For the Babylonians also, fire was essential to sacrifice, and all oblations were conveyed to the gods by the fire god Girru-Nusku, whose presence as intermediary between the gods and men was indispensable.
Had too much that was essential been sacrificed for the ideal?
Still, I was inspired by the two managers, one of whom points out that without teams like this, the internet would become a "porn factory," and the other, training a new group, likens it to an essential service — sacrificing their well-being so that some entitled chump in America can do their dating for free and not get spammed and complain bitterly about it.
I've applied color correction, balanced audio levels, cut everything down to the essentials without sacrificing interesting moments and most importantly, I made sure to place importance on including a proper ending.
It is simply a lie to say that the only way to reduce the deficit is to sacrifice essential public services, which support some of the poorest in our society.
Wheeldon's "The Nightingale and the Rose" is based on Oscar Wilde's love story of the same name, a meditation on the beauty and the essential futility of sacrifice; in what seems like inspired casting, Wendy Whelan will dance the part of the truehearted Nightingale, opposite the graceful Tyler Angle as the shallow student and the expansive Sara Mearns as his indifferent love interest.
And what Yglesias calls nuttiness still looks like moral common sense to me — a view of intergenerational obligation that human flourishing depends on, and whose disappearance threatens to sacrifice essential goods and relationships on the altar of more transient forms of satisfaction.
I'm not willing to sacrifice essential municipal services just to enhance the political aspirations of a couple well-connected local politicians.
However, Righeimer and Mensinger have long argued that the only reason they are pursuing reforms is because the city will one day have trouble funding its pension obligations — or will have to sacrifice essential services to do so.
He was too popular, and too essential, to be sacrificed; the mayors backed down.
With the right safeguards, facial-recognition technology can be employed effectively without sacrificing essential liberties.
