Sentences with phrase «other convictions for»

Do you struggle with infertility, or do you have other convictions for adopting a child?

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The Constitution says the president (and vice president and judges and members of the cabinet) «shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.»

He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

That bill would, among other things, help establish a system of «rewards for information leading to convictions related to terrorist use of digital currencies,» and «a FinTech Leadership in Innovation Program to encourage the development of tools and programs to combat terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies.»

I don't know if there are any other companies I could definitely say that for with such conviction.

In addition to asking a court to mandate that Uber implement fingerprint background checks — a measure the company has vehemently opposed — the plaintiffs are asking a judge to order Uber to perform national criminal background checks on its drivers every six months, and to bar registered sex offenders or people with rape or assault convictions from driving for Uber no matter how long ago it was, along with other measures.

The Committee is also calling for previous sex work convictions and cautions to be struck off people's records, so it's easier for them to move into other lines of work.

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

You must have not learned that in school that emotional Maturity is defined as: the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.

My moral conviction is the more trade you have, the fewer dumb @ $ $ excuses political leaders can get away with for declaring other people enemies.

I commend the pastor for his moral conviction but the majority of blacks are incapable of voting on any other issue but race... its genetic... Obama could say he is an ax murderer and they still will find a way to justify their vote for him... another words Obama sees the black vote as in the bag and he is right... most of them are incapable of critical thinkng

Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.

I have come to the conclusion that it's okay for me to have different convictions or beliefs than other people in my faith community.

If, for example, our reflection on other animals takes place in the context of the conviction that Christ is in them and they are in Christ, that we and they are members one of the other, and that together we build up the body of Christ, it would no longer be possible to turn our backs upon their suffering with indifference.

Many people sometimes, or for a while, act contrary to sincerely held convictions (by committing a sin), and other people, given time, come to recognise past behaviour as wrong (they may repent and convert).

All too often, Romney observed, «Americans were unable to accommodate their commitment to their own faith with an appreciation for the convictions of others to different faiths.»

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Day, the French Protestants who resisted fascism and protected Jews, Buddhist monks in Vietnam and many, many others were led by their religious convictions to fight for human dignity and human rights.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

So «Toss my salad» you must have missed this in grade school but emotional maturity is defined as: the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.

Perfect objectivity is not something we can achieve, but it is an ideal we can strive for by consciously opening ourselves to criticism and correction both by God, speaking through the text, and by the convictions of others.

His conviction that this can be accomplished rests upon his faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the other — his belief that his tools are indeed adequate (for humans to have the kind of knowledge humans can have); that our knowledge of God, although partial, is really knowledge of God as God is.

Centuries of Christian religious legitimation of and support for Western imperialism was based on the conviction of a necessary Christian salvific mission towards others.

For example, when research finds that Christian friendships reinforce Christian convictions, the question still remains why some people choose Christian friends and others do not.

Its justification is in the conviction that intercourse may rightly serve not only for procreation, but also independently as a means for husband and wife to express their love for each other.

This country was founded on tolerance for others» convictions.

Paul's example of the christian life is a great one, encouraging others - building disciples, willing to be punished and even killed for his convictions, while showing love to those that were lost as he realized that the Spirit was not revealed to them.

It [the realism] arises from a conviction that there is no mere analogy, but an inward affinity, between the natural order and the spiritual order; or as we might put it in the language of the parables themselves, the Kingdom of God is intrinsically like the process of nature and of the daily life of men... Since nature and supernature are one order, you can take any part of that order and find in it illumination for other parts This sense of the divineness of the natural order is the major premise of all the parables... 132

Having so much reverence for our convictions that we assume to have the authority to tell others how to live — is an act of idolatry.

An eloquent critique of secular rationality as the only basis for a discussion of a republic's virtues is Kent Greenawalt's Religious Convictions and Political Choice (Oxford University Press, 1987), an appraisal of Bruce Ackerman, John Rawls and other philosophers.

Cynthia Anderson, who worked in communications in the corporate world and is now an associate pastor in Barrington, Illinois, says her corporate experience gave her a settled ego, an eagerness for teamwork, and the conviction that a senior pastor's authority must be respected in front of staff and other church members.

It is my conviction that other models for Third World development must be found, that the one recommended by economism is disastrous.

In fact, looking around the world today, the most hopeful sign I see is the human rights movement, which operates from the unprovable and, on its face, improbable moral conviction that all humans are equal and that no human should be abused by any other for any reason whatsoever.

Resurrection is here closely associated with martyrdom; it is a «wonderful reward reserved for those who die a godly death».7 This kind of resurrection hope arose spontaneously, but perhaps irrationally, from those who, observing martyrdom, had no other way of expressing their conviction that the martyr had not died in vain.

Using the term avatar of Jesus may be helpful for some Hindus, for others it may suggest that Jesus is just one more intermediary whereas the Christian conviction is that in Jesus they have seen «the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.»

The adaptation of Christianity to the an - thropocentric faith appeared in other ways: in the attenuation of the conviction of sin and of the necessity of rebirth, in the substitution of the human claim to immortality for the Christian hope and fear of an after - life, in the glorification of religious heroes, and in the efforts of religious men and societies to become saviors.

But when we see the people on the other side of the debate as the enemy (by calling them names, labeling them or demeaning their convictions), we miss the point of what «fighting for our faith» is supposed to be about in the first place.

As the church and mission began to encounter each other and move closer, there developed within the missionary movement, the convictions and impulses for Christian unity.

Hartshorne seems to hold that we shall engage in no personal actions at all after death; and, as for rewards and punishments, he declares his rather unconventional conviction that they are all received in the now of the present moment of action and at no other time or place.46

Yet one more conviction links the one thousand columns, and in fact dates back to the earlier series of Catholic press columns I wrote from 1979 until 1986: the conviction that the Catholic Church in the United States, for all its difficulties, is more likely to be the «Church in the modern world» envisioned by the Second Vatican Council than any other local Church.

``... Unconsciously, we narrow our focus... What gets lost from sight are other things that motivate human beings: their search for meaning, for a sense that their world is not out of control, for a conviction of their own worth, and beyond this, for a sense of their own moral goodness.

On the other hand, he realized that competition among religious groups of strong conviction could have disastrous consequences for civic life.

What we shall attempt in this chapter is to discover the biblical basis for our Christian faith in God, and then suggest the bearing of this faith on certain other great convictions of our Christian heritage.

On the other hand, physicians should respect the unique and particular resources that are available for those with deep spiritual conviction and beliefs.

In order for growth to occur in the spiritual area of a relationship, a couple must be able to discuss their deep concerns, their doubts, and their convictions with each other.

Either abortion must be shown to be a special case, or freedom of choice must be allowed in other cases where a person calls for state action to enforce his or her convictions.

(1) clarity, strength and persuasiveness of Christian conviction and commitment; (2) good preaching and the ability to design and lead meaningful worship; (3) conviction of and commitment to pastoral calling as integral to Christian ministry and pastoral care; (4) deep sensitivity to the needs of people individually and in groups; (5) concern for, dedication to, and skill in working for congregational development and growth as a part of faithfulness, for the nurture and retention of members who show signs of slackening commitment, for the motivation and training of lay persons to work for church growth; (6) capacity to generate enthusiasm in other people, personal warmth, competence, spiritual authenticity; (7) ability to encourage and generate a spirit of unity in a congregation; and (8) organizational development and conflict management skills.

The particular value of this approach for a Christian theology of religions is that it recognizes truth in the convictions of these other traditions in the terms concretely stated arid believed by those within those traditions, and it recognizes their status as true alternatives to Christian faith.

The plea with which I close is that this encounter continue with passion, with conviction, with a determined wrestling for each other's souls and faithfulness as Christian believers, but with a recognition that the Triune God is our judge and our redeemer.

The «definitive» ruling of the Talmud is that «conversions, once performed, are valid even if entered into for reasons other than religious conviction.»