Sentences with phrase «on their convictions even»

It is easy to see why that seems like the right tool: Free exercise jurisprudence has frequently involved the crafting of prudential exemptions and accommodations — precisely the carving out of spaces — that could allow religious believers to act on their convictions even in the face of contrary public sentiments or (up to a point) public laws.

Not exact matches

If you have conviction on a particular direction even though there's no consensus, it's helpful to say, «Look, I know we disagree on this but will you gamble with me on it?

There is disagreement among Christians about this, (and historically, even among evangelicals), so is it really my place, or the government's job, to impose my beliefs on people of all faiths and convictions?

Even in the Peoria speech that gained him national attention, however, he left no doubt that his opposition to Kansas - Nebraska was based on the conviction that the «new free states are places for poor people to go to and better their condition.»

If you have stepped out somewhere where you shouldn't have done then the conviction as a child of God will surely come but I tell you this, if Satan did not hold back on trying to kill the baby Jesus, and many children were slaughtered in that process, if he even thought he knew the scriptures so well he could try to deceive Jesus, and he did try then you can be sure that for every believer there is an adversary who would do anything to stop you from finding the forgiveness and grace of God that has the power to wash you clean of anything.

Paul wasn't so stuck on some temporal identity, or even his own religious convictions, (see how he circumcised Timothy).

(a) A person who pulls you (or pushes you) out of the way of the train (possibly inadvertently causing you to skin your need or even break your arm if you fell)-- but ultimately saving your life — knowing full well you might get angry at them because you didn't understand why they just pushed you and caused you to break your arm; or (b) A person who lets you walk in front of the train because he or she believes wholeheartedly with great conviction that doing anything else would be interfering with your free will to walk where you want to walk and forcing their thoughts and wishes on you

Even where the Church is still only on the way with its own doctrine, it draws its formulas each time out of its own enduring basic convictions, which always recognizably and unchangeably shine through the attitudes and concrete formulations, which at first sight by their merely literal tenor appear different or contradictory.

Even if the pastoral counselor has some ethical convictions that touch on the issues that come up in counseling, the counselor is most likely to «bracket» these convictions and conceal them as long as he is in the counseling situation.

Even though I categorize myself as a «believer,» being on this path is a struggle as believers know and I pray day and night to God to make me among those who stead fast to this belief and conviction.

Due to some very serious illness and I don't mean HIV / AIDS I am having to go on disability but they want me to have a payee 11 years since a conviction, Makes you want to Go to the streets and do it for yourself, also if you have no transportation how do you suppose the people get to the agencies to get help even a van ministry requires funds?

Surely even the unchurched would respond positively to expression of conviction on moral principles, even if they disagreed about the obvious applications: e.g., idolatry and Watergate.

The Christian knows that a dialogue is valuable even if he must hold on to his Christian convictions with absolute commitment and can - not hope for unity in the foreseeable future.

’32 If Jewish tradition, as we have earlier seen, could reach the point of elevating Moses to a place in heaven even though the scriptures clearly referred to his death and burial, then the disciples had only to com, to the conviction that Jesus was at least on a par with Moses in order to draw the conclusion that the crucified Jesus too had been exalted to heaven.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

This broadly phenomenological type of argumentation is necessary to the sort of «explicit» conviction that depends on direct and first - hand evidence, even while it properly recognizes that «our thought unavoidably moves within a hermeneutical circle which excludes any simple resolution of fundamental differences» (PP 87).11 Since it makes immediate reference to the evidence of one's own experience, a description of which is at issue, and only then is extended to all others one sympathetically imagines to be like oneself, it is essentially an autobiographical type of argumentation.

Yet if the land is to be good and the nation is to love unity, we must emphasize, even more than we did on the first King Day, his conviction that only love can truly unite men and women of diverse cultures, religions, races and classes, for we all possess equally the dignity and respect that the God of love and power conferred upon us.

There have been allegations based on repressedd memories that have resulted in lawsuits and even criminal convictions that have later been found to not be true.

It is based on the conviction that man can retain control of violence, that violence can be kept in the service of order and justice and even of peace, that violence is good or bad depending on the use or purpose it is put to.

I know I am not entitled to respect, but on my better days, I am of the conviction that regular people can talk about God too, and perhaps even prophesy.

Religious people have strong intuitions, deep convictions, and ultimate commitments which provide meaning and guidance for their lives, but often even they are hard pressed when they seek to support their own way of looking on God and the world.

But Nietzsche suggests that an even greater courage is demanded»... for an attack on one's convictions.

But even more than that, absolutely no other film genre is premised on the conviction that there is such a thing as absolute morality.

In view of the continual process of the world, more people are dependent on the master than on the prophet, in whose place — according even to his own conviction — another person could have been called just as well.

Wenger is willing to ruin his reputation because of his convictions even when they are based on faulty premises.

Now there are various ways that you can get those convictions expunged, but it's much more difficult if it has already become a public record, and if your child has been convicted of a DUI in juvenile court, even though that is not accessible to the general public, the DMV will be able to see that conviction and may refuse to give your child the license for some period of time, based on that conviction.

Lori — your strong voice and even stronger convictions on this topic will, indeed, change the world — one family at a time.

Thompson stayed on with CMA even after Bruno stepped down as the company's CEO following his conviction on two of eight federal corruption counts.

The problem, then, is not fake news and not even the Internet, but how people choose news based on their convictions.

«Even, at the end of the day, if there is no conviction here [Cuomo] is going to have to deal with a continued focus on public integrity and corruption issues.»

For Democrats, the anti-Paladino commercial represents a growing conviction that Mr. Paladino must be portrayed as an extremist who shares little in common with mainstream New Yorkers, and even some Republicans, on wedge issues like abortion.

The New York State Assembly and Senate have released budget positions that focus on taxes and spending policies, but very little on ethics reform, even though both former leaders of the legislature face prison sentences over corruption convictions.

The work that earned him plaudits in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis — even though some of his convictions unraveled on appeal.

The most recent state campaign finance reports show that former Suffolk Conservative chairman Edward Walsh received $ 16,550 in wages for April and May even though he was automatically removed as party leader after his March 31 conviction on federal corruption charges.

Gallivan is slightly off on the numbers, but his claim that few of these cases result in a conviction - and even fewer receive a state prison sentence - is correct.

Foster declined to say Monday evening if she was reconsidering getting back in the race to oppose the comeback of Ganim, who was forced from office in 2003 after a conviction on bribery and kickback charges.

The two most notable convictions growing out of a long - running investigation that began even before he took office were of Raj Rajaratnam, a hedge fund billionaire, and Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director and McKinsey managing partner who was convicted of passing an inside tip on to Mr. Rajaratnam.

He said the firm supported him through the conviction, even writing a letter on his behalf.

In fact — we never told anyone this — there was a day once on vacation when we nearly rented a Jet Ski, sans experience, sans even any real desire to Jet Ski, just on the conviction as we gazed across the harbor from our cabana that if we were to choose this day to make our Jet Ski debut, they would choose this day to do that thing they sometimes do, arcing up out of the surf at our side and keeping pace with us, singling us out as among the very crème of enlightened humanity.

The researchers also note that a 4.1 percent rate of false conviction is conservative, given that separate calculations gauging the accuracy of the assumptions that took an even more conservative stance — assuming that people who were executed had zero chance of false conviction and that the chances of exoneration after retrial would be twice that of people on death row — would still produce a larger figure than their 4.1 percent estimate.

The conviction — on some, but not all, of the eight counts he was charged with — gives others in the sector even more reason to declare at full volume that Shkreli is not one of them, «and allows them to distance themselves from his predatory practices,» said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor who is head of the white collar defense practice at McCarter & English, which represents branded pharmaceutical companies in a number of practice areas.

When I see people say things with conviction, even if I can point out flaws, I tend to worry about my stance and it makes me a lousy debater but I'm trying to work on it.

Even then, if you adjust your settings (depending on your convictions), you can often receive more matches.

On rare occasions some may even refrain from kissing until their wedding day if their (both people is essential) convictions lead them to do so.

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

With skill and perseverance accompanying the strongest of convictions, the eclectic bunch set out on a mission to steal plans to the Death Star and prevent the dark side from growing even stronger.

Bolstered by one of the best ensembles of the year, Chewitel Ejiofor deftly gives us a window into Northrup's soul through those eyes and stoic stares (and that doesn't even cover Michael Fassbender or Lupita Nyong «o, who frequently light the screen on fire), while McQueen makes sure to ratchet up the tension and never betray his tone or convictions with the sort of grand sweeping melodrama that so often rears its head in slavery epics.

Labor Day is well cast and played with conviction by its three leads, particularly the ever - reliable Winslet who, despite being bizarrely cast as a dowdy housewife, manages to be heartbreaking even when the film borders on farce.

In a seminar with some graduate students, I mentioned my conviction that reading and math scores (even on terrific assessments) only capture maybe 30 to 35 % of what I want students to learn in the course of K - 12 schooling.

Even on issues that conform closely to the larger Republican agenda, such as freedom of choice, teaching the talented, and creating a workforce that will preserve the nation's role in the world economy, ideas and conviction are scarce.