Sentences with phrase «abjure for»

Finally I do not want to abjure for fear of making myself a perjurer.

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The key question for theology is whether Kant can make any sense out of who the scriptures say Jesus is rather than abjuring the task and simply correcting the apostolic witness in light of some higher «religious» principle.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

This is much to be regretted, not for any reasons of personal ambition, which I abjure completely, but because in the cause of postpartisanship (if not postmodernism) I believe a participant from the Culture 11 group (may it rest in peace) would add immeasurably to the depth of the dialogue going on within the administration, mixing it up with the likes of Susan Rice and Samantha Power (reminding them there was a free election in Iraq on Saturday), or with Lawrence Summers (recalling to him, since he failed so conspicuously in stimulating the women at Harvard, how one might do better with the economy).

Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement suspicion justly cast upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion.

In Rabbi Johanan's exegesis (Megillah 13a), Mordecai is so insistently called a Jew «because he abjured paganism [«avodah zarah], for everyone who abjures paganism is called a Jew; as is written (Daniel 3:12): `... Jews... serve not thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou has set up.

But on the whole, the realities of a single member constituency, first past the post, electoral system has seen the two sides abjure illusory happiness in the arms of another, and stick together for the sake of the kids.

For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the search for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the search for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered it?

By abjuring her «rough magic,» burying her magician's staff and drowning her book of spells, Prospera elects to live in a world without supernatural possibilities; having demonstrated the power of art, she accepts the limits of that power and forsakes hubris for humility, something Ms. Taymor seems unable to do.

Although certain forms of school choice (tax credits, some voucher programs) abjure state academic standards and tests, others (such as charter schools and public school choice) normally take them for granted.

The photographer and art historian Jeff Wall has written that while many other conceptual artists «abjured, apparently for good, any involvement with the world» outside of their methodologies, Mr. Graham's aim has always been «to remain involved with the wider world as a subject and occasion for art, but to structure that involvement in the rigorously self - reflexive terms» opened up by conceptualism.

What we have is a scheme — using spelling rules — for measuring the «creativity» and «innovation» of science and literature while abjuring «meaning» and «significance» because that can be «anything» you care for it to be.