Sentences with phrase «upon standing in»

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Upon entering the race, he stood much taller in the news than he stood in the polls.

Alberta and Saskatchewan stand out in Canada with power grids still heavily reliant upon fossil fuels, but both recently released targets for significantly more electricity generation from renewable sources.

What is the best investment for retirement for you will depend upon your individual situation, of course, but as income producing options any of the following ten could be used as stand - alone solutions or in combination.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

The junk bond bubble, in particular, stands in sharp and stark refutation of whatever stocks might be incorporating, especially if that might be based upon assumptions of Yellen's re-found backbone.

Drawing upon these advantages, FinTech companies are capturing market share in numerous lines of business, despite having started without the credibility and trust associated with long - standing client relationships.

I will say, though, that no «fundamentalist» Mormon would sanction the marriages you're referencing, which stand in direct opposition to the principles of their Church, which absolutely insists upon upholding the law of the land.

But I still stand by my original post in which I quote Torrance, in agreement: «I find the presence and being of God bearing upon my experience and thought so powerfully that I can not but be convinced of His overwhelming reality and rationality».

You who wait, stood as candles round the shrouded bed, And flicker with the last stir of her breath, See, now, at once, she lies no more beneathYour watch, but stands in light, a crown upon her head.

Moreover, a sense of hope was renewed in me upon reading the message from Georgetown President DeGioia, who boldly stood up not just for a fellow student, but for all women.

You who wait, stood as candles round the shrouded bed, And flicker with the last stir of her breath, See, now, at once, she lies no more beneath Your watch, but stands in light, a crown upon her head.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

People who can't stand up for themselves and are preyed upon by others typically are in favor of government regulation, laws, things of this nature to protect them.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

As God moves upon our hope in accordance with His wisdom, we gain faith and stand upon that which He has proven unto us along the way.

They also acknowledged that the Seven Laws of Noah are the foundation upon which civilization stands and that recent weakening of these principles threaten the fabric of civilized society, and that justified preoccupation in educating the Citizens of the United States of America and future generations is needed.

Each of the eleven essays in On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs reflects upon an important, but all - too - often overlooked, fact: «It is only when we realize that human affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.»

All of which is to say that this fourth view of nature and human nature contends we understand ourselves most truly by imagining neither that we stand apart from, dominate, and bend nature to our will; nor that we are some unnatural plague upon nature; nor that we are simply immersed in nature and lack both the power and the duty to superintend nature and possibly even improve it.

That day, as he stood behind the speaker's lectern, he felt like an Israelite in exile called upon to sing for his Babylonian captors.

There are unquestionably parts of the Bible where the real meaning intended by the author is not the plain literal sense of the words, and where an unintelligent insistence upon the literal sense stands in the way of a true understanding.

They should have everyone of those people come in, stand in front of the congregation and offer an apology to them for bringing shame upon them as a congregation.

Richard Steel, an evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.»

But earthquakes demonstrate that what we thought was the one solid thing in our lives, the ground upon which we stand, is not so solid after all.

There are slight differences in posture; for example, in some countries, while standing, the people put their hands one upon the other in front of the lower part of the chest, while others who follow the school of Malik or of the Shi'as bend their hands down.

Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries....

What limits it from without can not be answered any more satisfactorily than the Hindu philosopher's postulation of an elephant standing upon a turtle standing upon a serpent, etc, to explain why the universe maintains its position in space.

If God's truth is in fact to be found where Christ stands, the mockery visited on him redounds instead upon the emperor, all of whose regal finery, when set beside the majesty of the servile shape in which God reveals Himself, shows itself to be just so many rags and briars.

Thus, alongside the lofty and otherworldly flights of Indian mysticism, stands the Zen emphasis upon «nothing special» and «everyday - mindedness» and «just being ordinary,» as in Yun - men's spiritual path described as «pulling a plough in the morning, and carrying a rake home in the evening,» or in Pao - fu's response to the question, «What is the language of the Buddha?»

In a press release, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. described Beck as a «conservative leader» and «one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.&raquIn a press release, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. described Beck as a «conservative leader» and «one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.&raquin the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.»

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.

I was called upon to wonder when the well - meaning camp director's wife who knew parts of my family asked where I stood in relation to the brother who'd died, she had heard.

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

Luther stands in the pulpit with his left hand laid upon an open book of scripture and with the right gesturing to a central crucifix.

It wasn't until after he'd sent the trio fleeing that he realized that, despite being fired upon in the chest at point blank range, he was still standing.

Evidently in trying to understand natural moments and how they stand to each other Santayana is concerned with just those issues with which Whitehead is coping in his discussion of the constitution of actual occasions and their influence upon one another.

For after all, in any faith which is genuinely theocentric or focused upon God, it is essential to make sure that it is God, not human desires or wishes or aspirations as they now stand, who is to be «given the glory»; and it is in God, and in God alone, that we may speak meaningfully of the significance of our own existence.

Of it Perry Miller has written,»... in relation to the principal theme of the American mind, the necessity laid upon it for decision, Winthrop stands at the beginning of our consciousness.»

And the Crusaders mercilessly slaughtered thousands upon thousands of those who stood in their way of regional domination, all by order of the Christian popes.

In addition to the Sufis who looked upon the law as a means of self - discipline there were those who looked upon the shari`a as a set of symbols standing for hidden religious meanings.

No «moral» is appended, but in the light of the teaching of Jesus as a whole (to anticipate) it is not difficult to see that it touches upon one of its recurrent themes — that the people he addressed stood in a situation in which decision was urgent and delay dangerous.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

How blessed are those whose hearts are set on pilgrimage Who wait upon the Lord in a dry land, The shepherd hears their cry and gently opens Springs of living water right where they stand.

There are criteria for membership in good standing, and membership is voted or decided upon by a competent body or person.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 10 We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them.

It sounds good in communication courses but I wonder if it's an approach that really stands up in the face of an enemy who inflicts serious violence upon us.

The papacy is infallable, and his holiness the Pope stands in the place of St. Peter — the rock upon which Jesus built his church.

In Royce's writings, Harvard turned away from its long - standing tradition of teaching the logic of community constructed upon an epistemology of testimony.

It arises in the shared experience of the community of those who through Jesus of Nazareth and what has followed upon his life have discovered that God stands by man even when man is in the wrong.

Could it be, for example, that a kairos for suffering and hope does not preclude theological attention to other clarnant issues, not only as they bear upon this one, but also in their own right - sin as how we all stand accountable before God, death as our common mortality, error as our common lot - and what the Good News says about all these things, i.e., forgiveness, resurrection, revelation?