Sentences with phrase «own political desire»

(Mark 12: I3 - I7) That is, the seeking after God is not to be confused with political desires.

19:28 or Luke 22:29), on the whole even in the early Christian community political desires and fancies have seldom found a place in connection with the hope for the Kingdom of God.

The first Protestant «project» for Brazil (by American Methodists in the 1830s and 1840s) was a national reformation, in which the political desire for a breach with Rome would be supplemented by a reform of doctrine and practice stimulated by ample distribution of the Scriptures.

Indeed, although Clinton's political ambitions were clear to many who knew him, the documentary neglects Clinton's higher education and its incubation of his political desires to focus on his more formative high school years.

[1] In a recent seminar that took place at the University of Oxford, we referred to this as political desire (https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/events/previous/)

Highways Superintendent, Wayne Ballard, has a checkered history in gathering «absentee ballots» and election petitions designed to further his political desire to remain in political office in Clarkstown.

Problems arise when higher - level decision makers mandate blended learning or make large - scale technology purchases based on the overhyped claims of technology boosters or on their own political desire to make their schools look innovative.

#bellwether is a data collection project designed to dig deeper into the true political desires of the voting population of Ohio, a state that is regarded as vital to the endgame of both parties.

[2] Positing that these open narratives hold potential for a wider conversation about political desire that does not exclude the subject of feeling, the exhibition aims to provide points of reflection for how the political group might be reimagined with a renewed capacity to respond to the power of the few.

And all of that process — people, including your employees, take positions and you have to respect their rights, freedom of expression, freedom to express their political desires... We didn't anticipate that when [the Caracas office] opened, but 95 per cent of our history has been under the 10 years of this [Chávez] administration.

Are you asking for an explication of the fundamental tradeoff between freedom of speech and the political desire to eliminate hatred?

Whether the Commission will actually do so probably depends on politics, as much as the Greek decision not to grant exploitation licences to competitors of DEI is undoubtedly motivated by the political desire to protect a national champion.

Not exact matches

In democracies, political «leaders» rarely lead, but follow voters» behavior — not voters» wishes or desires, but behavior.

Not only do the political «left» and «right» have almost contradictory prognoses for the problems of stagnation or slow growth, but they also have to appeal to the almost randomly varying desires and priorities of the voters they represent.

Considering there doesn't appear to be any correlation between amount of sleep lost and political leaning of a state, it could have been a mixture of both excitement and stress, or simply the desire to watch the outcome of a historic election.

«He wouldn't believe in his political opinions; instead, he would see those opinions as convenient tools for gaining what he actually desires.»

At a private event in New York earlier this year, Jess McIntosh, former vice president of communications for Emily's List, discussed the group's desire to reach new millennial voters and members who consume news and form their political views outside of traditional media.

Film - makers Lewis & Klein begin the movie by telling us that their visit to Argentina was driven by the desire to demonstrate something their political leanings demand they believe, namely that there are alternatives to global capitalism.

Thus, the path dependency that political scientist Paul Pierson, 1997 has observed in pension reforms is not just an observed fact, but a desired characteristic.21 Threats to sustainability are typically identified as expenditures rising above an acceptable level, and especially in prefunded DB plans, volatility of pension contributions or accounting expenses for pensions.

With the current global political situation, there is desire and an opening for Canada to become a partner for change within the region.

Those probes into consumers» personalities and desires foreshadowed Cambridge Analytica's pitch to commercial and political clients — using data, as its website proudly proclaims, «to change audience behavior.»

He starts with the EIA estimates of costs of different generation sources, realizes that with those numbers the GEA mix is cheaper than what it replaces according, declares that «it is likely to be the case that the new estimate has been shaped by political pressures within the Obama administration» and therefore dismisses them, and then shops around for a prediction more in keeping with his desired conclusion.

More women are wading into the world of politics this year, fueled partly by what political observers call a desire to resist President Donald Trump.

«My political engagement is motivated by a desire to contribute to Quebec's prosperity.

With the current global political situation, there is desire and an opening for Canada to become a partner for change within the...

And on April 30 2016 400 everyday Albertans gathered in Red Deer and overwhelmingly expressed their desire to see a significant political re-alignment in the province.

There are two dominant political dynamics in Alberta: economic anxiety, and the desire to remedy the dice - roll that gave the province an NDP government.

Where citizens» natural and understandable hatred, fear, and desire for revenge threaten to undermine a fragile peace agreement or an embryonic democracy, restorative political practices may well be essential not only for stability and the conditions needed for moving toward democracy but for what justice can be achieved.

Indeed, many are now taking the name of God in vain and using it to support worldly desires like petty political causes.

Within the classical liberal tradition, there is desire for a political system to respect the right to live free from physical force, for a government of limited function in the protection of rights, and for powers to be exercised in accordance with laws objective and universal.

He should consider whether, contrary to his own political experience, some people in political life say things not out of a desire for applause lines or even approval, but out of conviction.

And this apparent desire to avoid confrontation, to say and do whatever pleases potential supporters, has been evident throughout the man's political career.

I believe that his current political stances are not generally based on his own personal Mormon beliefs, but on a desire to please other powerful religious groups in the Republican part, namely conservative evangelical Christians.

Hey Tim, what indications do you have that our current, legally - elected President has any desire to stop due political process?

As inhabitants of the modern world, we are religious now perhaps to the extent of our desire to crack open the coffin of materialism, and to give to reality a larger, freer definition than is allowed by the militant materialists of the corporate economy and their political servants, or by the mechanical paradigm of reductive science.

Perhaps the lyrics apply to the last one, if we equate land - hunger with the desire for «gold,» but political history accounts of why «such - and - such a President or Congress eventually entered us into such - and - such a war» reveal time and again that a motivation of economic interest was not the reason, and seldom even the second or third reason, offered or discussed (even in the secret discussions hence uncovered by historians).

New Testament Scholars tell us that there are only three historical facts that we can be certain of about Jesus: (a) Jesus was part of the Kingdom of God movement, the belief in the divine sovereignty of Israel, and the desire for the divine expulsion of the Romans, (b) when Jesus came to Jerusalem to advance this movement, he was crucified, a penalty reserved specifically for those who posed a political or financial threat to the Roman Peace, and (c) a sect of the Kingdom of God movement continued in Jesus» name and memory, which was active in Jerusalem, and which lasted until 70 CE when the city was sacked and all the many different Zealot sects there were put down.

Nevertheless, the social and political dimensions of the gospel can not be trivialized or overlooked by any theology or theopraxis that desires to take seriously the event of God in Jesus Christ.

$ 22.95 It has become a commonplace that the state of our political culture leaves much to be desired.

The events of the past decade have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that the scientific community is driven by government money and political correctness far more than any genuine desire for «objective» knowledge.

In his more recent writings, he even attempts to combine an ironic sense of the radical contingency of our language, desires, and beliefs, with a strong commitment to liberal political values, such as the need to fight against pain and suffering and the importance of achieving solidarity as members of a community.

They are motivated instead by nothing more than the desire to see a particular political agenda prevail, but they pretend to be the bearers of some mighty revelation, vouchsafed to them alone, leading one and all to a bright new world of greater inclusiveness and sensitivity.

In my exploration of the connections between an emphasis on «personal salvation» and a recognition of the need for extensive structural change, two themes have seemed to me to be important to stress: first, that a concern for «individual conversion,» properly understood, should naturally spill over into a desire for political change.

Aside from all the vitriol, political rhetoric and waving of religious banners, there is a desire by many Muslims to be heard and seen for what they are: human beings.

Whether in the form of totalitarianism or of self - effacing loyalty to political parties, it represents the desire of this age to fly «from the demanding «ever anew»» of personal responsibility «into the protective «once for all»» of membership in a group.

If more of us ignored our locations, denominations, political viewpoints, and desire for credit and affirmation, more of us could get things done.

The Messiah's only appeal against the needs of the body, the desire to avoid suffering, and the allure of political power was to the word of God.

The more we modern people experiment with it, retooling it to suit our material desires, our political agendas, our busy lives, the more we would appear to risk losing what it is that makes many people religiously inclined in the first place.

Oddly enough, the thrill that such notoriety gave was not met with any desire for good civic engagement — as the political scientists would put it.

From such visions might also come insights relevant to the discovery of social strategies and political mechanisms and technological deployment that could help give concrete substance to the futures we desire to invent.