Sentences with phrase «people than the authorities»

He calls forth more fish than the nets can hold, heals more people than the authorities allow and forgives more sins than stubborn lips confess.

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It is kept by a distributed network of computers managed by many people, rather than one central authority.

Authorities said they arrested 46 people, including a group of military veterans who had to be carried out and a man who climbed atop a building and stayed there for more than an hour before surrendering.

The appeal follows ramped - up efforts by U.S. authorities to crack down on insider trading, with the SEC announcing charges against more than 550 people in the past six years.

Belgian authorities released CCTV footage that shows three men suspected of carrying out Tuesday's attacks, which killed more than 30 people.

Las Vegas authorities say more than 20 people are dead and 100 people are wounded after a man opened fire on an outdoor concert late on Sunday.

The deaths received national media attention after authorities revealed that more than 100 people were driven about 150 miles through Texas while crammed into the trailer without air conditioning or water, while temperatures outside surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

But her authority was dented by her decision in 2015 to commit Germany to an open - door policy on migration, resulting in an influx of more than one million people.

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

More than 300,000 people have borrowed from these firms, with total loan distribution reaching 3 trillion rupiah ($ 218 million) as of January, versus 247 billion in December 2016, according to data from the Financial Services Authority (OJK).

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Many people regard this to be one of the most appealing and disruptive aspects of cryptocurrencies, this distribution of authority is ushering in a new age where money is controlled by the people rather than huge corporate organisations like banks.

You're going to want to do this for a while, because people respond to messages far more strongly than they do to specific design quirks (barring complete ugliness, which is really about authority anyway).

Search engines are able to track brand mentions and some people speculate that brand mentions could be the future of SEO and that brand mentions might be a stronger signal than links for determine a site's authority.

More often than not, when people talk about the «[Catholic] Church», they often seem refer either to the Vatican — the centre of authority in the Catholic Church — or else are generalising about the entire world - wide Church.

The Caliph, in Islamic practice, is subject to control by the nation; he has no authority other than that given to him as a representative of the people and that which is required of him as the enforcer of supernatural laws.

For justice is done in the particular case, and until tried in the courts, abstract principles have no more authority than the people who declare them.

Then that person has access to amazing information and possible authority — much different than talking to Abe or Elvis (we can ignore those folks).

Authority and power tends to prefer the people be spellbound than rational.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.

Some of these come from the unhealthy ways that other authority figures, like parents or teachers, may have related to us, rather than from the ways that God actually relates to people.

Although they will be «independent persons with no other authority than that of the spirit,» they may yet be effective in the time that approaches as no merely political representatives can be.

They want to tell people how to live, but they have yet to establish any more authority than the bullying tactics of superior numbers.

It is office rather than authority per se that gives access to power over a diversity of people.

20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you» — 21 then the priest shall put the woman under the oath of the cu «rse, and he shall say to the woman — «the Lord make you a cu «rse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh rot and your belly swell; 22 and may this water that causes the cu «rse go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.

This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as abused women and children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry than the people in it.

Thus, for a key example, the authors of the Constitution appear in debates and analyses only as authorities, perhaps supporting or perhaps challenging, but in any case other than the American people.

Heping was among more than 300 people arrested during a crackdown which began in July 2015 by Chinese authorities on human rights lawyers and activists.

I and other advocates lost a lot of friends and important connections... people who obviously wish to align themselves more with the church, authority, leaders, and success stories, rather than victims.

Yet we in the West should strive for humane borders in which travelers and immigrants of all backgrounds are treated with respect by state authorities, and valued as human beings with great potential, rather than dismissed as faceless hordes — or, in Hitchens's words, «countless persons from who - knows - where.»

Here, the idea is not that the person in authority knows better than other people, but that certain kinds of human activity require the coordinated action of many human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to get such coordination is to set up one person to give directions to others.

(CNN)- Fresh sectarian clashes in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine killed three people and left more than 400 houses, a monastery and a mosque burned to the ground, authorities said Tuesday.

Because clearly you are the authority on Christianity and the millions of other people who believe differently than you are wrong!

Printing gave a mighty push to the concept that meanings are in people, that ideas get their authority from widespread acceptance, and that individuals should make their own decisions rather than accept those handed down from a higher authority.

The emergency decrees and the detention of more than 30,000 people by the end of 1986 only underscore the obsession with legal forms for essentially lawless behaviour on the part of the authorities.

Six hundred thousand people were arrested in this country last year for possessing or selling marijuana, a drug most authorities regard as less harmful - than alcohol.

More than 140 people were injured, and authorities believe that bombs were packed with BBs to intentionally inflict more casualties...

For instance, the healing of the paralytic in Mark 2 is specifically intended «that you may know that the son of man [i.e., himself] has authority on earth to forgive sins,» However, it developed that people were more interested in the signs themselves than in what the signs pointed to.

19 «The priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, «If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness, being under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse; 20if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you» 21 (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), «the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people by the LORD»S making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell; 22and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away.»

I'd had mentors before, but these had all been people either older than I was or an authority figure.

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

On this fiftieth anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, thanks are also due to the Israeli authorities for the care they have taken to make genuine pilgrimage possible throughout the Holy City, which is far more open to people of all faiths today than it was when the city was divided between 1948 and 1967.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

The problem is mainstream muslims are clueless about how to stop them, we are doing out best to report them to the authorities but sometimes it is not easy even for US to tell and I think perhaps it is going to take a collective effort of all of us together to rid ourselves of this scourge... rather than a «Its us against the Muslim world» approach which only alienates more people, and is contribute to the problem spreading.

And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).

But these authorities should realise, he said, as he got into his stride, that they stood in greater spiritual danger than the people they excommunicated.

One had to be either a Roman citizen, as in the case of Paul, or else guilty of a crime against the empire rather than an infraction of a provincial or racial law over which the recognized authorities among the conquered people had the right of judgment.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

Much of the content of the collection has little or nothing to do with religion at all and popular religion may not have looked to it as the final authority, but higher religion in China has found in it a secure foundation, and morally it has been the predominant influence upon the Chinese people for more than two thousand years.