Sentences with phrase «by subservience»

The Roman Catholic fellowship is less hampered by subservience to the state and is more closely integrated under the Papacy than at any previous time.

It was torn with faction; a largely secularized priesthood furthered its own ambitions by subservience to the foreign power; the mass of the people seethed with impotent hatred of Rome.

Not exact matches

«Yesterday we secured the failure of the plan by conservative forces in Greece and abroad to asphyxiate our country and we showed that Europe is a space for negotiation and mutually beneficial compromises and not a space for extermination, subservience and punishment,» Tsipras said.

We still need to do theology as well in those ways, but the Bible will help to remind us to keep those operations both subordinate to the larger imperatives of the life of the body and relativized by their greater subservience to the demands of one's respective host culture.

A certain number of Jews, principally those of aristocratic priestly families, accepted the situation, and tried, by a cautious subservience to the conquerors, to preserve such partial autonomy as Rome allowed, under their own leadership.

Although the four Gospels were written by men, they never report an instance of Jesus condoning sexual discrimination or the implied subservience of women.

Beyond a question, this was the ideal cherished by a considerable group in Israel — such subservience for them was a mark of piety; it was obedience to the will of God.

«According to them, the true Nordic practices an ethic that is the polar opposite of the ideal of humility, subservience, and nonviolence that has so long been enforced by reference to the authority of Jesus.»

In colonial possessions, however, where from the first subservience to the secular arm had been the rule, the attitude of passivity was not offset by a heritage of freedom.

Apparently the favoring condition was the freedom of the churches from state domination, as contrasted with the subservience in which the Church was kept by the state in other European possessions.

In the time of Jesus the coming of the anointed one was fervently longed for by many, in the face of the enforced subservience of the Jewish people to the Romans.

I'm sorry you think that we all need to believe the exact same thing that you do in order to lead moral lives, that you need a god (one described in a book written by men yet touted as the word of god as being a genocidal dictator who demands total subservience from his followers and death to those who don't believe) in order to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives.

So subservience can not be interpreted as the right to exploit creation by dominating it.

They have attempted on hundreds of occasion that lack of subservience to US sovereignty by repeatedly harbor known criminals in an attempt to avid the scandal of their prosecution, They also engage in ongoing financial fraud denying Americans their rightful revenues, and exploiting their own members.

The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.

Hollywood was slow to catch - up with this change, following several years of desperate subservience to the government by movie - makers, journalists and opposition politicians.

By cementing the complete subservience of European political life to the market, the Markozy deal does an extraordinary disservice to our continent and our society.

The researchers found that gender - based restrictions rationalized as «protecting» girls actually made them more vulnerable by emphasizing subservience and implicitly sanctioning even physical abuse as punishment for violating norms.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

She is our conduit into Edwardian - era, proto - feminist empowerment, her innate sense of cheery subservience having been chipped away over the years by an ineffectual husband (Ben Whishaw), a lecherous boss (Geoff Bell) and tyrannical copper (Brendan Gleeson).

That vision includes vehicles fuelled with blood, «Doof Warriors» playing flaming guitars as they hurtle into battle, CG used in respectful subservience to jaw - dropping practical stunts, and Hugh Keays - Byrne's Immortan Joe presiding over a religious cult seemingly inspired by a Duran Duran song that was inspired by the original Mad Max films («Wild Boys always shine», remember).

Performances with funny moments can get by, but movies that go after full - fledged comic set pieces and mine discomfort for laughs (even buttressed by plenty of serious stuff) are a trickier sell, seemingly requiring a certain subservience to the material.

One the best pieces is when Novella is attacked by Bliss and transformed into his thrall, as it's vibrant tones exemplify the change from determined hope to mindless subservience.

It is the lack of a strong challenge by the UK Senior judiciary to Strasbourg decisions which gives the perception of subservience to Europe, even the misconceived view of loss of Parliamentary Sovereignty, rather than the dominance of the Human Rights Act, the ECHR or even the Strasbourg Judiciary.