Sentences with phrase «circumstances of our life on»

He argued that the circumstances of life on the western frontier were a determining influence on American character and institutions.

But the way they responded to the extraordinary circumstances of life on the new frontier, politics, and war made heroes of these ordinary citizens.

Not exact matches

People can and do change based on both immediate circumstance and broader changes in the context of their lives.

But the company's flagship perk is «mass career customization,» a program that allows people to «dial up» or «dial down,» depending on life circumstances, whether they're fresh out of school or a harried new parent.

And while this is a great place to start, there are many other considerations, as well, most of which depend on your particular needs, goals and life circumstances.

Additionally, China's one child per family social policy creates its own set of circumstances, including larger extended families that live together, and that dote on the youngest member of the family.

We evaluate the remaining estimated useful life of our intangible assets being amortized on an ongoing basis to determine whether events and circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining period of amortization.

The Company evaluates the remaining estimated useful life of its intangible assets being amortized on an ongoing basis to determine whether events and circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining period of amortization.

These seniors will soon be joining the 43 million Americans working to repay an estimated $ 1.3 trillion in student debt.The student loan debt problem has a lasting effect on the lives of graduates long after «Pomp and Circumstance» signals the end of their college careers.

Rice's grim portrayal of our cultural and political circumstance notwithstanding, this is a book marked by a bracing confidence that the friends of life are, in fact, on the winning side.

All of the matters mentioned thus far bear on the central question of ethics: Is it «right» for a Christian, under any circumstance, to take her or his own life?

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

do not often write on open forums because of certain life circumstances.

The self is a movable and malleable target, one that adapts to changing circumstances, revising its constitution repeatedly over the course of an individual life, taking on strikingly different colorations at different times.

The point is to make a life together, based on your unique circumstances and gifts, not to force yourselves into prescribed roles regardless of how they fit.

In comedies as diverse as Shakespeare's and those on prime time television, life progresses from a state of crisis created by some illusion to a harmonious recovery brought about by discovering the true nature of the circumstances.

How an individual responds to difficult circumstances depends on many things within him — his philosophy of life; his relationships; coping abilities he has developed previously; other stresses and satisfactions; religious and emotional resources.

Her reflections on the priesthood and the Christian life are frequently affecting, and she obviously has little sympathy for the Women?s Ordination Conference, the National Catholic Reporter, and others in the U.S. who have tried to use her peculiar circumstance in promoting the ordination of women.

Indeed, life is not always a buffet of delicious circumstances where we get to pick and choose which items we put on our plate.

It is important to understand, it seems to me, that the LCP should be considered unacceptable under all circumstances, not simply for Catholics but universally, since it is based on an ideological notion about the end of life, a pressing of all supposedly dying patients into a predetermined pattern of treatment involving the withdrawal of food and hydration (itself an unacceptable procedure under all circumstances) and not on an evidence - based assessment of the needs of individual patients.

But the Church can not offer a concrete model of the economy as it might be today and as in certain circumstances it ought to be, in such a way that to realize this model would be a binding moral duty on those in charge of economic life.

Whenever the people of Israel have attempted to constitute a national life on this soil in disregard of its election, the soil has rejected them under the most catastrophic circumstances.

But focus on what Jesus Christ has done, who He is, the forgiveness of our sins against God, the new life He gives us, the victory over Satan we have, and the plethora of benefits of being a child of God... and then your perspective will shift from depressiveness to optimistic hope in God no matter your circumstances or conditions.

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

In the totality of Jesus» human life, obedient to the will of God even to the point of death, there is the enactment, on the stage of history and in the circumstances of human existence, of the right relationship of that existence with God.

But as his thinking on the morality of abortion gradually changed, he began to see the fetus as a very important being whose life ought not to be ended except under extraordinary circumstances.

Finally, it is a fragile and superficial structure, shedding a haphazard light on our lives, maintaining and propagating itself by grace of circumstances that are in themselves precarious and changeable: how can we compare it to those deep, underlying determinisms which impose an ineluctable course upon the advance of Life?

Except in cases of severely diminished capacity, the perpetrator of murder still forfeits any personal claim on life, even though society may add an injustice of its own by being inconsistent with a normally more lenient treatment of similar circumstances.

If we then discovered that he was living high on the hog in Barbados, we would all think this was adequate evidence to consider Jones guilty unless he could offer an alternative plausible explanation of these circumstances.

Even then there will always be mitigating circumstances which compromise the usefulness of a dogmatic, set in concrete, approach to understanding and actually living, not merely reflecting on, life.

It depends on how Ivan is defining «local community» and how he envisions it being proposed as the «arrangement for us today,» but against his basic note of resignation I join Mr. T. (Tocqueville) and the A-Team (Aristotelians) in insisting upon the greater naturalness and liberty - fostering character of township / polis life, and thus upon our unavoidable duty to cultivate whatever qualities and institutional features of that life that we can in our circumstances.

Seldom is this true of life on the upswing, and the circumstances must be bleak indeed, for ending life so early to be a loving choice.

The Sermon on the Mount does not limit politics; in the best of circumstances, it transforms public life by inverting our preference for the powerful over the weak.

While properly emphasizing that the focus of the scandal should be on our failures of fidelity to Catholic truth, Richard John Neuhaus ironically takes refuge in the liberal assumption that life circumstances can be reengineered to alter life's divinely endowed essence and particularity of purpose, or at least alter the odds of its being realized.

Make us to love; move in upon us, work through us, put pressure on our little selfish lives, so that we may love «that which thou dost command» — the things, the places, the times, the persons, the circumstances in which God has sent us, the whole realm of the divine ordering of things.

This has been done on a magnified scale, so that man may the better become aware of, and look out for, what, in the trivial circumstances of daily life so rarely appears unmixed that it is much harder to detect than are these instances that are «writ large.»

Ann Voskamp's book One Thousand Gifts (Zondervan) focuses on slowing down and embracing a life of grace, thanksgiving and joy, whatever our circumstances.

Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

It may sometimes happen that a fundamental difference of opinion on matters of principle may persist in theory, and retain real importance, while the circumstances of life and action change so much that the difference of opinion is of less moment for life and action than it previously was.

Do the circumstances of Tocque - ville's life bear on the development of his thought?

«When they see the child moving in the womb on an ultrasound, when they hear the heartbeat of the unborn child, when they know there are people and programs available to help them with a new baby and new circumstances, when they see what dismemberment abortion does to these precious children, the pain and agony that is involved in every chemical abortion, they look for life - preserving solutions that are better for everyone involved.»

It is a power that is shared, as life within the community is shared».62 We need to ask whether all people, as children of God, participate in the agencies of power or whether there are groups that are excluded on the basis of, for example, sex, age, handicaps, economic circumstances, social marginalization.

Let a man who, by fortunate health and circumstances, escapes the suffering of any great amount of evil in his own person, also close his eyes to it as it exists in the wider universe outside his private experience, and he will be quit of it altogether, and can sail through life happily on a healthy - minded basis.

But, you see, he was not a mere thing, a robot helplessly pushed about by circumstance; he was a person with the power of decision, who could choose his own kind of response to any situation, and stand up to life, saying, Come on now, I'll show you!

«Taken together with earlier research results, the authors» findings suggest that the improved living circumstances experienced by children born after the legalisation of abortion had a lasting impact on their lifelong prospects.

Rick Reilly's column on the heartless «Dr. James Hart» was a masterly, yet disturbing, account of a pathetic man taking advantage of tragic circumstances (THE LIFE OF REILLY, March 8of a pathetic man taking advantage of tragic circumstances (THE LIFE OF REILLY, March 8of tragic circumstances (THE LIFE OF REILLY, March 8OF REILLY, March 8).

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

It would depend on circumstances in my life and what chapter of my life I was at with my family and which club it would be,» said Rooney about his own future and his favourite signing.

I never understood how someone can honestly make a life - long commitment with a partner based on a static set of emotions and set of circumstances at a specific time period in ones life; who you are today and your state of mind won't be the same five, ten, fifteen years from now.