Sentence examples similar to acts of fairness from inspiring English sources
Yet all but five of 234 Republicans present voted against this basic act of fairness.
The prosecuting function is particularly delicate because criminal prosecution can be used as an instrument of oppression and persecution, even where conviction is not obtained, and because in most systems prosecutors are expected to act with a degree of fairness and restraint not necessarily expected of the parties to civil litigation.
Although the bill faces an uphill battle -- it failed in the Senate last year with more Republican support than it currently has -- Democrats said they will continue to push for the DREAM Act as an issue of fairness for the young people who support the bill, whom Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt).
In the name of fairness, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 raised the maximum tax rate on long-term capital gains to 28 percent from 20 percent at the same time it reduced the maximum rate on ordinary income to 28 percent from 50 percent.
Young children endorse norms of fairness but rarely act on them.
Presumably the magistrates, too, considered themselves to be giving effect to the language of the Act, rather than acquitting on grounds of fairness in spite of what Parliament had enacted.
The 1972 Industrial Relations Act introduced for the first time the legal requirement of "fairness" into contractual employment relations.
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann has said quotas are "a question of fairness", adding that asylum is "not an act of mercy but a human right".
Translation: all acts of President Obama's so-called "fairness" to support the "common" American, may still not affect the specific needs of black people.
Forget the issue of fairness.
