

It supports the Tocquevillian thought that things are mainly getting better and worse, as well as the thought that the aggressive nationalizing of the civil rights movement was in response to a state and....

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

«Right doctrine» was now imposed from above on penalty of severe punishment: usually excommunication from the church, but later, civil punishment as well.

This, as well as # 2, is a civil rights issue!

«As someone who is seeking to a lead our State, it is clear that Mr. Paladino has no regard for the civil rights or the well being of LGBT New Yorkers.

Also, regarding your post, it's worth noting that the civil rights movement, as well as Ghandi's non-violent movement in India, were successful in part because they didn't demonize the opponent, but converted the opposition to their side by reaching out to their common humanity.

I'm not exactly sure what an «estate» is (I know the word is used in the Book of Common Prayer), but the civil part of the «estate» carries with it certain rights and responsibilities; those rights and responsibilities are inherent in religious marriage as well, but there's more, too.

There's a recognition that while Democrats have been the historic supporters of LGBT rights in the most recent decades, the advocates realize they need Republicans — in a midst of a civil war between a Libertarian wing and a more socially conservative wing — to take up their cause as well.

Our endorsement is based upon his background as a firearms instructor who has educated students on safety, responsibility and shooting skills, as well as his strong commitment to the preservation of Second Amendment civil rights.

NYSRPA believes that 38 RCNY infringes upon the Second Amendment by denying the specifically enumerated civil right to possess and carry a firearm for personal defense as well as completely prohibiting residents from practicing safe gun handling at a firearms range or participating in shooting events located outside the borders of the City of New York.

A first - time candidate, El - Yateem ran with the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America as well as Sunset Park Councilmember Carlos Menchaca and noted Arab - American civil rights activist Linda Sarsour.

But don't think that the speaker's civil rights weren't violated under both the public accommodations clause of the Civil Rights Act as well as the 14th Amendcivil rights weren't violated under both the public accommodations clause of the Civil Rights Act as well as the 14th Amenrights weren't violated under both the public accommodations clause of the Civil Rights Act as well as the 14th AmendCivil Rights Act as well as the 14th AmenRights Act as well as the 14th Amendment.

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

SERAP also urged the Special Rapporteurs to «prevail on the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to decline to sign the bill into law; and on the House of Representatives and the Senate to exercise their legislative powers for good governance, and ensure a safe and enabling environment for civil society organizations both in practice and rhetoric, in line with the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) and the government's international human rights obligations and commitments.»

You will find numerous differences in legal rights, from inheritance to access to medical information, presence in hospital ICUs, etc. «Marriage» is a legal, as well as a social contract and its denial based upon sexual orientation is a base violation of civil rights that future generations will condemn.

While the Sanders campaign in recent months has emphasized criminal justice issues that have been raised by the Black Lives Matter movement — as well as the candidate's own record during the civil rights movement of the 1960s — Rangel said being a representative of Vermont doesn't help the resume.

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.

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