Sentences with phrase «ruled by their desires»

May I ask what you mean by «ruled by their desires»?

If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die.

I wonder: If you are ruled by a desire to please God and you can't know if God is pleased, then how can you come up with actions that satisfy that desire?

People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves.

The gods are not whimsical, capricious, ruled by desire or emotion.

Not exact matches

Congress could create the consistent framework many Republicans want by creating a set of rules for how ISPs and internet companies treat customer data, but given the GOP's repeated desire to return privacy regulation to the FTC, though, that seems unlikely.

However, if so desired, the original NAFTA also allows countries a faster way to change auto rules: by cabinet decree.

Yes, he was a lawyer for Verizon, a fierce opponent of net neutrality, but his decision to scrap the rules was not motivated by a desire to win favor with his former bosses in the telecom industry.

These desires are not — or are not primarily — internalized rules of the game as played by the capitalist system.

«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»

The context of Genesis 1:26 - 27 gives us the best clues as to what is meant by «image» and it probably refers to the things that set us apart from animals — our intellect, emotions, will, authority to rule over creation, desire for relationships, and other non-physical attributes and characteristics.

Also, do you imagine that people are ruled by pathological desires if not by God?

Most people are ruled by ordinary desires, like the desire to make the make their families healthy and safe.

Lord, the truth absolute have mercy on USA, hindered fooled by hindu Maggie Jew's, Crooked self centered in violation of fundamental principal of America, enshrined by founding father's of USA, truth absolute as God, but ruled by hindu's deniers of truth absolute in hindu Judaism, criminal self center ism, bunch of hindu's, criminals pretending to be Americans, but hindu gentiles, criminals slave of hindu Jew's, terrorist self centered, working hard to undermine USA to please their hindu soul, filthy desire, to be what they can never be TRUTH ABSOLUTE THEMSELVES.

After Adam and Eve disobey God by eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, the once harmonious relationship between the pair is mired: «Your desire will be for your husband,» God tells the woman, «but he will rule over you.»

Unless the self knows itself, and unless it loves something more than the world and itself, the self will, to be sure, rule the world, but it will itself be governed and driven by the spiritual hunger we call greed, the desire to possess and enjoy infinite abundance.

So says Matt Blakenship over at Ricochet, prompted in part by the removal of a Milton, Shakespeare, and Chaucer requirement at UCLA by idiotically ideologue English faculty raving on about «Empire» and such.My rule of thumb for many years has been: a desire for undergraduate major in....

There are other indicators of religion as well, such as the desire to keep God happy with us through our obedience and the pressure to live by a set of rules and standards that keep us in good standing with others in our religious group.

They have no desire to allow anyone to rule other than themselves even if it means embrasing lies upon lies by calling it truth.

Contrast this with the genuine church teaching of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation of the conjugal union, as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment of the act itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion of mutual affection, sanctified by the sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind of reduction described by the Pope.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

While enumerating successes recorded by the ruling party in the state which according to him could earn APC the desired continuity, Alao opined that no government in the history of Osun has done what Aregbesola did in all sectors of the economy.

The court said UK law did not need to explicitly protect religious clothing and symbols but ruled that employers» wish to project a corporate image had to be balanced by their workers» desire to manifest their faith.

The High Court, presided over by Court of Appeal judge, Justice Dominic Dennis Adjei, ruled that it was improper for police officers desiring to stop a street protest, to obtain an injunction from the Circuit Court.

The photo and others like it quickly went viral, and for good reason: the all - male panel encapsulated many women's sense that the pushback against the new rule was driven by certain men's desire to control female sexuality.

There is some scope for more devolution, however, driven by SNP pressure and Labour's desire to look like it delivered «home rule».

«I think having read the ruling of the Supreme Court and looked at the file on this subject, the handling of the Delta Food Ltd contract by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Castle leaves much to be desired.

The Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that the Republicans» creation of a 63rd seat — a move the Democrats insist was motivated solely by the GOP's desire to maintain the majority — is indeed constitutional, despite the fact that they employed two different methods for determining representation.

A former PDP Chairman, Okehi Local Government Area, Honourable Siaka Musa, who led a sizeable number of the party supporters into the APC explained that the decision to defect to the ruling party was informed by the desire to key into the viable New Direction Agenda of the present administration.

While a strong desire to live by her own set of rules was the driving force behind Zalzal's venture, being your own boss comes with its own set of headaches.

She too joins the circle of those ruled, and undermined, by the foolishness of desire.

Olivia is not ruled by justice or a desire to do good, but simply to do what her clients pay her for, which is to «fix» whatever problems they have, and these are often unsavory to say the least, mostly illegal, but worse, immoral.

«The Treatment» (TBA): Outside of the «X-Men» movies, we just don't see enough of Famke Janssen, who stars here as the object of desire of a man (Chris Eigeman) ruled by his shrink (Ian Holm).

Heather Graham's directorial debut, Half Magic, displays a sprightly tone and blissful sense of liberation in charting the exploits of Honey (Graham), Eva (Angela Kinsey), and Candy (Stephanie Beatriz) as they seek to live by their own feminine - centric rules and apart from a social world catered to male desire and pleasure.

Part Frankenstein monster and part Rambo revisited, Cal's daddy issues end up rather paralleling Sophia's: her research is funded by her father Alan (Jeremy Irons), whose villainy is indicated by his preference for turtlenecks and shadowy corners, not to mention his generic bad - guy's desire to rule the world.

His grievances are real, both personal and cultural, which gives his villainy a meaningful edge beyond the generic desire to rule (or destroy) embodied by so many comic book villains.

The film starts with the now - aged Doug (played by Martin Mull) telling the audience, «You've probably never heard of me» and then listing his accomplishments, egged on by an an off - screen interviewer who helpfully adds «I would say you did redefine comedy,» thus standing the first rule of dramatization — you show action that induces the desired emotional response instead of telling the audience what to feel — on its head.

Rules of Engagement) is a green, but very ambitious police officer who desires strongly to follow in his father's footsepts by becoming a detective lieutenant, which he attains by taking partial credit for the infamous Nite Owl murders, where three men barge into a diner and kill all of the inhabitants inside, including a former police officer named Stensland (Beckel, Blue Streak) Stensland's former partner is Bud White (Crowe, The Quick and the Dead), a rough - and - tumble cop as loyal as they come, but also willing to do the things that Exley is not, namely, to cross over the line of the law to see that justice is served.

It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

So, if a race to the bottom is fueled by the desire to satisfy federal bureaucratic rules, why would we think the solution is in the adoption of more federal bureaucratic rules?

Learning is heightened by channelling children's desire to move, play, invent games, challenge, tease, compete, cooperate, fall out, make - up again, design their own rules and then modify them as they go along.

If a race to the bottom is fueled by the desire to satisfy federal bureaucratic rules, why would we think the solution is in the adoption of more federal bureaucratic rules?

John Dewey warned us almost 100 years ago that it is a fool's errand to expect creative, independent, and innovative work from students when their teachers are unemancipated and shackled by too many rules and prescriptions and too much of a desire for uniformity of method and subject matter.

By following just a few simple rules (helpfully spelled out on packets) we can enjoy foods and drinks of pristine freshness whenever we desire them.

Any individual who desires to process a credit card or loan application will have to abide by the rules and regulations set forth by the lender.

By incorporating systematic decision rules, you may be better able to maintain your desired living standard.

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But don't be fooled by a min pin's fragile looks: this breed has strong will power and a strong desire to rule the roost when given the opportunity.