Sentences with phrase «very live issue»

One possible area of judicial push - back is the very live issue of overcrowding.

The New Testament gives ample evidence that the expectation of the return of Elijah was a very live issue in the first century.

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As the tech behemoths intrude more deeply into daily life and our very minds, they will become a defining issue in American politics.

This morning, we'll tackle that issue head on — in what I'm expecting will be a fun, raucous conversation with the always - engaged Chip Bergh, the charismatic CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.; Dr. Nicholas Gettas, chief medical officer of Cigna — who has some very cool and thought - provoking ideas on this subject; Amy McDonough, VP and General Manager of Fitbit Group Health and Rick Valencia, president of Qualcomm Life — both of whom have great insights into the technologies that may shift the wellness paradigm; and a full roster of Brainstorm Health delegates to join the discussion.

«The issue of cross-border financial activity, or cross-border activity, is a very real and live one and IOSCO and other international forums is absolutely crucial to try and resolve it, and it's not just in relation to short - selling activity, it's in relation to cyber activity, it's in relation to offering financial products.

The military, like any large organization can be very similar to a corporate environment once you start moving up in the ranks and my life has become one filled with meetings, briefings, paperwork and dealing with employee issues non-stop.

These are issues that will effect your very well being and your relationships with friends and family near the end of your life.

For a Woman to make this decision is a tough one, and I don't believe that there are very many people that are just o.k. with this life changing issue.

I guess I'm one of the very few people living in the 21st century, where the religious belive of a person are their own personal issue.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

Like her or not, agree with her or not, Hillary Clinton has devoted much of her life to tackling these very issues, and she's made them a centerpiece of her campaign.

He said: «It's very significant because usually pope's do not comment on individual situations although their statements on life, right to life and bioethics issues have been very strong in the past.

To unite Sunday - life and Monday - life, a very challenging task, but the issue can be settled through highly skilled and devoted pastors.

I respect your opinion, Jeremy; but I am in no such quandary about the issue of homosexuality, because I do my very best to live the Word of God.

Serious inquiry supports civility in public life, inquisition damages it, and whatever reservations some might have about his positions on particular issues, these essays show Michnik to be very much a mainstay of that civility.

Trying to «win» a debate online is a very ineffective way to deal with whatever issues are really going on in your life, whether it's crippling fear, a sense of inadequacy, guilt, shame, or whatever.

I think it is very shrewd of Taylor to remark that if justification by faith alone had been the sole issue, it would have been possible for Protestants and Catholics to live together in relative peace.

Their conviction raises a very difficult issue, a thorny and uncomfortable problem: how to live with people with whom we disagree on basic issues of human life.

this issue hinges on when one thinks — not knows, thinks — life begins, and once one knows what he thinks, there is very little chance of changing his mind

The issue of organs is very important because you still have not answered the big question, at what point is it wrong to kill the continuation of human life, which we both agree continues with the sper.m and egg and why is it at that point and not before?

edited by Steven M. Avella and Elizabeth McKeown Orbis, 375 pp., $ 50 A very useful book that brings together Catholic documents addressing issues of public life from the American founding to the present.

But this «Therefore» doesn't make sense if you look a the end of chapter 11, where Paul has digressed in a lengthy doxology, which while it discusses intriguing mysteries of God and praises God, doesn't lead to the logical conclusion that we should present ourselves as living sacrifices to him, but if you read into that «οὖν» an «as I was saying earlier», you can see that before the doxology he issued an important warning in Romans 11:22 — if God is willing enough to be so severe as to cut of the natural branches (the Jews) he will certainly be willing to cut of the ones that have been grafted on (the Gentiles); Romans 12:1 - 2 is a very logical «therefore» to follow Romans 11:21 - 24.

In very specific ways it will follow through on these affirmations as it confronts day by day the issues of life and death.

The less obvious but very important issue is our need to start talking about death earlier in life.

Meat sacrificed to idols was a live issue in the church for decades and was very much on the mind of John as he wrote his Revelation to the seven churches.

He works with the group Living Out which looks to support Christians who experience same sex attraction and says the Bible is very clear on the issue of homosexuality.

To appropriate the Bible as a resource for discipleship takes a very different form because then it's about how I actually live as opposed to my issue stances.

The issue of divine temporal valuation transcends these theodical questions, for it concerns the very nature of God as a living God.

Very often, the people who are this second soil look very promising to begin with, but since they do not take care of the sin issues in their lives, they fall away, and eventually end up addicted to sin and destroying their life, their health, and their relationshVery often, the people who are this second soil look very promising to begin with, but since they do not take care of the sin issues in their lives, they fall away, and eventually end up addicted to sin and destroying their life, their health, and their relationshvery promising to begin with, but since they do not take care of the sin issues in their lives, they fall away, and eventually end up addicted to sin and destroying their life, their health, and their relationships.

As to my experience with this issue, most of the non-Messianic Jewish people I encounter are very open to the idea of live and let live.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

In fact, some of his greatest arguments with the soldiers / governments over the years have been over this very issue — the humans are afraid and so they want to kill the aliens while he wants to encourage life and cooperation (thinking in particular of the Ninth Doctor with Harriet Jones or even the battle of Canary Wharf when we lost Rose because of Torchwood opening the breach etc.).

«He won people to the Christian faith and preserved them in it by showing them how it illumined the very issues that troubled them most and how it could be the commitment that might give form to their lives.

In that very first issue we spoke about our society being embroiled in a Kulturkampf, a war over the definition of our common life.

But sure, the relevant issues are more in regard to effectivity, such as that two machines with drivers can harvest a field quicker than a dozen or so men, and while a life without any work can be boring and / or decadent very quickly (and similarly such with no physical activity whatsoever), an overall system e.g. where productivity and numbers are «alpha and omega» seems to be very out of touch not only with nature.

Rabbi Greenebaum is clearly a very intelligent man who understands the issue and appreciates the Mormon church's response to such a difficult monitoring issue... Helen Radkey clearly just hates Mormons (who spends that much time during their life looking for ways to attack any religion?)

When most of the interviewees admit that it is indeed a baby, they are asked to finish the following sentence: «It's okay to kill a baby in the womb when...» Various responses follow: «That's very hard to say...»; «It should never be done lightly...»; «If the mothercannot provide for the baby...»; «If the mother was raped...» The questioner presses the issue: «When asked about the Holocaust, you said that you valued human life, so why is this situation any different?»

Not only does the love commandment have a bearing on property as well as every other social issue, but in unequivocal terms he denounced some tendencies still very prevalent in modern economic life.2

It's a self - imposed regimen that we live under, and so at the very least the issue has to be put on the agenda.

Just as Paul on the road to Emaus had a supernatural encounter with Jesus that changed his life it was very clear that this was a heart issue.

is trying very hard to divert the issue and score some sympathy both back home and world over, saying how much they value human life and how much concerned they are.

A while back the NCCB issued a splendid statement, Living the Gospel of Life, which was very specific about the responsibility of Catholic politicians and others in the public arena.

Again with all respect to all religions — The issue of DEAD LANGUAGE verses ACTIVE AND LIVING ONE, the issue of A SINGLE SOURCE LANGUAGE rather than HUNDREDS OF TRANSLATIONS, is a very important one.

Our Gospel text addresses another pastoral issue regarding faith that is still very much with us: whether the degree and depth of our faith are adequate to life's circumstances.

Being a man or a woman is «very good» and life is meant to be a joyful adventure, finally celebrated in the great Wedding Feast of the Lamb which we all seek to witness and in which all our earthly explorations and ponderings of these profound issues will reach their utter fulfilment.

Considering the vast array of geopolitical issues with which a Supreme Pontiff is burdened in his solicitude for the whole of the universal Church, that Benedict should choose to close his pontificate (or Francis to open his own) with anencyclical on the theological virtue of faith indicates a very pointed discernment of the signs of the times made by the papacy in our age; namely, that what is most lacking in the century in which we live — what is most crucial to today's society and what this era of history most requires, therefore, from the Church — appears to be faith.

And on the central issue of how to receive eternal life, the divide is very wide between us.

When we preach to a congregation in a particular community in this country, we are very much aware that members of our congregation are concerned, not only about the issues of the local community, or about those relatives who live with them, but also about loved ones who may be far away.

So in honor of Cottage Living, I want to share a recipe from the very first issue with you, dear readers.

I am absolutely thrilled to be featured in the very first issue of Vegan Food & Living — featuring 101 delicious recipes including my Lemon Cardamom Broccoli and Kale and Raw Carrot Cake Squares, plus features on how to get the perfect nutritional balance in your diet, 16 top tips for vegan baking, and much more.