Word: redresses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact, what the court has begun to do -and not for the first time in its history -is redress the power balance among branches of government, which many critics felt the aggressive Warren Court knocked askew. Except in the criminal area, most of the individual rights won under the Warren Court will stand. But if there are to be further innovations, many aggrieved Americans and new interest groups will have to look in another direction, most often to their elected representatives. The question remains whether those representatives are prepared to respond...
PERHAPS if Rosa Parks had not been of "impeccable" character but "had just stepped out of a bar.. Williams suggests that "her attempt (with) her stocking seams twisted," to gain redress against the bus company and the Southern system would have first been thwarted by the Negroes in her own community, for not being exactly the right kind of person it was willing to go to bat for." However, as Williams quotes King, "Fortunately, Mrs. Parks was ideal for the role assigned her by history." And that was to focus the attention of black people, the middle class...
...yield to coercion would in the long run destroy the spirit of the Resolution. In the face of personal harassment or the strong likelihood of serious violations, however, a prudent man may chose to avoid confrontation without forfeiting his opportunities for redress. While it may be generally preferable to put the issue to the test so that there can be a resolution of the ambiguities involved, one cannot insist upon this as a threshold for disciplinary action if a case can be made on its merits that a violation has occurred...
...meeting. The clergymen argued in court that their behavior was an act of conscience in the face of the refusal of the Council to enact a civil rights ordinance. Their demonstration, they contended, was a statement of moral feeling protected by the First Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances. The Court rejected their plea. Recognizing that what constitutes a disturbance is contingent upon circumstances, the Court held that interruption of the orderly process of city council proceedings violated the customs and usages of such a meeting. No matter how moral the motivation of the defendants, the action, premeditated...
...romantic flights for English Poet Ted Hughes. Let others waft upward in attenuated dawns and high-blown rhetoric. Hughes stays below, foraging over a gritty landscape, battening onto whatever is starkly elemental. For him, poetry is "the record of how the forces of the universe try to redress some balance disturbed by man." In his taut, compulsive poems, both the error and its redress are usually violent, sometimes disgusting, occasionally awesome. From a bullet-pierced soldier's helmet come "cordite oozings of Gallipoli." Giant crabs, "God's only toys," tear each other apart. Even a thistle...