Sentences with phrase «than the offense of»

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By the middle of the 19th century, notes Banner, the death penalty had been removed from «crime after crime until none of the northern states used it for any offense other than murder.»

The logic: Purdue has been one of my favorite teams to watch in college football this season, with a sparky offense and better - than - expected defense capable of getting a stop when the moment calls.

The offense against religion is that it promotes a God that has poorly designed humans to have too small a birth canal, too large a cranium (pushing wisdom teeth into often painful positions), and since roughly 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage, is responsible for more abortions than anyone.

If we know anything at all about the ministry of Jesus, we know that no action of his ministry brought greater offense to his hearer than his forgiveness of sin; and no theme of his sayings or parables overshadows the proclamation of forgiveness, although we must recognize that originally this forgiveness was inseparable from the eschatological situation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God.

However, saying that homosexuality is not a sin, simply for the sake of avoiding offense, is nothing less than dishonesty and cowardice.

However, saying that Internet usage is not a sin, simply for the sake of avoiding offense, is nothing less than dishonesty and cowardice.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

In the case of Hardin's argument, if the calculations revealed that giving aid to certain countries would result in more rather than less disease and death, it would follow then that to do so would be an offense against love and mercy.

When we operate on the assumption that our language must constantly be trimmed so as not to give offense, to stroke the psyche rather than to place it under attack, it will of course gradually decline to the level of greeting - card sentimentality.

In his Second Inaugural, little more than a month before his death, Lincoln reminded the nation of the dread warning given to those who had oppressed the innocent and defenseless: Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Bonhoeffer fears that many do not follow for the wrong reasons; for instance, a human rather than the divine word is preached; offense is taken at the «superstructure of human, institutional, and doctrinal elements in our preaching «1 rather than at the Word of God.

They take its publication as an important event in the life of the church, and they note particularly its enthusiastic reception by the laity as a sign that they may have a theological vocation in the church after all, in spite of the fact that their writing has up to now given more ecclesiastical offense than they expected.

Doubtless to think of offense without thinking the offended man is not so impossible as to think of the music of the flute without thinking the flute - player; but after all even thought must admit that offense even more than love is an unreal concept which only becomes real when there is an individual who is offended.

That is, the claim here is that Federalist # 65 is open to a broader sort of impeachable offense than specific statutory crimes or violations of the Constitution.

I guess that is why I believe that * sin * is more of a betrayal of our own humanity than an offense against God.

Exactly what's a punishable offense varies widely from culture to culture and time to time, but the concept of a «hell» is older than the concept of «heaven.»

I understand the concern about defenders playing off of him at the 3 - point line, but they do that to TJ as well, and Fultz's offense off the bounce is certainly more of a threat than TJ's strafe - runs under the basket.

In 12 seasons, he fielded an offense that ranked better than 22nd out of 32 teams in the NFL in Offensive DVOA just twice and never ranked better than 17th.

They'll have twice the amount of MVP candidates running their offense, a superior regular season record, and the comfort of playing in balmy Arlington rather than frigid Wisconsin.

The only senior with more than one target this year is former safety Ermon Lane, who moved back to offense because of injuries.

He would provide a boost to the offense with a potential of 25 - 30 HRs and he is younger than Cargo.

And anyway, Chark played in a different offense last year than either of them did.

And if the defense struggles, we've seen down the stretch that the offense is more than capable of scoring as many points as it needs to win.

Lastly, the crosswinds in Kinnick will be a much bigger detriment to the Purdue passing offense than the vanilla attack of Iowa.»

He was the evolution of White, and in an offense built around his skill set, rather than forcing him to be something he wasn't, he could have been devastating.

Meyer has tried to incorporate more passing into his offense (aOSU looks WAY different than the Tim Tebow offenses at Florida), but the basis of their offense is the no huddle, check - with - me spread with a fair amount of zone read.

Wilson and the rest of the offense have performed much better in the postseason than they have in the regular season, going back to their dominant run last year.

All of that might have been tolerated had Callahan not also abandoned the triple - option — that smashmouth, Heartland scheme that Osborne used to pummel opponents for years — and replaced it with a West Coast offense that has not put up more than two TDs in a game in nearly a month.

Boston and Cleveland are two of the four teams in the MLB with better team ERAs than Houston, which they'll need to help try to overcome the Astros» superior offense.

Purdue's line stats were better than that of the offense as a whole.

Given the makeup of Chicago's roster and its implementation of the triangle, this was probably Pippen's maximum offensive output, as he peaked in offensive load at 43 (96th percentile) while the Bulls posted a respectable +2.2 rORtg when healthy, better than any offense Michael Jordan led before Phil Jackson arrived.5

Jackson got 19 yards on his third end - around of the day, bringing his rushing total to 136 yards, seven more than the entire Nebraska offense at that point.

Sure the offense will sometimes go 3 and out in the R / O, but I would bet that even our pathetic offense gets more first downs than an offense where we try to run down the throats of MI, PSU, OSU, etc..

Despite the balanced nature of N.C. State's offense — all five starters averaged in double figures in 2011 — 12 — there is one player who is encouraged to shoot more than the others.

They were tasked with restoring some semblance of efficiency in the TCU offense, and through three games, they've more than done that.

He should see plenty of action this fall because the defense isn't much better than the offense.

In the primary opponent - adjusted categories above, Purdue ranked better than 72nd in only two of them: FP + (the field position generated for the offense, in which special teams plays a significant role — namely, kick returner Frankie Williams) and Passing Downs Success Rate +.

We don't need Turner to drop 20 (that would be nice though) but if he gets 10 - 15 ppg doing just that, than NO has to start game planning to stop that, and that is what opens up other areas of our offense.

The Wolverines» defensive strength gives them a bigger margin of error than they've typically had during Beilein's tenure in the event their offense dries up.

Things like overall record (without looking into if there is mitigating circumstances), Total defense (trash stat that doesn't take into account quality of offenses played), Total offense (same as total defense), scoring average (much less telling than points per possession), etc..

All are younger than 27, and all have become integral to an offense that is missing Pro Bowl performers at center (Mike Flanagan), running back (Ahman Green) and tight end (Bubba Franks) because of minor injuries; has lost Pro Bowl wideout Javon Walker to a season - ending knee injury; and is still adapting to playing without departed free - agent guards Mike Wahle and Marco Rivera.

However, if the NFL won't allow those plays to be reviewed, then they should error on the side of actually having seen the offense rather than relying on if it just appeared to be helmet - to - helmet.

Toronto is dangerous because it has ace righthander Roy Halladay (9 - 2, 3.07 ERA) and a high - powered offense (first in the majors in sluggingpercentage), but assuming the AL wild - card winner comes out of the Central, where the White Sox and the Tigers each were on pace for more than 105 wins, the Blue Jays would have to hurdle the Yankees and the Red Sox, who havefinished one - two in the East every year since 1998, to reach thepostseason.

But Lubbock would love him no less were his aquamarine eyes brown and his countenance more Giametti than Gosling; he reminds them of the fun they had when he ran the air raid offense under Mike Leach.

At large, there was plenty of offense in this game: Georgia Tech won 56 - 28, and both teams finished with more than 500 offensive yards.

The empty backfield became a weapon with minimal downside, and Notre Dame used it more frequently (again, in charted games) than almost any offense in the country, almost 20 percent of the time (33 percent on passing downs).

If Aaron Rodgers and the Packers» offense falters for a second straight week, there might be a bigger concern here that the injuries they've sustained to their receiver group is a greater problem than we might've thought, and that they aren't as much of a favorite in the NFC after - all.

We finally have a solid striker (even if he will take some adaptation time I think he'll be true class) in Lacazette, we have solid center backs (once they are all healthy) much better than in recent seasons, Giroud is our killer weapon off the bench rather than the key we are relying on as the main source of goals, Coquelin and Elneny are now midfield fall - back options rather than Flamini (no offense Mathieu, I appreciated your efforts, just making the obvious comparison), two high quality keepers, etc..

And the Chiefs offense torched a Patriots defense that gave up more than 400 yards in each of the first six games but just once in the next 10.

A&M's offense isn't going to be much worse in Nashville than it was in the rest of 2015.