Sentences with phrase «built upon a sand»

As the ancient proverb goes, a house built upon sand is subject to collapse.

As the ancient proverb goes, a house built upon sand is subject to collapse.

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The foolish man built his house upon the sand The foolish man built his house upon the sand The foolish man built his house upon the sand And the rain came tumbling down

You have built your faith upon the sand of your contradictory «holy» texts.

Birdman tackles the foolishness of building your house upon the sand.

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!

And the Great Contraption shall be built by His humble children who dwell upon the earth upon which lays the tainted sand onto which the writing about the Great Contraption shall be written by Him... (10:15 - 21) And so shall the Great Contraption serve the humble children and transport them to all corners of the world in half the time of the fastest contemporary propeller - driven aircraft, thus shall the need no longer be great for the consumption of the foul in - flight meal, nor the mingling with the wicked air hostess in her offensive garment which does reveal the calfs of her shapely, comely and smooth white legs and nubile curvaceous buttocks which call as like a siren to the very soul of a devout man, and her breasts.

The wise man built his house upon the rock, the foolish man built his house upon the sand, and the rain came down, the rain came down and floods came up and the house on the rock stood firm, and the house on the sand went splat!

And upon the fear of simplicity, we build religions, church programs, strong leaders, great worship music, ex-gay therapy... and then it all collapses, because the house was built on sand.

We count on a combination of local planners and regional specialist companies to realize this important plant extension, building upon the overall logistics of the plant», says Reinhold Sand, Niebüll site manager, DuPont Nutrition & Health.

Imagine blocks upon blocks of crushed and leaning buildings; boats washed up on sand covered streets; homes lifted off their foundations and transported yards down the road; basements filled with water, sometimes rising up past the first floor; several missing persons and over 100,000 residents without electricity as winter marches in.

The modern reef then is built upon an older reef system and the island was formed by the trapping of carbonate sand and mud behind these reef systems.

We have built upon our very beginning «s — still with the same intention - of providing you the opportunity to glimpse the enormity of the Great Barrier Reef; stretching over a curved horizon; to the glistening white silica sands of the famous Whitehaven Beach - all from the ultimate perspective of seaplane comfort.

Typical of an English country estate, this grand, sand - hued Gothic Revival building dominates the parkland upon which it sits.

Perched upon a hill where white - washed buildings tumble colourfully down towards great hotels and soft golden sands, Oropesa has evolved from a defensive outpost against pirates, to a welcoming town with everything you need for a relaxing beach holiday.

Two of the three units are built right upon the sand, with ocean view decks, and each has two queen - size beds.

Offering modern conference rooms steps from the sand, exquisite dining nearby, spacious accommodations with complimentary Wi - Fi, free continental breakfast each morning (dependent upon location) and a convenient location midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, our hotels make Central Coast team building not just easy, but thoroughly enjoyable.

Terada builds his paintings upon finely sanded gesso grounds that support further layers of thinly glazed acrylic medium.

Sanding has bulldozed some of the blights but still left a trace, foundations that have been built upon and smoothed over, a kind of beauty from the rubble.

Given that law shows that Gleick's behaviour is a criminal offence and given that the whole climate science sand castle is built upon dodgy models and statistics, it seems that you've not bothered to understand what you talk about.

Building an argument against climate action upon a forceful claim about the most likely outcome of greenhouse gas emissions is to build an argument upon analytic sand.

Yup... keep those dues a» comin» so we can keep on paying marketing companies to produce slick ads to convince consumers how professional we all are, especially «we» at the top of this pyramid built knowingly upon foundations of ever - shifting dunes of windswept sand (the wind being the hot air escaping from our giant balloons of subterfuge that are being continually pricked by the jabs of reality.