Sentences with phrase «upright men»

Perhaps big frauds require seemingly upright men who command trust from their peers.

I thought those who led our country to be polite, thoughtful, and upright men and women and I'm sure, out of the Chamber, that's how they are, but when facing each other in PMQs they turn sour, shaking their fists, hurling rude comments across the room.

«Upright men can even better convince themselves of the solid grounds on which the teaching of the Church in this field is based, if they care to reflect upon the consequences of methods of artificial birth control.

Similarly the enormous skeletal changes between upright man and his buckled - over simian ancestor have to be explained.

There is none like him, on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil.

In fact Osteen does not know Christ himself but he is a good motivational speaker and an upright man but he's no Christian.

The godly have been swept from the land; not one upright man remains.

and the Heracleopolitan king's elevation of righteousness over sacrifice in pleasing the gods, «More acceptable is the virtue of the upright man than the ox of him that doeth iniquity,» (Ibid., p. 156.)

Is there not among you any upright man?

In a brief remarks, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said the book confirmed what he knew about Buhari and what he was also told about him as an upright man.

Thus Homo sapiens means «thinking man,» and Homo erectus means «upright man,» and so forth.

The unidentified hominin may be Homo erectus or «upright man», says Bertranpetit.

But whether the species Homo erectus, meaning «upright man», should be reclassified into several distinct species remains controversial.

First discovered on the island of Java in 1891, and later unearthed in China, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Republic of Georgia, Homo erectus («upright man») was the first hominid to migrate out of Africa.

It belonged to an adult male of the species Homo erectus, a.k.a. «Upright Man» and is called «Skull 5» because it was the fifth set of hominid remains recovered at the archeological site, Dmanisi, located in the Caucausus of the Republic of Georgia.

The two worlds can not coexist, which makes tension escalate when Book is in their midst, as the Amish people remain skeptical of him as an upright man, although by our standards in the outside world, he very much is.

As an especially upright man in every other aspect of his life, it's not surprising Bill befriends a local down and out detective (Jason Isaacs), despite the threat this poses to his new career.

From a moment where we watch on as the priest, played by John Cusack, gives a sermon about the life - span of a gun and how the community is marketed it, to another moment where an upright man of the community wants to rally his other non-violent non-gang friends to ask «why do we need to suffer?»

Petrus Schaesberg was an upright man, whose presence was defined by a gentle nobility and love of art.

So when we talk about a legacy, it's a legacy that people to this day tell me — oh, I remember working with your Grandfather and he was such an upright man.

Never quench an upright man Stand beside him while you can Keep his candle burning bright To illuminate the night Beauty fades and power wanes Strength of character remains Nations rise and nations fall Moral worth outlasts them all

Not exact matches

It's the story of how an upright and virtuous man was rejected by his peers,...

Arms crossed, upright, resolute — the sculpture's posture mimics the character of the man.

«There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.»

The upright post (stipes) was permanently fixed in the ground at the site of execution and the condemned man was forced to carry the patibulum from the prison to the place of execution.

Perhaps, in order to persist in thinking of himself as a good and decent man, an upright king and an honorable servant of God, he told himself that as king he had special privileges regarding affairs of the heart.

As one put it, «The man of this philosophy is nothing but... a worm of the millionth generation, or a monkey with some enlargement of the brain, set upright, tail removed, the forearm shortened and the hand perfected by natural Selection.»

Some Mormons do wear religious garments under their clothing as a symbol and a reminder of the promises that they have made to God to live a clean, morally upright life and to worship and serve Him and their fellow men.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 — «See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.»

To the contrary, man was made upright (Ecc.

He answered: «Man, who in infancy crawls on all fours, who walks upright on two feet in maturity, and in his old age supports himself with a stick.»

The revolution he sought was not a violent leveling spasm but a gradual transformation of human souls, from yoked and cowering to free and upright — though he was enough of an inborn skeptic to doubt whether men truly wanted freedom.

Its dark these days David, probably more so in your part of the world than most, but «Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.»

More recently, the Universalist leader Kenneth L. Patton kept the «Ein Feste Burg» tune by Martin Luther but replaced «A mighty fortress is our God» with «Man is the earth upright and proud.»

To Luther's amazement, Erasmus when he was dying did not ask for the last sacrament, but his heir, who was with Erasmus at his death said, «As was his life, so was the death of this most upright of men.

However, Calvin said, if a man meets the tests of a profession of faith, an upright life, and participation in the sacraments, the probabilities are that he is among the elect and he should not worry.

For Cohen, seeing man as «the upright being who bows his head in reverence» is «perhaps the great anthropological» insight running throughout Kass's work.

If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believed (for no man can control the profession of another further than this; even if the other has endured, borne, suffered all for the Faith, an outsider can not get beyond what he says about himself, for a lie can be stretched precisely as far as the truth — in the eyes of men, but not in the sight of God), then he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchausen.

Maybe Bruce Smith wound up more like Willy Loman than Hobey Baker, dying the death of a so - so salesman instead of a widely sung hero, but he was an honorable man, an upright citizen.

And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

He's a gap hitter with a flowing lefthanded swing that emanates from a stance so open and upright and casual that he looks like a man at a deli counter trying to decide between the honey turkey and the smoked ham.

The man who first glided across a floor on wheels didn't remain upright long enough to enjoy it.

Blood and bone of the strong, amiable, upright farming men of the Scottish Lowlands, James Clark, like the James Clark before him and the James Clark before him, is middle - sized (5 feet 7 1/2) and slender, with thick dark - brown hair, gray eyes and a husky, slightly nasal voice.

The former Burnley marksman drove across the face of goal, but watched the ball sail wide of the far upright; a major let - off for the now man - light Terriers.

However, some babies, man they just guzzle so voraciously and quickly that I find I need to take the bottle out of their mouth, sit them upright and give them a minute or two before offering the bottle again.

Idris, therefore, advised the celebrator, including officers and men of the force, to further rededicate themselves in the service of their fatherland, exhibit discipline, be upright in their official conduct and obey lawful orders.

A figure labeled Muscle Man stands upright, flayed bare and proudly dangling his full cloak of skin from one hand.

Men are generally known to be strong and upright when it comes to physical features.

Hi there I'm a young man with a old soul I'm 24 but I feel like I should have been around in the fiftys I'm into rockbilly and I play the upright bass I enjoy old hotrods and older women if there's anything else you would like to know or if u just think I'm a handsom gent shoot me a message:)

SEX / NUDITY 10 - A shirtless man (we see his bare chest, abdomen and back) blindfolds and shackles a woman's wrists and ankles to an upright frame (she is wearing a skimpy lace bra and thong underwear) and pulls down her bra and kisses and bites her nipples as she groans and gasps (we see her bare breasts, abdomen and upper thighs); he then applies a large buzzing vibrator on her shoulders, between her breasts, and then between her thighs several times as she begins to shout, and he then abruptly stops, unbuckles the shackles and she becomes angry and stomps away.