Sentences with phrase «for subservience»

I was a token neoconservative at the San Francisco Chronicle, the local sheet known for its subservience to the radical - liberal faction in the city's elite.

Not exact matches

«Yesterday we secured the failure of the plan by conservative forces in Greece and abroad to asphyxiate our country and we showed that Europe is a space for negotiation and mutually beneficial compromises and not a space for extermination, subservience and punishment,» Tsipras said.

It is, indeed, a backsliding among a generation of women who take for granted their hard - won equality and fantasize about sexual subservience.

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When Jesus told his followers to «pray for those who persecute you,» it was not in the spirit of subservience.

Beyond a question, this was the ideal cherished by a considerable group in Israel — such subservience for them was a mark of piety; it was obedience to the will of God.

In the time of Jesus the coming of the anointed one was fervently longed for by many, in the face of the enforced subservience of the Jewish people to the Romans.

He learns, through the revealing conversation with God, that his choice for humanization, wisdom, knowledge of good and bad, or autonomy really means at the same time also estrangement from the world, self - division, division of labor, toil, fearful knowledge of death, and the institution of inequality, rule, and subservience.

The same person who has the capacity for transcending self - interest also reveals varying degrees of the power of self - interest and the subservience of the will to those interests.

And Ahaz the king is summoned peremptorily to Damascus where, in partial token of his subservience to Assyria, he arranges for the erection of an altar in the Temple in Jerusalem copied from an imported Assyrian altar in Damascus.

Ever on the defensive, the minister can not avoid substituting subservience and manipulation for service and love.

(This presents a significant challenge for those who want Scripture to support the subservience of women.)»

As the King's account also reports of his grandfather Ahaz (in II 16:3), Manasseh reverted to child sacrifice (II 21:6); and, also like Ahaz, he introduced, no doubt under the guise of what continued to pass for Yahweh worship and the Yahweh cult, extraneous practices denoting Judah's subservience to Assyria.

The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.

While he pushed for George Bush to support a two - state solution, his guiding political principle is of subservience to America's whim, which, in any practical sense, is Israel's whim.

The researchers found that gender - based restrictions rationalized as «protecting» girls actually made them more vulnerable by emphasizing subservience and implicitly sanctioning even physical abuse as punishment for violating norms.

Performances with funny moments can get by, but movies that go after full - fledged comic set pieces and mine discomfort for laughs (even buttressed by plenty of serious stuff) are a trickier sell, seemingly requiring a certain subservience to the material.

The lessons in subservience drilled into most Ethiopian girls did not prepare a young person for finding herself alone in the city; Sara was huddled in a doorway when Haregewoin found her.

That experience of shift work, the absolute subservience to something to where my body is a tool for the machine to run, was reflected pretty deeply.