Sentences with phrase «civil power»

In Romans 12 - 13, Paul's exhortation to suffer injustice without vengeance is rooted not only in hope for divine vengeance but in an expectation that wrongs will be avenged by civil powers.

Of particular concern is the proposal for «terror Asbos» — new civil powers to target the behaviours extremists use to radicalise others - and a proposal to ban groups that undermine democracy and say hateful things.

We will be a world leader in the commercialization of advanced fuel designs for existing and future civil power reactors.

Among Protestant thinkers, the Scottish Reformer John Knox also saw more circumstances than Calvin under which civil powers might be disobeyed.

Masoud has extensive experience in using effective civil powers granted by the Courts across many jurisdictions to trace and freeze assets and secure evidence.

That is to say, while all liberals favored curtailment of the Church's worldly power and proclaimed the supremacy of civil power, they were not necessarily «antireligious.

The founders of this nation distrusted military justice dispensed by authority which is unchecked by civil power.

The undoubted threat represented by ISIS and the return of its recruits to the UK is leading to calls for new banning orders for extremist groups, new civil powers to target extremists, and measures to target persons even when they have actually not broken the law.

At the end of 2015 there were 66 civil power reactors under construction around the world and another 158 planned.

As feudalistic federations evolved into monarchies the civil powers exceeded the Church's power in the individual Nation States and the Bishops became more concerned with staying on the good side of the Kings than with pleasing the Pope and the Magisterial Authority became invested in a monarchial Pope in union with the Curia (Vatican bureaucracy) with the Bishop's role becoming merely advisory.

Christ died because he affronted the civil power and the Rabbis of the time claiming he was the Messiah.

In regards to the use of force Ben Franklin said, «When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, â $ ˜tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

Although the Yuan dynasty was Mongolian, Muslims enhanced their standing by holding positions of military and civil power, and the propagation of the faith was greatly facilitated.

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, «tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

XIII That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and be governed by, the civil power.

By mid eighteenth century in New Haven, William Livingston rephrased a «Puritan principle» to read «The civil Power hath no jurisdiction over the Sentiments or Opinions of the subject, till such Opinions break out into Actions prejudicial to the Community, and then it is not the Opinion but the Action that is the Object of our Punishment.

Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 XIII That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and be governed by, the civil power.

Let cardinals, archbishops, bishops, the heads of the monastic, mendicant and military orders be called, let factors of theology and law from the university and the representatives of the Civil power be summoned, and let such a council and the schism, condemn heretics and reform the Church.

Above all, mechanism / processes for the establishment and activation of inter community vigilante groups would be established by the civil power in Ebonyi State to help to de-escalate tension and address emerging security challenges across the communities and its environs.