Sentences with phrase «life as an agent»

In Jesus death and resurrection as first born of New Creation, we have each been given a new identity as Resurrection people who are to live as agents of reconciliation.

Once we begin to understand how the gospel creates peace, mocks our vain claims to self - importance, and teaches us to live as agents of joy and delight in the world, how will these truths begin to create unity among the bickering factions of Christianity?

Brokers may perceive a simpler, more profitable life as an agent is better for them.

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Source E allegedly told his compatriot that agents were compensated by «consular officials in New York, DC, and Miami,» who issued «pension disbursements to Russian émigrés living in the US as cover... tens of thousands of dollars were involved.»

Microsoft's agent is digital assistant Cortana, which Nadella described as a «new organizing layer» that sits «across all the applications you will use in your life.»

«With fifteen years of experience as a highly successful life coach, Mike is a no nonsense, action oriented, change agent.

But even live agents using random number dialing are arguably not as effective as they once were.

Cartel members (some of whom resettled after cooperating with the US government) and their relatives live in the US — sometimes in the same neighborhoods as the agents who once pursued them.

Now, Living Goods is working to boost its profit margins to about 30 percent — currently, profit margins are below 20 percent — by introducing private - label products such as vitamin - fortified porridge, using mobile and other technology tools and adding more agents.

Living Goods told us that it expects this new smartphone system to reduce its costs of data collection and provide better monitoring and customer data, as well as make it easier for Living Goods to follow up and spot check agent - registered treatments and pregnancies.40

Living Goods has begun using its smartphone system in four of its eight branches, training 100 % of the agents from three of them on the Android platform in October 2014 (as of this writing), with plans to move the rest to the system in the coming months.39

The same agent, this time posing as «Chris,» met him at the Gold Spike casino in Las Vegas, where Rockcoons said he'd been living.

As a trader, you'll probably want to speak with a live support agent as opposed to waiting for an email bacAs a trader, you'll probably want to speak with a live support agent as opposed to waiting for an email bacas opposed to waiting for an email back.

If you work as an individual real estate agent, you can always set your own rules, and live the kind of lifestyle that you want.

Heather, who lives in Surprise, Arizona, was hired as a customer service agent at U-Haul, the national transportation and storage rental company.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

And because in its origin the word had meant not simply man's breathing but God's wind, it became the verbal agent by which man could say that his best life is inbreathed by God — inspired, as we say, using the same metaphor Latinized — so that ruach at last meant the Spirit of God inspiring the spirit of man.

Thus in dealing with the real human problems, such as the relief of suffering, the adjustment of personality, the release from fear and ignorance, the care of the physically or mentally defective or of the aged and infirm, there is nearly always a desperate shortage of living agents, and among their small number the cozily non-committed agnostic is very rarely to be found.

Thanks to a compassionate Delta agent, I was able to change the flight and get in just in time to look longingly at one of the most beautiful breakfast buffets I've ever seen in my life and shake the president's hand (which is why I'm describing my illness as food poisoning and not a stomach virus... because I'd like to think my presence there did not compromise national security).

Peace «keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the tragedy as a living agent persuading the world to aim at fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact.

Really, it's like you say, we should live as joy - agents and add hope and positive qualities to the world.

Catholic authorities justify the right of the State to inflict capital punishment on the ground that the State does not act on its own authority but as the agent of God, who is supreme lord of life and death.

While, from a pagan perspective, the crucifixion itself could be viewed as a sacrifice in the most proper sense — destruction of the agent of social instability for the sake of peace, which is always a profitable exchange — Christ's life of charity, service, forgiveness, and righteous judgment could not; indeed, it would have to seem the very opposite of sacrifice, an economic and indiscriminate inversion of rank and order.

Much of my work in Character and the Christian Life (Trinity University Press, 1975) is an attempt to articulate a philosophical psychology (the self as agent) sufficient to support these claims for the importance of character in theological ethics.

Indeed, the fundamental point here is that the strong appeal of the proposals being made by the new reformers is due to the fact that they cohere so well with the way in which we now understand political life and with the way in which we represent ourselves as moral agents.

In these descriptions, the person (e.g., the cremated sister) acts as the primary agent, finally shaping her whole life project and emerging as a whole into an immortal, afterlife state.

(c) Bemused by the relation between acts and sub-acts and by the agent considered as an act - source, I allowed myself in MP to suggest that the whole sweep of an agent's life might be as seamless as the act - temporality I ascribe to any act.

Perhaps naively, they were sure that in this life there would be an overturning of evil, with God as the principal agent in that overturning.

Religion and philosophy as agents fostering ethical considerations must at the same time also reckon with their in built inclination to congeal in perspectives, which allow the living tradition to harden.

Hardly more than Sölle do they encourage thought of God as an agent alongside other agents, one who brings things about in the world or in human life.

Its essence is that what we have to do as moral agents is determined by the fact that we serve in this world the living God who is our Creator and Redeemer.

For as soon as the life and interest of others than the agent are involved in an action or policy, the sacrifice of those interests ceases to be «self - sacrifice.»

The content of this disclosure can be found in the witness of the Gospels to the life, deeds, and words of Jesus of Nazareth, as well as in the apostolic testimony to the preexistent Logos, the virgin - born Messiah, and the dying - rising, exalted Lord, the divine agent whose appearance marks the inauguration of the New Age.

We learned many things about these students» life situations that will enable us to help the succeeding student generations to be more effective ministers and to function as creative agents of mental health.

This would be the return of Christ from Heaven to serve as God's agent in the final judgment and redemption, with which history would end and the life of the «world to come» would be fully inaugurated.

Living as resurrection agents bringing in the new Kingdom may seem like a high task for most of us who are in the thick of jobs, family, bills and endless to - do lists.

There's also the possibility that the initial creation agent is not the same as one or more agents that would affect (and may continue to affect) environments for life in different ways in different universes.

Perhaps we're called to new way of living — to be engaged as agents of God's redemption, trading in our masks of self - proctection, and putting on the armor that equips us to engage in God's mission and love and reach out to others?

Hence, what none of us are permitted to do as private citizens on our own authority the state may do» not because it is itself «lord» of life and death, but because it is the authorized agent of the God who is that Lord.

As the (scarred) hands and (pierced) feet of Jesus on this earth with villains aplenty, we can serve as agents of healing, change, life, renewal and hopAs the (scarred) hands and (pierced) feet of Jesus on this earth with villains aplenty, we can serve as agents of healing, change, life, renewal and hopas agents of healing, change, life, renewal and hope.

It keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the tragedy as a living agent persuading the world to aim at fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact.

In other words, the basic point of the biblical images of God as the living, active, loving, personalizing agent is guaranteed.

The first story offers a cosmic vision and addresses us as spectators, majestically presenting our place in a cosmic whole; the second story maintains a strictly terrestrial focus and addresses us as suffering moral agents, poignantly presenting an account of how misery enters human life.

If, as we shall be arguing in a moment, we may be sure of «objective immortality», the taking into God's life of every good that has been achieved in the creative process; and if, as that understanding of the world order implies, one of the goods is the agency by which these given goods have been achieved, including at this point the human agent as a peculiarly significant focus — may it not be the case that not only the good which has been achieved but the agent who has achieved it (himself good, despite defect and the instances of his failure in this mortal existence) will be preserved beyond the «perishing of occasions»?

If, on the other hand, he sees himself as the directing agent of an exchange between the meanings his people bring out of their lives and the meanings of the gospel, exciting meetings of meaning will occur that will profoundly affect both the people and the world in which they live.

The Old Testament prophets, for example, experienced their historical situation as one in which they were living under the sovereign claim of God, and in which the appropriate way for them to act was as God's agents.

It informs persons that their worth depends upon what they as independent agents make of life.

And this is the context in which the Pope refers to Christian families open to life as «a key agent in the New Evangelisation».

What led to the expectation that there would «shortly be a marvelous consummation, when good will be finally victorious over evil and for ever reduce it to nullity; that the human agents of evil will be either physically annihilated or otherwise disposed of; that the elect will thereafter live as a collectivity, unanimous and without conflict, on a transformed and purified earth»?

The policeman was not in intensive care but was still in a serious condition following the attack, in which a nerve agent, described by Ms Rudd as «very rare», was used in an attempt on the lives of Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33 - year - old daughter Yulia.