Sentences with phrase «necessary evils which»

Many ministers see such activities as burdensome necessary evils which must be tolerated.

Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.

He carries the existential truth of a necessary evil which each person recapitulates in his separation from a fused identity with his parents and from his belongingness to his heritage.

I live in a semi-rural area and find driving to me a necessary evil which is greatly alleviated by the adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist, automatic headlights, and pedestrian detection.

Writing a knockout resume is never easy but if you want that dream job, it is a necessary evil which needs to be done correctly and can make all the difference to getting it.

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In the visual, Engineering and Manufacturing form the upper triangle, which Jack views as a «necessary evil» in business.

The fees are a «necessary evil,» she added, needed to «properly divide retirement assets, to properly assign the taxation of the benefits, and to avoid paying an early withdrawal penalty from a 401 (k) plan, which is incurred unless a QDRO is entered.»

For some websites, a time - consuming manual link building campaign is a necessary evil as the industry within which the site operates is very competitive from an SEO standpoint.

I understand that a post-secondary education can be very expensive (I worked two jobs and had many different entrepreneurial ventures and I still graduated with over $ 20,000 in student loan debt which is now all paid off by the way) and taking on debt is a necessary evil for some.

The major Christian tradition has not been pacifism, in the sense of refusal to share in any war, but it has been a testimony for peace in the sense that war is seen as a necessary evil at best and never something in which to glory.

Thus the traditional conception of deity, which we have received from our past, puts its main stress on divine absoluteness or aseity; on divine causative agency as the explanation of everything that occurs whether by direct divine willing or by indirect divine permission with respect to evil done in the world; on divine self - containedness and hence lack of necessary relationship with anything else; on divine impassability, which makes any suffering impossible for God; and on divine moral perfection, with the giving of laws in accordance with which everything should be ordered.

By contrast, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) which represents approximately 22.5 per cent of all South Africans, and the Roman Catholic Church, which claims 9.5 per cent of the population, have recently endorsed the use of violence as a «necessary evil» to «free» black South Africans.

Philanthropy which merely patches up the worst results of evil social conditions can hardly be called anything more than a necessary evil.

It is a long way from such an ideal of political activity to the actualities in which it is carried on; but it is essential to our human attempt to live together to see that the «game of politics» is not merely a necessary evil but that it has at its best a link with legitimate good.

But the evil is in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.14

Furthermore, those approaches, sometimes found in Catholicism, which tend to depict God's coming as Man and his agonised death on the Cross as more than was strictly necessary or as under the primary control of evil are insufficient for meeting the modern challenge of allowing God to be God.

Schulweis could write that Whitehead finds occasions which are intrinsically evil to be necessary and justified for the attainment of higher perfections, but he should hasten to add that such occasions must be referred to as «good» in light of the whole.

The proper definition of apparent evil, however, is prima facie evil which when judged from an ultimate frame of reference is that in the place of which no other realistically possible occurrence could be better.2 «Apparent» evil is not only a means to perfection, but also a morally necessary and justified means.

The report on this subject frankly acknowledged that «the missionary enterprise, coming as it does out of an economic order dominated almost entirely by the profit motive,» has not been «so sensitive to those aspects of the Christian message as would have been necessary sensibly to mitigate the evils which advancing industrialization has brought in its train,» and then proceeded to scrutinize mercilessly the exploitation of backward peoples as the result of the economic penetration of Africa and Asia by the West.

in the case of our club the powers that be sees us as a necessary evil... believe me if they could figure out a way to take our money without ever having to deal with us they would... instead they simply gauge our concerns then manufacture an aggressive PR campaign addressing said concerns so as to sell season tickets and the like... so whether it's about Sanchez staying, transfer budgets, lengthy player injuries, club expectations etc... this team has treated us like a petulant teenager that should be seen and not heard, which is a completely disrespectful way to treat incredibly loyal fans who pay some of the highest ticket prices in the world... this is why this team doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, this is why they don't get a pass when they screw up and this is why they don't deserve our respect when it comes time to show them the door... that time is NOW

Cuomo insisted his actions don't undercut his words, saying that unless politicians are «independently wealthy or their fathers are independently wealthy (ahem, Eliot Spitzer),» then fundraising from those over which one has / is seeking to have power over is a necessary evil.

I should've paid more attention or just realized it was you based on the evil dead love, which is also a flick I love to death and have seen probably more times than necessary.

Frontera doesn't condemn border enforcement, and even suggests that it's a necessary evil, even spotlighting a scene in which an American and a Mexican collaborate to maintain a barbed - wire fence to mark the border, even if it is futile.

«Part 1» may technically be the worst installment in the series, but at least that movie felt like a necessary evil in order to deliver a satisfying payoff in «Part 2,» which is why the latter is a much bigger disappointment.

Advertising sucks in general, but we recognize it as a necessary evil in a lot of situations — not the least of which being a means to raise the funds required to keep the Internet going (or at least the content contained «within it»).

Each chapter is easy to follow (except the one with all the numbers and statistics which my brain refused to process, even though I know it's a necessary evil).

I think there are occasional situations in which loans are a necessary evil.

Live rock is a necessary evil that is invariably loaded with bad things, the least of which are Aiptasia anemones and bristle worms.

That's not to say that there isn't a noticeable grind, though, which I personally feel dilutes the elements of the Elder Scrolls series that have been brought successfully over to this new model; I understand that it's a necessary evil as certain mechanics and the like much be changed in order to accommodate the addition of the MMORPG components of the game but these new features often felt like an intrusion upon the established formula rather than complementing it.

If you decide to link to an existing account, the PSTV won't necessarily download (or even remember) which games you've bought and installed on a different system, but having one is a necessary evil if you want to download anything on the PlayStation Store.

Ask any person who has ever been associated with a start - up, and a whole new side to the story comes to the surface, consisting of a lot of necessary evils that no start - up venture could ever avoid — which includes taxation.

If you decide to link to an existing account, the PSTV won't necessarily download (or even remember) which games you've bought and installed on a different system, but having one is a necessary evil if you want to download anything on the PlayStation Store.

The only thing I would say is, as a licensed agent, generally your broker should still be getting their split even on your wholesale deals, which could be a downside or a necessary «evil».