The phrase
"such sacrifices" refers to the actions or things given up in order to achieve or obtain something else. It means making choices and giving up something valuable for a greater purpose or goal.
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Potential first - time home buyers are
making such sacrifices because they want to be able to make a sizable down payment on their home purchase.
And history clearly records that they would have been willing
for such sacrifice had they felt that was what He truly meant.
I believe this is the single biggest impact we can have within the education system today to prevent teachers from having to make
such sacrifices as described in the headline today.
The unsavory thing is that Wallis Simpson considered herself worthy of
such a sacrifice from the man she allegedly loved.
Eliminating other unhealthy foods did not seem to be
such a sacrifice while doing it slowly (except for the Diet Coke — that was a gradual and painful reduction!).
Such sacrifices include money spent on fulltime childcare and viewing it as an investment in the earning potential of her career over the long term, compared to leaving then returning to the workforce.
Far from condoning every destruction of nature that is executed in the name of human purposes, the maximal happiness principle
prescribes such sacrifice only when the human possibilities are thereby greater than they would otherwise be.
When Paul writes about being anathema from Christ, he is not stating a desire to be eternally cut off or separated from Jesus, but is instead stating his desire, if it were possible, to give up his life and his ministry within the Kingdom of God
if such a sacrifice would help Israel come to the knowledge that Jesus is the Messiah.
But these people who were doing it all wrong were not qualified priests to be
performing such sacrifices that allows the killing of an animal so Krishna, the original preceptor of the Vedas, came as Buddha and told them to forget the Vedas and live a life of non-violence (ahimsa) and to just follow his precepts.
Miller asks people who object to
such sacrifices on the part of traditionally Democratic constituencies to recognize that the benefits of his plan, especially for such constituencies, far outweigh the sacrifices.
But unless there is great pain connected with this sacrifice on the part of those who order or condone it, the structures that are built on it will continue indefinitely to
perpetuate such sacrifice.
It is noteworthy that the mystic Al - Hallâj wanted to become the ritual oblation
in such a sacrifice.
Instead, an odd new countercommunity arises, dedicated both to the innocent victim whom God has vindicated by resurrection and to a new life through him that requires no
further such sacrifice.
Thomas, for one, could ill
afford such a sacrifice, encumbered as he was by a soft cast on his right arm and a wrap on his left leg.
Very objectively, Nigerians are yet to
see such sacrifice, be it ideological or material from the youths.
«And for millions of people and businesses who have had to make
such sacrifices over the last five years, there was nothing funny about the national debt when the national task of cutting it has brought them such pain in their everyday life.»
«Even if they conclude that countering climate change would
warrant such a sacrifice, proponents of divestment should offer some evidence or reasoning that it is the best course of action.»
That a generation hooked on Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr and Snapchat would make
such sacrifices shows that today's youth have more traditional goals and expectations than you might have guessed.
When it quickly became apparent that Americans were in no mood
for such sacrifice, Carter took direct, and miserably failed, military action in Iran.
Well done, Sally, and thanks also to your fellow tasters, who
made such a sacrifice of all those many hours and had to suffer through all the versions that weren't quite perfect.
Most people today believe that Jesus praised her for
such sacrifice, but the context indicates otherwise.
Such a sacrifice has nothing to do with destruction.
Such a sacrifice, Jesus says, is better than being cast into hell.
Such sacrifices can be a radiant proof of their love of God and a source of inspiration to others.
Partly in reaction to
such sacrifice of the present to the future, the church has often taught quiescent resignation to whatever is and sheer acceptance of the circumstances of the present.
They think making
such a sacrifice to please the Jewish Christians would be a compromise too great for the apostle to the gentiles to make.
Such sacrifices were uncommon.