And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.

That is why, the argument runs, the squares are so fearful of jazz and yet perversely fascinated by it.

That is why the members of the beat generation proudly assume the title of the holy barbarians ; ;

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is a fantasy with extraordinary power to disturb the reader -- but we do not know why.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

Conceived as an organ of economic cooperation, there is no reason why O.E.C.D. cannot evolve into a broader instrument of union if its members so desire.

The schedules are flexible so that the program can be accelerated as the public becomes more tolerant or realizes that it is something that has to be done, `` so why not now ''.

That is why it is important to invest in comfortable, airy types of shoes.

But why is it the special responsibility of the CTA to help these people??

That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.

This is why he made such a magnificent soldier.

This is why I say we just can't go ahead and disarm the Germans and pull down our own defenses.

That is why our creative people give their time to literature, not to painting or sculpture ''.

Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

Really there is no reason why this fine exercise should not find its way into your leg program at all times, for the following suggestions show why it is so effective: 1.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

The feeling of individual inferiority, defeat, or humilation growing out of various social situations or individual deficiencies or failures is compensated for by communion in worship or prayer with a friendly, but all-victorious Father-God, as well as by sympathetic fellowship with others who share this faith, and by opportunities in religious acts for giving vent to emotions and energies.

It takes many forms, this prayer, but in essence it is always a request for guidance, for open minds and gentle hearts, for honesty and sincerity, for the wisdom and the insights that will help Guideposts' readers.

This had the effect of inculcating the principle of lex orandi, lex credendi (" the law of prayer is the law of belief ") as the foundation of Anglican identity and confession.

# The Primates ' Meeting ( first met in 1979 ) is the most recent manifestation of international consultation and deliberation, having been first convened by Archbishop Donald Coggan as a forum for " leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation ".

The Roman Catholic celebration is associated with the doctrine that the souls of the faithful who at death have not been cleansed from the temporal punishment due to venial sins and from attachment to mortal sins cannot immediately attain the beatific vision in heaven, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the Mass.

While 2 November remained the liturgical celebration, in time the entire month of November became associated in the Western Catholic tradition with prayer for the departed ; lists of names of those to be remembered being placed in the proximity of the altar on which the sacrifice of the mass is offered.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

The following fragment of a hymn to Castor and Polydeuces ( the Dioscuri ) is possibly another example of this though some scholars interpret it instead as a prayer for a safe voyage.

Both books have a more prominent attention to prayer than is found in the other gospels.

In the Greek Church the sacrament is called Euchelaion ( Greek Εὐχέλαιον, from εὐχή, " prayer ", and ἔλαιον, " oil ").

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

The actual anointing of the sick person is done on the forehead, with the prayer " Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit ", and on the hands, with the prayer " May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up ".

The rite performed by them is thus seen as having the same by no means negligible value of any other form of prayer offered for the sick or dying.

An anthem is a form of church music, particularly in the service of the Church of England, in which it is appointed by the rubrics to follow the third collect at both morning and evening prayer.

There is also a fountain ( şadırvan ) where worshipers can perform ritual ablutions before prayer ; the dome over the şadırvan is capped by a skylight which creates a soft, serene light below ; thus playing an important role in the illumination of the large building.

A tight communal timetable ( horarium ) is meant to ensure that the time given by God is not wasted but in whichever way necessary used in his service, whether for prayer, work, meals, spiritual reading, sleep.

According to the Bahá ' í teachings the human purpose is to learn to know and love God through such methods as prayer, reflection, and being of service to humankind.

It is derived from the washing of the bell with holy water by the bishop, before he anoints it with the oil of the infirm without and with chrism within ; a fuming censer is placed under it and the bishop prays that these sacramentals of the Church may, at the sound of the bell, put the demons to flight, protect from storms, and call the faithful to prayer.

The fiber was originally used for making twines and ropes ; now most abacá is pulped and used in a variety of specialized paper products including tea bags, filter paper and banknotes.

Climbing or crawling is often necessary, and ropes are used extensively for safe negotiation of particularly steep or slippery passages.

The most usual is the system of the Confederação Brasileira de Capoeira ( Brazilian Capoeira Confederation ), which adopts ropes using the colors of the Brazilian flag, green, yellow, blue and white.

Similarly, the tabla is tuned by hammering a disc held in place around the drum by ropes stretching from the top to bottom head.

" Since the statement is a sūtra, it is necessarily compressed and what the ropes produce is not elaborated on, but the context clearly implies the square areas constructed on their lengths, and would have been explained so by the teacher to the student.

Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

The result is a cedar-wood boat long, its timbers held together by ropes, which is now currently housed in a special boat-shaped, air-conditioned museum beside the pyramid.

Changing the order of stitches from one row to the next, usually with the help of a cable needle or stitch holder, is key to cable knitting, producing an endless variety of cables, honeycombs, ropes, and Aran sweater patterning.

The term is also used if the fighter is hanging on to the ropes, caught between the ropes, or is hanging over the ropes and is unable to fall to the floor and cannot protect themselves.

Any legal wrestler is open to attack from any direction at any time, including when they are downed, as long as they are within the ring area enclosed by the ring ropes.