Sentence examples for persistent injustices from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, if, as the theory recommends, a unilateral right to secede as a remedy for serious and persistent injustices is acknowledged, this will give states an incentive to act more justly.

Without such an account the Remedial Right Only view appears arbitrarily to privilege the status quo by requiring secessionists to bear the burden of showing that they have suffered serious and persistent injustices in order to establish their claim to territory.

Their contributions are distinctive not least because of the foundational relationship of feminist scholarship to activism, which means that the scholarly treatment of these topics is grounded in a critique of the background norms and conditions that produce observable and persistent injustices in medicine and healthcare.

Mr Hague said he was "delighted" that ministers had agreed on plans to tackle "the horrific use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war in conflicts around the globe", which he described as "one of the greatest and most persistent injustices in the world".

Like Hayden before him, two of Hughes' strongest supporters in the face of this persistent injustice are Allan Border and Steve Waugh.

NGOs in Britain will again be active, putting pressure on the G8 to deliver their commitments and take meaningful action to tackle the persistent injustice of global poverty.

Last summer, just months after George Zimmerman's arrest, the group released "Beyond Trayvon," a song on which Chuck D mostly relinquished the microphone to young rappers like Rahmega and Goonie B. The result was a kind of summit meeting that aired various perspectives regarding racial profiling and persistent injustice.

Richard Thompson Ford ("Moving Beyond Civil Rights," Op-Ed, Oct. 28) asserts that "civil rights have barely made a dent in today's most severe and persistent social injustices" and suggests that part of the problem is an inordinate focus on "individual injuries".

But civil rights have barely made a dent in today's most severe and persistent social injustices, such as the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans, the glass ceiling that blocks career advancement for many women and high unemployment among the elderly; in fact, some of these problems have gotten worse despite civil rights laws intended to address them.

In many cases the groups that suffer persistent grave injustices are in fact nations, and therefore would be accorded the right to secede by the Remedial Right Only Theory.

We are afflicted with persistent racial injustice and serious income, educational, and political inequality.