Sentences with phrase «of extreme»

In situations of extreme oppression, prophecy's obvious role is to kindle the most unrealistic hopes.

An idle, aging king in the heady, evening air of a Jerusalem springtime; the beautiful Bathsheba and her incorruptible husband Uriah; the king's prompt, efficient, confident steps to cover the results of his lustful intoxication; Uriah's integrity as soldier and his unwitting and ultimately fatal frustration of David's self - protective scheme merely by the virtue of his extreme loyalty to his compatriots still in the field; David's unhesitating but premeditated resort to murder; the complicity of Joab, always intensely, blindly loyal to David; and continuing this picture of the king's total moral collapse in steps of progressive deterioration, David's calloused words of reassurance to Joab, «Do not let this matter trouble you...»; and at last the consummation of the whole sorry episode when Bathsheba is added to David's harem and another son added to his progeny.

We have never seen this kind of extreme persecution since the end of the Cultural Revolution.»

Same with the truth in the middle of extreme hardship.

The ringleader of the Catholic doctrine posse, in Sullivan's view, is Denver's Archbishop Charles Chaput, one of «a handful of the most extreme bishops» who had «targeted Kerry in 2004 but [had] become marginalized in the bishops» conference ¯ losing key leadership elections — in part because of his extreme views about denying Communion to politicians.»

The perspective of the extreme left (And I know many on the extreme left) is if you mention Jesus» Name you are a religious fundamentalist attempting to enforce your beliefs.

What is of extreme importance, on the other hand, is that we should know what course to steer, and how we must spiritually conduct ourselves if we are to ensure that the totalitarian embrace which enfolds us will have the effect, not of de-humanizing us through mechanization, but (as seems possible) of super-humanizing us by the intensification of our powers of understanding and love.

Hereâ $ ™ s a man who suffered at the hands of extreme violence.

They occur when a person is in a state of extreme sensory deprivation.

At present the local economies play a very minor role, but because in many places they are the only solution to the misery of extreme poverty, they will not go away.

Three years later in an interview to an Italian journal, Pope John Paul II said, «The proponents of extreme capitalism in any form tend to overlook the good things achieved by communism, the struggle against unemployment and the concern for the poor».

Meanwhile the glacial wisdom of our common sense has reasserted itself, having freed itself of an extreme, obstreperous, largely academic faction by shedding it into the sea.

Drawing on personal experience, I'd bet they fear that if they speak up at all, they'll be painted into the corner of an extreme view by others, just like Brene Brown experienced.

The exact nature of a theology of abandonment on the cross could do with clarification, in view of the extreme formulations of some contemporary theologies (which introduce distance and division into the Trinity), and bearing in mind that the cry of abandonment is a quotation from Psalm 21, a psalm of trust in God.

In reality, however, this is the spiritual question of our age, since it is the age of extreme visualization; but the issue no longer necessarily concerns statues!

[11] Cf the first 21 verses of Ps 22, with expressions of extreme suffering alternating with expressions of faith - trust in God.

The other Jihad has always been inferior to this and only allowed in periods of extreme persecution and then again only in defense (I know this is not the view propagated by political Islamists but it is true).

Is not unity in our day a matter of extreme importance?

I find that so many people go to extremes after events like holidays and commit themselves to restrictive diets or resolve to follow some type of extreme diet plan.

It takes a special kind of insanity for this kind of extreme and senseless violence.

what baloney... Islam is one of extreme intolerance and utter hatred.

The meaning of «Cananaean» is probably «Zealot» — a member of an extreme nationalist group of Pharisees which hoped to drive the Romans from the country by force.

However, it is clear that atheism is not a view of humility, like you claim, but a view of extreme arrogance.

The so - called paleoconservatives» an odd amalgam of extreme libertarians, isolationists, anti-Vatican II Catholics, and unreconstructed defenders of the Southern Confederacy» find their reason for being in endless denunciations of the neoconservatives, and of the National Review traditionalists for having sold out to them.

Though Chauncy admitted that some good came from the Awakening, he argued, on the basis of the extreme cases, that the evil far outweighed the good.

And all this arrogance in a package of extreme immaturity (coupled with your profound ignorance) is quite comical.

It is for this reason that I conceive the study of the New Testament, from the standpoint I have indicated, to be of extreme importance just now.

The force of extreme despair results in a new pondering of dogmatic conceptions which will either result in the sapping of the last will to live or the renewal of the soul.

We're talking formal wear here, not the kind of outrageous display of extreme couture exemplified by Jennifer Lopez at the Academy Awards.

They have been subjected to an unparalleled history of extreme coercion and violence which did not end with emancipation but has taken ever new forms to the present day.

Experiences of grief — or even experiences of extreme joy or ecstasy — shatter the willing suspension of our doubts and raise questions about the deeper meanings of life.

The original is in French, and though the subject was evidently in a bad nervous condition at the time of which he writes, his case has otherwise the merit of extreme simplicity.

God did this because of the extreme wickedness of mankind.

I believe the world to be a place of extreme danger and violence and the fact is man is NOT good.

«Francis» decision to hold a photo - op at the security barrier,» she writes, «was an act of extreme hostility against Israel and the Jewish people.»

Moreover, men may find it easier than women to travel in regions of extreme environmental despoliation.

It's poor leaders, and all of its extreme followers have tainted what it should be used for.

But it seems that you err on the other side of that extreme.

Your implication that all religious believers are morally bankrupt is a bit of an extreme position, and one which perpetuates simplistic stereotypes at exactly the time when we need to think more critically and deeply about religion in this culture.

At RedeemingGod.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us.

If we are to be accused of extremism, then let's make sure that it is the kind of extreme and courageous love that Jesus showed.

Awareness of this point, and of the extreme suffering that accompanies such compulsions, should make us sympathetic toward Christian weight - watching.

The purpose of community, the purpose of our government, the purpose of our leaders should be to call us to pursue common values and common good, not simply in the moment of extreme crisis but every day in our lives, starting right now, today.»

... Calling upon the state to protect our sacrament is an act of extreme unfaithfulness.

In the first issues of «Libération», in those times an openly extreme leftist newspaper, Planned Parenthood appears in all the campaigns of the extreme left.

We are living in an age of extreme advocacy, of confrontation, of judgment and verdict.

It is important to know that in developing nations, where many women are living on less than $ 1 or $ 2 per day, the systemic challenges of extreme poverty create obstacles for good health, especially among women and children.

This drains off some of the extreme pressure of hurt and anger, which otherwise would block couple counseling.

In 2 Corinthians 8, we are told of the churches of Macedonia, and of their pleading with Paul to give beyond their means in the face of extreme poverty to assist the believers in Jerusalem.

School phobia, the child's refusing to go to school, is an example of extreme fear which interferes with functioning; parents should seek help at once.