Sentences with phrase «of generations of men»

They and the machine guns had been the teeth of a meat - grinder that had consumed much of a generation of men from West, East and around the world.

«Ghosts,» she says, explaining that the island evokes — or rather is haunted by — the spirits of a generation of men and women: artists, thinkers, people of color, the affluent, the middle class, the ignored, the displaced, those let down by their government, those who caught the disease too early, those who didn't realize they had caught it at all, those who thought they would never catch it but who did, all of those who were lost to the dark times when she first came to New York City in the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis.

Not exact matches

Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting a man who was the third generation owner of a sausage and ham making business.

But somehow, Seventh Generation managed not only to survive but to thrive, as have the two entrepreneurs — although the beliefs of both men, and their philosophies about entrepreneurship in general and socially responsible businesses in particular, have changed in ways neither would have thought possible.

Tom Hanks solidifies himself as one of the greatest actors of his generation with this look at a man whose life intersects with some of the greatest moments in history while trying to connect with his true love, Jenny.

She says she watched the younger generation of leaders became confused about feminist principles — and men steered clear of joining the movement.

George Zimmer, former CEO, Men's Wearhouse, founder / CEO of Generation Tux & ZTailors: «The night I was fired, I came home for dinner and everybody was very uncomfortable at the dinner table... nobody wanted to talk to Dad who now no longer had a job.

With a fortune of about $ 34 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li has been a fixture as the city's richest man for an entire generation of Hong Kongers and spearheaded an era defined by a handful of swashbuckling Chinese immigrants who built large empires across Asia.

As a second - generation winemaker, Mr Pannell knew there was plenty of talent and a whole world of knowledge among the offspring of the men and women who first pruned vines in Western Australia.

Later in June, a man thought to be a boss in the Tijuana New Generation cartel, a group formed by the CJNG and remnants of the Tijuana cartel, was arrested in Los Cabos.

Because without real, genuine penalties on the line, without generations of men fearing that if they abuse their power, if they treat women like s — t, they'll be out of jobs, shamed, their families devastated — without that actual, electric, dangerous possibility: Nothing.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

David Gerdner, sole proprietor of tiny Next Generation Software Inc., avoided mailings like a man mortally allergic to stamps.

For a generation of business - hungry black men in their twenties and thirties, there is another question to answer — and that's whether it's too late.

Some say this generation of working men could help solve the work - life problems that have plagued women for decades.

For centuries, saddles were made by men, for men, and often, in recent generations, with little concern about the well - being of the horse.

This generation of female entrepreneurs, having watched men own the tech space, is intent on keeping the playing field level.

The soft power initiative also has involved a coordinated effort to upgrade the quality of China's diplomatic corps, replacing an older generation of media - shy, stiff bureaucrats with a younger group of Chinese men and women, many of whom are fluent in English and comfortable bantering with local journalists.

Jack Bogle, the founder of mutual fund giant Vanguard, and the man who popularized index funds, is part of an older generation of financiers, including people like Warren Buffett, who believe in long - term, low - cost investing, paying their taxes, and giving away most of their money.

At Space Angels, it is our strongly - held belief that, in our generation, the people who carry the mantle of this «answerable courage» are not only the young men and women who are risking their lives to go into space, but also the entrepreneurs who are putting everything they have on the line to build a future in space for all humanity.

George Zimmer, the founder of Men's Wearhouse, has started a new company called Generation Tux, an e-retailer that is a tux rental service.

The greatest generation of entrepreneurs in Canadian history will retire within the next 10 to 15 years, and these men and women are looking for a way to exit their companies in a way that meets their needs.

While my mother and grandmother were both pianists, that musical gene skipped a generation, therefore I'm here not to perform, rather to share the extraordinary story of a humble man, Al Ueltschi, the founder of Help Me See.

«It will ensure that professional men, women and girls from around B.C. can meet again for a day of inspiration, learning, mentorship and action to support gender equity for current and future generations.»

RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then for the next generation a lot of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people in only 6,000 years were the majority of people will suffer for eternity to do not believe in him, even though he could easily save them...

If God held all Joshua (and generations that followed) to his vows concerning the Gibeonites, even though Joshua was deliberately deceived, how much more will God hold two men to their vows of marriage wherein there is no deliberate deception?

It was not difficult to understand why so many men of his generation chose never to speak of their experiences.

It's all about self control and respecting the dignity of the other person during the most beautiful act a man and woman can engage in, not turning it into the most popular contact sport of our generation.

Wisdom of man is the wisdom passed down through the ages.Added to with each passing generation.

Every «generation» from the beginning of mankind onwards was built a church for God and of the building of God's churches, the body of a solitary man is to be found being the generationed churches of God within each geneerationed Time and will forever so be until the very end of the unpassable Age of sound reasonings.

Heeding the words of Paul — «in Christ there is neither bond nor free, Jew nor Greek, male nor female» — generation upon generation, impeded often by formidable circumstances, succeeded in strengthening in men's minds the significance of the divine order of the world and, within that order, of the individual.

The face of addiction a generation ago was that of the working - class or upper - middle - class man, probably long and intimately known to his neighbors, who stood up at an AA meeting in a church basement and bluntly said, «Hi, I'm X, and I'm an alcoholic.»

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

Truth and honor and the well being of others and the ideal of a better social order for future generations — these are all worth while for a man to lay down his life and for a woman to give up her husband or a mother to give up her son.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

They have been more than willing to sacrifice men from each generation on the alter of war, praising the lord and passing the bloody ammunition for their 2nd amendment guns.

It will become clear how he identified three essential tasks in Eve's very being, or as he wrote, «the dignity and role of woman is... the guarantee of what «feminine» humanly symbolizes: acceptance, care of man, generation of life.»

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God - knowing men of other generations.»

We accept this pattern of human sexuality as a foundation for human society, and we celebrate the healthy relationships of mutual service that embody it» above all, the divinely ordained covenant of marriage between one man and one woman prepared to bear and rear each succeeding generation of children.

The fear of the authority of the sacred writings of the past effectively prevents the honest souls of today from accepting the new light of the gospel, the light which these very God - knowing men of another generation so intensely longed to see.

Men were already living in the «last days»; the end of the ages had come upon their generation.

121:8.14 — While I, with the collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority of the ideas and even some of the effective expressions which I have thus utilized had their origin in the minds of the men of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time of this undertaking.

It is young men and women such as these that encourage me in my conviction that the world is much safer in the hands of the newer generation than it ever was with those of my own older generation or of the generation between me and those former students.

The thinker who was most influential in shaping our anthropology was Reinhold Niebuhr, whose Nature and Destiny of Man informed a whole generation of thinking in the United States.

As R. H. Tawney, a British socialist of an earlier generation, wrote: «It is the condition of economic freedom that men should not be ruled by an authority which they can not control» (The Acquisitive Society).

Luke explicitly identifies the Son of man with Jesus by adding here (v 25), «But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.»

My ruling motive has been to prepare a record which will not only be enlightening to the generation of men now living, but which may also be helpful to all future generations.

Look man, none of it has been proven wrong over the period of any amount of time through any generation of mockers and doubters, including this one.