Sentences with word «disposed»

The courts must declare the sense of the law, and if they should be disposed to exercise WILL instead of JUDGMENT, the consequence would be the substitution of their pleasure to that of the legislative body.

While it is to be doubted that this kind of activity has much effect with the more determined bigots, such dialogue is probably useful in reinforcing tolerant attitudes among those already disposed to have them.

They are too serious and searching to be disposed of by any quick retort.

Barnabas, being a generous and kindly disposed person, wanted to give young Mark a second chance.

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years — Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres — Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it.

Further, Johnson defines «religious» as «pious; disposed to the duties of religion» and «teaching religion,» with «to teach» taking such definitions as «to instruct; to inform» and «to deliver any doctrine or art, or words to be learned.»

In addition, the very first public notice of her was as a mystic, a label that has stuck to her, and academic theologians are not well disposed to mystics.

A more lingering attitude disposed to personal application and appropriate response would benefit our literary and news readings.

Even a child that has been conceived may be disposed of if it is not desired.

According to Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), the most widely used dictionary at the Constitution's ratification, Smyth says the Founders understood religious employers to be simply employers who, in any way, are disposed to religious duties or teach religion.

Which yields the sad irony that the more the Catholic Church strives to accommodate Orthodox concerns, the more disposed many Orthodox are to see in this merely the advance embassy of an omnivorous ecclesial empire.

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

After they disposed of the building they found some amazing doors open in the community.

Experience shows, without exception, that miracles occur only in times and countries in which miracles are believed in, and in the presence of persons who are disposed to believe in them.»

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

Bernard Walton — depicted as a curmudgeonly but generally good - natured window washer — always served as Odyssey's de facto kindly grouch and could be counted on to provide a good moral lesson when Mr. Whitaker was otherwise disposed.

Six percent of young males have been identified in criminology studies as physiologically disposed to take risks for momentary excitement without regard for consequences.

In consequence one is the less disposed to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary Reflection, the fruit of socialization, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, represents our passage, by Translation or dematerialization, to another sphere of the Universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its accession to some sort of trans - humanity at the ultimate heart of things.

I should be disposed to conclude that while the general tradition held that Christ «rose from the dead» (commonly understood to mean that he emerged from the tomb in which his body had been laid) it preserved also a genuine memory that on that Sunday morning his tomb was found broken open and to all appearance empty.

A ruler has to save face and show that he is a well - disposed man; he has to justify himself!

For that reason, the celebration of a sacrament always results in an encounter with Christ, if the recipient is well disposed, because the encounter itself does not depend on the holiness of the minister (usually the priest).

The argument that these qualities must inhere in an underlying substance can be disposed of by the simple fact that if all our ideas or concepts arise in sense experience, we can have no idea or concept of substance.

Nevertheless, we now have one constituency that is disposed to challenge it.

suffering, true sociality, as qualities of the divine, along with radical differences (as we shall see) in the meanings ascribed to creation, the universe, human freedom, and in the arguments for the existence of God, those inclined to think that any view that is intimately connected with theological traditions must have been disposed of by this time should also beware lest they commit a non sequitur.

As Bishop Rawlinson finely says, echoing Johannes Weiss, «Jesus is, for St. Mark, the Messiah, not in spite of His sufferings — as the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.»

Yep, in Christianity people are as valued as a pot... we are nothing more than things to be disposed of at the whim of the potter.

2:5); to seek the welfare of our brothers and sisters in Christ and of our neighbor; to be disposed to serve rather than to be served.

As Bishop Rawlinson again quotes from Johannes Weiss, «He only can understand the secret of the Cross who has disposed himself towards service, humility, renunciation, suffering, and martyrdom.»

There are those who are constitutionally disposed to accept things and to whom the blue waters never call, and there are those who must understand or perish and who must ever adventure on the uncharted seas of thought.

«We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides.»

To make sense of Kasper's statement, we may have to assume that he used the term «spiritual communion with Christ» to mean the state of being already properly disposed to receive Christ in sacramental Communion.

«In spite of all the evil that has been done by the church, I'm still disposed to trust the community of faithful over the long haul.

10 By valuing comprehensively is meant that religious valuation is boundary - spanning; it has a domain of relevance that includes no less than the entire life of the one who holds it.11 By intensive valuation is meant that religious valuation «must rank among the last that the valuer would be disposed to sacrifice.

I'm disposed to let time decide.»

Every day if we are suitably disposed to receive Him.

But Jesus also loves the plotters; he is strongly disposed to see the beauty and wonderfulness in these creatures of God.

On another note, people may be biologically disposed to homosexuality (the evidence is hardly huge or even compelling, there's no clear cause / effect relation, and there hasn't been any of that kind of evidence for lesbians.

But people can also be biologically disposed to alcoholism, various addictions, pedophilia, necrophilia, etc..

he should have been tortured, killed and disposed of like an animal.

despite that bin Laden is already disposed in sea; you still wana know much about shariah?

Interestingly, Congregationalist minister William Jay, son of John Jay, and a man not particularly well disposed to Catholicism, explained the St. Patricks» reasons for switching sides with some sympathy.

I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.»

But no: His argument is that hope is faith disposed toward the future, and making all the difference in the present.

Those who are disposed to looking for «loopholes» or «exceptions» with respect to the Church's teaching on abortion will predictably exploit such a statement.

After all such materials need to be disposed of.

Such an account would make liberalism analogous to Marx's claim about capitalism: Liberalism is inherently unstable and is structurally disposed to generate the very forces that destroy it.

It doesn't make the point on which you're so laser focused any less true or valid that there are also other reasons and benefits to the manner in which we disposed of bin Laden's body.

That aborted children are disposed of as so much medical garbage is of a piece with society's denial of their personhood.

And if all the others of your ilk were disposed of as well, the whole country would rejoice!

To read it properly, to ascertain even its literal sense, required that one be a loyal son of the Church, humbly disposed toward the sacred page, and attuned spiritually to the «overarching sacred sense» as witnessed in the life of the Church.