Sentences with phrase «superior persons in»

And although superior persons in Jerusalem dismissed him as «this untrained man,» he appears to have been quite capable of meeting scholars learned in the Scriptures upon their own ground.
If we discard this definition of a people, and, assuming another, say that a people is an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love, then, in order to discover the character of any people, we have only to observe what they love... it will be a superior people in proportion as it is bound together by higher interests, inferior in proportion as it is bound together by lower.
This also ensures that the abuser remains the superior person in the relationship.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client and the only person with belief in his abilities with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had.
It's the supervisors and superiors who set the tone, not the company retreats where people talk endlessly about feelings, or participate in «trust falls.»
Expanding its retail presence could be crucial to Sonos, as the company aims to compete with speakers from companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon with superior sound — something that is best experienced in person.
People do not appreciate being «called out» and humiliated in front of their peers or superiors.
According to new research from Harvard University and the University of Virginia, when people seek out extraordinary experiences like vacationing in exotic locales, those who had the experience enjoyed that their adventures were superior to ones their peers had, but during subsequent social interactions the adventurer ultimately felt excluded and worse off than they would have felt if they had an ordinary experience like everyone else.
People that are users of superior apps will lead the way and stay a step ahead in innovative mobile communication.
In some scenarios, simulated training is superior to the real thing: Not only does it eliminate the risk of accidents in high - risk jobs, it has been proven to shorten instruction periods and increase people's abilities to remember what they learIn some scenarios, simulated training is superior to the real thing: Not only does it eliminate the risk of accidents in high - risk jobs, it has been proven to shorten instruction periods and increase people's abilities to remember what they learin high - risk jobs, it has been proven to shorten instruction periods and increase people's abilities to remember what they learn.
«In my experience people who assert statements like that are often immune to evidence or rational argument, and envision themselves as superior beings who are more enlightened than the rest of us.»
Our goal is to find people who share our agile work mentality, with the ability to create code of superior quality and with knowledge in cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
Creating a Pathway for Opportunity by Building a Purpose - Driven Workforce Starbucks will also outline its commitment to attracting and retaining people who share in the company's mission to nurture and inspire the human spirit, by investing in partners who will deliver a superior customer experience.
The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»
Although technically, the Ethereum ETH chain is superior, from an ideological perspective it has still left a bad taste in many people's mouths.
If in the long run we can accomplish this simple feat (which time has shown isn't simple at all), we'll end up with (a) above - market performance on average, (b) below - market volatility, (c) highly superior performance in the tough times, helping to combat people's natural tendency to «throw in the towel» at the bottom, and thus (d) happy clients.
As the late Sir John Templeton observed in 1979: «If you want to buy the same thing that is popular with your friends or popular with the investment analysts, you can't get a bargain... If you are going to have superior performance, you've got to buy what other people are not buying, or even what they are selling.»
«Volatility scares enough people out of the market to generate superior returns for those who stay in,» Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel said a few years ago.
For example, in the 1st century C.E., a group of people called the Gnostics (from the Greek word gno ′ sis, meaning «knowledge») claimed superior knowledge through secret revelation and boasted that they were the «correctors of the apostles.»
Almost everyone draws happiness from feeling superior in one of these ways, and sadly, it is almost impossible for a person to have a rich happiness without such a feeling.
If God is our exemplar of a superior violence, violence itself becomes the object of faith, and religious people then engage in a perpetual holy war that is deemed a valid form of religious expression.
This country is not morally superior, nor the people in any part of this world «morally» superior or just.
We're such terrible people for not acquiescing to your superior knowledge, wisdom, and judgement without issuing a demand for evidence in support of your claims.
In poverty, she gives God her worldly possessions in the sure knowledge that He will provide for all her needs; in chastity, she offers Him her undivided heart so that she might be free to spread the Gospel and love all people with His love; in obedience, she offers God her will (through obedience to her superior) so that God's will and hers may be onIn poverty, she gives God her worldly possessions in the sure knowledge that He will provide for all her needs; in chastity, she offers Him her undivided heart so that she might be free to spread the Gospel and love all people with His love; in obedience, she offers God her will (through obedience to her superior) so that God's will and hers may be onin the sure knowledge that He will provide for all her needs; in chastity, she offers Him her undivided heart so that she might be free to spread the Gospel and love all people with His love; in obedience, she offers God her will (through obedience to her superior) so that God's will and hers may be onin chastity, she offers Him her undivided heart so that she might be free to spread the Gospel and love all people with His love; in obedience, she offers God her will (through obedience to her superior) so that God's will and hers may be onin obedience, she offers God her will (through obedience to her superior) so that God's will and hers may be one.
(Not in a white supremacist way, they didn't believe white people are superior, they just believed that people would be happier worshipping alongside their own cultures.)
That is why, in today's political and social conflicts, the concessions made by a superior never avail; for people do not want concessions, they want to grab something from the superior.
As egalitarians advance the shared authority of males and females, people perceive sameness of being because authority was linked to being (ontology), and men were believed to be, in their being, superior to females.
This will make me appear superior and part of the «in» crowd of people who are too cool to live and let live.
An empiric person finds, having purged the self of spiritual presumption, how much one has in common with other persons, none now superior or subordinate, and all deserving love.
People thinking their religion is superior to that of others is the very reason religions have started so many wars in the first place.
Faith makes me realize how much I don't need it to be a great person, and in a way, it makes me feel superior.
Feuerbach further offended the people of his day by suggesting that the ancient nature religions remained superior to Christianity since they were sensuously in touch with the earth and with nature, whereas Christianity had become separated from nature, and had made of God a separate, sexless, spiritual being.
But there the assumption of everyone - missionary and indigenous persons alike - was that the culture of literacy, the culture and communications system that the church had mastered and in which it held power, was superior.
In a war that has no clear moral purpose, where it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe or soldier from civilian and where it is forbidden by one's superiors either to win or to lose — such a war impels even fairly decent people to commit atrocities.
You wouldn't feel superior to a person in liver failure so why now?
So one way the Club is aristocratic in that you might socialize with superior and better - connected people.
But as I reread your entry, the only person who sounds like they think they are superior to anyone in this conversation... is you.
Indeed, I am, in some people's eyes, the worst kind of feminist — the kind who believes that women not only are equal to men, but may, in fact, be superior.
Nor do I wish to be around people who act snotty and superior because they are in some exclusive club.
And I am a lesbian — a woman who has come out of the heterosexual box and into another box, which, as boxes go, is far superior for my life as a responsible person, a Christian woman, in this world at this time.
If you belief that the version of «your God» is superior to «other God (s)» that people believe in, and that people need to be «saved» by you or «your God, then guess what?
Thomas Jefferson felt this overwhelming sovereignty of God over all things, because he wrote (in his bill for religious liberty in Virginia) that no sooner did a person become aware of the proper relation between creature and Creator, to whom the creature's very existence is owed, than the creature becomes aware of a self - evident duty to worship and give thanks to so infinitely superior a Being.
(1) What can the churches do to teach people loyalty to humanity with a degree of intensity which places that loyalty superior to loyalty to the nation state, the national economic system, the ethnic «in - group»?
If we still continue to speak of a historical revelation we do not mean that it is special in the sense that the people to whom it is communicated are thereby superior to other human beings.
To think God is to think an analogue superior in principle to a human person; to think a human person is to think an individual with fallible, partly erroneous, unclear, more or less confused forms of knowledge but not the unqualified knowledge, coincident with truth, which God has.
The sad thing is that so many countries (and religious and political groups) want that cartoon's header to be a representation of how many non - heterosexual / non - heteroromantic / non-cisgender people there are in their «civilized and superior» society.
Our English translations are far superior (more accurate to the original) to nearly any other language in the world, and yet people overseas do not seem to have a problem living by faith... but we do!
The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white peoplepeople of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.
God's covenant with Noah which asks fallen humanity to establish a society based on reverence for life and a legal justice that protects the innocent human beings from the murderer who is around; and God's call to Moses to liberate the Israelite people from Pharaoh's slavery; and God permitting monarchy with new perils of oligarchy to destroy the more human Tribal Federation to liberate the Israelites from the technically superior Philistines in Palestine; and Paul's doctrine that the Roman State, which he knew had its role in crucifying Jesus.
We looking outside world for answer, who can close the eyes and detach themselves from the world and simply merge in the goodness and love in heart and feel the best what we have, never worry or argue the different name of God or argue who is superior or inferior, the people who argues never even know himself or herself and started defying anything which cant be define, We can answer the very question of God and super power, it is not complicated, close the eyes, breath deeply and start detaching yourself from outside world and stop controlling your body, your thoughts, your so called worldly knowledge, ego and just feel the power and light within, you sure will get answer, it wont be Christ, Krishna, Allah, Those names wont matter, You will merge into supreme strength, and peace, we will have answer then, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ANSWER LOOKING INSIDE OUT, WHEN ANSWER IS WITHIN,
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