Sentences with phrase «of their misery by»

Globalization and free markets are not without their problems, but they are the only real hope that the laboring poor have of raising themselves out of misery by giving them the opportunity to tap into world markets not only to offer their labor to more bidders but to avail themselves of the goods and services the rest of the world has to offer them.

There is acute uncertainty about the unknown and we have not yet been able to put people out of their misery by explaining what is going to happen.

We meet the females in Jimmy's life: his mother (Marion Servole), his girlfriend (Harring) and a precocious kid (Anabel Sosa) he rendezvous with daily on a park bench until the director finally puts us out of our misery by pulling a rabbit out of his cinematic hat during the denouement.

Apart from the innovative and courageous outliers - whose numbers I hasten to add are increasing all the time - and who have put the billable hour out of its misery by completely changing their business model - most firms apply a bandaid approach and continue to work within, and therefore prop up, the existing leveraged based business model.

Not exact matches

The experts aren't shocked by this — particularly bad outbreaks of flu are often trailed by another strain of the illness known as «influenza B» — but it's a bummer for the rest of us who were hoping we were finally out of the woods when it came to flu misery.

I've long tried to teach compassion to the Wee McArdle by suggesting he begin with the head, thus putting the confection out of its misery.

Two Swiss economists who studied the effect of commuting on happiness found that such factors could not make up for the misery created by a long commute.

But here's the essence of the findings: according to work by Christopher Barnes, a University of Washington management professor, the mismatch between many employees» natural preferences and the workday's official start not only results in decreased productivity and creativity (not to mention increased misery), but might also impact the ethical decisions of late risers forced out of bed prematurely.

Jurich's first reason to skip car ownership is perhaps the simplest — commuting by car is objectively awful (really, study after study ranks it as one of life's most misery - inducing activities), so given that she lives in a place that provides alternatives, it simply makes sense to take them.

Purchases, we all know, can sometimes make us very happy, the choices afforded by financial security (or lack thereof) have a huge impact on quality of life, and trying to keep up with the Joneses is generally regarded as a recipe for misery.

Here, see for yourself and share in my misery: Yes, this assumes that the cost of college will continue to increase by an average of 5 % per year.

You say something in a way I have thought, but could not put on paper: «What I am perplexed by is the (maybe not perplexed, but discouraged) the way some Christians cling to a faith that is, in so many instances, the very seed of their misery.»

And the Christian God is a lot like Prometheus — a God who is animated by love of and pity for man and is willing to suffer for us to be healed or delivered from the misery of our mortality.

Both the concept of testing someone's * faith * by causing them heartache and misery and the idea of worshipping such a deity is sick, delusional and horrific.

What I am perplexed by is the (maybe not perplexed, but discouraged) the way some Christians cling to a faith that is, in so many instances, the very seed of their misery.

The message is, if they are going to do it anyway, what possible purpose, other than the further misery of suffering patients, will be served by our continuing to forbid it?

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Amanda posted yesterday an excerpt from a book entitled A Discourse of the Married and Single Life: Wherein by Discovering the Misery of One, is Plainly Declared the Felicity of the Other.

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.

Oh, by the way pretend scientist, the story you lamely hijacked was really more about the misery of alcohol dependence.

While we have no means of calculating analogous figures for the globe, the ecological devastation and increasing suffering of the poor in many parts of the world suggest to us that increased GNP in many Third World Countries is accompanied by increased misery and unsustainability.

Mercy never abandons us in the misery of our sins by pretending sin doesn't matter.

For although all are sinners and guilty of eternal death, God nevertheless wanted to prevent this misery by giving His Son into death for us.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

Some religions, it is true, succeed precisely by helping persons forget the misery and drudgery of daily toil; but such faiths provide a means for coping with work, they do not ignore it.

By an irresistible vision I mean an ideal goal for mankind that is (1) intrinsically desirable, (2) possible of actual achievement, and (3) set forth in a situation where to reject it (or some qualitatively equivalent alternative) would be to court misery and / or destruction.

«I am speaking,» he says, «to those who are so oppressed by the misery of this society and by their own impotence that they would prefer to either doubt or forget.

And as to the comfort the gospel speaks of, it seems that Christianity ought no longer to be the comforter of the poor and the afflicted, because, forsooth, «if you comfort them you divert them from seeking material, concrete means for ending their misery; if they are comforted by faith, they will not set to work to solve the economic problems.»

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.

We find it easier to be fascinated by the possibilities of space travel than to be distressed by the plight of millions of refugees living in misery on our own planet.

A person is merciful when, being affected by the sorrow and misery of another as if it were their own, they endeavour to dispel such misery.11 This is exactly what Christ does in the Gospel.

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

By willing to suffer all you are committed to the Good, having changed your garments — yes, as when the dead rise up and cast off their grave clothes, so you have cast off the mantle of your misery.

We are estranged from joy and saved from utter misery by the widening of our horizons and the growing complexity of our experience.

Nobody knows how many easy fortunes have been made by those exploiters of human misery who peddle some pill or potion which they claim will cure some burdensome ailment.

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.»

If it be so, and it is the hope of every good man that there is a resurrection where there shall be no difference, where the deaf man shall hear, the blind man see, where he that bore a form of misery shall be fair like all the others, then there is indeed on this side of the grave some such resurrection each time a man, by willing to do all or to suffer all, rises up by entering into the commitment, and remains bound to the Good in the commitment.

But I do not have an open mind on the subject, and don't see how any decent person can in light of the widespread misery caused by «pro-lifers» and their campaign to force unwanted children into the world.

Still, the pathos of his protest is, to my mind, exquisitely Christian — though he himself seems not to be aware of this: a rage against explanation, a refusal to grant that the cruelty or brute natural misfortune or evil of any variety can ever be justified by some «happy ending» that males sense of all our misery and mischance.

Yet the Psalms also contain, intense and profound laments over the miseries of life — miseries which are seen as a genuine part of the world created by God:

Through all the «scenes» what we see and hear is a moving mosaic of many scenarios, schemes used and discarded by both central characters as they try to explain the causes of their misery and the forms of their salvation.

«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..

They spoke of «the miseries which had entailed on them by the slave trade» and» the duty of making some recompense for the injuries and wrongs, which by our participation in that nefarious traffic, we had inflicted on Africa...» This position led evangelicals to argue that Britain's role in Africa should be that of guardian and protector of the people.

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.

The renewal of the world is the Christian hope, and even though, because of our mortal limited lives, like Moses we do not live to witness the consummation, but see it only in embryo, it is sufficient reward to have been used by God in this mighty process of the redemption of the world from the evil, suffering and misery to which man himself has contributed.

When psychiatric illness grips its victims in behavior that isolates them and frightens those around them, we compound the misery by treating it like a failure of nerve or a character flaw.

«The suffering of the poor is something very beautiful and the world is being very much helped by the nobility of this example of misery and suffering» — Mother Teresa.

However, ironically, the unprecedented scale of human suffering and misery caused by harsh mega competition, liberalization of trade and investment, in the era of globalization motivates millions of victimized people to resist and fight back for survival and human dignity.

In many cases, the miseries of these underclass nations are envenomed by civil war and frontier disputes among themselves.

The upside - downness of the world into which we are thrown by Jesus the disturber turns out also to reverse our misery as well.