Sentences with phrase «as a witness when»

Though Barnum has achieved wealth and success through his hit circus act, the elite New York society, including his father - in - law, still does not accept him or his children, as he witnesses when Caroline's ballet classmates reject her friendship.

Similarly, as witnessed when Leonora interviewed Nasser Abufarha of Canaan Fair Trade (full disclosure: I work with Nasser and Canaan as a client of my day job), even using the term Palestine is considered by many Israelis and advocates for Israel to be a form of provocation.

Examples include: the other lawyer reports to you; you step in to act as a witness when documents are signed; you referred the client to the other lawyer, etc..

Not exact matches

I've witnessed many entrepreneurs who may not be described as having the highest levels of self - control, kick into full gear when they finally realize their vision and purpose.

Perhaps a person watched as half their 401 (k) plan savings vanished when the dot - com bubble burst, or witnessed their mother get fired unexpectedly.

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But the key factor for von Holzhausen is that as Tesla rolls out its Model 3 sedan, attacking the mass market, he's witnessing the return on his risky decision to join CEO Elon Musk back when Tesla was selling only one car, the original Roadster.

As Weinschenk witnessed herself when addressing a reluctant group of corporate trainees, this extra brain arousal translates to greater interest and engagement from the audience.

Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, has not been identified as a witness for prosecutors, her lawyer said when the trial began.

Conversely, when they go wrong, they go really wrong, as witnessed during this latest cycle.

After the injury occurs, it is important to take notes of the damage, when it happened, how it happened, as well as noting who witnessed the accident.

When a witness showed up to identify Nikolas Cruz face - to - face as the gunman who had just carried out a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the 19 - year - old heaved and vomited clear fluid, according to a police re

When you study success and failure for as many years as I have, seeing failure in motion is a painful thing to witness.

If the current momentum of TRX is maintained till then, we might witness a repeat performance of TRX in the markets as was witnessed on January 5th when it was valued at $ 0.2879.

He opines that when you witness episodes such as the «flash crashes» of recent years, it is highly probable you are observing the future.

You said, «Their anger may come from the fact that they do not like the idea that they might have to be accountable to a higher authority (God) when they die and our witnessing to them reminds them of this event that they have to look forward to unless they repent and accept Jesus as their Savior before they die» Make sure that you also accept Thor, Zeus, Ra, and tens of thousands of other gods ever invented by man.

All who were in the Bible spoke in and by the Holy Spirit in boldness when it came time for them to minister the Word, even as it is with me, also to bring forth my testimony as a witness: I can not fellowship with unbeliever's because all they do is cause division, and Christ is not divided: Therefore; remain as you are: This is the third time I have come to you, and you rejected me for the Word of God: Many did not even know that Jesus spoke the Word of God through Holy Spirit, so how is it that you are to know unless it be given to you to know: My God is Just and He is right, He knows the hearts of man are wicked and have turned from Him: Thank - you all, there are some that did get it: Thank - you Father in Jesus name Alexandria:

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

'' «If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, 13 and a man has intercourse with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is undetected, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act, 14 if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has not defiled herself, 15 the man shall then bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring as an offering for her one - tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, a reminder of iniquity.

As a special ed teacher, I have witnessed things like this before — when people with one disability or another find a way to transcend it, it is deeply humanizing.

The «liturgical circle» begins by observing and listening to what the church does and says when it gathers for worship as the primary witness to what Christians believe, moves on to theological reflection on the meaning of these data, and then proceeds to reform worship so as to express these meanings more effectively.

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

The subsequent centuries have witnessed endless conflict over the Christian cultus, but one element in the long development of Biblical experience and thought concerning fellowship with God has remained as the common and unifying gain of all — «Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret.»

But if the Christian does not bear witness to truth, he is just as hypocritical as his forefathers were when they used Christianity to justify commercial ventures or to support their social order.

Blake named God as Urizen or Satan at the very moment when he discovered the apocalyptic significance of the death of the Christian God — as witness his first prophetic poem, America.

We wonder whether something of what he learned as he witnessed the smoke rising from Sodom and Gomorrah may have prepared Abraham for his greatest trial, enabling him to respond without so much as a peep of protest about the suffering of the innocent when God asks him to become not just an accomplice in the death of Lot but an actual killer of his own beloved son.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

So he was astonished as a young man, new to the sophisticated imperial capital of Milan, to witness Bishop Ambrose reading silently: «When he read his eyes would travel across the pages and his mind would explore the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent.»

Why would Christ encourage others to suffer as he did for the sake of reaching out and helping the poor, the needy, and the sick of society and then «rescue» us when the world needs that witness the most?

I would argue that mission has always been conceived as witness to the Gospel across religious boundaries, and that mission is considered to have happened when an individual or group of one religion cross over into another religious domain with its message and promises.

And even when, in an appearance after the resurrection, he is represented by the author of the Acts of the Apostles as having referred to the outside world, it was as a provincial might, dividing the world into the immediate environs and everything that was elsewhere: «Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria — and unto the uttermost part of the earth» (Acts 1:8).

When, years later, I found Calvin declaring that every Christian experiences the inward witness of the Holy Spirit to the divine authority of Scripture, (2) I rejoiced to think that, without ever having heard a word on this subject, I had long known exactly what Calvin was talking about — as by God's mercy I still do.

It is an affirmation and not, as many conservative evangelicals have reflexively assumed, a questioning of biblical authority when the language of liberation and empowerment prove fruitful in understanding further dimensions of what salvation always meant according to the scriptural witness, even though we had not previously been pushed to see it that clearly.

Again, when he is proclaimed, he is proclaimed in the full integrity of his human life which from beginning to end, as the apostolic witness indicates, was an obedience in self - giving in response to the vocation given him by God.

When you see a black friend being pulled over by the police for no apparent reason, you serve as a real witness to this event, and you protest the action you see as unjust.

I hope I get to witness him when he falls to his knees as he faces Christ Jesus!

At a time when Israel is isolated and anti-Semitism is again on the march, and when so many other communities are under threat, Sir Martin's life is a reminder that defeat is not inevitable, that evil need not triumph, and that hope can still bear witness to what's sacred in this life — even as we await for God's perfect love and justice in the next.

But as expressions of the shalom for which we were created and to which we are to witness, these visions are what people of faith live out even when the world refuses such visions.

When witnesses to an event have given their testimony and been cross-examined — even repeatedly and in all courts of appeal — their role as witnesses is played out.

It is for this reason that I have a strong sympathy for the first act of reform by Ulrich Zwingli in 1522, when he bore witness as priest to the eating of sausages during Lent.

These violent events are in the Bible, and we do a great disservice to ourselves, to the church, to our witness in the world, and to future generations when we try to ignore such violence in Bible as if it never happened.

The good news is that when we, as the Church, cultivate a culture of compassion, mercy, and honesty, we have the opportunity to witness the transformation of lives in the name of our Savior.

Nor, did they believe these women when Jesus, having choosen them as the first witnesses of the resurrection, told them to proclaim the Good News to his frightened - male followers locked behind a door in the upper room.

When Evangelicals claim adultery as biblical grounds for divorce, they not only put words into Jesus's mouth that the Gospels do not record him as actually saying, but they mutilate the essence of the uniqueness of the Christian witness to marriage.

Yet whether it was the ecclesiastical or the civil authorities that opposed them by imprisonment, ejection, scourging, or death, or as often happened, a conjunction of the two when the crowd stirred up trouble, the book of Acts gives a remarkable picture of their steadfastness under opposition and attack.6 The gospel of salvation through Christ put iron in their souls, and nothing could daunt them in their witness to it.

In my personal experience I have not witnessed such a conversion where a strong educated man as Paul was completely turned when he wanted nothing to do with it.

It is that world to which Erik von Kuehnelt - Leddihn bore eloquent and faithful witness, especially as he helped us understand what happens when, in this world, it is forgotten.

In any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norm.

When reading a book written as a first person witness account of an event, one must take into account the prejudice and bias of the writer.

When applied to the witness of history, this means that interpretation can never be just a simple reproduction of history's being, «as it was.»