Sentences with phrase «of keeping him silent»

Babatope, a former minister of transportation, accused Buhari of keeping silent on the allegations of corruption against members of his political party.
I have decided to reenter the dating game after 15 years of keeping silent and to myself with family.
Authorities often make use of this fallacy if they deny alternatives instead of keeping silent if there is no own knowledge about the unknown.

Not exact matches

Forced arbitration deprives employees of their constitutional rights, and it forces employees who have been treated unlawfully to keep silent about what they have experienced.
«Women have little recourse but to keep silent out of fears of job loss or impairing their careers,» she says.
But the crime also raises questions about why the companies have so far kept silent and whether — as a former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission observes — it triggers an obligation to tell investors about what happened.
Keeping on subsidizing southern Ontario businesses and wading into the venture capital game do not exactly square with Flaherty's small - c conservative description of government's proper economic role as «benign and silent.
She is one of at least two women who claimed to have had affairs with Mr. Trump but who were kept silent through legal agreements.
Trump's denial was the first time he's made a public statement about the money given to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to keep her silent about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.
Over the past two months, she has guided the story of her alleged relationship with President Trump — and the $ 130,000 she was paid to keep silent — into a full - fledged scandal.
If they reject the offer, they could be seen as effectively acknowledging the existence of a continuing effort to keep Ms. Clifford silent about an affair that Mr. Cohen and the president say did not happen.
A billionaire (or near - billionaire, depending on whom you ask) using expensive lawyers to try to extract tens of millions of dollars from a working mother, out of anger that she refused to keep silent — that is bullying.
Cohen said federal investigators seized various electronic devices and documents, which he says include information pertaining to a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to Daniels to keep her silent about accusations of an affair with Donald Trump.
The president did not mention his abrupt firing earlier this week of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet, the personnel turmoil engulfing his administration, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign or reports of his alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels — and his lawyer paying her to keep silent about the relationship.
He was talking about the story of Stormy Daniels, legal name Stephanie Clifford, the porn actress who was paid $ 130,000 to keep silent about a sexual encounter she says she had with Donald Trump in 2006.
While former first lady Hillary Clinton, who defended her husband Bill Clinton when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke out, the wife of the current Oval Office occupant has remained silent and at times kept a distance from the president.
You know on second thought, I think Jews should keep their women silent more often... For the sake of mankind.
All of this information is not without a certain interest, but even someone like myself, unusually interested in the man, closes this book reflecting on Gadamer's epigraph to his own academic memoir of 1977, Philosophical Apprenticeships: «De nobis ipsis silemus»» about oneself one must keep silent.
The law and most people's understanding of their rights and yours are clear: People can go on all day expressing their religious beliefs if they want and you are free to express whatever you have on your mind, keep silent, or leave.
Believe it or not, a true Muslim (the one who surrenders to the Will of his Creator) would rather die but not to keep silent about the disrespect of God's Words which take place at a country that had enough of disrespect to human life for more than a decade of aggression and atrocities.
In fact, I have tried to keep silent on certain issues over the years, but the problem, or maybe I should say the benefit, of teaching through books of the Bible the way I do, is that I can not avoid certain issues for long.
For once, in the spirit of Habakkuk, let all the earth keep silent and let us stop yammering about what God does or does not intend, except the salvation of the world.
I'm thinking of the basic Calvinism that says God loves his children, but not all are his children... and the intrinsic misogyny of keeping women silent, disqualified from teaching and leadership.
That's what you call a code of ETHICS??? So your employer does something terrible and you have to keep quiet about it even if it's in the public interest to know, and you consider it ethical to stay silent?
The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.
Malraux had an answer for them: «If you really believe that the welfare of humanity depends on the guerrillas you will go to Bolivia to help them fight; otherwise, you had best keep silent on this subject.»
The religious leaders — who of all people should have known because they prided themselves in their knowledge of the Scriptures — told Jesus to tell the multitudes to keep silent.
I'm more bothered by the idea of people being forced to keep silent.
But if you read my original comment, it is solely about church pastors and church members KEEPING SILENT in the FACE OF ABUSE.
By the same token the experience of God is the paradox of paradoxes — one finds it absolutely necessary to keep silent while experiencing an absolute necessity to speak.»
If you can't talk at all unless you are too sure to be sensible, then by all means keep silent, to the benefit of everybody.
But he was also a man of integrity, and as his eyes were gradually opened to what was going on around him — particularly the exploitation and repression of the poor at the hands of the oligarchy, the government and the military — he could no longer keep silent.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
But Thomas Jefferson did not know the meaning of 911, video cameras, dead bolt locks, home and car security systems, tasers, pepper sprays, silent alarms, and gps, We don't need assault weapons to keep us safe.
While church leaders kept silent on the State Department's charge of discrimination, some populist Christian groups scrawled slogans calling for justice and rights for Christians on the walls of central Karachi and Lahore.
you know... a list of rules about what not to talk about around Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, a set of behaviors to not do when in the presence of Pastor Jim, a personal interest to keep hidden from Elder Bob, and my political leanings to stay silent about around Miss Morrell.
And Augustine in his notable book, Concerning the Trinity, said that we speak of three «personae,» not because it should be said, «diceretur,» but in order not to keep silent, «taceretur.»
Keep silent and listen... the women of India and of the world are reclaiming their right to do just this, out of their deep commitment to preserve life.
For by keeping silent one is relegated solely to oneself, no actuality comes to a man's aid by punishing him, by bringing down upon him the consequences of his speech.
But I simply kept waiting for more; opening myself in a kind of silent expectation.
In some situations God's Word may be that women should keep silent in the public services of worship (1 Cor.
Both Matthew and Luke therefore reject the implication in the present arrangement of the Marcan story that the women disobeyed the command of the unknown messenger in keeping silent about the message they were instructed to tell the disciples and Peter.
watch the big mouths keep silent, overwhelmed by the power of his words.
Therefore, although Mu`awiya had taken over the government and called himself Caliph and kept the people silent through fear of punishment, he still had to consider Imam Husain.
8:2) It is inherent in the nature of the Christian faith that its adherents not keep silent.
Hearing and seeing, speaking and keeping silent, building and tearing down — the rhythms of faith seeking understanding.
5:22 - 23), and the injunction to women to keep silent in the churches, though it may have had some legitimacy under the conditions of the time, could hardly have been given in such unqualified form if the attitudes of Jesus had been more clearly grasped.
In his opening address to the World Conference on Church and Society, Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said, «We do not speak because we want to have a say in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent».
Silence is the snare of the demon, and the more one keeps silent, the more terrifying the demon becomes; but silence is also the mutual understanding between the Deity and the individual.
So I require of him this magnanimity; but when be possesses it, dare he then keep silent?
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