Sentences with phrase «edicts for»

In the budget there are bold vows — oddly reminiscent of China's annual edicts for economic growth rates — about boosting exports by 30 % in the next eight years (even though exports have climbed just 2.9 % from eight year ago).

The church for a very long time apparently did not interpret biblical teaching as an edict for one - man, one - woman marriage.

These brave women who lived in slavery in Egypt and defied Pharaoh's edict for the Jewish midwives to kill Jewish male babies, by giving birth on their own, squatting in the fields.

The new edict for Oahu mostly focuses on grid circuits where power available from rooftop solar reaches or exceeds 100 percent of the minimum daytime load, the low point of the total power that customers on a circuit are using.

While Marvel's Kevin Feige has said they didn't have a strict edict for the film having a female director, it seemed as if those were the only names mentioned in public.

Inspired by Michael Pollan's edict for healthy eating («Eat food.

Toby Carlisle (Greenbackd): Inspired by Michael Pollan's edict for healthy eating («Eat food.

Whole families turned out and stood out in the plazas waiting for the rumblings from inside the machine to herald its latest edict for the...

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History has shown that market and economic volatility can be subdued — by central bank edict, monetary policy, or the adoption of hedges — for only so long.

Such edicts, meant to protect children with potentially fatal allergies, have forced parents to search the supermarket aisles — often in vain — for snacks guaranteed not to contain nuts or even nut residue.

Based on the BLS's findings, though, Mayer's new edict could be a blessing in disguise for Yahoo workers.

My increasing concern is that we won't see much from the incoming administration that doesn't involve intimidation, misuse of power, self - dealing, and attempts to use discretionary edict - as a substitute for equal protection and legislative process.

Uber said expanding its service may be a boon for Saudi Arabia, a country where women are not allowed to drive because of fatwas, or religious edicts, issued by conservative Muslim clerics that uphold a distinct segregation between the sexes.

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

He issued an edict calling for the seizure of Donatist property, though later in 321 A.D., he asked the «catholic» bishops to show toleration towards them.

Also look for Constantine the Great and the Edict of Milan and research it to realize how and why Christianity shaped and created.

The only reason that the teaching of a «devil» exists in my opinion is because it is a useful tool for religious leaders to use to frighten people into obedience to their edicts.

One might say there's a nice analogy between SCOTUS opinions and holy texts, in that if the edicts don't appeal to some self - evident consensus, for better or worse, they'll be re-intepreted to do so.

She asks that the edict be continued for one more day, but only in the city of Susa, and that Haman's ten sons be hanged on a gallows.

The Sun King, Louis XIV, revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598) in 1685, prompting Bishop Bossuet to boast that France, «the eldest daughter of the Church,» had reverted to being the most intolérant state in Europe, setting a model of religio - political propriety for others to follow.

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

By the edict of AD 845 all these monasteries were abolished except for a very few.

In AD 409, the Persian king Yazdegard, by an edict of toleration brought an end, for the time being, to the persecution of Christians.

The penalty for this edict was death.

The «eye for an eye...» edict came from the practice of having punishments that were too harsh in those barbaric times.

In 1817, King Frederick William III of Prussia issued an edict calling for the merger of the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

For a brief span of time, Jesus exercises his dominion by teaching in the Temple and proclaiming in the capital of the nation the edicts of the kingdom of heaven.

it is impossible for any adherent of xianity to be good people and still remain faithful to the admonitions, instructions and edicts in their bibles.

The Byzantine emperors who first issued the edict to smash and destroy the icons (Leo the Isaurian and his son Constantine V, both of whom reigned in the eighth century) do remind one of Oliver Cromwell, for both sets of rulers were military leaders with a loyal army from the provinces; such figures often have a puritanical streak and tend, moreover, to command soldiers who themselves are suspicious of the decadent mores of the cities.

It was in the first year of his assumption of Babylonian rule that he set in motion the machinery for Judah's renewal with a favorable edict permitting and supporting the return of exiles and the rebuilding of the Temple.

in connection with the terrorist attacks — because jihad is something that Muslims respect — I got up and responded as follows: «I'd like to relate to this comment not as an academic, but as a Jew... We Jews have in our Bible the edict of «an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.»

The Golden Rule also has roots in the two old testament edicts, found in Leviticus 19:18 («Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself»; see also Great Commandment) and Leviticus 19:34 («But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God»).

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

Can anyone pass edicts condemning christian terrorists in Uganda, from the Lords Resistance Army, a pentecostal cult that has been killing Ugandans and kidnapping children for years?

This would have accomplished very little, for there was still an edict out for the annihilation of the Jews on a certain date about one year from now.

Church dictates and edicts aside, does sacredness count for anything anymore?

Further, have you modeled every single aspect of your life after the Bible, I mean im quite sure we could find some areas in which you have «convenientlly» elected to ignore certain biblical edicts (either because you think they are unimportant, impractical, or irrelevant; I mean for goodness sakes, the stories are set in the ancient near - east, there is no way you could mimic every aspect of bibllical life).

So however much the Constantinian settlement led Christianity into what some regard as a lengthy Babylonian captivity to state power, the «Edict of Milan» also affirmed truths that have proven stronger over time than the temptation to use Caesar for God's work.

In January 250, shortly after the edict of Becins demanding the universal acknowledgement of the gods through sacrifice, Cyprian went into hiding in an unspecified place near Carthage, believing that as a man of distinction he would, if he remained in the city, provide a focus for pagan hostility to the Christians.

A first edict in 257 for the first time banned Christian worship.

For what we know as the «Edict of Milan» marked the beginning the Christian Church's deep entanglement with state power.

If it werent for Mr. Richardsons edict that Cam steer away from thug tattoos, he'd probably literally have «bad news» written all over him.

Today the edict didn't play out for Aston Villa.

For example, if you'd read conservative pundit Michelle Malkin's account of the Little Village Academy incident, you could easily have believed that the packed - lunch ban extended throughout the city of Chicago — and you certainly would never have known that the Little Village principal reportedly retracted her controversial edict just one week later.

There are religious edicts and legal statutes that have been in place for years — centuries even!»

Rather confusingly, Hannan seems to want a centralised Big Government edict to enforce the social responsibility he wants to see, writing «if everyone were responsible for his own patch of pavement, the disruption caused by snow would be much diminished.

In the first instance, the heads of Pakistani players were shaved off — for they violated the dress code of Taliban by wearing shorts; and, in the second case, the players were chased away from the stadium by bearded thugs because the timing of the match violated a recent edict of Taliban's spiritual leader, which prohibits the people from taking part in any sports activity after 4 pm.

The fiat will instate a 90 - day moratorium on new visa applications for people coming from Iran, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia and a 120 - day cessation of arrivals from Syria — the latter a shift from the previous edict's indefinite ban on migration from the war - shattered nation.

«If the idea is to cow our leader with calls for his arrest, then those behind the genocidal edict of «Igbos must leave the North» are even dumber than we thought.

People who clean NYC's streets and parks will be left out of the mayoral edict to raise the minimum wage for public workers because they are not directly employed by the city.