Sentences with phrase «right by history»

The passion and energy from the developers, a desire to do right by history, is apparent.

Blair, had he turned down Bush, would have been proven right by history and wouldn't now be tainted both by the decision itself — the defining event of his premiership — and the means by which it was sold.

Not exact matches

Last June, the Supreme Court made history by granting LGBT people in the U.S. the legal right to marry their loved ones.

Buffett is right that, for most of his stock - picking history, shareholders have likely been better off leaving their money in his care rather than siphoning the cash into their own accounts by way of dividends: Since 1965, Berkshire Hathaway stock has delivered annualized returns of nearly 21 %, more than double the S&P 500.

By contrast, she writes, King «situated the civil rights movement within the broader landscape of history — time past, present, and future — and within the timeless vistas of Scripture.»

Right now, for the first time in human history, world currencies are free - floating, meaning they're not backed by anything tangible.

Also on the list is Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer.

But this latest scandal is simply business as usual for Woodfibre LNG, which is owned by the notorious Indonesian billionaire, Sukanto Tanoto, whose companies have a history of tax evasion, animal rights violations and human rights offences.

However, if Bitcoin's own history is anything to go by, then chances are it's going to be a different tech altogether — something that's NOT sexy right now, something that does NOT receive a lot of attention in the media, something that most people do NOT know about.

Choose a location with a history of strong depositor protection, governed by the rule of law, and solid property rights — and select bullion storage facilities with the highest reputation.

Against this, Novak stubbornly and convincingly contends that the Founders got it right, that Smith got it right, that Tocqueville got it right, and we» who live in a moment in which their arguments have been so stunningly vindicated by history» can still get it right.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

Right now, in our present history, Islam has been taken over by Men who wants to control the world.

Of course, Cardinal Kasper is right that theology is a human enterprise, done by humans with intellectual and personal histories and dispositions, and not just a participation in a Platonic realm of ideas.

Yes fighting for someone civil rights has always been viewed as good by history.

By all means enjoy the fruits of a christian society, oh right never happened... If you rewrite history

Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson, Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians by Lawrence Kushner, The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd, The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder, Decision Making and the Will of God by Gary Friesen, Satan and the Problem of Evil by Greg Boyd, A Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas Madden, and Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right by Anders Stephanson.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

But Mathison is right that it is impossible (and unwise) to study the Bible all by itself, without reference to what others in the community of Christianity have learned and taught in our own day and throughout history.

Just 37 years having a saving faith in Christ... reading a lot about church history... reading books by spiritual giants such as Tozer, Ravenhill, Finney, Spurgeon, Chambers, etc... reading and listening to such teachers as Winkie Pratney, Ravi Zacharias, etc... and just trying to read the scriptures and asking God to guide me on a right path.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

Gibbon and Hume saw themselves as history's van guard, civilizing the savages by telling the right story, and so do Rorty and Vattimo.

While the historian Jonathan Sarna may be right that the split between the Jews as a people and Judaism as a religion came about as a result of the mass forced conversion of Jews during the medieval Spanish expulsion, historically, for the most part, Jews saw themselves as not just an amalgam of individuals thrown together by the whims of history but as a unique people chosen to follow God's word.

Orthodox - Catholic relations throughout the Ottoman period were a history of unremitting and often bloody combat for possession of shrines, rights and privileges — a competition encouraged by the Turks, who took away rights from one church and bestowed them on another whenever it suited Ottoman interests, or whenever an adequate bribe was proffered.

For in the Old Covenant such as it appeared in history there was much that was right and willed by God, but there were also a great many errors, wrong developments and depraved ideas, while there was no permanent infallible authority to separate the two.

The belief that every human person possesses unalienable rights to liberty derives from a vision first introduced into history by Judaism and then taught to Christianity.

New York's recent legalization of gay marriage is being hailed by many as a watershed moment in the history of the fight for equal rights for same sex couples.

Jenson is surely right in contending that the God of the Bible is identified by temporal events, and indeed by a history of such events.

The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.

this just shows that the world is getting weirder by the day... the pope is right, the world is experiencing amnesia nowadays... people especially in the west tends to have this amnesia coz they believe that they can live without God... they believe that they do nt need Him coz, they still able to survive... BUT what they do nt realize what these are all temporary... just look at the crisis going on right now... maybe God is still a mystery coz only FAITH can conquer mystery... can anybody out there lead me to any person who can create simply a tree, a true living tree... we know for sure that there are some who can create furnitures out from a tree... im really bothered that the world will end sooner than later... GOD FORBIDS... history just keeps on repeating itself... what a pity for the small children and the coming generation...

attempts to re-write history need to proceed in small pieces We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

That is just the way history played out. - A history in which our societal definition of right and wrong was shaped by Christianity and the bible.

New developments have a proven history of overturning traditional beliefs held by majorities, right?

They remind us of this point by citing part of recent history: when Rosa Parks went public with her pain and refused to ride in the back of the bus, she released energy, the energy to take a giant step in righting a great wrong and to lift many a burden.

They include the idea that people have a right to know that there is a difference between the Jesus of history and the various frames of faith in which he has so often been presented by the churches.

It is one of the puzzles of history that a group of people who believed in Au and had made great sacrifices for his sake, who knew him to be right and his enemy wrong, and who had even risked their lives by going into battle for him should desert him and even take up their swords against him.

Strauss closes the Burke subchapter and NATURAL RIGHT AND HISTORY as a whole by saying that the biggest question concerns the status of INDIVIDUALITY.

You are right in that the choice of a black man for the heroic Samson was indicative of a lack of racist intent, if not also a lack of intent towards historical accuracy, but there has been a long history of portraying the devil as a black person, so you can understand why some people are offended by this, right?

Oh and by the way, time doesn't exist either, history is nothing but (in) action by those who claim to have the rights to inherit whatever comes in handy while donating all else.

The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and political history in nations where Muslims (of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks of» mosques and political NGOs that defend the rights of Muslims and shape their participation in civic life, including the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases.

There is no need to recount here the well - documented story of how the civil rights movement inspired political activism by other groups with grievances about their status in America and their treatment throughout American history.

And while the history of America's wars is hardly a story of moral perfection, it is, by human standards, a mostly heroic story of doing the right thing and doing it for the right reasons.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

The freely given and unmerited love of God is proclaimed by speaking of the poor and their needs, their rights and dignity, their culture, and, above all, of the God who wants to place them at the center of the history of the church.3

Even granted the unspeakable crimes committed in the 20th century by communist nations (a close inspection of the history of the century, however, would disclose that such societies have had no monopoly on unspeakable crimes) the morbid anti-Communism of the American right, and the tendency to assimilate every kind of socialist or even liberal position to that of Communism, indicates, I believe, some serious failure to come to terms with the balance between dependence and independence, solidarity and autonomy, that are part of any mature personality or society.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The irony is that, by knowingly, repeatedly resorting to lies, this would - be champion of a religious right version of history reveals his fears that the real facts fall short of making his case.

Over Labor Day weekend I sat down with two books by Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History and Christian Human Rights.

Some of history's most dastardly deeds have been done by those who claimed to be sitting on God's right or left hand.