It is important to say at the outset that the consecration of virginity is the consecration of an existing state of virginity and not a prospective vow of chastity, even if the two have the same practical effect concerning the future; a further important distinction is that consecrated virginity
is a permanent state from which one can not be dispensed.
At least for me, balance has never
been a permanent state — a way of being I arrive at once and for all with finality.
I think sometimes we get carried away by players» dips in form and think
it is a permanent state of affairs.
Though I had earnestly prayed we would avoid another «Cahill sales - tax crisis» this year, the first shot of what may
be a permanent state of war was fired this Tuesday.
In effect,
it is a permanent state of remission.
Much of the mainstream media — in the US and abroad — has been swallowing the fossil fuel Kool - Aid and hailing the arrival of cheap gas, through the fracking boom, as a new energy «revolution», as if this would
be a permanent state of affairs.
Hundreds of environmental activists (described as «angry», as if
that is their permanent state rather than a reasonable response to Will's column), but only a few scientists?
For most small firm lawyers, feeling overwhelmed and incapable of getting everything done
is a permanent state of being.
Not exact matches
They suggest allowing more foreign entrepreneurs to receive
permanent work visas, letting foreign students in STEM fields to remain and work (particularly as they
are twice as likely as native - born Americans to start businesses), and have
state and local organizations and governments try new ways to encourage entrepreneurship.
President Barack Obama's plan would let up to 4.7 million of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United
States stay without threat of deportation, including some 4.4 million who
are parents of U.S. citizens and legal
permanent residents.
Relations between Washington and Ankara have also
been strained over Turkey's demand that the United
States extradite a reclusive Turkish cleric and educator named Fethullah Gülen, now a U.S.
permanent resident (green card holder) living in Pennsylvania.
Jones
was elevated to serve as acting assistant secretary of
state responsible for the Middle East and had neither
been offered the job on a
permanent basis not told that he would not get it, said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
But whether this signals a
permanent change in our Top
States remains to
be seen.
The news
was announced by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who hailed the technology company's choice as a significant capital investment in the
state that will create at least 700
permanent jobs and 1,300 construction jobs.
With Google's all - important search algorithm in a
state of
permanent improvement — Quipp says it
is updated 550 times a year — the SEP team needs to stay on top of all the technical developments and rapidly adjust the company's advice to clients to reflect those changes in the search world.
The
state is a historical icon, and honors its past through the preservation of Jamestown, the first
permanent English colony in the New World, and Colonial Williamsburg's Revolutionary City.
(1) The tax effect for the U.S. jurisdiction
is calculated based on an effective rate considering federal and
state taxes, as well as
permanent items.
Anyone who
was in the Texas oil business in the 1970s knows how easy it
is to mistake a temporary boom for a
permanent state of expansion.
As
stated in the definition in the beginning, this divergence
is permanent and there
is no longer any compatibility between the two.
Is the company going into a
permanent state of decline?
«We
are committed to the
permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program, and to do so without delay,» Pompeo said at his swearing - in ceremony at the
State Department in Washington.
[2] For the purposes of the SBIR program, the term «small business»
is defined as a for - profit business with fewer than 500 employees, owned by one or more individuals who
are citizens of, or
permanent resident aliens in, the United
States of America.
While he may decide to give Congress time to come up with a
permanent resolution, immigration advocates and economists warned that the possible demise of DACA could lead to the deportation of as many as 800,000 people, many of whom
are working legally in industries across the United
States.
Reuters: «Anheuser - Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer,
is hopeful that the United
States will grant
permanent exemptions to aluminum imported from allies and wants U.S. Congress to look into price spikes that have already set in.
You should also
be a U.S. citizen or
permanent resident and the age of majority in your
state.
You must
be a U.S. citizen or
permanent resident living in the U.S. and the age of majority in your
state, and you must have a personal bank account and email address.
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are only able to consider applicants who
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States, or who already possess a United
States Worker Visa.
You
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States of America (USA) or
permanent resident of the USA, nor have a primary residence or domicile in USA, including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other territories of the USA.
State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon says her concerns about Verletta White's ethical conduct and questions about Baltimore County schools contracting practices
are so great that she must reject the county board's decision to hire her as the district's
permanent superintendent.
The death of Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Papal Nuncio (the Vatican's
permanent diplomatic representative) to the United
States for the last five years,
is a great loss for the diplomatic community in Washington, D.C..
But these
are just momentary
states, not a
permanent stage as yet.
«We
are doomed,» he says, «to live in a
state of tension, uncertainty,
permanent risk.»
Lesson: «beta» (the testing, tryout
state of new technology)
is now a
permanent condition, so hold on to methods loosely because most of them
are transitional, just preparation for the next thing.
Clearly the compassion of the courts
is going to reach far and wide under the new dispensation, even unto those who can not speak for themselves because they
are «in a vegetative
state or a
permanent and irreversible
state of unconsciousness.»
«We felt God
was leading us to more
permanent commitments with children... You know, there
are over a 100 children per day waiting in [our]
state to
be adopted.»
A
permanent and exclusive union
states boldly that the other
is not an object that can
be replaced or substituted, but a person of inviolable worth.
The dynasty which laid the
permanent foundations of Muslim rule in North India
was that of the Ghorids, rulers of a small mountainous
state in Afghanistan.
The country has
been described as a failed
state in
permanent crisis.
But he responded that a synod
was good only for producing useless documents, while the only thing we need to do
is to continue our missionary efforts and to remain in a
state of
permanent mission.»
«Beyond such information, there
is emotion in what we
are offered, which, even more than the lack of logic, keeps us in a
permanent state of masked shock... after so many of these pinpricks, which
are like the drops of water on stone, we too shall crumble into fragments.»
The project
is developing into something more like a
permanent assembly than a blue - ribbon panel, and it
is reported that such an assembly will meet regularly, much as the United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops does, and have its own staff and programs to speak in the name of the laity.
The elemental notion of god - bearing individuals may
be spoken of in an ontological sense when one perceives a sense in which the individual's personality appears to alter or fuse in those «abnormal» «eccentric» phases to effect specific outcomes for «the individual in a community of faith» or for the community of faith extraneous to the individual.15 When the fusion of the individual's personality with the alleged divine
being is complete and
permanent, such an individual may
be said to have actualized the ideal
state of union with the divine, which may
be reversible or irreversible
state of
being.
The kind of action from social awareness that
is demanded by perfect love
is such as must admit the tragic reality that there
are people who
are genuinely intent upon using their freedom to destroy the freedom of others, and that, under certain circumstances, love itself may dictate that «It
is better that many should die prematurely than that nearly all men should live in a
permanent state of hostility or slavery» (MVG 173).
The moderates just talk about Jesus as the way to go to heaven but it
is still implied that if you don't go to heaven, then you
are going to suffer either in hell or a
permanent state of separation and exile.
A Christian
is in a
permanent state of expectation, expectation of the coming of Christ and his kingdom and lives daily in the light of that expectation.
Theologically and philosophically, I had come to a place of peace of mind that has never left and
is now, I believe, a
permanent state I enjoy.
Basically: Building the big fence isn't that realistic, the real problem
is that we don't have legal immigration available for the workers we really need, and in -
state tuition isn't an entitlement for citizens and could reasonably
be extended to children who
are destined to
be permanent and, it
is to
be expected, productive members of your
state.
One has already
been stated that we must get all the historical and literary light we can on the passage to decide what it meant to the original writer, why he said it, whether it expresses
permanent truth or only a passing phase of his or his people's experience.
[10] A vegetative
state tends to
be regarded as «persistent» if it lasts any time from one to three months and «
permanent» after a year or more.
It
is rather the
permanent state of reality as interpreted relationally.