Sentences with phrase «of standing upon»

In plaintiffs» practice, likewise, I was always a strong advocate of standing upon principle and taking cases all the way to judgment, even when substantial offers of settlement were on the table.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of ambitious tech startups from across the globe descended upon San Francisco this week for TechCrunch Disrupt, scrambling to stand out from the crowd and snag some serious investor cash.

At the end of the day, the Swiss luxury makers will be left standing exactly where they were while smartwatches will just be another category of low - priced tech junk that some people were excited about once upon a time.

Effective January 1, 2011, upon the recommendation of the GNC, the Board increased to $ 25,000 the annual fee paid to the chair of each standing Board committee other than the AEC, which remained at $ 30,000; set at $ 25,000 the annual fee paid to the chairs of the CRC and Risk Committee, which were formed effective January 1, 2011; eliminated the annual stock option grant; and increased the value of the annual stock award to $ 140,000.

What is the best investment for retirement for you will depend upon your individual situation, of course, but as income producing options any of the following ten could be used as stand - alone solutions or in combination.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

However, as this is not guaranteed by any signal provider, you still stand the chance of losing your investment acting upon the recommendations provided by the service.

The Germans stood firm and placed unduly harsh demands upon the Greek electorate that had the temerity to openly reject the terms of debt resolution.

The junk bond bubble, in particular, stands in sharp and stark refutation of whatever stocks might be incorporating, especially if that might be based upon assumptions of Yellen's re-found backbone.

Drawing upon these advantages, FinTech companies are capturing market share in numerous lines of business, despite having started without the credibility and trust associated with long - standing client relationships.

I will say, though, that no «fundamentalist» Mormon would sanction the marriages you're referencing, which stand in direct opposition to the principles of their Church, which absolutely insists upon upholding the law of the land.

But I still stand by my original post in which I quote Torrance, in agreement: «I find the presence and being of God bearing upon my experience and thought so powerfully that I can not but be convinced of His overwhelming reality and rationality».

You who wait, stood as candles round the shrouded bed, And flicker with the last stir of her breath, See, now, at once, she lies no more beneathYour watch, but stands in light, a crown upon her head.

Russell Moore, head of the convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, took a stronger stand, saying that regardless of the verdict, Zimmerman was wrong to take «upon himself some sort of vigilante justice.»

Moreover, a sense of hope was renewed in me upon reading the message from Georgetown President DeGioia, who boldly stood up not just for a fellow student, but for all women.

You who wait, stood as candles round the shrouded bed, And flicker with the last stir of her breath, See, now, at once, she lies no more beneath Your watch, but stands in light, a crown upon her head.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

People who can't stand up for themselves and are preyed upon by others typically are in favor of government regulation, laws, things of this nature to protect them.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

They also acknowledged that the Seven Laws of Noah are the foundation upon which civilization stands and that recent weakening of these principles threaten the fabric of civilized society, and that justified preoccupation in educating the Citizens of the United States of America and future generations is needed.

Each of the eleven essays in On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs reflects upon an important, but all - too - often overlooked, fact: «It is only when we realize that human affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.»

All of which is to say that this fourth view of nature and human nature contends we understand ourselves most truly by imagining neither that we stand apart from, dominate, and bend nature to our will; nor that we are some unnatural plague upon nature; nor that we are simply immersed in nature and lack both the power and the duty to superintend nature and possibly even improve it.

I have read all of 1 Corinthians 3 and do stand yet upon that which I understand to be thruthful which are,,,, One,,, We labour «together» with God and quite possibly as an equal participant,,,, Two,,, We are God's «husbandry» which daringly seems to go beyond genetical unterstandings,,,,, Three,,,, Our bodies are literally God's buildings and God and His Brethrens do find shelters and living conditions inside of our body - like buildings of God's delightedness!

If you doubt the accuracy of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle?

Jesus stands to read, «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor... to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.»

There are unquestionably parts of the Bible where the real meaning intended by the author is not the plain literal sense of the words, and where an unintelligent insistence upon the literal sense stands in the way of a true understanding.

Standing behind that claim is the claim that we, the people, have an ability to know what justice requires that is not so completely dependent upon any social institution as to place that institution beyond the possibility of our reforming it.

They should have everyone of those people come in, stand in front of the congregation and offer an apology to them for bringing shame upon them as a congregation.

Richard Steel, an evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.»

There are slight differences in posture; for example, in some countries, while standing, the people put their hands one upon the other in front of the lower part of the chest, while others who follow the school of Malik or of the Shi'as bend their hands down.

• The maxim that he who marries the spirit of the age will soon be a widower comes to mind upon reading the report of the Episcopal Church's Standing Committee on Domestic Mission and Evangelism.

The backgrounds and situations of all the martyrs were very different: some were priests who travelled around, some like the monks whose abbeys were relied upon for medicine or respite; others were lay people with families, like Thomas More or Margaret Clitherow, and yet they stood firm.

Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries....

What limits it from without can not be answered any more satisfactorily than the Hindu philosopher's postulation of an elephant standing upon a turtle standing upon a serpent, etc, to explain why the universe maintains its position in space.

Standing up for the rights of the oppressed should be a very clear principle all of us can agree upon.

... a broken marriage is a broken marriage; something that stands out as an unnatural smashing of what was built to last, a blasphemy against the unity of Christ and his church, an amputation inflicted upon a living body....

Yes, many aspects of Christendom are not so reasonable, and can be safely discarded, but the core beliefs of Christianity as founded by Jesus and centered upon Him can stand up to any and all challenges.

If God's truth is in fact to be found where Christ stands, the mockery visited on him redounds instead upon the emperor, all of whose regal finery, when set beside the majesty of the servile shape in which God reveals Himself, shows itself to be just so many rags and briars.

Thus, alongside the lofty and otherworldly flights of Indian mysticism, stands the Zen emphasis upon «nothing special» and «everyday - mindedness» and «just being ordinary,» as in Yun - men's spiritual path described as «pulling a plough in the morning, and carrying a rake home in the evening,» or in Pao - fu's response to the question, «What is the language of the Buddha?»

In a press release, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. described Beck as a «conservative leader» and «one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.»

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

Therefore, ANY Church that stands upon and teaches biblical morals and ethics become «impossible» for those folks to be a part of.

But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.

I was called upon to wonder when the well - meaning camp director's wife who knew parts of my family asked where I stood in relation to the brother who'd died, she had heard.

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

Luther stands in the pulpit with his left hand laid upon an open book of scripture and with the right gesturing to a central crucifix.

He said he appreciates the Catholic foundation of Georgetown — «it is nice to have another foundation to stand upon,» he said — but that the general atmosphere around campus is at odds with the church.

Evidently in trying to understand natural moments and how they stand to each other Santayana is concerned with just those issues with which Whitehead is coping in his discussion of the constitution of actual occasions and their influence upon one another.

For after all, in any faith which is genuinely theocentric or focused upon God, it is essential to make sure that it is God, not human desires or wishes or aspirations as they now stand, who is to be «given the glory»; and it is in God, and in God alone, that we may speak meaningfully of the significance of our own existence.

It is said of a man who stands dizzily upon a high place, that all things run together before his eyes.