Sentences with phrase «with rulers of»

Apparently, the rulers of powerful kingdoms and empires were well aware of what a wonderful practice for developing battle tactics and predicting it is playing chess with the rulers of other countries.

«The bathroom is very important because hitherto, except for Jerusalem, it is usually found within palace complexes, associated with the rulers of the country,» Gibson said.

Shehu said following the completion of talks with rulers of the Saudi Arabian Kingdom, Buhari directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Hajj Commission to sit down with the Saudis to negotiate improved terms and conditions for Nigerian pilgrims performing the Umrah and the annual Hajj.

Not exact matches

With an impatient urgency, the narcissist will go to any length to be the center of attention — the ruler of his kingdom.

Over the past few years, the chairman of Thomson Reuters has forged a friendship with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister and ruler of Dubai, and one of the most influential leaders in the Middle East.

SEOUL — North Korea is stealing the thunder, if not the show, from the Americans at the Pyeongchang Olympics, with word that the charming younger sister of ruler Kim Jong Un is arriving Friday for an Opening Ceremony that will also feature U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

Oil prices dropped sharply despite ongoing tensions in the Middle East, with the regime of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi recapturing lost ground from rebels and Saudi Arabian troops entering Bahrain to help out the embattled rulers.

(John 14:30) I shall not speak much with YOU anymore, for the ruler of the world is coming.

Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...

Christianity hasn't tamed much of the natural bloodlust that comes with being a powerful ruler, has it?

Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).

But since he endowed all of his intelligent creation with free will, they were free to choose God as their Ruler, and live forever, or sin and reject God and lose eternal life.

The «leaders» are either rulers of dictatorships, politicians with power agendas or local clerics with their own version of islam that is rooted in the traditions of their region.

The problem with those rulers is that even though they won over a group of their subjects there are always those who perceived that type of leadership as weak and unfit to rule and therefore a ruling style of oppression and domination would be more effective.

Such activities allowed «the audience to participate, however marginally, in imperial grandeur», in buildings designed to «awe the viewer with the power of the state and its august ruler, but simultaneously to allow him [sic] his «moment of glory»: a share in the pride and prestige of imperial achievement».

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9.

Under great Tiberius's judgment seat sat the lesser rulers: Pilate up in Jerusalem; the Herod boys down in Galilee and beyond, running things with their usual unbrotherly squabbling; and Lysanias stuck in Abilene, better known to us as the Bekka Valley, scene of Mideast terror.

When the ruler does not protect the rights of the individual, the community is empowered to depose him and to replace him with a man who is able to live up to the functions of his high office.

In a single dense volume this fine survey offers an account of the whole by close consideration of the various parts: sacrifices, religious associations, domestic religion, the cult of the dead, mystery religions, magic, the cult of the rulers, and philosophical religion (e.g., Stoicism), with a concluding chapter on Gnosticism.

Their relations with the Abbasid Caliphs varied according to the inclinations of individual rulers.

«The revival of Islam,» says Parvez, «would mean the re-establishment of a central authority, a ruler, who would deduce detailed regulations from the Qur» an in accordance with modern needs and conditions and would enforce the collective obedience of the people.»

And it is not necessary to blunder around in the dark wondering how to find out about truth, nor do we need to follow the example of the ruler who asked, with a mixture of cynicism and real sadness, «What is truth?»

It was in Western Europe, where it faced a much weaker paganism, was associated with the prestige of Roman civilization, and, while often favored by civil rulers, did not have to confront a continuously powerful state which controlled all phases of life, that the influence of Jesus was most marked.

The most important of these is the middle section dealing directly with St Francis's encounter with Islam and Sultan al - Malik al Kamil, the ruler of Egypt, Palestine and Syria, during the Fifth Crusade in the early thirteenth century.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

Whitehead thus wants to secure for temporal creatures a new measure of autonomy, freedom, and self - sufficiency, and at the same time relieve God of the function wrongly imputed to God, of being an oppressive ruler of the world who governs with force and not with the attractive power of love.31

He finds fault with «religious interpretation» in that it establishes priests and theologians as the guardians and rulers of the people of the church, and thus creates in thema state of dependence.

His success in several engagements with the Egyptian army greatly strengthened his hold over his followers and made him the ruler of all of Sudan.

We had the nicest most sincere nuns teaching us when I was a child — apparently I was one of the «lucky ones» as there are so many stories about the «mean old nuns» wrapping knuckles with rulers and more.

One of the greatest examples of His teaching on money is His encounter with the Rich Young Ruler, which we will look at on Wednesday.

This delegation of authority, however, does not provide the ruler with carte blanche, for in the Christian tradition of just war, the determination of the justness of a war does not reside in the ruler's hands alone.

''... Atheists who also wrote about how there was a list of all the egyptian rulers from the ancient times and no mention of Jacob who the Bible said co ruled with Pharaoh during the time of great famine.

In the Old Testament however, God was trying to set up an earthly kingdom, one that had rulers and laws with a system of taxation, government, and military might.

It is connected, as the feminists have pointed out, with the dualism of male and female, of ruler and ruled, of agent and patient, of mind and matter.

In the third chapter of John's Gospel we read of a man named Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews, who came to Jesus by night with a searching and uneasy sense that Jesus could give him something that he needed greatly.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

Nevertheless, the faith that God is the Lord of history; that even atomic energy is God's energy to be used for human good and not for mutual destruction; that no nation is sovereign in its own right but that God alone is the sovereign Ruler of the world — such a faith makes a vast difference in the way we deal with political issues.

So, too, Paul reminds the Christians at Ephesus that it is «through the Church» that God's wisdom is «made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places,» and that it is with these rulers and authorities that the Church wrestles primarily, not with powers of «flesh and blood.»

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These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the Church in a city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.

For example, Charlemagne (742 - 814 C.E.) was a ruler who saw the benefits of consorting with religion and having the blessing of the clergy of the Catholic Church.

The sources of the authority of the pastoral ruler Gregory the Great describes are doubtless the same, but as his functions are differently ordered from those of the modern priest so also the bases of his power are mentioned in a different order and with a varying emphasis.

Rather, it is, Will you heed my call to work for justice and peace, even if that brings you into conflict with the judges and rulers of this world, who have the power to put you to death?

Jesus called the young ruler to a new kind of material life, a life given to serving the poor with the «materials» of tears, blood and sweat.

The question is not whether the ministry will reflect the institutional forms of leadership in the world but whether it will reflect these with the difference that Christian faith and church life require, whether, in short, the minister will remain «man of God» despite the fact that he is now a director instead of a ruler.

They were helpless sheep, tenderly cared for and protected; but they were also subjects of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe; indeed they were the King's sons, with whom it was his sovereign will and fatherly pleasure to share his own royal authority and power.

What strikes one after reading this vastly informative book is how much the conditions of this dhimmitude varied among countries, rulers, and eras, and how much the encounter with Western modernity has added a new element of ambivalence, almost schizophrenia, in Muslim jurisprudence» sometimes leading to emancipation and sometimes to a violence and hatred unknown to the past, as in present - day Algeria.

He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection from the dead.

During some of its flourishing periods, the Sufis were counted by the millions all over the Muslim Empire and in some countries their influence was so great that the heads of their orders were the practical rulers, with supreme authority in every major problem concerning the religious or secular institutions.