Sentences with phrase «rather than sacrifice»

Law enforcement and national security authorities should state the shortcomings they identify in the court warrant system so they can be addressed to adapt the system to the new challenges of the Internet age rather than sacrifice the principles that underpin the very society we seek to protect.

However, more and more associates are walking away from law firms rather than sacrifice their health — both mental and physical — to a job that seems to demand all of their time.

They can frame the issue the issue in terms of national security, religion, public health, or economics — with emphasis on policies that would lead to societal benefits rather than sacrifice and hardship.

Too often, the result is families living in unsafe and unstable conditions — in their car, on the street, bouncing from couch to couch, or with an abuser — rather than sacrifice their beloved pet.

However, there may be some situations which necessitate the referral of our clients and their pets to an emergency facility due to scheduling, staffing, or other unforeseen circumstances.It is our sincere desire to put the health and welfare of our patients first, and if for some reason we are unable to take an emergency, we will not hesitate to refer you to a nearby emergency facility so that your pet may receive the best possible care at that time rather than sacrifice the quality of that care so that we may charge for less than optimum services.

Timing in and out of «the market» is, for most of us, far less reliable and far less rewarding than finding a manager who is disciplined and who is willing to sacrifice assets rather than sacrifice you.

Recent cinema has been rife with object lessons on why it's probably better to risk angering fans of source material rather than sacrifice momentum (look no further than Watchmen), so it stands to reason that Azkaban benefits from having taken the road less traveled, even if it wasn't the way that the original fans wanted it to go.

And when the task is less monumental — when cooperation or assistance is required, rather than sacrifice — toddlers are far more willing to help.

We learn in the Word that He desires and is moved by intimacy rather than our sacrifice.

Do you have any idea what Christ meant when He told the Pharisees, quoting the Old Testament,» God desires mercy rather than sacrifice»?

rather than sacrificing how great I feel when I stick to my anti-inflammatory lifestyle.

Zidane can effectively use all three in a rotation cycle rather than sacrificing one of them and then looking for an option in the market.

He perhaps should have picked one of Holiday and Tyreke Evans to add to the roster, rather than sacrificing assets to acquire both.

Rather than sacrificing luxury items the Ultra pack could include hollow - spoke alloy wheels, aluminium body panels and lighter engine ancillaries.

Of course the concerns of the local people should be listened to, and if there are consensuses to be found, they should be complied with if this is a practicality, but ethically, isn't there an obligation to aim at the greater good — of everyone and the world as a whole — rather than sacrificing the greater good in order to try to please all the local people?

Rather than sacrificing relationships, relationship building is emphasized by fostering open and honest communication.

I tend to work long hours, sacrificing sleep and often personal time, rather than sacrificing time with my wife and kids.

Not exact matches

Rather than be defeated by Perez» death, his sacrifice to serve others inspired and rallied the officers, said Hayes.

Yet, Millennials are also prepared to make personal sacrifices to make an impact on issues they care about — whether that's paying more for a product (70 % vs. 66 % U.S. average), sharing products rather than buying (66 % vs. 56 % U.S. average) or taking a pay cut to work for a responsible company (62 % vs. 56 % U.S. average).

It's true also that poverty, oppression, disease, and hunger have always been far from me, and that I often choose to live in blissful disregard of them rather than think upon and sacrifice significantly to aid those in need.

The reason I ask your opinion initially is because I think there is a better way, today, for the creator of the universe to make him / her / it's self known to humankind, rather than to rely on a 2,000 year old story of sacrifice.

In my experience all the focus on obedience and sacrifice tends to make our walk with Christ one of prideful personal accomplishment rather than humble gratefulness for the grace of the cross.

Cain becomes angry when God accepts Abel's sacrifice rather than his own (Gen 4:5), and after he kills Abel, claims that it is not he who is supposed to take care of Abel, that he is not his brother's keeper (Gen 4:9).

The challenge facing the church is to discard the unproven scientific theories of the 1980's and 1990's; to understand the scientific evidence that shows non-reverable sexual orientations; and to give the gay believer in Christ mercy to be married for life to the same sex spouse (rather than to continue to insist on the sacrifice of celibacy).

If you feel you are guilty and deserve punishment, why don't you stand up and take it rather than hiding like a snivelling weasel behind the supposed sacrifice of jeebus?

Again and again we are told that we must sacrifice what we have valued for the sake of progress, and usually «progress» means increase of gross product rather than improvement in the quality of life.

Rather than wait for his authorisation, Saul offered the sacrifices himself.

When these characters consider living like common people they think of that as freedom rather than a duty of shared sacrifice.

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

[28] And the prophet Hosea says: «For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.»

I have hoped that, by driving six separate roadways through Scripture, clarity might be gained without serious sacrifice of balance and proportion, and that the very fact of repetition, as each roadway inevitably brings the traveler within sight of familiar scenes common to all six, would help rather than hinder comprehension.

The only possible textual basis for this reading makes much of the fact that it is an angel rather than God Himself who calls a halt to the sacrifice.

What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.

Marriage is about sacrifice rather than having all your needs met because the blessing lies in that sanctification.

After he disobeyed God, God told him that He would rather have Saul obeying his Word than offering him many sacrifices.

It is based on willingness to sacrifice for the sake of others rather than only on satisfaction of one's personal desires.

Stirred by the example of the martyrs who died rather than deny their Lord, Christians today should be prepared to make sacrifices for their faith.

Hosea 6:6 «For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings».

[1] however some religions were persecuted for political reasons rather than dogmatic zeal, [2] and other rites banned which involved human sacrifice.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOD.

The perfectionists rightly recognize that it may be very noble for an individual to sacrifice his life or interests rather than participate in the claims and counterclaims of the struggle for justice (of which war may always be the ultima ratio).

But Isaiah tells the Israelites that God would rather they not sacrifice at all than sacrifice with their hands while their hearts were far from Him.

But one overlooked emphasis in the Bible is that while we are putting others above ourselves, and being self - sacrificing rather than self - serving, there is still one area of our lives where we must first and foremost look out for number one.

Rather than running headlong toward humility, suffering, self - sacrifice, service, and even death, we have raced toward power, prominence, self - gratification, and self - advancement.

Picture quality is sacrificed when the pipe is small, so the virtual worshiper experiences a series of small, jerky stills rather than a flowing video.

Within the ethical thinking regarding pure sacrifice that I am opposing, one's decision to be responsible for this person rather than that appears to be entirely arbitrary.

CNN: On holiday of sacrifice, many Syrians can not celebrate Artillery shelling, water outages and food shortages, rather than presents and sweets, greeted many Syrians on the most important Muslim holiday of the year.

Luke reads there, «take up his cross daily,» which, like his «bear his own cross here,» suggests a continuous life of sacrifice and endurance rather than a single act of dedication.

Yes, if Abraham the instant he swung his leg over the ass's back had said to himself, «Now, since Isaac is lost, I might just as well sacrifice him here at home, rather than ride the long way to Moriah» — then I should have no need of Abraham, whereas now I bow seven times before his name and seventy times before his deed.

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.