Sentences with phrase «with human affairs»

But when that stranger, Hunter, an ancient dragon spirit, is viciously attacked and forced to transfer his spirit into her body, Anaea's life takes a new terrifying twist.Hunter should have known by now not to get involved with human affairs, but there was something about the woman that drew him to her, and he just couldn't help himself.

What is the matter with human affairs is that there is an accumulation of wrong decisions and actions that inevitably has produced a state in which right decisions and actions are more and more difficult.

Not exact matches

The stream of negative headlines has become a distraction for an administration that has already parted ways with its secretary of Health and Human Services and secretary of Veterans Affairs over questionable spending.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), along with the state's Human Relations Commission and the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, issued a statement Thursday condemning racial discrimination in public places, including the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks and the incident at Grandview.

The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»

From the Garden of Eden to David's adulterous affair with Bathsheba, from Jesus» sin - filled genealogy to Peter's denial of the Christ, we will challenge and encourage people of faith to tell the whole truth revealed in the Bible about foolish human decisions and the consequences of sin.

Though physical force in human affairs is largely replaced by rational and purposive controls, the connection of these higher forms of power with direct compulsion remains.

Deism is the doctrine that God created the world and its natural laws but takes no further part in its functioning, he does not interfere in the day - to - day workings of the universe, he does not concern himself with humans and our affairs.

The Legion condemned W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (also 1934), the tale of a man (Leslie Howard) in an illicit sexual affair with a woman (Bette Davis).

Even, for discussion sake we go along with this - there is no evidence this ent.ity has successfully intervened in human affairs with enough knowledge and wisdom to aid human interaction with another..

As the big lie grows that nuclear war can be won, the illusion grows that the ability to destroy other nations with nuclear weapons is the supreme exemplification of unilateral power in human affairs.

With a certain simplification of the state of affairs, which however brings out more clearly the decisive factor without falsifying it, we might say that formerly the object and situation of a man's action were simply data supplied by nature with which he was in contact and by simple human realities which recurred from generation to generation again and agWith a certain simplification of the state of affairs, which however brings out more clearly the decisive factor without falsifying it, we might say that formerly the object and situation of a man's action were simply data supplied by nature with which he was in contact and by simple human realities which recurred from generation to generation again and agwith which he was in contact and by simple human realities which recurred from generation to generation again and again.

But Methodist dogmatics had been plagued by the predicament of reconciling contingency in human affairs with the traditional doctrine of God's absolute foreknowledge — a reconciliation that Calvinist necessitarians gleefully declared impossible.

While the major part of human existence is taken up with the routine affairs of work and family life, to be authentically human something more is needed.

Thus with each interpretation the process moves into a new state of affairs.9 In idealist fashion Royce sees human existence as this infinitely expanding community of interpretation.

Moreover, the faith that YHWH was the Lord of history meant that in contrast with the mythological cultures, where the gods were little interested in human affairs, the spotlight of divine concern was pointed directly to the human scene.

The prophets took their stand on the conviction that God has a hand in human affairs, and they therefore interpreted the events of their time with insight derived from their converse with the Eternal («hearing the word of the Lord.»

Let us begin with language, perhaps the most fundamental of all studies because of the fact that speech is so clearly a distinguishing feature of human beings within the whole created order and because it is so essential to the effective conduct of all human affairs, including every aspect of education.

They want to get rid of the trappings of religion but hold on to the belief in a benign deity with some degree of loving power over human affairs.

Thus, while process thinkers and evangelicals may both be able to claim with integrity that, through Jesus Christ, we can overcome our human «hostility to God's aims» and be «reunited with God,» for evangelicals this is true only because God became human, died and rose again — that is, because God unilaterally intervened in the most direct manner possible in earthly affairs.

Never since the days when rude minds, but minds aflame with the certainty of truth, laid seige to the proud and empty paganism of ancient Rome has there lain before mankind both the need, and the attainable prospect of one world civilisation, confirmed through one Faith from God, and under God, pacified in the unity of one brotherhood, one aim in human affairs, one common charity of end and purpose.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

, still God would have brought the world of human affairs into such a relationship with Him as in Christ He did do, so that He might crown His many comings and revealings and workings among us by this supreme and definitive act.

In other words, if God has divinely intervened within human affairs in order to «bless» Alabama running back Mark Ingram with a particularly good game on Saturday, what does that say about the family of refugees in Uganda who beg God for just enough food to get through the day... but to no avail?

If one thinks ultimate reality is located no higher than human personality, what one does with one's life is one's own affair.

But for the most part, routine ruled human affairs and «news» as we think we know it began with business, when trading associations in Northern Europe shared information about commodity prices and other conditions that would affect profit, developing newsletters with the new print technology.

Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest of the «world») with the mundane affairs of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days of Noah», and with the exception of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in human history.

Just as Jesus took on human flesh with all its weaknesses and limitations, so also God, in the Old Testament «incarnated» Himself into the affairs of humanity with all of our weaknesses and limitations.

The mythological view of the world has gone, and with it went the possibility of speaking seriously of a Heilsgeschichte: a historical «drama of salvation,» in which God is said to have acted at a certain time in this world to change the state of human affairs.

Given the fact that innovation, especially in the area of human affairs, usually brings much immediate suffering even when its purpose is to eliminate suffering in the long run, it is easy to understand and even sympathize with the effort to associate God only with cosmic and ethical order.

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

Thorpe stated that he personally had found Whitehead's thought of little help in relation to his own work on animal behaviour which was largely concerned with birdsong, but I think Suzanne Langer has shown that it may indeed be illuminating to think of problems of animal communication and eventually human language in terms of instructions, subjective aims or feelings, rather than in terms of information and description of states of affairs.

But I agreed with Betty that whatever spiritual presence there was in the universe it didn't come down and intervene in human affairs.

We begin with our commitment to the open and critical spirit, our concern for ourselves as human beings and for our neighbors, our longing for justice in human affairs, and our desire to participate responsibly in history, and we ask, Are all these quite unfounded?

This state of affairs not only fails to engage with the core issue at the heart of the culture of death, it also tacitly encourages agnosticism about life after death, human freedom, the ultimate nature of evil and the human need for prayer and religious practice.

Has it ever occurred to you that your obsession with making rules around human $ ex is an entirely human affair?

But it is the combination of community and contrast that is most interesting, since often this is not adequately understood and, therefore, needs a particularly emphatic statement, even today when we are obliged to agree with Willkie and acknowledge that what happens anywhere in the world of human affairs has its affect upon what happens to us, whoever and wherever we may happen to live.

If baby has a love affair with the bottle and needs it for a pacifier, gradually «lose» the bottle and substitute other «pacifiers», preferably human ones.

The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper - by far the best reminder that all dogma is suspect and that all models, theories and doctrines concerning human affairs become flawed if pressed too far and should always be treated with healthy scepticism.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

Britain has never been very interested in international affairs, so it will have little notion of the warmth with which an attack on human rights will be received in some of the more questionable capitals of the world.

Patricia Ferguson, Scottish Labour's external affairs spokesperson, said: «For Scotland's First Minister to admit his admiration for someone with such a controversial record on human rights and democracy does not reflect well on our country.

Tony Blair denies having an affair with Wendi Deng, Boris Johnson compares humans to cornflakes, and everyone else gets high.

This morning in D.C., Vice President Mike Pence gives opening remarks at a meeting about biomedicine with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin.

The fact that he is only partially successful should not detract from this skilfully narrated, compelling and authoritative account of a figure who, with his rejection of a divine, rational order to human affairs, is frequently labelled the father of modernity.

There is something fundamentally wrong with a state that is so grossly overcentralised (above all, when it comes to the affairs of England) and has such an overmighty executive, restrained only by judges implementing the Human Rights Act, unelected lords and journalists.

And also we do not hold that Vatica is a country, but that it is an office or things like that of celestial or deity affairs, having nothing real to do with human world.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the foreign affairs secretary said she felt the 41 - year - old MP would be a «poor bloody human sacrifice» if he were to stand against the bookie's favourite to succeed Tony Blair, chancellor Gordon Brown.

Both the Commons home affairs committee and joint committee on human rights have criticised this procedure, with safeguards dismissed as «meaningless».

Trump will later lead a National Economic Council meeting, sit down with Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, and have dinner with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney and the Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price.