For this reason promises and related phenomena, such as vows, oaths, pledges, contracts, treaties and agreements more generally are important elements of justice and the law, and, at least in the Social Contract tradition, of the political order as well.
Dubiously placed among these essential elements of justice is the Second Amendment.
Still, the pluralist vision does admit an element of justice.
In a meritocratic age, an element of justice enters into the distribution of not only wealth, but also of poverty.
The wickets were shared equally among the five main bowlers, two apiece, which has an element of justice to it.
The true heroes of this story are the members of Marino Lopez's community, who refused to let murder and pillage win the day – and who have finally seen an element of justice done.
An important element of justice is missing even when the defendant and the government believe a plea bargain is fair and when an appeal waiver is narrow so the defendant can appeal about certain specified issues.
"If you look at examples from around the world, a lot of people would argue that forgiveness and reconciliation with no element of justice will leave, certainly a large number of victims — if not the leadership — feeling that they need to take revenge or that their call for justice was not heard, and they will bide their time to take justice into their own hands," he said.
The visitors might have felt there was an element of justice in the decision, since they were aggrieved by another decision by the referee Craig Charleston moments earlier.
The foul appeared to be outside the area and an element of justice was done as Ozil's sloppy penalty, delivered after a hesitant run-up, was saved by Mandanda.
In other words, there must be in every society a moral element, an element of justice, which affects the behaviour of the members towards one another, even if collectively (as in Plato's case of a band of robbers) they are unjust towards non-members.
