Sentences with phrase «better than triumphing»

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Christianity did triumph because it was «true» or better than the other religious options out there.

Churchill had the global and historical understanding to grasp this fact, and enough American in him to reckon that America's chilly mercy would be better than Germany's smiling triumph.

Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.

Far more than is usually acknowledged, the security and well - being of the human community are dependent upon that great triumph of the symbolizing mind, bookkeeping.

Men have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... One could fill many pages with the reasons why men have done this, and not tell a hundredth part of them.

Anti-monuments are better suited to catastrophe than triumph.

Black Widow knew she deserved better than one 30 - second kick - butt scene in Iron Man 2, so she took the reins in Avengers, leading the team to triumph by using Loki's scepter to close the portal on the Chitauri invasion.

NOW the cross is the symbol of TRIUMPH over death of body and soul for Anyone who believes Christs message and hopes for something better than what you narrow, discouraging, hopeless naysayers have to offer.

If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in election, does this not render history a mere process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace, with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

It was a triumph of unusual sweetness for the silver - haired Taruffi, the «old fox,» who knew the Italian mountain roads better than any man but had raced in the Mille Miglia without success so many times before.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The fact that Wenger shares the record of most successful FA cup manager ever with another Arsenal boss George Ramsay gives him a good reason to love the famous old trophy, as does the fact that no club has won it more than the Gunners and that our recent back to back triumphs at Wembley ended the long wait for silverware that was becoming a massive monkey on his back.

Wenger certainly wants to add silverware to the FA Cup triumph last season, and what a better way to do that than by strengthen this position.

Protecting a nine - game unbeaten run that stretches back to their Community Shield triumph over Manchester City is one massive incentive for the players who do turn out on Tuesday, while there's also the small matter of surging to the top of Group C. Only a two - goal margin will suffice if United wish to take command of an incredibly weak group, and they may well achieve that goal against a team more renowned for their goalscoring exploits back home than for their staunch defending.

I am in awe of the dedication of midwives and personalized support they give... through educating mom's and dad's, spending all the time that is needed to counsel and answer questions and talk through fears / concerns / triumphs, prenatal care that is better than you can receive anywhere, continous hands - on assistance through labor & delivery and loving postpartum care.

This particular model is the second generation of Triumph Stroller, improved to serve you better than before.

Even the best ones... the really good authentic blogs that manage to share both the triumphs and the spilled sippy cups of parenthood... likely omit more of the imperfection than they include.

But triumphs in the field of AI are bringing to the fore questions that, until recently, seemed better left to science fiction than to science: How will we ensure that the rise of the machines is entirely under human control?

Clustering of galaxies along the vast ripples was predicted more than 30 years ago, so finally seeing the structures is a triumph, says astrophysicist Martin Rees of Cambridge University, U.K. «The concordant picture we have of the universe is hanging together extremely well.»

The subject is Harry's showdown with the malevolent Lord Voldemort, and I won't reveal more than I ought to, but it shouldn't be a great secret that good triumphs and evil is vanquished.

Kevin Kline is a triumph as the original Hollywood bad boy, Errol Flynn, who was better at playing his fizzy, rakish role off - screen than on.

Yet if Disney is distributing The English Patient and Sling Blade, and studio - controlled rather than independent theaters are showing all the best - picture nominees, calling these multimillion - dollar productions independent is merely an attempt to rationalize a process of upper - class decision making into something resembling a populist triumph.

It's an unambivalently grim shot that says more about the power of evil over good than the film eventually says about good triumphing evil.

They may well be the ones to beat, though Kate Winslet is not to be counted out — Helen Mirren also triumphed here, more than nine months after her Oscar win, for «The Queen.»

It was a year in which the triumphs were unexpected: a political documentary made for a better traditional comedy than any studio effort.

The central triumph of Black Panther, though it's merely one of many, is that the story Coogler and his cowriter, Joe Robert Cole, have devised is even better and richer than could have been imagined — not only because it owes so much to racial questions of the kind the Marvel Universe hasn't encountered before, but also because we're 17 movies deep into said universe and well versed in its foibles and missed opportunities.

The Triumph Tiger Explorer XCx is an updated version of Triumph's adventure bike, with the engine tuned to make more power, more torque and offer better fuel economy than the outgoing model.

Evil has triumphed over good and leading this new age is none other than Ultron, the deadly sentient robot created by founding Avenger Hank Pym who turned on his creator to achieve his twisted  objective... the utter destruction of humanity. Now, it's up to the few remaining heroes to band together and find any way to topple their new monarch.

If VII can not take the heat, then it falls and that's a good thing, If VII triumphs, we all win — we all then have a better and less risky way to invest then than any people coming before us ever had.

What better way to celebrate your team's triumphs and anguishes of the latest NFL season than by jumping right into EA's latest instalment of the Madden series?

The twists and turns are quite compelling as well, and more than once what should be a moment of triumph is turned into a frantic scramble to escape.

Screenshots and videos of CosmicBreak are a bit deceptive, as while the game mechanics look very much «MMO» in nature where tweaked stats triumph over good gameplay and the player merely targets an enemy to attack, the controls are very similar to most mecha games, albeit a tad simplified, and rather than equipment being the deciding factor, it's the pilot that makes the real difference.

The moment of triumph is all the sweeter if you had to work hard for it and some Final Fantasy bosses were better at putting up a fight than others.

television series — Rick's group of resolute, at times morally questionable but ultimately good band of survivors encounter an unscrupulous rival gang, more often than not led by a charismatic leader, who they then proceed to wage war against for a season or two before triumphing — it's fair to say that same sense of déjà vu hasn't affected Telltale Games» superb interactive drama series of the same name.

It is as if scientific truth equals the sum of all the papers produced on a scientific subject divided by their number, and that for truth and democracy to triumph, he just has to precis a sample of them, and distribute them between the categories of «worse...» or «better than previously thought», so that our minds can be made up by the law of averages.