Sentences with phrase «corrupt societies»

Sometimes there is a profound religious necessity to come out of (escape from) corrupt societies for one's own salvation.

have a look at the vatican website and you will see how insecure the vatican are about themselves now as the picture of Mr Benedict has been altered to make him look like the other pope and this proves that they are desparate now to make Mr Benedict seem different to waht he really is and we are watching the end of a very dishonest and corrupt society / religion

They took it to their corrupted societies just like Tebow!

Jesus had some very enlightened words for corrupt society and religion run amuck.

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

A part is our corrupt society has seemed to have molded people so much that, they don't really change much when they are in the church.

John Turenne, the president and founder of Sustainable Food Systems LLC, which works with schools to create healthier, sustainable food programs, nicely summed up this past week's collective anger: «Agribusiness is corrupting society with processed garbage,» said Turenne.

These reforms are are not just important in and of themselves (hey, who doesn't like not having a corrupt society?)

Let us face the bitter truth while Nigeria is not quite the most corrupt society on earth, Nigeria's corruption is very challenging and is just as rampant in our universities, as such we are seen as low trust nation.

The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Honourable Umar Ahmed Imam has criticized those calling for secession, stating emphatically that they are corrupt officials who emanated from a product of a corrupt society.

Beauty and the Dogs is a sterling achievement from filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania that features an important, uncompromising vision of a real patriarchal and legally corrupt society.

Always self - aware and basically noble, Wilder's comedies have his heroes confessing their sins and renouncing said corrupt society in favour of an appropriate love pairing (Fran and Baxter of The Apartment); in his tragedies, his heroes confess their sins as a last decent act undertaken too late.

All are touched by the problems of living in a war - ravaged, corrupt society — and by the power of friendship to salve them.

Though at times she overreaches for an arresting metaphor, duBois does an admirable job of portraying the death rattle of Communism and the birth of a nominally democratic but persistently corrupt society.

- how it pervades and corrupts our society and how its influence affects our lawmakers and enforcers when they try to legislate to control it?

Not exact matches

The company remains well regarded in Indian society as he has reinforced a policy of integrity in a notoriously corrupt environment.

Inasmuch as the essence of rulers and government is rule - setting, deregulation represents an undoing of public power in society's broad interests, on the ground that public power is inherently corrupt and run in the bureaucracy's narrowly self - serving interest.

In the age of digital activism, propaganda's dire power corrupts politics and divides society.

He is, according to National Journal, «perhaps the most extreme» of a network of U.S. evangelicals who, having failed in their crusade against all things gay at home, travel abroad to connect with anti-gay activists and arm them with arguments that, for example, homosexuals will seduce their children, corrupt all of society, and eventually take over the country.

No illusions for us about human nature, no nonsense about innate goodness rendered corrupt only by experience or society.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

Hatred is calling the religious disgusting, judgmental hypocrites who contribute the most to the suffering of humankind, whose falsehoods and lies should be wiped clean from all societies, and who keep company with the corrupt, the pedophiles and the delusional.

A redeemed society is one redeemed inwardly and outwardly, purged of personal sin and freed from the crippling and corrupting effects of social sin.

Your comment reeks of everything that is morally corrupt in this society!

Active social reform (or involvement in the structures of society) will follow such proclamation, but it will be left by and large to concerned individuals.23 According to the editors, individual Christian involvement will include responsible public criticism of the errors of government (e. g., detente, price freezing, opposition to capital punishment, corrupt leadership, lack of low - rent housing) while remaining always orderly and loyal in the process.

After 25 years of being brought up brain - washed I freed myself and now I look at all clergy as the most corrupt members of society.

He did all this in a society which, while far less secular than our own, was almost equally corrupt, and there is no reason why his methods can not be applied in a similar way today.

Saying that it is a part of the influences of our corrupt, sx ladden, perverted society does not remove individual responsibility.

this society, our so - called free society, is rotten to the core — it's oppressive and corrupt and unjust, it's materialistic and ruthless and immoral and soft, rotted with pornography and kitsch.»

They have corrupted everything else and now they want to get rid of the one Godly service they still perform in society.

All society is based on the family, the families in our society are corrupt and we see this corruption in our society.

All of these groups, well behaved as they are, have withdrawn fundamentally from contemporary American society, see it as corrupt and illegitimate, and place their hope in a radically different vision.

In every society wealth threatens to corrupt, and China is not free from this danger.

The actions that those laws limit are not to prevent someone else's freedom of doing what they want, but to make sure that the society doesn't become so corrupt and deteriorating to destroy it's own self.

I pray it is a sign that the downtrodden and oppressed of this society are seeking a higher court, throwing off the chains of this lying, corrupt world, and no longer letting themselves be manipulated into violence and corruption.

The whole country is corrupt, if you want to look at the government and everything, society as a whole has a problem that we need to deal with.»

Others are: Chief Okoi Obono - obla, Special Assistant on Prosecution to President Muhammadu Buhari (who will give some introductory remarks); Babatunde Ogala former Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly's Committee on Judiciary; Mr Tayo Oyetibo SAN; Mr. Levi Adikwaone Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikorodu Branch; Nurudeen Ogbara NBA Ikorodu Chairman Legal Education; and representatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission; the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC); the media, and civil society.

Neo-republicans do not reject the market itself, but as Cécile Laborde and John Maynor say, republicans «object to the market society, where market relations spill into, and corrupt, parts of life where they should not reign supreme.»

Those who critiqued commercial society and its increasing wealth and luxury in republican terms considered commerce and moveable capital as corrupting of citizen virtue.

We point at behaviours that we object to as a society and produce stocks in the public square where an example can be made of the greedy banker, corrupt politician, binge - drinking young person, sexually abusive celebrity, preacher of hate, benefit cheat or lying police officer.

The bill is entirely unnecessary, as the work of civil society is already sufficiently regulated under existing legislation, including the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Act and other similar legislation.»

Persons who stand up against the corrupt and corrupt practices in society are very often either bought off, blackmailed into silence through death threats or forced to face financial ruin and at worst physically eliminated.

The Electoral Reform Society concludes that big donors have too much influence over political parties and that the current funding system is corrupt.

Your correspondents seem to be all anti-Labour but I remember how soul - grindingly awful the Tories were in government, how corrupt, how disastrous their privatisations were, how they cut into the fabric of society until it nearly collapsed.

A civil society group, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, has stated that it is hypocritical for former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to label any government, institutions, agencies, individuals as corrupt in view of the unresolved and lingering suspected acts of corruption perpetrated by the former Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, has stated that it is hypocritical for former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to label any government, institutions, agencies, individuals as corrupt in view of the unresolved and lingering suspected acts of corruption perpetrated by the former corrupt in view of the unresolved and lingering suspected acts of corruption perpetrated by the former leader.

Also, a civil society organisation, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, has said Patience must explain how she came about the funds with which she reportedly built a N10bn hotel in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

Society makes police corrupt The Ghana Police Service has often ranked top of corruption perception lists in the country, with many Ghanaians often expressing their belief that police officers are corrupt.

If the society isn't corrupt there's no way the Police can be corrupt.

The religious establishment sees these Web sites as another attempt to corrupt Muslim society.

Don't you see: Jarecki has a point to make about the corrupting power of wealth, the unknowable darkness of the human heart, the unsavory influence that the rich have in society, etc..