Sentences with phrase «upon the characters of»

We might add also that another corrosive influence upon the character of the oppressor is the kind of self - deception which an oppressor is driven to engage in in order to maintain his / her self - image.

The influence of brandy and bad company on him, and the influence of slavery and social isolation upon her, had wrought disastrously upon the characters of both (MBMF 183).

In the case of Islam and Mormonism, these arguments center upon the character of the inspired text in question, as something dictated directly by God (through angelic mediation) and itself miraculous or as encompassed by miracles.

It all relies upon the character of the person in your life and what you believe he could get the maximum out of at this time of year.

This sci - fi series set in the year 3203 was based upon the characters of the Alex Raymond - created comic strip.

Those three serials introduced and elaborated upon the character of the bullet - helmeted, jet - pack - wearing rocket man, known variously as Jeff King, Larry Martin, or Commando Cody.

- Close reading of a modelled example analysis paragraph; - Joint creation of an analysis success criteria; - An opportunity to answer an exam style question based upon the character of Lennie; - A chance to peer assess against the success criteria.

- Questions to encourage students to infer and deduce hidden meanings, and understand Steinbeck's message, - Joint creation of an analysis success criteria; - An opportunity to answer an exam style question based upon the character of Crooks; - A chance to peer assess against the success criteria.

As these chapters signal the end of the animal democracy on the farm, and the start of Napoleon's totalitarian dictatorship, a heavy emphasis throughout these resources is placed upon the character of Napoleon - particularly with regards to his similarities with Joseph Stalin.

There are different results depending upon the character of the lender and borrower, the relationship between the parties, the legal components of debt and equity of the instrument, and the purpose of the loan»

«There are different results depending upon the character of the lender and borrower (non-profit or a c corporation, s corporation, partnership or LLC), the relationship between the parties (related party transactions may lose the interest deduction), the legal components of debt and equity of the instrument (certain preferred stock can legally be classified as debt in one jurisdiction and stock in another, so interest is a dividend in one country but interest in another and interest is deductible while dividends are not), the purpose of the loan (A CERT can trigger unintended tax costs and money borrowed to pay wages to owners is a big mistake) and much more,» says Spizzirri.

Not exact matches

Nefarious characters and the applications they create mine social media for purposes of social engineering, cyber attacks and to prey upon others to fulfill lusts for sexual perversions and other questionable pursuits like identity theft.

Upon entering the Los Angeles office, you're greeted with League of Legends characters Annie and Tibbers.

Even in Shakespeare's play, «The Merchant of Venice,» written more than 400 years ago, the character Antonio demonstrates his understanding of the concept when he says: «I thank my fortune for it — my ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place, nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year.»

Earlier this month in his outlook for September, the head of the world's largest bond shop employed the Lindy dance craze, former Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, the Wimpy cartoon character and his «dying cult of equity» argument in a mash - up of prose to describe the «age of inflation that is upon us,» which he claims typically «provides a headwind, not a tailwind, to securities prices in both stocks and bonds.»

In typical Bill Gross style, the head of the world's largest bond shop employs the Lindy dance craze, former Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, the Wimpy cartoon character and his dying cult of equity argument in a mash - up of prose to describe the «age of inflation that is upon us,» which he claims typically «provides a headwind, not a tailwind, to securities prices in both stocks and bonds.»

As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires.

In defending counsel - elect Murena against electoral malpuractice, Cicero's task to neutralize the authority of Cato and Sulpicius without earning their antipathy was dependent not upon facts but upon character.

Because of the erroneous assumption thrust upon us that because you are having hard times it is a result of a persons personal character, a catch 22 traps and hinders people from being employed.

The aesthetic character of reality also means that the importance which an occasion can have for itself and the future depends upon the importance that the past has for it.

... Those who make a great profession of religion have need to walk very circumspectly, to abstain from all appearances of evil, and approaches towards it, because many eyes are upon them, that watch for their halting; their character is soon sullied (defiled, tainted), and they have a great deal of reputation to lose.

Indeed, in his anxiety to press home to each man's conscience his individual responsibility before God, he sometimes overstates his case, without sufficiently allowing for the undoubted influence of heredity and environment upon individual character and destiny.

He was bitterly opposed to all organized Churches and said that «Moses, Mohamet, and Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit, or to the character of the benefactors of mankind, as any three men that ever lived upon the face of the earth....

I will argue in what follows that these metaphysical characters do not necessarily follow upon the adoption of a logic that is not dialectical, i.e., modern mathematical logic.

Also important for the character of the occasion are those objects not included in its choice of pattern, and this question of negative «prehensions» bears interestingly upon Hegelian determinate negation.

A question might be raised here as to what might be the character of this complex structure of enduring objects, upon which the presiding object, the dominant thread, stages its private satisfactions.

Our editorial draws upon the thought of Cardinal Newman to outline the character of authentic doctrinal development.

A crucial judgment that the church must make is whether to reject their offerings because of their ambiguous character and radical demands or to seize upon them as an occasion for repentance for that in our history which now appears evil to so many sensitive critics.

The undeniable fact that Jesus loves ALL mankind seems to be lost upon many who profess to follow Him, while the fact that He came to deliver us from the bondage of «natural» desires, those carnal impulses which contradict the spiritual nature for which we were created, seems lost on many others without regard to any principles of character which conflict with the principle «if it feels good, it must be right».

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

A precise statement of what the correspondence or the clash might be is not easy to produce and is not necessary here, since our main purpose in these remarks is merely to emphasize the point that value experiences depend for their character upon the kinds of relationships that exist between subject and object.

In the Old Testament, when God looks like He is behaving in ways that do not match the nature and character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ, this is not because God is being deceptive, but because God is taking the sins of His people upon Himself just as Jesus did on the cross.

What kind of thinking can a reasonable, intelligent person use to justify this kind of character assassination upon someone they hardly even know and had never had a hard word pass from my lips to theirs?

His personal character and thread of personal order is dependent upon our capacity to provide the environment for the occasions of the living nonsocial nexus out of which he constructs his personal life.

Douglass maintained that slavery had a corrosive influence upon the «character» and general well - being of the slave owner and of the whole slaveholding community.

Specifically, the dogmas of the superhuman founding of the state and of its indestructible character, as well as that of the divine ancestry of the Emperor depend upon them.

Since, as well as before my change, my theological thinking centers and has centered in its emphasis upon the majesty of God, the eschatological character of the whole Christian message, and the preaching of the gospel in its purity as the sole task of the Christian church.

Like Douglass, during his career as a slave, Brown was the chattel property of several families, and he also recorded that slavery had a corrosive influence upon the character and well - being of the slaveholders and their families.

Critical scrutiny shows beyond all doubt the untenability of the entire network of assumptions upon which racial discrimination rests, and reveals the true character of racial bias as a device for rationalizing injustices.

They predicted the Fall, or saw it in retrospect, as the judgment of God upon an unfaithful and sinful nation, but they understood the function of the catastrophe to be ultimately, like the Exodus event, positive and redemptive in character.

But, granted those conditions, then reflection upon them — in that context, with those motives, and with that perspective — is fully as much an act of theologizing as any apprehension that strikes us out of the Bible, or Bultmann, or Barth, or any other alphabetical characters past or present.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

But his answer diverges in two ways: (i) In speaking of «lateral tensions» as having some influence on what each natural moment passes on to later moments, Santayana is in conflict with Whitehead's view that in its process of becoming an actual occasion is causally quite detached from its contemporaries, and operates privately upon the past occasions which have entered into it in order to produce that over-all character which it will pass on to later occasions.

These occasions are such as to lay necessities upon whatever follows them, and this character of occasions, insofar as it determines that the future will be characterized by extensiveness, is the potentiality that is the extensive continuum.

In good Aristotelian fashion, therefore, Lewis thinks of all the ordinary decisions of life as forming our character, as turning us into people who either do or do not wish to gaze forever upon the face of God.

At this point I wish to call upon the assistance of a rather unlikely character — unlikely in this context at any rate — namely New York University professor Thomas Nagel.

The sociologist of religion will have to examine the character of this twofold relationship in the case of each individual group because the nature, intensity, duration, and organization of a religious group depends upon the way in which its members experience God, conceive of, and communicate with Him, and upon the way they experience fellowship, conceive of, and practice it.

The prophetic sense of the entity and power of the Word explains in great part the concentrated emotional character of the prophets and their sometimes deep anguish in proclaiming the negative message, the pronouncement of doom upon the life of the political state.

It was only then that «the fundamental and persistent character of the Messiah, as of one rising from humanity and clothed with power, was displaced by... a heavenly being, who came down to the world, sojourned in it, left it, ascended to heaven and now enters upon the dominion of the world which originally belonged to him.»