Sentences with phrase «than the command of»

«Where have we any command in the Bible, laid down in stronger terms, and in a more peremptory urgent manner, than the command of giving to the poor?»

I suspect it speaks more to my cynicism and distrust of Hirst than my command of postmodern theory that I did not.

Not exact matches

HOW is it possible for 11 nations that, on a combined basis, command very little more than 15 pert cent of the world's capitalisation, hold the rest of the world to ransom?

The biggest casualty of that shakeout has unquestionably been Canada's BlackBerry, which has seen its once - commanding position atop the smartphone pile dwindle to less than one per cent global market share.

(YouTube influencers usually command the heftier fees, since their following tends to be more engaged than those of content creators on Instagram, Snap, or Facebook.)

They'll be relationship - centric, prefer engaging rather than commanding, and consistently act as though they, too, are part of the team.

«Auditory commands seem to be better controllers of behavior than written ones,» she says.

U.S. Coast Guard air units and boats have rescued more than 4,000 people, Captain Kevin Oditt, commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston - Galveston, said at an afternoon news conference.

U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

The water line is higher than the roofs of some houses, leaving them completely submerged, said Commander Jim Spitler, commanding officer of Coast Guard Air Station Houston.

In the case of Facebook, the company has more than 1.5 billion users — far more than any other single media business commands — and it tracks what they see and click on in ways that most media companies can only dream of.

Significant incremental adoption of SES Networks» O3b based services by the U.S. Department of Defense was the main driver of growth in U.S. Government revenue with more than 20 sites in operation and more than five gigabits per second now under contract, most recently with U.S. Africa Command.

The trucks commanded higher prices, too: They sold for an average of $ 49,552 in 2017, up more than $ 6,000 since 2014, according to Edmunds.com.

Together they command more than two - thirds of Australia «s A$ 3.5 billion sports wagering market, but online - only players are growing their share, according to a March report from researcher IBIS World.

The latter approach yields remarkable results, according to Calgary - based entrepreneur Suzanne West, who runs Imaginea Energy and pals around with the likes of Richard Branson: «Service - based leaders — people who value diversity, inclusion, kindness, compassion, collaboration, integration, intuition, personal development, all the beautiful parts of being a human — are more powerful than those who use command - and - control,» she says.

«If your decision - making loop is more streamlined than your enemy's, then you set the pace and course of the battle,» says Major General John Admire, who commands an infantry division at Camp Pendleton.

Critics of the program say that large companies abuse H - 1B visas, hiring foreign workers who command lower salaries than Americans would doing the same job.

Each Friday and Saturday some 5,000 customers queue to get into this 4,000 - square - foot space and play the selection of more than 40 arcade games and pinball machines such as Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac - Man and a rare Missile Command cockpit.

Although it commands just 15 per cent of the smartphone market, compared to more than 80 per cent for devices running Google's Android software, the company is responsible for more than half the profits earned by smartphone manufacturers worldwide (some estimates now put the number as high as 93 %).

Five years later Amarok's 115 companies in 45 states together command 9 % of the market and do more than $ 1.2 billion in sales.

At Lululemon's stock peak in the summer of 2011, the yoga - and running - gear maker commanded a market valuation that was 350 % higher than rival Under Armour.

Web - based lenders can command higher interest rates than traditional banks, but the odds of securing funding are substantially higher.

SAN FRANCISCO — In another sign of the turmoil sweeping Uber, the company's president of ride sharing has quit after less than a year on the job, following a string of scandals at the startup and CEO Travis Kalanick's promise to hire a new second - in - command.

What happens in a command economy such as China's is that the element of free social conflict that market capitalism contains is absolutely missing - and that therefore the Chinese economy must sooner rather than later collapse under the strain and burden of «unproductive» investment.

Nothing is more attractive than a woman who has a strong command of her finances.

They also rely entirely on IPs (rather than domains) for their command - and - control infrastructure, a tactic likely borne of the use of hacked servers for infrastructure.

It's just they don't have the cash cow of ESPN, which commands more than $ 6 a month in fees per subscriber, according to SNL Kagan.

The little known, firm which commands a market cap of Rs 1,100 crore, has seen its share price more than double in the past one year.

According to Druker, production of the entire system, comprising the batteries and interceptors, Elta's radar, and mPrest's command and control system, is in the hands of less than 100 people.

Furthermore, since, as is self - evidently apparent, the classes of beings are, at a command, in motion in a fashion a thousand times more well - ordered than that of an army, each group, from the stars, sun and moon and their motions to the flowers of the almond, displaying the decorations and uniforms the Pre-Eternal All - Powerful One has conferred on it, and the motion He has determined, in a way a thousand times more regular and perfect than that of an army — since this is so, the universe has an Absolute Ruler behind the veil of the Unseen, and its beings look to and conform to His command.

As Samuel would later say to Saul who saw it fit to disobey the command of God — «to obey is better than sacrifice»

Other than an old collection of supersti.tions and stories about talking snakes, burning bushes that speak, and commands to kill each other in the name of your imaginary sky ogre, you have none.

There are those who think that the Christian religion is what we should smile at rather than hold fast, for this reason, that, in it, not what may be seen, is shown, but men are commanded faith of things which are not seen.

Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own life.

George, if you can read this genuine, heartfelt piece and your first reaction is to dispute it by being critical of the source and not appreciative of the message, it seems you have a mind set more similar to the scribes and pharisees than to that of honesty, generosity, grace, and love that Jesus commands us to pursue.

Not all military coflticns are religious coflticns, but I'd be much more comfortable with a chain of command that realizes that than I would be with one that thinks that this war or that war will usher in the end times.

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

On the other hand, Luedemann notes that the Pauline text reflects a later development than Mark with its twofold command for repeti - tion of the supper ritual in memory of Jesus.

Besides polluting the free flow of ideas, manipulations such as these are nothing less than subversive: they undermine the United States and its institutions — universities, the press, charitable groups, foundations and the churches — by exploiting the legitimacy they may inherently possess, in order to gain for insidious designs credibility which the CIA would not otherwise be able to command.

To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night sky and see more than the infinite reach of empty space and the eternal stretch of endless time, that can «keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God» (3:1).

Downplaying water baptism as something that is optional (read: merely a personal decision rather than a command but not a requirement of salvation) is to make our persecuted siblings seem foolish for making such a decision unnecessarily.

If these are to be more than easy expressions of cheer and fleeting good intentions, they must be seen not as sentiments but as commands, words that summon not just a mood but a steady and faithful obedience.

«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»

Man can be commanded to love God since this means nothing other than the actualization of the existing relationship of faith to Him.

It tells me they have more interest in following the fashions of a segment of American Christian culture than in following Jesus» command to love one another as he loves us.

The first commandment is nothing less than a command to acknowledge the reality of God's total claim upon their lives.

Lastly, I would again offer that these forms of apologetic responses to the depictions of genocide in the bible are little more than a Nuremberg Defense, i.e. the abdication of personal moral responsibility to evaluate a particular command in obedient deference to perceived authority.

Such a way of worshiping god was so much easier than the strange way God had commanded.

Though I think the issues raised by biology and medicine are important; I fear that this area may receive more than its share of attention because of the resources it can command.

As to the former, popes have had none for more than a century; and as to the latter, while the financial resources of the Catholic Church as a whole are very large, the pope has direct command of very little of them, and even the entire budget of Vatican City is scarcely more than a mote in Bill Gates» eye.