The narrator witnesses his father's zeal for human contact, his belief that everyone has something to teach: "I was at his mercy, and he was at the mercy of the world".
If they are civically alive when it comes to financial contributions, they should be treated in the same way when it comes to basic human rights.4.In their zeal to take back sovereignty, it is startling how many MPs are ready to contemplate breaking international treaty obligations.
In doing so, I have tried to heed Justice Robert Jackson's wisdom: "The citizens' safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility".
But the judgment also denies the ex-dictator the chance to clear his name and means that, even if his health allows, he cannot return to Chile's Senate, in which he had awarded himself a seat for life.Despite its anti-climactic denouement, the Pinochet case has changed Chile, nudging forward a still-incomplete transition to democracy and breathing a new zeal for human rights into the judiciary.
Colombian officials talk peace and human rights with an evangelical zeal and a dizzying array of flipcharts.
Well aware that the Old World's static class structure could stifle human aspirations, Tocqueville admired the zeal with which Americans sought to achieve whatever material comforts they witnessed their friends and neighbors enjoying.
The title of Mr. Carax's film is a French expletive that is also the name of its main character, a subterranean half-human played with enthusiastic comic zeal by the director's usual lead actor, Denis Lavant.
In my zeal to foster good (human) relations, I neglected to note that chaining up a dog all day might be abusive and is outlawed in many areas.
His in-tray contains three subjects daunting even for a minister famed for his reforming zeal: courts, prisons and human rights.
Once she learned to relate to humans, she embraced them with the zeal of a religious convert.
