Sentences with phrase «as an alien because»

Finally, it seems fitting that Jesus would be recognized as an alien because he is not bound to one culture or region.

Ok, to all the people saying «it's only fun as marine» watch the tutorial videos and you'll see how to play as an alien because playing s an alien makes it a completely different game from being a marine.

Not exact matches

The government had argued before the Ninth Circuit that the TRO should apply only to lawful permanent residents, because as it stands it «covers aliens who can not assert cognizable liberty interests.»

Such an authority will necessarily be chaotic and tyrannical because the populations of the world certainly will resist it as its laws and regulations became increasingly alien and obnoxious.

Just like all the illegal aliens that you love to see breaking the law, they are hurting the same amount of people as are here illegally because they are taking jobs and receiving tax dollars as welfare.

Perhaps because he was forced to exist for so many centuries as an exile in alien religious worlds, the Jew has been prepared to live in faith in a Godless world, and therein to preserve the name of the Lord, even if that name must now be named as no - thing - ness.

because the Christian lives in the fully incarnate body of Christ, he acknowledges the totality of our experience as the consummation of the kenotic passion of the Word, and by giving himself to the Christ who is present to us he is liberated from the alien power of an emptied and darkened transcendence.

Interesting because to me these people are just as credible (or not) as a god believer... not a single shred of proof, nothing, nada except they all say they «feel» god in them, just as people who claim to have been abducted by aliens «feels» that it truly happened to them.

There is no salvation in telling men that Jesus is an «intruder» from another world, who has not really shared our condition because, as an alien, he is not in fact one of us.

An alien, an outsider who incurred the hate and fear of both the masses and the authorities, Jesus was executed because of who he was as much as for what he did.

Any theology that so widens the gulf between Jesus and other human beings as to suggest that he is an alien intruder into our human situation is to be rejected, not only because it is heretical but more importantly because it makes nonsense of the Gospel record and denies the dignity and reality of that life once lived among us.

Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.

such as gay folks lets say, because of some alien tells it to.

He was not much happier after 1978 as a member of Princeton's English Department, because the spirit of the times was alien to him.

More commonly and subtly, a mental disorder may so distort an individual's beliefs that he may think he is doing right when in fact an act is terribly wrong - as, for example, when a person has the delusion that his wife has literally turned into a zombie and that shooting her is the only way to protect himself from being eaten alive, or an inpatient attacks the attendants on his ward when they come to take him to an appointment because he believes they are alien beings sent to kill him.

7 [Because of your detestable disobedience] your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land — strangers devour it in your very presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.

Opposition to Voter ID laws in America can be seen as a left - wing attempt to disenfranchise right - wing voters because one of the major concerns is that alien (as in from a different country, not different planet) residents may be voting, and in America aliens generally support the Democratic party.

This led to a fundamental strategic change as the US and USSR accepted the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), which was, and is still, alien to the American historical strategic culture because it effectively embraces vulnerability.

Moya de Leon is now facing removal as an inadmissible alien because he left the country three times after he was convicted, despite the fact that he has been a lawful permanent resident for 22 years and was re-admitted to the United States after each trip outside the country.

«We think the nickel - phosphorus - iron grains formed pre-solar, because they are inside the matrix, and are unlikely to have been modified by shock such as collision with the Earth's atmosphere or surface, and also because their composition is so alien to our solar system,» he adds.

This is not a new phenomenon, as natural debris (dead wood, ash, etc.) have enabled species to move around for millions of years, but the movement of alien species on litter items is potentially a new problem, because of the proliferation of floating — mostly plastic — particles.

And because they are almost as cold as «gas giant» planets — Jupiter is about 150 K — studying them could offer a better handle on what the atmospheres of alien worlds look like.

Because ozone is largely dependent on the existence of organisms to form, Webb will look for it in alien atmospheres as a possible indicator of life.

Yet as Tarter famously put it, concluding that we must be alone, simply because we haven't heard aliens yet, is like scooping up a cup of seawater and deciding there are no fish in the oceans.

Just because certain groups of people were still living as nomads while the Ancient Egyptians were aligning Pyramids with celestial constellations doesn't means aliens had a hand in it.

Which is to say that the film's interpretation of apartheid may reflect most poorly on the film not because it's wrong but because it's intellectually lazy and, here's the real kicker, LESS INTERESTING than it would have been to show the aliens as not yet another oppressed minority (which has been done to death) but a mass suppressed by an elite group, made to feel like an «other» when, in fact, it's imprisoned in its own homeland.

Those people have either NEVER seen the movies (* cough * Game Informer's Ben Reeves * cough *) or rented it and played it for 5 minutes before giving up because they are wimps (when playing as an Alien, IT IS N'T THAT DISORIENTING!

Playing as an Alien is just great because you can cause the fear you were only minutes ago feeling as a Marine.

Stewart plays out the film as if it were a traditional «haunted house» film, but because we already know it is about alien life, we merely watch the characters go through predictable motions until the story catches up with what we already surmise, and the only things keeping viewers reeled in are basic questions such as, «why are they doing this?»

In this case, it's because aliens have misread a video feed of classic arcade games as an act of aggression, and send their own versions of Donkey Kong, Pac - Man, and others to destroy the puny Earthlings.

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The movie takes place a couple of years after the end of 2011's «Transformers: Dark of the Moon,» but there have been some changes made; despite the alien - robot - truck - thingies having saved the world, the U.S. government is now against all bots because they wrecked Chicago in the process, so now we've got Kelsey Grammer as a secretive C.I.A. powerhouse doing a purge on all Transformers — OR IS HE?

This one just so happens to do so because of an alien invasion as opposed to a drunken argument.

Going into Area X is so horrible because the earth itself is horrible, the churning moment - to - moment experience of being is truly disturbing, and so any alien trying to replicate that will necessarily be so as well.

This is saying something because aliens terrify me, I'm even afraid of E.T. Still, the lack of violence or gore shouldn't limit the level of horror as a good film should be able to create a fear of the unknowable.

It's beside the point to reveal whether or not we actually see any aliens in Signs because their alleged existence stands as a metaphor for a different kind of alienation, just as the title refers to a religious manifestation rather than the crop circles.

As filmmakers, critics and the general public have pointed out time and time again, Ridley Scott's Alien worked so well because we rarely, if ever, saw the entire creature.

If «Superman» is low on this list, that has to be because most of our voters don't really view it as science fiction: sure, it kicks off with the destruction of an alien planet, but the superhero movie has now become its own genre, largely divorced from those that bore it.

I'm going to write that sentence again, if I may, because it is a reality I find only slightly less confounding than I would the arrival on this planet of actual alien robots inclined to disguise themselves as backhoes and eighteen - wheelers: The new Transformers movie is two - and - a-half hours long.

Because in the middle of the first half, where Morton's a fish out of water but not having that experience (he's being treated as a human in need, not a marooned space alien), Sayles reveals Morton's on the run.

That's because ten - year - old me was obsessed with a 1989 show on Fox called Alien Nation, which was based on the film of the same name starring James Caan as a racist cop and Mandy Patinkin as his alien parAlien Nation, which was based on the film of the same name starring James Caan as a racist cop and Mandy Patinkin as his alien paralien partner.

I'm not as big on alien invasion films as I am on time travel films, but that's okay, because this is far from your typical alien invasion film, focusing on a quartet of characters left behind the evacuation when an alien ship appears.

Because Ah - nuld was busy making Total Recall, Danny Glover is cast as the maverick cop who defies a government goon (Gary Busey) to curtail the alien's inner - city killing spree.

The reason why the «Fifties The Day the Earth Stood Still is so fondly remembered nowadays is because it was probably one of two science fiction movies from that entire decade that didn't have an alien invasion (read: Red Scare paranoia) as its main theme.

Your visa status can help determine your filing status because certain visa categories must be treated as nonresident aliens for a specific period of time.

Not only can you file as a resident — you must file as a resident, because you are a resident alien for tax purposes for all of 2014.

As a final insult, the only way the game's storyline actually links to the film's plot is because it has ships and aliens in it.

Similar to this generation in gaming, Alien only got better through new releases, but because Gameboy was a hand - held gaming device the expectations were not as high as they are now.

The game starts with a future you telling you to come with you because there is «No Time to Explain» and then boom — you take control as your future self gets abducted by a giant crab alien!