Sentences with phrase «as the armor of»

It of course requires a lot of attention to the lore and its details as the armor of Space Marines is a highly complex defensive system with a thousand - year - old history, multiple variations, and subtle details.

The hate mail, also known as the Armor of Hades and devil armor, is a recurring set of armour in the Dragon Quest series.

The Tectonic Plate (formerly known as the Armor of Gaia / Gaia Armor) is a suit of armor that appears in Dragon Quest II.

Not exact matches

It's a kind of armor, says Gorkin, and as the condition deepens, that armor starts to show cracks: a slight can set off an overly sensitive reaction; envy a colleague's success starts to resemble sibling rivalry.

Being engineered as among the most survivable and heavily armored vehicles in existence, the Abrams tank is built to withstand a high degree of enemy fire, such some enemy tank rounds, RPGs, rockets and missiles.

Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.

There are national security implications, one of the officials said, from imports of steel alloys that are used in products such as the armor plating of ships and require a lot of expertise to create and produce.

The idea is to arm armored combat vehicles and tactical wheeled vehicles with additional protective technology to secure platforms and soldiers from enemy fire; vehicles slated for use of APS systems are infantry fighting vehicles such as Bradleys along with Stykers, Abrams tanks and even tactical vehicles such as transport trucks and the emerging Humvee replacement, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle.

In 2014, President Obama only half - jokingly announced that the U.S. government was building Iron Man, in the form of a «smart armor» known as TALOS.

At another point, he appeared dressed as Helios, the Greek sun god, wearing a green suit of armor designed by the same people who created the Iron Man costume for that movie.

Falstaff at war is a parody of the other knights: too fat to be hoisted onto a horse, he spends the battle as a tubby suit of armor, waddling from tree to tree, justifying his mid-battle feint of death with «the better part of valor is discretion.»

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

When I saw today's cartoon, I didn't assume you to be the one in the armor — on the contrary, I interpreted is as your poke in the eye of the whole «defending the faith» mindset.

Identifying a «chink» in your armor as a reason for the end of the pastoral relationship is IMHO is a thinly veiled act of burden shifting the ordeal to a «you brought this on yourself» rationalization.

And that is what I hope to provide for you today as we talk about putting on the third piece of spiritual armor — the sandals of the Gospel.

First, how the sandals were used by the Roman soldiers in battle, secondly, how we as Christians are to use them in spiritual battle, and finally, how we as Christians can put on this third piece of the armor.

And as we turn to Ephesians 6 today to study the fourth piece of spiritual armor, we will see that it is similar to what Joshua and Caleb had.

In the list of spiritual armor, we read about the sword, but as we will see when we study that item, it was a short sword used primarily for defense, not offense.

The problem with the «malnutrition» response is that the suits of armor were very expensive and contained intricate non-functional aspects such as engravings.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

He saw slips of the tongue, stumbles of the foot, harsh words blurted out in rage as no mere chinks in social armor but as enactments of the real self.

So how do we as Christians, put on this first piece of the armor — the belt of truth?

As we continue to look at the spiritual armor God has given us for our spiritual battle, we look at the ancient type of bulletproof vest — back then, they called it the breastplate.

Just as with the belt of truth, we will look at this second piece of the armor in three ways.

So it is with good reason today, as we turn to look at the spiritual armor which God has given for us to use in this spiritual war, that Paul begins his discussion with the belt of truth.

Hence, the final warning of the writer to «put on the whole armor of God» as protection against temptation.

The martial language of armor, breastplates, shields, and helmets disrupts the language of love as if to convey the fierceness of the temptation to fall back into the attitudes and habits associated with the old way of life (6:6 - 18).

Suddenly the bride of Christ is portrayed as the church militant, a people who will withstand evil in the world if they are clothed in «the whole armor of God.»

We feel that we are of the same kind, and we find that our very differences are a common armor, as though there were a dimension of life in which all striving makes for nearness, not only within a corporate body but heart to heart.

As such, the sword was a vital piece of the soldier's armor.

The final piece of spiritual armor which we have as Christians is the sword.

Today we cover the helmet of salvation, and just as with the other pieces of armor, we will look at three things.

Perhaps we're called to new way of living — to be engaged as agents of God's redemption, trading in our masks of self - proctection, and putting on the armor that equips us to engage in God's mission and love and reach out to others?

With all of that in mind, let's move on to discuss what the helmet is to be used for as part of the Christian's armor.

Our doing this as a function of our evolutionary status — «Our brains secrete bright ideas and forms of order; armored insects secrete wax from their backs» (p. 182)-- hardly seems cause for rejoicing.

At the popular level, however, it is often seen in heroic terms, as a David going bravely forth to battle the Goliath of scientific atheism clad in the armor of natural selection.

Almost all of the weapons and gear described above (and much more of the same, such as the «restricted» and armor - piercing Teflon - coated bullet) are readily available to all but the obviously insane, and much of it can be purchased by mail.

I agree with Mike on (Pursue an intimate relationship with Jesus as your lifelong goal) and here are the words of God, which actually an armor for all of us in our life, so: a Recite God's word.Psalm 119:11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

As we continue our study of Ephesians 6 and spiritual warfare, and although we have already talked about the six pieces of the spiritual armor which Paul mentions, we still have one vitally important piece left.

Whether the offended individual sits broken - hearted, staring almost like a beggar at the Paradox, paralyzed by his suffering, or he sheathes himself in the armor of derision, pointing the arrows of his wit as if from a distance — he is still passive and near at hand.

In the days of the invasions even abbots as well as bishops donned armor over their cassocks to repel raiders.

These vaults are considered an extension of its central vault where all cash deposited is applied the same day to the clients» account in Banco Popular as a provisional credit, even if an armored car did not pick up deposits.

As we slowed to watch a covey of quail, an armadillo turned its weak eyes toward us and plowed into a brush pile like an armored pig.

At midnight we were back in the village, feeling much, I suppose, as the English knights felt as they gave up the vain pursuit of an enemy that struck and disappeared, then came disconsolately home, sweating and clanking in their expensive armor.

The course snakes through skull - breaking rocks and trees, down drops as precipitous as the side of Boulder Dam — and the racer's only meaningful armor is the crash helmet that makes him look faceless and oddly sinister.

Since 2008, the city of Syracuse has been borrowing the BearCat armored vehicle as needed from the Onondaga County sheriff's office.

Nassau County jail's private medical provider, Armor Correctional Health Services, has agreed to pay $ 350,000 as part of a settlement with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

As such, TM provides an inner armor to protect police officers from the noxious effects of stress and negative experiences.

«I am proud to stand here today as the representative of the US secretary of defence, Ashton Carter, and commander and the representative of the US Africa command, General David Rodriguez, to present the donation of this 24 Mine - Resistant Armor - Protected (MRAP) vehicles to the Nigerian army,» he stated.