Sentences with phrase «as sacrificial»

It appears that Ms Aitken is using CREA / MLS as a sacrificial guinea pig, so to speak, in order to further her own agenda (every new political appointee needs one, «else why is one on the job?)

«While COLPs and COFAs are the formal focus points for compliance, they will not and must not be seen as sacrificial lambs,» stressed Charles Plant, chairman of the SRA board in May this year.

Personally, I think he's just being used by his brethren as a sacrificial lamb, stalking horse or possibly even a Trojan one.

«I'm grateful to Casey for offering herself up as a sacrificial lamb to sort of peel away the scab off the surface of everything that's going on.

The playable protagonist is Aluche, a Holy Knight of the Curia assigned to escort her friend Liliana, a priestess of New Curia, to be served up as a sacrificial offering.

While you can attempt and complete some co-op levels on your own, many are designed specifically for having two players, with one acting as a sacrificial lamb to trigger a switch, two sides of a level require that you work together, and so on.

The condor's head and neck feathers are carved into the temple's floor to complete the image and these features may have been used as a sacrificial altar.

Actun Tunichil Muknal is one of the most impressive and artefact - rich Maya ceremonial caves ever found containing rare bloodletting altars used in sacrifices by Maya royalty and over 1400 catalogued artefacts as well as sacrificial human remains.

Of course, those hyper - connected travel bloggers might see themselves as sacrificial lambs.

Craig Charvat, a history teacher from Center Moriches, has offered himself up as a sacrificial lamb to bring attention to what he calls a «fraudulent» teacher evaluation process.

Here, he has assembled an A-List ensemble to serve as sacrificial lambs for the sake of his high attrition - rate horror flick.

Village priest Father James Lavelle finds himself offered up as a sacrificial lamb when a victim of sexual abuse, now grown, decides that killing an innocent priest will send a better message than disposing of a guilty one.

(And without Michael Bay anywhere in the production credits as sacrificial goat.)

It does not matter how many Nigerians will end up as sacrificial lamb on that single ambition.

They're over before they start because of lopsided party enrollments or one of the candidates, typically the one offered by the minority party as the sacrificial lamb, is clearly not up to the job.

According to him, politicians in the country will go all out to get power at all cost, and for that to materialize, they will kidnap children and subsequently use them as sacrificial lambs in order to get more votes in the coming election.

More generally, gender stereotypes are used to justify women's unlikelihood to speak up: the general perception of women as instruments whose function is primordially to be used, as passive sexual objects than as active subjects, as bodies and faces that should be looked at and evaluated on the basis of demanding aesthetic criteria, as sacrificial mothers or as empathetic persons mainly attuned to other's people needs, is not very compatible with an assertive form of communication.

Ole Miss had dug in and was prepared to defend Freeze to the NCAA, as opposed to offering him up as a sacrificial lamb.

I keep thinking about Jose Altuve, who was brought up as a sacrificial lamb in 2011, straight from the low minors.

And now we are trying to exonerate ourselves from any blames and heap all the blames on the Boss and Giroud as the sacrificial goat to bear our sins.

But Reed offered up his Ryder Cup partner as a sacrificial Golden Child to try and make some larger point within the argument.

If the reports are true — Noah denied them in hilarious fashion — Boozer's fellow big man on the block served him up as a sacrificial lamb, even if he was probably right to do so.

If there is to be a compelling theology of the cross, one that is a true alternative to views of Christ's death as a sacrificial punishment administered by God, it must be one that does not abandon these texts and this language, but offers a different vision of their meaning.

The sharing of new bonds of koinonia, love, justice, peace, hope and life has been communicated through the crucifixion of Jesus as the Sacrificial Lamb of the New Covenant.

Mathews saw Christianity as a social movement inspired by Jesus and striving for the realization of such values as sacrificial love.

They take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and commit themselves to the way of love in a dedicated community as their sacrificial participation in the body of Christ and his service in the world.

Kealy as sacrificial lambs was not simple bad judgment or even plain stupidity, but cowardice.

After demanding death for being human and for behaving in ways that God apparently finds unacceptable, God sends Jesus to be killed and to serve as the sacrificial lamb for all of humankind.

Grace as sacrificial love is the pinnacle of the ethical norm of the Kingdom of God, the moral ideal of the Kingdom.

Christ is pictured as a sacrificial lamb whose death ransomed humanity.

Although the exact verses are not decipherable, van Gogh was well acquainted with Isaiah 53:3 - 5, which foretells the suffering of Christ as the sacrificial lamb.

I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians who walked with Jesus as a man and Pastor who, as it were, was finally offered up as a sacrificial offering to God upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel who then proposed his death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.

Mohammed orders a glass of water... Jesus turns it into wine... Abraham gets drunk and decides to kill his son Isaac as a sacrificial offering to God / Allah / Yahweh... just cause some hallucination told him to do it

God presented Christ as sacrificial atonement through His blood!

Jesus is telling His disciples that through His blood, that is, through His violent death as a sacrificial scapegoat, they will gain deliverance and release from the sin that has enslaved humanity since the foundation of the world.

His own blood would seal the new covenant as the sacrificial «blood of the covenant» had sealed the old one at Sinai.

The point of this article is not necessarily to espouse the TITHE so much as sacrificial giving.

In the monarchical construct, God is implicitly in contest with evil powers, either as victorious king, who crushes them or as sacrificial servant, who (momentarily) assumes a worldly mien in order to free his subjects from evil's control.

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

Many rabbis interpret fasting as a sacrificial offering to God, of the flesh of one's own body.

Even so, Christ wants us, like the poor widow in the gospel, to contribute our tokens as a sacrificial offering for the redemption of our souls.

I think the way GOD would want it done is that we would treat others as we would have them treat us, that means women would also have to be just as sacrificial toward men.

'' «I am sure, Mr. Rearden,» said the eldest judge, «that you do not really believe — nor does the public — that we wish to treat you as a sacrificial victim.

Not exact matches

But with Jesus as the ultimate peacemaker, we understanding that peace can only truly be made real as we follow in the sacrificial Way of the Cross.

Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world.

It's a hidden system that disguises itself as «righteous», being a modern form of sacrificial violence that lurks within the dualistic world of religion.

Those that believe in the sacrificial and purity gods, collapse into rule keeping, legislative righteousness, slavish thinking, and venomous anger as they kill their own gay children or chant «holiness» as they murder in fact or figuratively.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

Married men, not embracing continence, can be committed, active and sacrificial in loving their flock, though they can not be as freely moveable or available as a celibate priest.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.