Sentences with phrase «specific acts»

Second, the accused may lead evidence of specific acts of good character.

The participants were asked how often in the past year their partner had engaged in specific acts of physical and psychological aggression towards them during a conflict.

Especially with children this young it seems like the important thing is for them to enjoy the process rather than worrying about specific acts of service.

A lot of what goes into securing a part is not just about specific acting experience (though that is extremely important), but also other relevant experience for the role.

The Christian tradition has had a pronounced tendency to define sexual sin as specific acts.

The definition of «because of sex» has expanded over the years, through both legislation and court decisions, to include more specific acts like sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination.

Many other specific acts of good or evil flow out of the main parts of the tree into tiny branches, buds and fruit.

There are too many people on the moral sidelines who think they are living well just because they avoid specific acts of evil.

And if you could qualify «greed» and cite specific acts of greed and how they destroyed the economy, I'd appreciate that a lot.

Most importantly, you'll learn when to deliver specific ACT components, and how to adapt your treatment for each client.

International applicants should refer to this list for specific ACT / SAT requirements for students attending high schools outside North America.

And sin — not specific acts of wrong - doing, but man's sinfulness in general — is, as the religious man knows from his own experience, quite unpredictable.

For God demands the whole man, not merely specific acts from the man.

It's dangerous from that perspective rather than just prohibiting certain specific acts and leaving it at that.»

In my national sample of 246 AG pastors, 66 percent prayed in tongues daily (only 3 percent did so less than weekly); 93 percent said they had been used by God to prophesy to their congregations; 79 percent frequently received answers to specific prayer requests; and 54 reported regularly experiencing God's direction to perform specific acts.

This is the point which moralists and legalists who identify sin with specific acts generally overlook.

To prove their point, these Islam - is - the - problem critics tend to link specific acts of jihadi groups to a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinions.

Within feminist theology and feminist practices of theological education, this need and quest for reimagining means not only specific acts of reconstruction but also the inclusion of literature and poetry as sources of theological reflection.

The Bible outlines specific acts that God does forbid (lust being one of them) because they are considered destructive to mankind but more importantly, they are considered unholy in the eyes of God and are selfish in nature.

In a crucial way, the mortgage crisis of 2008 was initiated by specific acts passed by Congress and fiercely defended against detailed warnings about the dreadful consequences to come.

That's about as far as it will go — although in accomplishing this trivial aim it will overturn centuries of British legal tradition of criminalising specific acts, rather than criminalising everything and demanding the citizen demonstrate whatever he is doing is lawful.

And, Albuquerque's HEART Ordinance attempts to set forth very specific acts or omissions which will be deemed cruel.

Strict liability is defined as negligence as a matter of law, the consequence of which is to remove the burden from the user of proving specific acts of negligence.

The Manual will then examine specific acts by a custodial parent which may cause a court to change custody, including denial of visitation rights, alienation of the child's affections away from the noncustodial parent, and removal of the child to a distant jurisdiction.

Service contracts are agreements for specific acts, such as painting your house or tuning your car, and are distinguishable from contracts for goods.

You can't separate, therefore, the UK's infrastructure, programmes, specific acts from the NSA.

Most AG members have personally experienced these gifts: 65 percent claim to pray in tongues; 61 percent have personally experienced divine healing as a result of prayer; 55 percent regularly receive definite answers to specific prayer requests; 32 percent say they are regularly «led by God» to perform specific acts; and nearly 30 percent believe they have been used by God to prophesy.

Consumer protection in South Korea is regulated under several acts, including the Consumer Protection Act, and also more specific acts, such as the Adhesion Contract Act, enacted December 31, 1986.

Keep detailed record of specific acts by the other parent that you think are meant to alienate you from your child.

But a much higher proportion — almost one in five — agreed that certain specific acts that were seen as bringing a woman's family dishonour were reasonable justification for physical punishment.

But a nuclear war would do such irreparable damage to both humanity and the ecology of the planet that it could bring an end not to specific acts of aggression but to all the higher forms of life on the planet.

Smart Contracts are preconditioned by their codes to respond to different triggers that would allow them specific acts of execution depending on the circumstances.

Like Erin Griffith said in a previous Term Sheet, the degree of the misconduct matters: «The specific act that occurred matters for questions like: Should this person be allowed to get a new job in a position of power?

In any negotiation that involves an alternative action if the terms are not met, you must let the other party know you can, and will, do a specific act it does not want you to do in the event terms are not met.

The church should never be guilty of using poor biblical exegesis or theology to oppose or condone a specific act.

The concept of parcellation in neuronal growth, the individuation in maturation of specific acts and objects, the analysis of gestalts into features, the relation of surround to center, theories of frame to content or context to item development in language and cognition, attempt to describe a wave of whole - part shifts through a succession of constraints on emergent form as a process in which diverse elements resolve out of organic wholes.

Guilt is often inspired by conviction, empathy and likely a response to a specific act (i.e. I should have put some change in that homeless woman's jar).

This was because, in the Hebrew and Aramaic of Jesus's day, the word for righteousness (tsedaqah) had come to mark the specific act of showing charity toward the poor.

The article is describing how people are finally waking up and realizing that yes natural disasters MIGHT be caused by a celestial being but that again does not mean in ANY way that it is because the human race has sinned or committed some specific act that warrented a natural disaster as punishment.

There are no specific acts that we can call right and wrong but it is the absolute ends that matter.

Women's feelings of guilt are often pervasive and diffuse, whereas men's remorse tends to be tied to specific acts.