Sentences with phrase «setting means death»

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The death penalty should be abolished not for religious reasons (also religious people seem to approve of the dath penalty — which to me makes no sense) but because every person who is killed is one less set of DNA to be passed on to succeeding generations, and who knows what those wasted genes could mean for the future of the species?

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

I could not think outside the parameters that had been set by him and his bible because it meant certain spiritual death.

When Orthodox think of salvation, union with God is what they mean; and that Christ suffered and died in order to go into the realm of death to set us free, and enable us to choose and embrace it.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

I mean, honestly, what kind of bovine excrement omniscient being designs a universe that obeys a set of rules (physics), but designs a sentient being that He will then cast into eternal torment at death — no matter how good the being was during its life — unless that being has faith in His son?

While many more people now have better access to drinking water, sanitation and health care, the world is still an unequal place: 2.5 billion — more than one third of the world's population — still have totally inadequate sanitation.16 Artificial feeding of an infant instead of breastfeeding in such settings can literally mean the difference between life and death.

In cases where excess wealth was held until death, he advocated its apprehension by the state on a progressive scale: «Indeed, it is difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man's estates which should go at his death to the public through the agency of the State, and by all means such taxes should be granted, beginning at nothing upon moderate sums to dependents, and increasing rapidly as the amounts swell, until of the millionaire's hoard, at least the other half comes to the privy coffer of the State.»

That inquest opens today but legal advice given to the Sargeant family suggests an inquiry into the wider issues surrounding the former minister's death can run at the same time which means the work to set it up could begin as soon as this week.

«It will take a few months to set up schemes for paying compensation — particularly for those who will receive regular payments until their deaths — meaning the first payouts will be made next year.»

She brings together 1,000 images of historical artwork, illustrations and artifacts showcasing humankind's ongoing quest to imagine and find meaning in death, along with 19 essays by a diverse set of writers, art experts and scientific thinkers.

In the 2020s for instance, numbers produced from the various scenarios worked out to a mean increase of about 20 percent in deaths due to heat, set against a mean decrease of about 12 percent in deaths due to cold.

Swanton's new lab set out to identify specific genes that, when inhibited, result in the death of tumor cells that displayed aneuploidy, meaning they had more or less than the normal set of 46 chromosomes.

His death means the mantle passes, at least at first, to T'Challa, who sets out to find the person responsible for his father's death and exact his revenge.

Suffice it to say that the state (nicely embodied here by Donald Sutherland), as a means of controlling the masses, annually sets a gaggle of young people against one another in a fight to the death while broadcasting the whole nightmarish ordeal live.

And much of the way he sets out to make Oscar's death a tragedy is to show us how much the young man means to the women in his life.

Set in Los Angeles in 1962, A Single Man, centers on George Falconer (Colin Firth), a 52 - year - old British college professor struggling to find meaning after the sudden death of his boyfriend Jim (Matthew Goode).

The film sets up Kaecilius» motivation thoroughly: after losing his entire family, the sorcerer discovers a dimension where time has no meaning — meaning death does not exist.

«Folks, it's going to be studied to death, it will be killed and in the meantime our diploma will mean pretty much nothing,» he said, adding, «Until we come up with a replacement, let's not set up another advisory panel to make a recommendation that will not be adopted.»

The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.

A key advantage of an ILIT as compared to personally owning the insurance policy is that if the trust is set up and administered correctly, the assets owned by the ILIT will not be considered part of your estate for federal inheritance / estate tax purposes — meaning your heirs won't have to pay estate or inheritance taxes on the life insurance death benefits that are paid.

So it may depend on whether you have access to the funds directly or if you are just the beneficiary on death (meaning whoever set up the policy owns the cash value, not you)

But it's more well known for being the first instance of a science fiction setting in the genre, something that, oddly enough, usually meant certain death in the old days of the massive multiplayer online realm, as well as being an early example of an MMO to implement a free - to - play model.

Approaching the game solo is more than doable but holds a high degree of frustration regarding lack of checkpoints, meaning death feels overly punished by setting you right back to the beginning of a lengthy shootout.

the culprit causes death but does so by accident or mistake, while at some point during the act forms a meaning set out above in 229 (a)(i) or 229 (a)(ii).

However, many companies also allow you to take the death benefits as an annuity which means that your beneficiaries can receive the life insurance proceeds monthly or as a set payment every few years or so.

A graded death benefit means the full death benefit does not go into affect until after a set period of time.

The fact that the insurance company had only $ 899,000 «at risk» in the form of a death benefit it might have to pay — since the other $ 101,000 is already set aside as cash value reserves — means that the implicit cost of the death benefit in the 20th year is based only on $ 899,000, and not the full $ 1,000,000.

This means that if you and your spouse take out the policy, neither of you will collect a death benefit payout when the other spouse dies, but life insurance will be paid after your death to your beneficiaries, which can be heirs, a charity or trust that you set up.

Which means that when you purchase a guaranteed issue life insurance policy, because it will contain a graded death benefit, you will not be covered in the event that you die from an illness for some set period of time (typically for the first 2 - 3 years after purchasing your life insurance policy).

However, the policy remains as a standard no exam term life insurance policy which means that a death benefit will be set.

Ultimately, this means that there will be a certain amount of time before the death benefit is active — this is in place to protect the insurance company because you could set up a policy and pass away a week later.

However, both sets of policies had deferred death benefits, meaning the death benefit was limited in the first two policy years.»