Sentences with word «avowal»

He added that Cameron's public avowal of faith as prime minister was «not that exceptional» in historical terms and was consistent with his previous record.

Even there, though, I have to say (from experience) that trends are rapidly moving toward more open avowals of orthodoxy.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The famous working relationship between Syracuse's mayor and the Onondaga County executive is showing signs of strain, despite avowals from both leaders that they seek unprecedented city - county collaboration to resolve Syracuse's fiscal crisis.

More conspicuously, Pai has made repeated avowals to take a «weed - wacker» to regulation as the FCC's chair.

Premier Markus Soder said crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a «clear avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values».

But it is also sobering to recall that the one aim that, by his own avowal, has always lain closest to his heart» reconciliation between the Eastern and Roman Churches» has proven to be the source of his gravest disappointment, and probably the only manifest failure that can be placed in the balance over against his innumerable successes.

Ivanka has emerged as not just a key political adviser to her father — she introduced him at the Republican convention with avowals of his support for gender and racial equality — but also as the most public face of the family in terms of the future of the Trump brand.

In Bringle's succinct avowal, «Thinness is a false god.

Perhaps the most notable and striking contrast between traditional theism and Hartshorne's panentheism is the latter's unflinching avowal of the suffering of God as a poignantly real and everlastingly unavoidable facet of divine experience.

Funk's concern for the appearance of utilitarian value perhaps explains the peculiar way in which The Five Gospels deploys the rhetoric of empiricism («empirical, factual evidence,» «independent, neutral observers»), despite Funk's own earlier avowal that «our fictions, though deliberately fictive, are nevertheless not subject to proof or falsification.»

The free market, he argued, permits a beneficial moral modesty that trusts people acting in pursuit of their own self - interest far more than it trusts avowals of disinterested benevolence or claims to morally superior rights.

Let it be suggested that Jesus really meant it when he said «turn the other cheek,» and the majority attitude is either that Jesus really did not mean it to be taken literally, or else the frank avowal that at that particular point Jesus was an impractical idealist and, at the most, meant this counsel only for those alive at the time and during the brief interim before the anticipated early end of the age.

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Max (Anton Yelchin), who works in a horror novelty store called Bloody Mary's, is dating Evelyn (Ashley Greene), a high - maintenance Type - A who foists her veganism and environmental awareness onto Max's lifestyle, forcing him to make frequent avowals of undying love to her.

For their directing debut, screenwriters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa — best known for their yuletide rant Bad Santa (2003)-- have found a tale that more than justifies the added avowal.

You'll also need to provide a financial avowal stating, if your business has been running for at least a year, everything related to its performance: General Costs, Income, Expenses, Results, etc..

Though the majority of his artistic output consists of drawings, Haendel has also created artistic books, such as Shame, which documented internet chat - room avowals of shameful acts or desires, and a handful of movies, the most famous being Questions For My Father which was produced in collaboration with filmmaker Petter Ringbom and inspired by a drawing Haendel created under the same title.

His passionate avowal of direct carving is especially evident in the richly varied surface texture of the present Tête, which displays an expressive handling that emphasizes his creative process.»

Beginning with the Brushstroke Paintings of the 1970s — in which the ritualized gesture of paint application dramatizes the eternal return of the same — Reed bids farewell to the histrionic avowal of self - expression.

Bilbao Exhibition Overview The years after World War I were marked by a striking modernist avowal of traditional aesthetics: a retour à l'ordre (return to order) in France, a ritorno al mestiere (return to craft) in Italy, and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in Germany.

Surely it would have been jarring simply to describe that plan's instrumental view of nature, with its firm avowal of «American energy dominance» and suggestion that millions of acres of public lands and waters may soon be auctioned off for oil and gas development.

While the emails do not establish that the governor himself called for the lane closings, they show his staff was intimately involved, contrary to Mr. Christie's repeated avowals that no one in his office or campaign knew about them.

The apparent purpose of this series of questions was to trap Jesus into a premature and public avowal of his messiahship, and thus into an act of blasphemy for which he could be arrested.

He added that crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a «clear avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values».

In a similar fashion it would chronicle the development of modern theology to identify a clear trend toward the open avowal of the radical human autonomy that.

So he announced action on those three fronts, but returned repeatedly to avowals of old - school fiscal Conservatism, all punctuated by a repeat of his key pledge to balance the books by 2015.

And as the Trudeau government weighs in on one side of a regional dispute with national implications, its public avowal that the twinning of the pipeline that runs from northern Alberta to B.C.'s south coast will be completed stands to risk alienating voters who were instrumental in delivering a majority mandate to the Liberal Party in 2015.

He does not seem to have harbored anti-Catholic animosity, and he refused to be drawn into «any avowal of hostility or unfriendliness to Catholics.»

The avowal of a Christian approach need not mean that the Christian theologian is less committed to truth and objectivity than anyone else.

At this juncture a refusal to disown the title would have the same effect as an avowal, and it was a matter of life and death.

For my own part, I would credit the avowals made by gay spokesmen like Barney Frank and Andrew Sullivan that they do not have the remotest interest in promoting polygamy, or in weakening the laws that sustain families.

Could the state compel such an avowal of belief contrary to what their religion taught them?

This attestation could not be reduced to the illustration of these norms that the unjustifiable has placed in confusion; the avowal of evil waits for our regeneration more than the examples of sublimity.

In late modernism this profound recognition of the conditionedness or relativity of all thought has generally led to the avowal of some form of conceptual relativism.

This avowal of the absolute can no longer be Kantian (nor no doubt Plotinian), for Kantian philosophy would incline us to look only for examples or symbols, not for testimonies, understood as accounts of an experience of the absolute.

Luther adds a coarse expression of his contempt for the satanic fiend to his avowal of Christ as the defender of Christianity: «But if that is not enough for you, you Devil, I have also shit and pissed; wipe your mouth on that and take a hearty bite.»

«The BPD regime failed to comply with the ECHR principles... throughout the period prior to its avowal in March 2015,» the tribunal concluded.

Avowals of literary ambitions and familial devotion, stories of death and faith, and a bold dramatic structure — based on flashbacks and leaps forward in time — set the vagaries of work and love on the firm footing of destiny.

Perhaps it's the fact that the Armitages, for all their avowals of liberal values, have black help (Betty Gabriel, Marcus Henderson).

This was the «avowal» scene: a moment when Elio finds the nerve to tell Oliver, though very obliquely, that, despite what everyone thinks, he «knows very little about things that matter.»

Ultimately, for all its darkness, Bourgeois» spider is an avowal of strength, and an embodiment of the therapeutic power of artistic creation.