Sentences with phrase «told by society»

As women, we have been told by society (and even friends and family) that having the man chase after us is the way to go... that, as women, being pursued is the way to get someone to fall in love with us.

As women, we have been told by society (and even friends and family) that having the man chase after us is the way to go... t hat, as women, being...

Children are naturally accepting of other children, it is only when they are told by society that someone is different that they learn the language of discrimination.

Incest survivors have lived with the most terrible secrets, have constantly been told by society not to say anything (explicitly or implicitly), we generally can't share our pasts and experiences because there is still such a culture of shame surrounding us.

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The firm may not be willing to tell you, but your state society of CPAs can direct you to the appropriate state agency, which can tell you whether any formal complaints have been lodged against the firm, by either clients or creditors.

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Plato said: «Those who tell the stories rule society.»

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

... Only until what we are told and instructed on how to live by others - parents - society... As if none of us have a consciousness thought on our own conclusion of life... Something to think about...

I speak from the heart, but it's my head and basic math that tell me that in our interconnected society, by helping one, we can help all.

They would like to be relieved of that compulsion, but that can't happen, they are told, because the larger society's understanding of the moral life overrules the understanding prescribed by their religious convictions.

I agree with not going trying to change the world as in change to people by telling them they are wrong and I am right (IF I have understood your point of view) but I guess I'm not so convinced when it comes to society, and just accepting what ever **** is in there or anywhere.

If someone is telling you that you are a bad parent, and contributing to the downfall of society by the fact you work?

A young scholastic tells me that he and others were hit on by superiors and decided to lodge a complaint with higher - ups in the society, only to discover that «the higher up we went, the deeper in we were to the lavender regime.»

At the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's death.

because of his relationship with something, not someone, who's invisible and has all these stories told of him, by other people, and we all know people lie..., i'd just like to say this whole finding «faith» in a religious god, is horrible for society....

If the moral philosophers, theologians, and others are right, however, our society is equally united and defined by the story we collectively tell and live.

Tell me how is your plan not different from that of Chairman Mao's or Comrade Stalin who know what was best for society and imposed it by force?

Our society tends to respond to the problem of lack of meaning and purpose by telling people that they will feel better if they more fully develop their egos.

Today's Christian finds it a bitter pill to swallow to be told that he must learn a lesson from the Communist and his secular hope for society, but long ago a prophet of Israel ventured to speak of the arch-enemy, Assyria, as an instrument in the hand of God, and another dared to name a foreign emperor as the very Messiah sent by YHWH.

Any gay person can tell you of the same fear of rejection by those they trust the most at that time upon coming out... the religiously - minded in our society are so self - righteous about their beliefs that when a loved one comes out as a non-believer their first genuine instinct is to pity you and work frantically to «save» you.

You witness by telling others that racism is still a problem we need to be addressing across our society.

--------- Maybe not in secular society, but in a church, where the governance is determined by the Bible, the elders have a right to tell you what you can and can not wear, and what you can or can not do.

The Society had planned to use the giant inflatable to tell the story of Jonah in Potter's Field Park by the Thames, but was turned down because the trust which runs the site was not allowed to hold «events of a religious nature».

Judith Wolfe tells us about the origins of the journal: «As an Oxford theologian, I was surprised again and again that C S Lewis was widely read, and very much enjoyed, by theologians and philosophers, but that he wasn't felt to be presentable in polite society — he wasn't regarded as the sort of person who could be drawn into a serious theological or philosophical conversation.»

The Cardinal tells us that the Society «has an exciting history» and that its story «exists in the authentic heritage established by St. Ignatius Loyola.»

A gay man's lover has died of AIDS and he tells a reporter that he is comforted by the hope that his friend contributed to overcoming the prejudices of a homophobic society.

We are so far into the gov telling us what to do this is no longer a free society it is no longer gov by and for the people but people by and for the gov.. We will pay the price, we will see the day when the Castro section is a normal way of life much the the disgust of most of the US unless our hearts have been so hardened by the bombarding of garbage that has been happening.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

He told members of his church: «Society is drugged by the cell phone but at the same time it is not interested in understanding how it should be used.

That is, it must involve study of the dominant images, symbols, and stories by which the congregation's host society tells itself who and what it is, what its vision of the «good» or «fulfilled» human life is, what its central values are.

Gay persons in our society frequently have been told by their families that they do not belong to them, by the church that they are desperate sinners because of their sexual orientation, by the medical profession that they are sick, and by the law that they are criminals.

Generally accused of being materialistic by intellectual friends and foes alike, these blue - and white - collar workers were in fact trying to amass goods, get promoted, buy two cars and move to the suburbs because these are the things that society tells them they must do in order to win a sense of personal dignity and worth.

Moritz Schlick, for example, tells us that «a natural retaliation for past wrong, ought no longer be defended in cultivated society; for the opinion that an increase in sorrow can be «made good again» by further sorrow is altogether barbarous» (PE 152).

This function, which is of important value to society, is made more difficult if counselees must always fear that what they admit to the counselor may be extracted from him by threat of imprisonment, or if the counselor takes the attitude, openly or impliedly, «Don't tell me anything that might get either of us in trouble.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

You trust in a book that was written by man (man who has killed, stole committed all acts of negativity) and society tells you that every word in it is correct.

In my view, the story that any particular church tells of itself necessarily participates in the imagination by which other societies have wrought their awareness of their own community.

If you don't think that the essence of Trump's support from a not - so - small chunk of his base comes from those who feel that their «white privilege» is being threatened by an increasingly multi-cultural society that will confer fewer and fewer relative social benefits from just being white, then I don't know what to tell you.

In fact, the day that I went to the sociology building to declare my major, one of my professors told me he was proud of me for not settling for a major that is perceived by our society to lead to either money or a successful job.

Girls are told how precious they are by society but its just a ruse to reduce teen pregnancy.

Those are all things we're told to do by parents, coworkers, friends, society, and more.

We have lived our entire lives being called lucky, told how grateful we must be (or should be), told who are real parents are by society at large, and some by our own extended family as well.

Your baby is with you, they have been for 9 months but society tells moms that once they are out of the womb, you can spoil them by holding them too much.

Most importantly, the stories told by these Moms, who also happen to be very talented writers, will make you feel not like you are living all alone on a deserted island for bad mothers, but that you have finally, FINALLY found the elusive secret society for Moms who are real people with real stress and real reactions to said stress and are saying it — out loud!

When something is told, shown, or impressed upon you by an outside source — that of course has no true knowledge of what they're impressing upon, ie, men throughout time telling women how to rear a child — then for some reason as a society (and sex, meaning women) we believe it.

Many of the instances have been revealed by the press (MPs expenses, police aftion) and we rely on the press as a society to tell us when people or institutions over-step the mark.

Even, improbably, Jeremy Corbyn has used it, telling his delirious fans in his leadership acceptance speech, «I want us to stand up and say «we want to live in a society where we don't pass by on the other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system»,» and motivating them again 18 months later at the start of the 2017 Election campaign by claiming, «we know that the people of Britain don't pass by on the other side.»

I'm told by a source close to the leader that Miliband plans to «ramp up» the issue of bank bonuses in the coming weeks and will use his keynote speech to the Fabian Society on 15 January not just to reiterate his values and ideals but to set out his political priorities for 2011.

«We need our young people today to embrace science enthusiastically, to realise that challenges like climate change can only be beaten by motivated and dedicated scientists,» he told the Royal Society in Oxford this morning.