Sentences with phrase «as life sentences»

Fortunately, it's a great song, so as life sentences go, you could do worse.

But what if instead of feeling like a castle, your home felt more like a prison with your mortgage as a life sentence?

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According to the regulator, the article (which has since been removed) also included a live feed from Dylon's Facebook page, as well as a sentence at the end that said «It's at times like these we are thankful that Dylon Colour Catcher is there to save us.»

They're checking off the days on their calendars until they can retire and treating their work life as if it were some sort of criminal sentence.

He was sentenced to life in prison last month, though federal guidelines stated he could have served as few as twenty years.

A day after her sentencing, Manning announced that she wanted to live as a woman and asked to be identified as Chelsea instead of Bradley.

It came crashing down hard on Friday as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to serve the rest of his life in prison, following his earlier conviction on seven charges related to conspiracy, narcotics and money - laundering.

WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.

Antiretroviral therapy has turned HIV from a death sentence into a manageable condition but patients need to stay on the treatment for life, so there is a growing focus on making medication as convenient and well - tolerated as possible.

American woman sentenced to life in prison for Valentine's Day shooting plot involving Halifax mall, CBC News Marijuana activists say lots left to fight for as they mark 4 - 20, Globe and Mail

People go into rest - and - vest mode, living out their days at Facebook as a sentence not an opportunity.

Daniels went on to clarify that she believed there would be legal repercussions if she didn't sign the statement, saying: «As a matter of fact, the exact sentence used was, «They can make your life hell in many different ways».»

As biotech companies pour billions into life extension technologies, some have suggested that our cruelest criminals could be kept alive indefinitely, to serve sentences spanning millennia or longer.

I just finished reading a Henri Nouwen book «Wounded Healer» and the following sentence just resonated with me: `... the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his».

California, leading the Gadarene rush over the cliff as usual, now provides state - funded «sex - reassignment surgery» to prisoners; the first recipient of this «benefit» was Shiloh Heavenly Quine, a first - degree murderer / kidnapper serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.

I dream of a movement of biblical Christians who even as they are carted off to jail will express Christlike tenderness to policemen, who even as they are sentenced will explain Jesus» way of love and justice to incredulous judges, who will even dare to risk their own lives in order to release the captives and free the oppressed.

as long as they don't commit crimes, they should be allowed to live among us... those that do should be sentenced as any sane person would be.

(CNN)- As he begins serving a life sentence in the Texas State Prison system, Warren Jeffs still maintains titular control over his estimated 10,000 fundamentalist followers in Arizona, Utah and Texas.

Lim's lawyers asked for a life sentence «so that he can witness for himself the reality of the nation of the Sun as it grows in power and prosperity,» reports Reuters.

It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.

8) The sentence of death may be improper if it has serious negative effects on society, such as miscarriages of justice, the increase of vindictiveness, or disrespect for the value of innocent human life.

That is, if you were intending to use the same comparative style as the sentence preceding it: «I am not a god who sends suffering into your life; I am the God who suffers with you in life.»

Forty states enacted truth - in - sentencing statutes, which require felons to serve as much as a full 85 percent of their prison terms without any chance of parole; life sentences now truly mean life.

Hanby briefly mentions educating children, rebuilding parishes, and embracing a countercultural way of life as aspects of his proposed witness, but he covers those topics in but two sentences.

They were able to have three children together during his imprisonment, and he wanted desperately to parent them even as he served a sentence of 20 years to life.

It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the only biblical story where a human being gives God a name.

For this tradition a linguistic sentence is regarded as a sign of a relatively high level of complexity sharing certain common features with more primitive signs interpreted by lower forms of life.

Approaching fidelity, not as a burdensome life sentence, but as a pathway — the only pathway — to a highly desirable set of goals, makes it a positive style of relating.

When Paul Lehmann in an often quoted sentence said that «God's purpose for human life is to make it and keep it human» he was putting the point in an admirable fashion — which helps to make contemporary people grasp both their high dignity as humans and their defection from that possibility.

The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

To God they must pay for this work of their hands, and for the world's poor, whom riches pass by as they serve their life's sentence: hard work till they die.

Lest that last sentence get lost in this series of posts, I would like to emphasize that sentence as the key sentence in not only this series, but also in living in a world filled with people.

The sentence of death, which David himself has meted out, is removed; but the faith which gives form to the biography regards the harassed remainder of David's life as the fulfillment of an irremovable and unalterable judgment.

As with any great story, we live our stories, word by word, sentence by sentence, day by day.

One gathers from the Philippians passage, as well as from such sentences as that quoted from II Corinthians, that far from being embarrassed by the normality of the earthly life, Paul saw in it a sign of how much Christ had been willing to sacrifice on our behalf.

Its main point, which comes only two sentences from the end, is expressed this way: «To those to whom truth has been revealed, who continue in the tradition of the Holy One's followers, the call is not only to offer words of praise, confessing that Jesus is Christ the Lord, but to offer our lives as the instruments of this Lord of peace and justice.»

A promising place to begin is found in two sentences in a report by the Rutgers National Marriage Project: «Most Americans continue to prize and value marriage as an important life goal, and the vast majority of us will marry at least once in a lifetime....

Most could keep their head above the murky waters, but I drowned in them, my mind and soul became as a vegetable, void of all emotions and life, there are ones that have my testimony when God apprehended me and manifested Himself to me, that I became One with Him in His life: I was a walking zombie and nothing more at that time, a vessel for my master use being cared for by my adult children on disability with a grade 5 education, with ADDHD and dyslexia, I couldn't even spell or string 2 sentences together that made any sense: All that has been done in my life for the last 11 yrs.

as earlier he had heard the sentence of expulsion from the living Samuel.

In identifying the «I» in that sentence exclusively with God as revealed in Jesus Christ, a Hindu might continue, would one not limit him in a way inconsistent with the Christ who could say, almost immediately, «I am the way, and the truth, and the life»?

He was falsely accused, arrested, slapped, spit on, had His beard pulled out of His face, sent to court where though no guilt was found was sentenced to be beaten to within an inch of HIs life, struck with rods, whipped with a weapon that had sharp bones and different pieces tore large chuncks of flesh off, drug back to court wearing a robe which when the blood dried to it became its own bit of torture, the first beating not good enough so sentenced to die, had a crown of thorns pressed down into his skull causing much more blood loss, beaten some more, forced to carry an extremely heavy wood beam as he marched toward His death, whipped and beaten along the way, had huge nails driven through His hands and feet, and had a shoulder separated.

Many years later, I then got to know my Argentine housemate, Juan, on exchange in Mannheim, Germany, where we would chat in our shared kitchen — a sprinkling of sentences here and there as I finished dinner and as he started his — where we'd eventually fall in love and after two years of a long - distance relationship, I later moved to Buenos Aires to live in the same country and continent as him.

«All offenders have the right to rebuild their lives and make amends after they have served their sentence but Ched Evans» lack of remorse and failure to acknowledge his offence means it is simply inappropriate for him to be on a Greater Manchester football pitch week in and week out presenting himself as some kind of role model, especially to young people.»

As one baseball official told SI in amazement afterward, «George negotiated himself a life sentence.»

Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of Lana Clarkson... With Susan Boyle feeling the pressure, sportsbooks no longer have her as the runaway favorite in Britain «s Got Talent... The NCAA baseball regionals are going on.

As your child enters his third year of life, he will start to create his own sentences and style of speech.

Matt, in the article Dr. Amy says «THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THOSE CLAIMS»: maybe I'm wrong, but to my non-native understanding, this sentence doesn't necessarily mean «there is no evidence at all», but rather: any evidence there might be, it is not enough to support claims such as «increased medicalization of childbirth may be having severe consequences on the life - long health of our children... What's more, it could be having a devastating effect on the future of our entire species».

When the wound care specialist told me I'd have to wear a compression stocking on my leg for the rest of my life, I saw it as a «life sentence.»

Unschooling is often called «Natural Learning» here in Australia, so thats a very accurate sentence: «Unschooling sounds a bit like life at home with the kids as preschoolers.

Martin, Chia WE LIKE TO NURSE Hohm, 1994 Large, bright pictures and short, simple sentences present breastfeeding as a natural part of life for many different kinds of animals — and human «animals,» too.