Sentences with phrase «who face death»

It looks like action movie heroes and protagonists of Greek tragedies aren't the only ones who face death alone to save their people.

No one is comfortable with death, especially your veterinarian and animal hospital staff who face death every day.

They reminded me so much of our soldiers, the American men and women who face death every day; and of the incredible patriotism and faith that powers the United States of America.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.

The power packed event also featured the former president of Ghana John Dramani Mahama and South Africa's public protector who faced death threats in her quest to ring inconsistencies to the fore, Thuli Madonsela.

AAAS and APS presidents seek justice for physician and scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, who faces death sentence, in letter to Iran President Rouhani.

This documentary is the true and inspiring story of Maria Toorpakai, a talented squash player who faces death threats and cultural upheaval in her quest to represent Pakistan in international competitions.

Hundreds attended events in support of Ashraf Fayadh, who faces the death sentence in Saudi Arabia

Not exact matches

The Liberals could expand the HBP to help Canadians facing a job relocation, the death of a spouse, marital breakdown or who need to accommodate an elderly relative.

Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

Bradley has been charged with knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally, and if convicted could face the death penalty.

Face characters, as they were called, like Belle or Prince Charming or anyone who doesn't have to wear a thermal death - suit, get paid $ 3 an hour MORE than the «furries.»

Her husband Carl (who's also the company CEO), added: «Most of us have faced hardship, and some of us combat and that «near death experience» Mayor Landrieu spoke of, so we can identify with what New Orleans went through, and how it can distill and clarify for you what you really want out of the future.

Coral Gables police officers won't face charges for death of Aviel Gutierrez, who died in December 2016 after he was shot with a Taser stun gun during a bizarre confrontation.

While holding the interim position in 2007, Ms. Godkin faced a challenge from outgoing PC Youth President David McColl, who published an op - ed in the Calgary Herald predicting that «PC Alberta will continue its slow death march, to the beat of a rural drum and tired, stale policies.»

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

Mielke, the Minister for State Security in the German Democratic Republic who was responsible for hundreds of deaths at the Berlin Wall, faced critical questions in the first democratically elected parliament after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

If I were to slap God in the face (which is basically what any act of rebellion against Him is); God who is infinitely Sovereign, infinitely Holy, and infinitely Just; my crime would be infinitely worthy of death.

There is always the need for a person (who is facing death) to satisfy themselves in the context of «you have lived out a good and decent life».

For someone who is young and, hopefully, a long way from your the time of your own death, you have captured the essence of the needs of a person facing their own impending death.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

After months of uncertainty and trial, the Sudanese women who once faced a death sentence for apostasy and adultery arrived in the U.S. with her family Thursday night.

The children in the Middle East today, who refuse to deny Christ in the face of certain death, have that perfect love, which is greater than even faith, 1 Corinthians 13:13.

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, a Muslim who converts to another faith can face the death penalty.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

The Qur» an illustrates this sudden, instinctive faith in Allah by describing in detail Pharaoh's feeling when he was faced with death by drowning and realized the impossibility of escape, «And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, Pharaoh with his hosts pursued them in rebellion and transgression, till, when the (fate of) drowning overtook him, he exclaimed: I believe that there is no God save Him in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of those who surrender (unto Him).

Such a Resurrection, moreover, would offer in itself no promise of risen life beyond death for those who have to face both death and corruption.

As he heard the speaker describe the anxiety and resistance of basically affluent people facing death after a comfortable life, he could think only of the many people he knew, like his parents and relatives, who suffer so much so unjustly.

Many of the churches in Rome are built over or near the tombs of the martyrs, those who willingly faced (an often tortuous) death rather than renounce their faith in Jesus Christ.

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

The real problem here is that Islam is controlled not by its moderates, but by its radicals — the radicals who appear in YouTube videos describing the «proper» way to beat your wife or who advocate the extinction of another race of people, or demand that non-Muslims convert or possibly face death.

people do realize it's not these Muslims many of us feel uncomfortable around... it's the ones who think the girl in the picture should be stoned to death because we can see her face and she's smiling... we don't like the ones who want to kill us

Those who must endure such ordeals would do well to recall the words of William Stringfellow which Martin Marty cited as a new Lutheran body began to take shape: «In the face of death, live humanly.

We — Americans, Israelis, and other members of the free world — face enemies who can not be deterred, haters of God who seek nothing but death and destruction.

A people who lack courage in the face of death, whether on neighborhood streets or in the hospital bed, will be hard pressed to resist the temptation to abandon the neighbor or to discard the just war discipline, say, by engaging in preventative strikes against an uncertain threat.

By the way, who is ready to face death one on one.

Don't think his followers would have been willing to face torture and death as Jesus did, if they hadn't seen him, knew he indeed had been brought back from the grave, as all who believe on him will be.

Early on in the crisis, IS militants in Northern Iraq daubed the letter on the houses of Christians («N» standing for «Nazarene») who were ordered to convert, flee or face death.

John and Darwin, like all the people who reject the Lord Jesus Christ you put your hope in the appearance of today rather than the hopelessness that awaits you when you face death and the grave.

There are many of us who have had to fight for that freedom, normally we don't face death when doing what we feel is needed.

According to anti-persecution group Christian Solidarity Worldwide, three Christians who were facing the death sentence have had the charges dropped.

This strange freedom that comes to those who, in the face of death, say «Here I stand» is the freedom to live free from fear.

[14] In this way Jesus «sanctifies» those who share in his faith - trust in God in the face of personal death.

Who is «God» in the event of hope in the face of death?

That is, it was I, Norman Pittenger, then a young man and a somewhat eager theological student, looking forward to a long and I hoped successful span of years, who was brought face to face with the inevitability of my own entirely personal death.

San Angelo, Texas (CNN)- A Texas judge warned Warren Jeffs against calling «for the jury's destruction» shortly after the polygamous sect leader said Friday during his sexual assault trial that those who prosecuted his church would face «sickness and death.»

RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...

The easy dismissal of death, or the assertion that «for those who believe, there is no death», is taken to be, what it often is, an easy evasion of the dread reality itself — escapism, childish refusal to face facts, and above all (in our special interest) unwillingness to accept our human mortality.