Sentences with phrase «people endowed»

«The ultimate resource is people — especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty — who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.»

A people endowed with great vitality, strong natural instincts, the highest moral energy, and the keenest intellectual capacity, yet whose life consisted not in all the things which fill the life of the other peoples of the earth.

People endow museums and go to concerts the way an earlier elite supported religion and went to church.

Because history is made up cumulatively of the actions and experiences of persons endowed with the elusive quality of freedom, its intelligibility is not easily comprehended, that is, if it has any intelligibility at all.

An object becomes a symbol when people endow it with meaning value or significance.

Not exact matches

Our community is endowed with a rich set of seasoned, talented, successful people who have helped grow businesses all over the country.

«After years of first hand observation, I am convinced beyond a shadow of doubt of the counterintuitive notion that one astute individual has five times the investment decision - making capacity of a committee of five persons who, individually, are equally endowed intellectually» Frank Martin

It is written by men that every person is endowed by his or her creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these is the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

By civil righteousness, Luther meant that people, by the powers of reason with which they are endowed, can refrain from murdering one another, or stealing, or lying.

One need merely approach it with an open mind to see that its authors were no mere robots, but human beings endowed with their own particular insights, virtues, customs, faith, and — as with all people — their own misconceptions and misunderstandings.

Article 1 declares that the person is «endowed with reason and conscience,» and reason and conscience direct the person to the source of that endowment.

I think if for millions of years people worshipped a rock, the investment of powerful, human energy would endow that rock with certain qualities, even a certain consciousness.

Every person, endowed with inalienable rights, is also obligated to exercise personal and social responsibility.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

You also forgot to say the person will also be confirmed and endowed a mormon after they're dead too.

About rights that all people are endowed with by their Creator; about rights that governments are instituted to protect.

But Abrams does cause one to wonder what people a hundred years from now will make of all those museums, memorials, and endowed chairs.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

The ideals espoused in the Declaration of Independence are evident in the New Thought belief that each person is divinely endowed with the right to happiness and the power of choice, enjoying equal access to the creative potential of spiritual and metaphysical laws.

Still, it was the more prosaic aspect of Palestine as the highway of the nations that constituted its unique opportunity, which of all peoples Israel alone was endowed to seize.

By this time Muhammad was physically, intellectually, and morally a mature person, endowed with those characteristics which made him a leader throughout the rest of his life.

Backed by an old culture, endowed with a rich civilization, and acquainted with logic, philosophy, and other intellectual pursuits, the people of Iran became familiar with the teachings of Islam.

Then 14 years after the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed «all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,» the lie was embedded in the U.S. legal structure through the Naturalization Act of 1790, which barred the rights of citizenship from both free and enslaved black people.

Being thus a substance endowed with intellect and will and freedom, God is a person; and a living person also, for He is both object and subject of his own activity, and to be this distinguishes the living from the lifeless.

God endows each human person with dignity, and it is not up to man to remove this dignity by killing the unborn.

God's presence in the world is no longer mediated by a king, but remains evident in the moral order and in a constitutional order, based in the American case on the explicit notion that all people are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

God's authority was acknowledged («All men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights»), but sovereignty was vested not in God but in the people who consented to be so governed.

No one is saying that liberalism requires you to be religious or that religious people are more amply endowed with the liberal spirit.

I suspect that the people of the city of Boston, the place where I live and work, would find Paul's Corinth quite familiar: a port city, a regional capital, bustling with commerce, with an ethnically heterogeneous population of diverse religious affiliations, endowed (among other things) with a flourishing sex industry.

America I don't plan to let you rest until you live it out that all [persons] are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

We hold these truths to be self - evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

It seems to many thoughtful people, in any case, that a God endowed with traditional omnipotence could have made this a far better world, even for the purpose of soul - making, by preventing a wide range of evils that have destroyed or stunted billions of lives throughout human history.

Did god tell you «Hey Cosette, I've endowed you with some stuff, be really nice to people!

It endows even the most victimized and oppressed peoples with a continuing and genuine responsibility, if only to struggle against whatever deprives them of their personhood.

We are not dealing with formal offices, but with functions for which persons were as certainly spiritually endowed as for prophecy or healing.

The sense of power and control over one's life remains, however, when they also are endowed with something Antonovski (1979) calls «lawfulness,» that is, when meaning is attributed as much to a miracle as to the absence of one, and people believe that «things will be how they should be.»

He, thus, appealed for the support of Zongo communities across the country for his government, to enable him realise his vision of a «Ghana beyond aid» — a Ghana that is able to look after its people through intelligent management of the resources with which it has been endowed.

I'm trying to understand how one determines what «certain rights... retained by the people» means in the Ninth Amendment, and why growing and consuming plants is not an «unalienable right endowed by my Creator».

We have begun to build a Ghana that is able to look after its people through intelligent management of the resources with which it has been endowed by the Creator; a Ghana which is governed according to the rule of law, respect for individual liberties and human rights, and the principles of democratic accountability.

But there is that belief, among them, that they are better endowed intellectually than other nationalities and unlike many people who have superiority complexes, they have, by and large, an inability to hide that belief, which breeds resentment against them wherever they go.

The traditional ruler, who noted that God loves Yoruba people said some Yoruba sons and daughters were yet to discover the beautiful values and norms God endowed Yoruba people with.

Like other people, I had thought that his Master's degree in Economics and extensive public service experience could not have sufficientlyprepared him for a reign over 3 million people — a kingdom which isalmost the size of Kuwait, although not as endowed, but as demographically diverse Kuwait.

According to him, «Serving be it in government, churches, mosques or wherever, is like a clarion call from God and for me, I believe that there is no way I can just give back to humanity for the greater blessings that God has endowed me than just serving and serving selflessly without any inkling of wanting to get a return back from anybody and that is what has actually propelled us to serve the people.

By article 46, the first defendant is endowed with independence in the performance of its functions including the initiation, regulation and conduct of elections in the country... In our opinion and as part of our function to declare what the law is, the above words which are unambiguous insulate the Electoral Commission from any external direction and or control in the performance of the functions conferred on it under article 45... A fair consideration of the functions of the first defendant reveals that the demand which was made on it by the plaintiffs regarding the presence of ineligible and deceased persons and the latter's refusal to acquiesce in the said demands which provoked the action herein relates to its mandate under article 45 (a) «to compile the register of voters and revise it at such periods as may be determined by law».

Yet this is precisely what the founders of our republic envisioned when they devised the Electoral College, a singular body with a singular purpose: to afford, as Alexander Hamilton explained to the people of New York in Federalist No. 68, «a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.»»

These factories will be built relative to the district's endowed resources and capacity to particularly provide jobs for the people.

This quest has been fraught with various setbacks and reversals, sometimes dimming all hope that this high natural resource - endowed region will ever find the right governance mix to actualize the dreams of our people for a better life.

«The approach to offering help to less endowed people...

We think that there are models whereby you can protect carbon, you can pay for it with a cap and trade or an offset scheme, and you can endow these wonderful wild areas with a sustaining trust fund that also flows money to local people for short - term, medium - term and long - term economic development.