Sentences with phrase «who abjure»

Unethical billing undermines the reputation of all legal professionals, including the majority who abjure such practices.

Those who abjure all those nasty carbon emitting activities and become suitably pure as the driven snow and are therefore acceptable as messengers?

The tracksuit is, according to Jane and Michael Stern's The Encyclopedia Of Bad Taste, «the uniform of people who abjure dry cleaners and ironing boards» as well as «the all - purpose solution to all clothing problems.»

Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines.

Amar considers himself a textualist, one who abjures free - wheeling constitutional invention and insists that constitutional meaning must be extracted from the words of the document itself, rightly construed.

In Rabbi Johanan's exegesis (Megillah 13a), Mordecai is so insistently called a Jew «because he abjured paganism [«avodah zarah], for everyone who abjures paganism is called a Jew; as is written (Daniel 3:12): `... Jews... serve not thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou has set up.

Not exact matches

The key question for theology is whether Kant can make any sense out of who the scriptures say Jesus is rather than abjuring the task and simply correcting the apostolic witness in light of some higher «religious» principle.

Christ's perfect union of divinity and humanity is the central mystery of the Incarnation, and, as de Lubac pointed out a generation ago, the abjuring of this paradox marked the heretics of the early Church, not her faithful adherents: the Adoptionists and Docetists were the ones who refused to live with the ultimate inscrutability of the God - Man.

Because the digital currency abjured central banks and other authorities, many of its first devotees were libertarians, anarchists, and black marketeers who wanted to do business away from the government's watchful eye.