Sentences with phrase «of plain men»

Then they got an order of plain men's briefs, and put the TomboyX name on those.

Not exact matches

There were three cameras in the studio but nobody manning them, so viewers channel surfing on the far shores of the city's cable system were treated to static shots of the whole panel behind a plain wood veneer desk — no cuts from one speaker to the next, and however ready the guests might have been, no close - up was available.

It is, plain and simple, a matter of gender discrimination — that hiring managers repeatedly favor men for math and science jobs over their often equally or more talented female counterparts.

now you can argue man's laws vs God's law all ya want, but a «plain reading of the text» is the only way to get to that conclusion.

2000 years ago: Philo Judeaus said: «The letter of this statement is plain enough; for it is expressed according to the symbol of the part, a half of the whole, each party, the man and the woman, being as sections of nature co-equal for the production of that genus which is called man.»

One man, now living in a permanent committed relationship, told of his struggles with guilt and self - acceptance and said: «Accepting Christ and becoming openly gay have changed my just plain sexuality into love - expressive sexuality.»

Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop Random House, 342 pages, $ 22.50 What baleful things may befall a rugged, plain - spoken, life - affirming man when he ventures into that great bourne called The Beltway» that is the (probably unintended) theme of the....

«The tragic paradox of the white man's encroachment,» Beard comments, was that the «deeper he went into Africa, the faster life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush and into the cities, vanishing in acres of trophies and hides and carcasses.»

Lazarus in his evident need lay in plain sight as the rich man «dressed in purple and fine linen feasted sumptuously every day,» an echo in Greek of how Jesus had taught his disciples to pray for their «daily» bread.

Plain and simple, the young man felt uncomfortable being put in the postion of having to potentiantially «grab» the female in a disrepectful way.

And as for lesbians, there is nothing that two women might do together that carries as high a risk of infection as having plain old sex with a man.

How, by My permission, you healed the blind man and the leper, and by My permission you brought the dead forth; and how I protected you from the Children of Israel when you brought them clear signs; whereupon the unbelievers among them said: «This is nothing but plain magic».

Gubmints involved in God's business of joining is just plain ol' fashioned traditions of men in action.

Challenge us and ask us about the differences between Yahwistic vs. Elohimistic traditions in Old Testament canon), but this shows the tragedy — or perhaps the irony — of faith: in America, if not elsewhere, the concept of faith is kept at such a simplistic level that most people just plain «believe» without having any form of knowledge (in spite of the Bible stating, «Where is the wise man?

«Numberless, simple but very practical questions were asked by them, not in a cavilling spirit, like the Brahmins and Vedantists of the plains, but on the atonement, fall of man, sin, misery, future punishment, etc..

More than 75,000 men, women and children crossed the plains in the largest mass movement of people in American History, (until the railroad was finished in 1856) and 6,000 died along the trail.

This new plain rhetoric of the Gospel was what it was only because it was prompted by a new direct speech or word of God himself to men.

He had been able to successfully get over the trauma of the assaults by sincerely forgiving the offender, understanding that» most of these men who were preying on boys were USING the Church to get to their victims, or were just plain sick.»

What I mean is that, if you take 1 Timothy 2:12 in it's most plain sense, at face value, then women are not allowed to teach period; somehow you have inferred that men can learn from women when done «PRIVATELY» but not «IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOCAL CHURCH.»

With this understanding of what distinguishes the human level of existence it is plain that man has been progressively created by a process of history.

The sun drenched valley of the Nile and the flooded plains of ancient Sumer both exerted profound influence in the molding of the outlook of ancient men for whom Egypt and Babylonia were the world and their forces the realities by which man must direct his life.

I mean look how much is contained in those writings — the miracles, Jesus» life, what he said along with what the Apostle's said — so there's really a lot riding on the validity of the gospels in terms of the supernatural Jesus versus Jesus, the plain man, wouldn't you agree?

Plain men and philosophers have sought for a valid concept of the good, have been perplexed by the search, and have arrived at many different conclusions.

They claim to be men of God, but they screw around and get rich off poor trusting folks and just some plain dumb folks.

In the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believe.

Then it is also plain that the experience of grace and of the forgiveness of God, which destroys the old man and creates the new, does not transfer man to a higher plane, either where he can passively enjoy his new nature or where he must guard it with anxious care through asceticism.

Because he conceives radically the idea of the grace of God, he makes it plain that God's forgiveness must be for man an event in time, that the relation of «I» and «Thou» exists between God and man, that God stands opposite to man as another Person over whom the man can have no sort of control, who meets man with His claim and with His grace, whose forgiveness is pure gift.

Now comes the gist of the matter: if he is able to admit this embellishment, he does not lose all of his infatuating power; when he reveals himself as a plain ordinary man, and bald at that, he does not thereby lose the loved one.

They «can properly imply that in some respects man is only a «plain citizen» (Aldo Leopold) of the planet on a par with all other species, but they are sometimes interpreted as denying that humans have any «extraordinary» traits, or that, in situations involving vital interests, humans have no overriding obligations towards their own kind.

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

Called Plain, it is edited (and its type hand - set) by «conservative» Quakers, which is to say a group of men and women who live more or less in the fashion of Old Order Amish.

Long before either the idea of natural law or any word to express it was known to man, the reign of moral law, stated in terms of cause and consequence, of sowing and reaping, was plain to the insight of the Bible.

But since the new view of man has virtually deprived the concept of a disembodied soul of any meaningful reality, it means that the medieval picture becomes further simplified to the plain affirmation that God is in His heaven.

He is the holy One, and the only Savior, and Redeemer as taught in Isaiah 49:26, and in Leviticus it specifically says that a man should not lie with another man as with a woman, as plain as that, and none of this has changed, but in the last days many will.

Romans 1:18 «The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

But death is not simply the inescapable end of each man's life; it is also the plain demonstration of his mortality, a mortality which both conditions and characterizes everything that he is and does up to the moment when he is pronounced dead.

The decisions that a man makes about where he will live, how he will furnish his home (the women's magazines, of course, will make this decision in co-operation with the furniture manufacturers), how he will discipline his children, what radio and TV commentators he will listen to, what newspapers and magazines he will subscribe to, and what organizations he will join in his community — all of these daily decisions are, to an inestimable but unquestionable degree, influenced by the legislation, education, and plain ballyhoo daily propagated by these groups and the power centers that control them.

For the Kingdom of God remains a dark and silent entity, like death, as long as it is not plain that the demand for decision has for man a clear, comprehensible meaning.

For this reason, Pius XI argued, «If the whole purpose of education is so to shape man in this mortal life thathe will be able to reach the last end for which his Creator has destined him, it is plain that there can be no true education which is not totally directed to that last end.»

Paul seems to have taken account of that fact where he says that what could be known about God was plain to men, because God had shown it to them.

-- If then the solitary man who ascends Mount Moriah, which with its peak rises heaven - high above the plain of Aulis, if he be not a somnambulist who walks securely above the abyss while he who is stationed at the foot of the mountain and is looking on trembles with fear and out of reverence and dread dare not even call to him — if this man is disordered in his mind, if he had made a mistake!

The Bible is a man - made random series of letters and philosophical treatises that refelect their authors politics, prejudices, pedantry and plain delusions too.

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

«A little later, he preached on the creation of man and, desiring to be as graphic and plain as possible, he said: «When God Almighty had; made heaven and earth, he rolled in one a lump of clay and fashioned it into the likeness of a man and then leaned it on a fence to harden.»

And if you are like me and just can't do Goat Cheese (so weird — I like some of the stinkiest cheeses known to man, but Goat Cheese just doesn't do it for me), you can probably substitute Boursin spread, ricotta cheese, cream cheese (plain or some flavored variety), or any other soft spreadable cheese.

Much of the Pirates» weakness stems from plain inexperience: batters are fooled by the right pitch, runners take extra base at wrong time, pitchers lose poise with men on base.

Any man who wanders in a scant span of 15 miles from rain forest into arid plains of cactus and algarroba and sees snow crests standing over tropic water naturally comes to wonder about the excitements of this varied land.

Fergie did exactly the same and the way that refs were afraid to give penalties against Man United and the extra time he got when necessary was plain for all to see and wrecked the fairness of the game.