Sentences with phrase «living on concrete»

This breeder, or perhaps a puppy mill, is a place where mothers languish in their cages living on concrete until their puppies are taken away.

The animals were living on concrete floors covered with urine and feces.

Living on concrete and wearing rubber shoes has restricted our access to this energy, and although we may not be able to discern when it's there or not, this force is absolutely essential for our bodies to function well.

Shortly after welcoming Oreo into our home, we rescued another Cairn Terrier who had been saved from a puppy mill where he had spent his entire life on a concrete floor.

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Before you dismiss it as likely spiritual mumbo jumbo, hear Neave out on the concrete impact the book has had on her life:

The EU wants to agree first on the U.K.'s financial and budgetary liabilities — the so - called Brexit Bill — as well as finding a mutually agreeable resolution to the issue of the Irish border, and some concrete confirmation of the future rights for EU citizens» living in the U.K.

We'll use live, real - world market research on advertising styles, then plan our online strategy based on concrete numerical results.

... this book suggests concrete investing strategies to make Congress's systemic dysfunction work for you, and to hedge the risk and damage that Congress so casually and relentlessly inflicts on your life savings as represented by your portfolio and your house.»

Either way, you are leaving behind that physical life and the people in it so it would make sense to focus on that, on the things in your life that are concrete.

Rather, a Christian alternative to these proposals might be the understanding of suffering on the concrete level, especially in the life of Jesus.

The other, and surely the most significant arena where abstract philosophy must interact with concrete experience, is community life — where principle and practice come together on a personal, human scale.

Likewise, Augustine's Confessions is not a theoretical treatise on the nature of God, but a history, his own concrete, experiential history, of God acting in his life.

True agreement comes, for example, not only when we state that we agree on the gift of salvation but when we then work out in concrete terms the profound implications of that for the way we think and live as churches and as individual Christians.

God continues to order the natural life of humanity by means of the concrete historical structures that impinge on our existence — the particular systems of government, economics, and family that frame our life.

Some decisions concern his concrete life on earth.

On this point we will only remark that Christ gave his Church such a plenary power and duty because without it a common life in the Church and concrete pastoral care by the Church for the salvation of the individual would be quite impossible.

But the Church can not offer a concrete model of the economy as it might be today and as in certain circumstances it ought to be, in such a way that to realize this model would be a binding moral duty on those in charge of economic life.

On the other hand, his adult life shows a commitment not to a transferable Anglican «ideal» — as if one could live as an Anglican while belonging to a Baptist, Methodist, or Presbyterian church — but to the concrete life of, first, the Church of England and then, subsequent to his relocation, to the Anglican Church of Canada.

While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.

As Malloy writes, in reflecting on the uniqueness of the Catholic Church «one can affirm both the essential fullness of the ecclesial reality of the Catholic Church and the concrete poverty and woundedness of her lived life, together with her practical need of the expressive ecclesial riches found outside her visible boundaries.»

Nietzsche's influence may account in part for the dynamism of Buber's philosophy, for its concern with creativity and greatness, for its emphasis on the concrete and actual as opposed to the ideal and abstract, for its idea of the fruitfulness of conflict, and for its emphasis on the value of life impulses and wholeness of being as opposed to detached intellectuality.

My Lutheran friend is pleased that Catholics and Lutherans can approve a common statement on justification by faith, but «doctrinal agreement turns out to be sheer abstraction apart from a concrete vision of the shape of the Life we are saved to live.»

Now, with the predictions of that book being visibly fulfilled on all sides, I began to sense in some living fashion a really concrete relation between ethics and economics.

Is it not true that Paul's «purely» theological insights are, on closer inspection, responses to the cultural crises and life situations of young churches facing concrete problems, and that his «purely» practical advice has within it a theological dimension?

Purcell has offered a profound reflection on the place of God in the midst of suffering, the illustrations from his own life and those of others giving helpful, concrete expression to the traditional identification of our sufferings with those of Christ on the cross.

Even then there will always be mitigating circumstances which compromise the usefulness of a dogmatic, set in concrete, approach to understanding and actually living, not merely reflecting on, life.

Every judgment as to what is good must be made on the basis of what this particular concrete experience or action does for the movement of life toward the Kingdom.

A simple, small, symbolic, but concrete gesture of protest to the $ 200,000 dollars a minute being spent on militarism while programs that support life go bankrupt.»

Brunner has recently published a monumental work on ethics which takes full recognition of the concrete problems of living.

But it has failed, as incidentally all theology has to an extent in every age, by speaking of revelation in a manner that does not adequately thematize what actually goes on in the concrete faith life of Christian believers.

The option of organ donation gives Christians a concrete opportunity to act as «people of the resurrection» by passing on the gift of life.

Lots of plans, goals, and a vision, a picture of what we want our life together to be like at different stages of our lives, and concrete thoughts and efforts on how to get there that impact us everyday.Some formal, some informal, some more rigid and fixed than others.

Sabbath observance, in other words, showed us the importance of giving up our controlling, anxious grip on the world so that we might learn in a regular and concrete manner what it means to trust in the grace of God and community and to welcome and respect the gifts on which all the living depend.

The bodily resurrection of Christ is basic to Paul's understanding of eternal life, but this very concrete faith that gives rise to his hope that we will join Christ in a resurrection like his becomes less and less comprehensible the more one reflects on the eternity it promises.

Human values waited for millennia after the origin of life before the fullness of time for their concrete expression on this earth.

The flavour of the book is very much to situate reflection on the flow of John's Gospel into the concrete reality of life and living together.

Christianity does not displace Judaism; on the contrary, it needs a vital and living Judaism, in the concrete world of history, in order to help it to understand its own inheritance.

Talk of the transcendent dimension is effective only as long as it continues to have a purchase on a concrete and living myth of the other world, a «true myth,» to use J. R.

4Speaking of how wrongly oriented feminism tends to have a masculinising effect on women, a psychologist writes: «When women, entering professional life in a masculinised world, adopt masculine «defects», they become hard and violent (instead of strong), independent and uprooted (instead of sociable and linked to personal values), technical (instead of practical and concerned with what is concrete)» B. Castilla, La Complementariedad Varon - Mujer, Madrid, 1993, p. 48.

I have to say, however, that having also gone to their website as a result of your interview (I live in MIlan and had not heard of them before) I wanted to congratulate you in particular on the generosity and ease of your site and also to thank you so much for the concrete help by sharing your thoughts and knowledge that you are giving to so many people.

Imagine having nothing to lie on but cold concrete, night after night, for your entire life.

I drove with Joe to see Hawk on a cold, wet Saturday afternoon and was shocked by what I saw: a beautiful brindled beast exiled to a concrete - slab kennel, living in and slipping in and falling in a scabrous landscape of his own feces.

Every light on this side of the town Suddenly it all went down Now we'll all be brothers of the fossil fire of the sun Now we will all be sisters of the fossil blood of the moon Someone must have set «em up Now they'll be working in the cold grey rock Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam... Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever

Her articles, like this one on grocery shopping with toddlers, offer concrete ideas for parents to help their child communicate during «everyday life.»

Such is life on the lakefront trail, the 18 - mile ribbon of concrete, asphalt and dirt along Lake Michigan.

Adrift and nearly out of money after three months of living out of his van in the Washington area, the gunman who shot a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field didn't have any concrete plans to inflict violence on the Republicans he loathed, FBI officials said.

It's worth remembering that ideology has severe limits: it can only make broad generalisations without anything concrete on individual lives, dealing with our own contradictions or how to balance extremes in any situation.

The concrete measures that Miliband has advanced, from capping rail price increases, to legislating for a living wage, from changing government procurement rules to encourage vocational training, to putting workers» representatives on corporate remuneration committees, are all workable, worthwhile policies.

According to a statement from the forum, shortly after their emergency meeting on Saturday in Enugu, the governors have taken concrete steps to protect lives and properties of indigenes and non indigenes in the region.

Graf accepted Miliband's challenge, and proposed new campaign methods that relied on grass - roots campaigns on concrete issues such as pay - day lenders, the living wage, energy prices, zero - hours contracts, saving the local library, and so on.