Sentences with phrase «as a stand in»

Matt provided us with a brief history of the ASPCA as we stood in the section of the facility that handles spaying and neutering animals.

That's what I was thinking on Thursday as I stood in the cold and rain for two and a half hours waiting for our Prime Minister to arrive at City Hall.

For all this, fans gave him the nickname «Bitcoin Jesus», a Biblical charge that seems to hold as much significance now, even as his standing in the community has changed.

I was managing pension fund equities in 1987 and I will always vividly remember Black Monday, as I stood in the trading room, reading the DJ news wire, and my trader said she was seeing NO bids at the opening bell, and over a third of the S&P 500 stocks were not even trading at 10:30 while other stocks were off 20 % + with bid - ask spreads as large as the Grand Canyon.

Remember this as you stand in line at Starbucks or Tim Hortons.

He also did not apologize for the comment as he stood in the Rose Garden alongside...

They thought about the family al - Kasasbeh had come from and the wife he left behind; they wondered why he had joined the Air Force, how he had trained, what he thought as he stood in a cage and saw a man holding a can of gasoline.

I closed my eyes as I stood in the throes of the Current Events section, passed the new book on the Rwandan genocide and sighed.

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

All of us, Lord, from the moment we are born feel within us this disturbing mixture of remoteness and nearness; and in our heritage of sorrow and hope, passed down to us though the ages, there is no yearning more desolate than that which makes us weep with vexation and desire as we stand in the midst of the Presence which hovers about us nameless and impalpable and is indwelling in all things.

He can thus be regarded as standing in the line of that Aristotelian tradition that attempts to think of «form» — yes, even «form» in its relation to «matter» that it informs — simultaneously as «spirit.»

Whereas Marx found God as standing in the way of human freedom and autonomy, a barrier to human emancipation, Bonhoeffer believed that God granted human freedom and autonomy by making Jesus the point of disclosure for His transcendence.

Chris, however, sees belief in papal authority as standing in direct contradiction to the doctrine of sola scriptura — the Bible alone being the infallible guide for faith and doctrine.

The saying as it stands in Luke serves a function in terms of the evangelist's theology, and especially in terms of his eschatology.

As it stands in Thomas, the parable teaches the gnostic conception `... that most men have no idea what treasure they have within themselves and so not everyone finds the treasure hid in his field — discovers the divine self within.»

OUR society tells us that it is not moral to allow someone else to act as a stand in for a crime.

Reading the bible and going to church makes you a Christian as much as standing in a garage makes you a car.

That paradox challenges me as I think about this Sunday morning, and what I will preach to my congregation as I stand in the pulpit of my Lexington church.

The strong points of the book are, first and foremost, that it centers on the Cross of Christ as God's means of reconciling us to Himself even as it stands in judgment over our grasping domination of others.

They do this as they stand in the doorway of equality to deny me my rights as an American.

I found myself playing a small part in Omega's pageant last Easter season as I stood in a dressing room of my college's Newman Center, tossed aside my Baylor (Baptist) sweat shirt, and was fitted with rabbinical robes so that I could act as «father» for a Passover Seder meal.

This achievement alone is pregnant with enormous meaning and interest for philosophy and theology; and, in this regard, we must view Hartshorne as standing in the same tradition with Aristotle, Aquinas, Spinoza, Hegel, and Whitehead.

Whereas Marx found God as standing in the way of man's freedom and autonomy, a barrier to human emancipation, Bonhoeffer believed that God granted freedom and autonomy for man by making Jesus the point of disclosure for His transcendence.

So, any idea that the revelation of Jesus is complete as it stands in the Bible does not take into account what Jesus himself believed.

To this question we now turn in an analysis of human society as it stands in relation to the Kingdom of God.

If the total coincidence of transcendence and immanence is vision, and not structure of existence, then the traditional styles of faith and practices of faith may still have possible meaning, even though they are seen to be penultimate; and then the radical theologian can be understood as standing in a spectrum of theological positions and not in isolation.

Muhammad had something very important to say that day as they stood in the hot midday sun.

Third, when we say that a wrong act is a sin, even if we do not conceive of God as standing in judgment we are still pointing out that there is another dimension involved in our choices between right and wrong.

Although it seems to me unlikely that Jesus could have thought of himself as actually being the heavenly Son of Man, it does seem clear that he regarded himself as sustaining a connection of peculiar responsibility with the coming Judgment and as standing in some close relation with the advent of the Son of Man.

This mixed reality holds true for those seated in the sanctuary as well as those standing in the nave.

This principle, which views the real subject of the self - experience as standing in real relationships to a real object world, emphasizes again that the self - experience as experience of interaction is correct.

Take as examples the following three short passages, as they stand in the Revised Standard Version.

The wind buffets me as I stand in the tower's parapet.

As I stand in awe at the emergence of a self, a person, I see a birth process in which I had had an important and facilitative part.

The essential relationship in the Covenant community is God - man - man, or man - God - man, which is simply to say again that men stand in relationship to one another only as both stand in immediate relationship to God.

It is useful, I think, to look at secularization in the same way — as standing in ongoing interaction with countersecularizing forces.

The key question facing Protestants, he once wrote, is «whether the original Catholic doctrine concerning the Church, as it stood in universal authority through all ages before the Reformation, is to be received and held still as a necessary part of the Christian faith, or deliberately rejected and refused as an error dangerous to men's souls at war with the Bible?»

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

As I stood in the kitchen last Saturday, wearing Ohio State sweatpants and an Ohio State t - shirt, rolling peanut butter balls and dipping them ever so carefully in chocolate, I contemplated just what to write for a buckeye post during a football boycott.

Yesterday as I stood in the kitchen trying to figure out what to make for dinner I wondered to myself, how do those people do it on those shows where they are given random ingredients and are suppose come up with something genius.

Sweet, thick, spicy, it's delicious spread on a warm biscuit, in a PB&J sandwich, used in baking, or just from a spoon as you stand in front of the fridge This is a wonderful way to use some of Autumns best apples.

Better Than Takeout Orange Chicken - StumbleUpon Yesterday as I stood in the kitchen trying to figure out what to make for dinner I wondered to myself, how do those people do it on those shows where they are given random ingredients and are suppose come up with something genius.

After Carrie moves in with Aidan she talks with her friends about the loss of her alone time, aka the loss of time for her secret single behaviors, such as standing in the kitchen reading fashion magazines while eating a tower of saltines with grape jelly.

Cauliflower as a stand in for potatoes?

As I stood in my kitchen baking this practice cake, I couldn't help but picture my grandma's kitchen — as if I was baking with her.

The tempeh is the important part of this sandwich, as it stands in for turkey, which has for years stood in the way of me being able to partake in an Thanksgiving leftover sandwich.

Sweet Potato Adzuki Bean Burger — Here's a burger that uses adzuki beans and sweet potatoes as stand ins for the meat, and multi-grain buns to hold it with.

As we stood in the kitchen discussing how many units of insulin he should calculate for the food he ate, we come to the conclusion that he should take 5 units.

And I may or may not have done a little dance as I stood in my kitchen, smothered one of these biscuits with blood orange cardamom jam and stuffed it into my face.

I also threw in some chard, to flavor and healthy things up a bit, and also to add some variety as a stand in for collards, which I understand are another optional ingredient in more traditional versions.