Sentences with phrase «whether human law»

In the section of the Summa Theologiae called the «Treatise on Law,» he asks whether human law binds man in conscience.

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The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Whether through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, labor and environmental standards, or other elements of the Canadian legal and regulatory system, we should ensure that human rights standards enshrined in our laws and regulations are respected by our PRC partners.

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

He has also created spiritual beings, angels and human souls, which have free will; they are also governed by God's laws — His commandments — but they are free to decide whether or not to obey.

An important philosophical principle was at stake: whether the immutable laws of science held human destiny in their iron clasp — whether, indeed, human destiny was fixed irrevocably in the remote stellar constellations and the laws of physics.

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.

Spanning the entire spectrum of creation, whether in terms of sex, politics, or religion, Christians affirm that God is speaking through the law written on human hearts, with individual consciences picking up the signals, either accusing or excusing them, until that day when God will finally judge all things by the criterion of Jesus Christ (Romans 1:15 — 16).

Americans are apparently split down the middle on whether the golden rule is an eternal moral law or a disposable human guideline.

Whereas St. Thomas» natural law account began from the assumption that all human beings belonged to the same species (and were therefore all subject to the same moral demands), Darwin tried to determine whether human races should be considered distinct species.

Whether or not some efforts are «counterproductive»» and the law of unintended consequences is always hard at work» it is a great and necessary thing, and a thing necessary to American greatness, that this country be the champion of human rights, and of religious freedom in particular.

Every human act, whether of driving a car, writing a book, or laying down one's life for another, is an expression of purpose within a realm of law.

Now, my question becomes, is the reason for the delineation so that we don't get into arguments about whether a fetus is a person, or are we saying that a fetus is not a human being but we want it included in the definition of the law?

The idea was that, just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law - with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey law of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law - with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey law - with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey Law of Human Nature or to disobey it.

According to what he calls the «first degree of humility,» which is the lowest degree necessary to attain salvation, it is incumbent upon the Christian «to obey the law of God our Lord in all things, so that not even were I made lord of all creation, or to save my life here on earth, would I consent to violate a commandment, whether divine or human, that binds me under pain of mortal sin» (Spiritual Exercises # 165).

The foreword of the present book includes a 1965 letter from Ramsey to Fletcher: «[T] he candid issue between us is whether agape is expressed in acts only or in rules also, which question is generally begged; or else the structures in which human beings live are attributed to other than uniquely Christian sources of understanding (natural law, etc.) while Christians go about pretending to live in a world without principles.

and whatever laws are there in the quran are for mankind regardless of their faiths... but its upto human whether to follow or not... but at the same time there is nothing wrong following the laws of the land we live as long as it does not contradicts...

In human society there is another meaning of the word «law», referring to the forms of human behavior prescribed for members of the society, whether they are actually obeyed or not.

Unless there really is moral obligation, it will not be a form of natural law, and unless the immediate ground for that obligation is the metaphysical structure that makes a being human, the theory in question will not amount to natural law but an ethics of some other sort, whether divine command, Kantian deontology, utilitarianism, or something else.

For example, the Church does not know whether the planet is getting warmer, whether such change would be good or bad, or whether human activity is the cause; nor does she know whether minimum - wage laws do more good to the poor by increasing the income of those who work, or more harm to the poor by throwing those with marginal skills out of work.

A second principle, closely and indeed inseparably connected to the first, has to do with the universality of God's judgment in relation to which our fundamental human condition is disclosed as unrighteous whether as observers or as violators of «the Law.»

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said «no decision's been made» on whether to continue key Affordable Care Act subsidies to health - insurance companies, but the administration's job is «to follow the law of the land.»

«The court will now determine whether or not the Metropolitan police breached its public law and human rights obligations in the way it handled this investigation and its aftermath.»

Law lords are expected to rule later today on whether a police force breached the human rights of a witness shot dead before he could give evidence at a trial.

The Court, according to counsel to the plaintiff, Inibehe Effiong, a Lagos based human rights lawyer, was to established whether Luke and his security aides had fallen foul of the law, against his client and sought damages amounting to N100million as well as additional N400million as exemplary damages.

It's not clear whether human hair is subject to the same laws of curliness.

GenInfo is well organized and easy to «browse,» whether you need the new statement on cloning from the Human Genome Organization or the new Swedish law concerning the use of gene technology on human beHuman Genome Organization or the new Swedish law concerning the use of gene technology on human behuman beings.

For starters, regulators will have to come up with a definition of «safe» — whether that means the machines must drive flawlessly or simply break fewer laws and get into fewer accidents than human drivers do.

This means that the institution, whether a public university or a private sponsor, must establish a human research participant protection program (HRPPP) with multiple levels of responsibility and accountability, from the IRB (which, by federal law, prospectively reviews all federally funded human subjects research protocols) to the chief administrator (Chancellor or CEO) to the investigator, staff, and students, to the research participants.

That court referred the case to the European Court of Justice, asking it to decide several questions, including what the E.U. law means when it refers to «human embryos,» and whether the ban also covers patents that don't involve embryos directly but where the use of embryos «is a necessary precondition» for the covered process or product.

A new study by public health researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development finds that the severity of the problem within the state is not the most important predictor of whether states adopt new laws to restrict drunk driving — nor is the political makeup of the state government.

The analysis of Articles of the ECHR relevant to the issue and particularly Articles 9 (Freedom of religion) and 2 of Protocol 1 (right to education), the citation of the related case law and my personal experience, help me answer whether the right of a Muslim woman to be educated, work as a teacher, believe and manifest her religious views is being deprived by her decision to follow the Islamic dress - code or by prohibition - laws passed by European states and approved by the European court of Human rights (ECtHR).

Though South Africa opened its borders and welcomed refugees fleeing persecutions, the current approach towards treatment of refugees shows a sign of a fatigue of hosting refugees.45 It becomes a metaphysical question as to whether Rwandan refugees should blame South Africa for having laws that protect the human rights and interests of its citizens or whether they blame the superpowers foreign policies that led to the negation of the principles of human and refugee rights, resulting in their current sufferings and predicament or whether they blame the oppressive regime installed in Rwanda, a regime only interested in tracking them down for assassination.

In such a forum, balancing can play a key role and they argue that the proper method for assessing the new counter-terrorism laws, from a human rights perspective, is to adopt a «balancing approach» according to which the importance of the relevant human right is weighed against the importance of the societal or community interest in deciding whether to take legislative action (or, from the position of a judge, in deciding whether a certain law is valid).

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The new law has sparked a larger discussion of whether other animals should have legal rights just like humans.

Whether you want to advocate for political action, influence local law and government policy, support animal welfare, women's rights, human rights, or anything in between, we'll show you how to start a petition, get signatures and amplify your voice.

Nate conflates problems of prediction in the realm of human behavior — where there are no fundamental governing «laws» and any «predictions» are potentially laden with subjective and untestable assumptions — with problems such as climate change, which are governed by laws of physics, like the greenhouse effect, that are true whether or not you choose to believe them.»

2007/04/27: PlanetArk: Chevron Shareholders Reject Environment Proposal Chevron Corp. shareholders rejected a proposal requiring it to draft a report on whether laws in countries where the oil and gas producer operates are adequate to protect human health, the environment and its own reputation.

The fact that air in fact conducts heat just like the silver, and that if you wait for equilibrium — whether or not it actually takes a very long time on a human scale to get there — the equilibrium reached will be isothermal or violate the second law, in particular by manifestly not being the maximum entropy state of the system.

Environmentalism, whether it is setting fire to laboratories (so much for science then) or campaigning for laws to restrict human freedom, is a desperate search for meaning, in the same way that setting fire to things is a desperate attempt to assert control over a confusing world.

A March 2011 report by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), «Fossilized Thinking: The World Bank, Eskom, and the Real Cost of Coal» examined the economics underlying the World Bank's $ 3 billion loan for the Eskom plant, evaluating whether the Bank adequately considered the project's impacts on human health and the environment and the likely economic costs of these impacts.

Recognizing the dire need in the courts, the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Law Society of Ontario are exploring whether paralegals or special limited licence providers can give some forms of assistance to human beings with family law issuLaw Society of Ontario are exploring whether paralegals or special limited licence providers can give some forms of assistance to human beings with family law issulaw issues.

Human rights and legal groups lobbying for a public and open debate on whether the Law Society of British Columbia should grant accreditation to graduates of Trinity Western University's proposed law school instead got an invitation from benchers for written submissioLaw Society of British Columbia should grant accreditation to graduates of Trinity Western University's proposed law school instead got an invitation from benchers for written submissiolaw school instead got an invitation from benchers for written submissions.

Human Law ponders whether the legal business will soon be the commodities business.

Professor White suggests that it does matter how opinions are written because they have important consequences for the parties in a particular case and for the future.29 He further argues that a crucial part of legal activity is the criticism of opinions on rational, political, and moral grounds because that is how relevant arguments are made in support of changing or retaining current rules of law.30 For him, the bigger question «is whether law will move in the direction of trivializing human experience, and itself, or in the direction of dignifying itself and that experience.»

Essentially, the national court asks whether Simmenthal II applies to the ECHR now that article 6 (3) TEU states that «Fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, shall constitute general principles of the Union's law».

Chapter 8 examines whether the fact that the EU is subject to review by the European Court of Human Rights is compatible with the concept of autonomy of EU law.

John Ruggie, UN Secretary - General's Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, has announced a study involving 15 corporate law firms from around the world «to identify whether and how national corporate law principles and practices currently foster corporate cultures respectful of human rights.&rHuman Rights, has announced a study involving 15 corporate law firms from around the world «to identify whether and how national corporate law principles and practices currently foster corporate cultures respectful of human rights.&rhuman rights.»