Sentence examples for prefer justice from inspiring English sources

Three weeks ago, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson issued a much belated apology to Brown's family; they politely declined to accept it, saying that they'd prefer justice to contrition.

Nominees for the lifetime position also tend to be younger than 60, because presidents prefer justices who will remain on the bench for decades after their presidencies end.

Camillus sent them to Rome, where, being brought into the senate, they spoke to this purpose: that the Romans, preferring justice before victory, had taught them rather to embrace submission than liberty; they did not so much confess themselves to be inferior in strength, as they must acknowledge them to be superior in virtue.

(Beck, a Mormon, is an opponent of social justice, preferring instead "equal justice", which he believes is what Jesus Christ himself would have championed had he thought it through properly).

Other judges may prefer dispensing traditional justice from the comfortable distance of the bench.

He'd prefer to discuss justice reform, education, all his issues — and not why he might be the first bachelor president since Grover Cleveland married in the White House in 1886.

Some Americans, especially families of the victims of the September 11th attacks, may also find military trials unsatisfactory and prefer to see justice done more openly in federal court.Special military tribunals set up under Mr Bush's executive order issued in November: it is difficult to evaluate these because the details of how they would operate have not yet been published.

I would much prefer the word justice.

No rational person could prefer life without justice.

Even President Trump prefers Supreme Court justices from the Ivy League law schools, a sign that he values the degree he holds from the Wharton School at Penn despite the fact that he probably learned very little about economics and understands even less.

Romney said in September that he would prefer to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would oppose Roe v. Wade.