Sentences with phrase «as a sacrifice in»

While, from a pagan perspective, the crucifixion itself could be viewed as a sacrifice in the most proper sense — destruction of the agent of social instability for the sake of peace, which is always a profitable exchange — Christ's life of charity, service, forgiveness, and righteous judgment could not; indeed, it would have to seem the very opposite of sacrifice, an economic and indiscriminate inversion of rank and order.

Jesus was the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek» — the High Priest who fulfilled and therefore abolished the whole sacrificial cult when he offered his own blood as a sacrifice in the heavenly sanctuary.

The goddess then asked him to bring people who are very close to him as a sacrifice in exchange for his life.

Some of those animals end up as sacrifices in religious or sadistic rituals.

After Gamma breaks away it becomes clear that he has not only developed some sort of independent thought, but also some emotions as he sacrifices himself in order to save a family of birds.

Not exact matches

That likely reassured investors who watched Walmart sacrifice profits for a couple of years as it gave workers raises and invested heavily in e-commerce to better compete online and in stores.

He was willing to sacrifice so many things in his life in order to, as he would say, put a dent in the universe,» Sculley remembers.

Using the motivation that I had developed as an immigrant, I was willing to sacrifice in the short term, to gain experience and opportunity to propel me into my career.

Still, Gaudet notes that to truly make it work as an entrepreneur or business owner in Turkey, you might need to sacrifice some of your independence.

-- of the same problems as working mothers do, in particular worrying that they're sacrificing too much family time for work:

Right from the beginning, set things up so group members see the manager as leading from the front, sharing in their uncertainties and sacrifices.

A recent Vancouver Sun story quotes Fred Green, CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway, as saying that he won't sacrifice safety in pursuit of profits.

According to the study, millennial parents are most likely to report having made sacrifices to increase their savings, including cutting back in big spending areas such as dining out, vacations, and entertainment.

If you don't feel as if you're investing for the future, it's hard to get fired up about sacrificing in the present.

Though people liked to portray themselves as making sacrifices for their business, they weren't, in fact, helping anybody by not taking vacations.

They profoundly believed in what some would quaintly regard today as traditional business virtues — hard work, sacrifice, loyalty, honesty, and humility.

There are thousands of servicemembers who identify as transgender in our military and they have all made sacrifices to protect our national security.

Many had to leave their homes, schools, significant others and higher - paying jobs, but I took their sacrifices as a vote of confidence in our team and what we were creating.

So awesome, in fact, that Brunelle says he has «no complaints and no regrets» after six months as an Office Nomads full - timer — even though it's meant sacrificing those pajamas - and - Xbox afternoons.

Researchers at Pew argue that the recent decrease in birthrate has as much to do with the Great Recession in 2008 as it does with the increase of women who are not willing to sacrifice their careers for family.

We are also driving capital efficiency without sacrificing the future as evidenced by our significant reduction in CapEx ahead of the Model 3 push.

While aiming for a high credit score is a worthy goal, sometimes a lower credit score in the short term as a result of consolidating debt may be worth the sacrifice to save money on interest payments and pay off your debt faster.

- At the same time, both Iran and Iraq must make sacrifices for Saudi Arabia to accept the deal, Iran takes opposite view, insisting Saudi should cut more, as it boosted output most in recent years: oil producers that raised output in past years while Iran was subject to sanctions «will have to shoulder a bigger share of the output drop and accept more responsibility»: oil minister Bijan Zanganeh

By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare as well as making some sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.

So, as far as I can see, essentially the same outcome as the double - credits achieves, both in terms of revenue for Shell and cost to the CCEMF could have been achieved with a $ 15 per - ton - sequestered payment from the CCEMC without sacrificing the integrity of emissions reduction accounting within the offset program.

This might be too much of a sacrifice for the true - blue coffee lover, but if you could go either way, keep in mind that a cup of tea brewed at home can cost as little as four cents per cup, compared to 12 - 43 cents for less - than - fancy home - brewed coffee, according to Living Stingy.

CCA directed me to a 2013 report — funded in part by the company and GEO — that claimed private prisons could save states as much as 59 percent over public prisons without sacrificing quality.

But, as an Austrian economist I am going to be fascinated to watch how a digital version of the new economy evolves in an environment where property rights and consumer sovereignty are maintained versus sacrificed on the altar of liquidity.

II § 5, Mill described rent - yielding properties as enabling their holders to demand payment from society «without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners... Landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.

This movement witnessed many sacrifices; some labour activists even lost their lives as a result, in order to obtain justice for all workers.

Germany is widely regarded as the safe haven for capital in continental Europe, and in the risk - off climate many investors are willing to sacrifice some yield for lower risk.

Such sacrifices include money spent on fulltime childcare and viewing it as an investment in the earning potential of her career over the long term, compared to leaving then returning to the workforce.

As Thay remarked, «The monk who burns himself has lost neither courage nor hope... he believes in the fruition of his act of self - sacrifice for the sake of others.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

But that sacrifice is worth it, says Egan, in case of economic shocks, such as market volatility spikes, or a U.S. dollar plunge.

Besides saving students thousands off of their cumulative student debt burden, this payment strategy sets the stage for future personal finance skills — such as budgeting, and making small sacrifices in the present that will bring big rewards in the future.

As taxes and costs rise, promised green jobs fail to materialize, and few others in the world make these sacrifices, Canadians may soon start demanding a new approach that puts affordability on par with sustainability — and political accountability.

The Althing's proposal spells this out in clear legal terms as an alternative to the neoliberal idea that economies must pay willy - nilly (as Keynes would say), sacrificing their future and driving their population to emigrate in what turns out to be a vain attempt to pay debts that, in the end, can't be paid but merely leave debtor economies hopelessly dependent on their creditors.

As more and more small businesses speak out about how the HST will hit their bottom line, the B.C. Liberal government seems ready to sacrifice the industry in order to protect the premier for betraying British Columbians after the election.

Virtues such as tolerance, love, non-violence, self - sacrifice and humility are held in high esteem and considered to be characteristics of «holy men» known as Sadhu.

It does not mean settling for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to make the ultimate sacrifice of putting themselves in harm's way for others, are thinking about themselves as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.

Mormons do believe in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ as the only way to receive remission of sins.

«lhe Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that «There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.»

Altruism for her is not «the practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others,» as given in most dictionaries, but the sacrifice of a higher value for a lower (for instance, helping a stranger instead of a family member).

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

This can be verified in Jerimiah 7:21, as well as by noting that G - d reduced access to sacrifices all through the entire Tanach; originally each man was a priest in his own home, offering sacrifices whenever and wherever (Cain, Abel, Abraham), but at Mt. Sinai it was reduced to a single place (the tabernacle / temple) and to assigned priests; this was fine for 40 years of wandering, but as soon as they entered «the promised land», the tabernacle traveled with the army, and those left behind as settlers in the new land had no more access to it.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you accept a blood sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree: makes perfect sense

$ 17.95 Originally published in 1950, this classic work reviews and analyzes a wealth of Jewish sources, as the book's subtitle indicates, «On the Legends and Lore of the Command to Abraham to Offer Isaac as a Sacrifice: The Akedah.»

Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.