Sentences with phrase «by a neighbor at»

Ours is a society sharply divided by lines of race and class, profoundly anxious about its future, and more fearful now of the threats posed by our neighbors at home than by any foreign enemy.

Each might believe, for example, that he was the one to get pushed off his bike by a neighbor at age 8.

Not exact matches

By comparison, Logan Paul's younger brother has always been considered slightly more polarizing, particularly for his attempts at a rap career and his feud with his neighbors, whose complaints about Jake's antics led to his firing from Disney.

In the District of Columbia, concerns about the high maternal mortality rate — in 2014, it stood at about 40.7 deaths per 100,000 births, according to the analysis by United Health Foundation, substantially exceeding the U.S. rate and those of neighboring Virginia and Maryland — have periodically sparked talk of a review committee, but not enough to push a measure through.

That could put Washington at odds with China, which claims most of the South China Sea and has alarmed its neighbors by building artificial islands and airports there, among other facilities.

In Bradford County, the pleasant pond at the vacation home of Truman and Bonnie Burnett is a murky swamp, ringed by dead trees, after tens of thousands of gallons of drilling fluid spilled in 2009 from the property of their neighbor, who had signed a gas lease.

By the by, if I hear one more person criticizing Megyn Kelly's strapless dress, I will ululate until the tree trunks around my house crack from the noise and spray sap at the neighborBy the by, if I hear one more person criticizing Megyn Kelly's strapless dress, I will ululate until the tree trunks around my house crack from the noise and spray sap at the neighborby, if I hear one more person criticizing Megyn Kelly's strapless dress, I will ululate until the tree trunks around my house crack from the noise and spray sap at the neighbors.

Freedom is not having your house surrounded by contaminated mud because the berm at the neighboring chemical plant failed overnight.»

Our next - door neighbor's daughter was one of the lives taken (too) soon by a senseless act of violence at Stoneman Douglas High School.

Rafael and the Ministry of Defense's main sales effort is directed at South Korea, which is threatened by its northern neighbor.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

The machinery that pulled up to the church to do the re-roofing was a sign to the neighbors that they were not to be abandoned, at least not by this church.

In Mark the story of Jairus» daughter is followed by Jesus rejection by his former neighbors at Nazareth (Mk 6:1 - 6; Mt 13:53 - 58), Matthew gives substantially the same account after his third discourse.

Insofar as we try to deal with this destructiveness by weakening our seriousness about the laws, we seek our own health at the expense of the neighbor.

At the heart of the Christian faith is this great assurance: Although we have sinned terribly against him and our neighbors through our lovelessness, he still loves us and seeks to win us to salvation by that love.

Mark has a circumstantial story (copied by Matthew and Luke) about the way the donkey was «found» Apparently it had been left «tethered at a door outside in the street» at the entrance to the village (presumably either Bethany or the neighboring Bethphage), ready to be released to messengers who gave the password, «Our Master needs it.»

MARY & PAUL You lied or at least showed ur ignorance by calling «love thy neighbor as thyself» Christ's Golden Rule.

And so, as an evangelical, I am deeply invested in my faith, at both a personal and communal level, and I believe that all scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, challenging, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that people faith are equipped to love God and their neighbors.

The prolem I've always had with organized religion is that at some point after all the «Do unto others» «Turn the other cheek» «Help thy neighbor» they all say «Oh, by the way, do it our way or burn in hell».

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

As idealistic as it may sound, Zimmern has a point in saying that we may be able to solve our problems by pretty much sitting at the table with our neighbors.

From clueless bosses to wacky neighbors, One Day at a Time hits refresh on your usual sitcom character tropes by bringing a distinctive familiarity as the cast uses their synergy to deliver their scripts and convince audiences that they do in fact care about one another and the journey they're all on together.

I read Ayn Rand years a ago when neighbors of mine contacted me, devastated by their children being brainwashed by some philosophy students at the local staterun university.

At first, only to defend the property of his neighbors, whose property and children were being taken by force.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

A slight unevenness of distribution occurring by chance at any given point (a contingency that was bound to arise) was all that was needed to cause the entire edifice to break up into parts which, sundering themselves from their neighbors, coiled in more and more tightly upon themselves in enormous clots — their vastness, by the law of celestial mechanics, being directly proportionate to the lightness of the matter of which they were originally composed.

As we have looked at getting to know our neighbors, building relationships with them and then getting to know them even better and helping them to get to know each other better through group events (Get all these posts in your email inbox by signing up below), perhaps you have wondered why we do this.

One seminary teacher tells of being at his greatest effectiveness during the days that he shared with his students the blow - by - blow account of his dealings with real estate people as he sold his house to a member of a minority group and tried, at the same time, to act responsibly toward his neighbors.

And if I'm wrong, at least I lived my life the best I could by serving others, loving my neighbors and treating my brothers and sisters the way Christ taught.

Frankly, loving a neighbor may at times be easier than loving God, just by virtue of» the concrete visibility of the neighbor.

At Big Tent Christianity last month Marcus Borg was asked how to avoid getting overwhelmed by kingdom work — that is, pursuing reconciliation, caring for the planet, spreading the gospel, loving neighbors, loving enemies, working for justice, celebrating beauty, and advancing peace.

But once you have developed relationships with your neighbors, you can build on those friendships by hosting a group event at your house.

It is measured by how we interact with our neighbor, the server at the restaurant, and the check - out lady in the store.

What the ex-KGB hand, Putin, has gotten done is this: He's erected a kleptocratic quasi-dictatorship on top of a crumbling civil society while murdering his political opponents, invading his neighbors, backstopping Syria's murderous Bashar al - Assad, and conducting a fantastic propaganda campaign throughout the world (supported, sadly, by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church)-- all of which is aimed at reversing the verdict of recent history, rebuilding Stalin's empire in a new guise, and deconstructing the West.

As a Frenchman, once again, I was deeply surprised and at the same time touched by the way in which, for instance, Croatians and Slovaks considered the current friendship between my country and its eastern neighbor, Germany, as an example of what can be achieved between former «hereditary foes,» and as a ground for hope.

The Christian letter, crafted by professors at the Yale Divinity School's Center for Faith and Culture, is called «Loving God and Neighbor Together.»

It's past time to set aside the raging, foaming - at - the - mouth hatred espoused by this sect and start truly living as Christ supposedly taught — and whatever did happen to loving thy neighbor as thyself??

In response, scholars at Yale Divinity School's Center for Faith and Culture drafted «Loving God and Neighbor Together,» which was signed by nearly 300 Christian leaders and published in a December edition of The New York Times.

The rest of the day he spends in reconciling neighbors that are at variance, or in visiting the sick, or in exhortations to some of his flock by themselves whom his sermons can not or do not reach.

While I dug and ripped and scooped every last bit of grass and weeds out the kids ran around the yard, my son played next door at the neighbors sandbox for a little while and my daughter figured out how to go down her little toddler slide by herself, among other things.

Actually, what I really like is the idea that friends, family, or neighbors could stop by and at a moment's notice I could have some cookies baking.

We warned our neighbors in advance, and shut the party down at 10:00 — and when we said time to go, everyone thanked us and Tony and I enjoyed the fire for another hour by ourselves!

Afterwards, when neighbors came by, we nibbled away at the Sweet As Honey cake slices with mint tea until it all disappeared.

Local outreach is also part of their good neighbor ethos, by funding an annual day of service for employees to work at local non-profits.

At the foot of the mountains on Vancouver Island nestled by Comox Lake, it's a charming community with a strong belief in supporting your neighbor and local businesses.

The menu prices of these wines typically range from $ 200 to $ 300, and the vintages are not available by the glass at any other restaurant in Tennessee or neighboring states, making it an exclusive addition to Flight's menu.

I was introduced to this salad in the early 1980's by a neighbor and it became a regular at holiday dinners.

They are always at our Thanksgiving table and ready to give out by the plateful to friends and neighbors for Christmas.

Under 18's got beat 4 — 1 by our neighbors in the Cup semi final, and the under 23's lost a top of the table clash at Leicester 3 — 1, although that result is tempered by the fact that our best players from that team were absent due to their anticipated appearance in the Europa league game on Thursday night.

Yesterday, Tottenham registered their 9th win on the trot in the Premier League by beating arch rivals and neighbors Arsenal at White Hart Lane.