It's hard to root
against Death when the people involved are never brought to life in the first place.
We should «never abandon care» — and such abandonment can come either through hastening death, or through struggling daily
against death when its time has come, a struggle that will deflect us from giving the care really needed at that point.
Not exact matches
When Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine roadside stop in Minneapolis, and his
death was filmed by his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds as her daughter sat in the back seat, the footage helped galvanize protests about police violence
against blacks in the U.S.
Wheeler's decision to stick with the voluntary protocol by stepping down
when a new president is elected likely spells a quick
death for his major communications policies, including net neutrality rules that prohibit discrimination
against Internet sites and services.
Back in the late 80's
when he converted to Islam, he publicly (on several interview shows) endorsed Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa and
death sentence
against Salman Rushdie.
In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven
when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to
death in this world as we war
against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).
So,
when Moses comes into prophetic power over Egypt, God is shown to be exacting revenge
against Egypt by putting to
death all the firstborn sons of Egypt.
Remember
when Jesus went
against the law of Moses and picked a prost!tute off the ground and protected her from being stoned to
death?
My old friend Peter J. Leithart joins Tony Montanaro, Gary Inbinder, and Kelley Vincent to argue» each for different reasons»
against my worries about the implicit claims of authority made
when modern democratic states employ the
death penalty.
When the rebel blasphemes
against the «old god» who sanctions the established order ruled over by
death, it is to make God share «in the same humiliating adventure as mankind's» (Rb 24).
It's thinking the
deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray are just «isolated incidents»
when every statistic and study under the sun suggests the justice system is rigged
against black men.
True Christians were not permitted to serve in the military or otherwise participate in war or even commit violent acts until the concept of the «just war» — fighting only
when doing so was required to protect the innocent
against an aggressor — was developed hundreds of years after the
death of Christ.
Even
when it's a matter of life and
death, our laws do not compel someone to do something with her body
against her will without infringing on the rights guaranteed by the Const i tuition.
He testified to the court of his great anguish in having to do things in the «interests of the community»
when confronted by the «hard necessity» of finding ways to protect the population
against death and epidemics.
When the life and
death of Jesus are viewed
against the background of this hope (and this is part, at least, of what the apostles did after the
death of Jesus) those who have felt the attraction of what Jesus said and did are led to the conviction that the judgment of God is already clear.
Yes, and one of the reasons it has is because its most committed believers, while refusing to conform to the world's ways, have just as strongly refused to run away from evangelizing it» and this, even
when faced with persecution or
death, and
when the odds seemed overwhelmingly
against them.
That number one evolutionary rule of survival is «
When Death is at your doorstep and has chained you to the walls without seeing the light of Creation or that which can be created then the human must fight
against Death and invent new ways of defeating
Death and his minions.»
a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan,
death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed
against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah
when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.
This was a violation of something very sacred in the minds of the people; so it is little to be wondered at that soon after his own early
death a reaction
against the reform developed, and that finally his own name and the name of the god Aton, whose name he had incorporated in his own
when he had it changed from Amen - hotep to Akhnaton, were likewise erased from public monuments.
We read of Indonesian school girls targeted and beheaded simply because they were Christians; of Nigerian Christian men forced to chose between conversion to Islam or
death, and of their wives and children forced to chose between conversion or perpetual slavery; of Pakistani Christians being burned alive in their homes; of Coptic Christians in Egypt and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq being fire - bombed, maimed and killed» and
when not killed, hounded into exile; of «religious apartheid» and executions in Iran; and of unspeakable atrocities
against Christians in the Sudan, the «scene of suffering as abhorrent as anywhere on any continent.»
Abdullah Ibn Amru Ibn Alaas narrated that Prophet Muhammad said: «
When the
death of the Messenger of Allah Noah approached, he admonished his sons: «Indeed I would give you far - reaching advice, commanding you to do two things, and warning you
against doing two as well.
As far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying
death -
when they could have stood by Him, defending Him
against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!
Significantly enough, the Lima Document,
when it talks about participation in the mystery of Jesus's life,
death and resurrection, refers to Jesus» own baptism which meant solidarity with «sinners `, immersion in the culture of the despised masses as
against the culture of the priests, scribes, the rich and the pharisees.
I get the feeling that
when you are facing
death you will be as earnest in finding religion as you are now
against it.
In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven
when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to
death in this world as we war
against others (Ephesians 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Ephesians 2:11 - 22).
Mary flees from the crucifixion before it's over; she wields a kitchen knife
against the disciples
when they try to force her to agree to their version of Christ's
death and resurrection; she has no faith whatsoever in Christianity or Judaism but finds consolation in worshiping the many - breasted Greek goddess Artemis; her vision of the afterlife is more accurately a vision of a twenty - first - century urban farmers» market: «a city... filled with plenty, a marketplace laden with fish and fowl and the fruits of the earth.»
The presence of God in the sanctuary establishes a relationship
against which
death can not prevail; hence it is logical that
when notions of a beatific afterlife eventually begin to develop, they should take a liturgical shape.
But the strongest argument
against Christianity is also Christians —
when they are somber and joyless,
when they are self - righteous and smug in complacent consecration,
when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand
deaths.»
Hence there were elaborately detailed laws «declared
against what Crimes soeurer, whether
against the diuine Maiesty of God, or our soueraigne, and Liege Lord, King James» with the threat of
death for anyone who «shall willingly absent himselfe,
when hee is summoned to take the oath of Supremacy.
The hard part is, obviously,
when the threat's
against your own players,
death threats to your families, you know, the ill will that's brought upon out there.
Shanahan's take, not in his words but paraphrased: Here's a guy who was shot by his father
when he was 16 months old, who didn't have a home in high school, who just found places to stay at night, who had
death threats
against him after his college process, and now, he's got his life together enough to be great at football, he's a great teammate, he lights up the room
when he walks in...
It's a widely known fact like never get into a land battle in Asia, or don't bet
against a Sicilian
when death is on the line!
When he realises what he's up
against he immediately backs down, and is clearly shaken up by his brush with
death.
Platini called to mind his own personal experience, having been a player with Juventus
when crowd trouble before the 1985 Champions Cup Final
against Liverpool at the Heysel stadium in Brussels led to the
deaths of 39 people.
She also instinctively bends her legs completing the protective space around the baby, making it impossible for another person to roll onto the baby without first coming into contact with her legs.15, 16 A breastfeeding mother who co-sleeps with her baby (and has not consumed alcohol, illegal or sleep - inducing drugs or extreme fatigue) also tends to be highly responsive to her baby's needs.17, 18 Studies show more frequent arousals in both mothers and babies
when they co-sleep, and some researchers have suggested that this may be protective
against sudden unexpected infant
deaths.19 — 21 Babies are checked by their mother and breastfeed more frequently
when co-sleeping than
when room - sharing.22, 23
Dr Amy you do make good counterarguments
against some of the misinfo that is out there probably, but I think the Wikipedia article is probably also well researched (I tend to trust their review process
when it is not life or
death for me, and many doctors contributed, presumably with good reputations).
Of course both would look insignificant
when graphed
against overall
deaths similarly to your image.
Buster Brown, thanks for a great comment, I too think that
when a homicidal terrorist type is put to
death and is no longer a threat, their burial is a good time to show the society they committed their reprehensible acts in is and
against, is indeed is civilized and capable of respecting the dead; all the dead no matter how odious their acts in life might have been.
UTICA, N.Y. (AP)-- The family of a race car driver fatally injured
when struck by Tony Stewart's sprint car has apparently reached a settlement in its wrongful
death lawsuit
against the former NASCAR star.
The claim stated that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo and others caused Garner's
death when they placed him in a chokehold, which is
against departmental procedure, while trying to place him under arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes on July 17, 2014.
After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the
death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges
against them
when they run afoul of the law.
WALL STREET JOURNAL: «John Liu Files Federal Lawsuit
Against Campaign Finance Board» - 3/12/2014 EXCERPT — According to the lawsuit, which Mr. Liu announced at a news conference on Wednesday, the board delivered his campaign a «
death sentence»
when it decided in August not to give him any matching funds.
Liberals and progressives scoffed
when Cuomo compared his father's then unpopular stand
against the
death penatly to his opposition to keeping a surcharge on those making $ 250,000 or more.
When a Staten Island grand jury refused to return a criminal indictment of an officer in the
death of Eric Garner, she issued a press release declaring «the use of excessive and lethal force
against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide.»
The Times Union reported last year that Abelove, who personally presented the case to the grand jury that cleared French, did not require the officer to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver
when the officer testified before the grand jury that cleared him — a highly unusual move that makes it virtually impossible for any prosecutor to pursue potential future charges
against French for conduct surrounding Thevenin's
death.
When Angela Eagle announced she was intending to stand
against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership campaign she faced
death threats and a brick was thrown through her office window.
When Cuomo, a devout Catholic, spoke at the University of Notre Dame, he set the model for progressive Democrats who championed assistance for the poor and might oppose the
death penalty but rejected the Catholic church's rigid position
against abortion.
Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has waved aside reports that about 105 soldiers prosecuting the war
against book haram terrorists met their untimely
death when they failed to return after an offensive to annihilate...
Anna Morris of Syracuse says she was angry and hurt
when she heard there would be no charges filed
against the police officer involved in the chokehold
death of Eric Garner in New York City.
When Varghese inquired whether he celebrated Halloran's arrest last spring with a trip to a private island in Key West, Moses said his brother financed it because of safety concerns, particularly
death threats lodged
against his children.