Sentences with phrase «upon those occasions when»

Mr. Arkes may be certain about some moral truths, but if he imagines that he can always persuade five out of nine justices to the same knowledge, he should reflect upon those occasions when, using moral reasoning, he attempted to persuade a faculty meeting of a point that ran counter to the professors» views.

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There still remain places and occasions when a designated person of faith is called upon to offer an invocation, a benediction, grace before a meal, a prayer of dedication for a new building or a blessing for a bike race.

(2) This is not to say that it has been my intention only to comfort you, but rather that if and when I may have spoken in such a way as to appear to be without doubt and frustration and anguish, it has to do again with the stance that the occasion of lecturing / writing thrusts upon me.

When, upon the completion of an actual occasion, the creativity of the universe moves on to the next birth, it carries that occasion with it as an «object» which all future occasions are obliged to prehend.

On one occasion he is reported to have enforced the lesson by example, when he took upon himself the duty (which in most households was performed by a slave) of washing the feet of his company.

This is the sort of experience Whitehead is referring to when he writes: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have, with Locke, tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 112).

An old legend says that Moses used to play the shepherd's pipe as he tended his flocks upon the plains of Midian and that when he went up to die on Nebo's top he gave his old flute to the priests, who used, on high occasions, to play it before the Lord.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

When things are going rightly, toward actualizing their potentiality, the achievement is not independent of other occasions but in real dependence upon them.

rare indeed are the occasions when we fasten upon them in their individuality.

Deuteronomy 22:13 - 21 — «If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's vîrginity unto the elders of the city in the gate....

On occasions when video that was originally created in the 1.33:1 (or similar) aspect ratio is called upon in the feature, it appears to be stretched to match the aspect ratio of the feature as a whole, which for the purposes they are used here for, is fine.

From Jamie Foxx to Christoph Waltz to Leonardo DiCaprio to Kerry Washington to Samuel L. Jackson — even to Don Johnson as a plantation owner named Big Daddy — the cast raises the film to great heights, even when Tarantino gives in to too many juvenile urges, as he does upon occasion (it's like he just can't help himself — and who's going to tell him no?).

by Ariston Anderson When Ken Tanabe stumbled upon the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in the U.S., he was shocked that there was no holiday to commemorate the occasion.

That is a recipe for disaster, as you can be sure that, on a crucial occasion, information will have been entered in one but not the other, just when the latter is being relied upon!

When leadership is thrust upon us, many of us are motivated to rise to the occasion.