Sentences with phrase «faldo girded»

To understand, gird yourself for a brief accounting lesson.

Along with Garcia, dozens of Dreamers have started their own companies since coming to the U.S., and the uncertainty surrounding the DACA program has them girding for losses and, in the worst - case scenario, deportation.

Air Canada and WestJet have been watching closely and girding for a battle — but not the one you'd expect.

Dollar General plans to speed up its expansion of storefronts across the U.S. as it looks to gird itself from its newly beefed - up competitor.

As we gird ourselves for the next seven months, I asked readers of The Broadsheet, Fortune's newsletter on the world's most powerful women, to weigh in.

Detroit's odyssey through Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy began on July 18, 2013, with major creditors girding for battle and has wound down in a flurry of settlements.

As France heads into its presidential elections this weekend, European entrepreneurs are girding for a major upset.

Fun fact: Sea Girt is home to the Sea Girt Light, one of only 11 lighthouses in New Jersey that are open to the public.

Sea Girt ranks high in amenities, employment, weather and education, but the high cost of living and real estate prices keep this area out of reach for most Americans.

Former adversaries are banding together, girding against upheaval in a rapidly changing health care environment.

Your mortgage is $ 2,800 per month (including insurance and taxes), but people can't seem to afford that kind of money, so you gird your loins and lower the rental price to $ 2,000 and eat that $ 800 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner until the economy springs back.

So we now enter times where we have to gird ourselves for fighting more openly for the people's hearts and minds with respect to the Constitution, even at greater apparent risk to it.

5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples» feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

«Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning, and ye like unto men who wait for the Lord, when He will come, at even, or in the morning, or at c - o - ck - cr - owing, or at midnight.

You begin to see the framework, the under - girding, the skeleton, and the connections in the texts and doctrines.

Unlike human beings who are creatures of a day, God is the one whose steadfast love endures forever, whose faithfulness is to all generations: «The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, he is girded with strength.

I don't have a reason to gird my loins anymore without him.

Wiry and intense, with a shaved head and a Brooklyn accent, Aronofsky looks like a man who's just finished one fight and is girding for another.

When he comes, he's girded with righteousness, all right, and he sides with the meek, but he does not smite the earth nor slay the wicked with his breath.

Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

«Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

Once I read some of your anti-Church comments, I girded my theological loins for a smackdown; I didn't want to like you.

Down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass, young writers and editors dressed in black crowd into the offices of Verso Books, open Brooklyn Lagers, and gird their loins for intellectual combat.

Joachim Wach, a sociologist of religion, has suggested four characteristics of religious experience and belief: (1) Religion «is a response to what is experienced as ultimate reality; that is, in religious experiences we reach not to any single or finite phenomenon, material or otherwise, but to what we realize as under - girding and conditioning all that constitutes our world of experience.»

Open our eyes to visions girt With beauty and with wonder lit, But let us ne'er forget the dirt And those who spawn and die in it.

I've been girding up my loins since I was 17, and while I always instinctively felt I was doing it correctly, it is nice to see this empirical loin - girding information!

The issue of whether faith should gird us to not fear scientific truth is an intriguing one; the Holocaust was scientifically true, after all, meaning the facts could not....

The ground floor, on this Thursday, was a day - care center filled with parents and kids; the second floor was all offices; and the third housed the sanctuary, a kind of window - girded nest.

Girding the loins would also have the effect of protecting the genitals since no one wore undergarments.

If you have ever wondered how to gird up your loins, here is the definitive guide:

My favorite example of mixed metaphors in church is the one in which the pastor, after a laborious explanation of what a modern interpretation of girding one's loins might be and why, shouted that we all, needed to lift up our skirts and let Jesus go all the way.

We should gird ourselves for the coming wave of legalized assisted death and an organ procurement agenda.

Old - fashioned inversions like «visions girt» are in a realm of discourse centuries removed from the word «dirt.»

Therefore, women can ignore those verses about girding up your loins.

Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.

To the south, Virginia girded itself for battle under the guidance of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the stinging words of Patrick Henry: «If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged... we must fight!

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness.

I also forgot to add Isaiah 45:5, I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: Isaiah 45:6 also, That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me.

Scripture is there to confront that «me», and «grow» it in that confrontation, rather than have it mollycoddle you to under - gird your current understanding.

Those leaves They gathered, broad as Amazonian targe, And with what skill they had together sewed, To gird their waist — vain covering if to hide Their guilt and dreadful shame; O how unlike To that first naked glory.

Gird up thy loins and answer Me!»

It is right that we place our hope in the free gesture with which God chose to enter history, but in doing so we are enjoined to gird ourselves and enter into questions about the actions and organization of men.

We therefore have to «gird up the loins of our minds» to flow in and out of the different parts of who we are and want to be.

But there is a significant passage, the content of which precedes and undergirds Jesus» actions: «Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel.»

[4] The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.

But this is not merely an example of humility (girding with a towel is the action of a slave, 13:4); the deeper point is that the disciple's real cleansing from sin will be consummated in an even greater act of humility than this one — in the death of Christ itself.

19 Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

Gird him with strength to shatter wicked rulers.

I will gird you, though you have not known Me;» Isaiah

Such of late Columbus found the American so girt With feathered cincture, naked else and wild...