Sentences with phrase «irrevocable act»

SYNOPSIS: A philosophy professor, in the midst of an existential and a moral crisis, commits an irrevocable act of murder.

DELEGATES from across the world will meet next week at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, to consider an irrevocable act: the deliberate and final extinction of a species.

First, it sees at one end an irrevocable act of «god killing» in the political execution of «God's Son».

Tom Driver elaborates, «In ritual slaying, the polarity in what Schechner calls the «efficacy / entertainment dyad» seems to collapse: The ultimate entertainment (the drama of killing) has also the greatest efficacity (that the victim is really and truly slain, an irrevocable act).»

Then, since no Assembly can pass an irrevocable act that another Assembly, of equal powers, can not rescind, Jefferson's bill adds a deeper understanding of the ground of this act:

Biologists and clergy are being radicalized by the same shared belief, a sign that we find ourselves on the brink of committing irrevocable acts.

Not exact matches

In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same - sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of human import worth thinking seriously about.

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

The Irrevocable Sacrifice But it is also the greatest act of love from a second perspective.

But saying no will protect you from moral complicity in a death — and it could be the act that dissuades your loved one from taking a terrible and irrevocable course.

Absalom's irrevocable commitment to the act of rebellion.

In chapter 24, Israel's acceptance of and commitment to this Covenant with its fundamental responsibilities is symbolized and celebrated in a cultic act which includes the shedding of blood and a communion meal, both signifying the absolutely irrevocable quality of the commitment.

In chapter 24 Israel's commitment to this covenant is symbolized in a cultic act involving the shedding of blood and a communion meal signifying the irrevocable quality of the commitment.

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The following are deceptive acts: (1) To charge or receive money or other valuable consideration before the complete performance of services that a credit services organization has agreed to perform for or on behalf of a consumer, unless the credit services organization has under section 8 of this chapter: (A) obtained a surety bond issued by a surety company admitted to do business in Indiana; or (B) established an irrevocable letter of credit.

The court explained that the Federal Arbitration Act requires that arbitration contracts are considered «valid, irrevocable, and enforceable,» absent an exception.

Under the Family Law Act or the Divorce Act, a court can order a support payor to designate the support recipient as the irrevocable beneficiary of a life insurance policy to ensure funds exist at the time of the payor's death to satisfy his (or her) support obligations specified in the support order.

The Federal Arbitration Act (the Act) makes arbitration agreements «valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract,» 9 U.S.C. ¶ 2, establishes an equal - treatment principle: A court may invalidate an arbitration agreement based on «generally applicable contract defenses,» but not on legal rules that «apply only to arbitration or that derive their meaning from the fact that an agreement to arbitrate is at issue,» AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333, 339.

«Consultant agrees to execute any documents and perform any other acts as may be reasonably required by Company or its assignees or licensees to further evidence or effectuate Company's rights and intellectual property as set forth in this paragraph, and Consultant hereby appoints Company as his / her attorney - in - fact (which appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an interest), with full power of substitution and delegation, to execute any and all such documents and do any and all such other acts consistent herewith that Consultant fails to promptly perform after a reasonable opportunity to review and negotiate same.»

In particular, the question was where a support payor owns a life insurance policy and is required to name the support recipient as irrevocable beneficiary of the policy, what rights does the support recipient have to the policy proceeds in the face of a competing claim of another dependant of the deceased payor brought under the Succession Law Reform Act («SLRA»).

The insured can never amend his insurance policy without the consent of his irrevocable beneficiary because this act would lessen or diminish what is due to the irrevocable beneficiary and thus considering that this is a diminution... consent of the IR beneficiary is necessary.

ICARA (International Child Abduction Remedies Act) ICMEC (International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children) Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat Illegitimacy Impeachment of Testimony Imputed Income In Camera Hearing Incapacitated Income Income Analysis Income Withholding Incompetent Indigent: In Forma Pauperis Informed Consent Inheritance Inheritance Rights Injunction In Limine In Loco Parentis Innocent Spouse Rule In Personam Jurisdiction In Propria Persona Ipso Facto In Rem Jurisdiction Insolvency Intercept Interlocutory Judgment Interrogatories In Terrorem Inter Vivos Trust Intestate In Toto Investigator Irretrievable Breakdown Irrevocable Consent IV - A («Four - A») Program IV - D («Four - D») Program IV - E («Four - E») Program