Sentences with phrase «of powerful temptations»

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And sources across the spectrum agree that the combination of opaque oversight and easy - to - move digital currencies creates a powerful temptation to go astray.

Their strong love of liberty, and their acquisitiveness, afford a powerful temptation to offer some substitute for self - abnegation.

He looked forward to the day when the crisis having passed «decentralization would be the order of the day» and viewed the crisis as primarily a moral one, warning of the persistent temptation to greed and avarice of the world's most powerful nation.

All three bear out Shi's assertion that «the people who have succeeded in maintaining a commitment to simplicity over time are disproportionately people with a powerful spiritual foundation — that is, some sort of transcendent element in their outlook that gives them the fortitude and the tenacity to maintain this mode of living in the face of all of the conflicting tendencies and temptations around us.»

With a glorious and powerful figure who seeks to detach us from our God, to ensure the triumph of the world, to use propaganda to revive the temptation with which Jesus was tempted, to bring the church under submission to money or the state, there is no dialogue, for dialogue is not a value of its own and is not the supreme expression of the Christian life.

The temptation for young, ambitious, and educated Christians to convert to Islam for social and economic reasons is powerful, as Christians have little prospect of obtaining coveted positions in government and education, regardless of their credentials.

The temptations which assail the spirit of a minister are subtle but powerful, and few fully resist them.

Temptation is Not a feeling of power it is not sexy it's not romantic, but it was a little bit powerful acting?

And it's about America's loss of innocence, a reminder of the temptations of quaint and parochial Washington, where the powerful enjoyed and sometimes still enjoy entirely - too - cozy relationships with those in the media whose job it is to hold them accountable to the American public.

There is a definite temptation to begin this review by writing (or at least trying) a verdict in haiku, the traditional Japanese way of writing poems that don't rhyme but are nevertheless powerful and moving.

Sean Fennessey sits down with legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader to discuss his powerful new film, First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke; his patient style of filmmaking, and his major career achievements, such as cocreating Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ.

But on the other, I'm grateful I wasn't in on the original temptation to believe this is a powerful bit of Christian writing.

At times I would just go with salad but then the constant temptation of crispy bacon, tuna panga, kinilaw, baby back - ribs and lechon was too powerful to say no.

Climate science has unintentionally become one of the most significant fronts in the socioeconomic - political struggle to develop a sustainable better future for humanity, a struggle to correct incorrect developments that have developed powerful defences, particularly through regionally temporarily successful misleading marketing appeals to developed temptations for more potential personal benefit rather than desiring to be more helpful to others and the future of humanity.

And the temptation to use social media is powerful, says Lester Rosen, CEO of Employment Screening Resources, a San Francisco - based background - screening firm that has recently issued a 25 page white paper on the issue.

This may present a powerful temptation for those who have a few years of higher education but haven't yet completed all the requirements necessary for a degree.

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