Sentences with phrase «like allegiance»

So its not like allegiance to a party will hold an elected official back from pursuing their own interests in office.

After all, I felt like my allegiance should be to Polish cabbage rolls, which I've eaten since I was a little girl, rather than the Hungarian version.

Not exact matches

Mark Rosenthal chalks up the hotel's enduring success to its allegiance to old - school, even unhip virtues like family, community and customer care.

I don't know if that's just my West Coast allegiance, but I like her and I've seen Lululemon (lulu) go from a small regional player with one store on our street here in Vancouver to a huge success, one of the fastest - growing brands in the world and fast becoming one of the best known.

Try supporting liberty for all like it says in the pledge of allegiance.

Instead they were true revolutionaries who took their humble Seattle beginnings to the level where throngs of bodies showed their couple - hours long allegiance of ecstasy in terms of the massive collective dancing undulation to songs like «Better Man» or «Jeremy.»

Similarly, a black theology of liberation or a feminist theology of liberation may, like the university theology its proponents criticize, be little more than ideological expressions of autonomous political movements that owe no fundamental allegiance to the Christian vision.

I know that because nakedpastor holds no allegiances to any certain groups or individuals, it can be very annoying to some who would like to silence the voices of dissent and victims.

Note: I know that for those of us who long for a day when a new generation of Christ - followers rise up together to pledge allegiance to the Kingdom of God over any kingdoms of this world, a move like this is frustrating.

When I grew up we did things like pray in school, said the pledge of allegiance and after prayer was banned, we had our fellowship groups.

In fact children originally said the pledge of allegiance with a Roman (Nazi) salute like people swearing allegiance to «divine» Caesars used to do in the Roman Empire and Italian fascists swearing allegiance to Mussolini:

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

Whether we like it or not it would be blind not to admit that for most people in the modern world religion is first of all an identity, a label, a badge of allegiance of a group.

I've talked with some who have given up on faith altogether, others who have shifted allegiance to another religious tradition, and a lot who (like me) are still a little uncertain about which road to take next.

Although valued, like the Jews, for their contribution to the economy, the reconquista spirit still remained at the heart of Spanish society and the Moors were particularly feared for their natural allegiance to the Ottoman Turks, the great scourge of Christendom.

They would also like atheist children to be subjected to prayer in school, and have added «under God» to the pledge of allegiance, a phrase that was NOT in the original pledge.

There is another school of thought that dismisses such personal likes and dislikes as irrelevant to allegiance to a church, the lone legitimate Christian fellowship, all the more virtuous if you find some of your fellows insufferable.

Pundits (IMO one of the most worthless forms of life on earth regardless of their political allegiances) like Megyn do more to defile God everyday with their divisive propaganda than the most militant atheist.

People born in recent decades have no first - hand experience of what active Christian allegiance was like at the beginning of the twentieth century, when practically everybody in the western world other than Jews claimed to be Christian.

Again, the parable is not showing that the neighbor was the victim and that we should therefore copy the Samaritan's actions in order to show «love to our neighbor», but rather, it is highlighting the way to tell who the neighbor is — and who we should «love» like one of the family — by noting his actions towards us (the victim in the parable); and not judge on the basis of apparent allegiance, or who we feel more comfortable with, or who does our commandments (acts like us).

Invisible things like patriotism, rituals like pledging allegiance to the flag and inquisitorial rules like the DHS has about boarding planes?

While never shy about the importance of his own interpretations, he has always been extraordinarily modest in subordinating his own work to that of others, especially colleagues like John Cobb, and teachers like William Christian, to whom he proclaims unfailingly his allegiance and intellectual indebtedness.

They were nice people that I liked, but I came to see their real allegiance.

do you have any idea how it feels to stand in a room during a pledged of allegiance knowing your say under the god who want you dead, i refuse to stand every time and my heart skips a beat ever time, i feel like there going to turn to me and drag me out, the real saddest thing about the Sikhs is they are deistic and believe they pray to your god to,..

Thus we declare that we care, we are responding because our allegiance is to Jesus, and we seek to be more like Him, emulating His compassionate care for the most vulnerable.

Some people, like the officer's wife who cried tears of rage at my refusal to pledge allegiance to a flag that wasn't mine, just can't be pleased.

Conflicting Allegiances invites us to imagine a world in which Christianity and academics are thoroughly pursued together — and to imagine what a Christian school would then look like.

Closer attention, however, should have been paid to the question of why men like Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, and Polycarp of Smyrna labored unceasingly to foster and preserve Christian allegiance to Christ's ecclesial representatives on earth.

Nothing builds allegiances among a coalition like a common enemy.»

Posting a billboard like that is more offensive then posting the original pledge of allegiance.

Another again was the poet Johann Jager from Hesse who liked to change his name to the Latinised Crotus Rubeanus, to signify his allegiance to the humanist movement.

It just seems like pure greed at this point, you already had my money and my allegiance, why are you asking for more?

A. My allegiances are 100 per cent with Wolves and I approach that game like any other, to win.

For those strange people who like to cheer all of a nation's sides in Europe, regardless of allegiance, this must feel like an early Christmas.

Tynes: Bending history for fickle purposes sounds like something people with Boston allegiances do.

Through their mastery of the craft, eccentric nature, wild creativity, and stubborn allegiance to a part of the country the East and West Coasts liked to forget about, the Dungeon Family created a scene that the story of rap can not be told without.

Even though he's decked out in Chargers gear today, Hernandez — like a lot of locals — dropped his previous allegiances to put the Knights first.

Why invest in players like Ozil and Sanchez who have no allegiance, just to keep the fans happy.

Many English top flight legends like John Aldridge, Andy Townsend and Kevin Sheedy are examples of talented players to switch allegiances to the Boys in Green.

If Jo Ann Smith (http://www.florida-agriculture.com/agwoman/smith.htm) decided to set aside her industry allegiances and actually have a non-biased stance, maybe Finely Textured Leaf Beef would have to be on labels like other processed ingredients.

Like both his grandfathers, Benn's father was a Liberal MP — but he later shifted his allegiance to the Labour Party and was elevated to the peerage in 1941 as the 1st Viscount Stansgate.

I am trapped into long term unemployment because of apathy, indifference and a corrupt city councilman like Eric Ulrich who cares about his cradle - to - grave political ambitions, instead of allegiance, civics, sacrifice and public servitude to ALL of his constituents.

Based on biannual reviews, which include looking at concerns like an inmate's behavior, allegiances with other inmates that could become disruptive or over-familiarity with a facility, there are approximately 5,000 inmate transfers from one prison to another every month,» said Corrections spokesman Thomas Mailey.

Of course, despite allegiances to a single deity, other supernatural beings may be involved, like angels and djinns and Satan.

I still have quite an allegiance to my skinny jeans but I've always liked a wide leg and a vertical stripe.

The stability of the Royal Family ensures the trust and allegiance of the other Wakandan tribes — like the Jabari, a group of anti-technological people who live in the mountainous northern region of the country, where they're led by M'Baku (Winston Duke).

Wherever your allegiances lie — or if you're one of those strange people who like more than one series — the remainder of 2017 is a cracker.

Unsettled by W'Kabi's allegiance, Okoye questions what the future of their relationship would look like.

Give it a watch above, but it seems like Arthur is going to have to make some seriously huge decisions as to where his allegiances lie in the game.

First - time director Dan Trachtenberg — an Abrams protégé, just like the original's Matt Reeves — shoots 10 Cloverfield Lane mostly in claustrophobic close - up, a suitable strategy for studying the shifting allegiances of his surrogate, subterranean family.