Sentences with phrase «desertion of»

Other grounds for absolute divorce include desertion of at least a year, constructive desertion, adultery, cruelty or excessively vicious conduct, conviction of a crime and insanity.

Counseled clients on problems, such as desertion of parent or difficulties encountered in travel or stabilization in new community.

The end result was a wholesale desertion of Digg for other communities like Reddit.

Some individuals who may have deserted the military or who may have committed an offence equivalent to desertion of the military in their country of origin have sought refuge in Canada.

Abandonment — The desertion of an elder or dependent adult by someone who has taken responsibility for him or her.

• Repeated failures to find a merger partner resulting in loss of morale and desertion of partners.

Every element of the script, from the girl's downfall to the desertion of their friends to the villainous rival to the making of new allies, everything in this movie feels old and tired.

The quest is complicated by the desertion of their maverick brother Edmond (Jonathan R. Scott) who is beguiled with promises of princely power (and all the «Turkish Delight» he can eat) by the monarch - stealing sorceress.

While trying to deal with the desertion of his father and the death of a friend, the teen shovels a skating path across an icy pond... and discovers a magical hockey rink.

The OTB rescue was deferred until the afternoon session due to the wee - hours desertion of several lawmakers.

Going out to the Mount of Olives, Jesus foretells the desertion of the disciples.

Ministry is the expression of their convictions, and to leave the job appears to be the desertion of these core convictions.

His desertion of experience in favor of «pure reason» thus sets Kant in opposition to both Tradition and Radical Contingency.

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The strength of the Afghan security forces has declined sharply over the past 12 months, a US government watchdog has said, amid reports of desertions and high casualty rates.

Oh, by the way:: [4.34] Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping - places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.

While the majority of people move from religion to atheism, a rare desertion back (especially to Catholicism) pops up on CNN's front page.

We are reminded not just of our strength but of our weakness as well; not just of glory but also of misery; not just of pleasure but also of finitude; not just of warmth and the coming - to - be of the self in relation with others, but also of limitation and isolation; not just marriage but divorce; not just trust but betrayal and desertion; not just good feeling but pain, suffering, daily reminders of mortality, impermanence, the inevitability and the necessity of death.

We can surely read off from the Gospels something of the cost of this, something indeed of the uncertainty that hemmed his choice; the Outrage of the Pharisees, the seeming desertion at the last of the common people who had heard him gladly and whom in a sense he left to their fate in the coming sack of their city and desolation of their land.

While the actual numbers of annual desertions are unknown, they are thought to be substantial.

What desertion is more swift and sudden, like a mistake in foolery, like a hit by a blind man, when the seeker for honor has not even time to take off the garb of honor before insult seizes him in it?

This represents a desertion rate of 91 per - cent.

The fiasco of the abortive rising, we are told, had resulted in widespread desertions.

Generally speaking, Daniel Dennett's method in all his books is too often reminiscent of the forensic technique employed by the Snark, in the Barrister's dream, to defend a pig charged with abandoning its sty: The Snark admits the desertion but then immediately claims this as proof of the pig's alibi (for the creature was obviously absent from the scene of the crime at the time of its commission).

We also have epidemics of abortion, divorce, adultery, desertion, and sexually transmitted diseases.

To desert them would be a desertion, I believe, of our Master, Jesus Christ.

They represent desertions and attacks inspired not by loyalty to the church's own principles but rather by devotion to interests other than those of the church.

Such desertions and attacks, however justified they may seem from certain points of view, serve only to weaken the church and to increase its dependence.

The signature of Jesus is the cross, and the cross is totalis derelictio, his complete desertion by God.

-- someone touched me, woke me out of my dreams of desertion and death, spoke to me face to face, voice to ear, person to person, and gave me food and drink.

The focal question is this: among the available options (desertion; separation, divorce, homicide, suicide, continuation of the marriage), which is the best and most humane solution?

• There were 13 divorces an hour in England and Wales in 2012 • Women were granted 65 % of all divorces • 9,703 men and 6,026 women aged over 60 got divorced • One in seven divorces were granted as a result of adultery • 719 (less than 1 %) divorces were granted because of desertion • The average age at divorce was 45 for men and 42 for women • 9 % of couples divorcing had both been divorced before • 48 % of couples divorcing had at least one child aged under 16 living with the family • It is expected that 42 % of marriages will end in divorce

Only some of the fatherless families were broken by divorce or desertion.

Second, with the French forces departing this year and the Australian in the next, the pace of the drawdown process could become panicky enough to trigger widespread desertions in the ANSF.

That would have prompted all but diehard members to turn to the SDP - Liberal Alliance as the best way of getting rid of Mrs Thatcher, although Labour in Scotland and Wales would also have faced desertion to the nationalist parties.

It was a complex of issues to do with de-industrialisation, they repeat, that led to mass desertion by Labour voters.

Harold Wilson's position was not too dissimilar to Cameron's (Wilson has 301 seats in a parliament of 635, Cameron had 306 out of 650) after the February election and he went back to the electorate in October and won a slender but working majority that only finally disintegrated after 4 years of desertions and by - election losses.

Many of Miller's images try to convey the massive scale of these former launch sites and facilities, and those images can not help but simultaneously illustrate the desertion that surrounds these locations.

«She knew that her resignation would be seen as a desertion,» says Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, and now a close colleague of Singer's and a member of the ASF's board of directors.

He is currently investigating the effects of single - parent desertion on growth and survival of offspring, and how females adjust their molt and migration schedules to deal with male desertion.

One of Ronit's most misjudged attempts at diplomacy is to try wearing a wig herself, a temporary gesture which succeeds only in irritating everyone and reminding her late father's friends how much they still resent her desertion.

Katie is an overachiever of the sympathetic kind as Charlie's desertion manifests itself in fear — that he'll return, that he won't, that his leaving is the truth of her worth — she finds difficult to manage; Bratt's Wade Handler lies in the dark every night, hearing his past life being lived across the street in bars and in clubs, waiting in vain for the rewards of giving up the drink to kick in.

In exchange for not being sent to prison for desertion, the two are ordered by the cardinal to escort a young girl (played by newcomer Claire Foy) who's accused of being a witch and bringing on the Black Plague to a distant village to stand trial.

Apart from his shocking disingenuousness (if there's a more blatant Christ parable than The Shawshank Redemption, I don't know what it is), Darabont obviously doesn't understand that for the reborn mind, the longer the climb, the better the proselytizing — hence the desertion, the nepotism, and the DUIs actually augmenting Dubya's holiness instead of casting suspicion on it.

While searching for food, the two knights are reeled in by the local cardinal, played by Christopher Lee no less, and given a choice: Go to jail for desertion or escort a local girl (Claire Foy) accused of being a witch to stand trial in a distant abbey.

A chameleon, an enigma, all things to all women — a lifeline to which powerful needs and nameless longings may be attached — Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: Birdie, his first wife, struggling to hold herself together after his desertion; second wife, Joan, a lonely, tragic heiress who sees her unknowable husband as her last chance for happiness; and Dinah, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age.

In the northwest, troop desertions will plague the Ottomans, and even farther west, in the Christian kingdoms, inexplicable diseases will disarrange the lips of kings.»

Sara is the daughter of a disgraced imperial commander, executed for desertion.

In addition to improving its seacoast defenses, the Army now turned its energy toward improving the living conditions of enlisted soldiers, in order to stem desertion, boost moral and attract a better class of recruits.

Judgement follows the story Baird, whose the lead character, Cole and the rest of Kilo squad — Sophia and Garron — 15 - years before the events of Gears of War as they're standing trial on charges of desertion, cowardice, trespassing, theft of experimental military tech and treason.