Sentences with phrase «see the corruption of»

All in all it was interesting to attend the meeting, but disheartening to continue to see the corruption of science.

Not exact matches

The finance minister of Saudi Arabia has sought to reassure investors that the kingdom is a secure place to invest following a crackdown on corruption in the country that saw individuals imprisoned and assets handed over to the government.

And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.

The arrests follow a purge that has seen more than 80 executives at PDVSA and its suppliers jailed for alleged corruption as the state firm's new chief, Major General Manuel Quevedo, has sought to stamp his authority on the sector - the financial lifeblood of Venezuela's unraveling socialist government.

The British referendum has encouraged a balanced, intercontinental discussion on the direction Brussels must take now that the corruption and depth of discontent have been exposed for the world to see.

A political rival named Sun Zhengcai, once seen as a possible successor to Xi, was enveloped in a corruption investigation and was booted out of the party in September.

The roundup was described as a sweeping corruption investigation but widely seen as an effort to consolidate power by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a son and the top adviser of King Salman, who succeeded his half brother and became king of Saudi Arabia in January 2015.

In China, we have seen how rigid compliance with regime orthodoxy has led to political and policy disasters, whether during the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen, or on contemporary issues of environment, national minorities, and corruption, many of which still can not be discussed openly.

Martin Luther left because of the mass corruption he was seeing within the church.

As to the news about the Church of England — given the amount of corruption seen throughout Christendom, and indeed among many professors of Christ, it does make one wonder how soon the Rapture could actually be.

For the 85 - year - old pontiff, the three - day trip outside the Vatican walls was a break from the Vatileaks scandal, which has seen his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrested on suspicion of disclosing dozens of embarrassing letters alleging corruption and nepotism at the Holy See.

Whereas we once saw Western civilization as an expression of Christian influence, we now see its dominant forms and expressions as distortions and corruptions of that influence, and as operating on assumptions that are not acceptable to Christians.

Insta - corruption in the name of God, cameras running for all to see.

See, many of us have spent years believing that we combat gender inequity by raising awareness and calling it out, we combat human trafficking by raising awareness and calling it out, we combat corruption by raising awareness and calling it out, and we combat racism by not breathing a word.

If we read the New Testament documents we see that their background is largely one of fear, cruelty, superstition, corruption and a callous lack of consideration for human beings.

Yet, if his body was raised physically from the grave and did not see corruption, or if his body was transformed after death into something different, in such a way that in itself it was annihilated, then he did not experience the whole of our human destiny.

Such an interpretation, too, would seem inconsistent both with those narratives which speak of a material body of flesh and bones being seen by the disciples and also with the insistence of later Christian preaching (e.g. in Luke's speeches in Acts) that the flesh of Jesus was raised without having seen corruption (in fulfillment of Psalm 16:10).

In his confession, as in Dunham's, there is no judgment and no redemption — only an exploration of his inner self, and exposure of his outer self, in an attempt to see and justify what he «truly» was prior to the corruptions visited on him by society.

You will see and know the corruption of your family for generations uncounted.

That child's dance is nothing less than the eternal dance of divine Wisdom before God's throne, the dance of David and the angels and saints before his glory; it is the true face of creation, which God came to restore and which he will not suffer to see corruption..

If we concede that Jesus was a real person, more likely than what is illustrated in the telephone version of the story (a.k.a. the bible) was that he was a man of conscience that saw the corruption and cruelty towards people in his day and spoke out about it, which led to his death at the hands of those he was speaking out about.

Forbidden to look upon her, he nevertheless lighted the tooth of a comb for a torch and saw her, now a mass of corruption.

I have seen things that defy imagination of the corruption I have seen in the so - called Christian Church..

If we, in addition, consider the degree to which moral directorship was or was not effective — if we estimate conservatively the actual crime rates, actual poverty, actual incidence of corruption and allowance of corruption — it is not clear that what we are seeing today can be called the loss of a former moral coherence.

Because it does not see that this transgression, because it is sin against God, drags the corruption of the nations in its wake.

Political society he saw largely in negative terms, at best a punishment and correction of sin, at worst a nightmare of corruption in which the strong eat up the weak and the stronger eat up the strong.

As we saw, the temple is here a symbol for a way of religion and a community embodying it, and the saying is a veiled forecast of the emergence of a new Israel out of the corruption of contemporary Judaism.

Catholic bishops, among other religious leaders, see Buhari as «a man of integrity and decency who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,» John Bakeni, secretary of the Catholic diocese in Maiduguri, told RNS.

And the well - known deviation toward superstition, which is a corruption of the faith, proceeds exclusively from visualizing what we are supposed to worship, pray to, and believe in without seeing anything.

I worked for the Catholic Church for many years and I seen firsthand the financial corruption, the oppression of women's rights, and deception of its followers for financial gain.

I think we all need to be highly critical of ALL charitable organizations and, when we see corruption, stand up against it, no matter WHO is backing those organizations.

So G. W. H. Lampe writes: «if his body was raised physically from the grave and did not see corruption, or if his body was transformed after death into something different, in such a way that in itself it was annihilated, then he did not experience the whole of our human destiny....

Martin Luther, on seeing corruption he could not ignore at the heart of the church, moved to challenge that which he felt distorted the gospel.

The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see corruption: but their souls, (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them.

If Jesus would have been dead four days then He would have begun to corrupt and the Jewish leaders could have pointed to Psalms 16:10 and said «see, even the word of GOD teaches that the Messiah would not see corruption.»

I do not see giving in to greed and corruption, or any form of facism (by the RR) as a possibility, and I do not see giving our country away to illegal immigrants as a requirement.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.

Both groups would immediately see such syncretism as a corruption of both communities and a violation of their most central claims, and they would be appropriately outraged.

Again, we must see that sin is a corruption at the root of our being, if we are to have any right understanding of it.

But there also is a stream of corruption; there is that as well, it is true... The «gay lobby» is mentioned, and it is true, it is there... We need to see what we can do....»

But it does throw some light upon the dark side of the human story if we see human cruelties and destructiveness as corruptions of the power to love, and thus as belonging not to the norm of human nature but to its pathology.

It is clear that this pope sees the corruption that has infiltrated his administration as inspired by the evil one: and now, in consecrating the Vatican to the Holy Archangel's protection and in asking him «to defend us from the evil one and banish him», he has invoked, on the entire process of Curial reform, the archangel's active and by no means necessarily peaceable help.

The rampant evil we see in the world today: ~ the corruption of human character so prevalent even in the young, ~ the disregard of everything that is pure, virtuous and godly, being replaced with apathy and indifference toward anything that stands for righteousness, ~ the boastfulness and pride in man's own achievements... ~ the inability to recognize the beauty and virtue in things that generations of the past naturally understood.

I shall not see corruption before the eye of the god Shu.

By observing the world stage of today and placing it according to the Scriptures on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science we're witnessing today, and yet, seeing such corruption of human character....

I wish I could ask him what might happen if principled men and women ever decided to overwhelm the system with citizen activists (see William Wilberforce or Martin Luther King, Jr.) who could bring torches to illumine the darkest recesses and corruptions of the world's system.

... If it truly were the word of god, would it be so easily corrupted... wouldn't your god have seen ahead of time the corruption of it, where when and how, and made it less corruptable.

I was afraid of all carnal talk and talkers, for I could see nothing but corruptions.

From the mid-fourteenth through the mid-sixteenth centuries saw a succession of Moslem conquests, divisions and corruptions in the Catholic Church, healings through an ecumenical council and corruption in the papacy as well as outside Rome.

We see the possibility that human history will come to its end neither in a brotherhood of man nor in universal death under the blows of natural or man - made catastrophe, but in the gangrenous corruption of a social life in which every promise, contract, treaty and «word of honor» is given and accepted in deception and distrust.