Sentences with phrase «upon the people of»

«But we can debate the true reasons for God's wrath raining down upon the people of Sodom.»

«The destruction of the firstborn sons of Egypt was something that the previous Pharaoh had visited upon the people of Israel 80 years earlier when the Egyptian army killed all the newborn sons of Israel two years old and younger»

I judge that the concentration of emphasis in the life of most parishes upon the Sunday morning worship in a sanctuary designed exclusively for that purpose tends to have the same effect upon the people of God unless that worship is administered in the context of a developmental understanding of Christian faith.

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

The prince of this world has power to bring storms, so i think everyone is wrong, it's not God who bring any storm that brings suffering upon a people but it is the so called god, an evil god, the prince of this world that brings suffering upon a people, if anything it's this evil so called god that would bring such a storm upon a people of UNITY = RNC

After listening to a denial that God inflicts tragedies randomly, the journalist intervened with: «I don't understand what you are trying to say... What you seem to be arguing for is a slot machine God... the suffering that has been imposed upon the people of Haiti, many of them clearly innocent, is random.»

If there is one thing we learn from Isaiah 54 about the flood, it is that although it appears as if God sent the flood as punishment, it actually came as a result of humanities departure from the protective hand of God, and because the destroyer had set out to bring destruction upon the people of the earth as the just consequence for their great sin.

His inference is that self - suggestion of impossibility had prevented the influence upon these persons of an environment which, on the more «passive» subjects, had easily brought forth the effects they looked for.

Second, the Book of Mormon looks down upon people of African descent.

The exclusiveness of Yahweh's radical claim upon the people of the covenant calls us out of any symptom of manmade security.

It is an ongoing process and has a constant impact upon the people of the present.

As a consequence of this enlargement of its mandate, the conduct and decisions of the WTO are bound to have far - reaching repercussions upon the people of the South.

The Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) have brought much pain and suffering upon the people of Earth with their hatred and violence... subscribers to all three of these religions would do well to stop their hating and focus on making amends.

The dominant western political power, especially the U.S., with its pervasive network of information industries, wire services, satellite communications and so on, interlocks with the Asian national communications media and subverts these on political, economic and cultural levels, producing a powerful impact upon the peoples of Asia.

Gradually, it imposed, under his guidance, a strict and very minute discipline upon the people of Geneva.

In some of the buildings around here, we barely have bathrooms but as the current president proclaimed yesterday, in declaring the day, «I call upon the people of the United States to celebrate the achievements of women and observe this day with appropriate programs and activities.»

«The government has thrust upon the people of this state a definition of marriage that violates their religious and personal moral beliefs.

But in doing so, their actions have inadvertently unleashed upon the people of Lake - town.

Congress forced the DC voucher program, formally named the Opportunity Scholarship Program, upon the people of the District in 2003 as a five - year pilot program.

Perhaps she had a staggeringly shallow understanding of the history of White Supremacy, the kind of terrorism inflicted upon people of color in the Jim Crow South, and just how much of that persisted past the legal victories of the Civil Rights Movement.

This ecological disaster created by human misdeed forces a grim choice upon the people of the plains during the depths of the Great Depression.

Certain advertising and business practices of some companies engaged in the business of credit services have worked a financial hardship upon the people of this State, often on those who are of limited economic means and inexperienced in credit matters.

Certain advertising and business practices of some credit services organizations have worked a financial hardship upon the people of this state, often those who are of limited economic means and inexperienced in credit matters.

The Project at Eden's Gate is a plague upon the people of the county.

But to the point of the post, given the calls by some to limit population growth, it seems the rates of carnage and degradation visited upon the people of these areas is a small price to pay for the preservation of «wild» spaces.

This article is an absolutely perfect example of the logical fallacy of argumentum ad hominem, the deliberate focus upon the persons of those articulating points of contention in order to duplicitously evade addressing the substance of the points these persons are making.

I had not even paid attention to claims of global warming myself before late 2009 (I don't know if I even heard of it before that), yet within a year I had disproved the «greenhouse effect» being foisted upon the people of the world as «settled science», and shown that climate scientists should have done the same 20 years ago, if any had been competent in their field.

The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).

(d) Set a time period of fifteen (15) calendar days for the parties to agree upon the person of the sole arbitrator by the Governing Board (Art. 4 (2) of the Rules).

This has been attributed in part to the traditional tolerance of intrusive acts upon the person of an arrested individual.

Not exact matches

Upon running into a disagreement, most people rush to judge the other party's point of view and attempt to persuade through contradiction.

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

Defy has graduated 1,100 prisoners upon release who have created 150 businesses that now employ 350 people — many of them ex Defy Graduates.

Once you decipher a person's motives, you can adequately show respect for their beliefs and, upon doing so have them listen to your point - of - view in a more open minded manner.

Maling says he actually would have everyone in his organization handle business development instead of one person, but growth patterns can change that need dependent upon the industry and the organization.

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).»

Bonobos» top keywords show that nearly all of its customers search for it by name; few people stumble upon the site while looking for «men's pants» or «pants that fit.»

«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.

I like to think a supportive media had some role to play, but it's hard to believe that journalists alone somehow managed to convince millions upon millions of people to buy iPods, iPhones and iPads.

But, at least in the venture capital world, funding for companies focused on tackling heart disease, respiratory disease, and other mass population conditions — i.e., those that afflict millions upon millions of people — has dropped sharply in the last decade.

It's not uncommon for very successful people to read their goals list at the beginning of each and every day upon awakening in the morning.

I hope that it does inspire a lot of people, any minority who's been preyed upon in this way to speak up and feel confident that they can speak up.»

«We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was.

The traditional pension plan, where a person works for an employer for 35 years and receives a monthly payment upon retirement, is a thing of the past for most of us.

A lot of people find it very hard to talk about themselves, and in some cultures it is frowned upon.

While this teamwork can be threatening to highly trained designers who fear they will be replaced by hordes of naïfs, the less insecure ones recognize that user feedback can only improve upon what they think people want.

If the census were to count only citizens, rather than all residents, the budget allocations will not accurately reflect the actual number of people who will make demands upon public institutions.

You really depend upon a small group of people to drive the business ahead.»

Tesla highlighted preventative measures it takes to counter racial discrimination in the workplace, such as compulsory anti-discrimination courses, regular in - person spot training sessions upon the submission of an allegation or complaint, as well as a dedicated team that is focused on «investigating workplace concerns, recommending corrective actions and assisting managers with implementing those actions.»

For most people, their first reaction upon hearing the news that Facebook is purchasing WhatsApp for US$ 19 billion was one of shock.