Sentences with phrase «than the spirit»

Although I diligently kept my fast throughout the season, I felt as though I did a better job honoring the letter of the law than the spirit of the law.

We enjoy nothing more than a spirited drive in a sporty car.

But I do deny that a neat account of spirit, mind, and agency can be given in terms other than spirit, mind, and agency.

Summer is here and there is nothing better than the spirit it brings.

It feels strange that school ends in two weeks, that summer will finally arrive (though I imagine it will be more in name than spirit for now).

It's a very good well sourced answer, but I'm afraid it answers more of a loophole in the question setup than the spirit of the question.

Though effective efforts are made to make this not feel like a lecture, it still comes off much dryer and information - based than the spirited opening.

Often, I'd find myself wondering how this concept is actually applicable to more than the spirit world!

While I can agree with being careful about being overly «legalistic», in other words, following the letter rather than the spirit of «the law».

It's aimed at particularly young audiences — in the Miyazaki oeuvre, it's much closer to My Neighbor Totoro than Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke — and it barely has conflict, let alone a sense of menace or threat.

And he always sided with women against the Pharisees, who were more concerned with the letter of the law than its spirit, and cared nothing about the poor and needy.

The sign mediates Christ through the power of Christ at work within it and power is nothing less than the Spirit of Christ.

While they have higher costs than Spirit because they target business travelers and must maintain multiple types of planes, lower fuel prices in the past year have let them profitably chop their fares.

(That means that consumers are still drinking considerably more beer than spirits, even if there's a shifting trend.)

No one should be more imaginative than Spirit - filled Christ followers!

Correct, «in unity» means to pray in His person (none other than the Spirit indwelling us, who makes His person real to us), by which we receive His love, His will, His authority, etc..

Unfortunately his health was weaker than his spirit and again he was exhausting himself.

The rough times in France reinforced that the wine industry was subject to weather conditions to a gar greater degree than the spirits and beer industries.

Kevin Baker, Consumer Analyst at GlobalData, says: «Beer is considered to be more affordable than other alcoholic beverages and offers greater refreshment than spirits.»

Yes, there's more to life than spirit — all those folks buying tickets to the game are doing so with cold hard cash that the athletic director can then turn around and spend on other sports that don't generate any revenue at all.

The debate's tenor proved more subdued than spirited, with the candidates pointing out how the issues of affordable housing, criminal justice reform and gun reform were their shared top concerns.

The musketeers are now painfully older than the spirited, heedless youths of «The Three Musketeers,» and the swashes don't buckle quite the way they once did — a theme played entertainingly.

Indeed, relaying the tale with a standard narrative approach would have relegated the film to the realms of yet another superhero movie, rather than a spirited take on the tried and tested genre.

Yet the magic is in the Mazda name — an injection of indescribable goodness that somehow makes the car drive more ferociously than it should, feel more expensive than it costs, and return better fuel economy than spirited driving should allow.

While notably bigger than the Spirit card's bonus, you may actually get more flights with Spirit due to its off - peak, distance - based award chart.

Been there, done that but now I choose a better travel experience and often it's not so terribly much more expensive than Spirit after ALL those fees.

This tour is less strenuous than the Spirit of Kakadu Tour meaning a lower level of fitness is required, however, some walking is involved.

The impression is that they will really be fretting their way through August devising ways to implement the letter rather than the spirit of the directive.

Management projects that RASM will decline 4 % -6 % year over year — only slightly better than Spirit's third - quarter performance.

Body lean in tight corners might not be much of an issue, but the NX is an SUV best suited to leisurely trips, rather than spirited drives along a challenging road.

Perhaps nothing embodies the Lawrence approach more than the spirit of cooperation — instead of competition — fostered between charter school operators and the wider district.

All have sinned; all are in bondage to sin till Christ frees us; all pursue the works of the flesh rather than the Spirit; evil behaviors come from within the heart rather than from the outside; good deeds are done more often to salve the conscience than please God.

The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees: judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).

The Talmud is, in a sense, the business record of the House of Israel, extending over a period of about eight centuries, from 300 B.C.E. to 475 C.E. Much of it is concerned with the business of business or legal relationships, leading again to the charge that Jews are more concerned with mundane matters than they are with morality, more concerned with letter than spirit.

He passes the same message Jesus did — don't get caught up in the letter rather than the spirit.

Yet as prophecy had declined, the law had tended to become externalized; its letter rather than its spirit was accented.

Consequently, it takes much more than the Spirit's assistance to bring a sinner to Christ.

And some would say we find what they heard whispered by something other than the Spirit.

Now, at a certain distance, the observer determines to his surprise that these interpretations, which were supposed to be so strictly scientific and purely «historical,» reflect their own overriding spirit, rather than the spirit of times long ago.