Sentences with phrase «countenanced as»

When I met sometimes with merry companions, and my heart was ready to sink, I would labor to put on as cheerful a countenance as possible, that they might not distrust anything, and sometimes would begin some discourse with young men or young women on purpose, or propose a merry song, lest the distress of my soul would be discovered, or mistrusted, when at the same time I would then rather have been in a wilderness in exile, than with them or any of their pleasures or enjoyments.

However, the sentencing judge, Judge Rakoff, refused to countenance it as it was «a contrivance designed to provide the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] with a façade of enforcement and the management of the Bank with a quick resolution of an embarrassing enquiry... even under the most deferential view, this proposed Consent Judgment can not remotely be called fair.»

Not exact matches

Those courts may still decline to assume jurisdiction (as here), but the only reason that ethical counsel could countenance undertaking this second round of litigation was precisely because the Federal Court of Appeal had declined to address the matter.

It has taken far longer than it should (ideology demands conformity and thus countenances no dissent), but as noted last week there was some minor suggestion this might actually be taking place.

He replies that the pleasure of salvation that Pascal's Wager countenances is «of the most exalted kind», and that if seeking it counts as greed at all, then it is «the manifestation of a noble greed that is to be acclaimed»

She had not intended to marry a priest and initially refused to countenance the idea, so Geoff returned to his role as an administrator in the Malayan Civil Service.

Writing in Crisis, he observes that a crisis of conscience is created when the courts not only countenance the killing of the innocent but also decree, as in the Casey decision, that moral objection to such injustice is an offense against the constitutional order.

This way of establishing Brahman's independence of causal relations countenances the conception of Brahman as absolute self - existence and unchanging endurance, and leads to misconceptions.

If Jesus approved of divorce he would appear unprophetic or, as John Calvin says, as «a panderer who lends countenance to human lust.»

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

No longer interested merely in the destinies of corporate groups, God was conceived as caring for persons one by one, so that prayer was a transfiguring individual experience — «As he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered.&raquas caring for persons one by one, so that prayer was a transfiguring individual experience — «As he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered.&raquAs he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered.»

Unfortunately theories, under their name of «propositions,» have been handed over to logicians, who have countenanced the doctrine that their one function is to be judged as to their truth or falsehood.

Much as he criticized radical empiricism and its sterile, truncated rationalism, he was himself too much of a rationalist in the classic, Aristotelian sense to countenance esoteric or occult mysticism and the depreciation of reason.

It seemed to the council that there was here sufficient ground for action; at any rate they could put him under arrest, and that was an action which the governor might be expected to countenance, since it could be represented as being in the interests of public order.

And on this side of the vast gulf in quality that separated him from the divine stood man, frail, mortal and sinful, whose best righteousnesses were, in the light of that pure countenance, «but as filthy rags.»

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

It has always gone back to Jesus, and when a few hypercritical or hypersensitive men nursed doubt as to whether Jesus actually ever existed, they were indignantly vituperated or laughed out of countenance.

Evidently Whitehead could not countenance the latter assumption, not because he could not accept the constancy of the speed of light as a physical law, but rather because Einstein used this assumption in order to define simultaneity (PNK 51f.).

John portrays Jesus as the incarnate light of God, the glory of the Father reflected in the countenance of his own dear son.

Perpetua went along with a shining countenance and calm step, as the beloved of the God, as a wife of Christ, putting down everyone's stare by her own intense gaze.

1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

«His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two - edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.»

cit., II, 126) or as the vision of the divine countenance or as a uniting of the soul with the heavenly spouse, it is one and the same reality to which the pious soul keeps looking while in this state of finiteness and which it is already anticipating within this finiteness.

It contains much enlightened and liberal social doctrine, and countenances no complacency with things as they are.

But it would appear that the rumours were based in fact, as the BBCs David Ornstein revealed yesterday that Bellerin actually asked Wenger if he could move back to Spain this summer but Wenger once again refused to countenance any transfer talks with Barcelona.

There were many rumours about Arsenal's Hector Bellerin wanting to move back to Barcelona last summer to rejoin his family, and it would appear that the rumours were based in fact according to the BBCs David Ornstein who «revealed» at the end of the window that Bellerin actually asked Wenger if he could move back to Spain, but Wenger refused to countenance any transfer talks with Barcelona as the 22 year - old still had 6 years left on his recently signed contract.

It is this ridiculous failure EVER TO EVEN COUNTENANCE THAT HE ALSO MAKES MISTAKES, LIKE ALL MANAGERS DO, that damns Wenger as a head in the sand ostrich type manager.

Although the Mirror also report the deal hinges on Mrs OG agreeing to move to Dortmund as according to them she refused to countenance the move to Everton last summer — didn't fancy living on Merseyside for some reason.

The discussion online seems to be focusing on sugar per se and my feelings about it — as if I just couldn't countenance the number of sugar grams in HISD breakfasts for one more minute, threw up my hands and marched off the committee in a huff.

And we must never countenance alliance with those who wish to remove Christianity as the basis of our State.

But I could not get the Treasury, the Bank or any politician to countenance reinstating them as a matter of principle.

On radio, the one or two business leaders who could countenance it are wheeled out to say it'll be fine, in exactly the same manner as they assured us last year we'd definitely get a deal with the EU.

He said the petitioners reckoned with the card reader as a means of accreditation during the election but failed to countenance with the voter register.

That both sides are willing to countenance it while a Con - Lib Coalition persists speaks volumes of the distance that has been travelled by the parties themselves, and British politics as a whole.

Labour would not countenance a deal that left Britain as a passive recipient of rules decided elsewhere by others.

However, there is a disconnect in the leadership's psyche as to why anyone could countenance an act as egregious as voting Tory.

Cuomo routinely dismisses the tax as an issue that Senate Republicans (whose hold on power critics say he enabled) simply will not countenance.

Labour are still seen as the anti-English party who inflicted policies on England using Scottish MPs, even though Scottish Labour wouldn't countenance those policies in Scotland.

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Although human faces were unique in some ways, they also bore some striking similarities to those of other species: «He who will look at a dog preparing to attack another dog or a man, and at the same animal when caressing his master, or will watch the countenance of a monkey when insulted, and when fondled by his keeper, will be forced to admit that the movements of their features and their gestures are almost as expressive as those of man.»

Human interaction can be made fruitful by various means as one can figure out a presentable countenance is also helpful.

The softness in your eyes and the warmth of your smile as your gaze falls upon my countenance reveals the one true heart that I have searched for the world over since time eternity.

Though seemingly born with a battered bulldog countenance and a rattly voice best suited to such lines as «We don't like you kind around these parts, stranger,» tough - guy character actor Kenneth Tobey was originally groomed for gormless leading man roles when he came to Hollywood in 1949.

By 1976, he was working as a full - time actor, his weather - beaten countenance and self - assuredness enlivening many an otherwise «flat» scene.

Being originally intended as part of a six part series though, the film focuses solely on his early years, beginning with Napoleon as a boy, leading a large scale snowball fight and being bullied for his stony countenance.

Ejiofor is incapable of a weak turn, and as is always the case, he manages to wear the character's entire backstory in his countenance, posture, wordless reactions, and eyes.

Winfrey disappears into an ordinary person's countenance, and her gradual disappointment as she realizes once again she will be denied is both heartbreaking and a warning.

If my countenance doesn't match up, I have to feel as though everything I've learned will get me to the place where I need to be.»

Shepherd's unconventional looks and bizarre delivery help him in these scenarios — he's a lot like Barry Newman of «Vanishing Point» and «Fear is the Key,» his confidence behind the wheel painting him as a hero even if his countenance, and the lies that necessitate the multi-state chase, suggest otherwise.

Released theatrically overseas (in some countries as a two - part movie) but presented as a television miniseries for its stateside showing, this handsome production showcases British actor Robert Powell portraying one of the best Christs the screen has seen, effectively mixing a divine countenance with recognizably human emotions.