Sentences with phrase «a final act»

ESPN's Seth Wickersham wrote a bombshell report detailing the power struggle taking place inside the Patriots organization, as Brady, Belichick, and Patriots owner Robert Kraft look to define their legacy in what's likely to be its final act.

Yellen's final act at the Fed was to hit one of the largest U.S. banks, Wells Fargo & Co., with an unusual ban on growth that follows the San Francisco - based lender's pattern of consumer abuses and compliance lapses.

The final act of the deregulation drama is set to play out between now and 2017, the deadline Ottawa has set for the Canadian Wheat Board (or its assets) to be privatized.

As one of his final acts, the president will accomplish it with a stroke of his pen.

Fish and other sea creatures were created on the 5th «creative» day, while land animals were made during the 6th «creative» day, with man being God's final act of creation on the earth.

And yet it is this final act of giving which brings us salvation.

The signatures of Ministers to the GATT Final Act must be reconsidered because it is hostile to human rights.

«I mean, there's always some prior and final act of the mind, some more capacious realm of intention for any impulse that's embodied and enacted.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

For in the first account, humankind is created in perfect equality, the final act of creation: on the sixth day «God created man in the image of himself,... male and female he created them» (Gen. 1:27).

Kichijiro's final act of betrayal leads Rodrigues directly into the hands of his persecutors.

Maybe some of those things would be final acts of the heart rather than specific deeds.

Yet the Ford administration also negotiated the Basket Three human - rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which turned out to be a powerful weapon in the hands of human - rights activists throughout the Warsaw Pact countries in the endgame of the Cold War.

29 It is the final act of dedication to his mission, and the key to the whole of it.

When Leonid Brezhnev signed the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, he probably thought he was taking out a ninety - nine - year lease on Stalin's external empire.

For «Basket Three» of the Final Act pledged the signatory nations of Europe and North America to certain human rights commitments.

Mary's interaction with her son on the cross is striking, since one of his final acts is devoted to naming John as her new son, and her as John's mother.

His lifetime of experiencing God's freedom culminated in own final act of openness to what God could do with his death.

For Niebuhr, then, the symbols of eschatology express the faith that God's final act is to perfectly justify and sanctify history; God's final word to history is the perfect fulfillment of grace.

A final act of love for those who loved and accepted His love and sacrifice for them.

Preceded by a tremor, a wave of «shared impulse» extending to the very depths of the social and ethnic masses in their need and claim to participate, without distinction of class or color, in the onward march of human affairs, the final act is already visibly preparing.

Baptist pastor and theologian Val J. Sauer describes «biblical eschatology» as dealing with «God's final acts toward his creation, the last days, the promise of the future, and the hope which grows Out of this promise.»

In the 1970s, the Jackson - Vanik Amendment (tying favorable trade status to human rights norms) and the Helsinki Final Act «resuscitated» the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at last gave religious freedom a meaningful place in international law.

It is sobering to reflect that the final act that renders Sally irretrievably lost — the decision that symbolizes her complete destruction — was her having an abortion.

From the world's point of view it was bad enough when the early church only witnessed to the imminent but future transformation of the structures of the world by a final act of God at the end.

As the hitherto protected agricultural sector of the South is, in compliance with the requirements of the GATT Final Act, opened up to imports (mainly from the North) and as land laws are revised to facilitate corporate farming, there will inevitably be large - scale displacement of such communities.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

But Bonhoeffer the man was more than his final act of martyrdom, more even than his courageous service as theologian and churchman.

If it could have a fitting final act, this would be a fine one, a sour cherry pie I've been angling to make for more than three years and have, without fail, missed the painfully short window that sour cherries are available.

In likely the final act of his coaching career, Bowden has brought a new level of expectations to Akron.

And given the way that final acts tend to be definitive, this might well be what he is remembered for.

The final act of Farrell in a Red Sox uniform was protecting one of his players, as he ran out onto the field to get himself ejected in a very obvious «look at me, ump, over here!»

The humiliating defeat to Iceland was Hodgson's final act as England manager and summed up his handling of this tournament.

That proved De Bruyne's final act as he signalled to the bench moments later but there were no obvious signs of discomfort as he was replaced by Ilkay Gundogan.

The former Dynamo Kiev winger had better luck as the game approached its final act.

It stayed that way until the the frantic finale and a West Ham implosion in the final act that turned a potential thriller into a tragedy.

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NEW LENOX — The final act of the Cherry Hill School site drama played out Tuesday night when the New Lenox Village Board voted to deed a municipally owned section of the property to New Lenox Elementary District 122.

For the final act, throw a blanket over a portable media player, CD player, or old - fashioned tape player, then start it up through the blanket if you can.

The last act of the «REAL» convention «REAL» people are setting the stage not those «Hollywood Stages» but a «REAL» stage for the last and final act of this «REAL» Convention.

In 1815, Congress of Vienna Final Act acknowledged existence of only 39 sovereign states in Europe.

John Rentoul, chief political commentator for The Independent on Sunday, writes that «the tax on bankers» bonuses was the final act of self - destruction» for the Labour Party, and that «Brown's reversion to class - war politics has compounded his error.

And so, thoroughly wound up and effectively blunted by Miliband's obstinately unreasonable questioning, we come to the final act of this tragedy.

Oakeshott, who has issued a statement making clear the party is «heading for disaster if it keeps Nick Clegg», will have damaged his long - time ally Cable in the final act of his political career with the revelation.

In one of its final acts, the Bloomberg administration pushed through a costly contract to modernize the city's 311 call system — hiring the same company fired by the feds for the botched rollout of the Obamacare website.

David Cameron created 13 new Conservative peers in the House of Lords as one of his final acts as prime minister.

Chris Christie (R) signed a bill Monday banning the sale or possession of bump stocks, marking one of the New Jersey governor's final acts before leaving office.

It is also possible that they were the warm - up and the final act is about to unfold.»

The final act of the Democrat's convention leads into the state Conservative Party convention tomorrow, followed by the Republican convention next week, putting the unusually packed slate of elections this fall into higher gear.

In his final act of heroism before dying on 9/11, Officer Ramon Suarez helped a seven - months - pregnant woman escape the hellscape.