Sentences with phrase «by men of letters»

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These female journalists, originally numbering 64 in total, have signed a public letter first published by The Hollywood Reporter, calling Brokaw «a man of tremendous decency and integrity.»

«Though there are thousands of professional investment managers who have amassed staggering fortunes by touting their stock - selecting prowess, only one man — Ted Seides — stepped up to my challenge,» Buffet said in his letter, signed Feb. 25.

my greatest concern is this «new teaching» on cussing is that I don't see it throughout the life, ministry or teachings of Jesus or any of the disciples or really any man God uses in the word... What I do hear Him say is that we will be «judged by every careless word» and that's not legalism, that's red letter.

In his apostolic letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente, issued in 1994, John Paul said Christian hope «is not simply a case of man seeking God, but of God who comes in person to speak to man of himself and to show him the path by which he may be reached.»

And they reduce them to slavery, treating them with afflictions they would scarcely use with brute animals... Therefore, We... noting that the Indians themselves indeed are true men... by our Apostolic Authority decree and declare by these present letters that the same Indians and all other peoples — even though theyare outside the faith... should not be deprived of their liberty or their other possessions... and are not to be reduced to slavery, and that whatever happens to the contrary is to be considered null and void.»

The «discernment letter» written by the six of them that night in Dallas, Texas will go down as one of the most ungodly acts against a woman done by men who claim to be of God, progressive, pro-feminist, Christianity 21.

By reading the letter He wrote to ALL (the Bible) and stop listening to tradition of men teachings that stroke your ego of what you want to hear instead of what He wants you to hear.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.&raqmen of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.&raqMen of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

At least in the case of the letter to the Colossians, the occasion was the outcropping of the heresy of Gnosticism by which Christ was made simply one of many intermediate powers between God and man.

While many of these charts were helpful, such as the parallels between Acts and the letters of Paul, and the chart on Paul's missionary journeys, I did not find the charts about all the Men and Women mentioned by Paul to be necessary.

«The Catholic Church, which considers man redeemed by Christ as her way» (cf. Encyclical «Letter Redemptor hominis, n. 14), insists that the recognition of the dignity of the human being as a person from the moment of conception also be guaranteed by law.»

Small groups of philosophers, scientists, scholars, and men of letters were increasingly convinced that the rising merchant and bourgeois class were destined by «the laws of nature and history» to replace the aristocrats of the old feudal order.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

It was a sleazy affair, with the newspapers publishing Weakland's long and maudlin love letter to the young man - a letter not untouched by poignant moments of contrition.

Such a «right» of «faithful dissent» has long been claimed by Catholic progressives, not least with respect to Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the appropriate means of regulating fertility, and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, John Paul II's apostolic letter reaffirming that the Church's authority to ordain extends only to men.

It was hastened by the tenacity of Christian traditionalism, which appeared to leave churchmen with no alternative than one between worship of the letter and worship of the men who wrote the letters.

Let's not forget we were forwarned about this day, and the very Word of God this man is talking about fortold us: 2 Pteter: 3 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

What I found in the text, and in letters written by Kaczynski since his incarceration, was a man with a large number of astute (even prophetic) insights into American political life and culture.

Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women.

On his festival, the altar in the chapel devoted to him in a certain church in Rome «is embosomed in flowers, arranged with exquisite taste; and a pile of letters may be seen at its foot, written to the Saint by young men and women, and directed to «Paradiso.»

WE DO NOT (BAR - NONE) have any original letters written by the men in question, only copies of copies of the oral reports.

Jerome, the great Latin scholar who in the fifth century was responsible for the Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgate, in his brief biography of James, says: «James wrote a single Letter... and even this is claimed by some to have been published by someone else under his name, and gradually, as time went on, to have gained authority» (Lives of Illustrious Men 2).

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), in his later years hailed as the outstanding living man of letters in the English - speaking world, in his youth a believing Christian, in his maturity held that men's lives are governed by blind, unconscious, purposeless cosmic forces.

Johann Lang, in a letter to Spalatin in March 1516 (shortly before he was appointed to Erfurt) referring to the large numbers of students who were dropping out of the courses on scholastic philosophy and theology, and explaining the rebirth of biblical studies (he used the Renaissance type word reviviscere) and the new Strong interest in antiquae scriptores, identified the phenomenon by pointing to the international influence of Reuchlin and Erasmus, «men of great erudition and integrity».

One of the Persian converts to Islam, the famous man of letters Ibn al - Muqaffa, advised the Caliph al - Mansur, who founded the new capital at Baghdad, to promulgate a code of Islamic law, but the lawyers, theologians and scholars, inspired by the general sense of the community, resisted all such attempts at control of belief by the ruling powers.

Reimarus was a historian, but his work was published by a philosophically minded man of letters, Lessing, who thereafter found himself under attack from the orthodoxy of his day, especially that of Hauptpastor Goetze of the city of Hamburg.

Modern education offers little help in grasping this, as is brought out in a letter from a young mother, a few years out of an American college: «I have come to realise that I was educated to be a successful man, and now must learn by myself how to be a successful woman.

A well - respected and forward - thinking man who has been on the board since 1992, Danny's outstanding work for the club has been recognised by the renaming of the South Bridge, near the iconic «ARSENAL» letters at Emirates Stadium, to The Danny Fiszman Bridge.

On behalf of the men and women in the military whose spirits have been lifted by the outpouring of letters and cards, I want to thank my readers, and invite you to once again participate in this patriotic effort.

The letter, signed by eight former staffers in Klein's office, calls him a «man of strong integrity» who has been a «tireless advocate for women.»

The move came in a letter that Schneiderman sent to Cuomo Monday and was sparked by the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of a black man, Eric Garner.

«We are by this letter humbly requesting your office to help Mr. Bismark Kusi recover the said amount from this «man of God»» the letter read.

«Our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, can not grant press interviews to counter these fabricated letters and stories by these evil men, meanwhile, we ask them to stop forthwith because IPOB members worldwide can not fold their arms and watch them attempt to tarnish the reputation of our leader.»

The letters written by Charles Whitman on the eve of his killing spree provide a chilling window into a mind losing the ability to understand good, bad, and other people: «It was after much thought that I decided to kill my wife, Kathy... I love her dearly, and she has been as fine a wife to me as any man could ever hope to have.

The most comprehensive of these, published in August by a Stanford team, analyzed men from nine widely spaced populations, covering 10 million bases (DNA letters) on their Y chromosomes.

In 2005, Ride was one of the authors of a letter to Science addressing remarks by Lawrence Summers, then - president of Harvard University, asserting that genetic differences predispose men to perform better in math and scientific fields.

As an example he tells the story of a man who lost the capacity to name letters after being struck by a stone, and of another who forgot certain people after falling from a roof.

the soldiers broke into the colored people's houses taken sick men out of bed...» A Union lieutenant endorsed the letter, writing that the men «were brought away by force» and were suffering greatly.

Dr David Poznik, from Stanford University, California, first author on the paper, said: «We identified more than 60,000 positions where one DNA letter was replaced by another in a man with modern descendants, and we discovered thousands of more complex DNA variants.

In April, Britain's then environment secretary, Michael Howard, argued in a letter to Labour MP Tam Dalyell that the areas proposed for removal from the formula were those «where the critical load would be likely to be exceeded by acid depositions of natural origin even if man - made emissions were completely eliminated».

Love letters are considered an important part of a relationship by 81 % of those surveyed, with 77 % of men and 85 % of women admitting that they've written one in the past.

(I would say, Elena's Models could potentially quadruple its income by using PPL instead of membership and making men pay for every letter, chat, and photo share, as paid chat «Russian brides» sites do.)

Previously we reported on the arrest by Kiev's cyber crime department, made in conjunction with a fake correspondence scheme, aimed to defraud foreign men through the use of models and substitutes for communication through pay - per - letter dating sites.

Im a very mushy, romantic person and love romancing my man by leaving him notes, and cards with my perfume on them and in depth love letters or one of my...

Some agencies perform matchmaking services for their ladies by looking through our database of men and forwarding a lady's introductory letter to them through Anastasia.

We do not only display profiles of pretty single women, but also help them in contacting foreign men, translate and forward by email women's letters to foreign men and vice versa, deliver gifts which foreign men order for the women, help our male - clients to organize their stay in one of the cities in the former Soviet Union.

Yes, one story happened to me at the beginning of my way when I was hoping to find my charming western prince That was a typical funny scenario, used by African men usually, when you are getting template letters step by step with words of love from the second one.

First of all, men need to leave all pay by letter sites.

Relying on a combination of archival footage, the prison letters of the doomed dead men walking (as read by impersonators Tony Shahloub and John Turturro), the reflections of sympathetic lefties like Professor Howard Zinn, and the folksinging of Arlo Guthrie, the movie does a decent job of convincing any open - minded viewer that Sacco and Vanzetti were indeed framed.