Sentences with phrase «imposed upon a man»

With the sense of the special responsibility which religion imposes upon man, they devote themselves more than any other group of past or present Christian history to the cause of a holy society.

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Causing the death of an unborn child is in the Bible, for in the Bible at Exodus 21, it says that «in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices.

1) Laws have been used and maintained by men long before the catholic church started imposing theirs upon the people 2) The vatican observatory has tried to use its influence to den scientific study and control what is known.

Then, too, demons used to deceive men's minds by taking up their abode in springs or rivers or trees or stones and imposing upon simple people by their frauds.

Kamlah also is aware that self - commitment is not the natural disposition of modern man, but a demand continually imposed upon him from without.

While there are still good reasons for believing that man does have some freedom of choice at his highest level of consciousness, it is a freedom within a context of very severe limits, which have been imposed upon him by his creatureliness.

With proper instinct for the truth, they do not permit themselves to be imposed upon, and they are thus protected against any turning towards the â $ ˜Godâ $ ™ of the pious man.

Is it to create the knowledge and power of a Judas Iscariot to impose a predetermined order upon men and things?

It is our faith that in that Man it did not «fail», not because it had peculiar privileges or unique divine prerogatives, but because it held fast to its «initial aim», making that its own «subjective aim» and thus through «the travail» which mortal existence imposed upon it finding the «satisfaction» or fulfilment which was its destiny.

In Man evolution is interiorized and made purposeful; and at the same time, in the degree in which the strivings of human inventiveness need to be controlled in their operation and sustained in their energies, it imposes upon itself a moral order and «mysticizes» itself.

The distance of God from man has the same cause as the nearness of God, namely, that man belongs to God, that God imposes a claim upon him.

WE are the only living creations upon whom God's law imposes the obligation to meet the needs of men and women of the poor SO THAT they may come to the saving knowledge of God Jesus the Messiah.The biblical church is NOT a corporate legal fiction with limited liability.

Evil is a cosmic reality, not a notion of man imposed upon the universe.

In the present racial clash man seeks to be free from the penalties imposed upon him because of the color of his skin.

It is the law of greed, drive, addiction, and «sin», which the will of the all - powerful soul in man has imposed upon the flesh.

The special immigration appeals commission has imposed a strict 22 - hour curfew upon Abu Qatada, who has been described as Osama Bin Laden's right - hand man in Europe.

«If yesterday's charges are proven true... that at least one of the proverbial three men in a room is deeply compromised, then how can we possibly trust that anything that gets decided in Albany and imposed upon the rest of us is on the level?»

She doesn't impose a set coaching plan upon single men and women in crisis.

To impose the fruits of enlightenment and higher learning upon our fellow man can often alienate and widen existing rifts.

Thus the question of women's equality — in art as in any other realm — devolves not upon the relative benevolence or ill - will of individual men, nor the self - confidence or abjectness of individual women, but rather on the very nature of our institutional structures themselves and the view of reality which they impose on the human beings who are part of them.

«Over the last three decades, Edward Burtynsky has created a body of images he describes as tracing «the man - made transformations our civilisation has imposed upon nature».

It's not a matter of ideology but rather criminal intent (mens rea) and criminal effect, not to mention the civil aspects of such cases, in which compensatory and punitive damages may be imposed upon the miscreant parties involved in the perpetration of deceit for the purposes of pecuniary or other material gain attained to the detriment of specific other people and the public at large.

Of curse, it's incumbent upon men to work on not imposing those stereotypes on women.