Sentences with phrase «who performs an act»

Luke places the baptism of Jesus afterward, without saying who performed the act.

In 1941, the California Supreme Court, in Donnelly v. Southern Pacific Co., explained that a defendant who performs an act «intentionally with the knowledge that it will probably cause harm» can be required to pay damages above and beyond those available in traditional negligence cases.

The Medal of Heroism is a military decoration awarded by the Department of the Army to a JRTOC Cadet who performs an act of heroism.

Not exact matches

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, who was one of the first professionals to use the word, defines it as «the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.»

The problem is doing what is ethical vs. acting out of self - interest can get commingled in an under - performing director's mind, or even a founder's mind, or even other directors» minds (who have been captured by the entrenched director colleague), without an objective measurement.

The Prime Minister's Office explained, «Like all families of prime ministers, a small number of staff provide assistance,» and, «Given the nature of the Prime Minister's responsibilities and his young family, the Trudeaus employ two household employees who, in addition to performing other duties around the house, act as secondary caregivers to the three children.»

It's been close to half a century since Trump retained Cohn (and more than 30 years since the iconic fixer, who died in 1986, performed an act of legal brutality for Trump).

Under the new act, employers must pay part - time and seasonal employees the same wage rate as full - time workers who perform substantially the same — but not necessarily identical — work.

Amos is dealing with the same tension — between a national god and the God who executes judgment for the oppressed — when he speaks to Israel of the saving acts of mercy which Yahweh performed for the Philistines and the Syrians (Amos 9:7).

There are plenty of deluded people who give away all their worldly goods or perform heroic acts of self - sacrifice that you never hear about, because such actions aren't crimes and thus don't get reported on the news.

Instead, God decreed the act, and then selected the one who was to perform the act, but He did not «make him evil» in order that he should perform the deed.

And when the Church performs her acts as Church it is Christ who acts.

It is not we who in any direct sense perform the act of the theft of the inheritance.

And the fact that Britain feels that she has conceded much already, and that she has performed many acts of generosity, is no answer to those who insist that she had no right to what she possessed, no right to the things which she was pretending to give away.

The operative question is whether the African - American entrepreneurs who perform, produce, distribute, and display the «music» that has the made the trashing of «bitches» and «hos» tolerable will clean up their own collective act.

If you look at the history of some of the people who lost their lives in the bible, they were horribly wicked and wretched people performing unspeakable acts.

No disciple is present; only a few sympathetic women look on from a distance; the last acts of piety are performed by a respectable Jew who probably never knew Jesus.

The Hebrew prophets who were his predecessors were accustomed to perform symbolic actions to reinforce their words — «acted parables» as they are sometimes called.

In particular, one could ask the Prime Minister to put in writing his personal guarantee that no Church or individual will be forced to perform «gay marriages»; and that it will not be illegal for Christians to teach the traditional and biblical view that homosexual acts are sinful; and that Christians who refuse to perform «gay «marriages will still be able to be registrars.

The act is special because it is not necessary and because it can not be performed by the one who is resurrected.

Miss Hubert launched a private prosecution against two doctors who had verbally agreed to perform «gender - abortions» in breach of the Abortion Act 1967.

In the US, pastors who perform weddings act as an agent of the government.

Every religion is filled with people who have deep emotional experiences when they pray, commune with God, perform religious acts, etc, that are entirely convincing to them that they are right.

A four year old child who describes performing an act of fellatio on her father did not acquire that knowledge from watching Sesame Street.

Grace can not be understood as habits and acts, and the Aristotelian notion that the repetition of good acts makes anyone who performs them righteous turns St. Paul's theology on its head.

In any case, it is clear that the aim of Paul's argument in Romans is not to exclude those who perform homosexual acts from the sphere of God's grace but rather to use the example of homosexual activity as an expression of the great need which all human beings have for the grace of God which justifies the «ungodly.»

The importance lay in what was symbolized in the act of him who performed it and of them who received it.

The oldest accounts do not tell of a miracle worker, who performs as many miracles as possible, but of the proclaimer and guarantor of the coming Kingdom of God; God himself is drawing near to the world, and his nearness is perceived in the fact that through Jesus he speaks, through him he acts, through him he heals.

The Supplier will be liable for the acts of any sub-contractors who it chooses to help perform its duties.

Ambitious CEO who can do his job would push more on transfers and act quicker, he would find a new manager to replace Wenger if Wenger can not perform with his main targets being bought.

All being said and done, Wenger would be hoping that Arsenal's engine room gets in on the act and performs to the levels it can, as it will be crucial to Arsenal keeping up with Man City and Chelsea, who are off to a good start.

I'm not sure why there are still some people who think staying away from matches and telling truth about how the team performed, are act of negativity.

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

It makes you aware of who needs help and who is helping, and allows you to find more chances to perform acts of kindness.

And if you've got a baby boy and he's breastfeeding and he's breastfeeding past six months and society perceives you to be sort of performing a sort of semi-sexual act, when you are breastfeeding him, you know, who's going to carry on doing that, when you're baby's you know, 18 months old?

Both of these commentators focus on the comedian who performed at the after - dinner entertainment and, more importantly, Nigel Farage's defence of his deeply unpleasant act, leading Dan Hodges to say in the Telegraph: «Ukip is now a racist party».

If you know anyone who has, or performs selfless acts, email [email protected] possibly to be featured on Southern Tier Selflessness.

The Brown sisters, who are still performing with their siblings as The 5 Browns, join a growing chorus of other national figures who have joined the fight to enact the Child Victims Act in recent months.

If you know anyone who has, or performs selfless acts, email [email protected] to possibly be featured on an upcoming Southern Tier Selflessness!

Anyone else know of other acts who performed at NRHS?

Further opposition to performing elephants came from students from Pace University, who worked with Assemblywoman Amy Paulin and State Sen. Terrence Murphy to pass the Elephant Protection Act, which was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last October.

The Borough President acted under the authority of a new state law enacted last month that gives the two elected officials who appoint the Board's members the power to remove the Trustees they have appointed when those Trustees fail to satisfactorily perform their duties.

A Pearl River couple who suffered the unspeakable pain of losing a child, quietly took it upon themselves to perform an act of kindness that will brighten Christmas Day for youngsters they will likely never meet.

Nick Confessore reports that John Sampson, the State Senate leader, performed legal work for Edul Ahmad, a Queens real estate broker who was being investigated by state authorities on allegations of fraud and predatory lending, and was disciplined for acting as a notary for the broker after his notary license had expired, according to state documents.

On page after page, he read testimony about people who performed horrifying acts for the sake of power, money or simply to get along in a country suddenly steeped in the wicked.

Rich, who acted as a consultant on the U-Multirank project, says that the top performing universities will still perform well in this ranking system, but they won't always score more highly than institutions with different aims.

In addition to slashing spending levels, Hall's amendment specified that «none of the funds authorized under this Act may be used to pay the salary of any individual who has been officially disciplined... for viewing, downloading, or exchanging pornography on a federal government computer or while performing federal government duties.»

Yet according to Willem Hillenius, a physiologist at UCLA who is also a paleontologist, maxilloturbinals perform an even more fundamental task than acting as a filter: they permit mammals like us to be warm - blooded.

In a study of morality, people who were asked to think about something unethical that they had done, such as shoplifting, were twice as likely to choose an antiseptic wipe versus a pencil as a gift than were people who had thought about performing an ethical act, such as helping a sick friend (ScienceNOW, 7 September 2006).