Sentences with phrase «people accepting gifts»

I'm no anthropologist, but I doubt a culture in the world supports people accepting gifts without showing appreciation.

In other words, if a person accepts a gift or reward (monetary or otherwise) which convinces them to act in a deceitful or corrupt manner, then both the bribe giver and receiver are committing an offence.

Not exact matches

2) I am paying just over an additional 500 per mth as it is now, but again, I don't want to take from «investments» to pay off a mtg. 3) That's also been investigated but if I were to do that I would a) exceed the free gift law, b) the person would have to accept the $ from me (going through an acct.)

Additional payment methods accepted are cash in person, amazon gift cards, and many more.

Many people do not choose to accept the gift.

The Hebrew word for «put» also means «give» — God will give the law to the people, and our hearts will recognize, accept and live up to the gift.

When the Spirit has used the law as it is intended, to reveal unrighteousness, and a person gives up trying to be good and accepts the gift of grace, what can the law now.

I, and many other students of the Word of God, believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator and savior of every person's soul if they choose to accept his gift, told his closest followers that some were born differently, that some are not attracted to the opposite gender.

If one lets the no - inherent - free - will interpretation of the less than 0.5 % of the Scriptures set the precedence on what the word of God says about man's free will, then a person is forced to do some absurd reasoning / interpretation of the majority of scriptures that imply that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts.

Nevertheless, when people give gifts, God is pleased to accept them if they are given with the right motive and intention.

This attitude is at complete variance to that behind Natural Family Planning (NFP), wherein a couple who have reason to space their children accept the gift of sexuality exactly as it is stamped in the human person by God and do not treat their fertility as a problem to be expunged by technology.

Your sins are already forgiven, no one goes to Hell because they did not ask for forgiveness, a person goes to Hell because when they have passed the age of innocence, and have come to the Knowledge of the Gospel, or they have learned that Jesus died for their sins, and that He gives us salvation freely because He loves us more than we love ourselves, and we have to make a choice to accept or reject this free gift, if that individual accepts Jesus as their Savior, then they go to Heaven, and if that individual rejects Jesus, then they go to Hell.

It would seem strange that a person could pen such powerful words of love and faithfulness to God in the wake of such a tragedy, but when a person accepts Christ's gift of salvation they are given a joy and peace that can not be described!

Thanks to the gift of free will from God, these people chose to not accept Jesus and to be away from God.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

People need to either accept the gift of faith within a single tradition, or embrace their inner atheist, even if it frightens them.

Jesus is God's gift of sacrifice for each person on this earth to accept or reject.

For me it is not about an argument or debate with you people, it is about putting Jesus's Salvation forward as to gift to whom ever shall choose to accept it, and be saved in Jesus's name, so that he may not perish eternally.

God accepts whatever we bring to the God / person relationship — our physical and spiritual condition, personality, connection to reality, our participation in relationships, talents, inabilities, cognition, knowledge, ignorance, life journey, spiritual journey, walk about, wandering, seeking, questioning, questing, acceptance of God, rejection of God — and our emotional and mental status: hate / love, anger / peace, sadness / happiness, hurt / health, feeling lost and abandoned / feeling found and included, agitation / serenity, apathy / passion, confusion / clarity, fractures / wholeness — all of this, all of whoever we are and have ever been and every action committed or ever contemplated and every thought we ever explored or entertained or that flitted through our mind — all of this, we bring to the God / person relationship and God accepts the totality of who we are and every component that comprises who we are — as a gift.

One minute you want to insist there is no works involved because God grants the gift of faith to some and not others as he sees fit (somehow without this meaning He has chosen who is hell - bound), and the next minute you want to insist that people who are going to hell are going there because they refused God (somehow without believeing in God, and the right God, and then accepting this God is someone not a work, even when it is someone a person who have to do in their own strength against their own inherent sinfulness).

And yet, as the biographer's documentation bears witness, both father and mother showed themselves surprisingly accepting and indeed generous parents, people aware of their son's gifts and (as seen in their decision to send him into psychoanalysis) able to go outside their world to offer him help.

12 chapter speaks about gifts & many members in one body in Christ & to my interpretation it's pertaining to all that have accepted him as their person savior & is empowered to be witness & spread the good news (The Gospel) about Jesus saves!

While there are some people now living in heterosexual marriages who once perceived themselves to be gay, there are millions of gay and lesbian persons who have accepted their sexual orientation as a gift from God and live productive and deeply spiritual lives.

When a person accepts the free gift of God (see Romans 6:23) he receives a new Spirit (the Spirit of God).

It makes me very sad that Christians and churches that welcome the perspectives and the gifts offered by other faiths, and by people of no acknowledged faith... and those who recognize, acknowledge and journey through their doubts, questions, etc. are too often pushed (and allow themselves, ourselves) to be pushed to the extreme fringes and accept our voicelessness within a context where faiths and faith groups are often identified by the narrowest, most exclusive vision.

just because someone gives you a gift doesn't mean you have to accept it, google the word Libertas and you will find it was a Roman Greek goddess that promised liberty for all the people and it looks identical to ours Statue of Liberty or Lady liberty, America can not claim to be a godly nation and embrace pagan idols.

Memorials and tributes are gifts accepted in recognition of a person or event and can be designated to special or regular funds.

NEW YORK CITY — NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton dusted off the city's Conflict of Interest rule book during a summit with top police brass to read them the riot act about laws that govern accepting gifts and gratuities from the public and people doing business with the city, DNAinfo New York has learned.

CHRAJ's report follows a petition by the youth wing of the Convention People's Party, which demanded a probe into the conduct of the President, for accepting the gift worth GHc100, 000 from the contractor who was subsequently awarded some government contracts.

Ministerial rules state that ministers must not accept «gifts, hospitality or services» from people where a conflict of interest could be inferred.

Are you telling me a public body should accept gifts and hospitality from the very person that you are going to investigate?»

«I am pleased that the General Assembly has accepted my top ethics reform priority: a $ 100 annual aggregate cap on gifts that public officials can receive from people seeking influence with the state,» McAuliffe said in a written statement.

I'm not one of those people that smiles nicely and then accepts the gift while inside I'm silently screaming,

All the expenses of the sugar babies must be accounted for by the sugar daddy and it might include cash, luxury vacations or monthly allowances.What is a Sugar Baby?A Sugar baby is typically the younger and less wealthier person in a mutually beneficial relationship and accepts cash, gifts or any other sort of benefits which he or she appreciates from a Sugar daddy to be in this relationship and meet the demands of the sugar daddy.

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Or, as Emma Stone said while accepting her best - actress BAFTA February 12, «In a time that's so divisive, I think it's really special that we were all able to come together tonight, thanks to BAFTA, to celebrate the positive gift of creativity, and how it can transcend borders and how it can help people to feel a little less alone.»

In essence, it's about being professional and taking care, which means don't: agree to meet alone; allow over-familiarity; give out your personal mobile number; meet informally outside working hours and away from your organisation's premises (and certainly don't do so without getting formal approval); allow too frequent contact or over familiarity that may be acceptable with friends, colleagues and family but not from people with whom you only have a commercial relationship; discuss your private life, or social or recreational interests of you or your partner; accept offers, discounts or other services or products by the client, customer or contractor; accept hospitality or gifts that you yourself wouldn't pay for from your own pocket; and don't do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, obligated or might be open to misinterpretation or might be difficult to explain to your manager, a journalist or an investigator.

Hollingworth, in her landmark work on children of IQ 180 +, warned that extremely gifted children must learn to accept that the majority of people they will encounter in life are very different from themselves.

Segregation in gifted education is implicitly accepted by the majority of people who are willing to leave practices in place (or even actively campaign to preserve them) which lead to that segregation.

It is still difficult for many people to not only accept the existence of the gifted learning disabled child, but to also understand the need for special programming.

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This is something that Amazon offers to make it easy to give away review copies, but there is a caveat to it because the person accepting the «gifted book» could actually just exchange it for an equivalent gift card.

He accepted memorial gifts from a steady stream of people — cash or packets of yellow worship paper, a hundred sheets from some, two hundred from others — and entered them into his account book, while the Inspection Station's assistant head, Xiao Han, manning a squat table behind him, stamped the paper with the mark of an ancient copper coin, thus turning the paper into spirit money that could then be burnt for the deceased.

He accepted memorial gifts from a steady stream of people - cash or packets of yellow worship paper, a hundred sheets from some, two hundred from others - and entered them into his account book, while the Inspection Station's assistant head, Xiao Han, manning a squat table behind him, stamped the paper with the mark of an ancient copper coin, thus turning the paper into spirit money that could then be burnt for the deceased.

Those people are not aware of their potential until they accept the power and the burden of The Gift.

2) I am paying just over an additional 500 per mth as it is now, but again, I don't want to take from «investments» to pay off a mtg. 3) That's also been investigated but if I were to do that I would a) exceed the free gift law, b) the person would have to accept the $ from me (going through an acct.)

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Shrinking holiday budgets always bring the risk that people will just resort to cheaper and — let's be honest — useless gifts for their friends that are politely accepted and then swiftly thrown away (or regifted).

Gifts in honor or memory of pets or people are very gratefully accepted.

Intino said that though encouraging people to give pets as gifts used to be taboo, it has become more accepted as long as the adoption benefits everyone involved.