Sentences with phrase «someone standing over»

But to the apparent surprise of the Trudeau government, and, frankly, to some of us who pay attention to these things, the opposition and the business lobby have decided to take a stand over a business owner's right to squeeze as much as he or she can from the tax system.

I visited rural villages, and I took my first trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I stood over a vat of natural indigo dye and thought, This is magic.

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Guenier in the suit says she complained about his behavior in an email, and he responded by standing over her and yelling, «What the fuck were you thinking Victoria writing that fucking email.

Better to stay quiet, see out the storm and, ironically, stand over in the silent corner next to the traditionalists in their cardigans saying nothing about the whole saga until the heat dies down.

Standing over him.

I was standing over him, weeping.

I said, «Can you believe it's been nearly 15 years since I snapped that picture of you standing over that worn out Monte Carlo's engine?»

The heater kicks on often, and on the days when I can't escape the chill, I stand over the floor grates and feel the warm air pushing up through my wool socks.

I would occasionally have a dark figure in a hood stand over me.

In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»

God's sovereign providence stands over and above our actions.

What we are pointing out is that every deep personal relationship is set in a context where each person is continually being moved to turn his attention to the reality which stands over against and between the persons.

Whether standing over the piano mercilessly coaxing a budding prodigy or arguing at the kitchen table over how many green beans are enough, these mothers gave their kids something to live for, strive for, react against; struggle with and grow away from.

In my recollection of these scenes, I make the announcement standing over her — as if standing rather than sitting would make the news more casual and therefore less unwelcome.

I remember staggering down the basement stairs with a load of laundry, standing over my washing machine and whispering against the noise of the tub filling with water, «God, if you are real, please heal me.»

«These people have spent their lives ridiculing Christ, standing over the Bible and judging it instead of bowing under it allowing it to judge them.»

Too many corners of the Church have been infected with a legalistic, performance - based view of God in which God stands over our lives with crossed arms and a disappointed scowl, applauding only when we get everything just right and rendering judgment on everything we do wrong.

Identified as «science,» it stands over against (rather than fostering) the integration that Davies sees as the chief end of humanity.

That which is sacred is that which is «set apart,» which exceeds or transcends or stands over against the profane sphere.

Especially if I belonged to a church that took a strong stand over certain issues.

So I walked in, stood over him for a while and tried to get angry.

Hey could I get you guys to stand over here for a second?

As McFague points out, an atomized God is a «monarchical» deity who is imaged as a divine King separate from, and standing over, his earthly realm.

His concern is that Buddhist and Christian spirituality stand over against a simply secular approach.

Buddhism must be included: like Christianity, it ought not to be misrepresented or caricatured, its views of the world and the self stand over against those of Western secularism and Christianity.

It raises energetically the claim for the establishment of a Christian order of life, «but de facto the redeemed Christian soul stands over against an unredeemed world of men in lofty impotence.»

Back in the «70s, when evangelicals were debating Reformed - versus - Anabaptist perspectives on faith and politics, I participated in a forum in which a self - proclaimed «radical Christian» urged all of us to «stand over against everything this American political system stands for.»

There in the closed room, where one probed and treated the isolated psyche according to the inclination of the self - encapsulated patient, the patient was referred to ever - deeper levels of his inwardness as to his proper world; here outside, in the immediacy of human standing over against each other, the encapsulation must and can be broken through, and a transformed, healed relationship must and can be opened to the sick person in his relations to otherness — to the world of the other which he can not remove into his soul.

wait stop, the Lord is going to make it better, then you look up and its another Christian standing over you and they say we know he sent us!

As that man stands over you in a fury ready to pound you to pulp at the slightest provocation, I guarantee that would be treading very lightly in his presence and seeking appeasement.

Here, the psychic act of distancing was applied to that quality of experience which gives rise to man's sense of the normative, and this was conceived as standing over against man, possessing just the objectivity that belongs to a visual form when it is distanced in aesthetic experience.

Thus what others have noted and called a great scandal of inconsistency in Bultmann's method strikes me as being singular evidence of his own remarkable sensitivity to the persisting truth of myth, as something existentiell, which somehow must stand over against the logic of demythologizing.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

(unless of course, he chose to stand over there) The problem that exists is that too many people have grown up believing that science has somehow already disproved God.

The quarterback recalled how, during one game last season, a Detroit Lions defensive player stood over him and began Tebowing after tackling him.

What if they as flawed human don't stand over us but with us?

But prophets are generally regarded as a danger to the church to the extent that this designation, in the case of a preacher, conjures up a radical, condemning voice standing over and above the congregation thundering against the evils of society.

That there is no good without someone standing over you, threatening you with the greatest punishment possible if you do bad, and the greatest reward possible, if you do good?

It is because they were specific that people in and outside of the Catholic Church saw what their values really were and how they stood over against the dominant economic thinking in North America.

I have to be able to stand over my life as a whole, and say to the other person in the light of all of it, «I do».

At night, I picture God, in his love without condition, standing over us while we sleep, clutching his heart over how beautiful we are, longing for more and better for us, knowing us better than we know ourselves, seeing a bigger picture, longing for a deeper relationship and loving us so much that it takes over the entire story.

It becomes Gegenstand, not Objekt; that which stands over against us as resistance, opposition, and tension, as opposed to the passive recipient of a scrutinizing, active subject.

But this word «witness» can not possibly mean that the Church stands over against the world, detached from it and regarding it from a position of superior righteousness or security.

The entire experience of the peoples of America has created and nurtured a world view which stands over against the world view of the Bible in sharpest possible opposition.

I myself was born to religious parents that stood over me with a switch as they forced me to learn a prayers that I had no desire to learn.

Luk 4:39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.

God creates everything, even justice itself, and nothing in the world can stand over God as judge....

For him the revelation of God as attested by Scripture stands over against contemporary human culture, whether religious or secular, with the divine Word of promise and judgment.

Does Whitehead's statement, or apparent statement, that all entities are all in all translate a fuller or truer meaning of his earlier statement that God and the World stand over against each other?