Sentences with phrase «as matters of life and death»

One can take them literally, as formal descriptions of an art object's inception, or as matters of life and death.

The two halves of ancient premodern Europe had essentially known only one next - door neighbor, with whom they had to negotiate as a matter of life and death: the Islamic world.

«Red» is all that Morrison need say, for she shows us what it means to know color as a matter of life and death.

Here the person has discovered what the philosophers call the ontological question as a matter of life and death for the self.

There is a huge difference between someone who is admitted to ICU (or NICU) as a precaution or as a matter of life and death, but it all gets blurred together.

Based on a scandal that raged during the 1970s concerning baby milk formula, Bollywood star Emraan Hashmi and Oscar winning director Danis Tanović tackle multi-nationals» power as a matter of life and death...

But to create that independent entity means passing a law, something that State Senate Republicans, clinging to a narrow, gerrymander - aided majority in that chamber, have resisted as a matter of life and death.

He added that elections should not be taken as a matter of life and death.

It is probably true that if Cuomo fights the legislature on what many of its members — particularly the Senate Republicans, who possess a narrow, gerrymander - facilitated majority in that chamber — regard as a matter of life and death, they will not immediately be motivated to cooperate with him on passing a new law.

Urban decision makers need to know where to focus resources as they plan their adaptation strategies, potentially as a matter of life and death.

Dana Schutz, Ron Mueck, Neo Rauch, and Tom Thayer see art as a matter of life and death.

To express their anger towards their parents for mistreating them would threaten their secure attachment to them, which they absolutely depended on as a matter of life and death.

Not exact matches

As Nardi, the senior from Richmond said, «This is literally matter of life and death.»

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

It's time we, as a nation, stop looking at abortion as merely a political issue and see it for what it is - a matter of life and death.

Um nope let me believe there is life after death it is much easier for me to get up in the morning and not commit mass murder because it doesn't matter we are all going to die anyhow and no one is going to punish me once I'm dead anyhow might as well take a bunch of you with me.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role as mentor in the animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,» in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

Jesus practiced the genuine spiritual life according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of Spilife according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of SpiLife, Truth and Love, of Spirit.

As Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixioAs Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixioas «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixion.

As material evolution becomes living matter, entropy at this level of life becomes death, which is the cessation of life through the dissolution and decomposition of the living parts.

The reason this effect followed upon Jesus» life and death was a matter for reflection and speculation, as we shall see; but the effect itself was a fact of immediate experience.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

When I imagined what it would be like to give generously without wondering what is in it for me, to give up my grudges and learn to diffuse hatred with love, to stop judging other people once and for all, to care for the poor and seek out the downtrodden, to finally believe that stuff can't make me happy, to give up my urge to gossip and manipulate, to worry less about what other people think, to refuse to retaliate no matter the cost, to be capable of forgiving to the point of death, to live as Jesus lived and love as Jesus loved, one word came to my mind: liberation.

Now I live with death, not with horrible loathing, but using it as a criterion to determine what is important in my life; as a stimulus to cheerfulness, for through it I shall recover those I love; and as a way of giving meaning to my work, since my efforts, no matter how minor and unimportant, may serve God's final goal [John Knox, 1974, p. 63].

The Resurrection is the real indication of Christ's power over death and sin, of course, but also of His power over matter: matter is raised to new potentialities, new relationships, as shown by His Risen Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time and space as before, an indication of our own future bodily lives in the state called «heaven».

As for number 3, it is ethically suspect to exaggerate the benefits of breastfeeding, pretend that that breastfeeding is a matter of life and death in the US, mislead women on the state of the scientific evidence and above all, to shame and scare women about formula feeding.

The ultimate irony is that Gisele is busily criticizing women who don't breastfeed as if breastfeeding is a matter of life and death.

Just as we pore over the work of Dr. Sears and Dr. Weissbluth as if it was the Talmud, act as if sleep training and toileting are matters of life and death, obsess about whether our little angel is hitting his developmental milestones faster than the nearest similarly - aged baby at Tot Shabbat, drey about getting our kid into the «right» school, we want to excel at nursing.

After NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton addressed the roll call of the 103rd Precinct on the anniversary of Byrne's murder near the spot where it took place, Lawrence Byrne, who was sworn in as deputy commissioner for legal matters at the NYPD on Sept. 14, 2014, told the New York Daily News: «It eases the pain to know that people remember that Eddie's life and death made a lasting difference in the city.»

He added that Odili thereafter behaved «childishly» as if it was a matter of life and death to him.

Government spending cuts may become a matter of life and death, it was claimed last night, as it emerged that almost two million people could wait longer for cancer tests and up to 10,000 firefighters face the axe.

Demonstrators including at least 20 city council members briefly blocked traffic on Broadway outside City Hall today as they protested the death of Eric Garner this afternoon with songs, a «die - in» and chants of «black lives matter.»

I was lucky to join a scuba tour that one of the physicists had organized (though I did regret not knowing Spanish, as the route and much else had to be translated — a little disconcerting in what from my novice's perspective appeared to be a matter of life and death).

A matter of life and death: Stabilising the world's population is at best a bumpy process as developing countries industrialise and death rates fall.

As the two programs work in much the same way, to compress stored data and so double the effective capacity of a computer's disc drives, the lawsuit against DOS 6 was a matter or life or death for Stac.

• In matters of life and death, such as the effectiveness of screening for cancer, women are more responsive to negative presentation (how many people will die) as opposed to positive (how many will survive).

As she well knows, convincing people to choose fact over fear can be a matter of life and death.

For him it was a matter of life and death, so it represents a real savings as it were.

For women, having the right cute high heels for their important daily activities — as well as other events — are very crucial; it is a matter of life and death.

Saoirse Ronan plays the title character at a fever pitch, earnest and aggressive, as if every moment were a matter of life and death.

Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (originally released in the U.S. as Stairway to Heaven) is as gorgeous and romantic as films come.

This problem is a matter of life of death for hundreds of thousands of people as they can not just turn on a spigot and have water run freely in these countries.

I totally recommend «A Matter of Life and Death» and «California Split» as essential works while «Serial Mom» is a fucking riot.

Truffaut doesn't push any of the trendy buttons in his chronicle of a connoisseur des femmes: Charles Denner approaches each stage of each conquest as though it were a matter of life and death, and by the time the title of the movie, and Denner's memoir - in - progress, has been fulfilled, we see that those are the stakes precisely.

When she seeks a little help in the matter from a forest - dwelling hag, she learns to be careful what she wishes for, as it sends her — and her mother — on a life - or - death adventure involving action; monolithic, fang - baring bears; and an unexpected dose of magic.

The film opens with a title card that reads «Day 89,» where we meet the Abbott family; pillaging the remains of the drugstore ever so carefully so as not to disturb any pill bottles, communicating in sign language, and teaching the children the life or death ways of silence, no matter what.

Elsewhere across the festival, audiences will be able to catch an early glimpse of David Fincher's Netflix series Mindhunter, and golden oldies such as Michael Cutiz's Mildred Pierce, Howard Hawks» Scarface and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death.