Sentences with phrase «on subservience»
The incident at Antioch shows that any other principle of fellowship, based on subservience to human authority and distinctions, ultimately brings division.36
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Mainline mission statistics have declined in part because we celebrate the partnership that has replaced subservience on the part of the former mission churches.
They have attempted on hundreds of occasion that lack of subservience to US sovereignty by repeatedly harbor known criminals in an attempt to avid the scandal of their prosecution, They also engage in ongoing financial fraud denying Americans their rightful revenues, and exploiting their own members.
Ever on the defensive, the minister can not avoid substituting subservience and manipulation for service and love.
The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.
Local authorities could be on the brink of a revolution freeing them from subservience to Whitehall, the leader of Manchester city council has claimed.
Should a committee of MPs be allowed to decide who has committed wrong and who has not, it is easy to see how Parliamentary behaviour could degenerate into subservience to the elite, increased party - line voting, and unwillingness to take a stand on an issue unpopular with influential colleagues.
Absent title and privilege, Robin shows a loyalty to king and country that is divested of patriotic noblesse oblige and takes on the quality of mandated subservience — and one that could potentially turn on the arrogant entitlement of his «God - willed» masters.
Cast adrift, whether hand in hand or prostrated on their knees, they improvise a choreography of power, subservience, attraction, fear, suspicion, and turmoil.
Titled «Polite, Intelligent and Respectful,» the show focuses on themes of domestication and subservience.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) showed «subservience» to the UK courts in its recent decision on four British men detained in Saudi Arabia, a leading legal commentator has claimed.