Sentence examples for rigid justice from inspiring English sources

"Does this statute intend the court to be so rigid?" Justice Breyer asked.

But they enforced a rigid system of criminal justice in the name of maintaining social order.

In 1940, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, who later served on the Supreme Court, addressed a conference of U.S. attorneys, attempting to distinguish between justice and the rigid adherence to legal code.

"The court of appeal needs to consider potential miscarriages of justice rather than rigid rules, and to abandon the absurd notion of jury infallibility and the grossly unfair requirement for 'new' evidence or argument: in many cases, the evidence needed was there all along".

Rigid terms can't do justice to describe a person.

Justice John Paul Stevens said all rigid mathematical rules had a common flaw.

The skyrocketing suspensions and expulsions, alongside research showing that such rigid policies feed people into the justice system without decreasing violence, has changed minds and infuriated parents.

The skyrocketing suspensions and expulsions, alongside research showing that such rigid policies feed people into the justice system without decreasing violence, has changed minds – and infuriated parents.

Emma Marcegaglia, the president of Confindustria, Italy's bosses' club, blames red tape, slow justice, high taxes and a rigid labour market.

Those rigid morningstar style boxes don't do justice to a merry band of iconoclastic fund managers who hunt stocks in every corner of the forest.

"What you then get is a demand for social justice that comes out in very rigid union and health and safety things.