Sentences with phrase «at their mercy for»

The remaining two board members are leaders at Mercy For Animals (MFA), which helped found GFI.

You are at their mercy for 5 years, and the only thing that is keeping you is the cost to refinance.

Not exact matches

Without a customer segment, venturing into the food truck business is more like going for fishing into the mystic waters and it is not wise to leave business up to the chances or at mercy of the luck.

Increasingly, your personal reputation is at the mercy of search engines, blogs, and social networks, none of which themselves have a sterling reputation for accuracy.

We're at the mercy of the numbers for our journey through America's Top States For Business (that, and the increasingly delay - prone airline industrfor our journey through America's Top States For Business (that, and the increasingly delay - prone airline industrFor Business (that, and the increasingly delay - prone airline industry).

They are complaining about countries working with China which are not even the EU members — some of them merely looking for an associate status because a full membership is a drawn - out obstacles race at the mercy of centuries - old regional hatreds and rivalries.

The fact that megabanks, the very entities central banks coddle and protect at all costs, are wheezing and begging for mercy is likely giving central bankers the willies.

But the «yes» part comes from reminding yourself that there are a few basic rules you can live by in terms of how you interact with others, and if you keep these absolute essentials in mind, things will go a lot easier for you — and be a lot easier on those employees of yours who are, in many respects, very much at your mercy.

Monetizing deficits has never been more attractive for the United States, which today benefits from its foreign lenders» willingness to be repaid in US funds, putting them at the mercy of the US dollar exchange rate.

These features make it difficult for customers to comparison shop, often placing them at the mercy of a sales agent.»

Its fluctuations are particularly impactful if you're shopping around for a private loan or selected a variable interest rate loan and are now at the mercy of the market.

In years past, there was nothing binary options traders could do but wait for their trades to expire — we were essentially at the mercy of the market's moves.

The common shareholders are at the mercy of the group in power and just going along for the ride, whether it is for better or worse.

Albertans are currently at the mercy of a government that has a preference for redistributing wealth and not towards policies that grow the economy and create jobs.

It bothers me often when I think of the youth that I was a pastor to and those who I was placed in authority over, I seriously fear at times about what I have done, yet I also thank God for his grace and mercy.

The fear you predominantly preach here: a) is — for the most part — unbiblical (at the very least it misses a biblical balance) b) does not lead to falling in love with Jesus, but simply running from him c) demonstrates that you believe in a war - mongering God, not one who «abounds in mercy and compassion.»

These animals will soon tremble at His feet and beg for mercy.

Your god has no mercy or kindness, we are all just a soap - opera for his entertainment and he seems to relish ignorance and suffering like the producers over at MTV.

Even though it forbids the undialectical confidence in God's mercy that Luther later came to teach, it nonetheless allows the sinner yearning for God under the cross a sort of paradoxical assurance, a sense of being at least in the appropriate place before God, which sustains the heart and enables it to endure to the end.

Moral of the story is we all need forgiveness.Sin is sin.We all need the mercy of God.This man is on a quest to find that.Judge yourself.We are all sinners in need of a savior.You won't be able to say to God on the day of judgment, well at least I didn't shoot my brother in - law, therefore I should be allowed into heaven.You'll give an account for your life.I'm counting on grace, not because I deserve it, but because of the high price that Jesus Christ paid on the cross.A debt I could not pay.

Conservatives value property for its own sake, of course; but they value it even more because without it all men and women are at the mercy of an omnipotent government.

Adhering to Muslim Law by burying bin Laden at sea had nothing to do with showing a dead terrorist mercy for his body or fulfilling bin Laden's wishes; it had to do with showing the world we are respectful of religion and cultures that may be different than our own; our war on terror has nothing to do with culture or religion.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

Thank you God for that you gave us and made us realize how lucky we were tobe normal and no one pointing and laughing at while you cry your life out as the boy in the picture... may God have mercy on his soul.Although not sure he a has a soul or Two??

Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace and mercy (totally underserved) for those who believe in Jesus sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary and His redemptive resurrection.

Saint Mary Magdalene, You came with springing tears To the spring of mercy, Christ... How can I find words to tell About the burning love with which you sought Him Weeping at the sepulcher And wept for Him in your seeking?

But humility, mercy, poking at the question of whether a blog forum can really serve as a place for such intimate pain and extraordinary accusations of abuse... especially when, again, parties are apparently asking for direct, private conversation... just doesn't seem all that outrageous to offer as thoughts to the conversation.

I think the fact that there is an over-arching, enduring covenant that somehow reaches out in the mess, both standing with and healing the victims AND extending opportunity for growing to the grossest offender, gets at the exact kind of mercy that will most right the world.

I like to think that my God (no other word for him) reached down in his mercy and told me these things to give me a chance at life.

And he underscored the value of mercy, as is evidenced in the homily he delivered at the Mass for the inauguration of his petrine ministry.

At the same time, Francis called for greater mercy for divorced and remarried Catholics, and asked for a «deeper theology» of women in the church.

Apart from public worship in church or chapel, of which we shall speak separately, the most important times of private prayer are upon awaking, at bedtime, before meals, at irregular intervals through the day, and in a regular, uninterrupted, unhurried period which can be fixed for any convenient time but which ought not to be left to the mercy of circumstance.

Then we are doomed, but for the ongoing mercy of our beautiful Father, who knew, we are not born from above as he was, but were born of sin, to become like him, by his Spiritual process, and at the same time remain uniquely ourselves with a preserved DNA, now fashioned in heaven.

This allows for grace and mercy to speak louder than our attempts at fixing and silverlining.

The State's primary responsibility is for justice, although it may at times temper justice with mercy.

Even, at times when I truly begin to feel intensely guilty for my thoughts and fear punishment, I remind myself that God even has mercy towards Satan, the very enemy of God, by not utterly and completely destroying his existence but given him free will to operate in this world and to do evil.

It promises a way for clergy to recover control of a profession that increasingly leaves them at the mercy of demands on their time and energy that have marginal relationship to the heart of their calling.

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

If we hope for justice rather than mercy at the Last Judgment, we must have a horribly shallow view of God's holiness and of our unholiness.

And the Lord God smiled at the bloated and rotting little bodies and was joyful for he knew then that his retribution had been slow and painful and without mercy for even the young and innocent.

You can see how the Lord was kind to him at the end, for the Lord is full of tenderness and mercy.»

They open up the possibility for God to be related to the creation, and in this instance at the level of human existence, in the light of the new occasion, by the responsiveness of God to that event and by his employment of that event to bestow upon his human children still further «graces and mercies».

It is time for the church to reassert its guidance in the lives of its adult members, for they are as much at the mercy of a captivating culture as were the members of the early church before the invention of the church year.

Concern for an object, whether that be desire for possession, aesthetic appreciation, or even a will for its benefit, placed a person at the mercy of forces he could not control.

a knee - level view from your bit of pavement; a battered, upturned cooking pot and countable ribs, coughing from your steel - banded lungs, alone, with your face to the wall; shrunken breasts and a three year old who can not stand; the ringed fingers, the eyes averted and a five - paise piece in your palm; smoking the babus» cigarette butts to quieten the fiend in your belly; a husband without a job, without a square meal a day, without energy, without hope; being at the mercy of everyone further up the ladder because you are a threat to their self - respect; a hut of tins and rags and plastic bags, in a warren of huts you can not stand up in, where your neighbors live at one arm's length across the lane; a man who cries out in silence; nobody listening, for everyone's talking; the prayer withheld, the heart withheld, the hand withheld; yours and mine Lord teach us to hate our poverty of spirit.

When the Pentateuch is understood in its entirety, it appears that the message of the Pentateuch is that God was never angry at people and never wanted sacrifices and offerings, but wanted instead a people for Himself who lived by faith in God and with justice and mercy before a watching world.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

The despised lepers standing at a distance and calling out to God for pity is just like the despised tax collector standing at a distance and calling out to God for mercy.

There was no forgetting, no Korsakov's then, nor did it seem possible or imaginable that there should be; for he was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism — that of meaningless sequences and memory traces — but was absorbed in an act, an act of his whole being, which carried feeling and meaning in an organic continuity and unity, a continuity and unity so seamless it could not permit any break.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.