Sentence examples for Social defense from inspiring English sources

It allots a clear and defensible function to punishment (social defense) without yielding to atavistic demands for retaliation or to illusory deontological demands for pure retributive justice, and without pretending that the punishments it metes out are "deserved" in any fundamental sense.

There's no social defense for this practice, except the argument that the banks exist to make profits for the shareholders.

"In the coming days we are going to arrest everyone [involved] and bring them to justice," Bolivia's deputy minister of social defense, Felipe Caceres, said on Sunday.

In addition to continuing its traditional work with conscientious objectors and deserters, the organization has also taken on work on women and war, social defense, nonviolent social empowerment, and nonviolence in a broad sense.

The perceptions caused a crisis that provoked the use of coping and social defense mechanisms that ultimately altered the participants' perceptions of the meaning of "being a nurse".

That left, apparently, only two possible rational aims to pursue in the practice of punishment under law: Social defense through incarceration, and retributivism.

The first women "bitten" were social isolates, lacking normal social defenses and controls.

Social animals have the unique capability of mounting social defenses against pathogens.

Despite individual and social defenses, infection with either species of Nosema may undermine colony health.

A vast majority of Americans, for instance, wants Congress to pass costly programs — Social Security, defense, Medicare — while simultaneously reducing taxes and the size of government.

"The breakup of what was the Reagan coalition — social conservatives, defense conservatives, antitax conservatives — it doesn't mean a whole lot to people anymore".