Sentences with phrase «much destruction of»

I'm not saying that the authors of TEEB believe that, there's every indication that they believe exactly the opposite, but nevertheless by framing the discussion in financial terms potentially just reinforces the philosophical and psychological frameworks that have led to so much destruction of people, animals and environment in the first place.

«It's not so much the destruction of the buildings, because you can see destruction of buildings in other places.

Not exact matches

Therein lies an issue deserving a much, much closer look: whether vulnerable Democrats, chiefly of the liberal persuasion, are targeted for destruction.

But while the image of Sundberg's house standing alone in a field of destruction has become an icon for the ICF industry, selling concrete houses to North Americans faces some much stiffer challenges than mere 200 - kilometre - per - hour winds and an eight - metre tidal surge.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Peter Grandich talks about the 7 deadly sins of finance that caused him so much pain and heartache and that continues to lead others to death and destruction.

«If in every round there was extensive rocket fire at cities like Ashkelon, Ashdod and Beersheva, you can only assume that much loss of life and destruction property was prevented.

22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?»

So much harm from a single seed of destruction calling people to value ignorance over knowledge, logic over irrationality, and delusion over reality.

It is part of a much larger pattern of abuse and exploitation, of the earth and of people, which has occurred in South and Central America, and which is itself part of an age - old historical pattern of ecological destruction.

Romans 9:22 - 24 — What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

Eventually, the Satanic powers brought so much evil into the world, that they were once again able to lead the world to the brink of complete destruction.

It is time you must denounce Islam, religion of death and destruction, before it fills you with so much hatred, you decide to explode in some strange country.

9:22: «What if God, willing to show his wrath [that is, to vindicate his justice], and to make his power known, endured [that is, permitted] with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath afore prepared unto glory,»... There is indeed no reason why some are elected to glory while others are rejected, except the will of God.»

«Judaism at the time of Jesus was much more like Catholicism (priests leading worship based on sacrifice), whereas rabbinic Judaism after the Temple's destruction was more like Protestantism (Scripture teachers leading worship without blood sacrifice).»

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

The destruction of millions of species through extinction — what Deane - Drummond calls «amoral suffering» — can not be merely ascribed to the Fall of Man since much of it predates man's existence, and continues to occur independently of man's activity.

Stupid, stupid people with blind hate towrds a religion are being led by fanaticism, because a HANDFUL of men, thats right a HANDFUL caused the destruction of the Twin Towers.For you people, I ask you to look in the mirror and see how much destruction your Government has done in YOUR name.

throughout history, man has relied so much on his intellect in trying to solve life's problems when time and again many of our great leaders / intellectuals have driven to destruction.

Once in Africa, Schweitzer gradually came to understand what well may be the most important mistake made by the Europeans (and Americans) since the rise of Western civilization — namely, their pride in their superindustrialized «mastery» over the forces of Nature, a much - vaunted control which is leading to the destruction of our biosphere.

22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory --» (Romans 9:10 - 23)

Given the range of pressing moral issues that Küng takes up (including war genocide and ecological destruction), I would not make so much of this issue except for two things.

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

It leaves open for endless consideration and reconsideration the question of how much abuse of power or mutual destruction can be tolerated in one area before a wider community intervenes.

Much of the work of God on earth is focused on protecting humanity from complete destruction at the hand of these destroying powers.

Yes, a chimpanzee's co-star can be elected and re-elected to generate an enormous deficit, nap through much of his second term, and complete the destruction of the country's manufacturing sector.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

On the contrary, there is a much more imminent threat of human self - destruction through nuclear war.

In wartime the GNP soars; nothing is subtracted for the destruction of cities and infrastructure, much less for the loss of human life.

Much more serious is the destruction of habitat by deforestation and expansion of farming.

If you wonder why storms and destruction happen in nature, much of it is because the forces of nature are no longer under human control.

Why would there be so much dying and destruction if it was the word of the almighty?

Jodi, the poppies are from the battlefield (I think the Somme) of the First World War that, after so much death and destruction, bloomed with poppies once again.

That is why much of what appears to be self - giving love is really self - destruction.

St. Paul, in contrast, asks the question, «What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction...» (Rom.

To halt and reverse this destruction of natural beauty, not only must standards of individual taste be raised, but much stricter social controls must be exercised.

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah had as much to do with neglect of the poor as it did with sexual immorality.

A little further, ``... God desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction...» And then further, ``... only a remnant will be saved for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.»

What seems most likely is that, much like the flood and due to the various elements of the Chaos Theory, God was unable to stop the destruction of Sodom, but would do everything He could to rescue and deliver people from the impending destruction.

Interest rates much higher than in the countries of the North contribute to the destruction of national producers; uncontrolled privatisation and denationalization develop in the search for the resources demanded by investors.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

They turned out to be based on erroneous information (weapons of mass destruction) and a dreamy idealism (democracy)» there was and is much to criticize» but the arguments for war in 2003 were articulate and admitted of just war analysis.

I am very much alive and proud of the havoc and destruction al Qaeda has created, far exceeding my wildest expectations.

Followed by how the days leading up to the flood will be much like the days of the Son of man that will lead up to destruction.

Still others see hope only in the destruction of all forms of industrial civilisation and the return to much simpler forms of social organisation.

Monsoons and hurricanes cause destruction, but also deposit much - needed rainfall in what would otherwise be regions of perpetual drought.

Christians have been responsible for countless deaths, cultural destruction, etc.... We would be MUCH better off if the Paganism of Ancient Rome was the culturally dominant faith.

My hope is not so much for the ultimate destruction of evil as its redemption.

They can not join with those vociferous persons, often associated with conservative religious groups, who seek to go back to what are often styled «the good old days»: on the other hand, they do not have much sympathy for the wildly radical people who assume that there must be a total destruction of our inheritance, in the naive confidence that surely «something» will then appear that is entirely good and sound and right.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»