Sentences with phrase «present as a witness»

He then signed it twice: once in the presence of the detective alone, and again later with a news reporter present as a witness.

By doing this you become present as the witness of your thoughts instead of being completely taken over by them.

When it comes time for Hume to present himself as a witness, he backs down from his position, letting his son's killer free and giving Hume the opportunity to take justice into his own hands.

Frequently, a second administrator is present as a witness to defend the principal against charges of prejudice.

All people 16 and over can sign their own waiver, but adults over the age of 18 must complete a season pass waiver themselves with an RCR representative present as a witness.

Not exact matches

«According to witnesses, that appears to be what happened here as we understand there were no occupants still in the Model X by the time the fire could have presented a risk,» Tesla wrote.

According to the Patriarch, the Council «will address internal issues of the unity and administration of the Church, but also matters such as relations with other churches and faiths, in order to present a unified voice and credible witness for the life of the world.»

We are not seeking to present the NT as a series of contradictory and competing Gospels; we are trying to se how those who wrote it were witnessing to what Jesus Christ meant to them so that we may be moved to see what Jesus Christ means to us.

But there is a lot that is easier for me to take as metaphors, since I wasn't present to witness the events.

The very depth of his preoccupation with the theological problem presented by the terrible fate meted out to Jesus as a result of the Jewish and Roman leaders» readiness to co-operate in his destruction makes him a questionable witness to the motives and intentions with which the Lord approached and confronted his supreme hour.

(Editors» Note: This paper was originally presented on February 12, 1990, as the Black History Month lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.) Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily....

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert»Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert»witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

If the meaning of our principle of historical aetiology, as opposed to an eye - witness report by someone who was himself present at the event, has been understood, we presumably also possess a criterion for judging what was correct in the description given by traditional theology of the blessed, supernatural, original condition of man, as opposed to what was a simplified projection into the past, into human beginnings, of the state of man as it ought to be and will be in the future.

All of this in an historical succession in which the past of the tradition still lives in the present of contemporary human existence, with an aim toward fulfillment of the dominant and dominating purpose which in the earliest witness was declared as having been enacted in the originating event of Jesus Christ himself.

Recognizing this inevitable and permanent tension, it is better not to go through this gospel wondering about the factual historicity of each event as it comes, but rather to devote ourselves to the task of understanding what the author is trying to do and say as he shapes his material and presents his witness.

Since the apostolic witness presents him as the Messiah who preaches the imminent consummation of God's Kingdom, they were forced to invent an almost wholly different person.

Luther's contributions to present - day Christian witness can not be fleshed out in a brief article such as this.

As explained by my brother apologists in earlier comments here, it is a mistake to apply the passage in Mark to believers who are not direct witnesses to the risen Christ and not present at the time of Pentecost.

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.

’14 In popular Jewish thought Elijah came to be regarded as «the ever - present prophet, wandering incognito over the earth, sometimes in the garb of a nomad, to aid in moments of distress and danger, appearing to mystics and scholars to teach them hidden truths, and acting as celestial messenger».15 He was thought to be present at every ceremony of circumcision as the guardian spirit and witness, and on such occasions a special chair was reserved for him.

I shall explore what It might mean to live as a confessing people in the context of the radical sin of low - intensity conflict and how we can faithfully respond to the present historical moment in which our participation in the structures of oppression call us to be prophetic witnesses and living signs of hope.

He apprehended God in terms of his present activity, as presently under - stood, but also accepted without challenge the authoritative witness to divine activity in the past.

The lectionary is rich this time of year, and as I get back to blogging through the Scripture readings each week, our focus will be on paying attention to the witness of the prophets, connecting them to the Christmas story and to our present longing for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Thus both as witness to past event and as experience of present event, the kerygma is central in primitive Christianity and contemporary theology.

damn right: Barth wrote: «it speaks to and is heard by us as the authentic witness to divine revelation and is therefore present as the Word of God.»

Whatever the delineation, however, the question remains: how are we to move reasonably between our present context, the widest possible Christian tradition, and an authoritative Scripture, while allowing the Spirit to witness definitively to Jesus Christ as savior and Lord?

In my assessment of the ecumenical agenda which I presented in Bangkok in 1996, I already alluded to the need of deepening and increasing «analytical capability»» as one of the primordial necessities of social witness in our time, and how this is so important at a time when ecumenical social thought seems to have reached a «dry spell», where it has become in fact thin and redundant, and therefore a point where it has lost much respect.

Dialectically, the very emptiness of the American present stands witness to its integral relation to a vanished past; just as the almost inevitable tendency of the European thinker to exist in the past demonstrates all too convincingly his refusal of an uprooted present.

The other day I witnessed to a guy at my job (he is homosexual and really hasn't been presented with the gospel) I stated the freeness of it and he said «Well then I guess I could just go and sin as much as I want and at the end believe» - I said «Well, you could, but you may not get the chance because your death may not be as slow or as predictable as you assume».

I wonder, in the present situation, whether our encounters may not come off more as a witness to the leniency of Caesar than to the courage of our Christian convictions.

Israel, Maritain held, intending by this name not the present state of Israel but the Jewish people as a whole, is «a witness to the Scriptures,» holding the Bible before the eyes of the world.

«Motty», who once described the 5 - 2 win over Spurs at Maine Road in October 1994 as one of the best games he'd ever witnessed, was presented with the coat prior to City's home game with Burnley — his last match covering the Blues on their own soil.

Obama was present as a special guest at the FedEx Field to witness Barca win their second successive match in the U.S., with Neymar scoring the only goal of the game in the first half.

Before ruling against joint custody, the court may also consider hospital and police records (in cases of abuse or where allegations of abuse are present) as well as character witnesses.

He also presented an invoice booklet with invoice numbers in ascending order which the witness identified as genuine documents for his own company.

Defense attorneys for former state Sen. Malcolm Smith presented the Queens politician as a well - intentioned victim of F.B.I. entrapment, as cross-examination of the key witness began in Smith's federal corruption trial in White Plains.

I do hope that we are not witnessing a replay of Nana Addo's Free SHS saga where a 1992 Constitutional provision was disingenuously presented two decades after as an original idea of Nana Addo.

«Whatever we are witnessing now is as a result of all the efforts and sacrifices of the past and present administrations,» Adeyeye said.

The witness, a Bureau De Change operator, Alhaji Murtala Bashiru Abubakar presented his Samsung phone as an exhibit, through which he received text messages of some of the transactions.

Defense attorneys for former state senator Malcolm Smith presented the Queens politician as a well - intentioned victim of F.B.I. entrapment on Tuesday, as cross-examination of the key witness began in Smith's federal corruption trial in White Plains.

The source for the quote meant to serve as a character witness for Latimer may be the family dog walker but presenting her to readers as the family dog walker without mentioning she is a reporter for the Rye Record and former employee of Craig is like doing a story about serial killers and presenting Dennis Radar as an alarm system installer without mentioning he is the BTK Killer.

«In the face of such orders and the ethical dilemmas to which they give rise, medical professionals likely would decline to serve as expert witnesses in lethal injection cases in the first place, robbing the parties and the courts of appropriate expert testimony that would assist them in accurately adjudicating the important constitutional issues this and similar cases present,» the authors write in the brief.

By contrast, Diederik (Jeroen Perceval), Jacky's childhood friend who witnessed the beating and is now working as a police informant, is a lame caricature of a closeted homosexual, clumsily smooching every man who gets too close to him, present only for the sake of counter-example.

In its very simple construct, the film presents time in a visual and spatial context, a singular experience that offers the viewer an opportunity to step outside of the time spectrum and feel its passage as a witness.

As with Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, another masterpiece dedicated to present - day witnessing, to chasing the ghosts of atrocity across the living landscape of our ruined humanity, it's important not to overlook the extraordinary artistry that allows for such extra-cinematic effects.

As a result, Treu invited the defendants to start presenting their own witnesses, the first of whom, Robert Fraisse, a former teacher, principal and superintendent, will take the stand tomorrow morning.

Our contractual rights have been been further subverted by Mr. Urena's refusal to meet with our Chapter's consultation committee without assistant principals present to serve as his witnesses.

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And yet, as personal a book as this is, it offers universal meaning, presenting an eloquent and piercing description of what it feels to witness an intimate become unfamiliar.