Sentences with phrase «against a sea of»

Government social policies, according to Nathan Glazer, are «making no steady headway against a sea of misery.»

The poser to every sensitive member of the race is, in Shakespearean diction, «whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?».

«Whether to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles..»

They turn inward, «we two against a sea of troubles.»

I like to think I am the bright starburst against a sea of grey in winter, cause I just can't help but burst forth in as much color as humanly possible to combat the cold dreariness.

It's subtle but it stands out against a sea of dark and bright colors.

Lastly, I tried on this suede short trench coat ($ 179.99), which caught my eye against the sea of cotton.

I love wearing yellow during the Winter because it really stands out against the sea of black, and puts a smile on my face in this dreary weather.

Suddenly, a grey sleeveless sweater becomes much more visually exciting and leopard calf hair accents pop against the sea of muted grey.

There wasn't a lot that wowed us on this red carpet, but these actresses stood out against a sea of same old, same old.

I love the way that dressed in the all - black outfit, you stand out against the sea of nil green.

The film is a grand, big - budget epic that tells the store of the true journey of the The Essex, a ship that faced an epic battle against the seas of the Pacific, and a huge sperm whale.

Piloting a V -6-powered GranSport through the mean streets of Palermo requires unwavering confidence: not only is its footprint significantly larger than surrounding econohatches, its six - figure street value makes it a glossy standout against the sea of battle - scarred road mates.

Hamlet features a lot in This Private Plot (although the book's title comes from Henry VI Part 2), including a scene where a third - rate amateur drama group, rehearsing «To be or not to be,» run headfirst into one of Shakespeare's finest mixed metaphors: «to take arms against the sea of troubles.»

Realistically, it's likely square - ish and there's definitely a love - hate relationship with its size but there's no question it's unique and stands out against a sea of touchscreen devices.

To be, or not to be — that is the question: Whether ’ t is nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them.

To fap, or not to fap - that is the question: Whether «tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of net rage Or to take hands against a sea of troubles, And by fapping end them.

Being noticed against a sea of competitors is one of the hardest things to do for new studios.

My most recent encounter with Pionkowski's work was at The Hole's booth at NADA Miami, where they stood out against a sea of virtually interchangeable Zombie Paintings.

Whether ’ t is nobler in the science to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by adjusting, end them.

But building a brand for a solo practice helps your future clients identify you against a sea of competing firms.

Apple repeated this step when it introduced the gold iPhone 5s in 2013, and the color proved to be a hit with consumers, especially because it stood out against the sea of black and white smartphones.

Yet the question remains: does Sound BlasterX H7 Tournament Edition hold its own against the sea of competitors, price inconsequential?

If you've reached your midlife years or beyond, you may wonder: How can you compete against a sea of younger workers?

Another whimsical photo from the Land of Nod, with a perfect combination of sweet colours against a sea of white.

Not exact matches

The Battle of the Coral Sea saw 27 ships from the US Navy and the Australian Navy square off against 53 ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Puerto Vallarta is one of Mexico's most picturesque beach destinations, with historic white - washed buildings, and cerulean seas set against a rugged mountain skyline.

To bring cloud computing and the Internet of Things into full fruition demands a cybersecurity sea change — matching fire power with fire power against the bad guys — something along the lines Ellison proposes, and the sooner the better.

In a statement on Saturday, ASEAN leaders affirmed the need for peace in the South China Sea, where the bloc is currently negotiating a set of rules with China to avoid conflicts arising from a bitter territorial dispute pitting some members against Beijing's vast claims to the strategic waterway.

He will be responsible for advising Trump on a wide spectrum of national security issues, from the U.S. - led coalition against the Islamic State to China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea to North Korea's growing nuclear threat.

The Philippines brought an arbitration case in 2013 over the South China Sea, eventually lodging 15 claims against China related to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea — a critical piece of international law that both countries have ratified.

According to the Bilur website, this price is calculated daily against the Standard & Poor's Platts Dated Brent assessment — the benchmark appraisal of physical cargoes of crude oil in the North Sea.

Exacerbating the issue is that owners of lower - priced homes likely don't have the resources to take preventative measures against the rising tides, like putting in sea walls or making changes to foundations to withstand intermittent flooding.

The gloomy outlook is a sea change from recent years, when stocks, bonds and other assets rallied in unison against the backdrop of easy money and synchronized global growth.

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Beg from you to support and stand by the legally elected ruling party against those militants within the opposition who are breaking down our country and killing the youth... those if they come up to rule will incur bloodshed every where and will stretch their bloodshed to reach every corner of this Arabian Peninsular... take my word for it they are evil and worse than that who you dumped into the sea...

Surrounding this were the «waters of chaos», the cosmic sea, home to mythic monsters defeated and slain by God (Exodus 20:4 warns against making an image «of anything that is in the waters under the earth»).

«Isn't the simplest touch of a child's arm on the face more important, isn't the good meal, the brush against a thigh, a hand held during a movie, a swim in the sea, aren't those things of equal importance as the sands of time come rushing down on our heads burying ambition and love, good and evil, breath, blood, brains, waste, memory, alike in the oblivion?»

During the past two years, reports of terrorist attacks against Christians have steadily emerged from the Muslim world: 7 Egyptian Christians executed on a Benghazi beach, 165 Christian girls kidnapped from school by Boko Haram, and 21 Coptic Christians beheaded near the Mediterranean Sea, among other incidents.

Because God flooded Earth and except Noah and his family in what is clearly not a sea - bearing boat, killed everyone, including «innocent» babies (which of course begs to question the whole idea about the Bible being against abortion and all even though it doesn't explicitly say anything against abortion though the method for aborting fetuses, e.g., forced miscarriage, already existed in those days.

What if Americans decide against paying to provide a freedom of the seas that protects the transportation of imported manufactured products that could (should?)

I agree with your over all statement that we as individual Moslims are responsible for making sure we are portrayed accurately but I will tell you that against such a orginized movement that is a task as difficult as parting of the sea or giving life to a death body.

He was able to picture early Christianity this way with the more assurance because he did most of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time of Jesus (thanks in part to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes of light against darkness, life against death, came in the 1960s to be understood as first century Jewish themes.

«Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices,» she continues, still looking out at the sea, «meant nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea.

I felt hot tears start to rush down my face, and the choking breathlessness of knowing that my voice is so small against the seemingly endless sea of hurt.

But Christianity, which is the first discoverer of the paradoxes, is in this case also as paradoxical as possible; it works directly against itself when it establishes sin so securely as a position that it seems a perfect impossibility to do away with it again — and then it is precisely Christianity which, by the atonement, would do away with it so completely that it is as though drowned in the sea.

Against new knowledge, as men gain new wisdoms from science and new power in the universe, there is no Lordship of Christ over all the ages, unless His voice can speak with as much authority affirming and defining now, and a thousand years from now, as it did in the market towns of Galilee, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and along the shore of the Sea of Tiberias.

Or what about the drowning of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, the earthquake the swallowed up all those who followed Korah in rebellion against Moses, or the things that God allows Satan to do to Job, or even some passages in the New Testament such as the death of Ananias and Sapphira, or the bloodbath that takes place in the book of Revelation?

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

However, if I was an ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....