Sentences with phrase «back upon the text»

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Even while acknowledging some lat.itude in these early chapters, it appears that science is increasingly able to corroborate what we have held in faith based upon biblical texts, including bases for such matters as an ancient deluge, genetic linking back to one mother and possible on father, and the possibility of extended life - spans prior to the deluge.

Just as the Egyptians were seeking to flee from the sea (cf. Exodus 14:27), the text says that God instructed Moses to stretch out his hand over the waters so that they might collapse back down upon the army.

In Exodus 14:24 - 25, after the Egyptian army had followed the Israelites into the Red Sea, the text says that God sought to turn the Egyptian army back by bringing trouble upon them.

The Court, if it had wished to rely upon Jefferson to determine the true and original intent of the First Amendment, could have served themselves and the American people well by referring to Jefferson's warning to Judge William Johnson regarding the de-ter-min-ation of the original intent of a statute or a con - st - itu - tion On every question of con - struc - tion, carry ourselves back to the time when the Con - st - itu - tion was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.»

A loose union of parents and teachers — with no clear hierarchy, no clear messaging other than to tell outside forces and charter operators to back off, and not even an agreed upon method of communication (there was varied use of text messages, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Slack, and occasional phone calls)-- managed to decimate their three - quarters - of - a-million-dollar summer project.

Each large - scale print in O Zhang's series The World is Yours (But Also Ours)(2008) combines a preteen girl wearing a slogan T - shirt in English («It's all good in the hood» features in Salute to the Patriot) with a line of Mandarin text (the titular script in Death and Life Have Determined Appointments, Riches and Honor Depend Upon Heaven is a proverb tattooed on the back of British soccer star David Beckham).