Sentences with phrase «of misery at»

Even if they've come from a life of misery at the racing track, they're more than willing to greet you with love and be your fellow couch potato.

When the people go out there and dump their animals, thinking they're being humane and putting them... out into the wild or onto somebody's farm, they're actually harming those animals more than what these farmers or ranchers would be doing in basically being humane, and putting them out of their misery at that point.

The negatives: Frank Lampard being found wanting for the first 45 minutes and subsequently being put out of his misery at half - time, when replaced by Nicolas Anelka, and the ease at which United broke through the Blues» rearguard, especially in the wide areas.

The gentleman who was impudent enough to bring some kind of craft brew to the party instead of Bud Light is escorted directly to the Pit of Misery at the king's command.

Not exact matches

If you're a fan of a team with a fringe chance of making the playoffs, consider the prudent thought of placing an emotional hedge bet, so that if your postseason hopes crash and burn on Sunday you'll at least make a profit off of your misery.

Officials at San Francisco International, No. 3 in MileCards» 2017 Summer Flight Delay Study and described as «a pocket of misery,» did not return requests for comment.

But if Victoria's Secret is truly committed to keeping its supply chain free of misery, couldn't it simply offer to pay more for cotton, so that kids like Clarisse Kambire could get at least one solid meal a day and maybe attend a bit of school?

Images of the flooded Lower Ninth Ward and the misery of people stranded at the city's Superdome will haunt memories and history books forever.

«We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.

In a report Friday, he said that the firm's «bitcoin misery index» — a gauge of how investors feel about prices — is currently at 19, the lowest level since 2011.

And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery.

Even the vaunted right to abortion, both claimed and exercised at extraordinary rates, did not seem to mitigate the misery of millions of these women after the sexual revolution.

The progress and development of the national bourgeoisie was being bought at the cost of a lost independence, the increasing misery of the masses whose traditional means of survival were destroyed by cheap, factory - made goods, and a tightening of military repression against the consequent popular unrest.

Their misery was not at the level of money or social position, which was high, but at the level of contempt.

After misery and hatred at the hands of hateful Christians (concrete examples can be provided) for over five decades, I have nothing but loathing to return to those mean viscous Christians.

It is, for example, Tarwater learning of his own history — his whore mother and his birth at the scene of a wreck — in the context of the history of Adam and the Second Coming; it is in the remark by the Negro hand on old Tarwater: «He was deep in this life, he was deep in Jesus» misery»; it is Bishop, the idiot, whose fish eyes are the center of that «extension» into unreasonable, absurd love for both Tarwater and Rayber.

At this moment God takes upon himself the misery of this people, its shame, and the evil that it commits.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

He finds himself spiritually at home in the hospital ward for the insane, where he and his fellow inmates are free to acknowledge the misery which most of us suppress.

The book is actually a summary of the miseries of the «life of Jesus» movement, concluding with a trumpet call to scholars to renounce all further attempts at defining «the historical Jesus» and to return to the Jesus portrayed in the Gospels.

In some unfortunate remarks Pannenberg laid the responsibility for poverty and human misery in the Third World at the feet of those countries themselves.

We enslave and abuse them, we take over their countries and their resources, we exploit their poverty by investing in their poverty and virtually use them as slave labour, as we close down factories in our own country to make a fortune out of others misery, while at the same time put people out of work in the home country.

They are in fact, godless people and the same sort of people who brought about destruction and misery every where they've gone; from the French Revolution with it's guilotining of tens of thousands of people a year to those who established the Soviet Union at the costs of millions of lives and kept half the world under its iron fists for nearly a century.

He rages most of all at the thought that eternity might get it into its head to take his misery from him!

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

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.

We would no less need an analogous social order that was perfect in its own way but that, at a minimum, did not kill us by war and violence or spoil life by meanness and other forms of private misery.

At the same time it was predicted that the ungrateful town of Mecca would at first endure an awful misery which would bring some of the people from incredulity to an attraction of their souls toward heaven, then it would have prosperity which would make them forget God, and finally Mecca would suffer a humiliating defeat in the first battle (Surah XLIV, 9 - 16At the same time it was predicted that the ungrateful town of Mecca would at first endure an awful misery which would bring some of the people from incredulity to an attraction of their souls toward heaven, then it would have prosperity which would make them forget God, and finally Mecca would suffer a humiliating defeat in the first battle (Surah XLIV, 9 - 16at first endure an awful misery which would bring some of the people from incredulity to an attraction of their souls toward heaven, then it would have prosperity which would make them forget God, and finally Mecca would suffer a humiliating defeat in the first battle (Surah XLIV, 9 - 16).

Millions of young men were killed, thrones were toppled, and Communism was established in Russia in what was to become a 60 - year regime involving misery on a massive scale, with famine, secret police, concentration camps and the ruthless stamping out of any attempts at opposition.

At that time the founder «enlightened by inspiration from God, indicated the path of true belief and his practical solutions, based on his own spiritual experience, brought relief to people suffering from disease, misfortune, and all other miseries of life.

Poor Rabshakeh, at this point too he fails to see that this God is not like his own gods, that the Lord does not punish forever, that he not only unleashes the scourge but also holds it back, that he finds no satisfaction in the Assyrian terror and the church's misery, that he does not will the death of the sinner and hence does not will the final victory of Assyria.

At this level, Whitehead writes, «human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.»

Given the dark, wet, misery of December, people will always want to do something to liven their lives up at that time of year even after the religious nonsense has been long forgotten.

One quick look around you at all the misery and desperate struggle for existence in most of the world is proof that there is no god who designed and created this existence.

«Humanists who do not believe in God or a future life have been in a stronger position to insist on the urgency of making things better at once, in this [life]... If this is the only life that anybody has, then the fact that many people must spend it in such misery becomes more obviously and inexcusably scandalous.

His longing to remove their misery compelled him to announce that the God of Moses, who long ago had heard the Hebrew people's loud outcries and had responded to them, was now once again near at hand and ready to rescue the people from their pain.

If, for example, we are dealing with a juvenile delinquent, at what point are we to see this fourteen - year - old boy as responsible in spite of the social misery and disorder or family disintegration in which his life may be lived?

Our culture shields us from origins, for often at the source of any commodity there is misery.

Though the thinking of our animistic ancestors may seem to us naïve, it remains true that a multitude of whimsical gods, so constituted that they are likely to be pleased or displeased by almost anything, is not incongruous with the welter of man's joys and miseries, befalling him, at least when superficially observed, with irrational capriciousness.

At first they tried to be comforting, interpreting Job's trouble as disciplinary rather than punitive, but soon, with the hard rigor of convinced logicians accepting an unquestioned premise, they were arguing back from Job's misery to his antecedent and corresponding sin.

As they looked at the degradation and human misery of people caught in a cold, merciless, big city, they determined to bring the gospel in a fresh way.

He since then changed his mind, at least for a while when he became convinced that the church must endorse socialism as the only way out of the human miseries of Latin America.

But I wept, for at the bottom of that gulf I saw the extreme of misery from which I had been saved by an infinite mercy; and I shuddered at the sight of my iniquities, stupefied, melted, overwhelmed with wonder and with gratitude.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

Nothing until two o'clock, or three, or four, or, one year, even five, when the ravenous aunts had begun to snip at each other in hunger, and the starved uncles were arguing in the living room about how many terms Sigurd Anderson had been governor, and the children — past the wheedling stage, past the whining stage, past the stage of sitting on the kitchen floor and weeping for food — were crouched together on the sofa, dumb with misery.

I saw professors, priests, and people were whole and at ease in that condition which was my misery, and they loved that which I would have been rid of.

By hoping for a future deliverance, biblical eschatology renders present misery only temporary, and even though distress may still remain, the prospect of an eventual solution at least makes pain more bearable.

Yet only at the risk of such fearful misery, More discovers, can we have the self - awareness that confesses both sin and faith, that enables us to live in real relation to God and our fellows.

Little wonder that his bold spirit went the full length in condemnation of divine irresponsibility before at length he recoiled from his own excesses, realizing that his life was not all recorded in terms of misery: