Sentences with phrase «upon women who»

The parental obligation is more upon women who as mother plays the primary role of childcare and the bring of the child to adulthood.
An initiative by Indians wedding collection reflects upon women who define beauty, passion, dreams, freedom, love, warmth and desire to look gorgeous and stunning.
Assuming a marriage has occurred, a woman will look down upon a man who has gone down in financial status, whereas a man will not look down upon a woman who does down in financial status.
Some years ago in New York, I stumbled upon a woman who made cufflinks out of old watch movements.

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With Veterans Day upon us, there is no better time to laud the men and women who selflessly volunteer their time, energy and personal well - being to protect our country, allowing us the freedoms we enjoy.
They are women who are regularly, and in the facts at issue in the Inquiry, repeatedly, preyed upon, violated and murdered.
Moreover, a sense of hope was renewed in me upon reading the message from Georgetown President DeGioia, who boldly stood up not just for a fellow student, but for all women.
Here you feel humans can take it upon themselves to say who should have kids and here you are, deluded, conceited and playing God to tell Mike not to, by the way, my mom raised me to be highly respectful to women and I continue to strive for that every day.
Think of a woman, together with her children, totally dependent economically upon a man who is not her husband.
The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.
The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)
Those who do not want to deal with the issues raised by liberationists and women are trying to close the door upon them.
I've received countless emails from women who, upon reading about the original intent of Proverbs 31 in A Year of Biblical Womanhood, report that for the first time in their lives, they no longer feel that they are falling short of some sort of impossible standard of womanhood.
We give thanks that Jesus bestowed upon him 55 years of marriage to the woman he loved — a woman who could match him at every step, and even hold him accountable.
Those of us who believe that human flourishing depends upon the recognition and honoring of marriage as exclusively the union of a man and a woman see this transformation of marriage into something radically different as a grave threat to human society and human happiness.
What about men who enjoy and appreciate partnerships with women and whose sense of calling and security is not dependent upon my subjugation?
In addition, there are many men and women who no longer practice homosexuality that, upon hearing their life story, grew up in a very abusive household (either physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally; many were subject to many different combinations).
It begins at a Pentecost tournament called by Charlemagne, for Christian and Muslim knights alike, which is interrupted by the arrival of Angelica, a woman of astonishing beauty who offers herself as the prize to any knight who can defeat her brother upon the field of battle.
Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.
Feminist revision: «Having had a spiritual awakening a result of these steps, we are more able to draw upon the wisdom inherent in us, knowing we are competent women who have much to offer others.»
Token women, who have achieved apparent equality, take upon themselves the priorities of the patriarchs (including nonrelational, gynophobic attitudes).
But on the contrary, for the New Testament a «saint» is a man or woman or child who so fully belongs to God in Christ through a continuous response to his impact upon one, that the very Love which is God is the central and all - controlling principle of existence.
The usual stress upon «rest eternal» is hardly likely to make much appeal to men and women who have been convinced that life, as they know and value it, entails activity and «doing things».
But if God is — that is, if the cosmic Love is inescapably there and not simply a speculation or wish on the part of us men and women and if God is also the divine, worshipful, and unsurpassable One who is concerned with and acts for his world in all its richness and variety, then surely the significant thing for us is to focus our attention upon that One.
What kind of country have we become when people who believe that marriage is for a man and a woman, are reviled and spit upon.
You are absolutely right that people in the West look down upon those who attack women and people of different ethnicities as a group.
Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men, who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to heal themselves.
For so many young women and men who grew up in the 1990s and the 00s, God is a God of sexual shame, a heavenly father who sits upon his throne and condemns.
In the first place, his interest in history as the history of suffering and his commitment to solidarity with the oppressed have always run counter to the ignoring of peasants15 and women and the concentration of attention upon urban — industrial development which have characterized most of those who share his focus upon «history».
Make us ever - grateful for those who, for over two centuries, have given their lives in freedom's defense; we commend their noble souls to your eternal care, as even now we beg the protection of your mighty arm upon our men and women in uniform.
So I'll make you a deal... stop trying to take over my goverment, control the bodies of women who don't share your extreme beliefs, force children to pray to your gods in schools, destroy scientific and medical advances that I depend upon, and I'll be more than happy to go back to ignoring you.
Yes are my words as being of deism but I harken upon deism as being God's Sons who did make in guilts shamefulness their taking of mankind's women, an unjust travesty to be once warned but now acclaimed as high minded treasurings.
Exodus 21:22 - 25 says: «When men strive together and hurt a woman with child so that there is a miscarriage and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her, shall be fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him and he shall pay as the judges determine.»
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!
Critics of institutional religion who find all church members false and empty but all thieves generous, all drunks lovable and all hookers deeply spiritual heap upon the woman of Samaria both praise and sympathy.
There are pro-life people who mean well but don't see how they are turning the Lord away when they murder doctors, and etc. to force their interpretation upon American women and all of us, instead of obeying the laws of our country.
It is a judgment upon the Church and its ministry if, with our belief in God's grace, we repeat the great symbols and doctrines of atonement but actually practice less of a costing identification with the sufferings of men and women than do those who counsel with them under secular auspices.
But as the sequel shows, the woman revels in her exalted status as creator: upon the birth of Cain, the first horn, it is Eve who boasts of her creative power while Adam is speechless, and Cain hears the name of her pride.
Amazingly enough, even you — a stranger who read some pro-life propaganda - are not qualified to force that most intimate choice upon a woman.
And if this were not enough, there is additionally the ironic fact that to insist upon an ontological difference between men and women is to award the victory to the very feminists and their allies who insist upon filtering everything through the experiences, feelings, and oppressions of women.
Yes are my words are so written as being of deism but I harken upon deism as being God's unending sons, those elemental gods who did make in guilts shamefulness their long ago taking of mankind's women, an unjust travesty to be once warned against but now acclaimed as high minded treasurings!
In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.
It claims that by rooting around in our own egos or by reflecting upon our life experiences as men or women, whites or blacks, we really won't discover much that is worth knowing, unless we know this Jew from Nazareth who is the way, the truth and the life, and are part of a people who follow him.
Those who affirm this feel bound to urge upon those churches which exclude the full participation of women in top leadership that ways be sought in which women can be increasingly involved in positions of full responsibility».64
The French priest still remembers the first story he heard when he embarked upon his journey from a woman who told him the German soldiers had asked villagers in her town to pour ashes onto the mass graves to stop the flood of blood pouring out from them.
Jesus invites us to reflect upon the two ways in which he is greeted by Simon, the Pharisee and the woman who had a bad name in the town.
The nineteen women who write about their defiance of what is aptly called medical eugenics are also heroines who gave life a chance and who write movingly of their joy in having resisted the «choice» that others tried to impose upon them and their children.
It says a great deal about the depths to which America's values have fallen that Tim Tebow — who, once upon a time, would have been the wholesome, women - and - mom - respecting, clean - playing, fresh - faced and faithful Hollywood ideal of a football hero» is the target of such deep derision from so many sources, and in an era of such vaunted «tolerance.»
O eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of man and of woman, who didst replenish with the Spirit Miriam, and Deborah, and Anna, and Huldah; who didst not disdain that thine only - begotten Son should be born of a woman; who also in the Tabernacle of the testimony and in the Temple, didst ordain women to be keepers of thy holy gates, do thou now also look down upon this thy servant, who is to be ordained to the office of a deaconess, and grant her thy Holy Spirit... that she may worthily discharge the work.19
The research team found that women who ate the dates had a significantly higher mean cervical dilatation upon admission compared with the non-date fruit consumers (3.52 cm vs 2.02 cm, p < 0.0005).
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