Sentences with phrase «as gifts from»

Funds used toward closing costs can come from different sources, such as gifts from a family member.

Each play requires a Tombola ticket, which can be found in chests, as drops from enemies, or as gifts from regular customers to supported businesses.

Bresnu was chauffeur to the artist and received a number of drawings as gifts from him.

PAMM director discusses Craig Robins» donation of 100 contemporary artworks, as well as gifts from others, including museum namesake Jorge M. Pérez.

A high reputation with a faction or town may give certain benefits, such as gifts from the people of that town, while a low reputation may lead to hits being taken out against you.

Players also found out that The Dawning loot that could be obtained as gifts from vendors in the game couldn't be dismantled for Bright Dust.

You might even get fortune cookies as gifts from your animal friends.

The zoo keeps animals which were either orphaned, born at the zoo, rehabilitated animals, or sent to The Belize Zoo as gifts from other zoological institutions.

Wear good shoes to explore all 29 acres of savannas and exhibits and do ask your guide to point out the orphans, critters born at the zoo, lovingly rehabilitated creatures and animals received as gifts from other zoological societies.

One story claims that the dogs were given to the Japanese royalty in AD 732 as gifts from the rulers of Korea.

The English Toy Spaniel's ancestors came from the Far East to Europe during the 16th century, probably as gifts from Japanese Emperors to English royalty.

They were treasured by Muslims as gifts from Allah.

Samoyeds came to England in the late 1800s, sometimes as gifts from the czar of Russia.

And count both you and Francine as gifts from God.

Young Christopher (who everyone calls «Billy Moon») spends much of his days playing with the stuffed animals he's received as gifts from his parents — a bear, a tiger, a piglet, a donkey, and a kangaroo and joey.

Bridesmaids Dresses from Monsoon, Shoes John Lewis, Personalised Bracelets as gifts from Bride from local silversmith artist based at Anabis Leicester

Here are just a few of the special ornaments I mentioned above that we've received as gifts from those special people in our lives over the years...

We wanted to buy Chianti wines as gifts from this region itself.

I genuinely love that I always see pics of what you're going to be getting as gifts from Joel!

Research at the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology is funded by a major donation from the Simons Foundation as well as gifts from the Starr Foundation and Lavinia and Landon Clay.

Seen both as gifts from the gods and to the gods, these resins were thought to purify the dead and help them negotiate the final rite of passage to the afterlife.

But more than a few pebbles have gotten loose: A fistful of pea - size rocks were given away in the 1970s as gifts from the American government to each of the 50 states as well as to 135 other nations.

Dudafa, who appeared as Patience's first witness had also claimed that the $ 15.5 m seized from Patience by the EFCC was not proceeds of fraud but, «consisted of her personal inheritance and money which she held in trust for her siblings, as well as gifts from friends and well - wishers over the years.»

We received three such books — Ruth Stiles Gannett's My Father's Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, and The Dragons of Blueland — as gifts from friends and the books now are firmly entrenched in our bedtime (and sometimes morning) routine.

As gifts from sister to sister to best friend, Sakura Bloom was born.

For those looking for food on the go, Provisions will provide a marketplace with locally - sourced goods, freshly prepared bites from Chef Byrne, as well as gifts from Palm Beach shops and artists.

I have since made these nests as gifts from friends and true to my typical curious nature - I never make things the same ways twice.

I can see this in small jars as gifts from the family.

It's humbling to see one's life, talents, capabilities, values, weaknesses and strengths as gifts from one's parents.

Technically speaking, the hope is that I'd arrive at that conclusion because of having been trained in the school of thought that sees them as gifts from God, image - bearers, and that dying for another is to demonstrate and glorify the cross.

If we are able to accept the difficult circumstances that we experience in our families as gifts from God for our conversion, then there is hope.

We have questioned how a book as cynical and pessimistic as Ecclesiastes could have found its way into the canon, failing to see the text's central affirmation of our work and play as gifts from God to be enjoyed.

The one benefit the churches might possibly have provided that would almost surely have sustained their governance and influence over the universities and colleges was financial subsidy, whether as direct grants from the churches or as gifts from affluent church members.

There is no resentment or alienation, because he knows these judgments as gifts from God, as gratuitous rather than possessed or earned, and so he recognizes in the modern naysayer a person like himself, one who does not yet understand.

Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, and author of Anything You Want (When you buy any version of the book you can get 200 musical downloads as a gift from Derek).

If you've received a big check recently, such as a gift from family to help with a down payment, the lender may require a letter from the person who gave the money explaining that it's a gift and won't be required to pay it back.

Leveraging a fine donkey sent to him as a gift from the King of Spain, Washington became one of the foremost breeders and promoters of the American mule.

AOD, I think people write things down as a rememberance of God having interacted with them, as a gift from God.

steve martin July 21, 2009 at 6:32 pm «How can people tell other people to «have faith» if it is only there as a gift from God?»

When adoptive parents recount their emotions, their struggles, their worries and their faith, the clear theme emerges of receiving a child as a gift from God.

We become ourselves, as infants, by learning to love and to speak, and we have language in particular as a gift from other people.

«Because the «Evil One» wants us to fail, there is a temptation to claim this territory as our own and guard it — not as a gift from God but as the work of our own hands».

Luther viewed beer as a gift from God — something with the potential to be misused, but also something that could be used to honor the creator.

In the midst of the Church's bearing the everyday burdens of man, she discovers that the question of life addresses them in such a fashion that they themselves can ask about the meaning of life; to which query can be directed the witness that the meaning of life is to receive life as a gift from God.

But we must recognize that natural theology receives a basis on which to operate only as a gift from revelation.

This «economic man», as he came to be called, could hardly be more distant from the Christian idea that human nature is based on gift — life received as a gift from God, love given freely to other men.

They fail to see that self - commitment can be received only as a gift from God.

Tim Staffrd at Christianity Today with «John Stott Has Died» «Stott believed in the mind as a gift from God.

John the baptist was later beheaded as a gift from The kings Wife's daughter.

Hauerwas helped him to see children as a gift from God, and to see that a properly Christian question is how we can be open to receive the gifts of life God might give.