Sentences with phrase «servants whose»

Annis was «shocked» by the gravity of the misconduct and the degree of deception, particularly as the perpetrators were public servants whose job it is to defend public interest.

It's not the Crown civil servants whose offices are housed in the very same courthouse within a hallway or two of any given courtroom in which they might be required.

The rest are all career civil servants whose jobs are not tied to a given administration.

The universities are saturated with civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research.

But if we look further, the latest analyses show that between 2000 and 2008 more than 60 percent of scientific production in Spain was carried out in universities (2), despite the fact that their professors are ``... civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research».

Ms. Levine made a brief analysis of the current state of research in Spain, and among other things, she said that, «The [Spanish] universities are saturated with civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research.»

«New Yorkers deserve public servants whose priority is the needs of their constituents, not lining their own pockets,» said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office prosecuted the case.

But much more importantly, Labour has abandoned its near out - and - out support for public servants whose recent strikes were tacitly support by the party leadership and who were joined by leader Ed on the so - called «March for the Alternative».

I deserve representation from the public servants whose purview includes representation to me as a constituent with a solid cause of action.

The incredible team at Number 10, the civil servants whose professionalism and impartiality is one of our country's greatest strengths.

The Ministry of Finance has rendered an apology to civil servants whose names were deleted from government payroll following measures by government to sanitise the system by deleting ghost names.

While I am unable to end the furlough, I will act in solidarity with my fellow public servants whose lives are being disrupted by these shortsighted decisions.

So to protest what Hoyt thinks is an illegal furlough of state employees he closes his office «in solidarity with my fellow public servants whose lives are being disrupted»?

38 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.

37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes.

You could also quote the parable about the servants whose master left them each with 5 talents.

Another parable about servants whose master is away from home now follows (Mt 25:14 - 30: Lk 19:12 - 27).

It's a tremendous responsibility, and one elected officials elsewhere have decided is better left to public servants whose primary motivation isn't getting re-elected.

It fights for its life and its honor, for if the decision wins, then cleverness is as if put to death — degraded, to become a despised servant whose talk is attentively listened to, but whose advice one does not stoop to follow.

The shepherd is a servant whose job is to feed the flock - not the other way around.

A well payed servant whose past his best.

«John Faso is a trusted and longtime community servant whose only agenda is to help kick - start New York's economy, create good - paying jobs here, and keep New York families safe.»

«He is a unique public servant whose leadership was critical to many of my administration's successes,» Clinton said.

Hinton described Wolfe as «a highly - regarded public servant whose integrity should not be questioned.»

But many of those fortunate enough to have a resumé line listing a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award know little of the eponymous scientist and civil servant whose death on 6 October, a week before her 83rd birthday, ended an exceptional and still - active career encompassing high attainment in both research and service to the nation and the world.

Cast: Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies, Niall Buggy, Nicholas Rowe, Michelle Fairley, Debbie Chazen, Graham Turner, Jeremy Swift Director: Dover Koshashvili Summary: Chekhov's psychological insights and piercing humor illuminate the screen in this beautifully filmed drama about Laevsky (Andrew Scott), a narcissistic civil servant whose impetuous decision to leave his married mistress, Nadya (Fiona Glascott), sparks shocking reverberations.

Earlier this week, Emma Jones, 40, a civil servant whose father emigrated to the U.K. from Trinidad, sat in a salon having her hair done and talked about what it meant to have the royals welcome someone of black heritage into the family.

3:15 pm — TCM — The Spiral Staircase A classic example of the «old dark house» atmospheric thriller, with Dorothy Maguire as a mute domestic servant whose life is endangered when a serial killer seems to be targeting people with disabilities like her.

Samuel Howell was a mixed - race indentured servant whose grandmother had been a free white woman; his grandfather was black.

Not exact matches

That will force civil servants, police, and tax collectors alike to decide whose orders they are going to obey.

German's excessive debt burden after the Great War, for example, was «forgiven», unwillingly, mainly by middle - and upper - middle - class households and civil servants, whose fixed income portfolios withered to nothing in the hyperinflation that began in mid 1921 and ended in early 1924.

When Canada shut down the program in 2014, it left a fully trained industry adept at selling immigration investment and public servants used to administering immigration investment programs, as well as a pipeline with thousands of clients from around the world who had applied to Canada's program and whose applications had not yet been processed.

The covenant at Sinai also begins with a brief historical introduction («I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt») whose explicit purpose is to document God's gracious intentions toward Israel and to engender Israel's desire to be a faithful servant who would love her lord above all other competitors.

And if my eyes were more filled with tears than those of a repentant woman, and if each tear were more precious than a pardoned woman's many tears; if I could find a place more humble than the place at his feet, and if I could sit there more humbly than a woman whose heart's sole choice was this one thing needful; if I loved him more sincerely than the most loyal of his servants, eager to shed the last drop of his life - blood in his service; if I had found greater favor in his eyes than the purest among women — nevertheless, if I asked him to alter his purpose, to reveal himself differently, to be more lenient with himself, he would doubtless look at me and say: Man, what have I to do with thee?

As never before in the history of the Christian consciousness, the modern Jew has appeared and has been real as the suffering servant, the broken one in whose agony the world can behold and know the pain of humanity.

What Jesus calls us to is the style and disposition of a servant, one whose chief concern is the interests of others.

To do otherwise is to surrender conviction and make belief worthless or, on the other hand, to make myself seem «a servant of a God of prey whose goal it is to annex and enslave.»

We can not corrupt the memory of those faithful servants of God like Paul whose suffering is part of a witness to the gospel.

As Christians, we should pray for those whose lives have been enriched by the availability of insurance, and be ready to take up the mantle of servants and serve those who find themselves in need.

There is the strange figure of the Servant in Second Isaiah whose suffering, even if it is not the suffering of God, is the way to redemption.

Certainly later biblical prophets, whose works appear in the New Testament, had no hesitation in identifying Jesus Christ as the Servant.

In America, an equally suitable representative is Alexander Meiklejohn, whose brilliant career as a philosopher and public servant entitles his words to respect.

Here then is a summary of the essential purport of the life and work of Jesus in a kind of symbolic shorthand: he undertook his mission, our informants are saying, as Messiah, as Son of God, as the Servant of the Lord, in the power of the divine Spirit — and this is «God's truth,» affirmed by the divine voice whose echo can be caught by the inward ear.

And if the mission of tile Servant defined the work to which Jesus set his hand, the fate of the Servant, whose life was made «an offering for sin,» 11 and who «bore the sin of many,» pointed to the destiny that awaited him: «The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give up his life as a ransom for many.»

Whenever we identify him with the lordly and powerful of this world, whenever we think of him as king, we cloud our understanding of the man from Galilee whose greatness lay in his giving of himself and his being a servant to others.

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

(Isaiah 53 is, of course, the principal passage of several in Isaiah dealing with the Servant of Yahweh, who was led» as a lamb to the slaughter,» who bore the iniquities of others and by whose stripes others were healed.

Here Jesus is distinctly seen in terms of the Suffering Servant, and the Suffering Servant, however mysterious a figure he may be, was one whose vicarious sufferings were for the sake of the healing of his people.

They are all lords who can not and will not be servants, who are therefore no true lords, whose being is not a truly divine being [Dogmatics IV, 1, p. 130].