Sentences with phrase «in for innocence»

As symbolic objects, children have often stood in for innocence, free spiritedness and play.

They definitely have it in for innocence.

Not exact matches

On the final episode, Koenig did mention one possible alternate suspect, but those who work for UVA's Innocence Project said in a podcast of their own that they are actually looking at several other people.

Maybe his innocence about the numbers masks his disappointment in them: the company's original sales projection of $ 691,440 in its first 12 months of operation was a little optimistic; its actual sales for that period were $ 155,610.

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

But a US Circuit Court of Appeals judge just threw out the verdict — He was to be sent to jail for 21 months and pay $ 15 million in fines — vindicating Reyes consistent claim of innocence.

But this Presidents Day weekend, the commander - in - chief fired off an unprecedented 14 tweets about the Russia investigation — declaring his innocence, suggesting the FBI could have prevented last week's Florida school shooting if it hadn't been working on the investigation, blaming Democrats and former President Barack Obama for Russia's interference in the election, and accusing the former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia.

Harvey can probably be blamed for a very small part of the 0.2 % decline in August retail sales but he claims innocence for all previous months» reported and revised numbers:

Oh and sadly, someone was foolish enough to marry this and sadly now a child is left in his care to be horribly brainwashed - I feel for the innocence lost.

I could no longer hear, for example, a song like «Blowin» in the Wind» with the same sort of innocence that muddled the Biblical and Historicist hopes together.

Second, what about the presumption of innocence for accused priests, a right trumpeted in the Dallas Charter (Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People)?

The «eye for an eye» scenario is presumptive of a judgment council of elders or in today's vernacular, a court, that assesses guilt or innocence of the alleged perpetrator.

For us to come into this world to undergo God's test it had to be through Adam and Eve, and that could not have happened if they were in a state of innocence and had not eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and because of that we are brought into this world for a limited time as mortals and while as mortals we take the test God has given us to see if we are willing to follow God and not simply made to follow GFor us to come into this world to undergo God's test it had to be through Adam and Eve, and that could not have happened if they were in a state of innocence and had not eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and because of that we are brought into this world for a limited time as mortals and while as mortals we take the test God has given us to see if we are willing to follow God and not simply made to follow Gfor a limited time as mortals and while as mortals we take the test God has given us to see if we are willing to follow God and not simply made to follow God.

Julie, as you correctly point out, has offered support for her claims, and the principle figures in this mess have answered with nothing more than outright dismissal and disdain for her, and that — at least to my mind — gives the lie to their protestations of innocence, whether before the fact or after.

In the process they have largely ignored that «freedom for» which would convert liberty to liberation and innocence to responsibility.27

We re-discover the meaning of heroism and friendship as we see the two hobbits clawing their way up Mount Doom; we see again the endless evil of greed and egotism in Gollum, stunted and ingrown out of moral shape by years of lust for the ring; we recognize again the essential anguish of seeing beautiful and frail things - innocence, early love, children — passing away as we read of the Lady Galadriel and the elves making the inevitable journey to the West.

Coptic leaders in the U.S. and Egypt are strongly denouncing «Innocence of Muslims,» the anti-Islam film that has generated violent protests in dozens of countries, and appealing for calm.

If the Bible does not leave room for human sinlessness, generally — Jesus aside — why should we be so confident of our innocence in racism?

In what human rights activists have called a backwards step for internet freedom, Judge Hassouna Tawfiq ordered the government to block access to the video - sharing website for 30 days after the trailer for Innocence of Muslims sparked outrage.

For in the reality constructed by human imagination, the reality of a thousand national identities, foundational myths, bogus perceptions of «our» innocence and «their» wickedness, who could ever be a judge whose impartiality would be recognized and whose arbitration would be accepted?

Even if he had been silent about it, there were witnesses enough against him who testified how inhumanly he steeled his mind, how nothing touched him, neither tenderness, nor innocence, nor misery; how his blinded soul had eyes for nothing, and how the senses in him had only eyes for the one thing that he willed.

When democracy is founded on faith in the natural innocence of man and when human wants are taken as the measure of what is good, the ground is prepared for anarchy, conflict, and mass tyranny.

It is as if to say: We will never know what the connection between sex and procreation would look like for human beings in a state of untrammeled innocence.

But Herod finds no crime in him, and sends him back to Pilate who again declares for his innocence

Morality plays, based on scriptural themes and dramatized for the illiterate masses of the Middle Ages the struggle of good with evil, embodied in the various characters virtues such as innocence, beauty, kindness, and patriotism in their triumph over vices such as sloth, ugliness, gluttony, lying, and cheating.

For the last century or more, one of the great tactics for keeping the ideal of shining innocence alive even in later years is to concentrate it on the youFor the last century or more, one of the great tactics for keeping the ideal of shining innocence alive even in later years is to concentrate it on the youfor keeping the ideal of shining innocence alive even in later years is to concentrate it on the young.

And beautiful Camellia, whom all the men want for reasons that, in her child - like innocence, she does not understand.

The reasons for accepting it do not form the kind of deductive proof we require in logic or pure mathematics, but they resemble the arguments used in a court of law to establish innocence or culpability.

To speak of sin as also involving Blacks or women was to fall into the sin of «blaming the victim»; there was a myth of presumed innocence for all but those involved in perpetrating or benefiting from the structures of oppression.

So would he, had he experienced his own country's increasingly ridiculous entry procedures for first - world visitors, who are treated more or less as criminal suspects in a system which presumes guilt rather than innocence.

If Christianity can be debunked at its very root, then the painful tug of this nostalgia for the lost innocence of fusion in the ancient tradition can be laid to rest: the ghost of Jesus will grant us peace, if only...

To the two questions that follow the first one I would say that, yes, under this dispensation, in this act of the divine drama of redemption, innocence until proven guilty is an important value, but it should not be construed as the absolute, universally valid ethic to be used as a lens for looking at specific, singular events in the biblically recorded past.

Innocence is a sort of litmus test for what is good and evil in life.

Yet if theology in its anxiety to protect God's innocence denies that the divinity of the God / Man has in fact made satisfaction to humanity for the evil inherent in the structures of existence, we fail to acknowledge the full passion of God's commitment to and involvement in his world.

Jesus reveals to us the innocence of the victim, and in some respects modem society has learned this lesson well, for we are inclined to establish our own innocence by presenting ourselves as victims.

Among them are life, liberty, security of person, freedom from slavery and from torture and inhumane treatment; equality before the law; the right to judicial remedies for wrongs; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; fair trials and due process of law, including the presumption of innocence; privacy; freedom of movement; equal rights in marriage; freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association; and free elections.

In Mockingbird, the action passes through the eyes of young Scout, whose confusion over the case and rising admiration for her father combine just the right amounts of innocence and awareness.

The more selfish Agnes is, the easier the deceit will prove for him (for it is only very inexperienced people who suppose that it is easy to deceive innocence; existence is very profound, and it is in fact the easiest thing for the shrewd to fool the shrewd)-- but all the more terrible will be the merman's sufferings.

Now in case repentance grips the merman and he remains concealed, he has clearly made Agnes unhappy, for Agnes loved him in all her innocence, she believed that at the instant when even to her he seemed changed, however well he hid it, he was telling the truth in saying that he only wanted to show her the beautiful calmness of the sea.

He recognised that the redemption won by Christ's death was greater than the original state of innocence, for it brought humanity to an intimacy with God that they had not know in Eden.

For the Jewish rabbis and for the early Christian theologians «Adam» is a prophetic image of the messianic Son of Man, which means that Christ is prophesied and prefigured not just in the age of innocence before sin, but in the being, in the very flesh and blood of Adam before he feFor the Jewish rabbis and for the early Christian theologians «Adam» is a prophetic image of the messianic Son of Man, which means that Christ is prophesied and prefigured not just in the age of innocence before sin, but in the being, in the very flesh and blood of Adam before he fefor the early Christian theologians «Adam» is a prophetic image of the messianic Son of Man, which means that Christ is prophesied and prefigured not just in the age of innocence before sin, but in the being, in the very flesh and blood of Adam before he fell.

The woman, for her part, also says the thing which is not, albeit in innocence: she answers not the question that was asked, says more than was called for, identifies the forbidden tree as the one «in the midst of the garden,» adds «neither shall ye touch it» to the prohibition, and, most importantly, converts the predicted consequences of disobedience («for in the day thou eatest thereof, dying you will die»; 2:17) into the reason for obedience («Ye shall not eat of it... lest you die»; 3:3).

Furthermore, this bodily conflict between the mother and her emergent child anticipates the often much more painful act of separation, when the child, exercising the newly awakened powers made possible by his large head, reaches for his own autonomous knowledge of good and had, and repeats the original rise and fall from obedience and innocence in the ever - recurring saga of human freedom and «enlightenment.»

The constant reference point for married life and vocation which Pope John Paul presented throughout his 1979 - 1984 catechesis was «marriage constituted in the beginning, in the state of original innocence, in the context of the sacrament of creation» (Theology of the Body, 338).

It is directed backwards to a mythical golden age, to a state of innocence in a pastoral world where peace of mind is not threatened, intellectual aspiration is not called for and virtue is not at risk.

It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love of enemies, charity, abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.

Then the shame of that nakedness, which they had not felt in the state of original innocence, will spring up in their hearts... Only the nakedness that makes woman an object for man, or vice versa, is a source of shame.

The ideal is unattainable — for the adult; but the child, who naturally exists in this state of naïveté or innocence, reigns as a supreme symbol for Schiller.

But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, «whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,» and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.»

John Adams» defense of Blackstone's Ratio: «It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they can not all be punished.