Sentences with phrase «for past acts»

Of note was the fact a «prior acts» exclusion on the previous policy had been removed and sub-limited coverage for past acts was provided in the subsequent policy.

Those who converted to Christianity while in military service were instructed to refrain from killing, to pray for forgiveness for past acts of violence, and to seek release from their military obligations.

Although we can articulate how ambiguity and how commitment structure each phase of the microscopic process by which an actual occasion realizes itself, we must also spell out just how ambiguity and commitment structure the macrocosmic process of commitment that structures ordinary experience, the moral life, social existence, responsibility for our past acts.

It would seem that there is no particular necessity to accept responsibility for our past acts, since they were performed by a numerically different entity.

In many other cases, responsibility for past acts is a matter of degree.

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In interviews over the past week, President Donald Trump has cast doubt on whether his administration will fund a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that helps offset costs for insurers.

The idea for Saildrone's design, a hard carbon - fiber sail that looks and acts like an aircraft wing, came from Jenkins's past as a land - yacht racer.

«Look past what he says and look at how he acts / The «Fire and Fury» is raging / For his words can hurt, but your words can fight back / New York Times, they aren't a-failing,» Fallon sang.

The dreaded act of parallel parking could soon become a thing of the past with Chinese inventors backing their new parking robot to take away the stress for anxious drivers.

If anyone doubted that he was serious about imposing this new level of federal oversight on top of the already crowded provincial regulatory scene, signals coming from Flaherty's top officials this past summer suggested, not just a readiness to act alone, but a growing enthusiasm for that option.

Google has for the past two years been under the spotlight over allegations that it has been acting anti competitively.

The government has talked in the past about pushing for a pick - and - pay model and Senator John McCain proposed a similar change in the U.S., through a bill introduced in the spring known as the Television Consumer Freedom Act.

For the substance - dependent person, each act of use involves a series or chain of choices and behaviors mediated by a variety of cognitions (automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions, permission - giving beliefs, core beliefs / early maladaptive schemas, etc.), which interact with emotional states and past learning, strongly reinforcing «self - medicating» for emotional and existential paFor the substance - dependent person, each act of use involves a series or chain of choices and behaviors mediated by a variety of cognitions (automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions, permission - giving beliefs, core beliefs / early maladaptive schemas, etc.), which interact with emotional states and past learning, strongly reinforcing «self - medicating» for emotional and existential pafor emotional and existential pain.

In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309).

The sacrifice at Calvary was an act not only for past sins but for present and future sins.

In line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational form.

Many people sometimes, or for a while, act contrary to sincerely held convictions (by committing a sin), and other people, given time, come to recognise past behaviour as wrong (they may repent and convert).

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

As a product of those acts of being, my responsibility here is continuous with my responsibility for my past personal acts.

it is in the message of the prophets that we first meet this conception, for it is in their message that we find the idea of a future act of God which will be decisive for the salvation of the people in a way in which his past acts on their behalf were not.

As one who is profoundly constituted by the past acts of being that have made up the Christian movement, I share in responsibility for all this evil.

The act involves penitence for past sins and the acceptance of His mercy and forgiveness.

Since the past never began, as I take it, God never at any moment, or in any act, for all his acts were at a moment, had a clean slate to just make a world out of the realm of logical possibilities, but always had to make the best of a world that could have been better.

Finally, it is as agents that we are most concerned with the modalities of time: the given past, the present in which we act, and the open future for which our present actions might make a difference.

(That was the chief obstacle to enactment of the Act for Better Child Care in the past session of Congress.)

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

As useful though knowledge of past reflection can be for acting in the concreteness of the situation, ultimately we must trust our own spontaneous intuition.

We are indeed inheritors of a past that for millennia has been marked by wrong decisions, followed by wrong acts and words and thoughts; this is our inescapable situation.

For Bultmann, Jesus died on the cross; but he is «risen in the kerygma» or the preaching of him as the unique «act of God» the one in whom the past is overcome, the future is opened up, and a new life in faith by grace is made available to those who will respond to the proclamation.

The advocates of situation ethics believe that useful though knowledge of past reflection can be for acting in the concreteness of the situation, ultimately we must trust our own spontaneous intuition.

Although I shall not spell out the argument here, I think that there is an implicit contradiction in holding that we depend on God, who timelessly knows all our acts, past or future as they may be for us now, and yet our present reality does not necessitate our future acts.

Athiest know this power as energy, or life force, there is no disagreement between Islam and science or divisions and acts of terrorism are political actions for past grievances.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how people with my kind of theology, have acted in the past, and I am convinced that splits inevitably diminish the influence of the kind of orthodoxy that I cherish — for at least two reasons.

The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.

and don't get me wrong i don't put that on people who are atheists today, i don't accuse you of being responsible for these acts, that would be as stupid as you guys are being for attacking common people on this blog because of things religious folks have done in the past.

Speaking of what motivates him, Onabolu said: «the verses in Psalm 68 verse 5 where God declares he is the father of the fatherless, the defender of the widows, the Lord will in his holy dwelling keep the lonely people in family — and this is what ACT have been doing for the past 20 years.»

The point of our argument is that neither the settled past nor the relatively indeterminate present can explain the possibility of a new occasion, for the determinate can no more decide or act than can the determinable.

Sartre says that the soldier's past «does not in any way act deterministically; but once the past «soldier of the Empire» has been chosen, then the conduct of the for - itself realizes this past.

For to judge by the outcome (whereby an attempt is made to unite a judgment of temporal existence and of eternity into a judgment that comes after the event is past) is not humanly possible in the instant that a man himself acts, nor is it possible in the instant when others act.

Why would one hold a for - itself responsible for an act of the past which is the in - itself?

To the two questions that follow the first one I would say that, yes, under this dispensation, in this act of the divine drama of redemption, innocence until proven guilty is an important value, but it should not be construed as the absolute, universally valid ethic to be used as a lens for looking at specific, singular events in the biblically recorded past.

If, in fact, I am entirely unable to remember some past act attributed to me and am persuaded that the relation of that acting occasion to me is not like those of occasions I can remember, I can feel no responsibility for that act whatever others may say.

To tell the congregational story, therefore, is an act of confession in which the parish acknowledges that while it is the principal author of its plot, and accepts the design of its past and the nature of its present, in the light of God's story for all humankind it also resolves to claim a transformed future.

The American bishops did much better: while also making the matter optional, they offered a powerful and sympathetic discussion of the religious reasons for the old observance and urged American Catholics to continue the practice as a gesture of solidarity with, and gratitude for, the passion of Christ, as an act of fidelity to the Christian past, and to help «preserve a saving and necessary difference from the spirit of the world.»

When a man acts alone, he always carries within him a certain series of considerations that have, as he supposes, directed his past conduct and serve to justify to him his present action and to lead him to make projects for his future activity.

Remembering our past helps us to appreciate and not take for granted «the mighty acts of God through Christ Jesus.»

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

For example, in the past, I have counseled people to use the acronym ACTS for their prayers: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, SupplicatiFor example, in the past, I have counseled people to use the acronym ACTS for their prayers: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplicatifor their prayers: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication.

However it may be with us today, it is important that we recognize that for a first - century Jew «memorial» did not mean reverie about past events; it meant the act of vitally recalling into the present that which those events achieved for the Jewish people.