Sentences with phrase «supreme act of»

Revealing unsavory or embarrassing facts is a supreme act of vulnerability.

At the time it was described as a «supreme act of philanthropy», welcomed by Gordon Brown and by Sir Nicholas Serota, now head of the Arts Council England, who said the act of «imaginative generosity» was «without precedent anywhere in the world».

Florence Foster Jenkins is the year's first serious Oscar contender, featuring an unforgettable performance by Meryl Streep in the title role and a superb supporting cast headed by Hugh Grant as her husband, the expatriate English thespian St. Clair Bayfield; and Simon Helberg as Cosme McMoon, the aspiring concert pianist who became her accompanist in a supreme act of folly.

In a supreme act of deferred gratification, he chose to save the best till last.

Alice Allan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia Creating life, becoming a mother, is the supreme act of creation.

But there are no monopolies for West or East, Jew or Greek, for high or low, for rich or poor, as far as the interpretation of the implications of the supreme act of God's redeeming love are concerned.

For you and many good people of means the situation calls for a supreme act of selflessness, and let us be honest selflessness is little rewarded here in this life.

He sent His Son in the supreme act of unilateral love» (A Strategy for Peace [Eerdmans, 1973], p. 106).

The nature of Jesus» prehension of and response to God's initial aims for him, together with the congruence of those initial aims with God's general aims for the universe allows us to say that Jesus was «God's supreme act of self - expression» (PC 221).

Nevertheless, in order to establish Jesus as «God's supreme act of self - expression, he has recourse to the tradition of setting Jesus apart from the Judaisms of his time.

«The image of Jesus crucified reveals the mystery of the death of the Son as the supreme act of love, the source of life and salvation for humanity of all times.

Sex is the supreme act of physical intimacy, one blessed by the Church in the sacrament of matrimony.

Jesus» death is the final and supreme act of his love, revealing the way to the knowledge of God.

supreme act of self - expression.

It is the supreme act of faith.

Yes, when we begin to see the crucifixion of Jesus as a supreme act of love and revelation, rather than a punishment from God, this has a domino effect on everything else we think about God and Scripture and ourselves.

The Son of God became man in order to restore all creation, in one supreme act of praise, to the One who made it from nothing.

It's a terrifyingly lyrical expression of Lena's summary statement in the book: «It creates out of our ecosystem a new world, whose processes and aims are utterly alien — one that works through supreme acts of mirroring, and by remaining hidden in so many other ways, all without surrendering the foundations of its otherness as it becomes what it encounters.»

Not exact matches

Apple also cites U.S. v. New York Telephone because the Supreme Court, in its ruling, addressed the question of what is and isn't an «unreasonable» request under the All Writs Act.

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

«Thus, in a preliminary analysis, the chief justice... suspended what he saw as an act apparently little reasonable and proportionate, which, in addition to generating legal uncertainty, would leave millions of Brazilians without this communication tool,» a statement from the supreme court read.

That's saying something, given that the fate of the Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance pending a Supreme Court ruling due in June.

In August, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that taxpayers who devote a «significant emphasis» to farming activity that is subordinate to their primary source of income are no longer limited to the $ 8,750 deduction limit under Section 31 of the Income Tax Act for losses from business ventures such as thoroughbreds.

In its Vance vs. Ball State decision Monday, the Supreme Court curtailed the ability of employees to sue for workplace discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

According to Young's Supreme Court petition, her manager told her that UPS offered light duty to workers who sustained on - the - job injuries, employees with ailments covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act, and those who had lost Department of Transportation certification because of physical aliments like sleep apnea; not — the manager said — to pregnant workers.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Young's case and ultimately rule on what accommodations employers must make under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a decision that could touchthe lives of the 68 million working women in the U.S. and the 62 % of new moms in the last year who were part of the workforce.

Amid the countdown this week toward a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a battle has escalated about funding for a small business lobby group.

Congress passed it to overturn the Supreme Court's 1976 decision that pregnancy discrimination is not sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Bloomberg's Michael C. Bender posted this video of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi telling Gov. Rick Scott the (false) news that the Supreme Court had overturned the Affordable Care Act.

The act attempted to restore some of the rights of religious practitioners that had been limited by a 1990 Supreme Court Decision, but a 1997 decision by the Supreme Court kept the Act from being applied to the federal governmeact attempted to restore some of the rights of religious practitioners that had been limited by a 1990 Supreme Court Decision, but a 1997 decision by the Supreme Court kept the Act from being applied to the federal governmeAct from being applied to the federal government.

In a 50 - page ruling that read like a Supreme Court brief, he rejected in no uncertain terms the Department of Justice's aggressive use of the broad powers of the 1789 All Writs Act to force Apple to do its bidding in San Bernardino.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could derail the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as Obamacare, and potentially increase the cost of insurance for millions across the U.S.. It's a big deal, and it has insurance companies, medical providers and everyday workers holding their breath.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld most of Obamacare also rejected the section of the Affordable Care Act that would have compelled states to expand eligibility in their Medicaid programs to nearly all poor adults.

One of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's last acts was to halt the EPA's Clean Power Plan, at least temporarily threatening the United States» ability to carry out promises made in Paris on curbing climate change.

Leading the legal effort is Tina Tchen, former chief of staff to first lady Michelle Obama and Roberta Kaplan, who successfully argued before the Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.

Acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler has lost over one million dollars after falling victim of an email scam, NY Daily News reports.

After the Supreme Court in 1911 struck down the form of resale price maintenance enabled by fair trade laws, 59 Congress in 1937 carved out an exception for state fair trade laws through the Miller - Tydings Act.60 When the Supreme Court in 1951 ruled that producers could enforce minimum prices only against those retailers that had signed contracts agreeing to do so, 61 Congress responded with a law making minimum prices enforceable against nonsigners too.62

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund case, which addresses the preemptive scope of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (SLUSA).

In 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

However, consistent with the Rollover Opinion's reliance on the Supreme Court decision of Varity v. Howe [1], many believed that an advisor engaged to provide plan - level fiduciary services, would not be acting as a fiduciary when acting in a wholly separate non-fiduciary capacity, such as selling personal rollover services unrelated to its status as a plan fiduciary.

Louis Brandeis, arguably the most quotable judge in the history of the United States Supreme Court, had his doubts about spontaneous acts...

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

But he also acted in a manner consistent with the rule of law as it has been clearly interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 13, 2016 that the Act was preempted by Section 903 (1) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Bill 4: An Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services introduced by Labour Minister Christina Gray lifted the ban on strikes by all public sector employees in response to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in 2015.

In March, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two appeals cases related to same - sex marriage - California's Proposition 8, which bans same - sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal benefits to same - sex couples.

With the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takeover.

Senate Democrats are moving forward with legislation to fix the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling which interpreted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) as guaranteeing closely - held private corporations the right to deny birth control coverage to women.