Sentences with phrase «so much authority»

So when Custodial Parents, who are empowered with so much authority, have that authority taken away, sadly that which the Family Courts uniquely crafted is enough of a trigger as you're ever going to experience as a parent.

Since NOA had so much authority during that time period, and seeing how badly they bet on Dragon Quest, I believe they had to be partially responsible.

Still riding the success of last year's «The Social Network,» David Fincher was probably the only director who could claim the English - language adaptation of the first film with so much authority.

I used to think about John Wayne that he brings so much authority to a role he can pronounce literally any line in a script and get away with it.

Don't just slag me off, tell me what qualifies you to talk with so much authority.

I'm with you on the whole «they» people... how can some obscure group have so much authority?!

And since reason and science carry so much authority today, any alternative source of information would be suspect.

Only Martin Marty could have written so comprehensive a volume with so much authority and insight.

It was the hard numbers that had given the arguments of Losing Ground so much authority when they were first published.

Not exact matches

From content ideas to establishing authority to content creation and so much more, Quora has a lot to offer — even by spending just a few minutes there each day.

That it's acquired so many partners, and so much buy - in from different industries and authorities in the region, suggests a high degree of confidence in its technology.

How is it that groups so widely condemned as heretical by Islamic authorities receive so much tacit support from the mainstream Muslim world?

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.

Notions of «power over» dynamics, hierarchical thinking, authoritarianism, success meaning «winning» over someone else who is a «loser», more money and more power and more authority is more successful... everything that causes so much trouble in a capitalist, patriarchal mindset.

The LDS church did not grant the priesthood to blacks in the early days of the church, mainly because they were already under so much persecution, having to flee from state to state and finally into Utah territory that the additional trouble granting this authority to blacks would have caused might have sunk the early church.

I've had a couple of traumatic, triggering experiences this week which have had me thinking again about just how much I struggle against institutions, so - called authority figures, and what I perceive to be (or are) obnoxious agents trying to exert «control» over my freedom of expression and thought and behaviors.

* Missional experts can travel so much for teaching that they lose the local grounding that gives them their authority.

So when liberal scholars and agnostics criticize the Bible and question its authority, we get defensive, not so much because of our theology of the Bible, but because it feels like they are attacking a loved onSo when liberal scholars and agnostics criticize the Bible and question its authority, we get defensive, not so much because of our theology of the Bible, but because it feels like they are attacking a loved onso much because of our theology of the Bible, but because it feels like they are attacking a loved one.

So I may not have much authority in my own self, sure.

Jeshua, if that were the case then religious authorities wouldn't spend so much time trying to control information, trying to pass off their beliefs as scientific, or attempting to misinform the public on genuine scientific explanations that happen to contradict those beliefs.

This flattened hierarchy thing that freaks a lot of the Authority and Submission Crowd out so much is actually pretty awesome.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

The reason why people bash religions so much is because historically a lot of violence has been perpetrated but this is only because of authorities that utilize religions and beliefs for their war campaigns and the «just» cause.

So it seems like hero worship, ancient authority and much more are tempting items people keep using even as their religion supposedly changes or disappears.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

Having so much reverence for our convictions that we assume to have the authority to tell others how to live — is an act of idolatry.

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

However, the ultimate authority in this country is the Cons ### tution which is why the conservatives so much wanted an amendment about marriage.

What Sheehan describes is not so much a loss as a reconstruction of biblical authority.

First, Aristotle has in mind, under the heading of «witnesses» (martures) not narrators of things seen so much as moral authorities appealed to by the orator.

This is the problem: how to exercise just enough authority to keep the people's respect and control them, but not exercising too much authority so as to lose their respect and turn them off.

Well, more congenial it may be, but I would have more admiration for the Cardinal if he would use his considerable prestige to speak out about those who have done so much to damage the Jesuits, and to speak up for those faithful Jesuits who have been treated so shabbily by those in authority.

You'll notice, for instance, that they are very much in favor of judicial authority (which includes its enforcement mechanisms, like the police) maintaining law and order, policing the border, and so on.

Lisa: It wasn't so much policy changes, as it was conscious decisions on the parts of leaders of the time to submit themselves to the authority of the first peoples of their regions when making decisions about where their regional and national conferences were to be held.

But the patterns were firmly set out, and peer pressure, as much as the authority of the church, ensured that this remained so.

no, its no more a sin than eating buggers, just stop beating up on oneself, if you are in love with YHWH, and do His law, the 10 commandments, just as David did, plenty of wrong in his life, but he prayed, and he prayed, he also loved YHWH so much, he was loyal, and loving to YHWH, so YHWH chose him, and his seed, do the law of righteousness, the commandments, and pray, and pray, love YHWH with all of you heart, and no other man made of flesh, and blood can judge anyone else, only YHWH can, He has the complete authority, and as long as you have a relationship deep with Him, He knows.

Kim, You may show up here so you can educate / ridicule those of us with a much less rigid conservative viewpoint, but by just condemning people and their ideas in that way, you lose any authority or influence to teach.

And because they gain so much visibility — take on such an aura of authority and religious «truth» — they lead people outside the church to conclude that Christianity really is irrelevant to the world and its problems, confirming them in their resolve to shun organized religion and go their way as humanitarians, free - thinkers or iconoclasts.

The second fact to keep in mind about Christian authority is that it can never become so much a matter of sight that it no longer remains the occasion for faith.

The emergence of the new world, which in fact owed so much to the Christian heritage, began to appear more and more in the eyes of the authorities of Christendom as an evil spirit from some Pandora's box.

The early church believed Jesus and followed his example, so much so that even the Roman authorities noted (often with derision) in their letters and journals that the church was made up primarily of women, slaves, and poor, uneducated laborers.

«To the little flock» (a quotation from the New Testament) he wrote explaining his absence, his position which had led to so much criticism from authority, and outlined for their benefit all that had happened, copying at one point a style used by St Paul when rebutting his critics.

The life of the Friary, University and town experienced only a generalised sense of unease, the endemic irritation with ecclesiastical authority, common to so much of Europe.

The turning away from the objective truth of words (and from authority) which has been so much part of the modern «turn to the subject» is caused by, among other things, a particular idea with a long intellectual pedigree.

Thus, the Reformation has not so much undermined the possibility of a Christian consensus organized around the proper authority of the Catholic Church as it has ushered in a pallid and existentially unsatisfying secularism.

There is no higher authority on a certain team, that is playing in a certain big shouldered city, that is second to none, and it just so happens to start with «Ch», and ends in a «go», and those syllables sandwich an «ica», much like my Turano bread sandwiches around a classic heaping helping of Italian Beef.

What makes you think the US has any moral authority to decide what is right or wrong for other regions, when they themselves have been the cause of so much unnecessary death over the past 50 + years?

What's more, he stamped his authority and commanded his area like no goalkeeper before or since and would often give his defence merry hell if the opposition got so much as a weak header on target.

it isn't lightly that in Japan and the UK, young men are avoiding marriage so much that the authorities are worried.

So then people become new parents who love their children so much and want to do best and do what they've been innately trained to do and look for sources of authority to guide theSo then people become new parents who love their children so much and want to do best and do what they've been innately trained to do and look for sources of authority to guide theso much and want to do best and do what they've been innately trained to do and look for sources of authority to guide them.