Sentences with phrase «acting upon them instead»

In technical terms, passive writing occurs when the object of the sentence is acted upon instead of doing the activity.

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A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Instead, the Church's demand must be for freedom to act upon what religious people have judged to be true.

When Luke uses the word «saved,» he is not referring to receiving eternal life, but is referring instead to receiving and acting upon God's rule and reign in our life.

Justice was not done here and instead Aisling, who acted upon the injustice she had witnessed, was punished.

The football authorities only ever want an easy time, instead of curing all the cheating, which they have not the will or» balls» to act upon.

Instead, Cuomo gave the Legislature special permission to waive the usual requirement that bills age for three days before being acted upon.

Thus, if you were looking for a more efficient way to fight cystic fibrosis, finding a therapy that would act upon ENaC instead of trying to correct that multitude of CFTR mutations would seem like a good option.

Try taking 40g of fast acting protein like whey or 30g of free form amino acids upon awakening instead of your coffee or traditional breakfast.

It means that Hypocretin Neurons are instead always acted upon by mostly uniform — excitatory — signals they receive.

Rating: 4/10 — somehow grabbing an extra point just by virtue of how barmy it all is, Once Upon a Time in Venice is a low - brow crime caper that contains way too much bad acting, way too much bad dialogue, and way too much bad everything else; but somehow it's a movie you can laugh with instead of at, and it's a movie that has to be seen to be believed... on so many levels.

Even if the level of other characters» own development decreases as they move down the food chain of plot importance (Some speak of their lack of feelings of worth and act upon them, others give themselves neat nicknames and show off their abilities, and one seemingly appears only as fodder for the villain (After the pronouncement that said character is dead, we half expect the follow - up to be «And we have killed him»)-RRB-, there is at least this conflict of ideas between its central characters playing out as though it, instead of nifty superhuman talents, is what matters the most.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, a school district that received an exemption under Florida's Race to the Top Memorandum of Understanding for Phase 2, as provided in s. (D)(2)(ii) of the memorandum, is allowed to base 40 percent, instead of 50 percent, of instructional personnel and school administrator performance evaluations upon student learning growth under s. 1012.34, as amended by this act.

Instead, the primary goal of such professional learning and reflection could be to develop and act upon TPCK in and to whichever forms and extents... teacher practitioners choose.

Instead of navigating in a predictable pedagogical virtual universe where teacher roles, teacher guidance, and fixed resources are decided upon in advance, teacher educators are moving toward a virtual pedagogical paradigm marked by an instructional need to act, interact, and collaborate on a more equal basis.

The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.

Instead, share some basic do's and don'ts regarding how pet owners should act upon finding one of these pests.

If the first thing you do immediately upon starting Act 2 of the game is get Epona, despite the game telling you you need to go get the Hookshot instead, and then you continue to ignore the game's instructions and ride Epona over to Gerudo Fortress, you can play the area the way it was clearly designed to be played.

Instead it relies upon tongue - in - cheek visuals and over-the-top voice acting to cover the meager graphics and story.

There are no traditional canvases in Gomes's work: painting instead becomes sculpture, object, an act of mark making upon a surface, or an arrangement on a wall.

But if, instead, the world manages to act upon a global promise made in Paris in 2015, and to contain global warming to no more than an average rise of 2 °C, the number at risk would be measured only in millions.

Instead, I act based upon what I do know — the cup is likely to shatter, and therefore, I plan to jump left.

«Instead of carefully reviewing the evidence in the case in order to determine whether or not the Crown had, in fact, established that the appellant possessed the specific intent of wilfulness required by s. 173 (1) of the Criminal Code, the trial judge erroneously convicted the appellant based upon a perceived (but non-existent) legal presumption that the necessary wilfulness was established by the fact that his acts of masturbation were in fact witnessed by another,» he wrote.

That is undeniable but perhaps instead of calling on those parties to get rid of the institution perhaps we should be calling upon them to clean up their act in their treatment of the institution.

Self - determined people are actors in their own lives instead of being acted upon by others.

Rather than the government party that applied the expedited procedure exception being called upon to establish that the proposed future act was sufficiently low impact to fit within the criteria set out in section 237 NTA, instead any independent consideration of this issue is dependent upon the native title parties» first providing evidence that it does not.

[22] Self - determining people are «actors in their own lives instead of being acted upon others».

But Messenger only works on inquiries that come from searches on the Houston MLS instead of any online source, and it does not have the same business - rule flexibility that allows you to indicate how the service is to act upon each inquiry.

The court found that a fraudulent misrepresentation does not require that an individual act with an intent to deceive; instead, a fraudulent misrepresentation can occur when the speaker makes a statement it knows isn't completely true with the intent that the other party will rely upon the statement.