Sentences with phrase «brings upon greater»

And if they did that, they certainly were masochistic in nature — for they brought upon themselves great trials of which they could have put an end to at any time.

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Each of the companies are expanding upon «luxury» services previously reserved for a small segment of the population Today, technology brings each of these services to the fingertips of anyone willing to download an app and pay for the service, which are also made more affordable, as greater use and improved technology can bring prices down.

This prompted Chinese officials to counter U.S. attempts to blame it for running a trade surplus by retorting that U.S. financial aggression «risked bringing mutual destruction upon the great economic powers.»

Verses 5 - 8 describe more of this religious leader's pride in the context of what his end will be: «By your great wisdom and traffick have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches: therefore thus says the Lord God; because you have set your heart as the heart of God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you... they shall bring you down to the pit.»

Peter and Paul worked within imperfect systems because any outright challenge to the law of the land would bring persecution down upon the Church in great number.

70 brought to fulfillment those words of an even greater prophet, «There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down».

God arranges the encounter, «seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations shall be blessed in him,» and reveals for the first time His true interest in Abraham: «For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the ways of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice: to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him» (18:17 — 19; emphasis added).

In main of late a decade of republicans in govt / / having a extreme right wing agenda spurned on by their halfbaked crackpot religious ideas / beliefs / having brought upon humanity a river of blood a river of tears / great suffering.

In the first century, some of the most advanced of Jewish teachers, faced with the growing complexity of the system of ethics contained in the so - called Law of Moses and its constantly proliferating interpretations and supplements, were attempting to bring out its central or overruling intention by giving prominence to one or another «great commandment» upon which the rest might be supposed to hang.

But if a person brought great shame upon the town through committing various crimes, this also might lead to being removed from the roster.

In such ideas may lie the ancient meaning of the baptismal bath, which gave John the Baptist a right to employ it in connection with his preaching about the coming judgment: a voluntary and therefore precautionary forestalling of the great catastrophe which God had determined shortly to bring upon the world.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

If there is one thing we learn from Isaiah 54 about the flood, it is that although it appears as if God sent the flood as punishment, it actually came as a result of humanities departure from the protective hand of God, and because the destroyer had set out to bring destruction upon the people of the earth as the just consequence for their great sin.

The traditional reading of this account says that because God saw how great the violence was upon the earth, He decided to bring even greater violence.

On the other hand, pre-Vatican II Roman Catholics tended to see the Bible and «Tradition» (capitalized to indicate the great stress put upon it) as equally authoritative, although in our own time that Council's bringing the two into a unity has made considerable difference.

Aquinas reasoned: «To bring death upon oneself in order to escape the other afflictions of this life is to adopt a greater evil in order to avoid a lesser....

Together, they demonstrated that canonical learning could be brought to bear upon today's cultural products in a way that was illuminating, and that often led to greater appreciation of today's artists and their endeavors.

The theology of the twenty - first century will take as its starting point the urgent issues of the day, and it will bring to bear upon them multiple traditions, but of these the great tradition of European theology will be one, and a very important one.

This brought down upon him the enmity of the exponents of the popular and dominant Confucian teaching, which precisely during his own time was being expounded by the great Mencius.

Him and rozza can be great leaders and bring valuable experience and make impacts when called upon.

Something I think I flipped through upon bringing it home after her passing, but nothing I'd spent a great deal of time on.

Original birth certificates (OBC) and records were sealed from adoptees upon having been adopted — largely after WWII, when the stigmas of out - of - wedlock births, infertility, and adoption brought great shame.

«I want to encourage future filmmakers to build upon the success of the last few years and expand job opportunities by bringing even more productions to our great state,» Cuomo said.

Citing the number of great successes medical research has brought us — lifesaving drugs from penicillin to insulin, along with invaluable treatments and medical devices — he adds, «It's one more reason why we have to be appropriately skeptical, unafraid to speak out about misleading claims, and insistent upon holding clinical research to the standards of science.»

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver is upon us and we're bringing our popular Q & A interviews along for the ride, as we talk to 13 great...

[O] ur harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a more special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain, and others.

Hewing closely to Kenneth Slawenski's biography J.D. Salinger: A Life, Strong lays down the outline of Salinger's (Nicholas Hoult) life leading up to his reclusion in New Hampshire after Catcher in the Rye brought him infamy, hitting upon his turbulent college years, his fling with Oona O'Neill (Zoey Deutch), his myriad publishing trials, and his even greater test in World War II.

Either you will find yourself remembering its soft googly - eyed glances and honey - dipped seabreeze memories and recall your own past dalliances with a great lost love, or you will — like me — find yourself growing increasingly tired of the antics of a bunch of whiney, privileged nitwits who brought everything upon themselves.

Released: February 17 Cast: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Celia Imrie Director: Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) Why it's great: Once upon a time, Verbinski was set to bring the steampunk - with - an - Objectivist - twist video game Bioshock to the screen.

Reuniting with director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey), McKellen brings the world's greatest detective to life in a somewhat sedate mystery, more of an examination of the ravages of old age and senility, and the guilt that can prey upon those who have perhaps been a bit too insensitive.

Bad luck has dogged Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) and his family ever since his no - good - dirty - rotten - pig - stealing great - great - grandfather (Damien Luvara) crossed a Latvian gypsy (Eartha Kitt) and brought a curse upon the male members of the clan.

The betrayals brought on by sons and brothers, husbands and wives are foregrounded amid the greater betrayal of an ungrateful country (and its countrymen) that allows a black man to risk his life for it and yet remains unwilling to recognize his humanity (or more than three - fifths of it) upon his return home.

That brings the Sonata offering to a total of seven: the base SE, SEL, Eco, Sport, Sport 2.0 T, Limited, and Limited 2.0 T. Each builds upon each other for greater levels of equipment.

Ever since she had set up this agency, armed only with a copy of Clovis Andersen's The Principles of Private Detection - and a great deal of common sense - scarcely a day had gone by without her encountering some problem which people had brought upon themselves.

Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God's goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God's blessing.

They come into our lives and bring tremendous joy and happiness, and when they leave, they often impart a great sadness upon us.

BLEED 2 takes everything great about its predecessor and builds upon it, bringing even more replay value with an Endless mode and squeezing oodles of fun out of the content it does have.

Our porting business is built upon finding great games and finding opportunities to bring them to new platforms.

Announced back at E3 2017 during one of Nintendo's greatest E3 presentations in recent memory, Metroid Prime 4 looks to build upon an impressive resume set by the previous three games and bring yet another heavy hitter to Nintendo's hottest selling console.

The Eld Witch made her claim to fame by bringing great catastrophes upon the world years ago.

Blood ministration, the search for the Great Ones, and the aspiration to ascend is what ultimately brought the beast plague upon the citizens of Yharnam.

Bringing an experimental dynamic to book selling, Artbook devotes a large portion of its retail space to spotlight selections that change every several months, focusing in great depth upon different movements and themes in contemporary and 20th - century art.

It's great to see Galleries and Curators bring very different artists together and reflect upon such a sacred blueprint to our culture the letter.

Although born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1944 (as her psychiatrist father Erasmus Darwin Barlow, a great - grandson of Charles Darwin, was stationed there at the time), Barlow was brought up in London.

Yes, a great deal depends upon transport phenomena that bring s ozone to a place where it intercepts ultraviolet light.

Partners who tend to bring in a great amount of «rain» and allow it to be serviced by others, normally would promote a system based solely upon origination.

You bring up many great points, and there is one that in particular that I'm hoping you could expand upon if you'd be so kind.

Conversely, partners who tend to bring in a great amount of new business and perform the work themselves and / or allow it to be performed by others generally would promote a compensation system based highly upon origination.

It would be fair to say that the Scottish economy is dependent upon the public sector to a greater extent than is the case for many regions south of the border and that brings its own challenges at all times but particularly in times of austerity.

Assisted by his wife Becky Bednarz, he brings a great deal of real - world experience to bear upon your divorce or family law issues.