Sentences with phrase «of life and limb»

This action movie style high speed chasing of vehicles puts innocent persons at risk of life and limb for absolutely no reason.

Every great movement --- anti-slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights --- succeeded finally because passionate people went out in public and articulated and demonstrated that passion, at risk of life and limb, over and over again.

We also honor our military and first responders who continue to make the supreme sacrifice of life and limb for our country.

Not exact matches

Aren't these folks a bit loopy (quite literally, in Davis's case), risking life and limb just for the thrill of it?

For the athletes willing to risk life and limb for the glory of an Olympic medal, apparently you need a super cool helmet.

So I took my life savings — knowing full well that if it didn't work, I had sawed a limb off and I would have to go back to work for somebody else for the rest of my life.

It benefits those who have lost their limbs as a result of domestic and work accidents, and has the potential to improve the lives of service men and women returning from conflict zones.

As a surgical resident, Breanne Everett, MD» 09, MBA» 13, saw an opportunity to help people who suffered from the complications of diabetes and believed that if she created a company, it could save limbs, lives and livelihoods.

One of them is muti — making magical charms by cutting the limbs from living creatures — especially albinos and children.

Is there a better, more productive way to diffuse the wrath of terrorists, a way that won't require the lives of thousands of troops, and the loss of limbs and brain function to hundreds of thousands of others?

But I have to come out of the closet and admit that I've never seen a «miracle», like someone's sight restored, or a limb replaced, or cancer cured, or the lame walk, or someone brought back to life (I'll have to tell you the story some time of a guy who tried to get me to sneak into the back room of a funeral home just before the funeral was about to begin to pry open the coffin and raise the man from the dead.

The event will be attended by thousands of victims from all walks of life - soldiers who lost limbs clearing landmines, mothers whose children were forcibly recruited by the rebels, never to be seen again and farmers driven off their land by right - wing paramilitary groups.

Christians have also taken life and limb all over the planet in large numbers over long periods of time in order to forcibly convert people or enforce certain «morals».

Steve's point, however, regarding Christians having risked, and also lost, life and limb all over the planet in large numbers over long periods of time, in relief efforts, should be acknowledged.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

Nuzzi would not confirm the identity of his sources, but he told CNN that his primary source - whom he referred to as «Maria» in his book - «risked life and limb» if ever found out.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 10 We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them.

G - d gave all of us seven basic laws to follow: To believe in One G - d, not to blaspheme Him, not to murder (which would include aspects of the topic of abortion), not to steal and kidnap, not to eat the limb of a living animal (animal cruelty) and to set up effective courts of justice.

I suspect fear mongering to justify disproportionate retribution and agendas by those who don't have to risk life and limb but profit from war and politicians being puppets of that with measure to deceive the public to keep the public in line with their policy about war.

He wants people to live according to Seven Basic Human Laws: To believe in One G - d, not to blaspheme Him, not to steal and kidnap, not to murder, not to do adultery, etc., not to eat the limb of a living animal (animal cruelty) and to set up effective courts of justice.

But as to your thought that we posters are not praying, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that most all of us have prayed in this topic, and in our lives, hoping for God's guidance.

Woodger (1960) pointed to the importance of the fact that living things have parts which stand in a relation of existential dependence to one another, e.g., limbs, digestive organs, circulatory systems and brains.

The only thing that G - d wants people to do are Seven: To believe in One G - d, not to blaspheme Him, not to steal and kidnap, not to murder, not to do adultery, etc., not to eat the limb of a living animal (animal cruelty) and to set up effective courts of justice.

They are: To believe in One G - d, not to blaspheme Him, not to steal (and kidnap), not to murder, not to do adultery, etc., not to eat the limb of a living animal, and to set up effective courts of justice.

He gave us Seven Laws to follow: To believe in One G - d, not to blaspheme Him, not to steal (and kidnap), not to murder, not to do adultery, etc., not to eat the limb of a living animal (animal cruelty) and to set up effective courts of justice.

What the plucked string and the dragonfly and the kingfisher do as determined by biology, or physics happens with us when Christ lives in us, Christ living the Christ way in us, in the truth of our lives, playing through our limbs and eyes to the Father.

For the next three years (approximately through 1936) we thought we would be able to endure the discrimination, the impoverishment, the threat to life and limb to some of us, as other Jewish generations had endured.

The translator, David Rosenberg, goes out further along the same limb by revealing her age: she was a woman in her early forties, old enough to be experienced in the ways of the world and the whims of a wayward deity, but not too old to have lost her appetite for life.

«This possibility of annulling forever the law of fatigue has been abundantly proven in my own case; for my earlier life bears a record of many, many years of bedridden invalidism, with spine and lower limbs paralyzed.

Well, the truth is, the cow industry is inhumane, (the overcrowded transportation conditions alone lead to to great suffering, severe cruelty and broken limbs), unhealthy (cows are pumped full of hormones, adrenalin from the fear from when they know they will be killed and anti-biotics — because the unhealthy conditions they live in promote infection and disease) and inefficient (cows must be fed 3 times the edible human grain than their bodies produce in meat).

What this really represents, as outlined in a recent issue of the New York Times, amounts to a phony alibi for breaking a vow made to all combat veterans, who've literally put their lives at risk for our nation, that no matter the cost, funds needed to treat their resultant disabilities would be found and allocated, to restore their limbs and lives to reasonable levels of independence.

Under them a culture of silence and fear has been imposed on the Nigerian people and few are ready to risk life, limb and liberty by speaking truth to power or resisting and standing up to tyranny.

Steve Goose, director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch said «Syria is expanding its relentless use of cluster munitions, a banned weapon, and civilians are paying the price with their lives and limbs», «The initial toll is only the beginning because cluster munitions often leave unexploded bomblets that kill and maim long afterward.»

It filled me with a sense of great humility and gratitude for the generation of leaders that came before me, who literally risked life and limb so that future generations would enjoy greater freedom and greater opportunities.

«We can not wait any longer for the gears of federal bureaucracy to slowly churn as pedestrians risk life and limb when crossing this intersection,» Stringer said.

«A lot of the animals that lived around the time had a similar upright or semi-upright hind limb posture, but what's interesting and special about Bunostegos is the forelimb, in that it's anatomy is sprawling - precluding and seemingly directed underneath its body — unlike anything else at the time,» said Turner who performed the analysis under the supervision of Professor Christian Sidor while a student at the University of Washington.

About 100,000 years ago, tall, long - limbed humans lived in the caves of Qafzeh, east of Nazareth, and Skhul, on Israel's Mount Carmel.

Phantom limb pain can be a serious chronic and deteriorating condition that reduces the quality of the person's life considerably.

Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).

We know much about the limb development that this shift from a buoyant to a weight - bearing existence required and shaped, but much less about how these animals managed the equally different sensory challenge of above - water living.

Devices implanted in the brain as neural prosthesis for therapeutic brain stimulation technologies and interfaces for sensory and motor devices, such as artificial limbs, are an important goal for improving quality of life for patients.

A novel study in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), presents cases from Boston - area hospitals where victims were treated, examining the medical response and imaging technologies used to save lives and limbs.

It was created by the Mexican Max Ortiz Catalan, who lives in Sweden, the device becomes an extension of the human body through osseointegration, this means that it connects directly to the bone via a titanium implant, and thanks to the neuronal and muscle binding interfaces a robust and intuitive control of the artificial hand is achieved, this way just by thinking about it is possible to move the limb.

«I'd go out on a limb and say not only that [interbreeding] played an important role in the evolution of all living apes, but that it shaped the evolution of extinct ones as well.»

This real - life Luke Skywalker is one of the first recipients of the i - Limb, which transmits nerve signals from his arm into instructions for five independent motors that flex and straighten the fingers.

By holding their limbs directly beneath their bodies, the argument went, dinosaurs would have moved faster and more efficiently than the cousins of crocodiles and relatives of early mammals that also lived at the time.

For long - lived trees like bristlecone and limber pines, the bottleneck is at the time of their initial establishment, not hundreds and thousands of years into their adulthoods.

It lives underground and has adaptations such as a lack of external openings for its ears and small eyes and limbs.

Fossil records show that their unique limbs could have supported flight, but unlike bat wings or bird wings, they were made of a living membrane reinforced with muscle and tissue, stretched like a sail over a single long bone.

These paired gills suggest that there is a link between living lobopods, segmented worm - like animals with legs, and arthropods such as the crustaceans, which have pairs of two - branched jointed appendages, often a limb plus a gill.