Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke ’ s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “ glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively .” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “ on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead ” ( Acts 23: 6 ).

For example, Eliade says, the portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar as a dragon in Jeremiah 51: 34 is a case in which the Hebrews " interpreted contemporary events by means of the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a hero and a dragon.

For example, Alvin Sandberg claimed that the short story " The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids " offers " an exploration of impotency, a portrayal of a man retreating to an all-male childhood to avoid confrontation with sexual manhood " from which the narrator engages in " congenial " digressions in heterogeneity.

For instance, the portrayal of wine drinking in French society as a robust and healthy habit would be a bourgeois ideal perception contradicted by certain realities ( i. e. that wine can be unhealthy and inebriating ).

For his film The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan drew inspiration in his portrayal of Gotham City from the film Heat in order " to tell a very large, city story or the story of a city ".

For his portrayal DiCaprio garnered his seventh nomination from the Golden Globes.

For her portrayal of Alexis, Collins was nominated six times for a Golden Globe Award ( every year from 1982 to 1987 ), winning once in 1983.

For the film version, the part ultimately went to Topol, as producer-director Norman Jewison felt that Mostel's portrayal was too broadly comic.

For his portrayal of O ' Neill, Richard Dean Anderson won a Saturn Award in the category " Best Genre TV Actor " in 1999, and was nominated in the same category in 1998 and 2000.

For his portrayal of Nick Marshall, Mel Gibson was nominated for the Golden Globe award for Best Actor-Comedy.

For his portrayal, Laurie assumes an American accent.

For example, the portrayal of wine in French society as a robust and healthy habit is a bourgeois ideal that is contradicted by certain realities ( i. e., that wine can be unhealthy and inebriating ).

For his portrayal of Mr. Will, Malkovich received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

For her starring portrayal in Min and Bill, co-starring Wallace Beery, she won the 1930-31 Academy Award for Best Actress ( the eligibility years were staggered at that time ).

For her portrayal of Mrs. Molly O ' Leary — a fictionalized version of Catherine O ' Leary – in 1937's In Old Chicago, Brady won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

For his portrayal of Harold, Smith received a nomination for a Gold Logie Award in 2009.

For his portrayal of Cole Sear, a psychic child, Osment won Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor.

For example, a halftime show performed at the Continental Tire Bowl in 2002 prompted West Virginia Governor Bob Wise to demand an apology from the band and the school for its portrayal of West Virginia residents.

For his portrayal of the pompous but nonetheless multifaceted Boston aristocrat, Stiers received two Emmy Award nominations.

For the portrayal of the titular character, Khan experimented with a variety of looks, including long unkempt hair and a stubble.

For example, his portrayal of the warden in Escape from Alcatraz.

In an early draft of the script, this was Saavik, in the hopes that Kirstie Alley would return for the large role, as director Nicholas Meyer wasn't pleased with Robin Curtis ' portrayal in The Search For Spock and The Voyage Home, using characters that had appeared in prior films ( even in small parts ) turning out to be significant players this time.

For her portrayal of Zaara, a role which required her to master the fine nuances of Urdu language, Zinta received her fourth Filmfare Best Actress nomination.

For her portrayal of the tomboy Daboo, Kapoor received Best Actress nominations for several awards ( including Filmfare ).

For her portrayal in Kei Kumai's Sandakan N ° 8 she won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival in 1975.

For example, letters 1, 5, and 8 contain a discussion on the question, whether the use of a piece of metal with the figure of a lion, as a talisman, is permitted by Jewish law for medicinal purposes, or is prohibited as idolatrous.

: The Sabbath: Its Meaning For Modern Man is a work on the nature and celebration of Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath.

For example, the behavior of Job's comforters, who kept silence until he spoke to them, is the source for a norm applicable to contemporary traditional Jewish practice, that visitors to a house of mourning should not speak to the mourner until they are spoken to.

For instance, if two men and a woman were to eat a meal together, a Conservative Jew would believe that the presence of three adult Jews would obligate the group to say a communal form of the Grace After Meals, while an Orthodox Jew would believe that, lacking three adult Jewish males, the group would not be able to do such.

* Halakha For Our Time: A Conservative Approach To Jewish Law, David Golinkin, United Synagogue, 1991

* Formulating Jewish Law For Our Time, by Dr.

For example, while in a conversion to Judaism a convert must accept basic Jewish principles of faith, and renounce all other religions, the process is more like a form of adoption, or changing national citizenship ( i. e. becoming a formal member of the people, or tribe ), with the convert becoming a " child of Abraham and Sarah.

For example, what Jews from Eastern Europe and from North Africa consider " Jewish food " has more in common with the cuisines of non-Jewish Eastern Europeans and North Africans than with each other, although for religious Jews all food-preparation must conform to the same laws of Kashrut.

For example, in Spain, unrepentant Jews were exiled, and it was only those crypto-Jews who had accepted baptism under pressure but retained Jewish customs in private, who were punished in this way.

* Jewish Encyclopedia: New Testament: For and Against the Law

For many reasons scholars today believe otherwise — for example, the gospel is based on Mark, and " it seems unlikely that an eyewitness of Jesus's ministry, such as Matthew, would need to rely on others for information about it "— and believe instead that it was written between about 80 – 90 AD by a highly educated Jew ( an " Israelite ", in the language of the gospel itself ), intimately familiar with the technical aspects of Jewish law, standing on the boundary between traditional and non-traditional Jewish values.

For example, Jesus, the twelve apostles, and the crowds are Jewish.

For example, Muslim halal or Jewish kosher customs may require gelatin from sources other than pigs, like cows and / or fish and from animals slaughtered ritually.

For earlier years there may be a discrepancy ( see: Missing years ( Jewish calendar )).

For instance, most Conservative rabbis extend the application of certain Jewish obligations and permissible activities to women.

For general usage of takkanaot in Jewish history see the article Takkanah.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

For some, observance of Jewish law is more important than belief in God per se.

For example, Jews who have converted under duress may be permitted to return to Judaism " without any action on their part but their desire to rejoin the Jewish community " and " A proselyte who has become an apostate remains, nevertheless, a Jew ".

For this reason, the Jewish commentators interpret many elements of his story as being symbolic of the future difficulties and struggles the Jewish people would undergo.

: For the Gregorian dates of Jewish Holidays, see Jewish holidays 2000-2050.

For example, many Orthodox Jewish leaders have suggested that the devastation among Jews wrought by the Holocaust may represent a sign of hope for the Messiah's present imminent arrival.