Sentences with phrase «from idleness»

«We urge the Chairman of the Amnesty Office to see his elevation as a step to ameliorate the plight of the Niger Delta youths by turning them from idleness to be entrepreneurs and employers of labour.

As to the children, the author advises the parents to be very strict with them, they should be taught a craft to keep them from idleness and debauchery and they should be married early to save them from «the temptations and fierce heats of youth.»

Not exact matches

Never straying too far from his topic — economic development, good; welfare and idleness, evil — he employs a number of rhetorical asides and deadpan irony to keep his audience alert.

A sixth and final qualification of the «leisure revolution» is this: what time Americans do spend away from their jobs is often best described as idleness.

a) Sleeping in the morning (from Fajr to sunrise) b) Not Performing Namaz or Ir - regular in Prayers c) Laziness / Idleness d) Treachery / Dishonesty

By the time of the Maccabees, for example, the practice of keeping the Sabbath was so central to Judaism that, according to Josephus, the Romans had to exempt the Jews from military service because they were useless as soldiers on the Sabbath.12 Seneca could not understand the Sabbath exercise and chided the Jews for spending every seventh day of their lives in idleness.13

Theo is NOT a bad person, far from it and is polite and well mannered but in an Arsenal shirt, judged over his twelve year stay, racked by idleness and injuries, he was about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

These range from killing the sense of idleness through intense sport, to sharing a talent with the local community - such as teaching neighbours how to cultivate the land in an ecologically sound way.

From at least medieval times onward, there's been a steady campaign against idleness, that instigator of evil.

When a day of adventure (or idleness) comes to a close and travelers» thoughts turn to food, Playa del Carmen offers a wide range of culinary delights steeped in the tradition of world - renowned Mexican cuisine, from fine dining to simpler fare for the more budget conscious traveler.

This spring, when Shanghai's MadeIn Gallery organized «Extravagant Imagination, the Wonder of Idleness» — a show of the youngest generation of artists to emerge from art school — they invited curator Lu Mingjun to organize the exhibition.

The exhibition «Episode 6: blank page» focuses on art that arises from moments of inactivity, idleness or boredom - recurring phenomena known and experienced by all of us.

The exhibition «Episode 6: blank page» focuses on art that arises from moments of inactivity, idleness or boredom - recurring phenomena known and...

Rook & Raven is presenting a new body of work by Eileen Cooper RA, with the exhibition Love - in - Idleness, a title taken from a speech by Oberon in Shakespeare's «A Midsummer Night's Dream».