Sentences with phrase «as the motive in»

Police are looking into mistaken identlty as a motive in the shooting death of an Army veteran outside of Los Angeles.

Odd how profit - motive and greed are never brought up as a motive in this context by people ordinarily ready to admit they're motives in other contexts, no?)

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The purported motive for the torture carried out in Syria is even the same as that reported in Iraq — to intimidate and terrify the population.

What started as a simple «buy one, give one» concept where eyeglasses were donated to those in need has morphed into proof that corporate social responsibility can truly make a difference in the world and that the motives are far beyond income goals.

In top - down power structures, employees are viewed as worker bees and considered to be objects or expenses rather than assets; there is little concern for their happiness or well - being, since the motive for hiring them was purely productivity and profit.

Though the attackers framed their actions as a defense of journalistic objectivity, most observers found the real motive to be a backlash against cultural diversification and gender sensitivity in video games.

Hernandez's defense, led by Michael Fee, however, spun the conversation as proof of a close friendship between the men, which could lead the jury to question Hernandez's motive for murder, a significant element in the burden of proof for the prosecution.

The underlying motive might be to boost their own ego, but because their self - worth is so wrapped up in their idea of themselves as saint - like this actually produces helpful rather than harmful behavior.

In «The Better Angels of Our Nature,» Pinker categorized «five inner demons» as psychological systems that can be triggered to release aggression, along with «four better angels» as motives that can bring humans toward cooperation and altruism.

First, corporate investors including Google, Rakuten, Alibaba, Comcast and others have increased their investments in venture and often don't have the same profit motive (and thus pricing motive) as traditional investors.

During contract renegotiations at the end of 2011, Electro - Motive locked out its workers after they refused to take substantial cuts in benefits and pay, some as large as 50 percent.

Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.

For example, Tyerman frequently notes that religious motives or pious idealism played roles in the Crusades but only as a qualifier to subsequent descriptions of political and economic motives.

My great concern for evangelicals in the United States, whether they are pragmatically voting for Trump or withdrawing from politics altogether, is how they are embracing fear as a legitimate motive for followers of Jesus Christ.

I interpret Jesus in Matthew 7 talking about judging as really talking about judging people's motives (not simply their actions.)

In bypassing questions as to the practice of the early Church in this matter it insists that the motive for celibate priesthood is found in the words and the mystery of Christ: «Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of tIn bypassing questions as to the practice of the early Church in this matter it insists that the motive for celibate priesthood is found in the words and the mystery of Christ: «Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of tin this matter it insists that the motive for celibate priesthood is found in the words and the mystery of Christ: «Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of tin the words and the mystery of Christ: «Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the

To look for another reason here, a «deeper» reason, is to try to find motives and goals in natural processes just as we would look for these in people.

He does indeed teach the rigorous requirement for purity of motive; but there is forgiveness for those who sin in this area as in any other, and his severest judgments are reserved for the proud, the exploiters, and the self - righteous.

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over hiIn consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over hiin their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over hiin the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over hiin primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

The very depth of his preoccupation with the theological problem presented by the terrible fate meted out to Jesus as a result of the Jewish and Roman leaders» readiness to co-operate in his destruction makes him a questionable witness to the motives and intentions with which the Lord approached and confronted his supreme hour.

Many Christians were initially overjoyed as his actions, but he came clean in an article for The Observer: «I have an ulterior motive for wishing to contribute to Gove's scheme.

It doesn't mean that they need to reject God as the prime motive force in the universe.

It makes sense that, as we do outward good works, others be allowed to behold something of our inner motives for doing them, and of the positive effect of our hidden good motives — though the good deed is not to be done primarily in order to be outwardly observed by others.

There are all sorts of other motives, such as wanting to live up to our own image of ourselves as Christians, that corrupt agapé even in our nobler actions.

The motive of joy has been replaced by prudence (As in the reminiscence of the parable in the Clementine Recognitions iii, 62.)

The present motive which leads him to behave in that way now, assuming by the word «now» Hartshorne's 1 / 10th of a second as defining «present» (CSPM 175), is likely to be identical with the motive which will lead him, to behave in the same sort of way tomorrow.

Although fully familiar with the enormous power of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»

When all of existence is discovered to be sacred and one's life is viewed as a trust to be invested in enhancing human values, motive - power for significant involvement is created.

They ought to have placed the Canal on an international basis so clear and unobjectionable that Nasser would have had neither the motive nor the opportunity for behaving as he did in 1956.

It must be given as an offering in love, not as a manifestation of my superiority — offered without calculation or ulterior motives and without any hint that my word is the final word to be spoken on the subject.

Just as Klansmen went around in sheets the burka sends an equivalent message of sinister motives.

But, granted those conditions, then reflection upon them — in that context, with those motives, and with that perspective — is fully as much an act of theologizing as any apprehension that strikes us out of the Bible, or Bultmann, or Barth, or any other alphabetical characters past or present.

We had the first baptism of slave converts in the Velloor school; between fifty and sixty were present, and (from) the numerous candidates for baptism nineteen were admitted into the visible Church of Christ... Their hearty responses and decided, brief and pointed answers as to motives... -LCB- and -RCB- strictly consistent Christian conduct for many months past,... left no doubts on our minds that many of these, I hope all, were already members of the invisible Church of Christ.36

God, then, in Dr. Cumming's conception, is a being who has no pleasure in the exercise of love and truthfulness and justice, considered as effecting the well - being of His creatures; He has satisfaction in us only in so far as we exhaust our motives and dispositions of all relation to our fellow - beings, and replace sympathy with men by anxiety for the «glory of God.»

He said he was treated like someone special in that class and his questions, (some really stupid as he told me) never caused anyone to laugh or wonder what his motive was.

While we must still admit that nature reveals to us only the answers to questions selectively focused by our interpretive structures, we may reaffirm that we are still in her leading strings, to reverse Kant's point, because reality is the first motive for the natural process of thinking as well as the final measure of its results.

The fact that Christians actually engage in completely selfish motives, even to the idea of being saved in order to avoid their god's eternal wrath, and grow perverse as masochists at best.

It is, in fact, a clear example of the «objective» masquerading as the «subjective,» and nothing makes this clearer than Kant's suspicion of all empirical actions as probably in fact tainted by some non-moral motive.

Sooner or later a colonial power would have moved in, from moral motives as well as from hope of commercial and political gain.

It is understandable that the idealistic emphasis on the efficacy of spiritual motives and forces, ideas, and energies in the philosophy and history of the early nineteenth century led to a reaction which urged students of social life and development to concentrate on the opposite viewpoint according to which spiritual developments have to be regarded as products of material conditions (Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, against Hegel).

This will lead to comments on the way in which Kierkegaard's thought can be used as a basis for understanding the motives which underlie political violence.

lives of all people — given the fact that we do some things as ends in themselves without ulterior motive or outside design, freely entering into such activity within its own time (a playtime) and its own space (a playground) and its own order (a playbook)-- it is surprising that we understand play so poorly.

The great motive was love of neighbor and this was found to be in a certain tension with the love of God, since the latter prompted a servant of the Lord to shun worldly duties as well as distractions and to give his life to adoration and contemplation in monastic seclusion.

In his journal Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 he wrote: «The Latins take a great deal of pains to expose this ceremony, as a most shameful imposture, and a scandal to the Christian religion; perhaps out of envy, that others should be the masters of so gainful business; but the Greek and Armenians pin their faith upon it, and make their pilgrimages chiefly upon this motive.»

Therefore on the one hand they call Him the Object of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6

We have seen other nations, to be sure, in which self - interest has made itself felt as an invincible motive for the giving up of what we call such freedoms.

To stress love as one's motive for involvement encourages an overvaluation of voluntaristic structures as the key to Christian social ethics, and ultimately aborts rigorous structural involvement in society.

As for the comically but unfunny remark about praying for gas to come down under a buck and you'll be in Church Sunday with us... God does not need you in Church if that is your motive.

James Swetnam SJ, vice-Rector Emeritus of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, offers an exploration of the motives for the Incarnation as presented in the letter to the Hebrews.