Sentences with phrase «served as motive»

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Among other nonverbal signals, a «substantial body of evidence... indicates that facial expressions serve as rich nonverbal cues that can powerfully communicate important interpersonal intentions and motives» [23] p730.

The sad truth is, even though our politicians try to sell us that our motive is freedom for other peoples, we are happy to support dictators as long as they serve our purposes.

Thus, what Geevarghese Mar Osthatios calls «rescue the perishing» [5] motive served as the spiritual springboard as well as the main goal of the modern missionary movement.

And yeah, apparently a lot of the «colonization» was derived from «superiority complex», such as calling something «backward and archaic system» and that without even talking about why it was / is considered such and without talking about what is supposedly better in the supposedly superior system, apparently in which education (respectivly mish - mash thereof) is a lot only applied when it serves some lower motive / s.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Empathy indeed serves as an aid to understanding and a motive to enacting justice.

Once you are convinced that pleas for divine aid are merely soliloquies that serve to clarify your own motives and perhaps to summon up your resolution to act, prayer as a genuine dialogue, a pleading before God, evaporates.

As we already mentioned that Jewish dating must serve its motive.

The sole difference is that whereas the book was written as a sort of self - serving mea culpa that only put Finkel's credibility into greater doubt, the movie refuses to let either subject off the hook, even going so far as to shine a light on Finkel's morally bankrupt motives.

Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, but her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: «Who is Salt?»

The bad guys are too non-descript to serve as much of a threat, and despite their affiliation with the allegedly brainy Erudite faction, their plans are as dim as their motives are hazy.

With that said, the movie does have its incidental strengths, chief among these being a sharp cast that plays these small - town characters with real feeling, including Rosemarie DeWitt as a possible romantic interest who, in some ways, serves as Steve's Jiminy Cricket and challenges his motives for spreading the gospel of fracking.

The Killmonger serves as a middling villain - he's very compelling but a little cliched in motives.

And she questions the political motives behind well - financed groups like Parent Revolution, which rented out a five - bedroom house to serve as the parent union's headquarters and helped secure a law firm to represent parents pro bono.

But that gets back to motive: The «reform» movement (and its loyal media outlets) cast a discussion of poverty as taboo because poverty and inequality are byproducts of the same economic policies that serve that movement's funders.

This report serves as somewhat of a baseline for future reports, laying out the districts» motives for taking part in the Pipeline effort, their early plans and the results they hope to achieve throughout the initiative.

A compact, lightweight 1.56 kWh lithium ion polymer battery provides motive force for the electric motor and also serves as the Niro's only battery — Kia said it eliminated the 12 - volt battery that traditionally runs accessories and starts the engine in any other car.

This is not the place to explore in detail the nature of the ambiguous relationship to medicine of medieval Islam, to which I. Goldziher, B. Reinert, and F. Rosenthal have been prominent in drawing attention, but it seems important to underline certain of its features, in order to show that it was indeed strong enough to serve as a possible motive for the taking up of the figure of al - H??

It has no profit motive, as it doesn't have any outside shareholders to serve.

«As a voter and taxpayer, I firmly believe SB 331 is insufficient to adequately protect consumers or the puppies sold in pet stores whose parents live in breeding conditions where «profit above care» for the facility owner serves as their primary motive for existencAs a voter and taxpayer, I firmly believe SB 331 is insufficient to adequately protect consumers or the puppies sold in pet stores whose parents live in breeding conditions where «profit above care» for the facility owner serves as their primary motive for existencas their primary motive for existence.

But, regardless of motive, this marked the first time a President had asked an African American unit to serve as his Escort of Honor, according to Rik Penn, an interpretive ranger with Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

The motive of crucifixion served as a symbol of pain and death, and Bacon used the allegory to make Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion.

This said, I love the merging of visual and word narratives and hope to one day contribute pictures to a work of fiction, perhaps of a novella length, where my pictures can serve as pause or a break but also function with similar motives I consider with the addition of text to a collection of pictures.

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«As in anything, a pure profit or greed motive doesn't serve you well if you're looking to go into development,» says Wallace.