Sentences with phrase «against the rocks of»

You are simply looking and waiting for others to crash against your rock of belief with a no or get on board with a yes.

Half a mile away on the other side of Victoria Street, sitting inside the Department of Work and Pensions, remains Iain Duncan Smith, a man who has seen his welfare reforms repeatedly crash against the rocks of Whitehall's information technology, a self - deluding good news culture and the messy reality of the lives of benefit claimants.

In «Tully» Theron again plays a character crashing against the rocks of life's chosen paths, this time while dealing with the daunting experience of raising other human beings.

Looking north over Oneloa Bay and out to Honolua Bay the sound of the majestic waves rolling on to the beach and crashing against the rocks of Makaluapuna Point at Kapalua Resort will have you spellbound.

After all the hope and all the hype, the mobilisation of thousands, a wave of optimism crashed against the rock of global power politics, fell back, and drained away.

HTC dashed itself against the rocks of smartphone speakers and now there are BoomSound - rivalling speakers on the Galaxy S9 +.

Not exact matches

Dressing up as your favorite rock star is great on Halloween, but I'd advise against it every day of the week.

The dollar rallied as much as 2.5 % against South Africa's rand to 13.613, its highest since early February, after President Jacob Zuma fired finance minister Pravin Gordhan in a cabinet reshuffle following days of speculation that has rocked the country's markets and currency.

When nine women came forth with sexual misconduct allegations against his father, playwright Israel Horowitz, in The New York Times, Beastie Boys member Adam «Ad - Rock» Horovitz, 51, made headlines when he publicly took the side of the women who came forth.

Facebook users across the US are «checking in» at Standing Rock, a Native American reservation at the heart of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Woodley, who is known for her environmental activism, has previously joined members of North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protest against the proposed construction of the $ 3.7 billion project.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

Kvisle's aware of the pressure and the daunting odds against the natural - gas - weighted producer in an era of fracking - induced abundance and rock - bottom prices.

Grief turned into motivation as we launched Susan's Rock, a branch of the BDA Cares Foundation dedicated to the prevention of violence against women and children.

Over the past few years, allegations ranging from verbal harassment to rape have rocked the careers of these men against a backdrop of increasing awareness about harassment.

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In case you've been living under a rock for the last few years, Japan's PM, Shinzo Abe's «Abenomics» (which is just Japan's colloquial term for our own QE that Bernanke put in motion), has caused the Yen to devalue by over 50 % against the dollar since the beginning of 2013.

Gibraltar Industries Inc (NASDAQ: ROCK) reported an adjusted EPS and sales beat before the open Thursday, but released mixed first - quarter guidance, with a 23 - to -28-cent adjusted EPS expected versus a 30 - cent consensus estimate, and sales of $ 213 - 220 million against a $ 215.4 - million estimate...

After I had pushed back some, in part by noting wm's love of some rock music, in part by pointing to the old Puritan case against Shakespearean drama, he replied:

And a few of us remember from the No Left Turns days that, while ultimately not agreeing, he admitted the power of a Christian and virtue - ethics «media - fasting» case made against all TV by the commenter «wm.» «Wm» is a very erudite and Catholic (and yet also rock - attuned) professor whose identity I'll reveal if I get permission, and here's a taste of what he said in that thread:

Christ step up the Catholic Church when he said in Matthew 16 «Thou art Peter (which means «rock» in aramaic) and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it».

When Peter is the one who recognized Jesus as the messiah, Jesus told Peter he was blessed because only His Father in Heaven could have revealed it to him, not a flesh and blood person, so Jesus told Peter He was going to build His Church upon this rock [Peter] and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Hundreds of people have been camping out and standing against the construction of the pipeline, according to reports, because they think the whole project poses a major environmental threat to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its cultural sites.

Let yourself be all of the mother that you are — when you yell or get frustrated, when you ask forgiveness, when you feel your heart straining against your rib cage, all because of how he looks asleep in your arms, all because of the sound of childish voices laughing outside, all because of the quiet nights in the monastery of the baby's room, just rocking in a time outside of time, it's all real and it's all you and it's all okay.

* Matthew 27:51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; * 1st Samuel 18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.

A man at the end of his rope decides to hope against all the odds, to remember the Rock when he feels himself to have been left in the dust: «For I shall again praise him, my help and my God.»

Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

I was hoping to see something like killing all women, children and and smashing the heads of babies against rocks like in the bible.

@hebgb - i guess you are exactly right and America has NEVER had crimes committed against women, children, elderly, special needs nor have any «red blooded» americans ever blown up their own people... come out from the rock you live under and get some fresh air of reality.

I can only think of Jesus» statement to Peter «upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it».

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

Psalm 137:8 - 9 «O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us - he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.»

As I gaze out my window, for example, the data of my experience include people and cars, rocks and trees, the breeze against my face, the ideas I am entertaining, and the sensation of my elbow against the table on which I lean.

For example, there is the distinction which men make between themselves as souls, selves, or thinking beings, over against the inanimate world of rocks, trees, and mountains.

And classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult for them to have a passionate relationship to the art and thought that are the substance of liberal education» (p. 79).

If you were to go to Times Square in New York City — which recently fell to the bottom 10 (No. 91) of the Barna Group's list of most Bible - minded cities — and throw a rock, I bet you'd hit someone who could answer in detail the question, «What is Jesus against?»

If we want to know how that would develop we can read it and find it in the Gnostics, against whom the Gospel of St John was the great rock of support and document of clarity of the Fathers of the Church.

Matthew 16:18 «And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT!!!

They tore away Children our of their Mothers arms, and dash'd out their Brains against the Rocks; others they threw in the River, diverting themselves with this brutish Sport, and giving great shouts while they saw»em in this misery.»

I've read tales of Spanish Conquistodoros in the 16th century killing Indian babies by taking them by the heels and bashing their brains out against rocks after they were baptized by priests, so that they might enter heaven, to ensure that they wouldn't grow up to become heathen adults.

ROMNEY to me maybe a Mormon, but his values & proven record, do not go against Christian principles, as opposed to Obama who claims to be a Christian but his record prove otherwise... NO TO PRO ABORTION CANDIDATE, NO TO PRO MURDER OF INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS... YESSSSS ROMNEY ROCKS!

Dear WOW, And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build MY CHURCH, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Then Jesus replies with the ever contentious (since the orthodox split at least) verse «You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hades will not prevail against it».

The scripture states that upon a huge rock (Petra) I will build my assembly (church) and the gates of hell (the grave) will not stand against it.

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

They sense the anti-Christian value system it carries and counsel believers to return to religious fundamentals which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays, and rock concerts, and attempts at censorship of media, especially films, TV, and books.

H. Richard's view of human limitation is expressed in his understanding of God as the structure in all things, «the rock against which we beat in vain, that which bruises and overwhelms us when we wish to impose our wishes, contrary to his, upon him.»

I held her upright against me, her left ear pressed just below the hollow in my throat, the curve of her small head fitting just underneath my chin, her hands were tucked in, her legs wrapped around my soft stomach, and we rocked together.

If you were to ask a group of Quakers or Mennonites whether it's OK for police or soldiers to use rubber bullets against rock - throwing children, you wouldn't be surprised if they said, «Absolutely not!»