Sentences with phrase «authoritative word did»

Authoritative word did not reach Wriedt until 2.15 pm, by which time it was too late to withdraw the motion and instead obstruct his party's appropriation bill to hinder Fraser.

Not exact matches

Majority is another emphasis word used to sound authoritative and awesome: «The majority of our customers are satisfied with our service» makes it sound as if you're doing great, right?

If you do not believe the Bible as the infallible and authoritative Word of God, why read Piper, as his whole belief system is based on it?

Does he ever indicate in his letters that his words should be authoritative for all people at all times?

do nt you just love these people who lecture to others as if they have the authoritative word on such topics?

Gary Dorrien, the prominent liberal Protestant scholar, describes it like this: «Christian scripture may be recognised as spiritually authoritative within Christian experience, but its word does not settle or establish truth claims about matters of fact.»

Not only do they know that the verses of Jihad are more numerous and authoritative (abrogating any earlier verses of «peace»), they also hold their entire quran to be the eternal and literal word of Allah... and this is what often makes these animals so freakin» dangerous.

Of course, you'd have to be a delusional fool to believe that either book is anything but the work of man, and thus, it really doesn't matter what it says or what emphasis / spin you put on certain aspects of it, even if you use words like «quite clear» to make yourself sound authoritative.

The history of salvation as it consummates in Christ, must be presented as an organic whole, in which «all things do hold together» in Christ» (Col. 1:17) and in which the personal, authoritative revelation of a personal and transcendent God comes to its fulness in the Incarnation of God, personally in the Eternal Word, made esh for us men, and for our salvation.

Instead of saying, «Your words are authoritative, and I am called to submit to them,» David said, «Your words are delightful, and I love to do what you ask.»

How otherwise are we to understand the synoptic accounts of the majestic authoritative words of Jesus: «Why do you call me good?

To me, it doesn't recall movie promos, but is more akin to a bueinss stating, «If you read the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, you've seen our ads» — in other words, citing an authoritative source and saying that the source itself endorses the content.

But, speaking on behalf of all of those who didn't get a ballot, I can say we're not jealous, but instead thrilled that the same critical profile that once placed Trash, Showgirls, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Lickerish Quartet alongside Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, John Ford, and Carl Theodor Dreyer will be making its mark in what nearly any card - carrying cinephile recognizes as the most authoritative word on the canon.

While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.