Sentences with phrase «of other convictions»

Since then, we have had the equally public overturning of a series of other convictions.

Not exact matches

In the issue you're holding, you'll find still other stories of world - changing vision backed by fierce conviction.

While that policy was a matter of necessity as much as principle, there were other places where Flaherty clearly let his convictions guide him: there was his elimination of income trusts; his ongoing fight to create a national securities regulator; and his efforts to rein in the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The Constitution says the president (and vice president and judges and members of the cabinet) «shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.»

Nicki Minaj summed up her frustration with Alton Sterling's case by posting the name of 14 other victims of police shootings, followed by the phrase «no conviction.»

Some may think that he truly believes everything he says and that he holds deep political convictions that he hopes to achieve with his campaign; others may think he's willing to say anything in order to stay at the center of attention.

He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

That bill would, among other things, help establish a system of «rewards for information leading to convictions related to terrorist use of digital currencies,» and «a FinTech Leadership in Innovation Program to encourage the development of tools and programs to combat terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies.»

The man convicted of shooting two Portland teenagers in 2012, killing one and severely injuring the other, is appealing his conviction.

(OIL) price action appears to have moderated a little in terms of downside volatility; buyers and sellers that remained haven't shown conviction one way or the other yet.

My convictions against many of their ideas, and those of many other bands I used to love, was much greater than my appreciation of the music.

On the other hand, radicals insist, we should not suppress the diverse convictions, ideologies, theories, and discourses of the new included groups.

I think one thing to consider is what was the root cause of Perpetua and the other martyrs faith, hope, and conviction and all of the Christians since.

The Committee is also calling for previous sex work convictions and cautions to be struck off people's records, so it's easier for them to move into other lines of work.

If I believed in the Great Pumpkin with such conviction that I proclaimed «I can not be anything other than convinced» to a Christian who was trying to tell me about his or her God, they would probably accuse me of being close minded.

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

You must have not learned that in school that emotional Maturity is defined as: the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.

Presidents from Truman through Clinton «operated on the ideological conviction that liberal democracy is the only legitimate form of government and that other forms of government are not only illegitimate but transitory.»

This is where your convictions live, and if those convictions don't transcend other's opinions of them, they aren't strong enough yet.

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

But Whitehead upholds such perplexities by his conviction that recognition of a thing as a composite and also as a unity are required modes of understanding, that these two modes are reciprocal, that they presuppose each other, and that the perspective emphasizing the composite exhibits an outcome and the perspective emphasizing the unity exhibits a causal factor (MT 63).

In other words, we must develop a new ethic and, to be frank, a new logic with relation to nature, based on the conviction that, as Father Gustavo Gutiérrez of Peru says, «life and not death has the last word.»

These and other principles of just war arose out of Christian convictions about the value of human life, social order and the rule of law.

He is faithful in his religious duties and respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion,» the law reads.

We have an overcorrection to a lot of the legalism and boundary - marker Christianity that damaged so many, the behaviour modification and rule - making and imposition of other people's convictions onto our own souls.

And I wanted to introduce the topic through a series of questions, precisely because questions are about as far as I can go with this topic without tripping up on my own failed attempts to establish guiding principles or rules about how to engage other people with wisdom, conviction, and grace online.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

I commend the pastor for his moral conviction but the majority of blacks are incapable of voting on any other issue but race... its genetic... Obama could say he is an ax murderer and they still will find a way to justify their vote for him... another words Obama sees the black vote as in the bag and he is right... most of them are incapable of critical thinkng

Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

What they want to do is to control other people, to stop them from having access to contraception, regardless of their own personal convictions.

Now Paul's theology must be studied as a Jewish theology modified by the conception of Jesus as the Risen Messiah; that is, it was a Jewish theology — of the high Pharisaic type, in some respects; in others, quite unPharisaic, and making much use of apocalyptic conceptions, as Bruckner and others have shown — and to this Jewish theology was added the new, distinctive, transforming conviction that the Messiah was none other than the lowly Jesus, dead, raised to glory, and soon to come again.

In fact Father Maillard, the director of Frères du Monde, actually declared: «If I noticed that my faith [true, he did not add «Christian»] separated me by however little from other men and diminished my revolutionary violence, I would not hesitate to sacrifice my faith,» A clear statement of the conviction latent in Shaull's writings; namely, that revolution is more fundamental than the faith.

The one group has moved: inward from an aesthetic conviction, having a vision of Eden; the other has moved outward from an ethic, having a vision of the New Jerusalem.

There are some people out there educating girls to the best of their knowledge and promoting it as a personal conviction rather than a law, and there are other people shaming girls because of their sexuality and life choices, declaring lots of people «unpure» and «sluts» if they disagree.

If, for example, our reflection on other animals takes place in the context of the conviction that Christ is in them and they are in Christ, that we and they are members one of the other, and that together we build up the body of Christ, it would no longer be possible to turn our backs upon their suffering with indifference.

Some say it allows people to discriminate against gays and lesbians, while others say it gives people of faith more liberty to live out their convictions.

And yet, in that very forcing of people upon each other, the city also breeds the inescapable notice of crime, filth, and disease» and thereby makes possible the sudden and utter conviction of guilt.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

The ruling signals that «there are ways to accommodate the religious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a short video.

To do otherwise is to surrender conviction and make belief worthless or, on the other hand, to make myself seem «a servant of a God of prey whose goal it is to annex and enslave.»

The extent of what is not open to discussion may vary considerably according to the different partners; it may, in certain cases, even be reduced to the conviction that men must talk to each other fairly and honestly.

It was their memory of him as well as their conviction about him which they shared with others, so that men and women who had never seen Jesus came not only to believe in him but also to feel that they had known him.

All too often, Romney observed, «Americans were unable to accommodate their commitment to their own faith with an appreciation for the convictions of others to different faiths.»

At this point the eschatological question becomes paramount, and I proceed with the theological conviction that the Christian names of Christ and the Kingdom of God are integrally and necessarily related to each other.

What other Christians do not share is Christian Scientists» conviction that God is absolutely not the author of the conditions of finitude — meaning material existence — which give rise to suffering and disease.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

So «Toss my salad» you must have missed this in grade school but emotional maturity is defined as: the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.

Perfect objectivity is not something we can achieve, but it is an ideal we can strive for by consciously opening ourselves to criticism and correction both by God, speaking through the text, and by the convictions of others.