Sentences with phrase «status as»

This has to do with its traditional status as a wisdom book.

Conflicted feelings from this source may make the wife ambivalent about her new status as mother.

They called upon that status as a way of proving their superiority and consequently everyone else's inferiority.

Many members are businessmen, or professionals, or workers for whom their status as Christians is a second, third, or fourth consideration.

Even if such preposterousness could be overcome, there would remain all of the questions of why perspective would not totally determine interpretation, as would happen if interactions were sheerly physical, and of how good art and good criticism would be distinguished from bad.9 Clearly, art and its impact can not be understood without some allowance for its status as an imaginative reality, a status deeply dependent on art's physicalness, but not reducible to physicalness.

In Israel the full imperial implications of its heritage had been muted in that, for the most part, even when it came to understand its God as the God of all, Israel was not committed to drawing others into its status as the Chosen People.

But another reading seems equally plausible — that many sought to shore up their status as part of the «responsible middle - class» by underscoring the discrepancy between their own «fit» families and those of the underclass.

Should the fetus be granted legal status as a person and provided with protection?

American fundamentalists indeed retreated into the wilderness by the end of the «20s, keenly aware of their lost influence and their status as outsiders in a culture their forebears had done so much to shape.

As an independent good, the earth possesses an autonomous status as an ethical and covenanted entity.

Do you feel that you meet the military's criteria for status as a conscientious objector?

3) It is a source of dignity — made obvious in this case by Renee's low status as an unattractive working - class woman without children and past child - bearing age.

When a particular subject that is here - and - now perishes, it loses its status as the self of the person at issue.

They argue that marriage should therefore be delegalized — that is, it should lose its status as an institution that is of interest to the state and subject to its sanctions and protections.

No it's not — where's it's church where's it's God and more importantly where's its tax exempt status as a «religion»?

To the extent, then, that the particularistic lure toward confession of Jesus is understood as the proclamation of his exclusive status as representative of God's will, it must be seen as competing with the metaphysical lure that stands in the background of the text.

But Spanish has now lost its legal status as a result of an Anglo backlash.

Yet, while I'm a relative minnow compared to his status as a nationally renowned broadcaster, neither he nor the environment are overwhelming.

Places that become sacred to us or places that we jettison because they no longer afford us the opportunity to grow to to contribute or to protect our relationship's status as most important.

Bono refers to his celebrity status as «silly» and «ridiculous,» yet he's learned that «it is a kind of currency» that has given him access to the world's power brokers.

It aims to amend the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to provide assistance for a recovery period of 45 days and for a further period of twelve months following confirmation of their status as a victim of modern slavery.

A great coach me may be; but his status as a decent human being is in doubt.

For the self - realization of the formerly anonymous Christianity is demanded, first, by the incarnational and social structure of grace and Christianity, and, secondly, by the fact that a clearer and more reflected comprehension of Christianity offers a greater chance of salvation to the individual than his status as an anonymous Christian.

The rejection of metaphysics by most modern philosophers and theologians has seen the gap filled by influential scientists, often with little philosophical training but with the credibility that their status as scientists confers on them.

Did Lemaître ever encounter resistance or discrimination in scientific circles due to his faith and status as a Catholic priest?

We had to drop the requirement that student leaders affirm our doctrinal and purpose statement, or we would lose our status as a registered student organization.

The Civil Partnership Act, passed in November 2004, raised homosexual relationships to the same status as marriage by granting the same rights to couples entering a civil partnership as to spouses entering marriage.

We do not question the appropriateness of the term as applied to him, but, on the example of Samuel and Nathan, we suspect that if he was called a prophet by his contemporaries it was, again, because of regularized status as a professional, in this case presumably membership in an association of prophets at or near Shiloh.

They were given a second - class status as dhimmi, but allowed some freedom, although they were subject to quite heavy taxation.

Paul mentions females in positions of authority in his (authentic) letters, and early Christianity was unique in pagan antiquity in that it allowed everyone to sit at the table, regardless of ethnicity, sex, or status as slave or master.

The study concludes with an analysis of the insights Newman brings to bear upon contemporary philosophical understandings and his status as a latent forerunner of the phenomenological movement.

Will Whitehead then become a Platonist, giving forms an absolute status as «Ideas?»

He added: «I believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country, more ambitious about expanding the role of faith - based organisations, and, frankly, more evangelical about a faith that compels us to get out there and make a difference to people's lives.»

«Holy Trinity has always been a huge draw for visitors, but its new status as Hull Minster will elevate this to a new level and to have the accolade awarded during our year as UK City of Culture is a real coup.

Its status as ideal rather than actual, however, hardly dampens Dante's enthusiasm for the concept.

As historians, we should recognize no limits to the questions asked or solutions proposed, but, once the gospels move to the pulpit and are preached, their status as canonical literature must be respected.

«They enjoy non-taxable status as a house of worship,» he said.

Her name has been smeared by people who need to discredit her at all costs in order to preserve their status as «religious» leaders and to protect their livelihoods.

But my status as a victim was used against my advocacy.

She avoids clarifying Pell's status as Little's antithetical successor - in - waiting, and the widely held expectation that Pope John Paul II would retire Little early in order to replace him with Pell, as indeed he did.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

All people do is mock my status as an «old maid» or say I don't know anything because I never had children.

Since atheism per se takes no stand on the killing of innocent people, when an sociopathic atheist is responsible for the deaths of people, be it one person or a million, it does not represent any kind of inconsistency with his status as an atheist.

Clearly the best collection of essays from a Kentucky farmer - philosopher, this book demonstrates the breadth of Wendell Berry's work, as well as his status as one of the most important commentators of our time on matters of community, land and ecology.

The Canadian thinker Charles Taylor, in any case, is gaining status as the world's premier philosopher of modernity, the most judicious, the one who makes the most apt and discerning distinctions, the one who best sees both modernity's grandeur and its misery.

Following the theme of considering the full man, as progressive as Jesus was, he also revealed his true status as human.

That's not science, and any status as a scientist stops at the evidence part.

A liberal US Jew using his status as a Jew to sweep into Israel, bash the security measures while bemoaning the status of the poor Palestnians and then go back to his Ivory Tower in a large urban liberal city where his biggest concern is whether the Starbucks will get his latte order correct.

So Protestants in their ways degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in the world.

For if a man or a woman's body — or his or her status as a married person, or his capacity to be a father or hers to be a mother — doesn't matter for his or her sex life, why, then, should anyone imagine that the body of the Son of God matters, whether it is in a manger, on a cross, risen, or fully and really present under the signs of bread and wine?