Sentences with phrase «backing the passage of»

«I think he'd be an excellent appointment,» said Maloney, crediting him with pushing Republicans in Washington to back passage of health care funds for first responders and Ground Zero workers after September 11th.

The political action committee that backs the passage of the Child Victims Act in the Legislature has endorsed Democrat Brian Benjamin in the 30th Senate district.

The council has chosen to back the passage of the New York Health Act, a bill calling for a single - payer healthcare system for all state residents.

Going back to the hypothetical question, «it brings back the passages of law it feels most confident answer your question»...

Not exact matches

Want more research - backed ideas on how to keep your brain functioning at its peak despite the passage of the years?

I bring this up because this absence (or call it omission, if you like) underlies the staunch opposition of many conservative Republicans to the Affordable Care Act — and to previous government efforts to provide publicly funded health care and insurance coverage to their citizens going back to the passage of Medicare in 1965.

And, of course, there's the more recent passage of the tax bill, which will have an effect on what you pay and hopefully get back from Uncle Sam.

The crown jewel of the park may very well be the «Avatar Flight of Passage,» a simulation in which participants fly on the back of a mountain banshee in 3 - D.

Popper said a confluence of events last year affected demand for Cuba, including the announcement of a scale - back of some Obama - era regulations by President Donald Trump's administration, alleged sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats in Cuba — which triggered a travel warning by the U.S. State Department — and Hurricane Irma's passage.

But it came back from the dead for 2017, along with some other breaks on Feb. 9 with the passage of a bipartisan budget act.

The RFP follows the Seattle City Council's passage of Ordinance 125257 in February 2017, which cut back on the city's dealings with Wells Fargo due to the bank's involvement in the Dakota Access pipeline and predatory lending practices.

To hold the position that any debate you have you win because you have a divine operative that can never be wrong even when he is you just stand up and say «Our understanding of that is flawed so however the bible said it may not be what it meant but it's never ever wrong, someone go back to translating and interpreting it till we figure out a way around it's errors, er, i mean, misunderstood or mistranslated passages...»

To the Jews, the «eye for an eye» passage had become a license for personal vengeance, a basis for a vendetta, sort of a biblical permission to have a grudge or to strike back.

With respect to Luke 4:18, the reference to the poor in this passage is not part of the general message about Jesus turning his back on his home town as found in Mark, Matthew, John, Thomas and Luke 4: 16 - 17, 19 - 30 making Luke 4; 18 historically unreliable.

See for example, http://www.faithfutures.org/JDB/jdb471.html and Professor Gerd Ludemann's studies in his book, Jesus After 2000 Years pp. 369 - 370: «This passage no more goes back to Jesus than the parable of the rich farmer Luke 12: 16 - 20.

In this passage, as in others, the Greek Septuagint Translation of the Old Testament, begun in Alexandria around 285 B.C., apparently goes back to an earlier Hebrew manuscript than our English Versions represent.

Passages such as I have cited can be traced back to a time well before the composition of the gospels.

Nay, we must ever recall to mind, (which I have before adduced from the passage in Joshua,) that he was plunged into the filth of idolatry; and now God freely stretches forth his hand to bring back the wanderer.

The passages from Pickthall's classic translation, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, have been used with the permission of George Allen & Unwin Ltd., publishers of the clothbound edition, and of the New American Library, publishers of the paper - backed edition.

If we step back from this particular passage, and attend to our different hermeneutical strategies, we shall see that most of the continuity we discern between these books will depend upon the interpretative unit we select for Process and Reality.

We could look back to the passage under consideration and ask, of this Messianic Psalm, to whom did the Lord put His trust while in the womb?

So during a recent House agricultural committee debate, he decided to show how Christian it is to turn your back on unemployed suffering Americans by quoting one of the favorite Bible passages of revoltingly fake right - wing Christians — 2 Thessalonians 3:10 — «anyone unwilling to work should not eat.»

You profess something yet you can't back it up, you TRY to use one passage (which we have already covered was out of context) against 5 others.

There are passages in the Qur» an which suggest that those who fall away will not be given another chance, but then the Epistle to the Hebrews warns that «It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace» (Hebrews 6, 4 - 6).

I think that some explorers are deeply frightened by the variability and danger of the New World, and need quick passage back to the Old.

He needed two of each so that if he cut a passage out of one side of a page, he would still have the back side of that page in case he wanted to include a passage from there.

More pastors have more people locked up by feeding them a steady diet of do's and don'ts blended with just enough of the gospel and religious speak, and willy - nilly bible passages that are turned into principles (laws), that the poison goes down smoothly and they keep comin» back for more.

I would like to see you back up this statement with at least one passage of scripture.

The churches would continue in such a plan to have much diversity, but with freer passage back and forth for both ministers and members, a far higher consciousness of Christians representing traditions other than one's own, an arena for mutuality in mission.

In the second case, of giving something which I do receive back but not in the same form, there is an element of unilaterality, but this is connected to the fact that for a gift to remain a gift, it must change throughout its passage.

At the end of the day and with reference to your cartoon, the passage below in John reporting the Last Supper has Jesus actually say that there are things he knows that he hadn't then told them, that he wanted to but held back, and saying that the Holy Spirit would teach us these things when the Spirit is sent.

Most legalists have Bible verses to back up what they believe, but most often their favorite passages are ripped out of context or incorrectly applied.

He closed with the following passage: «Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man - and when white will embrace what is right.»

One of the most beautiful passages in the New Testament is that in which Paul sends Onesimus back to Philemon — not emancipated in the legal sense, but «no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother,... both in the flesh and in the Lord» (v. 16).

Like the Venerable Bede before him, he considers life as a brief passage out of darkness into light and then back into darkness.

I want to scrawl whole passages of books on the stairway walls, scripture on the fireplace, psalms on the cupboards, epic poems on the east wall, quotes on pumpkins, rules on the stairs, wear out a pack of Sharpies on the backs of the doors, just writing the truth that I know while I know it still for someday.

It was when we fed back to one another that we discovered that whether our group was as small as three or as large as ten, very rarely did any of us have the same phrase — even if it was a fairly short passage.

For example, if these three parables are talking about how Jesus goes out to find unsaved people, and the lost sheep, coins, and sons therefore represent all the people of the world, what is keeping us from a universalist interpretation of this passage, since Jesus doesn't stop searching until he has gathered all 100 back into his fold?

Better go back and reread the Romans passage, because you are taking it out of context.

If this passage does teach the loss of salvation, then it also teaches that if a person loses it, they can't get it back.

For the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (351) 3 Some interpreters refer also to Whitehead's reference to the «superjective nature» of God in Process and Reality: «The «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (88).4 In this case, however, the actual warrant lies again on page 351, as it is under the light of that particular passage that the «superjective character» on page 88 is interpreted as a reference to the objectification of the consequent nature.

Not only is it associated, as a previously quoted passage asserts, with the drive to dominate nature which can be traced back to the Hebraic creation myth, but it also reflects the «agonal spirit of the Greeks,» the aim «at the attainment of individual greatness» (UP 236).

This article helps to weave this passage back into a framework that ia not at war with all the other teachings of the Bible.

Well, for people who believe the Bible when it says Jesus is coming back, it is quite logical to point out the amount of ignorance they displayed in ignoring a passage that is very, very key to end times studies (eschatology).

(1) The author of the «we - passages» in Acts, presumably from a travel diary, went with Paul to Troas and Macedonia (Acts 16:8 - 17); he sailed with him back to Troas (20:5 - 15) and thence to Jerusalem and Rome (21:1 - 18; 27:1 - 28:16).

The author of the «we - passages» represents himself as going with Paul to Troas and then to Macedonia (16:8 -11), sailing with him back from Philippi to Troas (20:5 — Is) and thence going to Jerusalem (21.1 — 18) and Rome (27.1 — 28.16).

The final passage, with its pointed formulation and its underlying expression of contempt for the Devil, was amazing at the time and is overlooked today: «But when I realized that it was Satan, I rolled over and went back to sleep again.»

If we are honest, blue parakeet passages often threaten us, call into question our traditional way of reading the Bible, and summon us back to the Bible to rethink how we read the Bible.»

We must remember that when we read about God in the Old Testament, we read Jesus back into those passages, rather than read those depictions of God forward onto Jesus.

When we come back to the primitive experience of the passage, we find repetitions and contrasts within it, and we fasten on these and interpret them I believe we should think of these properties as within the passage, not «ingressing» into it, so making it a rich process, and not simply a transition.