Sentences with phrase «whole nations of people»

Potatoes have been keeping whole nations of people alive for generations.

They torture people and destroy whole nations of people.»

A whole nation of people can not have conspired to create the story and pass it down faithfully throughout all the generations without having some people come up quite shortly after it had happened and said it didn't happen.

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Countries like Greece and Italy, that were once the homes of great empires and nation states have in the modern age been laid low by financial crisis, recession and a whole «lost» generation of young people — 40 percent in Italy and almost 52 percent in Greece — who are unemployed.

That expression most likely originated at John 11: 49 - 51 «But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them: «You do not know anything at all, and you do not reason out that it is to your benefit for one man to die in behalf of the people and not for the whole nation to be destroyed.»

The cause for this wishful hope in institutions quickly appears: «In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it can not fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations.»

Esther realizes that the fate of a whole nation, the dream of the people of God, is in her hands.

And he — the king who represents the whole people, who is the synthesis in himself of the holy nation — he does nothing.

Neville you are right in that sense that the holy spirit or anti christ is not mentioned however the whole book is about the return of Jesus and the rise of the anti christ so it is logical to believe that the one being restrained is the man of sin or anti christ.I believe it is the anti christ and the restrainer is the holy spirit that is working through believers.It comes down to personal belief but This article covers all the options http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/revelation/related-topics/who-is-the-restrainer.html What do you believe about preaching the Gospel to all nations and then the Lord will return at this point in time i believe there is around 2000 unreached people groups.brentnz

Through him the Word finds its mature prophetic expression and application, not merely, or even principally, to the king, but to the nation, the whole people of the covenant.

As the whole story suggests, Abraham, newly a father of the promised - son - of - the - covenant and newly the founder of a new nation, understood that the true father and true founder must devote his offspring and his people to something higher than offspring and peoplehood, even at the cost of losing them.

The inability of the Gallicanist state to co-opt Catholicism's social energy exposed a tension inherent in liberal democracy: between the people empowered as a sovereign whole, on one hand, and those partial societies of individuals which diversify the nation, on the other.

Bartholomew argues to the contrary, claiming that Christ's teaching redeems all places precisely by extending sacred space beyond Israel» beyond the limited space inhabited by any particular nation or people» to the whole of creation.

If God chooses to reveal himself on this planet in the person of a man, why must whole nations rise and fall before he is even born?

They deplored the inclusion of the whole nation in the Church regardless of the evil in many people's lives.

Fifty years ago, the former could be more or less taken for granted in the sense that most Americans recognized that, at least for purposes of social policy, they should be concerned for the people of the nation as a whole and that, for purposes of international policy, they should be concerned for the world as a whole.

Social policy implied a sustained commitment of the self to «the ordering and reordering of resources and personnel of whole institutions, organizations, and movements in the context of the needs of nations, peoples, and societies.»

«On the whole it was a failure because of the dichotomy between the nation - state's legal principles and the methods needed to oppress other people permanently.

This passage is written to a whole group of people — an entire nation.

What this means is that God has plans for a whole group of people, namely the nation of Israel.

What we have seen between 1965 and the present, among the billion or so people who inhabit the industrialized nations, is, by contrast, a general upheaval in the whole set of demographic indicators.

Individuals and whole communities of persons within nations are frequently victimized rather than assisted by the way in which information is controlled and often distorted.

(Numbers 16:20 - 35) Similarly, when David had broken a primitive custom by taking a census of the people and a subsequent pestilence was interpreted, in accordance with the orthodox formula, as divine penalty, David prayed that the nation as a whole might be spared — «Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done?»

Pilate has his troubled tale to tell, but so do the members of the Sanhedrin, and their fears about the Roman threat to their temple and their people — which they are, after all, charged to protect — form the basis of Caiaphas's proposal: «It is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.»

Such universal responsibility is incompatible with a spiritualism that limits the Church's concern to immaterial values, with a moralism that does not understand the value of the sin ner and the sinful nation, with an individualism that makes mankind as a whole and its societies of less concern to God than single persons, and with any of those particularistic and polytheistic theories of value and responsibility which substitute for God - in - Christ some other deity as the source of valuable being.

Well, my motivation is to get people to investigate the historicity of the nation of Israel and Jesus of Nazareth, and by so doing see how God has guided the whole thing and is very real.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

It has also been commonly said that God, in the Old Testament, is primarily interested in the nation as a whole and not in persons one by one, so that he is a racial and national deity and not the God of personal religion.

The original «sons of the kingdom» will be cast into outer darkness (8:12); the kingdom will be taken away from the Jews and given to a nation which brings forth its fruits (21:43); and at the crucifixion the whole people declares, «His blood be upon us and upon our children» (27:25).

However, Ineffabilis Deus says: «All our hope do we repose in the most Blessed Virgin» in the all fair and immaculate one who has crushed the poisonous head of the most cruel serpent and brought salvation to the world: in her who is the glory of the prophets and apostles, the honor of the martyrs, the crown and joy of all the saints; in her who, with her only - begotten Son, is the most powerful Mediatrix and Conciliatrix in the whole world; in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament, impregnable stronghold of the holy Church; in her who has destroyed all heresies and snatched the faithful people and nations from all kinds of direst calamities; in her do we hope who has delivered us from so many threatening dangers.»

In one way, what happens next makes the whole story look like a conventional miracle of the sort that healers of many nations and peoples have done over the centuries, including prophets such as Elijah and Elisha.

Through him the Word finds its mature expression and application, not merely or even principally to the king, but to the nation, the whole people of the covenant.

Born of a people who never attained greatness as a nation, buffeted by greater and lesser enemies throughout their whole existence, a nation that at its widest period of expansion would have ruled a region scarcely larger than Pennsylvania, this book has mothered three great religions which between them touch very nearly half the entire population of the world.

It points to a much larger issue in the whole area of public morality: Can a corporate entity — a nation, a tribe, a people — repent?

It is not an «all - loving Father» that is proclaimed in the Old Testament, but the Lord of the nations and the ages, who judges individuals as well as whole peoples, who can reject as well as bless them, and whose Law is the declaration of the divine will and the measure of human conduct.

The plague of osteoporosis in milk - drinking western nations may be due to the fact that most people choose skim milk over whole, thinking it is good for them.

Survey after survey has shown the population as a whole, and young people in particular, increasingly turning away from religious beliefs and influences entirely — and yet there has been no detrimental effect on the wellbeing of the nation.

They also commended him for promoting the Nigerian identity to the realms of unimpeachable greatness, maintaining the sanctity of democracy in the whole of the nation, defending Nigeria and the Nigerian people and taking Nigerian politics to a higher level.

«I went there because I wanted a proof of the fact that the site was just fenced and there was a heap of sand there as Nana Addo was claiming... I went there with the MP of Salaga, with the Regional Minister and with the Police Department that was escorting the Regional Minister and we filmed the whole place and that is the story we put out for people to know and for Nana Addo to know that if they are relying on information by his propagandists then he is threading on dangerous grounds; because what we saw there was an exact opposite of what he sought to portray in his true state of the nation's address and what we saw vindicated the President's assertion that there was a 60 - bed hospital construction in Salaga.»

His money (one half of resources export profit around the whole RF) are his personal, his payment money, not ones of RF people / nation etc..

«The whole nation now expects a lot from the party in Edo State so it is my hope and prayer that in the days ahead, we will be able to build the kind of movement in Edo State that will make people outside Edo State say that we entrusted them with national leadership and they are not letting us down» he said.

It is a belief among the people of the Seven Council Fires (the Sioux nations) that to become a whole person, in tune with nature and the Sacred Hoop of Life, and in order to be holy, one must walk the narrow way — the road less traveled.

The plague of osteoporosis in milk - drinking western nations may be due to the fact that most people choose skim milk over whole, thinking it is good for them.

In the meantime, states are implementing the common core standards because they are convinced that it is in their best interest, and in the interest of the nation as a whole, for young people to develop the knowledge and skills the standards embody.

From my experience personally I trust and believe the health of each person depends of his own awareness and consciousness of self worth with morals reflects the whole family, society, and therefore the whole nation, benefits.

The whole point of public debate in a free nation is that reasonable people routinely disagree with one another.

All these conditions are based in ignorance and a culture of discrimination and the exploitation of peoples and whole nations, this is what we consider to be the extractive model of development, which is based in the violations of all human rights, the economic, social and cultural rights of peoples, and the rights of the planet and the environment.

What is surprising us that so few people realize that setting up a single national authority to impose on the whole nation a single decision on every one of the thousands of separate judgment calls involved here is an arbitrary exercise of brute power that will generate all kinds of bad results, and no good ones.

In fact, I can count on one hand the people who actively avoided / sold out of property at the peak — so realistically, the only way forward is to chalk it up to experience & grant the nation a free pass on that whole delusion.