Sentences with phrase «people acted upon»

These people acted upon it, and their initial confidence was reinforced.

People act upon these beliefs without ever really understanding just why they're at best insulting, and at worst dangerous.

The information in this document is believed to be accurate, but under no circumstances should a person act upon the information contained within.

Not exact matches

The global drop in oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a commensurate decrease in gasoline prices that may act as a massive tax cut for the very people who have, so far, reaped very few benefits from the economic recovery.

Dotzler, who does not have a technical background, took it upon himself to act as a liaison between nontechies willing to serve as bug reporters and the programmers — helping to get the former up to speed and the latter to be more forgiving, and thus bringing thousands of new people into the project.

Marketers have a responsibility to observe and act upon what people react to, but it's important not to conflate «everybody can't stop talking about this» with «we should do something similar.»

Although the Chief Justice acknowledged that this argument had some merit, the more determinative factor — and the key difference between the statutory immunity provisions relied upon by the ERCB and Alberta Environment — was that the immunity clause with respect to the former explicitly contemplated the regulator as an entity («the Board or a member of the Board...») whereas the immunity provisions under the Water Act and the EPEA did not (referring only to «persons» in various capacities; see paras 62 — 71).

Among other provisions, the act stipulates that, upon provision of currency exchange services, a provider of currency exchange services shall identify and verify all persons participating in the transaction if the amounts exchanged in cash either in a single transaction or related transactions exceed $ 6,400 or its amount in another currency.

For example, if a person frequently visits forum sites upon which you advertise, you can limit the number of times your ads appear to this person, since they have likely already acted or are not interested in your product / service.

It is also the logical culmination of a process that began some decades ago when the Court untethered itself from the text of the Constitution and began to sit like an omniscient council of elders uniquely empowered to intuit and act upon the aspirations of the people.

If it were the case that the Jews acted wrongly by taking land from the Palistinians by force... it would be of course, one of the most understandable acts of aggression in History... after what was bestowed upon them in WWII what people wouldn't suffer a temporary loss of sanity?

My hope is that more and more people will continue to find the courage and then act upon it to name abuse and bullying wherever they see it.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

But these guys draw their inspiration from people like John Piper and Mark Driscoll who act upon their «authority» on a «biblical» basis.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

When Islam is exposed to such hardships, its believers are permitted, and indeed it is made incumbent upon them, to repel aggression, to restore peace, and to establish a just situation in which people can think and act freely.

The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all people of faith and good will.

It is entirely possible that, at a time when very important decisions have to be made and acted upon for the good of humankind and the planet as a whole, far too many people will focus their attention on their own immediate vicinity and insist on claiming their individual right to act within it as they wish.

An act has positive moral value when it is based upon the whole - hearted assent of the person to it, that is, when there is a congruent relation between the act and the total personality structure of the one who acts.

In some cases, there may be people that are born with differences that are problematic when they act upon them, such as psychopathology... however even this is tricky.

That's why it's crucial we keep our eyes upon the truth, read and meditate upon the Bible, pray with humility and ask God for forgiveness and insight into our hearts and His, and act in ways that He leads us no matter what other people do or say.

I hope he can reflect back to those the real, loving, peaceful and understanding God that exists, and not the perceived hateful, vengeful, and punishing god these people in - act upon.

In another interview, marking Zevon's death, she expanded upon that, noting that many of his best friends were «solid, grounded people with families, and that's what Warren always craved, even if he didn't always act like that.»

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

Instead, the Church's demand must be for freedom to act upon what religious people have judged to be true.

In my experience, the protestant movement created an individualism movement where every person can create a personal interpretation of whatever they believe and act upon those beliefs.

Now Its like I am a totally different person, I have to be honest that the thoughts are still there but I never act upon the sin any more.

They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»

Under all variations of form, they continued to affirm that in the events out of which the Christian Church arose there was a conclusive act of God, who in them visited and redeemed His people; and that in the corporate experience of the Church itself there was revealed a new quality of life, arising out of what God had done, which in turn corroborated the value set upon the facts.

The Scriptures of the New Testament, or in other words, the documents of the New Covenant, are the authoritative record of that act of God by which He established relations between Himself and the Church; and they are the charter defining the status of the Church as the people of God, the terms upon which that status is granted, and the obligations it entails.

Then God's act in revealing himself is no longer an encounter between the divine Person and the human person, but an act worked upon a purely passive entity that insight equally well be a dog or a Person and the human person, but an act worked upon a purely passive entity that insight equally well be a dog or a person, but an act worked upon a purely passive entity that insight equally well be a dog or a stone.

It can take the form of hierarchy similar to that which exists in an individual person, where there is a unique governing center coordinating the relationality of all its parts, or it can build upon its ontic base of intersubjectivity and act through consensual modes.

The dream of the abolition of war is given us in the Bible, but the reason most Christians hesitate to accept that dream and act upon it comes also from the Bible, from all the wars that are recorded and celebrated by God's people, all the wars that are authorized and even commanded by God.

Religion not only allows people to waste their precious time on this earth waiting for happiness in an «afterlife» that doesn't exist, but it inspires people to commit acts of atrocity upon each other while justifying their actions with bible quotes.

No matter what I said, Mark was going to keep going to groups like this one and telling thousands upon thousands of Christians that being gay was caused by faulty parenting, that it only led to misery, and that anyone who wanted to become straight could... And they would pass those beliefs on to their children and other Christians, who would act upon that misinformation whenever they encountered gay people.»

2 - 3), and whether it is apt to celebrate communion in the morning when Jesus instituted the Eucharist after supper (16.1 - 17.1), the pastor in Cyprian returns at the end of the letter to assure forgiveness to those who may have erred in good faith in the past (18.4), and requesting his people to recognise that since Christ's «second coming is now drawing near to us,» (18.4), it is incumbent upon them to act so that «He may find us upholding what He has counselled, observing what He has taught and doing what He Himself has done.»

If something new happens — that means, that forgiveness is not a necessary result determined by the nature of the man who forgives, something upon which the offender can count (if he did, he would obviously be unworthy of it); but it is an act arising wholly from the free good will of a person, wholly a gift.

Unfortunately with these people, we also don't doubt that they act upon their primitive thoughts, which is illegal, immoral, etc..

«Truth is one, but men seek it in different ways depending upon their background, education and environment; the only reasonable way for any modern man to act when faced with this pluralism of ethical and moral thinking is to seek to know the truth held by the other person, but with love and respect and openness.»

In taking this position I do of course raise a very old question in the doctrine of the ministry, the question of whether the minister's authority to preach the Word, administer sacraments, and act as pastor inheres in his office and ordination or whether it inheres in his person and is dependent upon his faith.

«13 Ellul insists that respect for human responsibility, dignity, and freedom forbids ever acting upon people with technical means.

Some look at this passage and see that Christ judges the sheep and goats based on their acts of kindness, or lack thereof, upon the Jewish people during the tribulation and say, «See?

People are also inspired by dreams and act upon them differently.

«smashing babies like in the psalms «Psalm 137, you didn't read that either did you?It deals with the realities of war, and the enemies of Jerusalem who committed those kinds of acts upon Jewish children.The psalm is a lament and a cry for revenge and justice.A far cry from an endorsement, as you would have people believe.

Also, in Jesus we see how God acts upon or relates universally to all people.

What was their first act upon meeting people after Moses was left behind?

In so far as people in our culture act in segmentalized roles are defined and required by organized groups able to apply social and economic power, the church that makes no demands upon its members, gives them no stronghold from which to fight, and is afraid to use its own institutional power when it is necessary is simply eliminated from the struggle.

The «Affordable Care Act» is a «Social Doctrine» waver for the Executive Branch to mandate upon the American people conduct and economy.

Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul.

Obligation to obedience depended no longer upon content but upon formal authority; not what was commanded determined the will of the person acting, but the fact that such and such was commanded.