Sentences with phrase «through edict»

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It's only because we've already been through this that I take the liberty of suggesting to you Muslims that you, too, drop the edict of jihad, which isn't even one of the five pillars of Islam.

In January 250, shortly after the edict of Becins demanding the universal acknowledgement of the gods through sacrifice, Cyprian went into hiding in an unspecified place near Carthage, believing that as a man of distinction he would, if he remained in the city, provide a focus for pagan hostility to the Christians.

There is also direction to study an extension of subway service to Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood, and an edict that the Department of Transportation consider replacing the I - 81 viaduct through Syracuse with a tunnel.

'» And when she switches gears, the sheer absurdity of the scene isn't only funny but illuminating, carrying its own message about the arbitrary nature of nearly all edicts and absolutes as the teacher, exuding ironclad authority, walks through neat rows of obedient students while they work, pausing only to offer corrections or suggestions in the form of Dogme principles.

Whatever one thinks of the appropriate federal role in education, there are surely strong reasons in our constitutional democracy to prefer that we get to where we are going through law rather than executive edict.

By default this will return to a certain standing depending on how a party feels about you, but more can be gained by issuing edicts that parties approve of, building certain things and by going through the events that pop up where you're given the chance to pick between a few options that typically increase your goodwill with one part at the cost of another.

Come upon rather than introduced in a timely manner — according to theater's conventional edict — Sullivan populates her pantomimes and tableaux with competing and fragmented personae, keeping the subject in her work perpetually in motion, donning and discarding itself through a series of deferrals.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

It's no coincidence that legal fees already suffer in areas where competitive or substitute services are available, while they stay elevated in areas where, either through regulatory edict or subject - matter complexity, lawyers are the only game in town.

Now you know how we felt when the CREAcrats issued an unethically motivated edict to all 100,000 of the great unwashed not to discuss the terms of the Futures Initiative with anyone (including, especially, the media) that were to be discussed / voted on / rammed through behind closed doors at the St. John, NFLD shindig.