Sentences with phrase «long as the poor»

As long as the poor remain objects of volunteer trips rather than joint subjects in a common enterprise of faith, it's never going to be mission.

As long as the poor have real hope that they will soon share in the new affluence, they may endure their poverty and work hard for the good of the whole society.

So long as the poorest in society are getting the help they need to get on up, and all of our other bills are paid for, we should resist pick - pocketing people just because we can.

I know everyone says you can wear white in the winter and I also understand the history of the no white rule BUT old fashion rules die hard and as long as my poor mama walks this earth, she'll be damned if she's gonna let me walk outta the house in white before Easter.

The researchers found that paying to conserve the forest was more valuable than plantations as long as poorer nations could earn between $ 10 and $ 33 for each tonne of CO2 saved.

Not exact matches

Optimists — including South Korean President Moon Jae - in — believe that talks can lead in the long term to peaceful reunification of the peninsula, particularly as sanctions leave North Korea isolated and poor.

Affordable long - term care coverage could fairly be characterized as a solidly middle - class concern: Poorer seniors can generally qualify for Medicaid, and the more affluent can generally afford to pay for nursing - care expenses out of their savings.

The critique doesn't only come from the left; there are plenty of hard - nosed investment firms that are agitating to clamp a lid on ever - growing CEO pay, arguing that it's a poor use of shareholders» money and distorts performance as CEOs start managing to their pay metrics instead of longer - term growth.

These people are not coming back so long as their perception of the food quality is poor.

I think the biggest gain in working with younger workers is that our own bad habits (such as poor communication) that we older workers have formed over a long career become more apparent to us.

The one - on - one meeting sends a message of Tesla's importance in China, whose politicians consider the California company a role model for the country's new electric car companies, as many vehicles suffer from long charging times and a poor driving experience, he explained.

Old, poor - quality content does hurt your search ranking, as long as that low - quality content remains on your site and is accessible to the search engine.

Meanwhile, researchers have also cast doubt on the long - term efficacy of «forced fun» at work, finding that required levity can lead to an array of bad outcomes such as burnout among employees, and that these cheerful work cultures often serve to distract workers from excessive control or poor conditions elsewhere in the business.

While a link between idleness and poor heart health has been established for nearly six decades, the paradigm that emerged said long periods of sedentary behaviour ought to be all right as long as it was offset by enough physical activity.

As reported by the [24] 7 Customer Engagement Index, 20 percent of consumers who end a business relationship due to poor customer service report waiting too long to talk to someone on the phone.

Auto loans stretching six or seven years are often criticized as a poor choice because they leave borrowers underwater for years before they finally get to a point where the vehicle is no longer in negative equity.

But as long as the PBoC can continue to withstand pressure to lower interest rates — and it seems that the traditional poor relations between the PBoC and the CBRC have gotten worse in recent months, perhaps in part because the PBoC seems more determined to reduce financial risk and more willing to accept lower growth as the cost — China will move towards a system that uses capital much more efficiently and productively, and much of the tremendous waste that now occurs will gradually disappear.

It will only get bigger and bigger as we get poorer and live longer.

While workspace aesthetics is not entirely to blame for these matters (other factors at play may include poor leadership or management and long commutes) this situation has the potential to intensify as we enter a new phase in workplace culture.

Barack Obama's chief economic advisor, for example, is an open and long - time booster of NAFTA and Wal - Mart as good for poor people.

It's important to distinguish between the level of valuations, which has indeed become breathtakingly extreme in recent years, and the mapping between valuations and longer - term market returns (which we observe as a correspondence, where rich valuations are followed by poor returns and depressed valuations are followed by elevated returns).

There are far few too many variables to model an outcome Entrepreneurship is a long term commitment and as Investors, we are so lucky to jump the ship after a poor quarter, not the promoter who many times has put...

Given the favorable quality of market action, it may or may not be time to panic yet, but we do know that even while market action is generally favorable, we have overvalued, overbought, and overbullish conditions that have generally been associated both with poor short - term returns (as a result of the overbought, overbullish features), and disappointing long - term returns (as a result of overvaluation).

First, the «returns on equities» here are typically taken to be earnings yields, which as we've frequently noted, are affected by cyclical variations in profit margins that make them notoriously poor indicators of long - term prospective returns (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm and Margins, Multiples and the Iron Law of Valuation).

So instead of being perceived as a Christ - like man who cares deeply for the poor and down - trodden, Obama has long been accused by the Right of being Marxist, Communist, etc. etc..

The only question is whether a particular society has enough of the faithful to care for its poor so as not to have the charitable vocation usurped by the state, at which point it is no longer a Christian society.

Francis told the Catholic leaders on Sunday to focus on the poor, that the Vatican must be reformed, and joked that whoever wagered on his long - shot election as pope «won a lot, of course.»

As long as the «poor» feel obligated to overbreed, there is really not much that we can do for them; they will remain trapped in poverty and their children will toAs long as the «poor» feel obligated to overbreed, there is really not much that we can do for them; they will remain trapped in poverty and their children will toas the «poor» feel obligated to overbreed, there is really not much that we can do for them; they will remain trapped in poverty and their children will too.

Put another way: As long as cotton farming was lucrative business, so was the business of forcing poor black Americans to provide the cheap farming laboAs long as cotton farming was lucrative business, so was the business of forcing poor black Americans to provide the cheap farming laboas cotton farming was lucrative business, so was the business of forcing poor black Americans to provide the cheap farming labor.

«We support the revolution here so long as it continues to carry out its program for the poor.»

And will continue to be as long as the Retardican platform is «tax cuts for billionaires while grandma eats alpo and the poor sleep in the gutter to pay for it.»

Rich men are fine, poor men are fine, so long as they are decent human beings.

But then it sounds like everyone looked away while TJ reinvented himself as a poor long - suffering dad chained to a crazy woman — instead of a garden variety philanderer with an inflated ego and a professional need to seem like a good guy.

@ CQ: 1) as Kevin DeYoung pointed out less than a week later on this blog (an entry here and a longer linked article on his own blog), that article («My Take: What the Bible really says...») was rife with poor exegetical scholarship.

Then, too, Christians are convinced that the church can no longer play its traditional role in regard to the poor — the role of assistance, partial response, individual aid, palliative measures — because, as they see it, the problem is no longer that of the poor individual but of the system; and to ameliorate the situation of some poor people is in fact to reinforce the system, and to end injustice for one individual is to refrain from combating social injustice.

As Christianity made clear last month, the impact of the credit crunch is having terrible consequences on the world's poor, but it's vital to see that our economic arrangements were having a terrible and lethal impact on them long before the credit crunch.

Also, as an atheist, it is ironic to say the least to call on an external «power» when what you are trying to do is break the external power (alcohol) that is ruining your life — swapping one addiction for another is a pretty poor deal long term.

And as to the comfort the gospel speaks of, it seems that Christianity ought no longer to be the comforter of the poor and the afflicted, because, forsooth, «if you comfort them you divert them from seeking material, concrete means for ending their misery; if they are comforted by faith, they will not set to work to solve the economic problems.»

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

So it's OK to be filthy Rich and use the poor to leech even more money as long as you «Accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior»?

So long as a sexual hierarchy obtains which allows a man to rape a woman with impunity, or a husband to rape a wife and call it legal, all such crimes of dominance will continue, the poor will be kept poor, and war will flourish despite all our tinkering with world economies and reaching for solutions through diplomacy.

So long as the maximization of profit and growth is the chief regulating ideal, the gap between the rich and poor will continue to increase.

But he was also a man of integrity, and as his eyes were gradually opened to what was going on around him — particularly the exploitation and repression of the poor at the hands of the oligarchy, the government and the military — he could no longer keep silent.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!

Bob Jones University is in the news concerning its poor handling of sexual assault as well as its week - long chapel sermons on homosexuality.

I will be happy to calmy and rationally debate you as long as you would like, but if you think I simply don't understand your argument because I don't agree with it, then you've made a poor deduction.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

Racism... Child Labor Laws... Protections for the poor... Women's Rights... Labor Laws in general... Religious Persecution... Voting Rights... oh wait, the past sucked and the future can only be better as long as we embrace progressivism and abandon all that Dark Ages crap.

Our country remained as one of the poorest countries for very long because the Cap, told us that our oil was not in a com - mer - cial qua - nti - ties, it was like that until the Com, have become to find it was not as the Cap, told us, who must have been br - i - bed to say so by a richer neighboring country...