Sentences with phrase «apparent defeat»

Not only through the ministry of his words and works, but through his death in apparent defeat and the triumph of his resurrection to be with us always as a Living Presence, God has acted for our healing.

Now, Brian lives by this credo: Feast upon uncertainty, fatten upon disappointment, invigorate in the presence of difficulties and enthuse over apparent defeat.

Speaking to the European Parliament in November 1989 at a time when socialist regimes were falling all over Central and Eastern Europe, the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie said, «The apparent defeat of communism in Europe should not be seen as a triumph of capitalism.

The hour of Jesus» apparent defeat in death is the hour in which this world is judged and «the ruler of this world» will be driven out (John 12:31).

This hope of great things yet to come through God's action in spite of the world's resistant forces must have nourished Jesus himself when faced with opposition and apparent defeat, and it was a note greatly needed by his followers.

Beyond its apparent defeat, he revealed thc power of this love to create in his disciples the faith and courage to become participants in the servant way.

Like the activist or guerrilla martyr, Christ's death is an apparent defeat that is in fact the leading edge of a new society in which the powers behind this death will themselves be overthrown.

The magnitude of the Republicans» loss was underscored by the apparent defeat of Diane McNally, the trustees» former longtime clerk who has served on the board for more than two decades.

In an interview with the New York Times, Sanders acknowledged in the strongest terms yet that Clinton's delegate lead might have closed off his path to the nomination, and he was less combative toward his party's front - runner in his moment of apparent defeat, taking a tone of cold realism, if not quite resignation.

Set a decade after the events of the original film and the apparent defeat of the kaiju, Uprising wastes no time introducing a post-kaiju world, only to disregard most of its intriguing ideas later on.

So the apparent defeat of clean diesel needn't mark VW's devastation.