Sentences with phrase «up to his death at»

She continued to move between Cornwall and Scotland, working right up to her death at the age of 91.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

But that's the situation that fans of the critically - acclaimed NBC drama This Is Us found themselves in after Tuesday's episode, in which the long - anticipated death of a leading character (actor Milo Ventimiglia's Jack) is hinted to ended up coming at the hands of a faulty slow - cooker, of all things.

On Tuesday, Japan's Asahi TV quoted a North Korean source as saying that cave - ins in tunnels at the nuclear test site caused the death of up to 200 workers.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

Their deaths made him more eager to join up, but his father refused to sign papers that would have allowed him to volunteer at 17 years old.

Historically, these taxes have been seen as a way to break up «unhealthy» concentrations of family wealth, and as a backstop to tax gains missed by the income tax system, such as unrealized capital gains at death.

She made up her own death bed and I for one have no sympathy at all for what happened and I am more than happy to see her go.

Black and white and Persian and Korean they come, not to mark the occasion of death, but to get where they are going — to pick up bulgogi from a nearby street cart, or fill a prescription at the Shoppers Drug Mart, or to make it to an appointment with the dentist whose office sits under the image of a broad smile just down the block.

In contrast, if they owned taxable mutual funds or other securities, the heirs would not have to pay taxes on the $ 75,000 in gains because taxable mutual funds enjoy a «stepped - up» basis at death for tax purposes, Trust Point noted.

It seemed ironic that I would be spared death at age 4 to barely grow up.

First and foremost, greeks didn't just give up zeus on the spot, they were converted first by the romans on pain of death and later when the romans converted to christianity, there were still pagans, no one just looked at their beliefs, decided they were silly and changed.

Kerry Egan observed something as a divinity school student that escaped her divinity school professor... that at or near the moment of truth \ death, up to a lifetime of religious dogma evaporates, and only reality remains.

Rupa Huq, who represents Ealing Central and Acton, was speaking after attending a church service at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Acton on Saturday to mourn the deaths of up to ten million people in 1932 - 33.

Many successful atheist writers lived long lives without violent deaths: Arthur C. Clark — 91 yrs.; Kurt Vonnegut — 85; Robert Heinlein — 82; James Randi, still going at 82; and many others that I don't have time to look up right now.

I'd have picked up a Number 4 at McDonald's every day if someone had given me some hope that I wouldn't bleed to death or have another bowl of Special K followed by a glass or two of gin a few minutes later on the way to work.

Furthermore, although Christians teach you can repent at any time right up to the moment of your death and still be saved, there are two problems with this.

So anyone writing a «made up story about an unknown called Stephen» at this point, they have it all for a story, a prophet of God telling off high priests soon after the Son of God was put to death and rose again.

At the rate we are using up the resources on this planet it's very apparent it will not sustain us all, which is why thousands of people and animals are starving to death every day.

She notes that nature itself was caught up in grief at the death of Christ; so, too, according to Paul, the whole of creation is filled with longing and in travail awaiting the completion of redemption.

Some commentators think that the words with which John records Jesus» death, «He bowed his head and gave up his spirit», were also intended to mean that as he died he handed over the Spirit to the few representative believers who stood at the foot of the cross (John 19:30).10 Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, separates chronologically what John holds together theologically.

«Raise me up then, matter, to those heights, through struggle and separation and death; raise me up until, at long last, it becomes possible for me in perfect chastity to embrace the universe.»

Most Thought - Provoking (nominated by Jonathan Storment) Richard Beck at Joshua Graves» blog with «Waking Up to Death, Part 3»

It includes a meal by the lake - side where the Christian experience of meeting the Lord at the Eucharist is reflected back into the Easter story; and it leads up to the rehabilitation and commissioning of Peter as the leader of the mission, a foreshadowing of his death, which had happened, of course, long before this Gospel was written, and a discussion of the destiny of the «beloved disciple», possibly John.

This is just another way of saying that God loves every man at every moment in every specific situation as he loved his Son Jesus Christ: not more (for Jesus Christ was delivered up to temptation, to testing, to fatigue, to hunger, to suffering and to death), but not less.

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Surely we ought to have the courage to let our heart be seized by God's grace and to accept the scandal and absurdity of our inescapable situation as «the power of God and the wisdom of God» by looking up at the Crucified and entering into the mystery of his death.

Jesus probably foresaw his own death; but I think it is almost certain that the passages in the Gospels which speak of this, and which in some instances go on to say that he prophesied his resurrection, have been written up and embroidered in the light of what actually happened at Easter.

Akin to this is the idea of spirit as that which leaves the body at death, as in the common expression rendered by the KJV (Job 3:11 etc.) «gave up the ghost» (RSV «expire» — i.e., ex-spire, breathe out).

For we all are gathered round the cross of the Crucified, whether we look up to him or try to look past him, whether we are at the moment quite gay and happy (this is not forbidden) or frightened to death.

If there is some kind of continuation after death I would imagine that it would be of such a different nature as not to resemble at all anything thought up in Christian theology and i would face it with a curious mind, not a fearful mind.

The critical moment in this life - and - death transfer comes when Malkiel is sent at his father's command to the tiny town in Transylvania where Elhanan grew up.

We must face the Anti-Christ (whomever he may be) and undergo the persecution, then at God's appointed time, Christ will take His people up (the Rapture) to be with Him, but the Anti-Christ will remain on earth, and those «left behind» will have an opportunity to accept Christ as Savior, but will face death for doing so.

This is to davidnfran hay David you might have brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,

You know, if you give a fetus the right to life, you're basically enslaving the woman in whose body that fetus is growing, and if she harms the fetus at all, or ends up miscarrying it, birthing it prematurely, or ends up with a stillborn baby, she'll be charged with the death of that fetus.

At his death, supposedly the earth shook, day turned to night, and the eath opened up and dead prophets rose and walked among men.

And it has been understood that the pro-choice position is that the life or death of the unborn child is a private matter to be decided at the sole discretion of the mother - for any reason and at any point of the child's life up through the moment of being born.

And therein lies the great tragedy of his premature death, for with the violence of his passions, Camus may have eventually used them up had he lived longer, and at last found some interior space in which to seek God and to listen to him.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

Yet, on closer examination, the lives and deaths of Alba Mery Chilito Peñafiel and Alicia Castilla not only illustrate the carnage their country has endured, but also one of its least - understood aspects: Despite belonging to an overwhelming statistical majority, Christians in Colombia who stand up to the violence are remarkably at risk.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

i.e. what at the profoundest level it effected — is portrayed in objective imagery: The pre-existent Son of God is delivered up to the death of the cross, and thereby atonement is wrought for the guilt of mankind, the righteousness of God satisfied and the curse of sin removed.

Science can throw up a nice smoke screen yet at the end of the day scientists are empty handed to explain life after death.

But he who in demanding a person's love thinks that this love should be proved also by becoming lukewarm to everything which hitherto was dear — that man is not only an egoist but stupid as well, and he who would demand such love signs at the same moment his own death - warrant, supposing that his life was bound up with this coveted love.

Jeremy i believe you are on the right track my take is slightly different but we end up in the same place if we look at the story we see the cross portrayed the condemned sinner judgement for sin condemnation and death Jesus the son of God intervenes on her behalf and forgives her and gives life restoration and the chance for her to start again without guilt or condemnation.That summs up our life storys.

So if Socrates in the crisis of death had remained mute, he would have weakened the impression of his life and awakened a suspicion that the elasticity of irony within him was not a cosmic force but a life - belt which by its buoyancy might serve to hold him up pathetically at the decisive moment.

a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan, death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.

Dominic was about forty - five years old by then, and had only six more years to live, but all his life and experience up until then had been preparing him for this moment, and the six years before his death saw the Order increase at a phenomenal rate, a testimony to the divine inspiration behind it.

It should be as the prayer says, «I take from your hands my illness and all I have to suffer; and when you call me at last, I will accept even my death from you to make up for my sins.»