Sentences with phrase «transgressions as»

The court described her transgressions as «serious».

I agree with her that her transgressions as a young woman are more forgiveable than what she did as a mature adult.

Nine The story of a man who lies and cheats on his women, but we're supposed to think of him as adorable and of these transgressions as mere expressions of his restless and wonderful creativity, feels so»70s.

While we still see aggressive rallying against homosexuality (e.g Russia), the transgressions as a whole feel quite tame.

Studies also show that children get better at concealing transgressions as they age.

I felt that the next dozen people he spoke to would probably be subjected to a catalogue of my transgressions as imagined by Donald Trump.

But, take the time to examine yourselves and reconcile your own transgressions as you pass judgement.

A great deal of our modern aesthetic turns to transgression as our best hope for the restoration of life, a call for that which is below to rise up and restore meaning and vitality.

For them, Harding has more than paid the price publicly as a pariah and within the legal system for her past transgression as a young woman.

Her betrayal, at the hands of a human (Sharlto Copley) who was once a friend and lover, is an assault so personal and intimate and disfiguring that children can't help but feel the transgression as a terrible, horrible wrong while adults see it as a form of rape.

It takes George Condo to treat transgression as clowning and the Old Masters as a publicity stunt.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Just a few days after Simoes's transgression, a man working for Transcontinental taunted a comedian with sexually explicit remarks as she performed at an annual industry awards gala.

This arguably makes the leader into a kind of whipping boy, which, in the historical sense, was a boy who could be punished by a prince's tutor for the transgressions of the prince who, as royalty, was himself immune to being punished personally.

Rob Ford, defended at every turn by his brother Doug, was prepared to regularly lie about his addictions, to abuse his oath of office, to associate with criminal elements, to dismiss his racist and misogynistic comments as the new normal, and to attack and bully those with the courage to confront him — as if they, not he, were at fault for his transgressions.

But as Maclean's writer Colby Cosh suggests, Albertans angry with the floor crossings are likely to move on and forget the former Wildrose MLAs transgressions.

I see sin as transgression of law.

Sin is not merely overt transgressions against society such as murder, theft, or adultery; it appears more often in the subtler forms of the killing of personality by anger and unkindness; the stealing of reputation by gossip or of opportunities by self - seeking; the marring of thoughts by attention to the lustful or the obscene.

In Holy Scripture, as we have seen, death is regarded as the appropriate punishment for serious transgressions.

The two do not belong together in his eyes, for while punishment, which God in His wisdom has connected with every transgression, is a Good, there is no denying that it is such a Good only when it is gratefully received, not when it is simply feared as an evil.

Atheism itself has consequently been viewed in a juridical way as a sacrilege, a transgression, something which should be resisted with utmost retaliation.

But even when he is speaking in the tones of Jeremiah, he will suddenly break in with the melody of Isaiah, offering hope that in repentance we can still go forward toward God in genuine hope; and he will do so in passages (here from «Transgressions and Infirmities») that powerfully recall the cadences of St. Paul: «On the whole, then, this may be considered a Christian's state: ever about to fall, yet by God's mercy never falling; ever dying, yet always alive; full of infirmities, yet free from transgressions; and, as time goes on, more and more free from infirmities also, as tending to that perfect righteousness which is the fulfilling of tTransgressions and Infirmities») that powerfully recall the cadences of St. Paul: «On the whole, then, this may be considered a Christian's state: ever about to fall, yet by God's mercy never falling; ever dying, yet always alive; full of infirmities, yet free from transgressions; and, as time goes on, more and more free from infirmities also, as tending to that perfect righteousness which is the fulfilling of ttransgressions; and, as time goes on, more and more free from infirmities also, as tending to that perfect righteousness which is the fulfilling of the Law.»

2:5 (during my hitch in the Army), I understood the phrases ``... you were dead in your trespasses and sins...» and ``... when we were dead in our transgressions...» to be hyperbole and did not do a wooden - literal - interpretation of them; I viewed them as exaggerations of the condition of unsaved mankind.

Illiberalism is either feared as a taboo or enjoyed as a transgression.

Psalm 103:12» As far as the East is from the West, so far has he removed our transgressions from us»As far as the East is from the West, so far has he removed our transgressions from us»as the East is from the West, so far has he removed our transgressions from us».

Sin is defined in the bible as the transgression of the law or lawlessness.

But transgression brings with it the certainty of death — not death as a punishment willed by God and decided by him, but death as a natural destiny.

Atlanta (CNN)- A top - tier rabbi and expert in Jewish law and ethics is now under the microscope for what many see as his own ethical transgressions.

What if you've spent your whole life following the Abrahamic God, only to come back as a fish for your transgressions.

You might come back as a fish for your transgression of not believing in Adi Parashakti.

3:6,9: If sin is necessarily possible, although not necessarily inevitable, then one can say that the one in Christ does not sin, sin viewed by John as «transgression of the law» (3:4 - 5).

When the Community Committee at MTS selects Asian - American relations as the theme for an annual retreat, without input from Asian - Americans at the seminary, the transgression is treated with deadly seriousness.

Forgiveness was always displayed to me as either the freeing of someone from their transgression — as if they needed me to be saved — or a false show of how gracious I was, that I would let someone off the hook after they'd hurt me.

As more and more persons know all of our secrets and transgressions, we achieve freedom from the constant fear of being found out.

Apparently he thought of it as coming in with «Adam's fall,» the transgression of an ancient ancestor fastening sin upon his descendants; but he also thought of it as related to the activities of demons, about the existence of which neither Paul nor his contemporaries had any doubt.

If we now find ourselves obliged to raise precisely this question once again and to think it over afresh, we must first of all make it clear that we are here taking the concept of good in its widest sense, that is to say, simply as the contrary of vicious, lawless and scandalous, as the opposite of public transgression of the moral law, as good in contrast to the publican and harlot.

18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

As Christians, we recognize that religious organizations and individuals have been guilty of not using the communication media primarily for the public welfare, and we repent both our inaction and transgressions in this regard.

20 The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.»

e ¯ bha ¯ h; as are relational transgressions, especially relations between family and other unnatural offenses.

The ideas on which the formula was based came out of ancient ancestral traditions; the logic of the doctrine was unassailable once the premises were granted; great prophets, such as Amos, Micah, and Jeremiah, held stoutly to it; and the formula was confirmed and solidified by the final rewriting of the Hebrew historical narratives to illustrate the thesis that every calamity in Israel's record had been a definite punishment for Israel's transgression.

Thus, in the political calculus that flowed from portraying racism as the central fact of American life, no white effort to redress the transgressions against the blacks was ever adequate, and no black challenge to the privileges or sensibilities of whites was ever excessive.

Isa 53:8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

It was replaced, Bossy thought, by a preoccupation with obedience to the Ten Commandments, whose transgression was understood in the first place as an affront to God.

We told thee that thy Lord doth encompass mankind round about: We granted the Vision which We showed thee, but as a trial for men as also the Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Qur «an: We put terror (and warning) into them, but it only increases their inordinate transgression!

As the early Christians understood Isaiah 53:4 - 5, Christ was pierced there for our transgressions, smitten by God and afflicted.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

I reassure myself that at least I haven't really condoned his transgression, haven't affirmed as right that which is wrong.

He had been reared in a system where sin was regarded as transgression of law, and where repentance, forgiveness, and amendment of life were the cure.

For those who would encourage you to stay and forgive, so often what they mean is to overlook the offender's transgressions, as though that's the higher road.