Sentences with phrase «as spoils of»

Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor - saving device, conquest as the mission statement of government, genocide as a means of acquiring real estate, torture and mutilation as routine punishment, the death penalty for misdemeanors and differences of opinion, assassination as the mechanism of political succession, rape as the spoils of war, pogroms as outlets for frustration, homicide as the major form of conflict resolution — all were unexceptionable features of life for most of human history.

Available on Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS4, the three new missions are known as the Spoils of War trilogy and are «set against the backdrop of an alternate history where World War II never ended,» Wargaming has advised.

During the Modern era European Christians, most notably Britain and France, took over much of the Middle East as the spoils of war and treated the primarily Islamic inhabitants as conquered people.

The OT condones r@ping virgin girls as spoils of war.

For example, in the passages that seem to condone the capturing of female virgins as spoils of war, one should note that that the Bible stimulates that an Israelite male must wait one month before marrying a conquered woman, and that in the case of divorce he could not sell her or treat her as a slave.

Most do not want to return to a time when fathers owned their daughters and sold them to the highest bidder (Exodus 21:7; Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 — 10), when multiple wives and concubines were a part of everyday life (even for men of God like Abraham, Jacob, and David), when women were forbidden from owning property, when foreign virgins could be captured as spoils of war (Judges 21), when a woman's lack of virginity could get her executed (Deuteronomy 22:11, Leviticus), when the stories of brave women like Tamar and Dinah and Esther and Vashti and Leah and Rachel emerge from contexts of oppression.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

According to this view, God is glorified in seeing swords driven through the chests of curly - haired toddlers, in pregnant women being stabbed in the belly before being murdered themselves, and in old men and women begging for mercy but being denied it — just as God was glorified in the death of all the firstborn Egyptian males (Exodus) and in the taking of twelve and thirteen year old girls as spoils of war (Numbers).

You don't beat welfare recipients that you captured as spoils of war from other countries!

In the opening pages, a priest asks Apollo to avenge his daughter, who has been taken by the Greek leader, Agamemnon, as a spoil of war.

I had not viewed it as a spoiler of any degree, but obviously I was wrong.

Not exact matches

The word carries connotations of success, popularity, and glamour, as well as (more recently, I think) more than a touch of spoiled brattiness.

Warning: This post contains spoilers from the «Game of Thrones» episode «No One» as well as future predictions.

I won't spoil the surprise of what happens next (I may or may not go into coach mode and give some business advice as well).

The economist accused Jill Stein of spoiling Clinton's chances in Florida and said with Trump as president there would be no way to reverse the impact of global climate change.

As for being spoiled and narcissistic: I have yet to meet an entrepreneur of any age who isn't supremely confident, easily distracted by new ideas, and proud of being unemployable by ordinary companies that insist on coloring inside the lines.

Other useful property policies for food service businesses are: • Spoilage covers the value of property spoiled as a result of a breakdown of your temperature control system due to conditions beyond your control.

A man known as the «Spanish Spoiler» is uploading videos to YouTube in which he details the entire plot of the upcoming week's episode.

Though it is easy to tell whence Loeb's confusion comes from, reading his description of Broadwell, who - far from the tabloid-esque accounts of a spoiled «prom queen» - comes off, indeed, as a very unlikely «other woman» for the closest thing America has to a modern day war hero.

Talk to your kids before you dismiss those Quebec student demonstrators as a bunch of spoiled malcontents.

As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, most people «deem it unwise to be sane when sanity exposes one to ridicule, condemnation for spoiling the game or the threat of severe political retribution».

Yet precisely as the risk diminishes dramatically in the subsequent stages of a company's development, the spoils go only to the wealthy.»

Outmigration by the rich is no surprise as much wealth in China is the spoils of illegal activity.

We're Number One: The International Monetary Fund recently projected debt as a share of GDP will decline over the next five years for all advanced economies in the world except for one: Spoiler Alert: It's the U.S.A.

If anyone in academia is puzzled as to why higher education is seen as spoiled by much of the rest of the public sector (and indeed the public - at - large), this graph is the answer.

Spoiler Alert: To my surprise, the first sentence of the opinion's discussion section said, «As explained below, the Court has determined that the Asserted Claims are not directed to patentable subject matter.»

Massive piles of sediment known as spoil banks mark the graves of defunct projects companies haven't bothered to clean up.

One of the big benefits of actively driving for Uber is not only meeting new people and writing fun posts such as «Spoiled Or Clueless?

I've spent much of my time looking through history to read up on how the failure to wipe out the debt overhead led to the collapse of Rome's imperial republic, and to the Ottoman Empire as what was known as «the spoiling of Egypt» and «the ruin of Persia» toward the end of the 19th century.

These days, crypto investors are spoiled for choice as they can pick from a range of wallets — and nearly everyone offers unmatched security.

Franchises lost sales, and incurred spoiled food and labour costs as a consequence of the closures.

Perry «might could» do better in South Carolina than in Iowa, but his likeliest role is as a spoiler for Santorum, siphoning off social conservative votes that would otherwise go to the home - schooling father of seven.

He irst tells the anecdote of the most notorious pilgrim, Fulk III, Count of Anjou, who accumulated as penances no less than four pilgrimages to the Holy Land (no spoilers from me, but Stark concludes that maybe that was «far too few» p. 104).

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

And even from the first deliverance from Egypt, as recorded in the book of Exodus, they took spoil from the Egyptians, but here they didn't.

11 If they say, «Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, even whole, as those who go down to the pit; 13 We will find all [kinds] of precious wealth, we will fill our houses with spoil; 14 Throw in your lot with us, we shall all have one purse,» 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them.

It's time to quit treating volunteers as spoiled children, and get them out of fancy hotels and into tents and dirt - floored chapels in the countryside and urban barrios.

We are a spoiled lot of Christians — «Professing Christians» as well as «born again Christians.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

And as much as I've wanted to be the girl who sings with her arms raised, eyes closed and heart full of joy, I just end up fixated on whether or not I'm flashing sweaty armpits to everyone around me (spoiler: I probably am).

To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free by education from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades for human emancipation and happiness.

The only «profit» I've seen in Catholicism is being made by lawyers so happy to sue the church on behalf of legitimate and questionable victims and claim they are doing it all in the name of justice... as long as they get to keep their tidy share of the spoils.

One who beleives this way could view God, using another way of describing it, as a grandparent who spoils his grandchildren rotten, minimizing the child's responibility, not properly diciplining them, or not diciplining them at all, and giving the child everything he asks for and thinks of.

As is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raiAs is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raias well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raias material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the rain.

Those teachings has reached and spoiled the Arab and non Arab Muslim youth as well by having it shoveled to their mouths targeted through TV series plays and Internet facilities... am from the generation of the 60 «s can no longer understand our youth whom we lost after 80 «s...!

Skimpoles are incapable of gratitude toward authority because they can conceive of no error they need to be protected from; like spoiled children — precisely, in fact, like Damaged Young Men — they see all discipline as condemnatory and all condemnation as wicked.

in Our Knowledge of God [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939], p. 23, writes: «The doctrine of the imago dei has its basis in the fact that our existent human nature presents itself to us, not as a simply bad thing, but as a good thing spoiled.»

Though he would have flinched to hear it, Evelyn Waugh can be thought of as a spoiled priest.

As the headline indicates, this Tweet from @KatelynClontz contains spoilers (sort of) for the film Jurassic World.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.