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The lionization of historical despots reflects the contemporary embrace of such pre-modern, radically anti-democratic and unjust values.
Taking On Revisionist RussiaMADRID – For some countries, military or political defeat is so intolerable, so humiliating, that they will do whatever it takes to overturn what they view as an unjust international order.
Making the Union’s newest members carry a disproportionate share of the burden of reducing the EU’s total amount of pollution is both unjust and foolish.
And the unjust allocation of resources, which has enriched so many politically well-connected individuals and families, has become more difficult to bear.
If we fail to make progress in these areas now, future generations will judge our inaction as expensive, unjust, and immoral.
“[I]nflation is unjust and deflation is inexpedient," he wrote.
An unequal society cannot help but be an unjust society.
This serves to keep provocateurs at bay, while highlighting the unjust militarization of the police response.
Too often trade unions are seen as defending an unjust status quo, as complicit in maintaining gender and racial hierarchies, or else as being so politically self-interested that they injure the rest of society.
This could cause some to assert that the private firms are realizing unjust gains.
Cult-animated uprisings against unjust authority, with which Falun Gong is now identified, have always been viewed by Chinese as portents that political legitimacy -- sanctioned by the so-called “mandate of heaven” (tianming)that is said to exist when “heaven” confers its favor on a ruling dynasty -- has been withdrawn.
Brilliant minds do matter, but it is often inappropriate and unjust to limit recognition to so few, when so many extremely talented scientists may have contributed to a given breakthrough.
In the Arab world, in particular, Islam is dominated by a culture of humiliation felt by the people and nations that consider themselves the main losers, the worst victims, of a new and unjust international system.
Such a dictatorship would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating enemies for Islam.
There is nothing in Magna Carta that prevents the enactment and enforcement of unjust laws; but it does elevate the law above the ruler’s will.
Putin's corrupt and irresponsible regime has become part of the system of oligarchic parasitism, with its pathologically unjust distribution of incomes and property.
After decades of unjust and ineffective rule, not to mention tragic foreign interventions, there is no shortage of disenfranchised and frustrated citizens for organizations like the Islamic State to recruit.
But whining won’t change the unjust 60-year-old tradition by which a European heads the IMF and an American leads the World Bank.
We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime.
Moreover, the burden of the crisis was distributed in an unjust way: most of the pain has been borne by the poor.
Oxfam’s latest inequality report, which coincides with the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, exposes our deeply unjust economy’s inner workings, and offers solutions to rebalance it.
According to an old Chinese saying, “a just cause enjoys abundant support, while an unjust cause finds scant support.”
Otherwise our societies will become dangerously unequal, unjust, and unstable – as is occurring in the US today.
Acquiring government power through possession of capital--and converting it into unjust economic rents--must be curtailed.
These and other remedies to address concentration are essential, not only in the name of better corporate governance, but also as a response to the worldwide wave of protests against the increasingly unjust distribution of national income and global wealth.
Truth could not be obtained by “untruthful” or unjust means, which included inflicting violence upon one’s opponent.
Against the vast and immovable US justice system, they are fighting to survive – and to bring home their loved ones, the victims of a brutal, unjust, and failed drug war.
Will it remain the party of merely adding sweeteners to an unjust economic system?
But although such interventions could surely improve the status quo greatly, they would still fail to address the most obviously unjust source of inequality: luck at birth.
And, having survived an unjust prison sentence, she has already proved her willingness to make hard choices on behalf of her country, despite the personal consequences.
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