Sentences with phrase «rather than the king»

When a lunar eclipse was due, for example, they put a condemned criminal on the throne for the day it occurred, so that the predicted bad fortune would fall on him rather than the king.

Yet with the Old Testament they have generally followed the order of the Hebrew Bible rather than the King James and later versions.

He chose to be president rather than King George the First.

It took over a half - hour of standing in line before I was able to check in, and when I arrived at the room, I was disappointed to find I'd been put into a queen room with two beds rather than the king with one I'd requested.

Not exact matches

As «Game of Thrones» expert Kim Renfro at Tech Insider points out, this is likely a flash forward rather than a flashback because the Mad King was never able to execute his plan.

«Rather than face those additional requirements, which may include buying more equipment, doing more monitoring and hiring people to fill out all the required paperwork, some business owners might just choose to keep their business smaller to stay under that amount,» King says.

We heard «cash is king» in late 2008, just when cash should have been deployed rather than held.

The king of aggressive corporate technology sales, Ellison seems to be one of those people who would rather be feared than loved.

«If there are more talented executives from one organization rather than the other, there will be a temptation to say, let's do the King Solomon thing and just split up the management team 50 - 50 from the two legacy organizations,» says Dattner.

The network still has almost 92 million subscribers, and simple math tells you they could recover the lost three - quarters of a billion dollars by charging a subscriber fee of something like $ 7.09, rather than $ 6.41, per month — a large increase, but, with live sports still king, not out of the realm of possibility.

Rather than stand up to Jordan's King Abdullah, the Trump administration gives him a pass for everything.

Then - King Edward VIII abdicated the throne rather than end the relationship.

He did this in part by recasting Burger King as an owner of franchises rather than an operator of restaurants and sold off locations owned by the company.

The US dollar remains king in the world's biggest market, as the rise of Asia's share in foreign exchange trading, led by China, is coming at the expense of Europe rather than the US, analysts say.

Why doesn't someone actually ask Stephen King about his faith rather than speculating ad nauseam about it?

it does not matter if you accept the necessity of WW2, or if you consider yourself an american rather than a subject of the king of Briton.

This is a few hundred years old at best and as pointed out «Because both sides of the fragment have writing on them, King said it could have come out of a book rather than a scroll.»

Equality of opportunity was passé; racial quotas masqueraded under the euphemism of «affirmative action»; King's righteous demand that his children be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was inverted by race - hustlers and shakedown artists» an inversion subsequently validated by activist judges.

For example, Martin Luther King in the last decade had a dream that one day white children and black children would walk and work together in a land where character counts rather than color.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

Dictionaries are written as descriptive uses of language (they find out what the majority of people use words to mean, and write it down), rather than prescriptive uses of language (ie some governing board or king or ruler deciding what a word means and telling us how we have to use it).

1 Kings 20 and 22 see him in rather better light than 17 - 19, 21.

There is, indeed, much truth in the provocative statement of Martin Luther King, Jr. «How often the church has been an echo rather than a voice, a taillight behind... secular agencies, rather than a headlight guiding men progressively and decisively to higher levels of understanding.

Those who see God primarily as «Boss» and «King» (rather than Father or Friend) probably don't get to these points of intimate communication with God.

You claimed that the King James Bible called it an apparently fictional name of unicorn rather than «a sort of ox».

In fact, here is what one commentator said: «Here is a woman who is willing to stay in Persia and sleep with a heathen king, rather than to return to Israel and become the wife of a godly Israelite — she is a schemer and a manipulator.

This is why the King James Version, for example, translates the word as «wickedness» rather than «the wicked one.»

And the term «Lord» has been interpreted like the word «king» as an analogical description of God's rule over creation, rather than a stand - in for the unpronounceable name.

Servant King is not opposed to extravagance as such, but wants to see it in the service of building the kingdom of God rather than in private consumption.

I sincerely believe that, while people belonging to Western Christian spiritual communities may be sincere and deeply committed to God, the spiritual and theological formation that they receive tragically often reflects the Roman Empire's creed that Law is King (lex rex) rather than the Biblical Revelation that Christ is King.

Except for a few utterances, mainly those of Hosea, which may well relate to temporary conditions rather than to the monarchy per se, the prophets accept the kings as legitimate officials supreme in their sphere.

Rather than concede their belief in and exclusive worship of the God of their fathers, they rejected Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar's order to worship his statue.

Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel» (7:14) Less familiar is its context: Isaiah has been pleading with King Ahaz to put his trust in God's promise to Israel rather than in alliances with strong military powers like Syria.

The Old Testament prophet Daniel, rather than violate God's law, was granted permission not to partake of the king's food» though, we must acknowledge, he took the minimum resistance necessary, even seeking a pagan official's approval of an alternative action.

They are continually beset by temptations which assailed the Messiah - to live by material things rather than by the Word of God, to seek the cheap success of the market place rather than the «well - done» of the heavenly king, to establish an empire by force and fear rather than to win the nations by sacrificial love.

He preferred to see himself as the apocalyptic figure of Daniel 7, whose coming would spell the end of the bestial earthly kingdoms, and to whom the Ancient of Days would give the kingdom of God, rather than seeing himself a king in David's line, even an apocalyptic one.

Mainstream religion scholars viewed King as a civil rights activist who happened to be a preacher rather than a creative theologian in his own right.

The reaction to Martin Luther King's murder — He brought it on himself, for example — is a calloused, uncompassionate response rather than a conservative response.

And yet, imagine a 1960s civil rights movement led by Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright rather than Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis.

During the time of the kings, many of them made alliances with Egypt through marriage or treaties rather than trusting in God for help.

In fact Christianity itself has often in its history succumbed to the Messianism of the Conquering King rather than of the crucified servant Christ.

Because both sides of the fragment have writing on them, King said it could have come out of a book rather than a scroll.

Chapters 36 - 39 are narrative rather than oracular material, paralleled in II Kings 18 - 20.

August 28, 1963: Two hundred thousand Americans participate in the March on Washington and hear Martin Luther King, Jr., proclaim his dream of a country in which his children will be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin; ten months later, Congress enacts the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Ambrose quoted Naboth (I Kings 21) who shed his blood rather than give up his inheritance, «Shall he refuse his own vineyard and we surrender the Church of Christ... let the Emperor act as an Emperor; he shall rob me of my life sooner than of my fidelity.»

But I would rather side with someone who has run a business that makes profit, rather than the handout king.

@opinion8it He gave Israel a king because they wanted one rather than a theocracy.

He was received as king rather than as prophet, priest, elder or president.

Rather than sending a case of wine to the nearest homeless shelter, I decided to write a letter to the closest thing I have to a king — the president.

Instead, it finds itself in what King seems to imagine is the world of the Old Testament, in which God is a hard and inscrutable taskmaster rather than a God of love, more to be feared and obeyed than worshiped and adored.