Sentences with phrase «as subservience»

BTW, I, as an Englishman, use the honorific «Lord» as a matter of courtesy, not as subservience.

Not exact matches

Becoming a «flipnotist» isn't as easy as learning a few rote behaviours that you can incorporate around the office, as when some salespeople lean slightly toward their clients to signal both an emotional connection and subservience.

He was thorough in his acceptance of the mistakes of religious groups who are dismissive of the brilliant contributions of free thinkers such as Hitchens and their intelligent questioning of the subservience of religious groups to their leaders.

We still need to do theology as well in those ways, but the Bible will help to remind us to keep those operations both subordinate to the larger imperatives of the life of the body and relativized by their greater subservience to the demands of one's respective host culture.

This subservience and freedom apply to each separate book and to the document as a whole, to every chapter and every sentence, to the earliest Christian confession and the earliest Christian world view, to mythical miracle and historical event.

A certain number of Jews, principally those of aristocratic priestly families, accepted the situation, and tried, by a cautious subservience to the conquerors, to preserve such partial autonomy as Rome allowed, under their own leadership.

Apparently the favoring condition was the freedom of the churches from state domination, as contrasted with the subservience in which the Church was kept by the state in other European possessions.

I'm sorry you think that we all need to believe the exact same thing that you do in order to lead moral lives, that you need a god (one described in a book written by men yet touted as the word of god as being a genocidal dictator who demands total subservience from his followers and death to those who don't believe) in order to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives.

So subservience can not be interpreted as the right to exploit creation by dominating it.

As the King's account also reports of his grandfather Ahaz (in II 16:3), Manasseh reverted to child sacrifice (II 21:6); and, also like Ahaz, he introduced, no doubt under the guise of what continued to pass for Yahweh worship and the Yahweh cult, extraneous practices denoting Judah's subservience to Assyria.

The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.

«Perhaps the time has now come... to take stock of where we are going... bearing in mind that sonar [what ultrasound was called at that time]... must never lose [its] subservience to the medical art and the paramount importance of the patient... Viewed with this sense of proportion sonar comes as a commodity only, although with many uses.

The researchers found that gender - based restrictions rationalized as «protecting» girls actually made them more vulnerable by emphasizing subservience and implicitly sanctioning even physical abuse as punishment for violating norms.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

Driving Miss Daisy wasn't exactly considered progressive even at the time of its release, and it had the further misfortune of coming out the same year as Spike Lee's incendiary Do The Right Thing, which made writer Alfred Uhry seem even more irrelevant with his warm, nostalgic memories of dignified African - American subservience.

That vision includes vehicles fuelled with blood, «Doof Warriors» playing flaming guitars as they hurtle into battle, CG used in respectful subservience to jaw - dropping practical stunts, and Hugh Keays - Byrne's Immortan Joe presiding over a religious cult seemingly inspired by a Duran Duran song that was inspired by the original Mad Max films («Wild Boys always shine», remember).

She vividly describes the isolation of Eva's rebellious and lonely English mother; the desperation of her Afrikaner father as drought destroys his farm; the conflicts among the black farm - workers as the younger generation questions the loyalty and subservience of their elders; and the dangerous silence of a young girl who witnesses too much.

Conversely it could be interpreted as a sign of blind subservience and a desire to please.

One the best pieces is when Novella is attacked by Bliss and transformed into his thrall, as it's vibrant tones exemplify the change from determined hope to mindless subservience.

To commemorate this release date announcement, Over the Moon has unveiled a launch trailer that highlights the new playable Companion character as A.R.I.D.'s morally questionable protocol causes her hosts to struggle with issues of subservience, survival, and existential crisis.