Sentences with phrase «upon it today as»

The end of an era is upon us today as health concerns are forcing him to step down.

I happened upon it today as I was going over old files and thought I ought to post it.

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[«The Wealth of Nations»] describes what builds nations» wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics and touches upon such broad topics as the division of labor, productivity, and free markets.

Each of the companies are expanding upon «luxury» services previously reserved for a small segment of the population Today, technology brings each of these services to the fingertips of anyone willing to download an app and pay for the service, which are also made more affordable, as greater use and improved technology can bring prices down.

As more financial institutions like Santander adopt and build upon Ripple solutions, we can eliminate the friction in global payments, and will be one step closer to establishing an Internet of Value — where money moves as information does todaAs more financial institutions like Santander adopt and build upon Ripple solutions, we can eliminate the friction in global payments, and will be one step closer to establishing an Internet of Value — where money moves as information does todaas information does today.

Well, to sum up today's call, we obviously had a good quarter, and we're optimistic about our second quarter as the reasons for our restored sell - through and momentum are simple: One, we've removed Session from our lineup and restored our proven HERO form factor, now with touch displays, to the $ 199, $ 299, $ 399 price points that GoPro's brand was built upon.

The Soviets, as the Russians are today, were wholly dependent upon revenue from the fossil fuel industry to fund the government.

Far too often can «innovation» become a buzzword in today's new globalized economic reality, as governments seek to find new ways to increase GDP and revenues so they can sustain the critical social programs and public infrastructure so many Canadians rely upon.

As the chart below shows, a hypothetical balanced index portfolio that hasn't been rebalanced to policy weights since the bottom of the Great Financial Crisis on March 9, 2009 would look more like a growth portfolio today, exposing the investor to more risk than initially agreed upon.

These questions are, as you know, at the heart of many problems in our society today, and it is against the background of such questions that I want to reflect upon the significance of human cloning.

If once upon a time certain church hierarchies were populated with ignorant but faithful clerics, as Burtchaell declares, the story today is too often of sophisticated infidelity in the top echelons of church power.

Clearly the same is continuing as delivered by individuals passing judgement on Him today based upon the actions of people claiming to be his followers or not having a clear understanding of what His words really are in context.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

Speaking earlier today, Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said: «As we all reflect upon what happened my thoughts, and those of all of us in the Met, are with those who lost their loved ones, their homes and a community that is in mourning.

The very being of the Christian, today, as yesterday, depends upon this affirmation.

In his final two sentences, however, he recognizes the contemporary urgency that is intrinsic to his argument: «The hope of solidarity itself, and the recognition of its attendant burdens, still weighs upon us today It has remained a fragile aspiration, as much in need of condensation into symbolic forms of requisite density and imaginative power as it ever was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.»

Well as it seems that the enemy of today is the same enemy of many centuries ago that disputed God Allah from the time of His Messangers Moses, Jesus and Muhammed PEace be upon them all..!

At the laying of the cornerstone for the institution on September 24, 1858, Bellows made a statement upon which those who object to the treatment of alcoholism as a sickness could well ponder today, over one hundred years later:

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past.

A crucial question for the Roman Catholic community today, for example, is whether or not it can respond creatively to the challenge of individual voices as diverse as those of Hans Küng and Daniel Berrigan, and adapt its communal life to the demands for change that they place upon it.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

And it condemned any attempt to blame the death of Jesus «upon all the Jews then living, without distinction, or upon the Jews today,» insisting that «the Jews should not be presented as repudiated or cursed by God.»

In his book, Ghosts of Manila (Harper Perennial), Mark Kram Jr wrote: «Today, he would be looked upon as a contaminant, a chronic user of hate language.»

For the people of Palestine, suffering under the Roman regime, it must have been as hard to believe this as it is today in the United States of America for people struggling to achieve economic and political equality of opportunity, or as it is for the native people of Palestine or Vietnam who are exiled from their homes and dependent upon the scanty bounty of the United Nations and charitable organizations.

The same sins that God frowned upon 2000 yrs ago are the same sins we as humans commit today.

It depends on how Ivan is defining «local community» and how he envisions it being proposed as the «arrangement for us today,» but against his basic note of resignation I join Mr. T. (Tocqueville) and the A-Team (Aristotelians) in insisting upon the greater naturalness and liberty - fostering character of township / polis life, and thus upon our unavoidable duty to cultivate whatever qualities and institutional features of that life that we can in our circumstances.

Upon first glance, First Things's sponsorship of the Marriage Pledge struck me as a noble endeavor, a brilliant attempt to distinguish between Christ's challenging teaching about marriage and the flimsy requirements of the state today.

And as it says in Jeremiah 50 vs. 36 - 38, the mingled people will become as women, and will be mad upon their idols, as described in the days of Babylon, and now it is juxtaposed to this time of the United States, the world of today is how this book works, it tells the present, past, and future people, this is why much of it is «prophesied» duh..

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

Tragically, we should expect that those systems providing the greatest degree of freedom, security, and economic opportunity (today, almost all Western or Westernized states in Asia) will be viewed as rivals and threats to be eliminated — or overrun and poached upon — rather than beacons to be praised and emulated by the less successful.

«Human rights» indeed exist today as parasites upon the decaying body of Christendom.

We dwell on this point because a real prophetic pulpit today waits upon the release of the minister from a shackling hyper - caution about interpreting the Scriptures as the word of the Lord to our situation.

If Jesus» belief in miracles is understood as a general conviction that certain happenings, which we today are accustomed to attribute to natural causes, depend upon a higher, divine cause, then the belief is meaningless and has no relation to his idea of God.

In many social areas (such as international finance and transport) there is today a strong dependency upon technology.

Many of these priest went astray, away from YHWH, making their own versions of these laws, and was why the wrath, the sword was put upon the earth, disobeying the voice of YHWH, but He has His hand still stretched out to us if we are wholeheartedly wanting to seek Him today, as said in Isaiah 6:9,10.

Hence we are, on the one hand, confronted with an abundance of material, rich in analysis and content from a variety of perspectives that can offer to the Indian church sensitive viewpoints and creative directions for the understanding and practice of mission in India today, and, on the other, still confronted with the reality that, in so far as the mission question is concerned, an agreed upon standpoint, either in theological or practical terms continues to be elusive.

As God laid a prophetic mantle upon the prophets he called in the Old Testament, local congregations could do more to affirm and confirm callings today (including commissioning those who feel called to leave, as God guides themAs God laid a prophetic mantle upon the prophets he called in the Old Testament, local congregations could do more to affirm and confirm callings today (including commissioning those who feel called to leave, as God guides themas God guides them).

I find it hard to understand why something with such importance, such a good message and something that has driven and molded civilization as we know it today is frowned upon by people.

The final conclusion of the argument, then, depends upon appealing not only to the moral implications of faith in any situation, but also to the understanding of ourselves and of our fellow human beings as the agents of history that is pervasive of our situation today.

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.

Perhaps looking upon this practice as foolish, few farmers still observe the Sabbath today.

In the first, «The Future of a Glorious Past,» I comment upon the confusion that reigns in the churches today as we find ourselves deprived of the triumphs that fifteen centuries of «Christendom» promised us.

As I referenced your website while writing this, I came upon your statement that «my theology has changed a lot since I preached these sermons (which is one reason I am not a pastor today.)»

«Today, in all Christian Communions, the emphasis in pastoral life and equally in the liturgical prayers is upon «love»; upon love, courage, service and very rarely upon truth as the Light of God.

While it can be used to report subjective experience («I felt sublime in church today») it has no place in extrapolating this subjective experience to external assertions about the structure of the universe («I felt sublime in church today, THEREFORE there exists a supernatural agent who acted upon me in a such a way as to make me feel sublime»).

Deutsch begins his discussion by focusing upon the limitations of power rather than the efficiency or potentialities for power as is most frequently the case today.

I just stumbled upon your blog today as I was searching out Church Planting websites.

Although the prophets were speaking primarily of social and economic inclusiveness, we are called upon by revelation to extend their criterion of inclusiveness to other arenas (such as race and gender, for example) today.

Archbishop Romero believed in the God of the Exodus who, today as yesterday, looks upon the captive and exploited people, hears their cries and then himself comes to free them, and to promise them a new land.