Sentences with phrase «challenging word of»

There is virtually no means of challenging the word of the officer regarding what took place at the roadside, and the lack of checks and balances in turn will almost inevitably lead to an arrogant undesirable police culture.

It is probably not necessary to get into the whole debate about the Bible being the infallible, inspired, authoritative Word of God, but you may have to if the person challenges the Word of God as being inaccurate or on the same level as other writings and sayings.

The lawyer challenging the wording of a constitutional amendment to authorize casinos says the Board of Elections may have violated the open meetings law in approving it.

A New York State Supreme Court judge threw out a lawsuit challenging the wording of a November ballot amendment to expand gambling in New York.

As promised, the New York Public Interest Research Group has submitted an amicus (friend of the court) brief in support of the lawsuit that challenges the wording of the ballot proposal on casino expansion that voters will be asked to decide on Election Day next month.

Not exact matches

For the same reason you take on huge challenges: because of the words «now» and «then.»

The challenging thing for the New York Times is that those words are arguably just as applicable to the rest of the newspaper's business, not just the part of it that was taking place in Paris.

While women in the workplace have been «leaning in,» in the words of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, to the challenge of climbing the corporate ladder, a female executive can still be ousted for being «pushy.»

The challenge devised by die - hard opponents of the law, often derided by critics as «Obamacare,» relied on four words -; established by the state -; in the more than 900 - page law.

«All of us need to challenge ourselves to be brief and pack more power into fewer words,» Boyle says.

Word of mouth brought them recently to India, where the public broadcaster All India Radio brought Nautel a massive challenge: providing enough transmitters to cover the entire country or, as the marketing slogan went, «broadcasting to a billion.»

Stick to your mission. Backcountry.com's mission has always been to be the best core gear e-tailer, but with only an online presence, the company has the challenge of utilizing all possible storefront opportunities to get the word out.

And this is the most important point: When we talk about the qualities of a great leader or read their words on paper without truly understanding the enormous challenges they face and the rare strength it takes to overcome them, we may as well be two - dimensional stick figures trying to imagine a three - dimensional world.

Doug Ford hasn't publicly uttered all the words spoken by Tanya Granic Allen, notwithstanding his record of vulgarisms when denigrating people who annoyed or challenged him, but the so - called straight shooter has played a double game of first embracing Granic Allen, and only later distancing himself — and never denouncing her hateful words.

Scalia, who co-chairs his firm's Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group and is a member of its Labor and Employment Practice Group, said the lawsuit first challenges the «definition and meaning» of the word fiduciary.

In other words, the challenges of borrowing can contribute to slamming on the brakes so far as creating jobs is concerned.

Nevertheless, innovators continue to face challenges from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), companies that, in the President's words «don't actually produce anything themselves,» and instead develop a business model «to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea and see if they can extort some money out of them.»

A stiff challenge, put completely out of reach for most Canadians by the federal Income Tax Act, which limits tax - deferred retirement saving to 18 per cent of income or $ 22,970 — whichever, in words the income tax form has made so familiar, is less.

«It was a challenge in every sense of the word,» says Laflamme, «I was tired and often winded but the experience was worth every second.»

In other words, notable public discontent away from coastal regions need to be factored into investors» macro outlook, and if significant number of individuals consider a $ 400 emergency expenditure «more challenging to handle,» then investors should be biased to position portfolios more defensively (i.e. in curve steepeners).

While many Senators challenged the negative effects of the Fed's policy for savers — financial repression in the words of Carmen Reinhart — Yellen noted that people were not just savers but also consumers.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

You put to word, the thoughts that so many of us share, about the challenge of being faithful with so many conflicting demands on our allegence.

Faulkner is dense with allusions and his language is among the most challenging of that period, as his mastery of minutia and regionalism combined to provide the text with pivotal moments that centered upon words that were obscure or ambiguous.

It was easy to recognize, in the words of this latest exhortation to more faithfully follow the gospel in the economic and global - political realm, the voice of our dear shepherd» to see the sharp intellectual and moral challenge of his mind, coupled with the loving understanding of his heart, so passionate to bring Christ to the world and the world to Christ.

Cajetan had challenged Luther's insistence that those who come to the sacrament of penance are to believe confidently that they receive God's grace and forgiveness thereby; Luther's main defense appeals to Christ's words in Matthew 16:19:

Your words, Mark, at the prayer breakfast were 100 % correct: we do have a responsibility to God to do the best we can do... to make good come of heartache... I challenge people reading this to think of and remember the fact that we are AMERICANS and this nation was founded on the very principles of which Mark spoke: a responsibility within ourselves to our Creator to rise to the occasion and make things better... May we all find that courage to do so!

If you bring up penetrating theological questions and are challenged about it, you can say that you only did it to try to draw out any wolves in sheep clothing within the congregation and that you really believe every word of the bible.

It is this naïveté that The Handmaid's Tale addresses with its appended «historical» commentary, challenging us to think about something otherwise difficult to see: the relationship between the crises of our civilization and its historic textual politics — the continuing story of who controls, legitimates, engenders and eliminates whom and what through the power of authoritative language, grounded in the Word.

My upbringing was in very legalistic churches where the «Word of God» could never be challenged.

In these Morrison challenged church father Alexander Campbell's rendering of the Greek word baptizo and his argument that made immersion identical with baptism.

His memorable words issued a resounding challenge to the youth of America to become missionaries to their own people: «This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel.

When our faith is challenged, will we continue to believe that Jesus» words are true and good, or will we turn to the words of someone else?

An ongoing challenge for church and clergy is to sufficiently establish the significance of scripture in the hearts and minds of believers so that they will attempt the hard work, the life's work, of seeking to understand the Word made Book.

World Watch Monitor reports that Bibi's attorney Naeem Shakir challenged the testimony of the women who feuded with Bibi, arguing to the appellate court that their testimony had been hearsay because the complainant in the case had not heards Bibi's words himself.

On 13 May 2004, in an address to the Italian Senate entitled «Europe: Its Spiritual Foundations of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow», Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (who one year later would be Pope Benedict XVI) proclaimed these words, indicating the contemporary challenge facing the family:

When you were challenged on this frankly stunning, obvious maneuver, you decided to throw a wall of expertly worded blather about how it's important to be generous to one another and to attempt to establish relationship with those with whom we differ.

Your constant insistence in challenging my view that God is real and exists is not just rude in the extreme... but continuing to make an incredible ASS out of yourself while doing it by distorting my words is beyond belief.

The word challenge every christian to be aware of being led by nonbelivers and nonchristians.

Richard L. Rubenstein has had a greater and more immediate impact upon the world of Christian theology than has been effected by any recent radical Christian theologian, and doubtless this is true because, in the words of Langdon Gilkey, he presents the sharpest and most devastating challenge to the traditional or Biblical conception of God.

It helps us to know that every word of Jesus, Paul, Peter, etc is not captured in the Bible because: — We will always be challenged to understand the fullness of the message the authors were conveying to their audience.

He is one of the messengers that God always provides to wake us up and help prepare the way His words may bring to mind people in our own lives who have been such faithful harbingers of truth, those who have smoothed the way for us, leveling the rough places through which we must walk, even as they challenge us to seek to be the people God calls us to be.

We will be challenged to rightly discern those that only sound like they are preaching the Word of God from those that truly are.

In other words, the more completely violence seems to be of the order of necessity, the greater is the obligation of believers in Christ's Lordship to overcome it by challenging necessity.

With these words God Himself challenges one of the first prophets of the history of salvation; the prophet Isaiah tells us God himself was asking him.

1 In light of these words, the participants at the synod will have to face the great pastoral challenge of being faithful heralds of the joy of the gospel of marriage.

It is the authentic Word of God, the suprahuman truth which challenges him and brings his spirit to life.

Neurobiology... anthropology... psychology... sociology... history... semiotics... nearly every field challenges the conventional packages of concepts that are associated with the word God, whoever is speaking it.

This hope, this «horizon of expectation,» not only imposed a challenge to his readers, it was accompanied with a word of assurance.

The challenge for most of us is to make the priority of Christ more than mere words.