Sentences with phrase «imposed by fate»

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

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Jaish al - Islam, however, believed it could avoid the same fate even as Syrian troops encircled Douma, saying it wanted to protect the town and its people from forced displacement imposed by the Assad government.

In the name of freeing us from suffering, modern medicine and its correlative ethical expressions have become our fate — which we now impose on our children by not understanding their suffering and death through a more determinative narrative.

My body had been some time dead before I was at liberty to quit it, lest it should by any accident return to life: this is an injunction imposed on all souls by the eternal law of fate, to prevent the inconveniences which would follow.

Recognizing that even within more stringent animal welfare conditions imposed by organic certification schemes cows are stilled killed when they stop producing milk and young bulls have no better a fate than in industrial farming, the residents of the Manor (given to the community by George Harrison in the early 1970s) have created a model for compassionate, environmentally sustainable and low - carbon dairy farming for the 21st century.

The problem is that claims backed by slanted figures like the $ 1,000 / hr are not dealt with by our regulators and so the myths are allowed to be perpetuated while ORE does nothing lest they attract another anti-competition suit by the Competition Bureau and many Realtors just don't want to tempt fate by breaching the codes of ethics imposed by all three of ORE's authorities — board, provincial and federal and retaliating.