Sentences with phrase «upon the word became»

In fact, his chewing upon the word became almost frenetic.

Not exact matches

But it's becoming increasingly clear that what sets Trump's campaign apart is his reliance upon paralipsis, a device that enables him to publicly say things that he can later disavow — without ever having to take responsibility for his words.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

Second, being the word of God, the sacred scriptures became the foundations upon which the several religions were erected.

In other words, the subjective moods and motivations of these individuals become an external reality in the form of concrete symbols that can be discussed or acted upon.

It became more clearly defined in the words of the unknown prophet of Israel, who outlined the role of the true servant of YHWH as one who took suffering upon himself voluntarily:

The affirmation that the Word of God has finally become man calls upon man to accept his own humanity and to abandon all mythological pretensions to be an immortal god.

The fact is that, with the word «relapse» added to make things sound OK, the «no cure — treatment — relapse» disorder became a sump - hole for millions upon millions of dollars in public and private expenditures.

Yet if Jesus were God and not man at all, there was no ground for the author of the fourth Gospel to say, «And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth» (John 1:14), or for the church to build its faith upon this foundation throughout the centuries.

In an enterprise characterized by wave upon wave of words, sermons that become Word - events gestate, ironically, in eerie silence.

But if these are ends in themselves — if the «good» society becomes God — then the unqualified prophetic word (right or wrong, and this we are not arguing) pronounces upon them the sentence of damnation.

When people fail to become founded upon the Word, they get carried about by every wind of doctrine (cf. Jude 12; Heb 13:9).

In turning men away from the mythological concepts of the gods to the YHWH who was known through His Word, Israel seized upon the most important phenomenon in the human scene — language — to become the metaphor for faith «The Word became flesh.»

The sweetest words of comfort will be lost, because when the truth appears, the earth opens itself to swallow up Korah and his company, who took it upon themselves to become priests without the call of God.

In other words, the goal is for mothers to not become dependent upon an affiliate.

After her husband's death, Edna becomes a powerful political figure, succeeding in removing the stigma of illegitimacy by having that word stricken from all future Texas birth certificates; in this way, she honors the memory of her own half sister, who had killed herself upon discovering she was born out of wedlock.

It's a tough choice, and Word for Windows has let me down before... I think we've all become too reliant upon its «spell check» and «grammar check» functionality that we sometimes eschew true copyediting due to time constraints or resources.

In theory, this sounds all very nice — we're getting more inventive with objects, so perhaps we should be so with words — but then you hit a word like «pwn», which is based upon a spelling error, and it all becomes a little too dirty and a little too real.

Once upon a time, the word «retire» was associated with becoming inactive and getting old.

That's why Pat Curry tried to outsmart her Australian shepherd, who became overwhelmed with joy upon hearing the word «bank,» where she always was bestowed with treats from the drive - through teller.

Most Aussies eavesdrop on a family argument four houses away, yet become selectively deaf upon hearing words like «stop that», «come here» and «be quiet».

My first, and so far only love I found was back in the day when I started my journey to become a real pirate in the fantastic (and still my favourite game of all time) The Secret of Monkey Island, that is 23 years ago and I have been waiting for a game to shiver me timbers and make me not only eat my words but walk the plank while doing so and admit that there is room for more than one mighty pirate game in this world, and here we are, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag just released upon us all.

Edit: Word around the internet is this time around your created leader of the Saints has actually become president of the United States of America and you are now battling extraterrestrials that are trying to rain down doom upon the planet.

There are references upon references, recurring character groups with peculiar visual identifiers, words and phrases repeated to the point of becoming esoteric slang expressions, visual motifs and logos appearing in one form only to morph into another — all swirling around in hypnotic loops, defying any attempt to identify a point of origin.

The majority decision of the justice of the United Kingdom Supreme Court may be set to become the «final statement» on the presence of EU law in the UK constitutional order in both senses of the word: the Miller case may well prove to be chronologically the final time that the UK's highest court is called upon to interpret the nature of EU law before the United Kingdom's putative withdrawal from the European Union; in the other sense of the word, the dicta in the case may serve to be the final and definitive statement in an ongoing 40 year constitutional saga initiated by the United Kingdom's accession to the European Union's predecessor in 1973.

It is easy to become nervous and stumble upon your words.

In Washington, for example, the law requires the words «This power of attorney shall not be affected by disability of the principal» or «This power of attorney shall become effective upon the disability of the principal», or similar words that clearly state the intent.