Sentences with phrase «many wretches»

And a few, like Conrad Black, fire back with caustic ripostes, lambasting their pursuers as unjust wretches or worse.

Consequently at the first company you had CFOs who had run businesses or went on to run businesses, at the latter you had the proverbial ink stained wretch capable of turning out the best damned budget package in the world and still chained to a 10 key.

It's fascinating to see controversy stirred up over an old blog post by NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice in which he called World War I «a purely capitalist war» and lamented how, at the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, «thousands of poor wretches were slaughtered to take possession of a hill.»

But when I say «Lord have mercy» it is not as a fearful wretch but in confident expectation of his welcome.

As the old song says, He saved a wretch like me.

But otherwise, it's uncanny, how you catch all my flaws, faults, and short comings — wretch like me!

Tom Kempis All I need — wretch like me.

I know mine to know that I, too, and a wretch with an evil heart, and I fully expect that her's is not much different.

--(It is) to free a slave, And to feed in the day of hunger An orphan near of kin, Or some poor wretch in misery, And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity.

She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism... She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets.»

«And feed with food the needy wretch, the orphan and the prisoner, for love of Him» (Surah LXXVI, 8).

There is obviously no holding back these starving wretches who have simply been awaiting death in some way, whether by famine if the siege continues or by the sword if there is a victorious assault.

«On a Sunday you would be shocked indeed,» she replied, «for then the street is filled with multitudes of the wretches who, released on that day from employment, spend their day in noise and riot.

Please don't feel sorry for me; the balance between concupiscence and holiness is carefully but eloquently held in the Western theological tradition, and as an inheritor of that tradition, I'm really rather joyful — Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!

But little does this wretch know there is no room for her on my throne.

As the song says, «Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!»

My sins seemed to be laid open; so that I thought that every one I saw knew them, and sometimes I was almost ready to acknowledge many things, which I thought they knew: yea sometimes it seemed to me as if every one was pointing me out as the most guilty wretch upon earth.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

This lawsuit is simply petty and spiteful — like the fundamentalist wretches that it represents.

He protested about the fashion in which those who proclaim the gospel often spend most of their time in stimulating an artificial sense of utter failure and sinfulness, so that then those preachers could declare that after all God still cares for such miserable wretches as he has induced his hearers to think themselves to be.

I am also not a wretch.

For the recalcitrant, there was death at the hands of the community - commonly by the brutal method of stoning, that is, pelting with rocks until the poor wretch went down under them, and then was finally pounded to death.

«What indeed can be more pitiful than a wretch with no pity for himself, weeping at the death of Dido, which was caused by love for Aeneas, and not weeping at his own death, caused by lack of love for you, God...?»

The «religious» facade put on by these hypocrites makes me wretch in disgust.

BUY THIS CARTOON It's always easy to sing «amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me», but it's harder to sing, «amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a...

Creation comes about only through destruction, in a universe and plane of existence of seemingly infinite stretches and constantly redefined understandings, the poor wretch who clings to archaic mans reasoning will find himself continually outclassed, out thought and out performed.

Wretch like me.

I remember singing it as a child thinking I was nothing but a wretch, lower than scum unless I got saved by Jesus.

That saved a wretch like me.

I personally like the old hymns such as Amazing Grace... who saved wretch like me.

It makes it far worse when the starting place is «I am really a miserable wretch.»

Or, perhaps more accurately, each one is «a wretch like me.»»

UK rap artists such as Dizzee Rascal, Tinie Tempah and Wretch 32 have all acknowledged and appreciated Christian rap music, publicly declaring their support for some of the artists within the genre.

Men created thousands of gods... The bibles god makes people feel like unworthy wretches... terrible.

I am just as much of a wretch as an atheist so I am not going to condem anyone or judge anyone.

On occasion, baseball fields were laid out more or less side by side where we played, and if the game I was taking part in was not sufficiently interesting, I would turn around and watch another or pass the time with my neighboring exile, a forlorn and uncoordinated wretch who had been banished to the right field of his game.

For what these poor unsuspecting wretches found there amid the din and dimness of the Fabulous Borum was hardly the same game they'd been training for in Beijing and Sydney and Montevideo and all those other hotbeds of roundball.

Actually can't believe you see so few teams as a threat, Spurs are above us * boke / wretch West Ham will pass us if they win, that means we will be 7th and if Chelski and Citeh win, 16 points off the better teams.

Do I wretch at the notion of wishing a violent shaking of the US's 13th most populous city, birthplace of the United Nations, the Ellis Island to Irish coffee?

«Famous Arsenal Fans» (Part One): Exclusive Interview with Wretch 32 Jermaine Scott, better known as Wretch 32, grew up in Tottenham, North London.

Despite this, Wretch is an Arsenal fan, indefinitely, and has been...

Wretch.

If you have a trunk, put things in a trunk, if you have an SUV I know people who have tugs in the back of their SUV's and they put things in there and close them up then they can wretch it down, same with strollers if you have those wretched straps you can strap them down in the back.

(Or what if, like me, you're pregnant and the thought of salmon or sardines makes you wretch?)

You've probably been warned about what happens when a baby starts «cutting teeth» — Your cuddly bundle of sweetness will quickly turn into a drooling, screaming, feverish wretch who will fray your nerves and demolish hope of ever sleeping again!

Maybe unnecessary if you can quickly chuck em in an outside bin but essential if you live in a flat and would rather not induce wretching bar the brief time when it comes to change the liner.

In his book he said that when he heard the result of the referendum, he walked out of the office and as he walked into Whitehall started wretching violently.

We ink - stained wretches could still more of his kind at the barricades in the battle for what remains of journalism and for the democratic promise that can only be realized when the press and the pressmen speak truth to power.

He reveled in it simply for the sake of intellectual jousting, whether in the center of American Catholicism at Notre Dame or «educating» some ink - stained wretch from Buffalo hammering out a Sunday column.

Back in the day, we ink - stained wretches in print media used to call standard pre-packaged images for use in advertising «clip art.»