Sentence examples for rules of justice from inspiring English sources

It would be catastrophically irresponsible for Congress to rewrite the rules of justice according to Mr. Mukasey's cynical template.

For years, America has rightly condemned the use of similar military courts in other countries for denying due process.Why dispense with such basic rules of justice?

"Given the danger to the safety of the United States and the nature of international terrorism," applying normal rules of justice "is not practicable," according to the president's order.

This is not a dream, but a real fact we are seeking to incarnate on land through the long march of our revolution and in accordance with rules of justice and equality and the right of people to liberate their lands, this sacred right which was secured by international law.

"The character of the charges, the lack of real evidence from the prosecution, the judge's dismissal of nearly all defense motions all bear witness that this trial does not answer to the rules of justice," she said, "and is aimed at only one thing: to publicly discredit and sentence a famous civic and political activist for political motives".

We sense it at once: it is the presence of magic, meaning not just cool weird stuff but an unpredictable suspension of the regularities of natural and human order, an arbitrary and therefore sometimes terrifying lifting of the rules, including the rules of justice and mercy.

Proportionality is a basic rule of justice.

This elementary rule of justice the Allahabad high-court judgment ignores".

That the punishment must fit the crime is an elemental rule of justice and a core principle of the Constitution.

At this stage the sense of justice operative in the first stage is transformed into the rule of justice.

The first rule of justice, therefore, is to work for a world where the material and political conditions of the appeal are secured.