Sentences with phrase «abnegation by»

Let me try to make up for this by recommending a book to put in the Christmas stocking of the administrative lawyer in your life: Law's Abnegation by Adrian Vermeule.

HMRC's failure to use a more secure method to transport the information (it was not even sent by means of registered delivery); its failure to ensure that the information was encrypted (the CDs were only password protected); and its failure to ensure that there were controls in place to prevent a relatively junior official from accessing and copying the entire database seem almost inevitably to point to a complete abnegation by HMRC of its obligations under the seventh data protection principle.

Not exact matches

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

We have seen that the liberal state can not really limit itself; its act of self - abnegation is the very act by which it refuses integration into an order of nature or grace that precedes and exceeds it.

Self - righteousness, whether of the flesh or from God, and self - abnegation are both sides of the same self - centered coin and therefor signs that our spirituality is still dominated by narcissistic self - absorbtion rather than Christ - centered gratitude and joy.

Christ's concern for individuals enslaved by the products of their sinful condition should be motivation enough for Christians to concern themselves for people today — who are increasingly demonstrating signs of electronic narcosis, with consequent effects of isolation, alienation, fear, abnegation of responsibility and loss of joy.

The action once again takes place in a community that is divided into five factions defined by personality traits, with Abnegation left much depleted after an attempted genocide in the first outing.

In case you're new to the series, or have just plain forgotten, «Insurgent» is set inside a future post-apocalypse Chicago, where a new society has been formed by using personality traits to divide individuals into factions named Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite.

A quick Divergent refresher course - in the trilogy of YA books by Veronica Roth, and in the film franchise based on same, what's left of society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent).

There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message of self - abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction of every single thing in his life that's pure, of everything that comes with the potential for a future.

Their futuristic city - state nestled in the ruins of Chicago has been torn apart by internal strife, with the «Abnegation» faction (selfless people — i.e. pushovers) destroyed and the «Dauntless» faction (brave people — i.e. idiots and assholes) fractured.

It's too smart for its own good, presenting a superhero origin story without allowing any of its characters to ever once even whisper the word (a lot like «The Walking Dead» making everyone look like assholes by avoiding the term «zombie») and spending too much time letting its teen titans drop names like Schopenhauer before making it clear that the character who most embraces the philosopher's theories of aesthetics and self - abnegation ultimately takes up the mantle of one of Schopenhauer's offshoots, Nietzsche.