Sentences with phrase «as a beacon pointing»

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For fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyond.

Babylonian kings stationed guards at regular points along the roads, and by about 650 BC the guard stations were equipped with fire beacons they could ignite as alarms to alert adjacent stations.

Furthermore, since the cells responsible for synthesising new bone tissue (osteoblasts) are known to attach close to the tip, it would appear that the electric field distribution signals this point as the centre of damage, becoming a moving beacon for repair efforts as the crack is healed.

Freo — as Fremantle is referred to — with its ubiquitous franchises and cappuccino bars, could be a stand - in for just about any major city in the developed world: «In the seventies the Strip had been a beacon of homely cosmopolitanism, a refuge from the desolate franchise dispensation stretching from sea to hazy hills,» Winton points out.

At 250m high, it's the perfect vantage point to sit back against the beacon and marvel at the wonderful day you had in this historic city as you watch the sun lazily set; the air punctuated with the sound of bagpipes ringing away from the Sword Dance.

Plus we haven't even seen much of Crackdown 3 in recent times so there's very little point in bringing it up as a beacon of hope when it could just flop critically as well.

The about - to - retire Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Phil Radford, unabashedly points to Ross Gelbspan as «the lone voice, the moral compass, the beacon that has inspired countless people, me included, to demand our country and our future back from the coal and oil interests behind global warming» (full text here).