Sentences with phrase «a matter of life and death»

Pinkerton urges us in no uncertain terms that «building your village — building it and sustaining it — is a matter of life and death.»

For Mike Cherim, on - time delivery is, literally, a matter of life and death.

In doing so, the court failed to address a recurring question, one that's often a matter of life and death for police officers and the public.

These couples have actually met (and mated, though we don't know if they're still together), they're sometimes answering questions about matters of life and death, and they have much less incentive to lie.

According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.

But in contrast to the internet giants, who could weather this additional burden, for smaller retailers it could be a matter of life and death.

The ability to present themselves with a great pitch can be a matter of life and death for startups.

As Nardi, the senior from Richmond said, «This is literally matter of life and death.»

When Hocker introduced the panel, she stated that «on matters of life and death, we can not be wrong.»

Fox - Genovese writes, «For although the Constitution prohibits the establishment of specific churches and prescribes a tolerance for different faiths, it presupposes a fundamental Christian ethic and does not leave matters of life and death to the private judgment of individuals.»

In decisions from Roe through Casey, the Court has precisely left matters of life and death to the private judgment of individuals.

someone's salvation, then having a strong opinion may be a matter of life and death.

It's time we, as a nation, stop looking at abortion as merely a political issue and see it for what it is - a matter of life and death.

For a casual gardener the difference is distressing; for a hungry family, the difference can be a matter of life and death.

The two halves of ancient premodern Europe had essentially known only one next - door neighbor, with whom they had to negotiate as a matter of life and death: the Islamic world.

People today face complex problems, difficult decisions, and increasingly ambiguous choices about matters of life and death.

And yet the answer to such a question can be a matter of life and death for a civilization or for the whole world.

Authority over matters of life and death belongs to God, who has shared this authority with the governing powers (cf. Romans 13).

We've been surely warned that it's a matter of life and death... eternal life and death!

These are matters of life and death and eternity, yet here we are trying to figure out if our interpretation is correct or not, and looks like we will not know for sure until we die (which could be too late).

For babies and young children selfishness in that context can be a matter of life and death.

6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role as mentor in the animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,» in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.

English writer C.S. Lewis had this to say after his wife, Joy, died, «You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Even when it's a matter of life and death, our laws do not compel someone to do something with her body against her will without infringing on the rights guaranteed by the Const i tuition.

The importance attached to these issues is generally not legitimated with reference to any particular sacred mandate, but simply on the assumption that these are matters of life and death.

No one can be forced to donate a kidney, even in a matter of life and death, yet you think that somehow women be forced to remain pregnant against their will?

It is a matter of life and death to our civilization that we recover what it means to possess freedom in community.

«Red» is all that Morrison need say, for she shows us what it means to know color as a matter of life and death.

When I'm listening to something that is Word, it is a matter of life and death and I take it all in like a hearty meal saving me from the brink of disaster.

Suddenly, not only are you coping with that tragedy, but you find yourself in a dispute with doctors or other family members over your loved one's care, a literal matter of life and death.

Starfish and oyster drills, it observed, were no threat to stones; to the oyster they were a matter of life and death.

They are concerned with matters of life and death of persons, regardless of these differences.

The Bible tells someone he / she must put a religious symbol on the door post and it's suddenly a matter of life and death that the homeowner be allowed to do so.

For many of them it was a matter of life and death.

Here the person has discovered what the philosophers call the ontological question as a matter of life and death for the self.

On one page, Gordis lauds Begin's father for telling his daughter to write on the Sabbath because getting an education, in his opinion, was a matter of life and death and justified violating the sanctity of the day.

Maybe even a matter of life and death.

If they're watched, which they will be, or followed, which I hope they won't be, good manners might possibly become a matter of life and death.

In Milton's day, suppression of truth was a matter of life and death.

«Mad scientist» narratives can also show us the dangers of giving in to self - idolatry and attempting to supplant God in matters of life and death, creation and destruction.

Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in our culture, because it is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.

Those are, indeed, all matters of life and death, and the church must deal with them if it truly wants to be the Body of Christ, and a light to the world and salt and leaven.

I gave a talk some years ago in which I mentioned that the Christian faith was a matter of life and death.

But after World War II, the Court began to insert itself into what James Madison called the «internal» objects of state governments, particularly the culture - forming institutions, including education, religion, marriage, and government's domestic control over matters of life and death.

Bearing in mind that we are speaking not of isolated statutes, but of authoritative renderings of the fundamental law, such laws would be laws (1) that deny protection to the weak and the vulnerable, especially in matters of life and death, and (2) that systematically remove the legal and political ability of the people to redress the situation.

But what made it all so tense was that these matters would quickly escalate into matters of life and death.

Councilman Mike Bonin told the Los Angeles Times, «It's time to get real, because this is literally a matter of life and death» explaining that there's been a «collective failure of every level of government to deal with what has been a homeless crisis for generations and is exploding and exacerbating now.»

How might Christians begin to rethink what it means to be the body of Christ in matters of life and death?

Realise that this is not a matter of life and death.

North London derby could be «entertainment» for neutrals but its a matter of life and death for supporters on each side.