Not exact matches
Because all that I am and do is taken up into the divine life along with all the
consequences of my acts in the lives of
others, I can not
escape the seriousness, the importance, of how I use my freedom.
On the
other hand, however, many civilizations, especially the more liberal ones of the present epoch, have been painstakingly careful to acknowledge the possibility of a personal change of heart and to enable the person to
escape the more painful
consequences of his own past behavior provided he is genuinely repentant.
Sugar and wheat, on the
other hand, are much bigger acne villains which it is significantly more difficult to
escape the negative
consequences from.
Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to
escape the failed test prep approach
other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a
consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.
In
other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who
escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible
consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.
That increased quantities of greenhouse gases will lead to global warming is as solid a scientific prediction as can be found, but
other things influence climate too, and some people try to
escape confronting the
consequences of our pumping more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by supposing that something will come along miraculously to counteract them.
Should consenting parents and their insurers
escape responsibility and the financial
consequences of their election, conscious or negligent, to permit illegal drinking and partying to take place within their homes or
other zones of control?
Unfortunately, Williams is not alone; many have misrepresented themselves on the job and some have
escaped the career
consequences better than
others.