Sentences with phrase «of civil life»

In 1872, after the Illinois Bar denied admission to Myra Bradwell, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the action in a decision best remembered for the concurrence of Justice Joseph P. Bradley, who notoriously wrote that» [t] he natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for the many occupations of civil life.»

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

It is this which the contented churchmanship of the eighteenth century seemed to fail to realize — one thinks of such amusing illustrations as Adam Smith's discussion of the ministry in England and Scotland on the basis of its economic status 3 or the even more startling defense of diversity of orders in the Church by Archdeacon Paley on the ground that it «may be considered as the stationing of ministers of religion in the various ranks of civil life.»

But since the founding of the Republic, that sphere of civil life which Edmund Burke called «the fourth estate» has been considered an essential part of the American democratic process.

If the Church is deeply engaged in the civil rights movement, if it is struggling against right - wing misrepresentation of Christianity and of civil life, if it finds itself in a new phase of the Church - State relationship, if it is deeply involved in urbanization and in the passing of previous forms that once marked the so - called Christian epoch, then all these factors must have a profound impact upon theological education and the preparation of men for the ministry.

By the same token, conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for development.

Not exact matches

Of course, in business, your big picture is not going to be something as life - changing as the civil rights movement.

China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

Why aren't there more signs of destruction if Iron Dome isn't working, and it's just civil defense that's saving lives?

MEET THE CHINESE SENIOR CITIZEN WHO PUT HIMSELF UP FOR ADOPTION «Han Zicheng survived the Japanese invasion, the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution, but he knew he could not endure the sorrow of living alone.»

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

All students in the Master of Civil Engineering program will enjoy learning opportunities that allow for direct interaction with remarkable faculty members who have made engineering their life's work.

According to the Commerce Department, Monday's action stems from ZTE's failure to live up to terms of a March 2017 civil and criminal settlement with U.S. regulators.

Han Zicheng survived the Japanese invasion, the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution, but he knew he could not endure the sorrow of living...

Sen. Kamala Harris (D - CA) said on Monday that the gun - control March for Our Lives rallies reminded her of the 1960s civil rights movement.

a neo-classical version created by Abraham Lincoln, who in the Civil War «re-baptized the United States a teleocracy, a nation governed by its pursuit of an abstract idea, a nation with a purpose - driven life»;

When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

a universalistic millennial civil religion, the meddlesome vision of democracy, peace, and human rights that we live under today, «the first global civil religion.»

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

Several weeks back there was a bit of a dust - up in conservative Reformed Protestant circles over the following simple question: Does being a man or a woman have any ethical significance for the way we live together in civil society?

Hall admitted the windows had been installed by his predecessor as cathedral dean, Francis Sayre, «one of the great activist civil rights clergy of the 1950s and 1960s... [Sayer] could live in that tension, but I can not, and I believe this cathedral can not.

A former Archbishop of Canterbury has called for urgent action to end the civil war in South Sudan which has already claimed more than 300 lives this month.

After the devastating losses of the Civil War, people were searching for comfort and found it in a book called «The Gates Ajar,» which depicted Heaven as a place where people led normal lives in their «spiritual bodies,» with houses, families, and regular activities.

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

I thought civil rights was about ethnic equality, and respecting individual life regardless of skin or nationality.

a) Divide the Mosaic law into 3 components: Moral, Civil, and Ceremonial The Civil Laws are gone because we are not Israelites living in Israel in that time period The Ceremonial Laws are gone because we have the Lamb slain once for all time (Jesus) As a part of this, the dietary laws are gone — see Acts 11 The Moral Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the New Testament church today, except the Sabbath Law, the 4th Commandment.

Röpke locates wealth creation «not in «capital,» machine models, technical or organizational recipes or natural wealth, but in a spirit of order, foresight, combination, calculation, enterprise, human leadership and the freedom to shape life and things, also in citizenship, responsibility, loyalty to work, reliability, thrift and the urge to create, and in a civil middle class, providing the humus for all this» things, in short, which can neither be conjured up from the soil, nor imported.»

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

Matthew McConaughey stars in this historical epic that tells the story of a real - life farmer who helped lead his own rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was so in the culture, we could have a conversation about this, a substantive, civil, sober conversation on the meaning of life and the nature of reality.

It is for these reasons that civilised states, in recognising the foundational place of the family, have made the public, life - long commitment of marriage as a civil institution.

So, why is this piece of op - ed higher up on the home page than the new Egyptian president urging unity in a country on the verge of civil war, and the story of the brave park ranger who gave his life for another on Mount Rainier?

We will endeavor to live lives of integrity and to model the virtues that are necessary to perpetuate a democratic and civil society.

It is also characterized by a lack of participation in decision - making and in civil, social and cultural life.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

You would think that someone who had any rationality to them at all would be focusing on real issues, such as stripping away of our civil liberties, or the ongoing wars that actually cost this country billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, or the trillions of dollars in our deficit.

The war between right and wrong, good and evil, the old self and new self in Christ rages on, and so to look for instructions and fulfillment on how to live better lives is like looking to a country in the midst of civil war for instructions on how to set up a functioning government.

Fathers who leave families to make civil rights marches, politicians who sacrifice family life to the exigencies of political campaigns, wives who have to decide between a significant life in a public vocation and the demands of housekeeping, all should know the impossibility of any clear solution of this ethical problem.

V of Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral) says also that «man doth not live by bread only.»

It was in Western Europe, where it faced a much weaker paganism, was associated with the prestige of Roman civilization, and, while often favored by civil rulers, did not have to confront a continuously powerful state which controlled all phases of life, that the influence of Jesus was most marked.

Prior to the start of the civil war, about 18,000 people lived in Qaryatain, about 2,000 of them Syriac Catholics and Orthodox Christians, reportsThe Telegraph.

Join First Things editor R. R. Reno, veteran civil rights activist John M. Perkins, Professor Robert P. George of Princeton University, and others at the Union League Club in New York City to honor the life of Plough author Johann Christoph Arnold, who died earlier this year.

The job of civil authority is to protect that religious liberty — to protect the right of every American to worship as they see fit, and to live out the teachings of their faith and never be compelled to violate the teachings of their faith.

The meaning of every key term in the civil religion — certainly liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but also equality and even life — differs in those two perspectives.18

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

The issue of protecting the basic rights of persons from hostile or indifferent state governments was constitutionally resolved almost one hundred and fifty years ago in the Fourteenth Amendment, purchased with the blood of hundreds of thousands of American lives in the awful crucible of the Civil War.

The Roman Catechism, issued in 1566, three years after the end of the Council of Trent, taught that the power of life and death had been entrusted by God to civil authorities and that the use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to the fifth commandment.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.