Sentences with phrase «work as a servant»

He decided to return to his home country and ask his father for work as a servant.

«I have finished my work as a servant of God and that is why I have come out to say it but I don't expect Ghanaians to insult me because I've pronounced doom on a party.

Because of her behavior and the curiousity people have about her case, she works as a servant in the prison governor's house.

Hathaway plays a struggling factory worker named Fantine, whose daughter Cosette (Isabelle Allen as a child, Seyfried as an adult) eventually comes under the care of Valjean — having previously been forced to work as a servant by the Thénardiers, who were entrusted to care for her by Fantine and treat her like their own daughter Éponine (Barks).

Based on the novel by Arthur Golden, the story begins when young Sayuri and her sister are sold to separate Geisha houses to work as servants.

For example, a Jewish man who works as a servant in a German household is beaten (off screen) and dies from his injuries.

With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great.

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As the CEO since 2005, MacDowell continues to deepen TD's commitment to servant leadership and to the «Great Place to Work» culture that plays such a key role in sustaining an environment in which employees are valued, respected, and appreciated.

Greek ferry, bus and train services were disrupted and civil servants and doctors stopped work in nationwide walkout on Wednesday, as lawmakers debated austerity measures that lenders want the indebted country to implement.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

We devote an enormous amount of time to making sure we get people who are other - oriented, who have a servant's heart, who enjoy working as part of the team.

Bonney was engaged in promoting the free enterprise, anti-union position of his party, while working as a public servant, Butcher said.

Some of those elderly just marry not for the joy but for a helping hand in the house if they are all alone as a servant since religiously single men are not allowed to have female maids work or live in their houses unless they are married to each other..

And his faithful servants who have been indoctrinated in the prophecy will work as hard as they can to make it come true.

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

Most of the good jobs were held by White citizens while the Blacks worked as domestic servants and farm hands.

You shall not compel him to serve as a slave: In the Mosaic law, if one chronically could not pay his debts, he would have to work off the debt as a servant of his creditor.

- them shtik always had something unpleasant about it, as in the servant - problem humor in which working - class characters exist solely as....

Certainly later biblical prophets, whose works appear in the New Testament, had no hesitation in identifying Jesus Christ as the Servant.

Here then is a summary of the essential purport of the life and work of Jesus in a kind of symbolic shorthand: he undertook his mission, our informants are saying, as Messiah, as Son of God, as the Servant of the Lord, in the power of the divine Spirit — and this is «God's truth,» affirmed by the divine voice whose echo can be caught by the inward ear.

The Sufis quote the following Tradition in which God says, «In no way does My servant so draw nigh unto Me as when he performs those duties which I have imposed on him; and My servant continues to draw near to Me through works of supererogation, until I love him.

And if the mission of tile Servant defined the work to which Jesus set his hand, the fate of the Servant, whose life was made «an offering for sin,» 11 and who «bore the sin of many,» pointed to the destiny that awaited him: «The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give up his life as a ransom for many.»

Members have worked hard to avoid any sense of competition over righteousness, both as individuals and in comparing Servant King to the wider church.

As the Jerusalem community grew, special deacons (Greek Diakonos = servant) were appointed for the day to day work of charity, and elders (= Greek Presbyteroi) are mentioned (Acts 11:30, 15:2) who probably corresponded to the elders of the normal Jewish synagogue (cf. Lk.

Until we challenge the status of women as men's servants and subordinates at home and at work, assault, harassment and abuse will continue.

In this faith he can work with courage and hope as the servant of God for the conquest of evil.

He celebrates his God, shouting and singing words of exaltation, singing possibly the same songs he had written years earlier as a nomadic sheep herder, where his devotion was worked out in the sweat and stench of his servant situation.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch iAs a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch ias a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch ias the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

The Book of Joshua makes it clear that the Israelites get to the murderous work of genocide and become quite efficient at it: And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.

As you said, once you arrive at your job as a civil servant, you should be there to do worAs you said, once you arrive at your job as a civil servant, you should be there to do woras a civil servant, you should be there to do work.

Who are still in captivity until this day all in the prison houses, or under imposed poverty, taught to us in Isaiah 42, teaching us the work that will, and is being done by the servant, the elect of YHWH, prophecy is in progress as we speak.

«A priest is called by God to work with the bishop and with his fellow priests, as servant and shepherd among the people to whom he is sent.

We only have one judge and we are responsible for working out the salvation He has given us in order to be judged as faithful servants.

We accepted our board's requirement that we would work in Argentina as willing servants under national leadership and as supporters of the national church's own mission goals.

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

On the other hand, we read here several poems hardly distinguishable from the work of Second Isaiah; and we must conclude, therefore, that Isaiah 56 - 66 comes out of continuing Isaianic circles of prophetism surviving the sixth - century debacle, and had as its nucleus a small collection of Second Isaiah's oracles not incorporated in 40 - 55 and perhaps of somewhat later origin (see especially the three chapters, 60 - 62, and the Servant Song in 61:1 - 4).

The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.

Serving first as a counselor and two subsequent years as Co-Director, Brian worked to establish a tradition of sustainability and servant leadership for the Chapter at Brigham Young University.

He won't do emails — insisting, instead, on working with a fountain pen as he goes through his red box each morning issuing marching orders to civil servants by writing on their papers.

«Milt Williams has a proven track record of fighting fraud as a public servant and in his private sector work.

He added: «As I enter a new role as a public servant, I will be leaving partisan politics behind me and will work impartially as a museum directoAs I enter a new role as a public servant, I will be leaving partisan politics behind me and will work impartially as a museum directoas a public servant, I will be leaving partisan politics behind me and will work impartially as a museum directoas a museum director.

«It's a separate thing being a public servant in terms of doing budgets and constituent work,» said Sen. Jim Tedisco, a Republican from the Capital Region, who as a member of the Assembly tangled infamously with Eliot Spitzer, a governor who failed to overcome the hard - charging attitude he carried as the state's popular attorney general.

Whether it's the tribal sense of knowing who your gang is, and why you're opposed to the other gang, or the close knit friendship of long working relationships and shared experiences of highs and lows, the connections forged between public servants are strong, if just as flawed and occasionally destructive as those in the outside world.

The announcement comes as pressure grows on ministers to scrap a deal struck with civil servants in October, which allows existing workers to retire on a full pension at the age of 60, although new employees would have to work until 65.

We should be here because we care about what happens to New York and what happens to New Yorkers, and we should be prepared to work together as public servants to do that, despite the outsized influence of money, which, because our Republicans continue to stop any notion of campaign finance reform, we continue to deal with.»

Cuomo hailed the agreement as a «fair deal» for the state and «the more than 60,000 hardworking public servants that are the backbone of state government and enable it to work for New Yorkers.»

While Raynsford is willing to challenge what he sees as some of the big shortcomings of modern government, Substance Not Spin is also peppered with praise for the civil servants he worked alongside.

Leaving City Hall Friday, Mr. de Blasio defended Ms. Noerdlinger, once a top aide to Rev. Al Sharpton, telling reporters that «we don't care what someone's boyfriend says, we care what the public servant is about, as she is very dedicated to working to bring police and community together and that's what we care about.»

He said it was a «great disappointment» for him as «for six years I have had the incredible privilege of working inside the Whitehall machine with civil servants helping ministers to make decisions».

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz issued the following statement in recognition of former Deputy Borough President Leroy Comrie's inauguration today as a New York State Senator: «Leroy Comrie is an exceptional public servant with a tireless work ethic and a proven track record of working on behalf of the interests of his constituents,» Borough President -LSB-...]