Sentences with phrase «served as his father»

«Chairman Bugri Naabu is a benevolent person who serves as a father for all by using his own resources to help the needy regardless of their political, religious or ethnic affiliation, and that is why we have vowed to work very hard to ensure his reelection.»

Today, he has taken full responsibility for his actions and I support his decision,» said the assemblywoman, who once served as her father's campaign manager.

But perhaps more important than forging youngsters into a competitive, top - flight band capable of winning national championships was the fact that Prof simultaneously served as a father figure to so many who were being raised without a male role model.

During the writing process, an editor serves as a father - confessor and cheerleader.

Never in the history of mankind has a government undertaken anything more morally depraved than limiting the number of births per couple in a captive society that has always depended on the first born male to serve as his father's reward in old age and as social security for his parents.

(Side note: during the proceedings of this case, Judge Susan F. Greenhawt was recused after she was observed having Jan Faust, Ph.D. — a colleague and friend of Martha C. Jacobson — as an apparent overnight houseguest in Greenhawt's home while Faust was serving as the father's forensic expert.)

The Father / Male Involvement Preschool Teacher Education Program assists teachers in developing the knowledge and skills needed to successfully plan, implement, and evaluate specific activities that encourage program involvement by fathers and other males who serve as father figures for school children.

Not exact matches

As he wrote on Facebook, his father was a World War II veteran fighting fascism, he served in Vietnam fighting communism, and his son is currently serving in the Army fighting the Taliban and terrorism.

Persson inherited his massive fortune and is still a shareholder of the company (his father, Stefan, serves as chairman of H&M and his older brother, Karl - Johan, is CEO).

At the ripe age of 21, Sun joined his father's Handan Zongheng Iron and Steel Group, where he currently serves as deputy general manager and head of the finance department.

In late 2013 his father, Riley Bechtel, who had served for 24 years as CEO, retired four years early at 61 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

De Carvalho - Heineken's father served as CEO before stepping down in 1989, but that is not a job she's eager for one of her children to take.

Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack, filed a lawsuit Monday against Scot Peterson, a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who served as a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

His father served in the Army as a chief warrant officer 4.

Born into a political family, his father Hugh Horner was Lougheed - era minister, his grandfather Ralph Horner was a Senator, and three of his uncles served as Members of Parliament.

Immediately before entering elected politics, he served as executive assistant to cabinet minister Hugh Horner (father of current PC leadership candidate Doug Horner), who he later replaced as MLA for Barrhead in a closely fought 1979 by - election.

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Her goodness and constancy serve as the counterpoint to her father's injustice, pride, and selfishness.

As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began, That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us, To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant, The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

The book of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic rabbis and Church Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

St Thomas More embodies and personifies truth serving freedom precisely because his ability to excel as a lawyer and statesman was based upon his fidelity as a husband and father.

To think that my patient, kind, and tender father who loves God and people more than anyone I know, served as a supportive deacon to these scumbags, and began to question his own observations when they put their spin on the situations... SICKENS ME.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

It is no coincidence that most religious traditions turn to personal and public human relationships to serve as metaphors and models of the relationship between God and the world: God as father, mother, lover, friend, king, lord, governor.

I have no doubt that John, our choir director at one of the congregations where my father served, sincerely believed that «Whispering Hope,» a number frequently chosen by him as the choir's offertory piece, was a profoundly Christian hymn; but it was really an expression of vacuous hope without any substantive theological grounding: «Wait till the darkness is over / wait till the tempest is done / Hope for the sunshine tomorrow, after the darkness is gone / Whispering hope, oh, how welcome thy voice / Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.»

His annual public lectures, one in commemoration of his father and another a «repentance homily» delivered in the week preceding Yom Kippur, were intricately crafted, four - hour affairs with audiences upwards of one thousand, and served for several decades as cornerstones of the Jewish intellectual calendar.

What is more, in their defense of male - authority, another evangelical leader (who served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society) insists that God the Son is eternally subordinate to God the Father.

Turning to Christian tradition, we may note that the Fathers and Doctors of the Church are virtually unanimous in their support for capital punishment, even though some of them such as St. Ambrose exhort members of the clergy not to pronounce capital sentences or serve as executioners.

The author, husband and father - of - one serves as international outreach director at 40 Days for Life, an organisation that peacefully campaigns against abortion.

Note how you jump to verse 8 when you recite the verse, leaving out the key point at verse 6: «If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, «Let us go and serve other gods,» which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers...» Here the person is not entering into a debate but rather asking you to go and serve other gods — that is when when God is saying watch out.

i am atheist, i served as an atheist and i will die an atheist because until your neglectful sky fairy father figure decides to show up he is nothing more than a quaint little bed time story for all the childish minded people like you.

Father John Hugo (1911 - 1985) was an inspiration for Dorothy Day and served as her spiritual director.

Kelly Schatz, Logan's father, said his 20 - year - old son had played for the Broncos for just over four years and had served as team captain for the past two - and - a-half years.

Deuteronomy 13:6 - 10 «If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you... Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

«If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you... Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

His father was a German immigrant who served as pastor in a German - speaking Lutheran Church which mixed the Lutheran and Reformed traditions.

Those who helped forge constitutionalism in the nineteenth century, especially Benito Juárez, who engineered the 1857 constitution and served as president, are regarded as «fathers» of the country and frequently compared with Washington or Jefferson.

The Bolins» son, Jason Bolin, had been serving as senior pastor in his father's absence, while he completed a» «restoration process» through the Church of God,» as CT noted in 2009.

Father Paul, currently serving for a second time as provincial in Great Britain, mentions attempts by religious communities in recent years to live in smaller houses without religious dress.

I have come belatedly to see, in my own case, that my hermeneutical passion is largely propelled by the fact that my father was a pastor who was economically abused by the church he served, abused as a means of control.

In fact, I will go so far to say one of the things I respect very much is the role model that he has served as a husband and father,» the conservative Republican said during the midday speech in Washington, DC.

Both now as a young single woman, wanting to serve my Heavenly Father and content as I am, as well as in the future, when, Lord willing, I have a family of my own.

His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and at a local department store, S. Klein... -

26.39 also omits the Aramaic word, but offers an alternative translation of it: «My Father... «Both «Father» and «My Father» are correct translations of abba, since this particular form of the word served both as the substantive and as the substantive with the first person singular suffix the Lord's Prayer tradition, Luke 11.2 again has the simple «Father» clearly representing abba here, as it did in 22.42, whereas Matt.

Well before that traumatic date, from as far back as William's thirteenth year, his father John had apparently begun to run into financial difficulties, at which time he tried to avoid town meetings and church attendance, allegedly to elude summons by subpoena (one could be served for debt in church).

Speaking to Premier as the other party leaders prepared for Wednesday night's TV debate ahead of next week's vote, Theresa May once again outlined the role her Christian faith plays in her life, saying it is the same today as it was growing up in the vicarage where her father served.

He has many fond memories of those times, not least serving as the altar boy for his parish, the Church of the Ascension, and attending basketball games with his father and brother.

Wilhelm von Humboldt, born June 22, 1767, into a Prussian noble family (his father had served as a chamberlain to Frederic the Great), was two years older than his famous brother, Alexander.

When Father Boyle was serving as a priest in East LA, he buried an alarming number of young people involved in gangs.