Sentences with phrase «out of the misery of»

There are some who hold this view, that the brutality of mankind was so great, that it was justice to kill them all, and among those who were the innocent victims in the flood (for certainly there had to be some), it was merciful to put them out of the misery of living under a horde of Hitlers.

But every effort to love, in order to break out of the misery of self - preoccupation, is also an expression of the self - preoccupation and is condemned to intensify it.

I'm thankful I didn't act out of the misery of the moment and run too David, although «cigar - smoking cat lady» still sounds inviting on some days.

It is making mileage out of the misery of those wounded by the abuse crisis.

In the week that banks were collapsing the man who wants to run our economy not only said: this is not a problem caused by the financial markets but went on to say and, I quote, «that it's a function of financial markets that people make loads of money out of the misery of others.»

True, George Osborne didn't sound desperately sympathetic to the plight of credit crunch victims when he said on Newsnight last week: «Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.»

«That it's a function of financial markets that people make loads of money out of the misery of others.»

Put me out of the misery of having to give this talk over and over again!»

You make money out of the misery of others.

It is time to put the fax machine out of its misery — or, more accurately, put ourselves out of the misery of the fax.

Not exact matches

Lastly, he shows a level of humanity when he puts Mance Rayder out of his misery rather than letting him slowly burn to death.

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.

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.

Even if you want someone to simply put you out of your misery and do your return before your head explodes, you will want to go a little bit deeper.

Moreover, recent German threats to throw Greece out of the Euro zone only further masks what is increasingly becoming evident: the Euro is a flawed and poorly designed institution that condemns Europe and her citizens to many more years of misery.

Put them out of their misery or keep them in misery so we can gloat... Crystal.

May allows that he can imagine extreme circumstances in which he hopes he would have the «courage» to put someone out of his misery.

Maybe he'll put me out of my misery once and for all.

That's how I see God, not always pulling us out of our misery but being there in the midst of it with us.

No doubt when he is out of his mind and a relative has medical power over him... they will put them out of his misery.

Richard was correct to put that apple to orange comparison out of its misery before it went to far.

The flood put them out of their misery.

Now we call it kindness to put others out of their misery, denying even to ourselves that the misery we can not bear is the burden that they are to us.

One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out.

Ben Franklin, the archetypal American self - made man, persuaded a hopeless, young, life - sentenced convict that anyone could bootstrap his way out of misery.

Some exercise godlike mastery, others (like the beasts) are put out of their misery.

Others, whose lives do not meet our standards, will be put out of their misery.

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.

Will somebody please put Rush out of this misery.

Would my experience be more valuable if I largely shut out of awareness the misery of others?

But it would be better to heal these sick people rather than put them out of my misery.

The common enemy will make thee believe, as soon as thou fallest into any fault, that thou walkest in error, and therefore art out of God and his favor, and herewith would he make thee distrust of the divine Grace, telling thee of thy misery, and making a giant of it; and putting it into thy head that every day thy soul grows worse instead of better, whilst it so often repeats these failings.

But we don't know — the negative possibility for this couple's affair, and of its misery being drawn out for far too long due to his believing too much in his love, is also there.

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

And what of the purpose and meaning all of us need in our lives to help us get out of bed in the morning and not descend into misery?

Given the darkness and misery of this point in the service, «Pek - ethronos,» whose words are taken from a psalm of praise for the triumphant King of Israel and the God to whom he owes his success, seems rather out of place.

They might make you feel «spaced out» for a little while, but that soon wears off and then you are a slave to the drug for the rest of your life — trapped in the misery of being an addict.

God please forgive those who don't believe and help them to come out of their misery.

They tore away Children our of their Mothers arms, and dash'd out their Brains against the Rocks; others they threw in the River, diverting themselves with this brutish Sport, and giving great shouts while they saw»em in this misery.»

Our needs would be simple enough to be satisfied readily and on one's own, and there would be no need to laboriously invent one's way out of natural misery.

Psalm 107 lays out four different groups of people who are facing misery, despair, and even death.

Out of utopian misery has come the prospect of rebirth.

Millions of young men were killed, thrones were toppled, and Communism was established in Russia in what was to become a 60 - year regime involving misery on a massive scale, with famine, secret police, concentration camps and the ruthless stamping out of any attempts at opposition.

The content of this ultimate hope grows organically out of the felt needs, miseries, dreams, and faith of that given period, using categories available in the culture of the time.

I was going to my work after breakfast one morning, thinking as usual of her and of my misery, when, just as if some outside power laid hold of me, I found myself turning round and almost running to my room, where I immediately got out all the relics of her which I possessed, including some hair, all her notes and letters, and ambrotypes on glass.

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.

On 19th July AD 64 the great fire of Rome broke out and it raged for a week, destroying alike the most sacred buildings and the homes of the common people, and leaving the people of Rome bound together in a community of misery.

But the continued war with the Northern Alliance, imposition of severe Islamic code of conduct by the Taliban, and three years of draught escalated the misery and suffering of the population out of proportion to the means they possessed and the materials provided by the rest of the world.

Still further, Hartshorne points out that our loveless physics and biology have produced in our time loveless politics and economics, with the results that we have seen the revival of human cruelty on an unprecedented scale and the adoption of callous economic policies which leave the alleviation of human miseries to the automatic functioning of the «market.