Sentences with phrase «prerogatives as»

Partners must be willing to subordinate their prerogatives as owners of the firm for the «good» of the firm.

I just hope we can be more respectful of others» individuality and prerogatives as we share what happens to work for us.

So I'm arguing first that it's God's prerogative to take life when He so chooses, and second that the means He uses to take that life is a matter of His prerogative as well.

In addition to assuming the full Petrine prerogative as bishop, Callistus also suggested that by a process of monopolization, the spiritual man of Paul (I Cor.

Stan Kroenke gave him a new contract and that's his prerogative as the owner.

«That is as much his privilege and prerogative as it is mine to inform you of my reasons for choosing to endorse anyone but him.»

If He chooses to use part of his creation such as coconut oil, I won't complain, and if He gives direction to His praying child through Facebook, that is His prerogative as well.8

It's my prerogative as an author.)

When he's in front, pulling on the leash, it's his prerogative as well as his responsibility (so the geometry tells him) to decide who is a threat and who isn't.

Parents can use their prerogative as parents to disable phones they pay for from being able to make app purchases and in - app purchases without prior approval.

He concedes that it was Langley's prerogative as a designer to adapt his models, but criticises him for a «fanciful and almost entirely uninformed application of motifs taken out of historical context».

Given that hunting (and art collecting) was an aristocratic privilege, these paintings spoke as much about position and prerogative as they did about nature.

Here, however, the Gods are enraged because the humans have usurped their prerogative as creators of terrifying weather events.

But of course, it's your prerogative as it's your blog.

Not exact matches

The Alaskans defend their prerogatives not simply as remediation for past mistreatment but as a tool to provide for an entire society, not just a single entrepreneur.

Loncar argues that, unlike companies that abuse their prerogative to dictate whatever list prices they want in the U.S., Novartis has actually pulled off the kind of scientific innovation that the biopharma industry claims as its beating heart.

That's their prerogative, as is the right to believe that all file - sharing is piracy, although I'm of the belief that it isn't if the creator doesn't think it is.

As long as you don't ask prohibited questions during the interview process, it's your prerogative to ask candidates about anything from their appreciation for soccer to their favorite foodAs long as you don't ask prohibited questions during the interview process, it's your prerogative to ask candidates about anything from their appreciation for soccer to their favorite foodas you don't ask prohibited questions during the interview process, it's your prerogative to ask candidates about anything from their appreciation for soccer to their favorite foods.

There are some people, of course, who prefer to put their entire investment portfolio into individual stocks — that is their prerogative and they either learn the hard way (as most do) that it's not for them.

There were times in His incarnation when he voluntarily «emptied himself» of some of His divine prerogatives, such as knowing the day and the hour of the end of all things (Phil 2.7; Matt 24.36).

It's heartbreaking to see religious folk attempting to exclude others from the discussion, as if love and family, peace of heart and mind were religious prerogatives only.

As my experience with students bears out, there is a danger these days that self - discovery is becoming the prerogative of the affluent and the otherwise advantaged.

Each denomination was fully independent but agreed to surrender certain prerogatives with regard to general problems such as defense of the faith, spread of the gospel, and moral reform.

«Supernaturalism,» in the sense of God's making known the divine only by divine intrusions from outside in occasional miraculous acts, is rejected; a picture of deity as remote and inaccessible is refuted; and the condemnation of secular activities as a blasphemous denial of the divine prerogative is entirely ruled out.

but his fatherhood is spoken of as the prerogative of Israel and the Israelites.

Now while you may choose to dismiss this, and that's your absolute prerogative, as mythology and not «true», it is not a belief in a God of my «own making.»

Yes, it is my prerogative, as allowed by law and our society.

There is everything to commend in the attitude of humility, or thanksgiving, or petition, or intercession before God, so long as the person with the attitude is not usurping prerogatives either of God himself or of the whole congregation of Christians.

Though the nullifiers» case for the Constitution as a compact among sovereign states is a lame one that flies in the face of the Preamble («We the People,» not «We the States»), Madison did lose some important battles to proponents of the prerogatives of the states.

The laying on of hands to confer the gift of the Spirit after baptism or as the prelude to the undertaking of some special task had at Jerusalem been apparently the prerogative of the apostles (Acts 6:6, 8:17), but this power had now been extended to others (Acts 13:3).

Further, the draft document mandated states to override parental prerogatives (known, in UN-speak, as «social barriers to sexual and reproductive health information and care») in the matter of adolescent sexual education.

They are certainly recognised in Western legal systems and... worldview (s); however... (human) consciousness... can not itself actively determine what is good and what is evil (and)... these freedoms are essentially thought of as mere individual prerogatives.»

It not only implies, for the several national «governments», the prospect of having to waive a substantial portion of the pomp, prerogative and privilege which they now enjoy as the traditional concomitants of the possession of national military power, and having to content themselves with the considerably smaller amount of glory which is reserved for mere units of local administration.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

An incarnational approach to education might just require us to set aside some of our «professorial prerogatives» and «professional prestige» (i.e., academic arrogance) in order really to teach — as well as to learn.

But there are writers who, realizing that happiness of a supreme sort is the prerogative of religion, forget this complication, and call all happiness, as such, religious.

When a person exhibits too much passion over anything — God, a political movement, the latest in tattoos or a popular television show — we label that person as obsessive or compulsive, and mutter, «Get a life» Might we better understand zeal as Isaiah does, as the prerogative of God, who, despite the mess we've made of things, still chooses to care for this battered creation and our faulty selves?

(Genesis 3:22 - 24) This, in the early Old Testament, Yahweh cherishes immortality as a divine prerogative which he will not share with man.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

If this were so, we might suppose the senses to waken our attitudes and conduct as they so habitually do, by first exciting this sense of reality; but anything else, any idea, for example, that might similarly excite it, would have that same prerogative of appearing real which objects of sense normally possess.

And, be this as it may, it is certainly with a sense of his own priority and prerogative that the man reacts to the woman's appearance, as have billions of men down to the present day:

Social work associations in Chicago, as later in New York, reacted predictably and obligingly with claims of professional expertise and prerogatives.

Amid the creation which groans for redemption, the church must stand as if before Easter: open to its inbreaking, but unassuming of its prerogative.

Instead of seeing the natural world as one among the social ethical concerns of human beings, it displays the human race as one species of God's creatures alongside others, a species with special prerogatives and responsibilities within creation.

Or they may feel self - hatred for having contributed to the nurture of someone who, as they see it, arrogantly took his or her life — a prerogative of God alone: A survivor's grief may be so severe that it can become a cause of self - execution on the part of the bereaved.

As such, he led efforts in the 1780s for British constitutional reforms which eventually limited the prerogative of the Crown, thereby consolidating parliamentary sovereignty.

As the Church teaches: «A healthcare professional's role may be to remove obstacles to conception, restore fertility, assist in fertility awareness, advise, comfort, listen, guide — but never to violate the exclusive prerogative of wives and husbands to become mother and father only through each other.»

They depicted the Bishops of Rome as claiming prerogatives over the Catholic Church from the beginning, permitted all bishops to appeal directly to the Pope, and regarded bishops and Popes as of right free from secular control.

Jesus did not hesitate to condemn the shallow self - confidence of those who trusted in their Jewish prerogatives, or to commend the faith of a Roman centurion as being superior to theirs (Matt.

It gave couples the prerogative to procreate or not, as they wished.