Sentences with phrase «affair of mine»

Directly opposed to this view is the pragmatic theory which regards theoretical activity as an affair of rationalizations, essentially irrelevant to practice; practice is valued both for its own sake and as more directly contributory than thought can be to the welfare of men and the glory of God.

In the terms Martin Buber has made familiar, theology is an affair of I - It rather than of I - Thou relations, and the I in this I - It relation differs from the I in the I - Thou relation.

Mass, choir, preaching in town and cloister, lecturing, planning university developments, teaching the best students — and the continued development of the affair of his Theses; it was a perpetual round with too little time for sleep.

After September 11, the movie also serves as a salutary reminder that war is not an antiseptic affair of bombs dropped from on high, but that the battle against evil is dirty and dangerous and unending.

In his latest novel, Marry Me, Updike relates the affair of Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias, both of whom are married to other mates.

I don't believe that this universe is, as one materialist put it, «all an affair of chance, the froth and fume of the waves on an ocean of sterile matter.»

It is how love works, when it is not a chilly matter of «rational approval» or a Kantian affair of willing the good — both of which, in my judgement, are so absurdly inadequate that they need no further comment.

«The most hopeful thought is that enough Americans have learned from this experience never again to entrust the presidency to a person of such reckless habits and suspect character,» he said after the Monica Lewinsky affair of 1998.

For the average Protestant, Christianity was less a political movement, an affair of the community and the state, and more a matter of individual experience and commitment than even at the height of the Reformation.

Is this affair of meanspirited, lawless men a chapter in our history the pages of which we as a free people must close ourselves?

Life, then as now, often seemed a helterskelter affair of pleasure and wretchedness befalling men with no discernible relation to their moral quality.

12:1 - 15) and later, the prophet Elijah boldly confronted King Ahab and charged him with murder in the affair of Naboth's vineyard (I Kings 21) Elijah and, still more his successor, Elisha, were involved in the revolution that led to the fall of the house of Omri to which Ahab belonged.

What may have kept interest in the subject alive and even provided an occasion for the composition of Shakespeare's play was the notorious affair of Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew who had served as physician to Queen Elizabeth.

If there was a man present who suffered from insomnia, perhaps he then went home and sat in a corner and thought: «It's an affair of a moment, this whole thing; if only you wait a minute, you see the ram, and the trial is over.»

The resurrection experience was essentially an affair of grace, not of human effortful achievement.

Religion, you expect to hear me conclude, is nothing but an affair of faith, based either on vague sentiment, or on that vivid sense of the reality of things unseen of which in my second lecture and in the lecture on Mysticism I gave so many examples.

Christianity is to such protesters an affair of the individual soul's salvation and nothing more.

Sports is an affair of spirit competing against spirit, expressed through the agencies of our bodies.

The affair of the Soho Masses has rumbled on for years now; and it has become one of the defining issues of the Catholic Church in England at the beginning of the new Millennium.

The affair of the Soho Masses has rumbled on for years now; and it has become one of the defining issues of the Catholic Church in England at the...

That, essentially, is what Christian faith is all about — it has a cosmic sweep and is not to be accepted as an affair of human importance only.

The affair of Ahab's house is one of many instances of this strict unity in which God holds men collectively, an exacting, terrible and unjust unity, and yet also a unity thanks to which we are saved.

I could appeal to memory, and question whether the love of art is finally a love of propositions, whether it is that much an affair of cognition.

But I can not help saying that if viewed from my side the affair of the Chinese wall is «extremely enigmatical.»

Far beyond individual retribution, however, the duty of vengeance was an affair of social solidarity.

One of the examples of harassment cited: «Unreasonable and / or repetitive expression of concerns with respect to the administration of the affairs of the condominium corporation.»

The ruling potentially gives corporate parents more responsibility for the affairs of their franchisees, including their organizing efforts.

It shouldn't be the Administrators investigating the affairs of this company, it should be the ACCC.

German politicians are expected to strike a serious tone and refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of European partners.

The financial affairs of numerous previously low - key unlisted or foreign - owned companies headquartered in Western Australia have been released by the Australian Taxation Office for the second year running.

«We intend to continue to do as well as we can in managing the internal affairs of the business.

In the case of the Conservatives they generally deliver on their promises — you get what you expect — and arguably provide value in their ability to manage the day - to - day affairs of government.

Before 2008, the affairs of public figures, chief executive officers, actors, and country music stars were closely regimented and controlled.

This past Tuesday I had the honour of being invited to testify before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of Canada's House of Commons.

«Employers big and small are going to have to reassess their relationships to attempt not to become entangled in the employment affairs of others,» he says.

«We don't interfere (in) the internal affairs of the United States, neither by my statements nor by electronic or other means.»

Her appointment would need to be approved by the US Senate, which has in the past objected to irregularities in the tax affairs of nominees and their partners.

In fact, you were instrumental in many of the major transactions and business affairs of many of the people in this room.

It was «published by the Commission for Cultural Affairs of the Islamic Emirate after a long rigorous research» on March 26.

The senator also stressed that a government - managed plan would simplify the financial affairs of both individuals and small - and medium - sized companies.

Fortune has learned that Redstone and his representatives (including Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, Sumner's longtime personal attorney) have been in discussions with Shari, his one - time heir apparent, and her lawyers about reducing her influence in the affairs of CBS and Viacom, where she sits on both boards as non-executive vice chairman.

For the majority, the affairs of state would have been a remote and separate sphere about which they were neither informed nor consulted.»

Mr. Andrew D. Lundquist is Senior Vice President - Government Affairs of the Company.

(B) where the corporation is not required to prepare audited accounts regularly, a balance - sheet of the corporation certified by the corporation as giving a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the corporation as of the date of the balance - sheet, which date shall be within the preceding 12 months;

Much like Paul, he was a strict constitutionalist, and believed that «devious government intervention in the economic affairs of the nation... [were] not contemplated by the men who wrote the constitution.»

This means that shareholders do not have to be involved in the daily affairs of running the company.

This would show that the Conservative government could be trusted to manage the fiscal affairs of the government better than any other political party.

But this might at least serve as a marker of how far we have to go to establish the legislature as an effective and responsible scrutinizer of the nation's business and the affairs of the state.

However, the Tea Party is less interested in interfering in the internal affairs of China than other elements of the population.

Furthermore, under the law in Delaware — legal home to more than half the Fortune 500 and the benchmark for corporate law — the right to manage the business and affairs of the corporation is vested in a board of directors elected by the shareholders; the board delegates that authority to corporate managers.