Sentences with phrase «of debased»

So, when governments and central banks debase their currencies, as in the»70s, the 2000s, and create conditions where real interest rates are negative, gold flies in terms of the debased currencies, and then crashes back down if you get a Paul Volcker - type, and policy normalizes after a lot of pain, which this generation seems unwilling to take.

An icon of a debased order, who nevertheless loves to play the holy pope, his portraiture is a bit unsparing — yet not unfair!

Hittite (but not Babylonian) law also decrees death for this kind of debased sex act; but in the present context of Israel's torah the law is cast in the same theological perspective as the prohibitions immediately preceding and following.

But while, for example, Hittite (not Babylonian) law also places this kind of debased sex act under sentence of death (vs. 19), in the context of Israelite apodictic law the prohibition must be understood as being rooted in the same essential theological perspective as the immediately preceding and following prohibitions against sorcery and idolatrous sacrifice.

This «othering» takes various facets, including the «othering» through difference, difference in terms of local and external culture, difference in terms of acceptable and unacceptable food and drink, and difference in terms of debased sexual attitudes.

Family standards are continually subject to erosion from the inflow of debased materials from the mass media — as in the brutality and immorality of many of the so - called «comic» books, the triviality, sensationalism, and distortion of most journalism, and the preoccupation with crime and violence in many television programs.

It held that the words used by Carlin were offensive «for the same reasons that obscenity offends,» noting the FCC's finding that ««[o] bnoxious, gutter language describing [sexual and excretory bodily functions] has the effect of debasing and brutalizing human beings.»

Bachofen believed matriarchy was a conscious achievement by women after a long struggle to end conditions of debasing promiscuity and to achieve a higher, purer life.

The President - General of the Agbekoya Farmers Association in Nigeria, Chief Aremu Okikiola, also called on the Oba of Lagos, to respect the Yoruba traditional hierarchy instead of debasing it.

These creative means of debasing the currency might do it.

Ekblad abandons literal meaning for the pleasure of debasing legibility.

Most of this debasing of scientific findings is done in the political sphere (which includes the IPCC committee structure).

Great article and outlook Michel... the rest of us brokers should thank you for a lame article that puts the profession back 20 - 30 years;) At least you got your name out + 15 min of fame for the small price of debasing what we do... good on ya!

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It created debt that was based on fraud, leverage, and other non-productive uses of capital: it debased the value of money.

He says the language of Silicon Valley has tended to debase what it really means to «change the world».

Regardless of whether it is implemented via an emperor surreptitiously reducing the precious - metal content of the coinage or by the banking system (the central bank and the commercial banks) creating new currency deposits out of nothing, monetary inflation is a method of forcibly transferring wealth from the rest of the economy to the first users of the new or debased money.

However, if print money endlessly, you debase the value of your own currency by creating a never - ending increase in supply, thereby driving the price down.

We have Russia, we have China and we have Brazil, we have India, we have countries that are outside of the formal developed countries with their currencies where they are debasing it, that is the developed countries.

Central bankers around the world are debasing fiat currencies with rounds of quantitative easing, resulting in trillions of government bonds being purchased and swapped.

It's also still running its nationwide search for a second headquarters that has mostly entailed seeing which city governments are willing to debase themselves the most in the form of jaw - dropping sweetheart tax deals.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

(129) And who turns away from the religion of Abraham but such as debase their souls with folly?

I am your mastered armature of worded bliss which will ever be your flogging nature wantonly debasing in the orientations of that which you can not find being helpful within such issues of and towards high minded accolades meant as a distillation seminary to those with a meager eyeful of knowledge.

In the West, our modern consumer society has now debased this concept to be the equality to buy and consume, to trade and to travel, to build up a life of toys and trinkets.

Admittedly, it is frustratingly difficult to define anti-Semitism, and the very term has been recklessly debased by its facile use in order to silence critics (see the reference above to Freedman of Dartmouth).

«I bless you, matter, and you I acclaim: not as the pontiffs of science or the moralizing preachers depict you, debased, disfigured — a mass of brute forces and base appetites — but as you reveal yourself to mc today, in your totality and your true nature.

But to expect quick results from prayer, and to stand watching for them as one might check on the prompt delivery of merchandise, is to debase the process.

However debased Hawking's understanding of basic philosophy, it has been encouraged by the lack of real engagement with modern science by Catholic theologians.

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

As a thinker Holmes was a great destroyer in the mold of Hume or Nietzsche, a tradition that continued in debased form in the century of Russell, Foucault, and Derrida.

Religion is debased when clergy accept the role of chaplain - cheerleader for competing political teams.

The early Church heresy of Gnosticism tried to escape the reality of Jesus» incarnate form, because the heretics felt that earthly matter was too debased for God to touch.

To be sure, the possibility may not be realized; individuals may compromise the achievement they might otherwise contribute or debase the human order of which they are the beneficiaries.

Atheists overwhelmingly vote for political parties that represent big government, social engineering, redistribution of wealth, abortion, and an overall debasing of religion, generally.

But the name calling and debasing of others for what they believe is ridiculous.

But our language is being debased in the most profound sense when it loses the ability to discern and describe the lineaments of our moral lives.

Too many of them have neglected that duty and debased that dignity.

It argues that schooling, medicine and even baseball are debased when they are understood in terms of profit - making.

Absolutely, it's hard not to name call and debase, you've just experienced yourself, we're only human and emotion trumps reason if we're not aware of it.

Perhaps this was due in part to the debased meaning of apology as excuse rather than its proper sense of confident explanation.

In such cases, the only culturally available icon of absolute evil — a precious thing for any culture to possess — is dangerously debased.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

He places rap squarely at the center of a hip - hop culture that reinforces patterns of ignorance and misogyny, and links it to larger cultural forces that debase the popular images of African - American men.

If in their desire to «ease» the situation of our generation they debase the doctrine of marriage, our children and grandchildren, and all the coming generation will pay a woeful price.

Paul went on to remind the Galatians that the gospel is not of human origin, and that its message should not be distorted or debased by the imposition of controversial human opinions.

God's way of punishing is simply to give them up to their lusts, passions, and debased minds (1:24,26,28).

The need for a new synthesis is not an academic issue, the future of the Church in the West depends on it, our debased secular culture is crying out for it.

A debased notion of conscience — a barely concealed enthusiasm for autonomy disguised as an appeal to the primacy of conscience — weakens our sense of obligation, damages our purity of heart, and makes it harder to see God.

These qualities and conditions, which constitute the materials and contexts with which and in which the exemplifications of relational power must fulfill their ambiguous destinies, run the gamut from triumphant breakthroughs to crippling regressions, from life - restoring laughter to life - denying despair, from the beauty of the gracious heart to the debasing cruelty of the small mind and smaller soul.

Soon thereafter comes the original, debasing idolatry, described in the enigmatic report in Genesis 6 of the union of sons of God with the daughters of men.