Sentences with phrase «hands of zealots»

All this is mostly good — and, yes, a little bit risky, if the national standards go squishy or the national curriculum falls into the hands of zealots.

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Under foreign oppression it was natural to feel, as the Zealots did, that only by rebellion could the Roman yoke be cast off; but many of the Jews must have agreed with the Pharisee that an attempt to take matters into their own hands would be both impious and futile.

The scribes might counsel a humble waiting for God's appointed time, but for the «man in the street» that meant no more than postponing for a while the fulfillment of the same national ambitions, and the satisfying of the same national grudges, which the Zealots proposed to settle out of hand by «direct action».

some of you Christian zealots are getting just a bit out of hand here, especially going off of pure emotion... no logic.

The bottom - line is to take this to an even further reality, I believe it is widely held as credible that not only are there crazy zealots looking to get their hands on working tactical thermonuclear warheads, but would, without blinking an eye, use them against you and I and the rest of the people of the U.S., as well as other non-muslim countries around the world.

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

No, lots of pacificts have been killed and abused at the hands of the religious zealots like yourself.

Peter, a former zealot, especially hated the suggestion that Jesus would suffer at the hands of the Roman Empire and the Jewish religious leaders Peter so detested.

You have a group of hypocritical, arrogant, self righteous, glad handing, back slapping zealots meet once a year as a nation and then at each state conventions and they come up with these commands for the target of their choice.

He offers up his right hand, the very hand of God, as it were, if you happen to be among an extremist sect of Web - based Red Sox zealots, such as those who commune on www.redsoxdiehard.com.

Totals: Four men murdered by an axe - wielding Hound; one religious zealot decapitated by hand; three outlaws hanged; one actress knifed; one assassin's face added to the House of Black and White's creepy trophy wall.

Good - government types may posture before the TV cameras, but even zealots know in their bones that the wallets of donors and the outstretched hands of politicians are what's most open in Albany.

What Gove's demotion did was to outrage Fleet Street and backbench zealots for many of whom the state education system is a laboratory for testing theories rather than something they know first - hand.

In the Scott Derrickson - directed film, surgeon supreme Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) seeks out a mystical cure for his extensively damaged hands and instead finds himself on the front lines of a war between the Ancient One's (Tilda Swinton) magical protectors of Earth and Kaecilius» (Mads Mikkelsen) Dark Dimension - worshipping zealots.

Set to a syncopated jazz drum beat, the hand - animated film compares the conquest of America by the Pilgrim settlers to the ravaging of contemporary society by Methamphetamine drug addiction; the fanaticism of religious zealots is equated with the compulsion of addicts.