Sentences with phrase «by ordinary men»

The archive includes all the court's records from 1804 to 1875, most of which involve, as the site itself describes it, «civil suits brought by ordinary men and women pursuing justice in disputes over debts, damages and broken promises.»

He begins the book with the build up toward war depicting its uniformed parades and pomp, and then slowly and subtly describes the unraveling of the heroic with a realistic view of battle as unglamorous actions performed by ordinary men.

It would never be by any ordinary men but it would rather be by those on the tiptop of (Finance & Power) to pull such act either towards making immediate financial or political gains or for hiding their crimes by making another crime...

come on, just admit its an old book written by ordinary men in the DARK AGES, so we can all get on with our lives and wake up from our species» infancy.

Phong Bui (Rail): When I saw the first images from Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989, I, like many others, was shocked by the ordinary man, carrying two shopping bags, trying to stop the advancing tanks of the People's Liberation Army.

Built in silence by an ordinary man and those he must serve.

Not exact matches

The Hummer was to four - by - fours what the steroid - laden bodybuilder was to ordinary men.

The Christmas Truce idea is beloved by many, beyond football fans, for its hint that, beneath the horror, British and Germans were just ordinary men cast into the maelstrom of unprecedented bloodshed.

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

Under the avalanche of commentary on the new translation of the Ordinary Form of the Mass, just approved by the Vatican, I poke my head above the erudite criticisms, to speak as a man whose entire priesthood has been in parishes....

There are hundreds of these prophecies, so that the possibility of their accidental convergence on any ordinary man is completely ruled out by the laws of probability.

There increasing holiness was denoted by increasing remoteness from the common man, until, farthest away of all, absolutely inviolable to the ordinary worshiper, the acme of sanctity and separateness, stood the Holy of Holies, into which even the high priest went only once a year.

While the former aims at the restoration of «true man,» «original man,» the goal of the latter was the transcendence of the human condition, the acquisition of some degree of freedom from the needs or laws that determine ordinary human life by assimilation to a radically different state of being [The Heating Journey (Pantheon, 1973) p. 17].

Christians wish to minister to these kids — by teaching them the norms about men and women, about sex and marriage, that have brought decency to the lives of ordinary people for millennia.

Humanity tries to defame his glory by bringing him down to just an ordinary man so that they can put their own spin on who he is, not what He actually is.

Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

«The unification must be accomplished before a man undertakes some unusual work,» but any ordinary work that a man does with a united soul acts in the direction of new and greater unification and leads him, even if by many detours, to a steadier unity than he had before.

The term «transfiguration,» or we might say «transformation,» points to the process by which a phenomenon that is a part of ordinary experience comes to assume a controlling interpretative role in man's understanding of himself and his world.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

Even as Zen repudiates all actual ways to enlightenment, so in the last resort nothing is gained by enlightenment of satori, and thus the life of the sage is no different from the life of ordinary men.

33:4, 6, 9) Man shared in this creation, taking physical and intellectual possession of the world by his giving names to all living creatures (Gen. 2:19) Throughout the Old Testament, in ordinary and sublime statements, in magic or prophecy, Israel took as her starting point the conviction that a word possesses creative power.

the Son of God called Jesus, even if only a man by ordinary generation, yet on account of His wisdom, is worthy to be called the Son of God; for all writers call God the Father of men and of gods.

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

Today «miracles» are performed by ordinary people, not just by a special class of men on special occasions.

Stephen Crites has this pointed observation about the way in which truth is communicated by ordinary people — including those men and women of the First Century who experienced the Christ event in their own lives:

But if this is true of «ordinary» species, what duration may we not look for in the case of Man, that favored race which, by its intelligence, has succeeded in removing all danger of serious competition and even in attacking the causes of senescence at the root.

The Bible was NOT written by «ordinary men»!!!

Before and since Moody the chief standard of success as an evangelist (and a minister) in American Protestantism has been evidence of such charisma, of power not possessed by ordinary folk — the ability to manifest in a convincing way that one represents more than himself, in short, that one is a man of God.

Although he is a self - declared billionaire, Trump presented himself in the campaign as a champion of ordinary men and women victimized by the wealthy elite.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

The exercise is intended to help people to see the familiar in new contexts, by juxtaposing the ordinary familiar meanings with novel associations: thus Camel filters are juxtaposed with the rich man who wanted to get into the kingdom of heaven, and the ad reads: «This is the one to try.»

Whether he has ever seen a devil, as Mantel did as a girl — «It has no edges, no mass, no dimension, no shape except the formless; it moves» — is ultimately unimportant; his novels are the work of a man who believes in devils, or at least in their possibility, and the possibility that one of his ordinary Americans could encounter one by chance.

One great advantage of a lectureship was that it allowed men whose consciences were troubled by portions of the Prayer Book to escape the requirement that the prescribed services be read, for the ordinary worship was conducted by the parson and not by the lecturer.

You don't wish to own a Rolls Royce with ordinary engine oil or tricycles as your replacement means of transport nor would you want Ozil and Sanchez surrounded by men like Santos, Chamakh, Flamini, Arteta and such likes.

The Museum's reputation for helping people understand the experience of modern conflicts is unrivalled, and I'm confident that members of the public will be inspired and motivated by the exceptional courage of the ordinary men, women and children featured in the outstanding exhibition.»

The ordinary man measures the economy by the availability of schools, the availability of health care, the availability of roads, the availability of electricity and what have you.

We think that Miller's «ordinary military equipment» language must be read in tandem with what comes after:» [O] rdinarily when called for [militia] service [able - bodied] men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.»

He said kingship appointment is not an ordinary one but being permitted by yoruba culture and tradition as the king rules on behalf of the gods and is therefore accountable not just to men but to the gods as well for good governance and sustenance of the legacies of his ancestors.

With balding men, ordinary scalp hair is replaced by vellus, or peach fuzz.

The Medicine Man created the extract by steeping the shrub in an ordinary teakettle.

Women looking for men are almost certainly the most ordinary of additional sex personals relations explore by women.

The art of charm bootcamp is a revolutionary school for men created by a team of social dynamics experts that have taken thousands of guys from ordinary to extraordinary.

The high quality stuff provided by Millionaire Match is also in an easy grasp of the ordinary public, results into growing thirst of finding rich men for a steaming hot relationship.

Created closer to Mother Earth for Spiritual Reasons only a Spiritual man would Understand ~ Ocean Gurl to the core and Dolphins are my Aumakua, NOT an Ordinary Woman by any means, but making People Happy 0 / Roks my World!!!

No Man's Sky is a missed opportunity to do something truly epic, and while the final game, when measured moment by moment, showed glimpses of something more than merely ordinary, the final result, was far less than.

Co-adapted by Raymond Chandler from a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train perfectly exemplifies Hitchcock's favorite theme of the evil that lurks just below the surface of everyday life and ordinary men.

Mr. Stone has always made stories about men for whom ordinary life is impossible by accident or by choice.

Director Ma has made a quietly merciless picture, a horror movie, really, about a decent man, an ordinary man, left alone, bereft, embittered, ruined by his act of decency.

Stone has always made stories about men for whom ordinary life is impossible by accident or by choice.

A script by Zach Helm, about an ordinary man who questions his sanity when he receives postcards from God.