Sentences with phrase «bestowing upon»

The results, «certainly suggest that for people we perceive to be similar to us,» Jenkins says, «we are sort of automatically bestowing upon them the rich complement of [our own] characteristics....»

For what its worth, I don't think that it is unreasonable for a political party to face the ultimate sanction for electing as their leaders and bestowing upon the nation the likes of Gordon Brown with his immoral lust for debt and for the terrible legacy of Tony Blair.

The former Labour Party Leader is worthy of all the tributes that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (who hails her former rival as a «great parliamentarian» and man of «high principle») and so many others are bestowing upon his memory.

The irony is, the biggest mistakes moms make often stem from being way too hard on themselves, and not bestowing upon themselves the revere and honor they so rightfully deserve.

In recognition of his ecumenical work with the Eastern Orthodox Church based on his common love and study of the Alexandrian Fathers Saints Athanasius and Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, Nicholas VI, took the highly unusual step of bestowing upon Torrance, an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, the title of honorary protopresbyter, while Torrance was in Addis Ababa during his trip to Ethiopia as a guest of the Orthodox Church in 1973.

This of course tortures out of sin its utmost demoniac powers, bestowing upon it the ungodly hardiness or obduracy which must constantly regard everything which is of the nature of repentance and everything which is of the nature of grace not only as empty and meaningless but as its foe, as the thing which most of all it has to guard against, quite in the same way as the good guards itself against temptation.

As Berger puts it, «religion legitimates social institutions by bestowing upon them an ultimately valid ontological status, that is, by locating them within a sacred and cosmic frame of reference.

she asks, continuing, «What if our «exits» were bestowing upon someone you love the thing you have created and crafted with love?

Make sure when an award is bestowed upon you your potential consumers are surrounded with information announcing your accomplishments.

The SBA's 7 (a) Loan Program is the most popular of the agency's programs (more than 88,000 of these loans totaling almost $ 14 billion were bestowed upon small businesses in fiscal year 2005).

Just as there's a wide spectrum for a medal loaded with history versus one earned in an overlooked skeet shooting competition, the prestige a medal bestows upon the winner depends on the sport and the back story of the event and its participants.

Mental toughness is not an innate quality bestowed upon a select few.

It exists, all around us and all the time, but does not bestow itself upon just anyone.

Second, and most important, I disabled all email notifications — the biggest productivity killer ever bestowed upon the workforce.

Fans bestowed upon 2005's «Revenge of the Sith» a $ 380 million domestic box office take that's good for $ 455 million today.

The Mickey Warner Award is bestowed upon an individual each year by NAC to recognize leadership and significant accomplishments in the non-movie concession industry.

I just graduated college in May and was fortunate enough to secure an entry level consulting position that pays 55k / yr (a little less than ~ 35k after 401K, other benefits, and the lovely taxes that government bestows upon us).

The Mickey Warner Award is bestowed upon an individual each year by NAC to recognize leadership and significant accomplishments in the non-theatre concession industry.

The Group also runs the Chief Executive Network, the leading CEO membership organization arranged by industry, and facilitates the annual «CEO of the Year,» a prestigious honor bestowed upon an outstanding corporate leader, nominated and selected by a group of peers.

Still, given his expansive media platform — in addition to his reality - show franchise, Mr. Trump was a frequent guest on Fox News — and a fortune that he could theoretically bestow upon a campaign, Mr. Trump was drawing presidential candidates seeking his support to his Fifth Avenue high - rise.

O children of Adam, We have bestowed upon you clothing to conceal your private parts and as adornment.

He redeems us from our brokenness, delivers us from the evil one, and bestows upon us Eternal Life.

By transforming abortion from a controversial and complex moral and political question into a constitutional entitlement, Roe v. Wade bestowed upon abortion the status of a positive good.

For those who disregard the blessings bestowed upon them by GOD, GOD is most strict in retribution.

Who or what bestowed upon you the «right» to not be offended?

It says with the faith of a mustard seed God can heal all things, if he chooses, but God does nt always choose to bestow upon us what we want.

So the loving God and loving Jesus condemn Hawking forever because he spent his life trying to understand the universe that they created, using the unique mind that they bestowed upon him, a mind that he used in the way it was designed to be used.

Grace is love and mercy bestowed upon another even though it is UNDESERVED.

If it were the case that the Jews acted wrongly by taking land from the Palistinians by force... it would be of course, one of the most understandable acts of aggression in History... after what was bestowed upon them in WWII what people wouldn't suffer a temporary loss of sanity?

Mormon «Prophet» said... «You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind... Cain slew his brother.

What's funny, is that believers bestow upon their god, the attributes of being omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient.

But when it comes to Shawn's greatest memory of his lengthy career (1984 - 2010), the wrestler would rather talk about the moment he committed his life to Christ than bask in any glory his fans would bestow upon him.

For those that like to Bible thump, the second greatest gift God bestowed upon man was Free Will.

My salvation is not of works but purely of Grace as bestowed upon me through the knowledge that my sins are forgiven through the perfect work of Christ.

I said: What's funny, is that believers bestow upon their god, the attributes of being omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient.

We are made male and female, man and woman, and attempts to blur distinctions under the seemingly innocuous term «gender» are really attempts to assert that sex should be seen as an autonomous human activity, something which has noother meaning than what the individual wishes to bestow upon it.

When the Hellenistic Church once again bestowed upon the world the biblical name of «creation,» it thereby abandoned a truly eschatological form of faith.

Jubilant (are they) because of that which Allah hath bestowed upon them of His bounty» (Surah III, 169 - 70).

In the voice of his master Socrates, Plato bestowed upon his intellectual descendants the branches of speculative philosophy.

We give thanks that Jesus bestowed upon him 55 years of marriage to the woman he loved — a woman who could match him at every step, and even hold him accountable.

We look to Jesus Christ yesterday — that is, to the past — in thanksgiving for the blessings God bestowed upon Dad.

Now if we are talking to animals it is a different story as they do not have the power to make these choices.As humans you have all the power bestowed upon you to think before co.pulation.

Yet it is more than a stamp; it is a burden laid upon him which makes him wholly acceptable, vulnerable, disponible, and yet withdraws him to the task of «giving his flesh for the life of the world»: almost in the moment when an outburst of popular devotion would bestow upon him the splendor of kingship, a kingship of popular acclaim which he refused without seeming even to consider attempting to manage it.

The essence of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father.

So far as any person is concerned, «so perfectly free is the power of moral causation which is bestowed upon him through the redemption wrought by Christ, that notwithstanding all this prevenient and assisting grace he is himself emphatically a causal agent in his own salvation» (FG 60f).

We were given charge over this world and we abuse the power bestowed upon us every day.

Others being Jealous from the House of Abraham for the knowledge bestowed upon them; An - Nisa sura 04: Or are they jealous of mankind because of that which Allah of His bounty hath bestowed upon them?

For example, many people treat the possibility of rehabilitation behind prison walls with the same skeptical indifference that even devout Catholics now bestow upon purgatory: We can't even fathom how moral change happens, if at all, in either place, so we leave its remote possibility up to God.

1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Another could be that if the biological father's rights be considered in conjunction with a fetus having rights bestowed upon it by the govt.