Sentences with phrase «in magnanimity»

It is important to equally note that at the unveiling ceremony, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, in his magnanimity, further crashed the price from the speculated N13, 000 to N12, 000.

At the hearing, the accountant general reminded the House that the Labour leaders had insisted that the pensioners were not at all captured in the bailout fund but the governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in his magnanimity, decided that the pensioners, having served the state diligently, must be included in the disbursement of the bailout.

A few days ago, the administration of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State in its magnanimity approved a 13th month salary for the civil servants of...

Men commonly fail in magnanimity, not only in relation to their enemies, but to their rivals.

There was, for example, an unmistakable growth in magnanimity.

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Such magnanimity is a tell — one of many, in fact — that Cody Green is not your average tech entrepreneur.

When Airbnb and Amazon become the self - proclaimed voices of public morality — a trend we're seeing in America more broadly — the pressure on megachurches to act with no less magnanimity is even stronger.

«My prayer is, particularly in the week just before we remember two years of Nelson Mandela's passing on, we will have magnanimity of South Africans, we will pray that justice will be done but we will start the process of healing through whatever the courts will lead us.

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

From vindictiveness to magnanimity; from tribalism to universality, from the regret of penalized men over broken taboos to the penitence of humble men over personal guilt; from supplications for physical benefits to prayer as the fulfilling of interior conditions of spiritual growth; from the desire to impose man's will on a god to the desire that God's will should be done through man — such are the developments revealed in the recorded prayers of the Bible.

The believers and the sympathizers who expected inspiring personalities at key positions in the Church were disappointed by a procession of tired bureaucrats who lacked the magnanimity, vision, and creativity necessary to prepare the Church for the coming decade.

«Uncle Will» has a fully developed teaching on the place of man in the cosmos, the indispensability of the Stoic virtues of magnanimity and generosity, and loneliness, class, understanding, beauty, and love.

Niebuhr openly scoffed at Ford's trumpeted magnanimity, and welcomed union rallies in his church when other public platforms closed to them.

«Today, and in the weeks to come, Scotland needs magnanimity all round and it needs a process for shaping our future which allows every voice (the 45 % as well as the 55 %), not just to be heard but to be listened to.»

It possesses magnificent character delineation: the great theme is the princely magnanimity of Joseph, envied by his lesser brothers, his life threatened, then at length spared only through the dubious device of selling him into slavery in Egypt; and there, his fortunes going from bad to worse, he was, for no fault of his own but indeed because of his integrity, hurled into an oriental prison to lie hopeless until some dubious chance should release him.

A high place must be accorded the story of Joseph, who in a spirit of revenge, it might seem, dealt harshly with his brothers, but whose real magnanimity the evolution of the plot reveals.

It is merely the extreme limit of a kind of magnanimity with which, in the shape of pitying tolerance of our oppressors, we are fairly familiar.

he pleaded for the virtues of humility, harmony, magnanimity, saying, «Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus»; (Philippians 2:1 - 5 [Moffatt translation]-RRB- he saw the bearing of one another's burdens as the fulfilment of the «law of Christ»; (Galatians 6:2.)

Vengeance and retaliation could be outwardly administered; penal justice could be roughly managed by legality; but the more magnanimity was called for, the more inward quality was indispensable, until at last the Bible faced man with an ideal that put upon him a profound demand for interior regeneration — «Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.»

Curiously, the memory is a little stronger, the image a little firmer, in recollecting the buying of presents, rather than the getting: the simultaneous feeling of titanic generosity and utter miserliness, an endless calculation of love measured to the penny, and an irrecoverable sensation» the proud knowledge that one has, in a rage of magnanimity, squandered every cent, matched with the shameful awareness of just how paltry the result is.

By thus calling attention to the problem of treating enemies, not when they were triumphant but when they were in distress, a path of least resistance was indicated for the progressive spirit of magnanimity.

Between the Testaments, despite national evils which brought vindictiveness naturally in their train, there was a notable deepening of magnanimity.

The overpassing of the limitation of externality in early Hebrew morals involved not only the development of ethical ideals concerning special virtues such as magnanimity, but a profoundly important evolution of thought about the nature of sin in general and of what is necessary in securing salvation from it.

So mired in white blindness, so lost in the liberal orthodoxy that counts mere dissociation from racism as virtue, and so addicted to the easy moral esteem that comes to her from dissociation, Dowd plays the oldest race cards of all - I'm white and you're black, so shut up and be grateful for my magnanimity.

With exaggerated gestures and abrupt facial expressions that he has developed over the years, and with appropriate strains of strings and brass in the background, Schuller painted word - pictures of America's achievements over the years and her magnanimity toward other nations and their peoples.

In spite of the appeal which this impersonality of the scientific attitude makes to a certain magnanimity of temper, I believe it to be shallow, and I can now state my reason in comparatively few wordIn spite of the appeal which this impersonality of the scientific attitude makes to a certain magnanimity of temper, I believe it to be shallow, and I can now state my reason in comparatively few wordin comparatively few words.

Characters in other respects spacious and admirable often fail before this test of magnanimity.

But, beautiful as such magnanimity is, «in honor preferring one another,» Maeterlinck was sufficiently great not to find such generosity too costly.

Johnson's reply demonstrates in equal measure the great classical virtue of magnanimity and the great Christian virtue of forgiveness.

One is haunted by the idea that if, on any large scale, Christians should exhibit such magnanimity as the Sermon on the Mount enjoins, there would be stirred up in the heart of this very bitter and vindictive world a wistful response like the Turk's.

Indeed the Northern Peoples Party's leader Chief Dombo's action showed great magnanimity towards NOT Busia, but the building of a strong opposition to Nkrumah and his CPP who were having a field's day at elections since 1951 and also in Parliament.

A damaged Vince Cable was left dangling in his ministerial post thanks to the leader's magnanimity.

He added: «Lady Thatcher will undoubtedly be remembered as a leader of great conviction but greatness in my view has to be tempered with generosity and magnanimity if one is to earn a permanent place in the heart of this nation.»

«We are the party of the rule of law, and we should act accordingly, with magnanimity in our moment of victory.»

Though the researchers say the link between religion and magnanimity may seem surprising given that news headlines so often focus on terrorist attacks and other atrocities committed in the name of religion, their results suggest that for most people, the influence of religion may be more positive than what is often portrayed in the media.

Beau Travail transliterates Herman Melville's low - key homoerotic sailor tale Billy Budd, in which Melville wrestles, for the final time, with the magnanimity of God and the mendacity of man, as a vituperative study of imperialism and militarism as wanton outlets for flimsy masculinity.

Following in Meryl's magnanimity this year I present you my favorite looks from the Oscar red carpet unranked...

A sense of gnawing inadequacy is a universal feeling, and The Disaster Artist certainly mines the notion that there's a little bit of the outsider in everybody — which is exactly the kind of magnanimity you'd expect.

«Conservation in Action» (7:10) puts the spotlight on more Disney magnanimity, from the park's on - site preventive medicine at Animal Kingdom to the funds and animals helping situations abroad.

The basekt - weavings and foam carvings in Wicker and Diapers take a hobbyist's approach to the endeavor of sculpture - making and the works magnanimity and craft — by dint of its materials, content, and genuineness — preserve, in a way, a balance between the individual and group.

GIVING AWAY AND LEAVING BEHIND: Such was the magnanimity of Robert Rauschenberg (1925 — 2008), arguably the most influential figure in postwar American art.

However I am in awe at his magnanimity towards one who displayed nothing but ill manners towards him.