Sentences with phrase «upon the life of»

In both cases, we have the real issue, which is the use of force to encroach upon the lives of others.
Play breaks through such barriers and thus serves as a prologue to and / or a check upon a life of freedom.
This question currently presses most painfully upon the life of the churches.
And we should remember that the Gospel of reconciliation bears also upon the life of sex.
The intensity of disdain increases with the direct impact of the religion in question upon the lives of non-believers, but your statement is patently false.
Given by the Emperor Meiji, it has been perhaps as influential as any one other single utterance upon the life of Japan, particularly in the field of moral education.
A darker assessment of current child well - being would accord more consistently with what Mintz's entire history reveals: that economic and social trends afflicting adults» lives have an even more negative impact upon the lives of children.
As the volume's editor, Michael Sherwin, observes, this book is «nothing less than a theology of conversion and Christian vocation expressed in a narrative that traces the effects of God's mercy upon the lives of a generation searching for meaning.»
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 is enough to provoke both laughter and tears — not only all these protestations about having understood and comprehended the highest thought, but also the virtuosity with which many know how to present it in abstracto, and in a certain sense quite correctly — it is enough to provoke both laughter and tears when one sees then that all this knowing and understanding exercises no influence upon the lives of these men, that their lives do not in the remotest way express what they have understood, but rather the contrary.
The director of the Brussels Institute for Intercultural Dialogue Dynamics, describes how global leaders are preparing to impose their new post-modern values upon the lives of millions.
And the Chronicler, who sees only the glories of Solomon's rule, informs us that Uzziah's greatness was the reward of faithfulness to Yahweh (v. 5) Be that as it may, at least two Yahweh prophets, Isaiah and Micah, look out upon the life of Judah in the decades following Uzziah's reign with bitter reproach and with condemnations that must fall, in part, upon Uzziah.
Now, like Samuel and Nathan and Ahijah in the tenth century, Elijah, Micaiah, and Elisha are instrumental in the ninth century in bringing the Word of Yahweh into history, in conflict with and in judgment upon the life of the king, and in effective encounter with the life of Israel.
A purely rational appeal from the pulpit can not counter the deleterious effect of the media's mythic world upon the life of faith and grace.
Parenting is a high calling which, unlike most endeavors in life, has significant, long - lasting effects upon the life of a child and even upon those touched by that child throughout his or her life.
We see it as part of our national commitment to improve upon the lives of the people.»
Trying to underplay conventional plotting as much as it can, this film is seriously meditative upon the life of a man who we barely known anything about, and makes matters worse by portraying gradual exposition in too abstract of a fashion for you to receive the impact of the would - be remedies for characterization shortcomings that do indeed go a very long way in distancing you from a conceptually sympathetic and worthy lead.
He hasn't written a song for years, and his family has been left behind while he embarks upon the life of a true rock star.
They work best when they portray either somebody previously unknown, or shed new light upon the life of the subject.
The lesson focuses on how the story is usually told through the nativity and goes on to look at the scripture, before looking in depth at how it impacts upon the lives of Christians today.
Students ill then look in depth at the Six Articles and how they impact upon the life of Muslims.
Laila Lalami's latest novel, The Moor's Account, expands upon the life of Mustafa, one of the four survivors of a 1527 Spanish - led expedition to the New World.
YGOR, based upon the life of the stock character found in literature and cinema of the Frankenstein series.
If a policy of insurance has been or shall be effected by any person on his own life or upon the life of another person, the policyowner shall be entitled to any accelerated payments of the death benefit or accelerated payment of a special surrender value permitted under such policy as against the creditors, personal representatives, trustees in bankruptcy and receivers in state and federal courts of the policyowner.
These are forms of permanent life insurance based upon the life of the insured.
In fact the story does not expand much upon the over-arching storyline, bar a shock ending, and instead fleshes out and expands upon the life of Ezio giving much more depth to him and his allies this time around.
The film, which is loosely based upon the life of the artist Paul Gauguin, depicts a stockbroker, Charles Strickland, leaving his job and family to become an artist and settle in Tahiti.
Birth Injury Lawyer Attorney: A birth injury can have a dramatic effect upon the life of the victim as well as on that of the parents, and this effect can vary based upon the severity and type of injury.
To many people, it seems almost incredible that a name could have anything to do with one's nature, one's experiences in life, one's degree of success or failure, and one's health, yet it is equally incredible that science has not discovered the influence of language upon the lives of all who use it.
«Investing in schemes that aim to improve oral health and reduce the occurrence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is positive, however the impact of these upon the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples must be not be ignored,» said IAHA Chief Executive Officer Ms Donna Murray.

Not exact matches

Only two days after entering office, he issued an executive order stating that prisoners «shall in all circumstances be treated humanely and shall not be subjected to violence to life and person (including murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture), nor to outrages upon personal dignity (including humiliating and degrading treatment).»
A petition calling upon First Lady Melania Trump to either move to the White House or foot the bill for living in Trump Tower out of her own pocket has reached almost a quarter - of - a-million signatures.
Most of us, however, need to intentionally identify our purpose and, upon doing so, will experience a wellspring of passion and inspiration that forever enlightens both our personal and professional lives.
«They constitute an unpaid extension of the workday; they encroach upon things like family life and drinking with people with whom you don't share a copier,» wrote Lauren Collins for The New Yorker.
We need to realize that at the core of our desire for a Sabbath isn't a need to escape the blinking screens of our electronic world, but the ways that work and other obligations have intruded upon our lives and our relationships.»
A few months after her book came out, Starbucks introduced sweeping reforms to respond to the turmoil this algorithmic approach was having upon the personal lives of its employees.
«1 Second Everyday makes it easy to look back on any given year of your life and relive it in a way that's instantly absorbable and easy to reflect upon,» says creator Cesar Kuriyama.
This piece of advice may sound odd, especially given the meteoric rise of both the real - life Hamilton and the 2015 musical based upon his life.
The first product he claimed would save lives was a set of sweatbands that he said would inflate upon impact.
Until our country makes a distinction between money and governance, power and business, we will have an unjust society that preys upon itself and the world in the name of freedom, democracy, and the American way of life
Finally, you'll be given a small snippet of code to install on your website, and your test will go live upon your approval.
A pension, for those lucky enough to have one, offers a guaranteed check every month for the rest of your life upon retirement.
Now, Brian lives by this credo: Feast upon uncertainty, fatten upon disappointment, invigorate in the presence of difficulties and enthuse over apparent defeat.
We live in an era of rapid - fire innovation, where the boundaries of our technologies are constantly being challenged and expanded upon.
His company, he said, had hit upon a way of delivering RNA - based therapeutics into live patients.
Even by spinning off $ 20 billion in assets, GE apparently can't move fast enough to preserve the dividends that millions of retired Americans depend upon to maintain their standard of living.
I'm not saying a franchised business can't fail upon a transfer, too, but a franchise system is designed to survive the individual, and a successful brand is something that has a life of its own.
Indeed, premiums for life insurance coverage vary widely depending upon the type of policy you own.
From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work - life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult question of what constitutes a life well lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor living but simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.
Other worries for residents are the impact of pipeline construction on the environment (75 %), the possibility of infringing upon the rights of communities living along the pipeline path (67 %), the project's impact on First Nations communities (also 67 %), a lack of trust in Enbridge (65 %) and Enbridge's history of incidents (60 %).
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