Sentences with phrase «as a desert for»

I've never made a cake or a pie in my life, but I recently turned to a plant - based diet and I wanted to make something special for my friends as a desert for new years eve.

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When Williams created «Cool Flash for the Hot Flash» topical cream as a natural solution for hot flashes, he drew upon an unusual remedy an on - set medic used when he was shooting a production in sweltering desert heat as his inspiration for the product.

Our post-offering organizational structure will allow the Continuing LLC Owners to retain their equity ownership in Desert Newco, an entity that is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, in the form of LLC Units.

Desert Newco is currently, and will through consummation of the reorganization transactions, be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal and most applicable state and local income tax purposes.

Biosphere 2, a massive science facility tucked away in the desert foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, was built originally for controversial space exploration experiments (such as whether astronauts could survive in a closed environment for two years).

A government statement about the commission noted that the development of the province was important to the crown prince's plans for the kingdom, known as Saudi Vision 2030, and last week the Saudi news network Al Arabiya reported that Prince Mohammed had posed for selfies there with locals while touring the desert on a four - wheeled buggy.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Desert Newco is currently, and will be through consummation of the Reorganization Transactions, treated as a partnership for U.S. federal and most applicable state and local income tax purposes.

Our post-offering organizational structure will allow the Continuing LLC Owners to retain their equity ownership in Desert Newco, an entity that is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, in

Under the first of those agreements, we generally will be required to pay to the Continuing LLC Owners approximately 85 % of the applicable savings, if any, in income tax that we are deemed to realize (using the actual applicable U.S. federal income tax rate and an assumed combined state and local income tax rate) as a result of (1) certain tax attributes that are created as a result of the exchanges of their LLC Units for shares of our Class A common stock, (2) any existing tax attributes associated with their LLC Units the benefit of which is allocable to us as a result of the exchanges of their LLC Units for shares of our Class A common stock (including the portion of Desert Newco's existing tax basis in its assets that is allocable to the LLC Units that are exchanged), (3) tax benefits related to imputed interest and (4) payments under such TRA.

A theologically based concept of reconciliation favors a restorative rationale for punishment, one that does not dispense with desert but that construes the purpose of punishment as repairing ruptures in right relationship.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»

He finds it appealing to appear in the middle of a desert to uneducated people after allowing humans to suffer for over 100 THOUSAND years just to be tortured by humans as to allow HIMSELF to forgive his own creation.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

One regrets that in the interview Percy did not underline more firmly the relation of this fascination with the unreal as if real, this malaise of the modern mind, by turning to that other hero, who once for all rescued sign in relation to place, the Christ on the altar, in Whom the Word is a presence orienting time and place, the abiding Signpost in the desert.

As he looks into the eyes of the son he has bound for slaughter, he can now overcome the emotional deadness that allowed him to cast Ishmael off into the desert.

Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother Church, encountering different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.

Christine and her friends navigate dating, plans for the future and the hierarchy of the high school - pecking order as news coverage of missiles firing in the desert flash on non-flat-screen box TVs which stick out like relics from a bygone era.

One of the desert fathers tells us, «To my mind there is no labour so great as prayer to God: for when one wishes to pray to God, the hostile demons make haste to interrupt the prayer, knowing that their sole hindrance is in this, a prayer poured out to God... Prayer is the burden of a mighty conflict to one's last breath.»

Through Grey's eyes, we accompany these women as they trudge day and night through the desert in search of water for drinking and washing.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

The Qur» an, which was revealed almost fourteen centuries ago, and the Traditions concerning the Prophet who lived that long ago exclusively in a desert society can not serve as explicit guides for every situation which might arise centuries later, and especially in the complex societies of the present day.

7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: «Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.

As far back as Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocencAs far back as Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocencas Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocence.

For one, they fail to understand the reframing of the question as one of defense, which is what I called in my essay the subordination of the grammar of desert to that of the common good.

It is for such reasons that in the past those who were deserted by a spouse were stigmatised in some communities; the fact that divorce was viewed as wrong made it easy to conflate feelings for those involved with disapproval of the objective evil of divorce.Likewise those who genuinely find that they are attracted to persons of the same sex have been unjustly stigmatised and alienated.

So, too, the life of faith is a life of emptiness and darkness in the desert where one's truth and certainty as food for the journey are not a verifiable and present truth but a promise, just as the manna was a promise of the land flowing with milk and honey.

* Poustinia is a Russian word for desert and it refers to a way of prayer that is more Eastern: silence, solitude, fasting and prayer with only the Scriptures as spiritual food.

A beautifully written piece of literary criticism that mines the depth of the connection between O'Connor's achievement as a novelist and her quest, in imitation of the desert fathers, for aloneness with God.

Beneficiaries of the status quo see agitators for greater justice as a clear and present danger to their own just deserts.

As he wrote to Karl Barth, he found little support for his views, even among friends, and had decided «to go for a while into the desert.»

Which would be handy for anyone, but particularly for people stranded in the desert, who will not only be drinking water made from bug technology, but will, in all likelihood, be eating bugs as well.

The desert and mountain remain for us, as they were for Jesus, settings for silence and prayer.

Al - Noor sura 24: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are as a mirage in a deserAs for those who disbelieve, their deeds are as a mirage in a deseras a mirage in a desert.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual beadesert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual beaDesert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

It is a masterpiece of dramatic irony; for while ostensibly Jesus is on His trial before council, king and governor, we are clearly aware that the real prisoners in the dock are Caiaphas, Herod and Pilate, the priests and the blind mob, as well as the traitor Judas and the disloyal disciples who denied and deserted their Master.

They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»

As is explained on its website: «The college will develop and enrich the cultural and educational life of our country; and respond to Benedict XVI's call for a New Evangelisation, bringing life to «the interior desert that results when man, wishing to be the only builder of his own nature and his own destiny, finds himself devoid of that which constitutes the foundation of all things»» (Motu proprio Ubicumque et semper, October 2010).

But Satan is called the Tempter for a reason: He will exploit any weakness, even as he attempted to cause a weakened Christ to sin in the desert.

But we must not begin to think that because the law worked for Moses and the Israelites 3500 years ago as they wandered around a desert that it will work for us today.

As I said long ago,» the evolutionary vigor of Mankind can wither away although it be surrounded by mountains of coal, oceans of petroleum and limitless stocks of corn; it can do so as surely as in a desert of ice, if Man should lose his impulse, or worse, develop a distaste for ever - increased growth «in complexity and consciousness»As I said long ago,» the evolutionary vigor of Mankind can wither away although it be surrounded by mountains of coal, oceans of petroleum and limitless stocks of corn; it can do so as surely as in a desert of ice, if Man should lose his impulse, or worse, develop a distaste for ever - increased growth «in complexity and consciousness»as surely as in a desert of ice, if Man should lose his impulse, or worse, develop a distaste for ever - increased growth «in complexity and consciousness»as in a desert of ice, if Man should lose his impulse, or worse, develop a distaste for ever - increased growth «in complexity and consciousness».

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.

Some churches use special unleavened wafers, which recall the manna or «bread from heaven» which God provided for the children of Israel as they wandered in the desert.

Here we find not only our earliest creation story (that of the first chapter of Genesis, as we shall note presently, came much later) and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden for their disobedience, but also the doings of the patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joseph in Egypt, Moses leading his people through the desert, Joshua leading them in their rugged attempts to gain a foothold in Canaan.

John Cahill on an enthusiastic and thorough explanation of Confession; Robert Wilde finds God in the desert of the heart, mind and world; Suzanne Stevenson on Christ in Gethsemane as a source of consolation for those suffering from depression; James Prior on two attempts to reconcile creation and evolution which fail to convince and Christopher Jackson finds much to recommend in a guidebook for Catholics at or going to university.

The hours of my penance lengthen, The penance established for me by the editor of this magazine, And those hours may be numbered as the sands of the desert.

As for Hezekiah, the terrifying splendor of my majesty overcame him, and the Urbi and his mercenary troops which he had brought in to strengthen Jerusalem, his royal city, deserted him.

Moses as well was Egyptian and on the exudes him and his people were turned to wander the deserts... those all from the area are descendants of those that were moving for centuries between reigns surrounding the area and they have every right for the holy land as any one else... Just remember that the ottoman army & leaders were all brought on their childhood from East Europian countries and then they got them educated and trained to lead the empire interests... So the people whom you call wanderers are decedents of such as those and Arabs of the Arabian Penisuler whom are known to trade between areas in what is called the Summer and Winter trade movement...