Sentences with phrase «against hope perhaps»

Not exact matches

Indeed we may say, perhaps a little exaggeratedly but not without reason, the liturgy such as it is actually performed today — though, we hope, against its own ultimate principles — this liturgy itself increases this greater danger, because it often has a harmful influence on the private prayer of individuals and groups.

It might even encourage men, in the face of despair and death, to hope against hope: perhaps to echo Job's cry, «Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him».

In their battle against spiritual exploitation and cultural disintegration, Indian leaders can teach those who listen the meaning of the sacred, and perhaps find hope and encouragement among conscientious new advocates and friends.

Perhaps Paul's hope is that things will turn out as they do at the end of the book of Genesis, when Joseph presents himself as a blessing for his jealous brothers in the famous words: «You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day.»

Well as we expected there were no surprises from Arsenal's Premier League rivals yesterday, apart from how much better than Chelsea Man City were perhaps, so as well as holding onto some hope that Newcastle can take points ioff Liverpool later, we Gooners just want to see Arsenal do what they have to do and take all three points from our home game against Brighton.

This would seem to go completely against what has happened in the past, perhaps because the season ticket sales went better than many dared to hope, and we should comfortably sell out the 52,000 seats available.

More worryingly perhaps, for a team who had high hopes, they have had four draws at home against Everton, Southampton, Middlesbrough and Tottenham.

If, or perhaps when, he ends up at United, his performance against City in the Stadio Olimpico, in a game which is make - or - break for the two clubs» Champions League hopes, will offer a guide as to his readiness to bolster Van Gaal's midfield.

He hoped, perhaps believed, his resignation would lead to a rebellion against Brown and that David Miliband would become prime minister.

The hope of all hopes was that perhaps public outrage would move lawmakers to close the LLC loophole, «maybe level the playing field so we would have a shot against the real estate industry.

Mr. Kasich trails both of them badly in terms of delegate count, but has remained in the race in hopes of finding an opening, perhaps at a brokered convention, as the establishment pushes back against Mr. Trump.

There are few contenders in the mid-engine, rear - drive roadster game, perhaps because there's little hope against the stalwart Boxster.

Now perhaps I'm missing something, maybe there really are hordes of parsimonious consumers spending hours wandering around high street book stores, scanning barcodes and checking the prices against Amazon in the hope of saving themselves a few quid.

It would take a fine touch, especially in the cold, a fine touch against the cold and with shaking hand perhaps I could just... To my attic, in the cold, in the night, in the dark, I said silent prayer and hoped and with only my lightest touch in the cold and the dark reached forth and...

Perhaps conditions will remain in place for investors to benefit from these allocations, but the possibility for retrenchment can also be convincingly argued: bond markets allow creditors to borrow against the future, and eventually the future tends to conform to harsh (but logical) economic realities, not feel - good hopes and fictions.1

How this works against the Xbox1 and Microsoft, is the fact bad news travels fast, so when this sale is all said and done, there will still be mumblings in the air as to how Microsoft lowered the price of the Xbox1 and also gave away a free game, this in itself will encourage would be buyers to hold off purchasing in the hopes that another sale would perhaps happen, it also compounds the ability for Microsoft to sell the Xbox1 at a consistent pace, they will see boosts, then sharp decline in sales due to those waiting on these specific deals.

Perhaps it was the lack of commitment to conservation in the current IWC «compromise» proposal that finally pushed them over the edge, but the Australian government has announced that it will move forward with an international court case against Japan in the hopes of seeking justice for whales.

Similar to the «flagpole» approach, with one difference: the lawyer hopes that if he / she makes enough arguments, whatever their merits, perhaps the judge will «give him one» so as not to appear prejudicial against him.