Sentences with phrase «against a storm of»

Ramadan should unite us and instil in us fellow - feeling, so that we can create a society where Allah is truly our anchor against the storms of life.

We know that our faith in Christ strengthens us against the storms of the day.

This week on A SEASON WITH NAVY FOOTBALL, go behind - the - scenes with exclusive on and off the field access to Coach Niumatalolo and USNA's Midshipmen as they face off against the storm of Tulsa's Golden Hurricane.

It works well for the whizzing story, following King as she stages a mutiny against the tennis establishment in protest of their treatment of women players, then begins to question her sexuality, then squares off against the storm of silliness and desperation that was Riggs.

We know that our faith in Christ strengthens us against the storms of the day.

We know that our faith in Christ strengthens us against the storms of the day.

Real - time Combat mode: For a battle with a twist, players lead soldiers into a fast - paced, action - oriented battle against a storm of enemies.

The benefits of adaptation may be delayed or not realised at all, for example, when design standards are raised to protect against a storm of a certain magnitude that does not occur for another fifty years, if then (medium confidence).

As Bitcoin «hodlers» brace against the storm of the biggest cryptocurrency crash in recent memory, banks in the United States and United Kingdom have taken steps to prevent customers from getting in over their heads.

We know that our faith in Christ strengthens us against the storms of the day.

Start your marriage right by laying a firm foundation with Christian premarital counseling.By making God the cornerstone of your marriage, you can help anchor it against the storms of this life and ward off the failure that is so common in today's society.

We know that our faith in Christ strengthens us against the storms of the day.

Not exact matches

In that type of scenario, cities will lose their protection against big storm surges, fishing and tourism industries could be eliminated, and the ocean may become largely lifeless or at least extremely transformed.

Residents of low - lying areas in densely populated Miami - Dade County were urged to move to higher ground by Wednesday as a precaution against coastal storm surges, three days before Irma was expected to make landfall in Florida.

It has weathered the storm of Greece, Ireland and Spain's financial woes but with the possibility of the UK leaving the single market, the US dollar strengthening against the euro and further political situations unravelling, the currency is at risk.

A federal magistrate judge has concluded that a neo-Nazi website publisher could be held liable for the conduct of readers who carried out an anti-Semitic «troll storm» against a Montana real estate agent's family.

In Corpus Christi, the major city closest to the storm's center, wind whipped palm trees and stinging sheets of horizontal rain slapped against hotels and office buildings along the seawall as the storm made landfall.

Government troops firing machine guns mounted on tanks stormed a rebellious town in central Syria before dawn Tuesday as part of military operations aimed at crushing the six - month - old uprising against President Bashar Assad.

Last week's speech by the Pope, which aroused a world - wide storm, went well with Bush's crusade against «Islamofascism», in the context of the «Clash of Civilizations».

Jesus can be our shield against the shame storm that so often erupts in the wake of heartbreak.

Storms and tidal waves and earthquakes and droughts and valcanos shall be the instruments of bloodshed against those who are cowardly and afraid, who do wicked deeds against the brave and disarm them to get their deeds done.

His assumption that the kind of life he prizes can stand up rootless against the contemporary storm has nothing to commend it in the actual experience of men.

And if all the generations that have lived on earth rose up and united into one crowd in order to charge against eternity and to coerce it also with their enormous majority, eternity splits them up as easily as the imperturbability of the cliff that, without moving from the spot, disperses the foaming surf, as easily as a storm wind in its advance scatters the chaff.»

Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

How many of us are strong enough to stand up against a crazy storm of crowd - sourced bullying?

If life's storms are howling about you, throwing the full force of their winds against you, remember that God has delivered you from storms in the past, and will calm this storm as well.

Everything I did, and wherever I went, I was still in a storm, and yet I continued to be the chief contriver and ring - leader of the frolics for many months after; though it was a toil and torment to attend them; but the devil and my own wicked heart drove me about like a slave, telling me that I must do this and do that, and bear this and bear that, and turn here and turn there, to keep my credit up, and retain the esteem of my associates: and all this while I continued as strict as possible in my duties, and left no stone unturned to pacify my conscience, watching even against my thoughts, and praying continually wherever I went: for I did not think there was any sin in my conduct, when I was among carnal company, because I did not take any satisfaction there, but only followed it, I thought, for sufficient reasons.

I knew what Jesus meant when he told Peter that the «gates of hell would not prevail» against the church, as I was finally seeing a church that was storming the gates of hell itself to save people from its horrors (The Irresistible Revolution).

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

The back page then contains a call for three «Rogation Days,» or times of prayer and procession «for protection against calamities, such as storms, pestilence, famine, and war, and for God's blessing upon our crops.»

First, it is important to remember that from an Old Testament Hebrew perspective, the forces of rebellion and chaos arrayed against God were often identified with the sea, and especially with the storms and waves that often rage across the sea.

Ed Brown, who oversees creation care efforts for the Lausanne Movement, warns against seeing worsening storms as a result of God's wrath.

Theirs is a precious task; to withstand the darkness by preserving the life of the spiritual, which is a fortress against rising storms in the world of Middle Earth.

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

Against the plausible argument that the physical phenomena described in the narratives require a location in volcanic regions, it is countered that the same phenomena may be given a natural explanation as manifestations of violent storms.

No, his despair over sin, and all the more, the more it storms in the passion of expression, whereby without being aware of it in the least he informs against himself when he «never can forgive himself» that he could sin thus (for this sort of talk is pretty nearly the opposite of penitent contrition which prays God for forgiveness)-- this despair is far from being a characteristic of the good, rather it is a more intensive characterization of sin, the intensity of which is a deeper sinking into sin.

Amen, when I was against Him the storms didn't destroy me and the evil in my life would have made the most evil proud and most of these atheist would have had nightmares if I where the person that lived next door and they knew my thoughts when I didn't know or care for God.

We only took two Premier League points and people were saying that our title challenge was faltering but then we stormed back with three wins in a row and five of the next six, including the big game against title rivals Man City.

One option for Coach K when facing future court storms, is to get his players off the court before the end of the game as Roy Williams did with his UNC players last season against FSU.

They've stormed their way into a fast October start, though, taking the first two games of the National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, following an 8 - 5 win in Game 2.

In Chicago, where the Blitz has produced a crazily disparate attendance pattern, ranging from a mere 10,936 in a March rain and sleet storm to 32,182 against the Generals, the team has had four of its last five home games on TV and is averaging 19,323 at the gate.

Gabriella Marshall took to the court for Manchester Thunder's first five games, helping the team start their season with an unbeaten streak ahead of their game against Surrey Storm in Manchester tonight.

The Cleveland Cavaliers stormed back from a 16 - point fourth - quarter deficit against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday, and after Roy Hibbert split a pair of free throws with seven seconds left, the Cavs were down three with a chance to tie.

The Mirror followed this up this morning with a sensational story about Podolski, but the German denied categorically that he was trying to force though a move by storming out of training and refusing to play against Southampton.

Our team are warming up for Wednesday's Cup game on Monday evening, playing against Liverpool John Moores and the University of Manchester, before the Manchester Thunder vs Surrey Storm game at Wright Robinson College.

The Rookies who have taken the League by storm Team Schultz were able to complete the perfect Regular Season, getting their 7th W of year against Team Shlofrock.

I donâ $ ™ t know if the rumours of a rift between Mourinho and Abramovich are true, but Iâ $ ™ d like to think after Chelseaâ $ ™ s performance against Valencia last week and the fact that they're taking a storming Manchester United team to the end in the Premiership title race, a clever guy like Roman Abramovich would be reluctant to cut Mourinho loose.

«There is a sort of storm against Fifa relating to the Qatar World Cup,» Blatter said, reports BBC.

Last year, amongst a flurry of articles, reports and exclusives accusing and alleging corruption at the heart of FIFA, Sepp Blatter proclaimed that the storm against the organisation and particularly its choice to select Qatar as the host for the 2022 World Cup was down to racism and discrimination.

Robertson got her World Cup off to a storming start with a player of the match performance against South Africa.