Sentences with phrase «by emissaries»

Valkyria Revolution is the story of five orphans, all survivors of a fire that destroyed their orphanage and presumably led to one of their own being kidnapped by emissaries from the Ruz empire.

These apostles were not missionaries, in Judea, but leaders of the Jerusalem church; (Cf. Acts 8:1) the actual mission was conducted by their emissaries; and probably James came to the city at the time Peter and John first left it and went to Samaria, during the persecution that followed the martyrdom of Stephen.

According to both Mark and Luke, the cures accomplished by his emissaries so enhanced the fame of Jesus that a rumor that John the Baptist had risen from the dead spread abroad and came to the ears of King Herod Antipas (Mk 6:14 - 16; Lk 9:7 - 9).

Paul's word was transformed from silent surface structures into the mode of being known as flesh by the emissary's performance of Paul's word.

While in the midst of dividing his days between reminiscing with his BFF and soothing his emotionally - distant daughter's fragile psyche, Fred gets a surprising request to come out of retirement by an emissary (Alex Macqueen) of the Royal Family.

Not exact matches

A formal letter was drawn up to announce the decision of the Jerusalem church and was sent back to Antioch by two emissaries, Judas Barsabbas and Silas, both prophets, along with Paul and Barnabas, beloved by the church because they had risked their lives for Jesus Christ.

Bozarth - Campbell's framework provides a basis for discussing how the rendering of Paul's letter by a trusted emissary established a new, more powerful Pauline presence in the Corinthian church.

The emissary's performance of Paul's letter allowed it to become «a more truly present word, authenticated by a living voice» (Bozarth - Campbell, 75).

After the usual bureaucratic delays the Bull was sent speeding off by two special emissaries to Germany.

The IOC has sent observers to the Islamic Women's Games, and that causes Weil - Curiel to bristle, for she believes such emissaries legitimize segregation by sex.

By Jillian Lauren «From here on out, the road is KAPUT,» said Aschalew, the local Help One Now director and our emissary here.

Or perhaps he felt that the event, now in its fourth year, was well established and could develop a life of its own — or at least could be buoyed by his chief emissary, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, a frequent and well - liked visitor to the region.

The invitation was for the NPP Presidential Candidate to attend the Republicans Convention in Ohio, but although Nana Addo, was in the US, after going through visa and other immigration formalities at the American Embassy in Accra on Mr. Trump's invitation, did not show up at the convention, which took place from July 18, and ended on July 21, but only sent an emissary by name, Charles Owiredu, the party's Director of International Affairs.

A statement by Abdulkadir Ibrahim, Information Officer, NEMA North East zone, quoted the governor saying «I am here as an emissary of President Buhari, we are here to commiserate with the people of Dikwa, Ngala, Kala - Balge, Mafa and Marte who have congregated in Dikwa town and to assure you of his unflinching support and empathy.

According to the Times, «At least some of» the public statements from commission members in support of Cuomo this week «were prompted by calls from the governor or his emissaries.»

And, they said, at least two people recruited for senior positions in communications and strategy immediately demurred when approached by Cuomo emissaries, citing a lack of desire to work with a principal who is notoriously difficult to advise and is known for micromanagement.

2012 SCIENCE NEWS TOP 25: 2 Besieged by budget cuts and diminished by the end of the shuttle era, NASA got a welcome shot in the arm in August as mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., watched their latest interplanetary emissary guide itself to a safe landing on Mars.

By 2117, space - borne emissaries will very likely have rendered Earthly observations redundant.

Reports of illegal slave trades in the Congo and wrong doings of King Leopold bring John and Jane back to their childhood homes, but their return is all a ruse set up by Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz), an emissary for King Leopold.

Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Leon Rom (Waltz).

Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz).

He leaps at the chance to return to the Congo, when invited by Parliament to serve as a trade emissary.

As it turns out, Jupiter's actually entitled to inherit Earth, and is informed of that good fortune by Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), a hunky emissary from a distant galaxy.

He's well matched by a steely Rebecca Ferguson as a C.D.C. emissary tasked with keeping whatever foreign entity the scientists are able to revive in strict quarantine.

It certainly jibes with the filmmaker's affection for protagonists who, for whatever reason, live in private worlds, in fairytale dreamscapes populated by emblems of good and emissaries of evil — worlds where the most colourful places are the interiors of churches, where the characters» fears and failings alike are assets.

The chase is joined by the FBI, a sympathetic National Security Agency analyst played by Adam Driver, and Meyer's emissary, Doak, played by Bill Camp.

Even erudite books that go viral, like Iain McGilchrist's «The Master and His Emissary: the Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World» published in 2012 by Yale University Press has not the capability to change global brain hemisphere leadership.

Carlson gives us a journalist's - eye - view of what brought Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in the first place, depicting Vice President Richard Nixon as an awkward emissary who visited Moscow to further his own political career and made a spectacle at the American National Exhibition by debating the merits of kitchen appliances with the leader of the Soviet Union.

Through the years, Elizabeth has served as our emissary of goodwill by helping us address the needs of the faculty in the Cornell University Hospital for Animals through her annual Wish List.

In medieval times, the kings of Europe advertised their majesty to their subjects and visiting emissaries by the richness of their possessions.

To unlock him, the player must either play 22 Brawl matches, clear Classic mode without using a continue, or have him join the party in The Subspace Emissary by clearing Subspace (Part 1); with any of the former two methods, Luigi must be defeated on Luigi's Mansion to be unlocked.

In the solo mode called The Subspace Emissary, Smash Bros. world was invaded by The Primid, the army of creatures called by the entities known as the Ancient Minister.

He can be unlocked by playing 300 Brawl matches, completing Classic with ten characters, playing ten hours of Brawl matches, or by having Sonic join the party in The Subspace Emissary; with any of the first three methods, the player must then defeat Sonic on Green Hill Zone.

It's got the Subspace Emissary mode (specifically, its amazing cutscenes, created by Final Fantasy writer Kazushige Nojima).

This exhibition will be accompanied by a new publication, Emissaries Guide to Worlding.

Featuring contributions by Nora Khan, Ben Vickers and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the publication is co-produced by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which commissioned and presented the first episode in the trilogy, Emissary in the Squat of Gods, in Turin, Italy in 2015.

Leeson's work reminds us that superstition and home remedies delivered by seemingly trustworthy digital emissaries are still nothing more than the sum of their parts.

Emissary, which was recently acquired by MoMA, will be on view at the New York museum beginning April 9th.

Ian Cheng, Emissaries, 4Columns, April 26, 2017 Matt Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes, 4Columns, July 14, 2017 Alan Clarke, 4Columns, August 4, 2017 Mike Kuchar, Drawings by Mike!

Out of this electroacoustic cloud, a woman's voice announces: «I am an emissary from the future...» The time travelling character from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bathhouse (1930) invites those left behind by failed state capitalism and the neglect of free markets to join her in the commune of the future.

By presenting Emissaries and BOBs in an infinite cycle of activity, Cheng ensures you will never experience the exact same moment in successive viewings of the work.

This exhibition also includes Cheng's Emissaries trilogy (2015 - 17), recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Installed in The Hypocrisy Matrix, a three - dimensional graph designed by the artist, Discovery charts Ellison as she fluctuates between clarity and solipsism, between criticality and delusion, as she attempts to grasp at her position in a foreign context — a comically flawed emissary of US cultural hegemony.

By the 1930s, Graham had gained notoriety in New York art world circles as an emissary of European modernism, particularly surrealism.

I'm not supportive of the governor's plan to shut the downstate nuclear power complex at Indian Point, eight miles from my house, which he signaled by sending a top emissary to the offices of Entergy, the company that operates the plants, to explain his decision.

TEL AVIV — The Chabad emissaries on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Martin, which was almost entirely destroyed by Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, claim their lives were saved by hiding out in the mikvah.

Even before Mr. Obama was elected president, Mr. Blagojevich was recorded telling an adviser on Oct. 31 that he was giving greater consideration to one candidate (described only as Senate Candidate 5) after an approach by «an associate» of that candidate who offered to raise $ 500,000 for Mr. Blagojevich, while another emissary of the Senate hopeful offered to raise $ 1 million.

In true diplomatic fashion, Japan's emissary responded by telling his esteemed colleagues to «shut up» not once, but twice... [more]

But - now that I understand that there is a restraining order (which applies to both parties)- either do that through a trusted emissary (unless the RO prohibits even that) or continue in writing (like by email - my preferred way, because there is record who said what / when.)

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