Sentences with phrase «as last»

One faculty member of a school supposedly in Lindsell's camp described his book to me as the last irrational flailings of a discredited party about to be deposed.

The estrangement of Vanderbilt from the church required two antipathetic forces: an oppressively uncomprehending atmosphere among church officers, and an administrator decisive and deft enough to remove them as the last obstacles to his pursuit of excellence for the college or university.

He could be seen as the last embodiment of a progressive version of Christianity that went obsolete.

When no cure is possible, the weak minded may turn to a god as a last resort for healing or just solace.

He used it in the case of the California grape - pickers «boycott as a last resort, after every other approach, including recourse to the courts, had failed.

Further, as the last sentence makes clear, the author is pointing out that President Obama, and others whose Christian beliefs are more akin to his might «resurrect a dying brand of Christianity for a new generation.»

The use of violence as a last resort is justified.

He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way» is NOT the Holy Spirit through believers hindering him from comming till they be taken away in the «rapture»... It is The Holy Spirit Himself who is restraining satan from comming ahead of God's appointed time for him to come, because satan has done it thru many attempts in past history, even as his last of the attempt was through Hitler, desiring to establish his kingdom on earth.

For those whose memories of St. John Paul reach back only as far as his last years, Liberating a Continent is also a powerful reminder of what a handsome, charismatic, and utterly compelling man John Paul II was at the height of his physical powers.

And as early as last night, even before his concession speech, the Fox pundits turned on Mitt Romney.

On the other hand, they have not made the case for viewing suffering, rather than death, as the last enemy.

We use prayer as a last resort because, in our heart of hearts, we fear that prayer is no real choice at all.

The identification of death as the last enemy by Paul in I Corinthians 15 reflects the view that man has fallen into the hands of powers which must be broken by God's power.

Certainly the Christian life which the Church has to mediate is not a ghetto - like idyll carefully safeguarded and cultivated in the margin of the rest of life, solely in the gentle inwardness of conscience or in the respectable Sunday churchgoing of a family seen as the last oasis in the omnipotence of a pitiless new age.

The numerous followers of Yogi Bhajan see the present as the last degenerate stage of a 2,000 - year - old Piscean Age, into which the new Aquarian Age is about to dawn.

This is the old faith, just as the last problems of our life remain the old ones: that we should become loving and unselfish, that we should bear the darknesses of existence, that we should finally come to terms with death, that we should do our duty also when we can expect no earthly reward, that we should follow our crucified Lord and Saviour.

The theological role of the Bible is controversial in many Quaker circles, especially since Quakerism acts as a last desperate handhold for many Christians who feel abused by Biblical literalism and fundamentalism.

In closing, I will straighten you out as far as the last sentence in your ridiculous post..

I felt like God didn't care about me and even told him it was his fault that I had to turn to the sex industry as a last resort.

Who is ready to say that as the last of all resorts the Iranian nuclear effort must be destroyed by force before it comes to term?

If a person is violent and / or adamantly refuses to accept help, it may be necessary for the family to call the police who will transport him to a public psychiatric ward (in a county hospital) or to a mental hospital for observation, This is the least desirable method of getting the person to treatment, but it sometimes becomes necessary as a last resort.

Certainly, Pope Leo XIII's great encyclical, Rerum novarum, was pretty clear, at one point arguing that the government should come to the aid of families only as a last resort: «True, if a family finds itself in exceeding distress, utterly deprived of the counsel of friends, and without any prospect of extricating itself, it is right that extreme necessity be met by public aid...».

Thus he understood and proclaimed his hour as the last hour.

He «connects the hope of salvation with his person to the extent that he sees the kingdom effective in his deeds and understands his preaching as the last word of God before the end.»

Such political action may require in some times and places as a last resort the legitimation of violence.

Finally, as a last resort before suicide, she decided to try AA.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

John Montague regarded Patrick Kavanagh as the last voice of an Ireland dominated by Yeats, the final unstable echo of a country half - in - love with its own provincialism.

Nobo challenges my interpretation of the chapter on «Process» (II.10) as the last of the Giffords according to Whitehead's original intention.

The list contains the same names as last year: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Will black churchgoers be as loyal to Obama as last time?

Those born into slavery stayed there, and those born into poverty stayed there and often had to surrender their «freedom» to survive as the last resort.

The beauty and majesty of the cross is that just when Satan thought he had won his greatest victory, it is exactly then, as the last breath escaped from the lips of Jesus, that Satan realized to his complete horror what he had done.

Your approval isn't required, as last time I checked, you weren't the CEO of CNN or the thread nanny of this blog»

Gore immediately deferred to the court's decision — and liberals thereby reaped the consequence of having established the court as the last word on so many major questions.

The fact is the same as last time we exchanged post here, your statements are so extremist that they much be challenged and put down like a rabid animal.

Finally, as a last resort, it would picket, boycott, obstruct and paralyze unjust political and economic structures.

I asked if there was an instance where murder was used as a last resort.

As far as your last paragraph, claim also isn't «I can convert / save people for God» but «I'm choosing to take serious his command to be His hands and feet, to respond to the Great Commission.

Canada's new rules suggest shooting as a last resort.

On a busy Sunday the air is especially torn by discord, with different liturgical languages competing for the loudest as well as the last word.

It is billed as the last refuge of frustrated individuals everywhere — who, like Hobbes» individual, are not inventions.

Yet I wouldn't go around to nursing homes in an effort to crush the faith that dying old people cling to as the last thing they have.

A Christian convert Constantine made Sunday — the Christian Sabbath — the first day of the week, and Saturday — the Jewish day of rest — as the last.

How could they then not see or fail to deliver a prophecy of such an important event as the Last Supper or Foot Washing rite?

And also, if the OT prophets were so good, how is it that such a commonplace prophecy, like Jesus's entry to Jerusalem on donkey takes prophetic priority over such major events as the Last Supper or the Foot Washing scene, an event that at least one commentary listed as one of the most important symbolic gestures ever made by Jesus.

Preaching to the zealous choir, Ms. Streisand presented herself as the last liberal: a woman on the side of the angels and George McGovern against the dark forces of Hitler, Stalin, and Newt Gingrich.

Drop the rhetorical bombs and launch the satire missiles only as a last resort.

My father said «I love you» as his last words, 12 hours before he passed....

War is a ghastly and terrible business and should only be undertaken as a last resort.»