Sentences with phrase «by our silence on»

Ours was spent planning, gaming, and working (and we took a little time to enjoy it, too, as evidenced by our silence on this blog!).

Not exact matches

After weeks of silence, Amazon's retail team informed Nest employees on a conference call late last year that it would not list any of the newer Nest products recently announced by the company, according to a person familiar with the call.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

MENLO PARK, CA — In an effort to ensure the impartiality of content shared on its platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the company would address accusations of silencing conservative voices by deleting Barack Obama's profile.

Mr. Avenatti is building his case on what he calls «sloppy» lawyering by Mr. Cohen, dating to October 2016 when Mr. Cohen negotiated the agreement for Ms. Clifford's silence.

Trump last week broke his silence on the Daniels case, saying he was not aware of the payment made by Cohen to the porn actress just days before he was elected.

«I'm troubled by the deafening silence from other apparel retailers on this,» Weston said at the time, as he promised to take steps to ensure the structural integrity of the factories.

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday finally broke his silence about the abuse of data on the platform by Cambridge Analytica, promising to redouble efforts to safeguard user privacy after the exposure of the massive data breach.

This morning it's a glowing story by Bill Carter, a Times culture writer, on Barbra Streisand's production of «Serving in Silence.»

Bishops are required to cooperate - if approached by law enforcement - but are ALSO still under direction to keep silence on cases of abuse they learn about, and NOT to turn over priests to civil authorities.

Whatever our theology on sexuality may be, we must break the silence and let LGBT people know they are fully loved by God.

Any doubts of whether the 34 - year - old was ready to handle directing solo — a role that often comes much later in the film industry — have been silenced by early buzz around the film mixed with Lady Bird's current score of 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Not to put too fine a point on matters, we do a tremendous disservice to the cause of justice by suggesting that those who have done the silencing have some right to expect any sort of deference when called upon to answer for their misdeeds.

They received catharsis that had been withheld from them by requiring they hold on to their narratives in silence, as if they and their loved ones were of no value.

On the face of it the passage is a mystical experience; but the way Alyosha got to it was by way of Father Zossima's putrefying body: he had to go through that experience of radical dissociation, accept it and take it with him, an experience fully described in the earlier part of Book VII, in order to come to the insight that «the silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens.»

(Previous posts include: The Scar of Sexual Abuse by Mary DeMuth; No More Silence: An Interview with Boz Tchividjian of G.R.A.C.E.; «Today's Journey»: Thoughts on Healing from Grace Biskie; and Proper Treatment for Sexual Abuse by Dr. Philip Monroe.)

Readers of First Thoughts will know by now that Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Silence by Shūsaku Endō was released in select theaters on December 23.

My point being that taking a member of the set of all things Jesus never explicitly taught on and positing, if only by implication, that his silence is an endorsement of that thing is not a valid foundation for making a sound argument.

Martin Scorsese's recent film Silence, like the historical novel by Shūsaku Endō on which it is based, turns on an act of emotional blackmail.

Even though Dr. Spencer laid a strong biblical foundation for the role of women in ministry based on the New Testament, I still lived with the fear of once again being silenced by the church.

And sometimes it happens that they meet in an abandoned shrine, and place on the altar a stole which they still keep, and recite all the prayers of the Eucharistic liturgy; and then, at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation a deep silence comes down upon them, a silence sometimes broken by a sob... so ardently do they desire to hear the words that only the lips of a priest can efficaciously utter.

(Previous posts include: The Scar of Sexual Abuse by Mary DeMuth; No More Silence: An Interview with Boz Tchividjian of G.R.A.C.E.; «Today's Journey»: Thoughts on Healing from Grace Biskie; Proper Treatment for Sexual Abuse by Dr. Philip Monroe; and «God is Love» by Sarah Moon.)

(2) Boomershine sees historical criticism as the biblical method of this era, where the truth of the text is achieved by personal study of the text in silence on your own.

I was prickly about people's demands on «my time,» especially when they interrupted silence or prayer, and I was bugged by what seemed to be widespread spiritual sloppiness in folks who considered themselves religious.

For Mumia's supporters on the unrepentant left worldwide» and they are legion» this confirmed what they had been saying all along: Mumia (he is always referred to by his first name) was framed by racist police determined to silence his «revolutionary» message.

For example, Deedee and Pepper are the two Clue Club teenagers who can be counted on to run from danger, to stumble noisily when silence is called for, to be thoroughly mystified by problems.

And when being persecuted by the rather cruel Feudal Shoguns the priest expresses his thoughts on the silence of god within his suffering.

I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz

There was an uncomfortable silence as she continued, «I wonder if more people aren't motivated by power rightly used and influence for the good than we've let on, only it's been socialized out of us?»

Jealous that a woman could so outshine them, they attempted to silence her, but for a long time she was protected by her court sponsors who continually interceded on her behalf.

It is quite evident that his own desire for more solitude was tempered considerably by the Buddhist concept of «compassion»; he began to see that his own life had to oscillate between the anonymity of eremetical silence and an openness to the needs of others on both an individual and a social level.

The response by complementarians to these questions as posed on the blog has been mostly silence, even when I've specifically asked for engagement.

If the formal teaching of Humanae Vitae is indeed of Christ (as it itself claims, cf. para.s 4 & 6) and that, as we might expect, living in accord with it deepens the quality of married love, strengthens fidelity, brings male sexuality under control, significantly lessens the likelihood of marital breakdown and fosters a generally pro-life attitude then we have done a great disservice to generations of Catholics by failing to break the silence on it.

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

Whenever a class is silenced by a loud voice, later on some kids whould say: «we did not do anything wrong.»

The cult of silence on this subject began to slip only slightly in May 2007 when a report prepared by the Army's Mental Health Advisory Team was leaked to the San Diego Union - Tribune.

It strikes me with something akin to terror to think how we permitted ourselves to be taken in, silenced and neutralized, by the boyish grin and a trickle - down prosperity while resurgent racism, Rambo militarism, cultural philistinism, and unregulated, let - them - eat - cake capitalism swaggered across the stage on an eight - year run.

Luke replaced Mark's insistence on the women's silence by narrating that the women reported their experience to the disciples, who regarded it, however, as nonsense.

A refreshing exception to this near silence is an insightful statement by Miriam Polster on «Women in Therapy: A Gestalt Therapist's View.»

The Day of Truth, held on the same day as the Day of Silence, «was established to counter the promotion of homosexual behavior and to express an opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective,» according to a manual for this year's event published by Exodus International.

On the Day of Silence, students take a «a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name - calling, bullying and harassment in their schools,» according to a web site run by the event's sponsor, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (Silence, students take a «a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name - calling, bullying and harassment in their schools,» according to a web site run by the event's sponsor, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name - calling, bullying and harassment in their schools,» according to a web site run by the event's sponsor, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

Anyway, you can expect to receive an announcement release week (October 30), which will likely be followed by another long silence unless something major happens like I run for president or am invited on the Colbert Report.

Our third religious type, represented especially by Buddhism, is based on the ideal of detachment, renunciation, and silence.

Boff's book on the Trinity was written in 1985, while he had to follow a year of silence as ordered by the Vatican.

If the later legislation thus modifies and narrows the covenant faith, at the same time and for the same reasons it adds to the concept a new dimension and suggests again that legalism's silence on social issues is by no means indifference but rather a sober and deeply concerned pessimism.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide Aid to the Church in Need website Religious Freedom in the World, edited by Paul Marshall (2007) Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea (2011) A Common Word: Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor, edited by Miroslav Volf, Ghazi bin Muhammad, and Melissa Yarrington (2010) Become a fan of First Things on Facebook, subscribe to First Things via RSS, and follow First Things on Twitter.

At our groups monthly staff meeting we were asked by corporate leadership to have a moment of silence for an employee killed on the job.

As we work to renew the religious right by putting it on more sound theological footings, we must always keep in mind that we are being overheard, in our statements and in our silences.

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

Late on in his life Newman asked, «Are her ministers by their silence to bring upon themselves the Prophet's anathema, «Cursed is he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully»?»