Sentences with phrase «much freedom from»

The car has somehow become inseparably linked to the concept of freedom, yet it has taken away so much freedom from society.

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Seeking entry into this field at mid-life meant competing with established professionals or those much younger than me, many holding a degree in journalism or another directly related course of study, an experience - rich resume to support their interest, and the freedom to work long hours in an office away from home.

It's the same freedom I get from letting go of attachments to anything, but I used to value books so much that I gained a lot of freedom in this case.

Men and women who lead and work in businesses around Wyoming — of all ages and from every walk of life — talk about how much they enjoy the freedoms of our state.

For digital nomads with jobs they can do from anywhere, the concept of freedom is just that much more enticing.

After several embarrassing setbacks, Republican leaders, under pressure from the White House, spent much of last week weighing whether to hold a vote on the measure that included the new amendment, which was negotiated by New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur and North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus.

It's embarrassing that so many Americans, people who say they believe in freedom and equality, have spent so much time and energy trying to justify being anti gay marriage - with false arguments from the Bible (as thought that should be the only source of their decisions).

No, seeking to gain release (aphesis) from our sins through confession and repentance is about whether or not we gain freedom from the destructive power of sin in our lives which seeks to wreak havoc in our lives, our health, our marriages, our family, our finances, our jobs, and pretty much everything else.

In much contemporary discourse, freedom is seen as emancipation from God.

The political theory assumed that people benefit so much from that order that it is rational for them to enter into contractual agreements that sacrifice considerable personal freedom.

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

I receive a full time salary from the church (less than $ 84k), but much of the freedom that you have described as a benefit I feel I experience, because I know if tomorrow things changed radically, I have my hands and my tools, and my knowledge.

Partners who can allow each other the inner freedom to grow toward the realization of God - given potential, who can allow each «to drink from his own individual cup» (12) do much to meet each other's need.

I think mary jane needs to be legalized not necessarily because of the hypocrisy and that we should have the «freedom» as much as the windfall of cash from growing it, selling it and taxing it, the medicinal properties it can be used for, the huge amount of space available in prisons that would open up and house criminals doing really bad things instead beng caught with a pound of a specific plant.

How much would you pay for a girl's freedom from sex slavery?

Whereas Pagels discusses second - century theologians who offer alternatives to Augustine's problematic freedom, she ignores the great «heretic» Marcion, who finally concluded that the creator of a world in which there is so much evil is a deeply flawed deity, the very God from whom we must be redeemed.

I don't know because I am not there myself (crossing the divide from Christian to atheist) but I have read so many who have crossed like you who say how much relief and freedom they felt.

i remember now seeing this one movie with mid-east people drama in it — don't remember to much about the movie except this one scene of men in mid-east dress advancing in protest in mass upon these soldier guards over something these people in mass thought was rightfully theirs (a freedom from violence was one of these things they thought was rightfully theirs).

To speak of a Creator without a creation is to talk linguistic nonsense — quite as much as to speak of creaturely freedom as if it were a freedom apart from dependence upon God's initiating and continuing concern.

There one might well argue that freedom from love was very much the goal.

While the transition from tough biker to tough freedom fighter might not be that great a stretch, Childers has made another leap that is in some ways much greater.

This second trait of freedom in the light of hope removes us further than the first trait did from the existential interpretation, which is too much centered on the present decision; for the ethics of the mission has communitarian, political, and even cosmic implications, which the existential decision, centered on personal interiority, tends to hide.

so much tLk but we all the sAme went feeling the treAt 2 ones freedom wAr is not the answer neeither peace but much more important is the wAnt above save us all from the pAth we tAken

Locke = Freedom From Nature (and implicitly history) and Darwin = Nature is much closer to the truth.

It may be that I have laid too much stress on the future reference of forgiveness, but I did not forget to insist that there can only be freedom for the future where there has been deliverance from my own particular past.

It is so much easier to condemn the sick and wounded (of body and spirit), than it is to take them in and proclaim their freedom from the oppression that is foisted upon them by people like you (as you did me in your post).

The general idea is very clear: Men in our time desire some things very much — escape from suffering war and other disaster, freedom and a sense of their dignity, abundance and peace.

Without so much as a blink of the eye, Safranski invokes Schleiermacher to transition from a vague «religious feeling» to a discussion of the purported «connection between mythology and the feeling of freedom.»

5 I assume that ideas are in some sense copied from impressions, but I attribute much more freedom to the imagination and intellect than does Hume.

people who truly love liberty as much as the «right» claims to need to respect the liberty of freedom of, and FROM, religion!

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

Comic strips from the 1950s through the 1980s took an increasingly secular attitude toward religious symbols, Heeren said, whereas The Simpsons displays a «much greater freedom in the lampooning of these symbols.»

Much of Obama's remarks focused on threats to religious freedom abroad, from China to Egypt to Sudan and Burma.

Think of how much unnecessary anguish and self - torment we've endured, as well as how much freedom we've forgone, from seeing ourselves as the only one.

the power to give, the power to love, the paradoxical power of «weakness»... God's power is thus much greater than the compelling force of a tyrant who makes others submit against their will... his power is sufficient to transform a willful person from self - centeredness to love, without destroying or even violating the tender plant of freedom.61

Furthermore, this bodily conflict between the mother and her emergent child anticipates the often much more painful act of separation, when the child, exercising the newly awakened powers made possible by his large head, reaches for his own autonomous knowledge of good and had, and repeats the original rise and fall from obedience and innocence in the ever - recurring saga of human freedom and «enlightenment.»

But the quantitative mixture and order of these moods vary so much from one age of the world, from one system of thought, and from one individual to another, that you may insist either on the dread and the submission, or on the peace and the freedom as the essence of the matter, and still remain materially within the limits of the truth.

Thus one may conclude that to Whitehead freedom is not so much a right as it is a duty and an obligation; these derive from the religious level and apply to the level of ethical life.

Over at the Ashbrook Center's website, David Tucker, of the Naval Postgraduate School and an Ashbrook fellow asks us to consider how much freedom we would sacrifice to be safe from terrorism.

If we are to be honest, the threat to this freedom comes as much from the collapse of cohesive church communities, especially in what once was the Bible Belt, as from Washington, D.C..

The leaders always had good consciences, for conscience in them coalesced with Will, and those who looked on their face were as much smitten with wonder at their freedom from inner restraint as with awe at the energy of their outward performances.

If and when this mosque is built - and I presume it will since it is truly our freedom that binds and fetters so much as to allow such a travesty to even be considered - I think that fifty years from now people will wonder at the amazing and complete victory of Al Queda as to completely raze our symbols of democracy and capitalism and in its place raise up a mosque.

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

Emancipation from the endless discussions of committee meetings, trying to solve problems in both religious and political communities that had hitherto occupied so much of my time, was a desirable freedom from the chores of a democratic society; but it also meant an emancipation from responsibility — a doubtful boon, because responsibility engages us in the causes of moral, political and religious movements.

(«Cautionary Verses for Children»: this title of a much used work, published early in the nineteenth century, shows how far the muse of evangelical protestantism in England, with her mind fixed on the idea of danger, had at last drifted away from the original gospel freedom.

This decade thus offers mobile (or desktop) videoconferencing units which can be wheeled from room to room, making video forums possible - an easy technical «freedom of assembly» at much less cost.

«Individuals define themselves in a significant way through their intimate sexual relationships with others,» and «much of the richness of a relationship will come from the freedom an individual has to choose the form and nature of these intensely personal bonds.»

For me, it all started becoming much more loving and I began to find much more freedom and balance when I threw out the «being good» and the «being bads» from my life.

[5.8] There are several other well recognised criteria which are much more indicative of whether there is market power, particularly the existence of substantial entry barriers, and relative freedom from constraints imposed on a firm by its competitors and customers.

But they were much more cautious from the start on Wednesday, retreating and allowing the freedom of a spacious Wembley pitch to their hosts.