Sentences with phrase «covenant partners»

Perhaps the most common refuge today in this wasteland period of the journey of faith, for lay and clergy alike, is the «affair».39 When God and all the commitments we have made in God's name seem to be receding from us, the closeness of a fresh sexual partner partly fills the space that distance from God and covenant partners leaves.

This God prefers covenant partners with whom things are yet to be decided, rejecting a situation — in heaven or on earth — where nothing is in question.

In the eighth - century prophets, the vision was still one in which Yahweh and the nation were the covenant partners.

Their pastor, Buck Giebelhaus, is committed to MOSAIC being an integral part of Northpoint's culture, and, as a result, Northpoint now participates in World Orphans» Church - to - Church Partnerships as covenant partners with Fountain of Life Church of Juja, Kenya (Fountain of Life has a small family - style orphan care home on the church property).

This shift from the understanding of the people as a whole as the covenant partner of God to the idea that God deals with individuals as individuals is of such importance that we must pause to consider how it may have developed.

As in God's covenant with all creation at the time of Noah, both covenanted partners are irrevocably pledged to remain faithful forever.

But our Protestant traditions of theology also insist that God's hand reaches out to the human counterpart, the covenant partner.

The primal disclosure of the Bible is that this God in heaven makes a move toward earth to identify a faithful covenant partner, responding to the groans of oppressed people (Exod.

Thus, it is within the covenant that one attains salvation; outside it is spiritual death.16 The basic message of the covenant is salvation, «that God is willing to set his covenant partner in a shalom status.

Not exact matches

These are deals by which prosecutors can obtain multimillion - dollar fines from companies facing bribery allegations while sparing them a criminal conviction that would trigger other consequences such as violating covenants signed with lenders or joint - venture partners.

When I find a partner and get married or enter into a covenant relationship with them, I am not sinning.

In this view, Judaism is fundamentally about a divine - human partnership, a covenant, in which the divine partner increasingly cedes power and responsibility for creation to the human partner.

This covenant also takes place when two human beings consecrate themselves to each other in marriage or in brotherhood, «for the consecration does not come by the power of the human partners, but by the power of the eternal wings that overshadow both.»

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

The distinctive thing about human beings is that they are meant to be partners in His covenant and to represent the Creator, in the person of His Son, to the rest of creation.

He wrote appreciative statements about Schleiermacher, he allowed that Schleiermacher might be interpreted as a theologian of the Holy Spirit, he emphasized the humanity of God in contrast to the Wholly Other, he called human beings «covenant - partners of God,» and he looked for «parables» of grace and truth in non-Christian religions and ideologies.

Election is perpetuated and realized in covenant.6 Covenant in the Old Testament is the working contract between unequal parties, initiated by the senior partner in the act of election.

Here the king becomes the servant of God; and the king is to serve the people, who is the partner of God in the covenant.

The Israelites did not celebrate Passover simply to preserve their memories or to teach ideas about the exodus, but to remind each person that because he was an Israelite, he participated in that event and therefore was a responsible partner to the covenant.

Wherever the festival was celebrated, the people would be reminded of the foundations of their faith: Israel was chosen by God, redeemed by him from Egyptian bondage, was made a covenant - partner with him at Sinai, continues to live under the leadership of God who is concerned for this covenant.

On the one hand, he refuses to recognize Israel, has granted audiences to Yasir Arafat and Kurt Waldheim, has called for Israel to withdraw from Jerusalem and has preached that Christians have superseded and replaced Jews as God's partners in covenant.

The allusions are obvious ones: So have God's liberated covenant - partners behaved.

It shifted the normative image of marriage from that of an enduring covenant to that of a limited contract — and later, under no - fault divorce, to a contract that could be dissolved by either partner for any (or even no) reason whatever.

This love by God requires the partner's obligatory love, especially expressed in covenant obedience.

The casual attitude of sex, became the casual pairing of partners, and the all too transient covenant of marriage.

But dating without the intention to be married or conscious choice to pursue a partner who truly lives between the bounds of a godly covenant is giving over to the cultivation of the wrong desires — these are the desires to escape boredom or the fear of being alone.

We are here to help you find Christian Friends or that special friend who might became your partner in a marriage covenant to be your life long partner.

There's a suite of new covenants on offer, and just as before they range in focus from being the nice, cheerful co-op partner who's helping out with the boss kills to invading other players» games and killing them brutally.

Sarah has extensive experience in advising on English and Scottish partnership and employment law issues over her career which span a whole range of issues including, defending High Court partnership disolution proceedings; handling whistleblowing disputes and related settlements; advising on partner restrictive covenants and related exit terms; defending employers in high - value discrimination litigation; and advising exiting fund managers on carried interest entitlements and restrictive covenant issues.

Wonu advised in relation to a departing partner facing injunction proceedings in the High Court to enforce lengthy restrictive covenants.

Anna also advises professional practices (including law firms) and their equity partners in relation to exits, restrictive covenants, and conduct and performance issues.

She regularly works with Partners to advise on a range of issues in employment and partnership disputes and exits, including enforceability of restrictive covenants in traditional partnerships and LLPs, discrimination, whistleblowing and jurisdictional issues.

This move will have to be handled carefully and advice taken because the outgoing firm will often be sore about being told that they are not good enough for the partner concerned and restrictive covenants will be engaged.

Dan's business litigation included defending a truck manufacturer in suits by disgruntled dealers, the defense of numerous officers and directors of failed savings and loans, a recovery for limited partners in a franchise who were misled by a franchisor, defense of libel actions, trade secret litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, lease covenant disputes for commercial tenants of shopping centers, and business partnership disputes.

We also have extensive expertise in advising on partner restrictive covenants and on the handling of, and response to, partner team moves.

Clare Murray and David Fisher represented, in cross-border litigation, the partners leading a team move of 30 professionals based in Eastern Europe, where those partners were subject to English law partnership terms and restrictive covenants.

The cash flow pressure can be severe for most of the year, and a failure to renew the line of credit or the addition of certain financial performance covenants could reduce partner distributions and destroy the firm.

Lawyers are more than happy to be called fiduciaries when it serves their interests: two obvious examples are restrictive covenants, which the Court of Appeals has declared unenforceable for lawyers because of their fiduciary status [Cohen v. Lord Day & Lord, 550 N.E. 2d 410 (1989)-RSB-, and the unfinished business doctrine, where lawyers» fiduciary relationship with clients was deemed to trump their obligations to their former partners.

Banks and other third - party lenders now often require personal guarantees of partners or impose restrictive loan covenants that may be difficult to meet.

J. Christopher Fox, II (Business Litigation)-- Fox is a partner whose practice encompasses a broad range of commercial disputes, including contractual issues arising in the financial services arena, matters relating to restrictive covenants and unfair competition claims, and litigation of patent and trademark infringement claims, as well as defense and prosecution of claims for misappropriation of trade secrets.

* Conduct of the Business Clause: The alleged (almost unbelievable) violation by Harman of its capital expenditures covenant and subsequent termination of its agreement to be acquired by KKR and GS Capital Partners underlined the need to keep clients alert and informed of these clauses, as well as for clients to have appropriate systems in place to prevent breaches.

Harjie is frequently involved in demanding and complex land and property related disputes and is the firm's lead partner on all commercial landlord and tenant litigation including contested lease renewals, lease termination, disputed dilapidation and service charge claims, actions against telecommunication operators, actions for breach of covenants, possession claims and enforcement.

Advising solicitor on restrictive covenants and construction of contract as he attempts to extricate himself from his former partners.

Key individuals in the group include practice head Philip Edmondson, who has expertise in multimillion - pound dilapidation claims, highly regarded name partner Peter McCormick, Heather Roberts, who handles a broad range of contentious commercial property matters, and Kayleigh Fantoni, who has strengths in breach of covenant claims.

The application judge found that the two - member firm partnership had been dissolved and declared the restrictive covenant unenforceable as a penalty, but directed a trial of an issue to determine the damages payable by the appellant as a result of a breach of the portion of the portion of the covenant he found valid and severable — the withdrawal having triggered a clause in the agreement which called for the reduction of the withdrawing partner's capital account «by 500 % of the average fees billed by the firm to clients who transfer to the withdrawing partner within 24... Read More

The application judge found that the two - member firm partnership had been dissolved and declared the restrictive covenant unenforceable as a penalty, but directed a trial of an issue to determine the damages payable by the appellant as a result of a breach of the portion of the portion of the covenant he found valid and severable — the withdrawal having triggered a clause in the agreement which called for the reduction of the withdrawing partner's capital account «by 500 % of the average fees billed by the firm to clients who transfer to the withdrawing partner within 24 months of the withdrawal date».

John's commercial litigation practice includes a wide variety of shareholder / partner / limited liability entity disputes, contested dissolutions, trademark, licensing, unfair competition, warranty and Uniform Commercial Code issues, and restrictive covenants / non - compete / solicitation agreements; he also has experience...

Recommended in Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading junior in Employment law, Holly has a particular interest in High Court employment disputes and has acted in a number of cases concerning covenants in restraint of trade and breach of confidence, as well as bonus claims.

Also last week, the Law Society of Nova Scotia voted 10 — 9 against allowing persons who graduate from TWU law school to be admitted to the bar in Nova Scotia for so long as TWU requires students to sign a covenant that, among other things, bans all pre-marital sexual activity, as well as banning sexual activity between married same - sex partners.

New York City partner Craig Tractenberg authored this column that looks at the complexities of covenants not to compete.