Sentences with phrase «beacons of»

Writer - director Kelly Reichardt returns to the American frontier with Certain Women, though the bleak, unforgiving plains featured in her 2011 western Meek's Cutoff are now encrusted with Starbucks and Jiffy Lube and and Pizza Hut, beacons of capitalism peppered across the howling void.

Against a monochromatic dark landscape, they were brilliant beacons of vitality.

Weather advisories showing up on the phone as orange beacons of alarm.

The eyes have long been considered the windows to the soul — and in the ancient Indian world of silken veils and secret glances, they were beacons of depth, knowledge, and strength.

These professionals have become beacons of physical health and business models entirely unto themselves.

When I was a child, I looked up to police officers as beacons of peace and justice.

But we haven't fully connected our theories to what we observe, especially with quasars, these incredibly bright centers of very distant galaxies that serve as beacons of the early universe.

Astronomers see hints that two distant quasars, beacons of energy powered by matter spiraling into gigantic black holes, are wrapped in cocoons of gas the size of our Milky Way.

We may imagine stars to be unchanging beacons of stability, but of course they're not.

Like the cosmos littered with stars, the dark ages were sprinkled with beacons of scientific light.

But there are lots of initiatives around the world, little beacons of light.

LIKE the cosmos sprinkled with stars, medieval times were dotted with beacons of scientific light.

The best iced out watches are shimmering, shining beacons of personal style.

«The NASUWT's Gender Equality Challenge will identify beacons of good practice and give schools the opportunity to be publicly recognised for their efforts on gender quality so they can act as an inspiration for other schools.

The total cost to the taxpayers of Florida as these beacons of tried to ram their agenda down our throats?

Our children can be invaluable beacons of light, illuminating our emotional dark corners to catalyze deep healing and open us to extraordinary dimensions of love and acceptance.

I love Errea, they are one of the few beacons of hope among a sea of identical kits.

Mains knows the value of Crocodile's 1,000 - megawatt smile: «We'd like the captain and crew to become shining beacons of capitalism,» he says, only half - facetiously.

Depending on your perspective, the journey into college sports» heart of darkness, or depending on how you look at it, one of its most inspiring beacons of light, begins as the sun sets on the West Memphis, Ark., home of Daniel Bandy.

Since the Chicago brewpub debuted in 2010, it's become oneof the beacons of the Windy City's beer scene, cranking out uncompromising — yetbalanced — ales such as the citrusy Anti-Hero IPA and chocolaty Eugene Porter.For sheer drinkability, though, we dig Rosa.

* I refer only to the loud hypocritcal ones that make themselves beacons of intolerance, not the huge group of lovely people out there who just quietly live the way their conscience tells them too (which is what Jesus told them to do)

When we refuse to give God anything less than our best — especially in the moments that seem meaningless or difficult — we become beacons of hope for people.

The heroes adored by modern society are not beacons of moral self - righteousness who stand on unattainable peaks of principles and practices.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

This same lady in 1972 also saw a vision of the nation in darkness with scattered beacons of light which grew and ultimately came together in a great breakthrough of light.

Some even persecute and throw out the beacons of their ministry for not being patriotic enough.

Your right, we should all try to be more like those secular beacons of leadership of the last century You know.

However, if we show compassion, forgiveness, and understanding we will not carry the burden anymore and we can also be beacons of tolerance.

«It marks not only the place I hold as the Church of England's first woman Bishop and the sign of hope that may be for those who aspire to break new ground, but also the continuing fruitful dialogue between faith and learning and our shared endeavour to be beacons of possibility.»

May they continue to be beacons of light in an often dark scene of moral and spiritual confusion in modern Britain.

While not denying the wrongs committed, the Crusader kingdoms were at times relative beacons of culture and tolerance.

I encouraged the Church to engage in a compassionate, respectful and honest conversation about our attitude and response towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual (LGBT) people; a respectful dialogue that might lead to our churches becoming beacons of inclusion.

our once beacons of light continue to endorse moral and cultural relativism.

Whether they're looking after our babies, infants, toddlers, or school - aged beacons of joy, we're able to work and take care of our other obligations with more ease when we know that our kids are safe, secure, and well looked after while in their care.

In fact, the majority of store chains, malls and shopping centers have become beacons of boredom, monuments to mediocrity...

When I first started investing, I clung on to rules of thumb as beacons of certainty that I could navigate by.

First, the report also tracks action at the provincial level, and several provinces that had marketed themselves as beacons of virtue in contrast to Harper — Ontario, British Columbia and Manitoba under its former NDP government — turn out to have underperformed, too.

After all, entrepreneurs have to be beacons of hope and positivity to keep going when the going gets tough.

Canada, so far, is one of the few beacons of liberal openness remaining.

He's someone I truly look up to, and I feel so lucky that we have him in this world, sharing himself as a beacon of hope to people all over.

We can tell them that America remains a beacon of hope, but we must stay humble and serve our country, abroad and in communities, to earn her freedoms,» he wrote.

Become a beacon of enhancement and then when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

We are that beacon of light for people for finding success from hard work and making a contribution.»

«Before we are critical about our immigration policy, the fact that the U.S. is the beacon of hope and the attractor of talent from all over the world is something that we should hold as precious,» he said.

It was an unfortunate development, especially considering stock repurchases have been a beacon of hope during the toughest times for equities, providing appreciation even when the market was devoid of other positive catalysts.

«They had an opportunity, instead of being Penn State, to make them a beacon of how to handle this,» Manly said.

In her remarks, Trump described India as «a thriving economy, a beacon of democracy, and a symbol of hope for the world.»

«Try to be a beacon of rationality by posing the «what ifs» to your boss, and point out the positives of the situation with real facts,» Taylor said.

Mohamed Alabbar, chairman of Emaar Properties, espoused in a prepared statement that the building would be «a shining beacon of hope for the world, celebrating diversity and human achievements.»

Turns out, the moon isn't just a beacon of light in the night sky.