Sentences with phrase «as commands from»

hawaiiguest «Those things were all written as commands from that god.

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Harley, which commands about half of the U.S. big - bike market, has seen its U.S. market share erode in recent years as it grapples with an ageing customer base, weak demand from younger buyers and discounts offered by rivals.

Much of the cocaine from the region — Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru are the world's biggest producers — travels to the US, plying sea and air routes in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean, as shown by the map below, which was prepared by US Southern Command and displayed at the hearing.

Fisher, 38 years old at the time, was regarded as a wunderkind who had quickly risen through the ranks at Target's American command post in Minneapolis, from a lowly business analyst to leader of a team of 400 people across multiple divisions.

These run from discount clubs with memberships as low as $ 9.99 a month to high - end boutique studio sessions commanding over $ 50 for 45 minutes.

The command from the top could be as obvious as «I've got the ball on the Tipton account,» or as subtle as «Let me know when you're done with your analysis of the Tipton account — I want to take a look at your recommendations.»

Here's how to quickly position yourself as an authority that will command attention from your prospective audience before you have a laundry list of testimonials.

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

«Studio executives are coming to grips with the reality that they have as much chance of reversing the... shift of audiences from the theatre to the home as King Canute had in commanding the tide to recede.»

Scary as these experiences might have been, Cernan did not let them prevent him from commanding that final mission.

But as Coach reined in its prestige - sapping ubiquity, hired a hot fashion designer in Stuart Vevers and ramped up the caliber of its bags, as exemplified by its pricey but coveted Rogue line, it has been able to command ever higher prices, and more crucially, set itself apart from rivals like Michael Kors (kors) and Kate Spade (kate).

Phillips» story would be repeated again and again as the AP spoke to officials from the National Defense University in Washington to the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado.

This deal makes sense as it puts Verizon in a commanding role to deliver content on handsets and reap the rewards from the advertising.»

The company, which wants to serve as a Spotify or Netflix - style platform for audio, said Wednesday it is launching an integration with Amazon's Alexa platform, which will allow users to use voice commands to listen to radio - style shows and other audio content played from their Echo or Dot devices.

According to Wikipedia, strategy is from the Greek word meaning «art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship» and is defined as: a high - level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.

Named after a character from the Halo video - game series, Cortana responds to questions and voice commands, as well as being able to identify songs and flip a virtual coin.

FDD's Long War Journal tracked airstrikes in Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and Pakistan from publicly available press releases and inquiries with the relevant combatant commands as well as from press reports.

It commanded the biggest subscriber fees from traditional pay TV providers, and even if you imagined that one day people would start buying TV over the Internet from people like Apple, it seemed as though it would do just fine in that scenario, too.

This kind of classical free market viewed capitalism's historical role as being to free the economy from the overhead of unproductive «usury» debt, along with the problem of absentee landownership and private ownership of monopolies — what Lenin called the economy's «commanding heights» in the form of basic infrastructure.

The most important policy priority with respect to the Fed is protecting it from stone age monetary ideas like a return to the gold standard, or turning policymaking over to a formula, or removing the dual mandate commanding the Fed to worry about unemployment as well as inflation.

This means car owners will be able to use Tmall Genie, the top - selling voice - controlled speaker in China, to monitor their fuel levels, mileage and the status of the engine and battery, as well as control car doors, windows and air conditioning, from home via voice command.

A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

Although they were successful in issuing commands such as switching the phone to airplane mode or manipulating the navigation system, the technique has significant limitations that will likely prevent cyberattackers from using it for evil (for instance, telling the device to visit a site where it would pick up a virus, or initiating outgoing calls to spy).

Furthermore, since, as is self - evidently apparent, the classes of beings are, at a command, in motion in a fashion a thousand times more well - ordered than that of an army, each group, from the stars, sun and moon and their motions to the flowers of the almond, displaying the decorations and uniforms the Pre-Eternal All - Powerful One has conferred on it, and the motion He has determined, in a way a thousand times more regular and perfect than that of an army — since this is so, the universe has an Absolute Ruler behind the veil of the Unseen, and its beings look to and conform to His command.

I'm all for letting you live your religious life as long as you don't harm others, but your religion contains words from your «god» that command harm to others.

I am stating that I KNOW that God spoke with The Prophet Joseph Smith, restored the Truth that had been lost from apostacy, and that we have been taking that message to the World ever since as we have been commanded to do.

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

His basic argument seems to be that although the people from Adam to Moses did not sin by breaking a command (as Adam did), they still suffered the consequences of sin (death).

Specifically, Christianists are linked with another «ism» — «dominionism» — a political ideology that interprets a passage from Genesis (1:26) as commanding Christians to bring societies under the rule of the Word of God.

«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»

And when his disciples James and John saw [this], they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

The fundamental source of Islamic legislation is the Qur» an, which has been proved beyond all doubt as God's own book brought down by His Prophet to guide the people to obey its commands and to refrain from actions which it prohibits.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

«As (U.S. forces) responded to the gunfire, reaching and boarding the Quest, the forces discovered all four hostages had been shot by their captors,» the statement from U.S. Central Command said.

So long as Christianity knows the Crucifixion as a vicarious sacrifice for a totally guilty humanity, as the innocent sacrifice of the eternal Son of God to a just but merciful Father, it can never celebrate the definitive victory of the Crucifixion; for such a redeemed humanity remains in bondage to the transcendent Judge, and must continue to be submissive to his distant and alien authority, ever pleading for mercy when it falls away from his absolute command.

Jesus, as described in the gospels, was at times assertive, forceful, commanding, and far from passive or pacifist — but not violent.

The command to have no other god but Him whom Christ revealed was never for Christians simply an invitation to forsake an old cult for a new, but was an announcement that the shape of the world had changed, from the depths of hell to the heaven of heavens, and all nations were called to submit to Jesus as Lord.

If they believed what they said that they do, they would (1) be happy and not feel the need to convert others — having no command from above to do so, nor any pressing natural law putting such a perrogative on them and (2) would see that athiesm is a loosing bet where the best outcome is not being wrong — as there is no outcome where they can be right, a negative can never be proven.

The residents were forced to flee their homes in 1981 after a member of a fundamentalist sect denounced the village as «communist» to the local military command because the people would not convert from Catholicism.

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

Virtually all previous representatives of the modern natural law tradition, including Grotius and even Hobbes, had in some way or other related natural rights to divine power or command, which served as the source for the directives of natural law notwithstanding that these did not derive from a divine telos or comprehensive purpose.

Jesus» emphatic command to heal the sick indicates that this discipleship leads to freedom from disease as well as from sin.

I do, however, also find it disturbing that while the Bible commands us to love, we are also commanded to be separate from the world, to be holy as Christ is holy, and yet these commandments are overlooked by the majority today.

It is also an assurance that these absolutely respected leading intellectuals from the 20th Century scholarship, of whom most were religious, have agreed to have each other's names associated with their own and that they felt comfortable with what each other were saying in an academic setting and commanded world - wide respect as conservative, careful, and sincere, life - long teachers, academics and scholars.

As you have heard from the beginning, his command is this: Live a life of love.»

Without carpets on the floor, with screams of command from the guards regularly punctuating the atmosphere, and with small three - men cells as the locus of ongoing physical tensions and arguments (homosexual rape is a scandalously regular form of violence), jail offers little opportunity for stillness and peace.

Probably the most difficult part of these commands from God is that God ordered the death of children and infants as well.

In this scene of dry death, Yahweh commands the prophet, «Prophesy [i.e., speak as prophet, speak prophetically, from the root nb»]... and say..., O dry bones, hear the Word of Yahweh!»

Rosenzweig accepts the command as from God and leaves open the question of whether the individual can fulfill it, whereas Buber remains close to the dialogue and makes the real question whether it really is a command of God to oneself.

The rest of Luke 6:35 and on into Luke 6:36 explains that aside from the reward we will get for doing what Jesus commands here, when we obey Him, we are behaving as God behaves.