Sentences with phrase «by strange people»

Some pets will only tremble when under some form of duress, such as when approached by strange people and animals, or during thunderstorms.

One has to wonder how do you keep an animal from feeling threatened by strange people charging into a residence, possibly yelling and screaming, and yet expect that animal to NOT move a muscle and get shot by the cops.

I must agree that this old cocker spaniel had underlying health problems - and if she needed to be muzzled than obviously she was feeling alot of anxiety to begin with -LCB- dogs become anxious because they're being left by thier owners, taken away by strange people that they do nt know, and placed in a loud, stressful enviroment with other barking dogs.

Upon being «dumped» by your parents at your new home, surrounded by strange people, in an alien city in which you don't know anyone, there is a part of which wants to run after your parents» departing car.

If your cat is relaxed and at ease, especially when being poked, prodded and jabbed by a strange person in an equally strange environment, then it's a pretty good sign that the relationship will be a good one.

Not exact matches

Uber's case is that the driver enters into a binding agreement with a person whose identity he does not know (and will never know) and who does not know and will never know his identity, to undertake a journey to a destination not told to him until the journey begins, by a route prescribed by a stranger to the contract [Uber] from which he is not free to depart (at least not without risk), for a fee which (a) is set by the stranger, and (b) is not known by the passenger (who only is told the total to be paid), (c) is calculated by the stranger (as a percentage of the total sum) and (d) is paid to the stranger.

If you've ever seen a stranger behaving badly — a mother yelling at her kids in the grocery store or someone who's inebriated in public — you may have reacted by silently judging this person.

A new study from University College London and Oxford University diverges from the famous Yale University study from the 1970s by psychologist Stanley Milgram who found that most people would obey direct orders to send what appeared to be increasingly painful shocks to an unseen stranger.

Friday morning Londoners, who voted by and large to remain in the EU, were walking the streets with a stunned look, and what's even odder (for English people, at least) actually talking to strangers in cafes and on trains, discussing how such a thing could happen, what would happen next, and who was to blame.

«So I started off trying to make a difference for one person every day by leaving cards with positive notes to strangers on them in copies of the Metro and leaving them on seats for random people to find.»

But if this strange thing is in an otherwise controlled environment and produced by smart people, there often is logic.

For my idea, there is no national competition other than PaperlessSolutions.com but they have a different business model (everything is done by mail) which is more concerning for many people as the scanning is happening by strangers somewhere other than their home and the prices are far more expensive.

You see it in industry after industry: hotels presumed that people wouldn't stay in strangers» homes, television networks presumed that programming schedules were constrained by time, and, speaking of Amazon Web Services, enterprise technology companies presumed that servers and software would live on corporate premises.

@Steve: Have you talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect church in front of groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive churches?

I have been touched by the kindness of strangers, and if it werent for people who reached out to me at a certain time of my life, Id be living on a curb, cause there isnt anyplace in all of IL that would house me.

@ Jillienne «Stand YOUR own ground, don't expect people to forsake God by telling them how «impossible» it is for a man to be swallowed by a fish, an argument that really bears no weight actually, because frankly, if you believe that Dinosaurs once roamed the earth (a proven fact) there is nothing wrong with believing a man could have been swallowed by a giant whale... it's really not that strange..»

«I'm concerned about people's health,» is a typical explanation offered by someone who admonishes others, sometimes even strangers in restaurants, that what they're eating is bad for them.

If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence of strangers in the faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.

Strange, strange theories invented by violent, murderous humanity to explain away why not only was it o.k. to kill God in person, but somehow it was a great thing Strange, strange theories invented by violent, murderous humanity to explain away why not only was it o.k. to kill God in person, but somehow it was a great thing strange theories invented by violent, murderous humanity to explain away why not only was it o.k. to kill God in person, but somehow it was a great thing for us.

In my own case (and in no way am I saying that this is true for Julie or any other person who has been hushed up, tangled up or fucked up by an abusive system or a specific person), as I spoke my truth out loud to trusted friends and even a few strangers and unwitting passersby and heard their responses, I realized that I had formerly seen only part of the truth.

I am in anguish over the pain caused by people who follow God against other believers and esp those believers we call wives, even though its a strange distant and archaic term.

It is passing strange that the same people who describe ours as a society driven by selfishness and greed are, at the same time, so insouciant about giving people permission to kill others whom they find burdensome.

Brown delighted this reviewer with his appreciation of the Psalter and would delight any right - minded Calvinist with his appreciation of Karl Barth's statement in Church Dogmatics IV, 2: as a poor man, writes Barth, Christ «shares as such the strange destiny which falls on God in His people and the world — to be the One who is ignored and forgotten and despised and discounted by men.

I think the point is this man was granted generosity by strangers in the 1940s... most people may help someone out, but not at their own expense, much less their family and very lives.

(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

That may seem to be a strange turn and solution of this question for some people, but yet only for someone, who has not yet experienced the cure of the whole man by confession and forgiveness.

The bishops seem to see American society and its institutions as a market rather than a community united by a common culture — a place where strangers work and pursue their economic interests, not a society where people share common bonds and shared responsibilities.

At both we were surrounded by complete strangers (we are new to town), but in the first, many people greeted us with warm smiles and numerous greetings of «Merry Christmas!»

How strange is it that while we decry and condemn such actions by various people today, we turn around and tell the story of God drowning millions of babies (along with their mothers and fathers and siblings) in the flood story of Genesis 6 - 8?

Most homicides are committed not by strangers, but by young people who lash out at friends or family.

What is strange, to me, is that when I show my true self as a proactive Christian man, I'm accepted by secular people and people of other faiths and rejected by... you guessed it... churchgoers.

Human solidarity is to be achieved «not by inquiry but by imagination, the imaginative ability to see strange people as fellow sufferers.

Unfortunately, because of the superficiality of many pre-marital relationships, the major interpersonal reorientation required by marriage must begin with a person who is essentially a stranger.

If by some strange set of circumstances, the roles became reversed and 95 % of the people were atheists and only 5 % were believers, we might see that the intelligence stratification within the population of atheists do not differ much from society at large but the intelligence stratification within the population of believers does differ from the society at large.

And while humans today are said to be entitled to rights as fundamental as life or as strange as access to Wi - Fi, the entire notion of rights is undergirded by an implicit assumption of the dignity of all human persons.

Begin by talking to people, whether strangers, acquaintances, friends or family.

These are the strange promises of Jesus to be partly realized in this life by persons and by humanity over the ages.

I have this strange feeling that this was orchestrated (by corrupt and unscrupulous people, not by some divine design).

According to the Book of Enoch (which the inspired Jude quotes from as authoritative and which Revelation alludes to quite a bit), these now physical sons of God were punished by losing their bodies and became all the invisible demons that roam the world terrorizing people to this day (with ghost sightings, hunched backs, strange voices, possession, and more).

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

Almsgiving is a duty of charity, a commendable spiritual practice along with prayer and fasting, and a means for us to win friends in eternity, whether by giving money to organisations or individuals who carry out the corporal works of mercy — saving the lives of pre-born babies by supporting pro-life work, feeding the hungry by the alleviation of famine, sheltering the homeless, welcoming the stranger, or the spiritual works of mercy, such as having Masses offered for people who are sick or in particular need, or those who have died and the souls in purgatory.

And twenty - one seconds later I woke up in a strange room, surrounded by people who seemed to have other things on their minds.

CNN only did this story as an attack on religions deemed strange by some in an effort to stir the whole Romney Mormon church deal... to scare people.

It is unlike it at several important points: (1) it is engaged in not alone but with other people, some and perhaps many of whom are likely to be strangers; (2) it is conducted by someone usually a minister or priest — and is channeled through regular forms; (3) there are appeals to the eye in the sanctuary's architecture and appointments and to the ear in music and spoken word which are not usually present in private worship; and (4) in the singing of hymns and the unison repetition of prayers and responsive readings there is opportunity for corporate vocal self - expression.

Bob, yes the law was not met by the people, and therefore this is why they have been driven to strange lands, this is where we get the exile of the 10 tribes until this day who were scattered to the four corners of the earth, warned to the people in Deuteronomy 28 - 30, of the blessings, and then of the curses.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

Whenever I was in a room surrounded by people — you know, friends, family, strangers, etc. — who all confess to completely understanding the «Good News» (and I feel like I'm always in a room like that), doubt made me feel what I imagine Sarah Palin would feel in a room full of political science professors: like an hors d'oeuvre.

He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints.

The author of Hebrews makes the connection, writing «Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing, some people have entertained angels without knowing it» (Hebrews 13:2).

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