Sentences with phrase «pain of death»

May I suggest to you that the image of the beast has already been formed, but that it only awaits the support of civil authorities to require its allegiance on pain of death.

Back in 1970 I learned, under pain of death, never to use a double negative.

I was challenged by the tasks of packing lunches and cooking regular family dinners, and my son would not eat a vegetable — any vegetable — upon pain of death.

Surely we must realise that the years of psychological torture between sentencing and execution render the physical pain of death negligible.

On pain of death, I couldn't tell you which one is most beautiful.

So you can bounce between parties as much as you want in the United States until you decide to run for office... than you better be prepared to part with the party only on pain of death or (worse of an elected official) future political career.

Tens of thousands are enduring total collective imprisonment under pain of death and yet Westminster still has no sense of urgency

They had been banished (under pain of death) from pretty much every European country when they lastly arrived in England hoping to convert them (thinking that the protestants might sympathize with them more then the Catholics).

Islam will have a real problem coming to grips with its basic textual dogma that all unbelievers are to be oppressed, and all pagans converted on pain of death.

First and foremost, greeks didn't just give up zeus on the spot, they were converted first by the romans on pain of death and later when the romans converted to christianity, there were still pagans, no one just looked at their beliefs, decided they were silly and changed.

We don't believe in marrying 6 year old girls like the prophet did, in subjugating people to your religion under pain of death, by offering death to infidels, and to grant complete subservience to some prophet who said he was speaking to god.

the answer to that is the incarnation itself, that Christ would take upon himself humanity and the pains and struggles of the human condition, including the pains of death.

For all its many good points (and, BTW, you can find some good points in just about any belief system), Islam allows for no other religion and once you have professed that faith, you can never leave it on pain of death.

«But if they were strong enough believers to refuse to deny Jesus on pain of death,» he said, «then God knows their hearts.»

No one who has had one whom he loved die in such straits will fail to welcome the compassionate realism of the graveside prayer, «Suffer us not at the last from any pains of death to fall from thee».

God is everywhere, of course, but God also knows the sting of sin and the pain of death.

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

When Apollo demanded he be worshiped under pain of death.

It is too easy to pretend that Christ's resurrection, the incipient sign of the «new order of things,» cancels the pain of death.

Made a prisoner by the Emperor, he was ordered, on pain of death, to remove the supposedly objectionable passages from the Granth and to include praises of Mohammad and the Hindu gods.

What is new about the Twilight series, whose premise is that the heroine may not have physical relations with her vampire lover on pain of death, is not the theme itself: the same twisted sexuality pervades the whole tradition of literary pornography.

Men from every walk of life, that had absolutely nothing materially to gain, refused to recant under pain of death.

And in 1948 one million Jews were thrown out of Arab Muslim states on pain of death.

Even so, on pain of death no one, man or beast, may approach too closely to the Presence (vss.

It is taboo (and risked on pain of death) to be «unclean» in the presence of deity; but if this is a primitive concept it still appears preferable to us to the all too common chumminess in the God - man relationship in popular religion of our own time.

Here, residents - and others who had already taken shelter here from other parts of Syria - are enduring a medieval punishment: total collective imprisonment under pain of death.

Harry has witnessed the deaths of so many loved ones in his young years and has likely felt the pain of death more than anyone else.

That's right, after a summer of movies that have encouraged audiences to cheer the violence as bad guys are killed one - by - one, or, when innocent victims die, to quickly forget about them as the film callously flits off to the next high - tech, blow -»em - up moment, along comes a movie that not only portrays the pain of death but shows us the grief that follows.

If I was Queen of the Universe they would be publicly beaten as a warning to others and never allowed to come within ten miles of the creative process of a movie on pain of death.

The game of rollerball hinges on a lack of individualism, on pain of death, to keep the masses in line.

It's a remembrance piece for his mother as the pain of her death still resides in him.

Separated, without the competition of girls in the class, they will talk about the double standards they face, how they pick role models, their fears and successes, and the pain of death and divorce.

Lovett, himself a former antiquarian bookseller, weaves an engrossing tale that contemplates the influence of literature, the pain of death, and the power of redemption.

The pain, the agony of it all... never, never will I forget you or lose the pain of your death, my Snow, little dear Snu!»

We need look no further than Washington, DC, where a battle is now being waged between TNR advocates and conservationists who want to round up cats and take them to shelters (where the feral ones would be killed) and force owners of pet cats to keep them indoors on pain of death (death to the cats, not the owners, although sometimes one wonders).

«Nobody named Hideo Kojima has ever worked here, or been banned from returning to here on pain of death.»

Something like 90 % of the Tamils polled wanted peace - their children are press ganged into the militias on pain of death.

At Mark Schiffrin P. A., we know that there is nothing that can make the pain of a death go away but you also need to take care of your financial future.

On pain of death, I will not disclose the name or city of the firm, but the firm thinks there «is room» for the increase.