Sentences with phrase «than bearing witness»

There is nothing more off putting for some men, than bearing witness to a breastfeeding woman having to slab on some thick nipple cream.

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Unfortunately there is no greater body of evidence than mankind's complete and total history to bear witness that this is itself; a fantasy.

In this sense, «the diversity of Scripture — and the tensions that this diversity introduces — bears witness to God's revelation rather than detracts from it.»

A good death, he says, «is finally nothing more or less than a death approached and performed in a manner consistent with a good, well - lived life... Dying well is a morally significant act insofar as it bears evangelical witness to our most profound theological convictions.»

For all its apparent narrowness, it bore stronger witness than many modern forms of Catholicism to realities which have come to seem to me infinitely precious.

If that to which the New Testament bears witness can now be acknowledged as salvific, it must be in terms of healing those who are damaged more than of forgiving sinners.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Perhaps more can be done, however, than to bear witness to a viewpoint.

But more than that, I have tried to bear witness to the mighty acts of God in my life.»

Solzhenitsyn argues that the general overview — born from this witness — is more highly logical than dialectics because it contains more «reality.»

This, on a deeper level, is nothing less than the bearing of false witness.

So, rather than criticize or challenge (which I think is fine) they build their case up with falsehood, or as the 9th commandment puts it, they «bear false witness,» or as I will put it, they lie.

Liberals and conservatives who want more for the public square than echo chambers and outrage factories should hope that Maajid Nawaz wins his lawsuit, and that the SPLC learns a costly lesson about bearing false witness.

What is also not ok is the false witness many church people bear against their gay brothers and sisters, although I'm sure much of that arises out of ignorance rather than malice.

«So let us bear witness of the love of these poor — for in reality, in this form they are none other than the heavenly king who does not squander our gifts but returns them to us a hundredfold.

Perhaps the papacy bears witness to this reality better than other instruments of unity (to trade on an Anglican term).

Singing Bear, who's been named a witness in Ray's criminal trial, says he doesn't allow more than 20 people in a sweat because each person needs to be looked out for and protected.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

There is no mention of blindness, though this would be a not unusual temporary effect of a light brighter than the sun, and he was given his commission to bear witness to the Gentiles right then and there.

Did this bear witness to whiteness rather than the Gospel?

My faith in Socialism (I suppose my subsequent conduct bears witness to it) has remained more alive than ever.

Thing is, something needs to change, Wenger leaving or Kroenke leaving, if Wenger leaves and we finish lets say 10th than Kroenke will sell, and Usmanov would take over and re build whole team, so its a win win situation, this constant loop we witness every year is boring, predictible even by Wenger standards, what would you choose, every year same 4th place and Wenger, or new Manager and mabye disaster but ending with Usmanov take over and rebuilding team, i know what would i take.

There were more than 50,000 US football fans to bear witness to the build up to a season that undoubtedly Liverpool fans think will be their year.

Adoptive parents can experience security themselves in bearing witness to the relationship their child has with their birth parents, rather than fearing betrayal or anger about an unknown parent or a secret past.

«Rather than foster greater social mobility, this Government will only exacerbate the inequality and injustice we are already witnessing in our society, with children and young people bearing the brunt.»

Bearing witness: John McCarthy explains why Freedom from Torture's work is more important now than ever

The scientist has bore witness to the final moments of more than 100 stars, although these fiery orbs have, in actuality, been dead for eons by the time Still lays eyes on them.

But apparently far more damaging than the dogma was the hypocrisy young Ray - Ray witnessed in her family members and others whose behavior bore little resemblance to what was dictated by the Koran.

During the 140 minutes run times you'll bear witness to more action sequences than you can shake an infinity stone imbued stick at.

Players are rewarded with more «naughty points» for using a variety of killing methods, frightening the other bears to the point of suicide, or even taking a bear out in front of witnesses rather than safely in the bushes.

Human Rights Watch could want no better documentary about their work about their Emergency Teams than E-TEAM, which follows two of those team, one in Libya, one in Syria, bearing witness to human rights abuse.

And because he was so unguarded and totally oblivious of the rolling cameras, this flick captures him more authentically than any previous footage this critic has witnessed (including that Martin Brashear BBC documentary), and reveals the very likable persona of an icon who was obviously born to entertain.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

Even a quarter century after East and West reunited, a wide, treeless green ribbon still bears witness to the drama that ended more than 600 lives.

Her storytellers bear witness to some of the most horrific, unjust beliefs and actions that stain our nation's history, offering a token of literary justice that resonates much deeper than a mere drop in the best - seller bucket.

Rather than bringing readers to the brutality of war, we bear witness to the separation of a family from its roots, placing us inside the heart of one particular family.

The uncanny «creatures» who haunt his abstractions of the mid-1940s bear witness to a burgeoning interest in Surrealist principles of revealing the invisible, tapping into dreams and the collective unconscious as sources of imagery, rather than reporting on what could be seen.

Rather than considering Rome's history to be eternal, Kentridge has aimed «to capture the transient: to bear witness to what is altered and dissolved over time.»

More than evidence, the photographic portrait is a document, bearing witness and demanding respect... While the ferrotype was a common product of the industrial revolution, it may have accrued some of Benjamin's famous «aura» in the last hundred years or so.

You have to bear witness, Guston kept saying — but he meant more than merely watching events unfold.

The physicality and stillness of paintings, photographs, and sculptures bear witness indefinitely; such works have a quality of permanence, an insistence and rudeness that makes them more intrusive than ephemeral experiences.

More than simply decorating the world with his truly stunning pieces, Eliasson and his portfolio bear the weight of responsibility that is shared with all those able to witness his work — the ones inhabiting the environments that we should hope to preserve.

The success of our campaign has proven to us that bearing visual witness to human domination of the Earth and our collective and egregious disregard for the rights of other species to exist would be much more powerful than yet another dry, statistical report or study.

There is a reason why this product has claimed the majority of the market share for trial presentation software for more than 10 years: It can actually make it interesting for a jury or other fact - finder to listen to a witness testify about corporate balance sheets, long - ago emails, and other documents that can be fatally boring and lose the attention of the fact - finder.

It's interesting that the practice of affording witnesses the opportunity of concealing their identity at trial is one borne of judicial ingenuity or a sense of pragmatism, rather than based upon any legislative intervention.

The market will also bear witness to a plethora of new tokens issued in the upcoming year — many with strong use cases designed to recycle value and create their own economies, rather than capitulate to the gravity of bitcoin.

About Blog Nikon Ambassador and National Geographic magazine photographer Ami Vitale has traveled to more than 90 countries, bearing witness not only to violence and conflict, but also to surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit.

Witnesses who have information that bears upon your relationship with your child are more important than testimony from your high school classmate saying you were a wonderful person when she last saw you 15 years ago.

Adoptive parents can experience security themselves in bearing witness to the relationship their child has with their birth parents, rather than fearing betrayal or anger about an unknown parent or a secret past.

If I seem picky it is because I have seen all sides of and all kinds of the real estate business and its practitioners respectively from the inside - out, and I have borne witness to legions of commissioned sales types (the good, the bad and the ugly), the latter two types spinning their way through interactions with the mostly less - than - knowledgeable members of the public for their own personal financial good, first and foremost, too often at the expense of their marks.