Sentences with phrase «deaths were at the hands»

These tragic deaths are all the more difficult to process when we learn that their deaths were at the hands of parents or caregivers who should be protecting these youths.

With one - hit kills and a small amount of lives, it induces frustration that can't be alleviated by the humour of your death being at the hands of a friend.

Not exact matches

But that's the situation that fans of the critically - acclaimed NBC drama This Is Us found themselves in after Tuesday's episode, in which the long - anticipated death of a leading character (actor Milo Ventimiglia's Jack) is hinted to ended up coming at the hands of a faulty slow - cooker, of all thingIs Us found themselves in after Tuesday's episode, in which the long - anticipated death of a leading character (actor Milo Ventimiglia's Jack) is hinted to ended up coming at the hands of a faulty slow - cooker, of all thingis hinted to ended up coming at the hands of a faulty slow - cooker, of all things.

Fifty - one % said they found news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or news about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year's most important news events.

Eric Garner's death at the hands of police was on tape, for example.

They are going to need capital at some point and the recent death that was at the hands of an autonomous car isn't helping.

In the case at hand, Judge Miner and his colleagues determined that the relevant class was «all competent persons who are in the final stages of fatal illness and wish to hasten their deaths.»

The fact that there are both does NOT make morality relative, it means that one needs to know more than simply that a death of one person occurred at the hands of another person to judge the morality.

The evidence indicates that the written sources of our Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are not later than c. AD 60; some of them have even been traced back to notes taken of our Lord's teaching while His words were actually being uttered... We have then in the Synoptic Gospels, the latest of which was complete between 40 - 50 years after the death of Christ, material which took shape at a still earlier time, some of it even before His death, and which, besides being for the most part 1st hand evidence, was transmitted along independent and trustworthy lines.»

Did Jesus Christ really come to South America and was seen in the human flesh, hundreds of years after his death and was sitting at the right hand of God.

So while as a Christian, I am not rejoicing over bin laden's death, I am assured that his death happened at the hands of his judge, Almighty God.

In Jesus» message the tension appears in his teaching that the Kingdom of God is at hand, Later Christians reformulated this slightly to say that the Kingdom had been inaugurated in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but that its fulfillment awaited his second coming.

Parley, of course, was Joseph Smith's closest confidant until his untimely death in May of 1857 at the hand of the estranged husband of his then mistress, Eleanor McClean.

(CNN)- This country is changing rapidly, and at the very time modern medicine puts life - or - death decisions in our hands, organized religion has faded from the lives of many Americans.

Some commentators think that the words with which John records Jesus» death, «He bowed his head and gave up his spirit», were also intended to mean that as he died he handed over the Spirit to the few representative believers who stood at the foot of the cross (John 19:30).10 Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, separates chronologically what John holds together theologically.

As we do, we must also recognize that these unnecessary deaths are part of a cultural death — the death of blackness itself at the hands of life - denying, anti-blackness.

The long series is usually said to have begun with the defeat of the imperial armies and the death of the Emperor Valens at the hands of the Goths in a battle at Adrianople in A.D.

Nearly half a century after his death, he is still suffering at the hands of both friends and enemies.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

Those who questioned too deeply or sometimes at all (just THINK about raising your hand during a sermon) were frequently labeled as doubters, which would mean auto - hell upon death.

If we concede that Jesus was a real person, more likely than what is illustrated in the telephone version of the story (a.k.a. the bible) was that he was a man of conscience that saw the corruption and cruelty towards people in his day and spoke out about it, which led to his death at the hands of those he was speaking out about.

Wilbur has been saved from a premature death at the butcher's hands — not that he may never die, but that he may live out his life in full as Charlotte has.

Under that definition: — Christians own every death ever to have occurred at the hands of a Christian govt (a nice side effect of that is you acknowledge that the US is in fact a Christian Govt)

It is to risk danger and death at the hands of the judges and rulers of this world.

As the «outpouring» of the Spirit had come, unsought, in consequence of the life, death and resurrection of Christ, so the «indwelling» of the Spirit was the means by which He continued to form, guide and govern His Church out of the unseen world, where He was now invested with divine authority «at the right hand of God».

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

Lest we think all martyrdom is at the hand of right - wing states, we do well to remember the fate of those nuns whose death at the hands of the French Revolution is chronicled by Poulenc in his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.

The resurrection was the sign that the separation from God which has been exposed in the death of the man of God at the hands of sinful men is overcome now and forever.

Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower - bell, some one's death, A chorus - ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again — The grand Perhaps!

Many of the people from these same institutions advocate against abortion, but pretend not to understand the realistic benefit of the morning after pill or even basic contraception; their unrealistic wishful thinking is causing the death of many at the hands of disease.

It's the «hope» you speak of that is the basis for destructive thought and speech like that described above; not to mention the countless deaths that have come at the hands of «believers.»

The most powerful of the pro-choice arguments was that failure to legalize abortion would leave five to ten thousand women a year bleeding to death from coat - hanger abortions or dying from systemic infections incurred at the hands of «back - alley butchers.»

Something apparently insignificant like a relatively unknown Jewish holy man dying an unremarkable death at the hands of the Roman Empire is in fact an invitation into a much larger reality.

The older picture of an inscrutable Absolute in whose hands we can nevertheless at least be sure we are held for good or ill, whether in life or in death, has given way to the modern Bild of a kind of sympathetically groping, eagerly persuasive deity who does the best he can with all sorts of obstacles beyond his control.

For the recalcitrant, there was death at the hands of the community - commonly by the brutal method of stoning, that is, pelting with rocks until the poor wretch went down under them, and then was finally pounded to death.

To show God's love and save men from damnation, he allowed himself to be put to death; but he knew that shortly afterwards, he would rise from the dead and ascend to his former home to sit at the right hand of God.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

For two centuries this conviction had been bringing comfort and hope to some sections of Jews when they saw loyal and saintly men succumbing to a cruel death at the hands of their enemies.

The vigil's organisers added: «Only weeks after the death of Edson De Costa in Newham after he was arrested by police, this latest incident continues the seemingly endless list of young black men dying at the hands of the authorities.»

I am avoiding naming that event «resurrection» because this was simply the only category at hand among Jesus» followers for dealing with the radically new character of this singular overcoming of death's finality.

C. H. Dodd has pointed out that among early Christians there were evidently men who, like the writer of I John, did not move forward from an experience of Christ rising from death to the Christ seated at the right hand of power, but backward from their acknowledgment of the latter to the conclusion that therefore he had risen from the dead.

With the coming of the Son of God the Kingdom was already at hand; with his death and resurrection the power of sin and of death was broken, and Satan vanquished.

Science can throw up a nice smoke screen yet at the end of the day scientists are empty handed to explain life after death.

Yes Americans died at the hands of these extremists but it is only a fraction of the deaths that moderate Muslims face on a daily basis.

Imagine the power, serenity and spaciousness of someone who, because he is not driven by fear of death, is able to undergo an absolutely typical lynch death at human hands and to do so deliberately — and by doing so show that rather than death being definitive and powerful, it is no more than a frightening mirage.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

At the heart of this difficult doctrine is the proclamation that our lives and our deaths are in God's hand; we are loved of God not by our own merit but by God's gracious initiative toward us We need not spend our lives in good works in order to be saved but only in grateful response to being so loved.

It should be as the prayer says, «I take from your hands my illness and all I have to suffer; and when you call me at last, I will accept even my death from you to make up for my sins.»

Luther's fantasy was no longer of a death at the hands of the State, instructed by the Church, but of a natural death.

in the territory of Gilead to the east of the Jordan by Saul's commander, Abner, in the person of the weak Ishbosheth (better, Ishbaal or Eshbaal, the bosheth, meaning «shame,» being a later editorial substitution in names compounded with baa1, the most common Canaanite term for deity); the tentative «game» of war (2:14) between the troops of Abner and those of Joab, David's commander, and the vivid description of the circumstances of Asahel's death at Abner's hands; and finally the concluding notice: