Sentences with phrase «near the end of their lives lived»

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The islands» only inhabitants live in the small town of Sanikiluaq, near the upper end of the middle island.

Near the end of his life, he declared: «If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to happen to the stock market.»

Near the end of its life, Bear Stearns was leveraged about 36 - to - 1, according to some estimates.

The current tunnel is nearing the end of its service life and does not meet modern seismic standards, which could be catastrophic in the event of a significant earthquake.

Hershey's philanthropy kept going even when the economy struggled and he was nearing the end of his life.

Currently, there is a compassionate care benefit available to people caring for a family member near the end of life, but the new benefit would offer 15 weeks of leave — at 55 per cent salary — when caring for a loved one with any serious illness or injury.

These are issues that will effect your very well being and your relationships with friends and family near the end of your life.

If I had freaked out every time someone has said «The end is near» during the course of my life, I probably would have had to check in to the Rubber Room Suites by now.

While I personally feel that rights of the fetus to live eventually override the mother's right to voluntarily terminate, that point is near the end of pregnancy and I'm still hesitant to tell someone what to do with their own body.

Bernice had left the church in profound humiliation when, as a little girl, one of the more prominent ladies in the congregation insulted her in the local general store, but near the end of her life she had reconnected with the church of her childhood.

Near the end of the sixteenth century, the English Puritan Richard Rogers wrote that studying his diary was necessary «that I may so observe my heart that I may see my life in frame from time to time.»

Jefferson was beyond bankrupt near the end of his life and in debt for the better part of it.

(Bertrand Russell apparently had some form of spiritual experience near the end of his life, but felt it was too late to change his mind about religion.)

Yes, near the end, in the last month of her life, I said all the things I wished I had said all along.

The majority of health spending occurs near the end of life.

We are living at a time near the end of the world.

You should be spending most of your efforts converting those nearing the ends of their lives.

This cartoon reminisces Jesus on the brow of the hill near the end of his life weeping over Jerusalem (Matthew 23:37).

Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be a part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more conformed to the life of the world to come.

Near the end of Jesus» life, he did for them what only the lowest servant in a house would do, and only then because they were ordered to.

Bonhoeffer was not an atheist, but near the end of his life he rethought the nature of Christian belief.

Grünewald was an early Reformation painter from the Rhineland who may possibly have embraced the message of Luther near the end of his life.

Scott Appleby, a history professor who studies the roots of religious violence at Notre Dame, said that when Jesus was surrounded by guards near the end of his life, one of his disciples picked up a sword.

Gilbert Meilander's Meditations on Christ's Words from the Cross relates the death of his grandfather and his father as they lay ««laboring» just to draw a breath near the end of life»:

Near the end of his life, Bonhoeffer taught that God is not God at the price of emptying me of my humanity; humanity does not consist in letting oneself be sucked dry by a divine vampire!

Among Lewis's most powerful writings are three that came very near the end of his life — Till We Have Faces, The Four Loves and A Grief Observed (each influenced in important ways by his having come to know and eventually to marry Joy David - man Gresham).

If Dunne is reckoning correctly, the age when people take death seriously as a personal reality, a point that today occurs before midlife, was near the end of the average life span for people in the ancient world.

Near the end of his life, Ted Kennedy came to believe that healthcare workers should be shielded from involvement in practices contrary to the Catholic faith.

It was a tragic but in the end richly productive life of a great genius who near the end of his life came fairly close to what I consider the central religious truths.

The great cultures of the ancient world lay at the two ends, Babylonia near where the sweep of the Zagros Mountains terminates its length of eastern bulwark and barrier to the Semitic world, and Egypt nestling among her brooding deserts at the northeast corner of Africa in the perennial delight of her sunny clime and her life - giving river.

This is known as the «farewell pilgrimage,» during which the Prophet received the divine message that his mission was fulfilled and foresaw that the end of his life was near.

Writing near the end of his life, he wrote that «the old argument from design in....

Some of you may have heard of the response from a famous literary figure who, upon the acceptance of a prestigious award near the end of his life, was asked to make a brief statement.

Do we think that only matter is the near end of him and that all the God there is is simply physical, or do we think that in spiritual life at its best we have touched the near end of Deity, and that when we start with that and think out through that as far as we can go, we are thinking most truly about him?

As we near the end of Advent, and reflect upon what it means for our own lives, Fr.

How you will feel about the present way of investing your minutes, hours, and days, when you stand near the end of life looking back at your marriage and family.

Near the end of his life Frei reflected that his personal stake in Lindbeck's argument was very deep, and he exhorted Lindbeck not to back down from his truth claims about the truth status of Christian language.

Near the end of his life, Orwell expressed the view that....

Amazing how dying people change their way of thinking near the end of their life.

My childhood hero, I realized, was nearing the end of his life.

But I am growing old and nearing the end of my life in a situation rapidly approaching disaster.

Second, we move on toward the time when as living persons we will be no more.34 This means that all the beauty we have known will have only the most trivial value for the future.35 It also means that the compensation of novel experiences is nearing its end.

Near the end of her life, she writes a complaint against the gods.

Here too there were not lacking pictures that suggested the nearness of the end: «Near is the jug to the spring, and the ship to the harbor, and the caravan to the city, and life to death» (Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch, 85).

As he nears the end of his life, the Reverend John Ames is writing an account of his life and family for his seven - year - old son.

There are a lot of good reasons to make banana bread: You have a pile of sad bananas in your fruit bowl that are near the end of their life expectancy; You like things that are undeniably delicious and go very well together with peanut butter, Nutella or condensed milk; It's cold outside and you need something [Continue Reading...]

Near where I live is a market where fruit / veg are sold in # 1 bowls, and I get so carried away and end up with lots of bowls and then way too much produce for just two people (especially as Mr B is not a big fruit eater).

it's not going live until near the end of the year, but what this means is I need to take a slight step back from posting twice a week to really throw myself into everything that needs to happen before it's ready.

Buffalo Bills cornerback Nickell Robey said the pass interference call near the end of Sunday's game against the Jacksonville Jaguars was the «worst call I've ever been a part of in my life.»

Near the end of February, as he lived in seclusion at Heisser's house, Thompson got a call from an angry Kohnke: «Get down to my office as soon as you can!»