Sentences with phrase «by silence as»

Character is sometimes defined by silence as well as chatter.

Not exact matches

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

Though they don't advertise the feature, a few taps will bring you to the stats screen, where you can see how much time you've spent listening to your podcasts, as well as how much time you've saved by skipping forward, speeding up playback, trimming silence and skipping the intros to shows.

This is sure to be appreciated by anyone who listens to podcasts that originally air as radio programs and often have a few seconds of silence where advertisements would have been.

«There'd be complete silence as all of these people of different ages and different backgrounds stood in front of those trucks, and one by one were taken away.»

«Privacy concerns» have been used by the Canadian government as a powerful pretext for inaction or silence and this should be challenged and denounced.

Silence by Facebook's two top executives — Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg — fanned the flames of the controversy for days as U.S. and European lawmakers demanded answers and Facebook shares tumbled.

«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.

TIMING Giuliani's insistence the money had nothing to do with the campaign is complicated by the fact that Daniels» silence was secured just days before the 2016 presidential election, and as Trump was dealing with the fallout from the «Access Hollywood» tape in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.

As this story got some play, even at the highest levels of the movie business to make it into a feature (we were signed to an option by the guys who did Philadelphia and Silence of the Lambs), one of the fears we had was that someone would turn Lonnie into a homosexual hero (like Harvey Milk).

a statistically - insignificant portion has been burned by others as a protest against the islamofascists that have become the public face of Islam (largely through the silence of the supposedly less - radical majority).

It has got away for so long with the kind of lunatic word - games that allow death - by - torture to be presented as an act of love, and eternal torment in the flames of hell to be seen as a necessary act of justice, that we should perhaps not be surprised that it has also managed to dupe its followers into seeing the systematic suppression and silencing of women as an act of liberation and equality.

Some suffer in silence, but their doubts are sometimes drowned out by those ruling members who take it as their right to defend the faith against all supposed threats.

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.

And as we both now stand before this miracle, whose solemn silence can not be perturbed by human wrangling over mine and thine, whose awe - inspiring speech infinitely subdues all human strife about mine and thine, forgive me, I pray, the strange delusion that I was the author of this poem.

But if he moves himself it follows that he is not moved by some need, as if he could not endure the strain of silence, but had to break out in speech.

The answer is, he was recognized, even by the demons, who had supernatural insight, and by his disciples, through faith; and yet the disciples were forbidden to declare it, and the demons were silenced; and if the Jews as a whole did not recognize him, it was because their eyes too were «holden,» and because they were already bringing upon themselves a judgment for their sins.

It would be as monstrous to require those whose lives are twisted by suffering to praise God as it would be to ask them to still their cries into the silence of heaven.

A tremendous crash of organ, trumpets, drums and bells thundered through the silence reaching to the very rafters heralding the Pope as he quietly and humbly made his entrance surrounded by clergy and servers.

(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.

By passing over him as if he weren't a factor, she tacitly points out his culpable silence, without which their shared disobedience was impossible.

At the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's death.

We do not find silence simply followed by a thunder - clap, but rather we hear, as James puts it, «thunder - breaking - upon - silence - and - contrasting - with - it» (PP1 240).

by the way I have read ENdo's silence, read a lot of eastern works, work with chinese medicine theory as well as ayurvedic and am half middle eastern myself.

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?»

Occasionally, as if by miracle, the straining and sweating and shifting of a hard shared silence would transmute into a few minutes of acute and focused stillness.

As slowly as you can, [Standish] has tried to mentor us by bringing more silence, more resting in God's presencAs slowly as you can, [Standish] has tried to mentor us by bringing more silence, more resting in God's presencas you can, [Standish] has tried to mentor us by bringing more silence, more resting in God's presence.

**************************************************************************************** My immediate motive for providing this schema was prompted by a difficulty concerning Simon and Garfunkel's «Sounds of Silence,» but as mentioned above, the larger motive comes from the nature of the Songbook project itself.

Unfortunately, as women, we have found it difficult to persuade the churches and the ecumenical movement that the issue of violence against women is as much an issue of ecclesiology as is complicity in political conflicts, because women have been silent for too long and the churches too have been complicit by their often silence, but also by their sometimes legitimization of the violence theologically.

We must persuade ourselves of the non-existence of all surrounding phenomena, destroy the Grand Illusion by asceticism or by mysticism, create night and silence within ourselves; then, at the opposite extreme of appearance, we shall penetrate to what can only be defined as a total negation — the ineffable Reality.

As we have seen several times before, the criterion of genuine hope in God's promise consists of a willingness to temper the sacramen - talism of our dreams by a willingness to look mystically into the future symbolized by our images, by a steady posture of patience and silence, and by a transformative praxis that refuses to escape from the troubles of present history.

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

An anthology such as The Fire of Silence and Stillness edited by Paul Harris, from 1995, also offers a library of voices from across the ages and religions speaking of meditation, silence and union wiSilence and Stillness edited by Paul Harris, from 1995, also offers a library of voices from across the ages and religions speaking of meditation, silence and union wisilence and union with God.

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.

The silence is deafening, broken only by the scramble of the women to move as far away from the Empty Tomb as quickly as possible.

Don't give in be able to make your own choice as to what and who you put your faith in, don't be silenced or forced by fear into hiding your belliefs.

Put yourself in the place of a creationist who has been silenced by that logic, and you may feel like a criminal defendant who has just been told that the law does not recognize so absurd a concept as «innocence.»

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.

Eternally, the individual will only be asked whether he knew that they were unfavorable, and whether in this event he dared remain silent and therefore by his silence, yes, to use the proverb, by his consent, he had as an individual contributed to a condition where the circumstances became still more unfavorable for the truth.

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.

But as I sat with it I realised the more subtle ways that I was silenced and pushed to «forgive» my former partner for his abusiveness towards me and our daughter, by church leaders at two different churches.

The alleged «silence» about the virgin birth from other New Testament authors can not be used as an argument against it since its factuality would have been revealed by Mary only after the resurrection and it did not constitute the centre of the Easter message; Redford even finds hints thatother New Testament authors framed their affirmations to allow for the virgin birth.

It does not follow, however, from Jesus» virtual silence about any human responsibility for the restraint of evil, that he believed this result would be attained as a kind of by - product of the growth of good.

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

In this then he would also be able to find repose (as well as I am able to figure it to myself), whereas his magnanimous silence would constantly have been disquieted by the requirements of the ethical.

As early as 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys gracAs early as 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys gracas 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys gracas a sacrament that conveys grace.

(CNN)- Retired Pope Benedict XVI says he never tried to cover up the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests, breaking his post-retirement silence to address one of the greatest threats to his legacy as a church leader.

The era when gay presumptions can not be questioned and challengers are silenced by police intervention or smeared as phobic has passed.

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.