Sentences with phrase «over by»

In May the Lutheran church, which is doing important work with both war and earthquake victims, was taken over by armed gunmen.

Officials and journalists are being gunned down on the streets, civilian homes are being raided and seized, civilian government is increasingly being taken over by the military — and so far the drug lords have only engaged in selective terrorism.

«You realize that he is using a kind of language that's so infused with religious symbols that one wonders how the church can speak, when its language is so taken over by the culture,» he said.

We were taken over by traitors decades ago.

I'm very sorry to hear that you were dominated over by religious authorities though.

Guns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancer).

The GOP seems to have been taken over by real right wingnuts... extremists who are not now and never will be the majority in America.

When that happens, all of us secretly hope that another few miles down the road, we see that guy either pulled over by a cop or broken down on the side of the road.

Allow a solider to take part??? This is OUR military and it has been taken over by the far - right evangelicals and other religious extremists.

They are noumenal realities covered over by a phenomenal world of our own making (Kaufman 1975).

«For my part,» Ricoeur begins, «I have been very taken with — I should say, won over by — the eschatological interpretation that Jurgen Moltmann gives to the Christian kerygma in his work The Theology of Hope.

This was the belief of the deists — a mechanical universe presided over by a divine engineer, who having made it left it to run itself.

If we pretended that traffic didn't exist and never educated our kids about that, then kids would be getting run over by vehicles at a far greater rate.

One does not have to believe that the country is about to be taken over by enragé Southern Baptists to be alarmed by the recent upsurge of the Christian right.

What do you do when it feels like you are being passed over by opportunities?

RS: The cat can be destroyed by being eaten, or by being run over by a car.

His whole code and one's allegiance to it suggest, however, that somehow, somewhere, human beings have acquired the faculty of imposing meaning on the meaningless; and this imposed order becomes a kind of substitute for an intelligible universe, which may or may not be presided over by a Nature greater than our own.

Start over by visiting the little kiddie site I posted above.

During the last quarter of a century the large mass media corporations themselves have been taken over by even larger corporate powers.

As realm after realm was taken over by natural law, for many people God was escorted to the frontiers of the universe and bowed out.

And then we watched the birth of a somber but tranquil time presided over by President Gerald Ford, who will probably be remembered primarily for his decency.

They have also established schools and made a significant contribution to the development of the educational system, although in several countries in recent years church schools have been taken over by the state.

It was, both figuratively and literally, a conversation, a special kind of conversation both stimulated and presided over by someone who might just in his way have become one of the country's most gifted conversationalists.

Susceptible to bouts of despair (at one point even welcoming visions of being run over by a bus), her love for philosophy rescued her: It reopened her interest in religion and questions about ultimate meaning and existence.

I've been prayed over by Presbyterians, Baptists, and Pentecostals, by friends and pastors.

* Anxiety & Sorrow: * ************************ When you're sad, bothered, or anxious about something, you can not be productive as your mind is taken over by what's bothering you.

A number of the disabled programs were going to be taken over by a federal court and we transformed them and 31,000 families got off a waiting list...

Have had a scary dream where i felt like i was being taken over by a demon.

I will not vote for any Republican because they have been taken over by the Christian Right.

And in spite of Vatican II's corrections, to this day the Bible is still quite often passed over by many Catholics as they look for the sources of their faith.

They have been taken over by right wing ideologues.

I want to suggest to you the classical definition of Christian prayer that is found first stated by a great theologian of the earlier days of the Church, St. John of Damascus, and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century: «Prayer is the elevation of the soul to God.»

Early man defeated Death many times over by evolving and creating humanity into the modern day society that we are.

If this were just one isolated verse we could possibly explain it away or symbolize it but the problem is it's not an isolated verse, it is repeated over and over by Jesus himself.

But for Lowell, Boston had only a «savage servility»: a parking lot was being dug under the Common, and the Public Gardens, once reserved for the upper class, were now taken over by the «mid-Sunday Irish.»

If you live in a time and place that is ruled over by a tyrant and you follow their laws in fear, you have not done anything wrong by doing so.

What I just can not get is how any patriotic, democracy - loving American would ever follow a system that fantasizes about being ruled over by some alien king?

According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the combat mission there will be over by next year.

My body told me I had been run over by a tractor.

Its disgusting to see people like that being fawned over by other «righteous» people.

I read it and got over by the age of 12.

Once more the appealing human note is passed over by Matthew and Luke.

This op - ed piece caused a flurry of negative reactions, especially from «scientist - believers» who were upset that their creed of chaotic cosmology mysteriously brooded over by the Spirit had been called into question.

Young people are not won over by such things.

Both rites are presided over by a person who usually wears some sort of special clothing or robes.

This world is obviously being taken over by the gays.

For my part I have been very much taken with — I should say, won over by — the eschatological interpretation that Jurgen Moltmann gives to the Christian kerygma in his work The Theology of Hope.1 As we know, Johannes Weiss and Albert Schweitzer are at the origin of the reinterpretation of the whole of the New Testament, starting with the preaching of the Kingdom of God and of the last things and breaking with the moralizing Christ of the liberal exegetes.

In a certain way it is taken over by the prophetic meaning.

By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.74

Clothing, for example, donated to give needy women something good to wear for a job interview is often picked over by volunteers who don't need it.