Sentences with phrase «beggar in»

A borrower is simply never in charge; rather, they assume the subservient position of a beggar in need.

While this appears highly exploitative, the beggar in the video, and many other of Sierra's participants are willing victims and paid at least as much as the local average wage.

One is set in the Soane Museum and makes a heavy point of introducing the kind of visitors that Sir John would never have allowed - a black conservator, pensively examining Hogarth's Rake's Progress; a dreadlocked trickster presumably inspired by the black beggar in that painting; and two black women in Georgian costume, in turn fingering Soane's ill - gotten gains.

There was Santiago, the beggar in Mexico who told me he was smiling because «life was so beautiful.»

Dating site 1to1-dating.com will make you lucky beggar in the search of new friends or lovers amongst single Women and men in Sunderland!

Signing a 29 year old Auba for 60 mill who will be worth beggar all in 3 years time seems absurd especially when we have just signed 50 m Lacazette and still have Giroud Wellbeck and Perez!!!

How many of us pretend we didn't see that beggar in the doorway we just passed?

Blindness is related to being a beggar, and one is always a beggar in a social context.

A few mornings ago I opened my Bible to the story of the blind beggar in Luke 18:35 - 42, as part of my study through the gospels.

All the Naked Pastor cartoons expose me, victim and abuser, bullied and bully, shunned and shunner; immediately I identify with victim, bullied, and shunned self - righteously casting aspersion and derogation at the bad guy, pastor in a box, flock of angry exclamation marks, the bundled up and wealthy ignoring the beggar in the street, the starving in Somalia.

Government officials are «beggars in uniform» who ask for «small iced water or Fantas» at roadblocks and airport checks.

A blog posted to Missionaries in Service to Africa explain child beggars in Addis Ababa by stating, «TIA» or, This Is Africa — as if that was explanation enough.

The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested92 beggars in the Kano metropolis for allegedly contravening the law against street begging.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's market place.

The next four books down, which I'll read in no particular order, just whichever fits my mood, are Dave Eggers» A Hologram for the King (I'm a huge fan); Margaret Maron's One Coffee With (I'm so glad that Oconee Spirit Press just reissued this long out of print title); Fountain of Age, a collection of stories by Nancy Kress (I really enjoyed her novel Beggars in Spain); and China Mieville's Railsea (I loved Un Lun Don, and this is another novel for kids).

In fact, a lot of beggars in SF have a dog.

I'm talking about when a blogger writes about how annoying beggars in Cambodia are and fails to so much as mention the country's bloody history and the Khmer Rouge regime created a cycle of extreme poverty that endures today.

You will be approached by beggars in India, and it is obviously up to you whether you give or not.

Not exact matches

Users in these groups would share «best practices» from bombarding borrowers with frequent phone calls to posting public notices around their homes or even swarming them with «beggars,» practices that a Chinese lawyer told The Paper could veer into illegal territory.

In Chinese cities, beggars seek mobile payments to their accounts using QR codes rather than spare change.

And even if, through some stunning act of clairvoyance, they had managed to foresee so much in the way of innovation, the identification of the Golden State Killer would still beggar the imagination.

The bizarre events that have unfolded in recent days almost beggar belief: John McAfee, the tech entrepreneur who pioneered anti-virus software, has gone into hiding.

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What Governor Rajan did say, in his remarks made off the attached written text, was that the policies followed by major central banks around the world were in danger of slipping into the kind of beggar - thy - neighbour strategies that were followed in the 1930s.

This is why in the 1930s these policies were referred to as beggar - thy - neighbor policies.

An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market.

The church Timothy pastored in ancient Ephesus would have had rich businesspeople and slaves worshipping side by side, temple prostitutes, artisans, soldiers, beggars, trust - fund babies and everything in between.

Lutheranism engages us in our doubled condition and reminds us of its founder's central insight, confessed as he died, that we are all beggars before God.

The frequent question Jesus asked of blind beggars and mothers and disciples (And so probably me)(and probably you) is a bit stunning in its simplicity.

In Martin Luther's last written words, «We are beggars, that is true!»

It is a world in which beggars are more at home than the wealthy, sinners more than the righteous, children more than their parents, and clowns and fools more than priests and scribes.

They speak of me with scorn, calling me beggar - woman or witch or harlot; but their words are at variance with life, and the pharisees who condemn me, waste away in the outlook to which they confine themselves; they die of inanition and their disciples desert them because I am the essence of all that is tangible, and men can not do without me.

Instead of stripping away from the Church unjustly acquired goods, he showered it with invisible treasures and, under the gentle hand of this beggar, the mound of gold and wealth began to flower like a bush in springtime.

Is someone in need an idle beggar or a brother or sister who has fallen on hard times?

In their presence would you dare frankly to confess that that which you desire in the world, in which you sought your consolation, certain that the king in his majesty would not despise you even though you were a man of inferior rank; certain that the beggar would not go away envious that he could not have the same consolation; certain that the man like yourself would be pleased by your franknesIn their presence would you dare frankly to confess that that which you desire in the world, in which you sought your consolation, certain that the king in his majesty would not despise you even though you were a man of inferior rank; certain that the beggar would not go away envious that he could not have the same consolation; certain that the man like yourself would be pleased by your franknesin the world, in which you sought your consolation, certain that the king in his majesty would not despise you even though you were a man of inferior rank; certain that the beggar would not go away envious that he could not have the same consolation; certain that the man like yourself would be pleased by your franknesin which you sought your consolation, certain that the king in his majesty would not despise you even though you were a man of inferior rank; certain that the beggar would not go away envious that he could not have the same consolation; certain that the man like yourself would be pleased by your franknesin his majesty would not despise you even though you were a man of inferior rank; certain that the beggar would not go away envious that he could not have the same consolation; certain that the man like yourself would be pleased by your frankness?

How many of us pass by a beggar only to scoff in judgement.

It would be fun to get a hold of a couple of thousand in pretend cash to «donate» to these bogus beggars.

Wrath of Zeus, the Christian bible clearly states that only the rich will get to heaven... Jesus totally hated the poor... if I remember correctly, he used to call them lazy bums and would regularly spit on the beggars as he drove past them on the streets of Jerusalem while driving in his Rolls Royce... it's all in the bible.

At best they offer «crumbs to the beggars» (the wording I heard the head deacon of one church say in regards to this issue).

Benjamin, transformed now into the beggar Lazarus, makes his final appearance 50 pages before a small group of Catholics, of the world but no longer in it, make their escape by starship.

Ushered past beggars into waiting vans, these church people embarked on an adventure of solidarity that marks a shift in how we understand mission.

Wilson can not grasp anything but corniness in a trope that goes back to Ancient Greece, resonates through the Middle Ages, and informs the social preaching of our day — the presence of God in a beggar that binds him into a community with me despite our radically different lives.

This option, offensive not only to us but already to Matthew, motivated him both to insert «Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» and also, at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (the Beatitudes pronounced on the poor and hungry), to add that God's blessing has to do with the «poor in spirit,» who «hunger and thirst after righteousness,» not simply with hungry beggars, which is what the Greek word translated «poor» actually means.

Slate magazine's Carl Wilson turns his otherwise glowing review nasty when it comes to religion: «Christianity comes to the fore, particularly in the latter tale of a run - in with a homeless beggar who turns out to be God himself.

Muhammad said to Uthman ibn Maz» un who was ascetic by nature and who asked permission to make himself a eunuch and to spend the rest of his life as a wandering beggar, «Hast thou not in me a fair example?

Randy Boyagoda is the author of Beggar's Feast, and his biography of Richard John Neuhaus will be published in 2015.

D. T. Niles's dictum that «evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to find food» is quoted in the documents almost as often as the Great Commission itself!

And, by God, we're the hurting beggars begging in all this chaos: «Be close to the brokenhearted.

Just like we don't hang around with women who are caught in the act of adultery, we don't hang around with Samaritans, we don't hang around with powerless children, we don't hang around with women who have a bad reputation, we don't hang around with beggars or the poor or the oppressed or the criminal or the possessed or the socially marginalized or the ones who aren't allowed to come to temple with the good religious people, good gracious!

«I prefer painting people's eyes to cathedrals,» he wrote, «for there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral, however solemn and imposing the latter may be — a human soul, be it that of a poor beggar or of a street walker, is more interesting to me.»