Sentences with phrase «at a distance because»

9 «And the kings of the earth who committed fornication with her and lived in shameless luxury will weep and beat themselves in grief over her, when they look at the smoke from the burning of her, 10 while they stand at a distance because of their fear of her torment and say, «Too bad, too bad, you great city, Babylon you strong city, because in one hour your judgment has arrived!»

Only man can perform this act of setting at a distance because only man has a «world» — an unbroken continuum which includes not only all that he and other men know and experience but all that is knowable now and in the future.

In fact, Nancy Cooke, a professor of cognitive science and engineering at Arizona State University's College of Technology and Innovation in Mesa, Ariz., argues drone pilots may be more emotionally impacted by killing at a distance because of how closely they have to monitor the situation before, during and after the attack.

Although Doty continued to guide the scientific activities of his laboratory, he began in the late 1950s to do so at a distance because of his increasing concern with atomic disarmament issues.

I noticed her at a distance because of her striking red hair.

I've only been able to follow the discussion at a distance because I don't have much of an appreciation for varves and their subtleties; but you've elucidated a lot of the material.

Not exact matches

Nick Symmonds, an American middle - distance runner who won a silver medal at World Championships in Russia in 2013, was booted from Team USA for the 2015 games in Beijing because he refused to wear Nike at team functions.

Go some distance away, because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.»

But at least she gets this right: «Brideshead mattered so much to Evelyn because he put so much of himself into it: his distance from his father, his sentimental education of Oxford, his early love affairs, his initiation into the aristocratic world of the Lygons [model for the novel's Marchmain family], his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his abortive love affair with the Army....

How often is it experienced as an encounter with the Christ who himself still has a future precisely because the lives of those he loves, with whom he wills to remain in solidarity in the Eucharist, are still at a distance from completion?

Partly because of the opposition of Communist countries, The United Nations has kept itself at some distance from faith communities, although Religious NGOs have, for many years, made a contribution at certain levels, in particular to specialist agencies.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

But because the two of you are, close, you will disappoint your friend more than will someone at a distance.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

Such an assumption blocks the road of inquiry, whereas the assumption that all particles of matter may be continuous leaves the road open to the possibility of eventually explaining action at a distance, starting with the hypothesis «that one portion of matter acts upon another because it is in a measure in the same place.»

Not true Ken, in this case, there is God, who revealed Himself directly to the prophets, and at time Israel, but God distanced Himself because people were still disobedient.

We're going to discuss this at length once I do the one year recap post on life as an ex-long distance runner turned heavy weight lifter (because I'm a firm believer that the shift in my training regimen is what sparked the shift in my diet), but for now you should know that not much is going to change around these parts.

It is down to us to remain as consistent as we are at the moment, and we can look back with a little distance and up front because Man City are [there] and we have to wait to see their result.

Although Nicklaus swung easily at the Bell Atlantic because he wanted to avoid possible reinjury and because he still lacks strength (he averaged only 257.2 yards off the tee, which put him 64th in driving distance in the 76 - man field), he's convinced that he's capable of making a better swing than he has in years.

She finished the three miles and was proud of herself, so she looked for a 10K to run because her father loved that distance, and she wanted to honor him after his death from an unexpected heart attack at 49.

Our player saves it and clears it off the line straight off the pitch — you will see at least 10 times in a weekend of football that a player shoots and is then connected with by the opposition — these are not fouls because the advantage is the shot and once it has been taken as long as the ball is out of playing distance of the fouled player then the foul is irrelevant.

The Woodward, run for only the 10th time last week, is an important race for us because for the first time each fall it brings together — or tries to — the best older horses and top 3 - year - olds on a weight - for - age basis at the Kentucky Derby distance of a mile and a quarter.

Off topic anyone notice how ozil was used on the left wing last season and the first part of this season and he was under performing fans and pundits were all saying how wenger should build the team around ozil since that was his best position and he cost us 42m well since his return he has only played either cam or right wing (he said in a interview that those were his fav positions since he played them at real) taking the place of an in form cazorla and it all seems to work I think wenger has done this all on purpose because if u look at ozils overall performance after his injury its much better than before, he tackles, wins the ball back and covers more distance than anyone else wenger does this often using players out of position for a while only to make their overall game better and mostly it works genius

Weill did not sign Foster — another manager did — but Mushky stayed at a discreet distance because, as he says, «Who's gonna interfere with anything that Weill started out to do?»

I am one of Ozil critics, nothing personal at all, just I'm a fan of hard working players that is not only about distance covered but the effectiveness because you might just roam the pitch with no any significant effect (defense or attack).

Coaches traditionally shy away from long - distance attempts, because opponents get the ball at the spot of the miss and often need only a couple of first downs to move into scoring position.

Pace has skyrocketed recently (meaning a lot more miles traveled per minute, leading to more total distance per minute and also higher average speed so less time resting those legs at slow speed) and also defenses now have to be everywhere (before defense wasn't as tiring as it's now because every player didn't need to cover as much ground as they do now).

True with this squad at the moment we won't be winning the league, the reality is that we are not within touching distance because we finished 12 points behind Chelsea, this means we need to win 4 more games next season just to get the same points total as the champions did last season

Black Africans do better at short distance events because of biologically superior muscle type and bone structure.

Carzola is better at ball retention because of dribbling skill and he is threat to shoot from distance.

We pretty much ate at two restaurants because they were within walking distance — La Petite Cafe and Tulips.

I run on a treadmill (I switched to distance at week 3 because I'm too slow to run 5k in 20 - 30 minutes) so that I could tell myself, «another quarter mile and you can walk.

This means that as you walk away, your baby is now more aware of the distance that separates you and he will yell at you because the increasing distance between you and him is confusing and a bit scary.

An unassisted home birth may be your only option if you can't find a provider who will attend your birth at home because of distance or other factors, or if you are strictly against birthing at a hospital or birth center.

We are promoting this natural instinct because mothers want to see and touch the baby at a very close distance (as much as the baby needs to see mother's face).

I know a lot of people cringe at the thought of traveling with their kids for any distance, because kids have a...

We chose ACE because it was the only curriculum at the time which provided a distance - learning certificate programme (the National Christian Schools Certificate) without exams which is acceptable at British universities.

«You can not just stand at a distance and look at two items and determine that the cost of the item must be this, just because you are looking at it from a distance... and, so, when you have a new breed of political quantity surveyors, who can just stand and look at something and say it's too expensive then you have a problem,» Mr Mahama said.

Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra 100.5 FM on Friday December 16, Mr Afotey Agbo said: «Some of our people (agents) were not vigilant at the polling stations because instead of sitting close to the polling officers who were issuing the ballot papers, they were asked to keep a distance and out of ignorance or influence, they did.

It can be more difficult to figure out what the priorities of the island are compared to other hamlets because distance provides a challenge, Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell said Tuesday at a Town Board work session.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

To remove any doubts the UCI should now increase the minimum gap to 30 meters, because at that distance the effect of team cars is negligible.

The skinny black line on a plot of stellar rotation speed versus distance was expected to go down — stars close to the galactic center should orbit faster than stars at the edge because all the mass concentrated at the center of the galaxy pulls most powerfully on the closest stars.

The spring is probably tendonlike collagen tissue, and the latch that releases it is most likely another muscle, because the salamanders can vary the speed and distance as they snap at their prey.

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

They seem so different because the angle at the lower left corner of the green table makes it appear more «vertical,» as though its back edge is receding into the distance.

This scenario naturally produces a planetary system just like our own: small, rocky planets with thin atmospheres close to the star, a Jupiter - like gas giant just beyond the snowline, and the other giants getting progressively smaller at greater distances because they move more slowly through their orbits and take longer to hoover up material.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

The pulsars can't be seen individually, the researchers say, because they're incredibly small, whereas the width of an image pixel at the distance of the galactic center is about 50 light - years across.

Because particles also behave like waves, they are smeared out over a distance that decreases with increasing energy — at LHC energies, about 1019 meter.