Sentences with phrase «life imposed upon»

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I choose to live according to a morality that I have some say in, not one that was originally imposed upon an ancient people, hopelessly removed from my culture.

Matthew 18 described how the community could live as a free congregation of brothers without having any members placed in positions of superiority and control, held together only by brotherly service, imposed upon all» (Schweizer, p. 398).

But when we encounter it as a law imposed upon us, instead of giving us life, it kills us.

This means that religion must arise from the actual life experiences of people and not be dogmatically imposed upon them.

A feeling of guilt so out of proportion with what my life was, is it inscribed in the nature of every child born into this world (the moral law within us, according to Kant, attests the existence of God), or is it a deformation occurring in infancy, imposed upon the Christians of my kind, and which I have not known how to cure?

Finally, it is a fragile and superficial structure, shedding a haphazard light on our lives, maintaining and propagating itself by grace of circumstances that are in themselves precarious and changeable: how can we compare it to those deep, underlying determinisms which impose an ineluctable course upon the advance of Life?

For the government to impose its will upon the masses is an effort to force the masses to worship it in order to receive basic necessities of living.

We are ambassadors in a foreign nation, and we help others live according to the rules of our kingdom not by trying to impose our rules upon them, but simply by living among them and showing them a different way.

The director of the Brussels Institute for Intercultural Dialogue Dynamics, describes how global leaders are preparing to impose their new post-modern values upon the lives of millions.

In particular, they do not resolve the conflict between two powerful sentiments: a wish to preserve human life from its first moments of existence and a desire not willingly to impose upon a child a short life of pain and misery.

It is fine if you want to use that for you life but you have no right to impose your sharia law upon me, my family and my life.

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.

To impose a vision upon a church is not only unhealthy, but deadly to the genuine life of the church.

So a project emerged aimed at extending a reasonably good life to the many without imposing either religious or philosophical authority upon them.

I would add to this, under what circ - umstances do we wish to empower the state to impose a duty upon one person to use their internal organs to directly sustain the life of another «person?»

For if life is but «vanity,» as the writer of Ecclesiastes suggests, can one truly find pleasure in it by imposing upon it a meaning through an act of imagination and will?

Thus community is championed more in theory than in reality, more as an ideal of liberal universalism than as the diverse relational structures that impose themselves upon us in everyday life.

The bad thing about hookup culture, or really the anti-culture beneath it, is that it might suck a decade or two of your life into a smithereens of physical and emotional novelties upon which no intelligible or humanly compelling narrative can be imposed.

«A culture of silence is imposed upon the people, thus choking their cries for dignity, self - respect, right to life and right to food.»

I regard it toxic to communal life to impose upon it my plans or goals.

Real Cjhristians do not impose their faith upon everyone else; they merely show their faith through how they live each and every day.

The nineteen women who write about their defiance of what is aptly called medical eugenics are also heroines who gave life a chance and who write movingly of their joy in having resisted the «choice» that others tried to impose upon them and their children.

Their extreme agenda is to tax the life out of hardworking, overburdened New Yorkers and impose upon New York radical policies that the vast majority of people who live here don't want.

«I hope the sentence I impose upon you will make other politicians think twice until their better angels take over — or, if there are no better angels, perhaps the fear of living out his golden years in an orange jumpsuit,» said Caproni, who also ordered Silver to forfeit $ 5.3 million and pay a $ 1.75 million fine.

«This is happening for the failure of the market economy to equally account for many of the negative human and environmental impacts that are imposed upon society and the life support system.»

The new bill, known as the Marijuana Justice Act, not only seeks to decriminalize marijuana, but it also hopes to impose penalties upon states that disproportionately target certain communities for drug related offenses and set up a fund designed to help improve the quality of life in areas most hard hit by the war on drugs.

She's the most genuine of the women in that she doesn't have an ideal she's trying to live up to or that people are imposing upon her.

In either of the above situations, you can continue to earn a living subject to the surplus income guidelines imposed by bankruptcy law which guidelines allow you to retain a certain proportion of earnings depending upon your after - tax income and the number of persons in your household.

It's important to note also that the severe living conditions imposed upon battery hens, coupled with their unnatural egg production inflicts a heavy toll upon them — some moreso than others — with few ever expected to live as long as their non factory farmed cousins.

Upon entering, guests are greeted by two 24 feet high by 26 feet wide towering Heritage Oak trees which flank the reception desk; while The Park Lounge features a geometric, life - size topiary garden with majestically imposing tree, and moving lights aimed at the ceiling.

He's a blank, silent state for us to impose our thoughts upon, sure, but this approach worked better in prior technological eras, when we didn't have sophisticated means of bringing him to life.

One of the most famous living abstract artists, James Siena is best known for the intricate geometric abstractions that he creates freehand by imposing upon himself a set of «rules» that he calls «visual algorithms.»

The deleterious impact the circular cutouts have on the images make them that much more difficult to interpret — analogous to the stresses society imposes upon other life within our environs, regardless of our inabilities to perceive them as such.

Hopefully our great friend, Wang Suya (# 12), who is not blinded by wealth accumulation, power, social status, endless possessions, and the freedom to live idolatrously without accepting personal responsibility, can help us see what is before our eyes: God's Creation and the requirements imposed upon Earth's stewards for its preservation.

We in the developed world need to recognize how our way of life imposes negative impacts upon poorer nations of the world — especially their children.»

However, it should also be recognized in passing that there are generally certain religious motives involved, a personal framework through which they understand and live their lives which they then seek to impose upon the evidence and empirical science.

Legal principle must try «to keep the law abreast of the society in which [the judges] live and work»: «If the law should impose upon the process of «growing up» fixed limits where nature knows only a continuous process, the price would be artificiality and a lack of realism in an area where the law must be sensitive to human development and social change... Unless and until Parliament should think fit to intervene, the courts should establish a principle flexible enough to enable justice to be achieved by its application to the particular circumstances proved by the evidence placed before them.»

We recognize that MBTA accidents can unexpectedly impose a large financial burden or inconvenience upon your life and that the repercussions of such accidents are unwelcome.

The Intervenor submits that the failure to impose a deterrent sentence would have a discriminatory and degrading effect upon the dignity and respect that must be accorded persons with disabilities, including particularly persons who are HIV positive and / or living with AIDS.

If charged under section 273 of the Criminal Code with Aggravated Sexual Assault, the maximum penalty that can be imposed upon conviction is life imprisonment.

However, in the unique facts of Capt. Semrau's case, the greatest challenge faced by the prosecution may not be in proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt, but in maintaining moral legitimacy when imposing the obligatory life sentence for murder upon a decorated soldier who, if found guilty, would be responsible for an apparent mercy killing of an enemy combatant.

The decision to oblige the mother to disclose the name of the father as a condition of registration of the child served this nefarious purpose while imposing yet one more disability on the mother, i.e., her child could not be registered as a member of her band and, therefore, could not live in that community upon reaching his or her majority.

Most traditional plans like endowment, whole - life plans can be revived, subject to conditions that your insurer might impose upon you.

Let's remember her love of life, and the powerful inspiration of her namesake, the great orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass who said, «Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.»

If you live in one of the above countries, be sure to find out what limits are going to be imposed upon you before attempting to use CEX Bitcoin Exchange for your Bitcoin or Ether trading.

• Breaking down the gender stereotypes which patriarchal gender unequal societies have imposed upon girls and boys from the very start of their lives,

Lila is passionate about helping people live authentic lives free from false expectations and ideals that society often imposes upon them.

Commonwealth and State governments negotiate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples about amending relevant legislation to reflect the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to live in accordance with their laws, customs and traditions, consistent with all international human rights instruments, and to ensure that Australian laws will not impose unnecessary restrictions upon the exercise of those rights.

Recommendation 2: That the Government negotiate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples about amending relevant legislation to reflect the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to live in accordance with their laws, customs and traditions, consistent with all international human rights instruments, and to ensure that Australian laws will not impose unnecessary restrictions upon the exercise of those rights.

(14) Imposing, and authorising a Protector to inflict summary punishment by way of imprisonment, not exceeding fourteen days, upon aboriginals or half - castes, living upon a reserve or within the District under his charge, who, in the judgment of the Protector, are guilty of any crime, serious misconduct, neglect of duty, gross insubordination, or wilful breach of the Regulations;