Sentences with phrase «exercise lordship»

9, the very purpose of Christ's death and resurrection: «It was for this that Christ died and came to life, that He might exercise lordship over dead and living alike.»

But Jesus called them [to him], and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

I think that we have long since sufficiently fulfilled the first part of that command and now need to exercise some lordship over our perceived need to populate the world with more and more of our offspring.

* St. Luke 22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.

Not exact matches

The question then is one of whether peers are villains of the piece or whether their Lordships are exercising wisdom and reason in scrutinising the legislation proposed by the government and then improving it — like good fairies.

His lordship further held that the power conferred by para 14 (2)(f) of Sch 17 to FSM 2000 included power to delegate the exercise of the power of summary dismissal to designated members of the ombudsman.

Finally, his lordship exercised his discretion to remove Pamela and replace her with a suitable independent professional trustee: she seemed oblivious to her responsibilities and unwilling to learn them; she had behaved remarkably in the litigation, not least in still trying to register the domestication order in another court having been restrained, which did not encourage his lordship to believe that she would abide by the court's orders; and there was plainly intense hostility between Pamela and the foundation because of the way she had administered the trust.