Sentences with phrase «beggars at»

They love to follow their foster mom and dad around the house just to be close to them at all times, and can be real beggars at mealtime.

Maybe you tried to give $ 5 to some beggar at a freeway exist and the police stopped you?

Sadly, The Pope himself, The Pontiff of the $ 500B Vatican, knows no more about the afterlife than the beggar at the gates of the Vatican.

Assisting a beggar at the door of the Nunciature (even if it was Corporal Hitler) is hardly tantamount to bankrolling a political activist and in any case the post First World War charitable activities of Archbishop Pacelli in Berlin and throughout Germany were the precursor to the establishment of what would eventually become the Institute of Religious Works (aka «Vatican Bank») under the direct supervision of the nun who ran Pacelli's household before and after his election as pope.

We don't know whether he was a cold man with habitually averted eyes who never saw the beggar at all or whether he did notice, maybe said a prayer for a sorry case, but stuck to his policy of never giving anything directly to street people.

Whether the offended individual sits broken - hearted, staring almost like a beggar at the Paradox, paralyzed by his suffering, or he sheathes himself in the armor of derision, pointing the arrows of his wit as if from a distance — he is still passive and near at hand.

Instead of feeling like a beggar at a banquet, expect to feel like a giver.

Not exact matches

We are indeed beggars for grace and I am not at all bothered by calling myself that.

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.

The beggar, named Lazarus, who received only «evil things» during his life, is taken at his death to Abraham's bosom and comforted.

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.

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

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.

20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table.

John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.

Just remember this, the next time you visit a holy temple, don't forget to observe those who are outside - nothing changes when you come out, no prayer makes the beggar filthy hungry man become rich in a minute, but You can feed him, at least once, and that to me is real....

The beggar says, «Look at me, legless and everything, I reckon you think I ought to love God.»

God wishes to make beggars into Lords... Look about you at the courts of all the kings and princes, at the cities and the parishes... There you will find lawyers, doctors, counsellors, writers, preachers, who for the most part were poor and who have certainly all attended school, and who by means of the pen have risen to where they are lords.

Randy Boyagoda is chairman of the English department at Ryerson University and author of Beggar's Feast, a novel.

if love always gives when there's no reward shown let us be beggars and paupers and servants at best laboring always so that others might rest that the sweet name of Jesus our tongues might confess

Consequently I am tired of this city... I shall keep on the move and would rather eat the bread of a beggar than torture and upset my old age and final days with the filth at Wittenberg which destroys my hard and faithful work.

At last, a beggar, he returns home where his father, yearning for his return, awaits.

Look at what The Saints are doing to them guys and the beggars the question, why can't we do the same!

To be playing Derrick Rose this way, at this point in the team's season and his career, beggars the imagination.

It's only delusion when United believe they are «title rivals» with city or when the ever effusive Pochettino arrogantly says Tottenham's «ambition» is the league or champions league and not in the domestic cups (man hasn't won a pin but at Wembley a beggar surely has a choice).

I thought recently Arda Turan laughed at a possible move to Arsenal by hinting its a step down for him, i suppose beggars cant be choosers, if your wondering who that comment was for i let you decide

Really the stinginess beggars belief at this stage.

Even his moniker «Scouse Cafu»... was made up by a scouser no less... as an insult at his ability... which has morphed into something completely improbable and insane... that it beggars belief anyone who has ever seen the real Cafu... would laugh at the comparison!!!

If you want to be a chooser, stop being a beggar and purchase all your kid's food at market rates from private vendors.

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford and the author of Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War.

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

So it beggars belief that at a time when there are more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builders.

At King's Times Square presser this week to announce his proposal to regulate the beggars who dress like cartoon characters, one passerby shouted out, «Which character are you?»

I certainly remember looking at the lowest plans when this fiasco started, which would have beggared me, but didn't even cover doctor co-pays.

The beggar blasted a rider in the hand on the B12 bus at East New York Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street, across from the 73rd Precinct stationhouse, about 9:50 a.m., the NYPD said.

But in a statement signed by Assistant Commissioner at the Communication & Public Affairs Department, Kwasi Bobie - Ansah, beggars «do not pay tax on the alms received».

«It beggars belief that CWU chief Dave Ward says today that the disruption caused by the CWU strike is hurting customers, yet at the same time calls a national strike ballot to step up the damage they are already inflicting on customers big and small.

but hopefully the apps we've compiled will at least connect you with someone who's up for a nice dinner (or even just a drink — hey, beggars can't be choosers) on Feb. 14.

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He has recounted that Haneke «came to Paris to investigate African immigration, and I pushed him to go and look also at the area of Romanian beggars.»

Wellman's son William Wellman, Jr. delivers audio commentary on Kino Lorber's upcoming home video release of Beggars of Life, which utilizes the best print of the film known to exist, the 35 mm version preserved at George Eastman Museum.

But, as in all good fairy tales, help is at hand, and a kindly beggar woman (Helena Bonham Carter) steps forward and, armed with a pumpkin and a few mice, changes Cinderella's life forever.

... except for «all idiots, imbeciles, feeble - minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who practice polygamy or believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States.»

«In the face of such overwhelming evidence, it therefore beggars belief that the Government has announced it will plough # 50 million to expand the number of places at existing selective grammar schools.

I knew straight off that he wouldn't spit at me for being a barefoot beggar woman.

Even though the conflict officially ended in 2006, child traffickers have continued to prey on rural villagers» concerns for their children by deceiving families with promises of safety for their children and attendance at top boarding schools in the Kathmandu Valley - but the sad reality is that the children who are taken from their homes are often kept as slaves or beggars, taken to illegal...

Sure, if enough people do it, one of the beggars is bound to win the lottery, but the rest will only become masters at managing their humiliation with cheap hootch.

Chock - full of fascinating historical detail, The Beggar King brings to vibrant life another tremendous tale of an unlikely hangman and his tough - as - nails daughter, confirming Pötzsch's mettle as a storyteller at the height of his powers.

«Spec-wise, this ICS tab in beggar's clothing won't be turning any heads: it's mediocre, at best, with a distinct lack of dual cores.