Sentences with phrase «by fate like»

So, whether connected to us by blood as family or by fate like friends and pets, we share a connection, a bond, with them for life.

Not exact matches

But precisely for this reason it is difficult to know whether we accept this cross in faith, hope and love to our salvation, or whether we only bear it protesting secretly, because we can not free ourselves from it but are nailed to it like the robber on the left of Jesus, who cursed his fate and blasphemed the crucified Lord by his side.

Palestinian suffering becomes (the phrase is Goldhagen's) the «unifying symbol» for many people «who have never been troubled by oppression of Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria, or the fate of the world's many other stateless peoples, like the Kurds, Tamils, Tibetans, or Chechens.»

Yes, when it comes to things like percentages of «Christians» as a majority of Americans the tent is extended as large as it can get, but in other issues the t.itle «Christian» seems to be claimed by a very small group of fundamentalists who have great conviction that Mormons, Catholics, mainstream protestants and orthodox aren't really Christians like they are and thus doomed to the same hellish fate that other non-Christians are.

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

It is quite another order of knowledge that discloses, for example, the «lunar destiny» of human existence, the fact that man is «measured» by the temporal rhythms illustrated by the phases of the moon, that he is fated to die but, quite like the moon which reappears after three days of darkness, man too can begin his existence anew, that in any case he nourishes the hope in a life after death, assured or ameliorated through an initiation ritual.

WCB chief executive David Lord has made it clear enough he would like his fate clear by Christmas and his board have made it abundantly clear that their preference lies solidly with Saputo's pitch.

Probably sitting on the outside of any Playoff bubble, but controls a substantial chunk of its fate by a.) having TCU and Oklahoma State coming on the schedule and b.) Baker Mayfield doing things to keep OU in games, like picking up 15 yards on fourth - and - 4 out of absolutely nothing.

Like Arizona and most of the Pac - 12, though, ASU's fate will be determined by tossups.

Strange has been this season; like an obedient and polite school boy Barca has tried their best to stay out of the La Liga fight especially in the recent weeks, only to be dragged back right into it by fate, circumstances, whatever you may call it.

The wider public have to demand this type of pieces that are very original and supported by facts, emotion and logical development of ideas.The main stream medias like sky sports and BT have to start inviting individual bloggers and fans of different clubs in the premier league and champions league pre, mid and after match discussions rather than sticking to the so called «pundits» who are vomiting their rotten, ill fated and unbalanced views.

In the world of the Hunger Games, the fates of our rural heroes are decided by the rulers of the Capital, which looks like Manhattan crossed with Versailles.

By some providence of fate, like manna from heaven came in the * Paris Club Refund.

«The bill, written by a man who claims to respect the rights of states to guide their own fate, wants to use the long arm of federal law to prohibit states like New York from taking any and all sensible steps to limit access to certain firearms,» the editorial states.

By Andrew Taylor AP Writer Washington — The Senate is where legislation often goes to die, and it's looking like that's the fate awaiting a new jobs bill wanted by President Barack ObamBy Andrew Taylor AP Writer Washington — The Senate is where legislation often goes to die, and it's looking like that's the fate awaiting a new jobs bill wanted by President Barack Obamby President Barack Obama.

The Trump administration has acted expeditiously to fill vacancies on top courts around the country, including the Supreme Court and powerful lower courts that could decide the fate of regulatory challenges and novel lawsuits, like localities suing oil companies for damages caused by sea - level rise.

I am surrounded by very obese diabetics in my family and I'd like to avoid that fate.

Because there's no impediment by means of formal significance having a friendship dating site, two individuals can pick to obtain along just like a house burning when they indeed click and often this rocking friendship frequently metamorphoses right into a beautiful love relationship, if it's designed in your fate.

A gash of violence finally decides the lady's fate, but we're so numbed by that point by speeches that repeat the same points with different animal metaphors that the resolution carries little impact — as these two might say, like a sparrow thudding against a window.

Dramatically neutered by its cumbersome reliance on vapid expositional flashbacks, the film focuses on Jane Ballad (Natalie Portman), holed up in a faraway ranch in the sandy outlands of New Mexico where she awaits her fate at the hands of dastardly John Bishop (Ewan McGregor, looking like a pearly - white descendent of Lee Van Cleef).

Stiller's cancelled sketch shows betray a mastery of aesthetic parody, so it's no surprise that the best parts of Reality Bites tend to zero in on a target, usually some facet of MTV programming; the closing credits of the film are interrupted by a burlesque of the typical Troy - Laney interaction that divines, with formidable accuracy, the network's fate as the Squaresville home of ostensibly trendsetting fare like «My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star» and a deplorable modernization of Wuthering Heights.

It's hard ignore the sobering parallels between these colorful characters who are being persecuted by those who didn't take the time to understand them, and the real - life individuals in this country who may, sadly, suffer a similar fate without steadfast protectors like Newt.

Other actors stood out by embodying a role so completely that they changed the course of that character's fate, like Joe Keery in Stranger Things, or how despite the choppy mess that was The Defenders, Krysten Ritter continues to shine as the most consistent of the heroes.

It seems like fate, until it transpires that men in hats (here represented by the likes of Anthony Mackie, John Slattery and Terence Stamp) are literally trying to keep them apart on behalf of fate itself.

Cancer is an awful thing (recently having taken legendary actors like Alan Rickman and iconic musicians such as David Bowie), so for those brief moments of emotional content where Deadpool accepts his fate, or decides to ditch the love of his life feeling that the top - secret experimental treatment that went wrong has left him far too horribly disfigured for anyone to properly love him, by extension we also grow to hate the villain Ajax increasingly more.

Meanwhile, by then market saturation from the likes of H1Z1 and the ill - fated Radical Heights will also not be an issue, so Blackout could sit as both the first big - name franchise to take on the Battle Royale formula and enter the market without other, smaller names getting in the way.

Don't Say a Word is not like any film you've ever seen before — it's like every film you've ever seen before, and its title resolves itself by the end as an ill - fated plea to inevitably underwhelmed audiences: keep your warnings to other would - be ticket - buyers to yourself.

U.S. Circuit Court Judge Edward R. Becker said in a speech here that for the past several years he has felt like «Cassandra,» the daughter of the king of Troy who was endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated by Apollo never to be believed.

This problem feels like one that can only be solved by a bookstore (preferably a used one) or a library or library bookstore, or even a coffee shop in which I can stumble across a mishmash of accidental inventory and feel it's fate when I discover that book or author that has been waiting to meet my need.

Parents had earlier stormed Netflix's consumer support site to complain about the losses, having already been burned by other ill - fated moves from the company in the past (like that Qwikster fiasco which became the symbol of Netflix «not listening,» CEO Reed Hastings once said.)

Not because she has experienced anything like the dark fate endured by the novel's heroine, Laurel Shelton.

And like his ill - fated ancestors, he is hunted down by rival forces whose identity and purpose remain a total mystery.

Among them were Kazuo Ishiguro's strange fable - like fantasy, Alexandra Kleeman's wild satire, and, apparently, Barack Obama's favorite book of the year: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff.

Yes she entertained dreams of being a missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).

Not only self - publishers are victimized by this incident, small publishers that upload their books via distributors like Smashwords or upload via Kobo Writing Life shares the same fate.

Even the fate of the smallest business like a bakery or shoe store will be determined by whether they can create some form of moat.

My heart felt like it was being squeezed by a large fist at the thought of Cubby meeting his fate somewhere amidst a pile of dead cats and dogs.

One prominent animal rights organization falsely states that «horrific fates» await feral cats, like diseases, injuries, or human cruelty.1 But these claims are based on isolated incidents and not supported by scientific evidence.

Sure, Princess Zelda has been imprisoned in crystal, the land of Hyrule overun by monsters, and the very fate of the world threatened by the power - hungry machinations of the evil lord Ganondorf, but it's not like those chickens are going to catch themselves.

At no point do you feel like you're about to get ripped apart by a terrifying alien, but you do get the feeling that something very bad has happened on the Theseus, and it's probably in your best interest to solve these puzzles quickly in hopes of avoiding the same fate as the previous crew.

Just like the first Lords of Shadow game, you can definitely tell that Mirror of Fate HD is inspired by games like the God of War series.

After past events, whichever version of them you are going by, it is beyond me why anyone would tempt fate and play another game like this.

Sega was also guilty of discounting Sony as a competitor; according to former Sega of America boss Tom Kalinske Sony had actually approached Sega after the Nintendo deal had fallen through but the union was rebuffed by Sega's Japanese bosses, who considered systems like the ill - fated Atari Jaguar as its true challengers.

Hoping to take advantage of the momentum for games with an «old - school vibe» created by throwback games like Mega Man 9, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, and Retro Game Challenge, Rockin» Android wants to introduce a number of doujin games (titles created by hobbyist developers in Japan, like Fate / stay night and Cave Story for example) to the U.S.

Spurred by alterations in games like Xenoblade Chronicles X, Fire Emblem Fates, and others, a subset of gamers has engaged in a heated rally to have video games brought to Western countries with as little alteration from their Japanese versions as possible.

Familiar faces like Batman, Superman, and The Joker are known by just about anyone, but others like Blue Beetle, Cheetah, and Dr Fate were just a few of the characters I'd never even seen before.

The two which most immediately spring to mind are either dialog trees and responses, something like L.A. Noire perhaps, or by making some sort of card game in the style of Fate of the World or the diplomacy side of Star Ruler 2.

In Art in America this month Raphael Rubinstein, after reading issues of AiA from thirty years ago, considers the fate of Neo-Expressionism, a movement popular in the 1980s championed by painters such as Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente, Markus Lüpertz, and Julian Schnabel that was ultimately overshadowed by the more cerebral work created by artists like Jenny Holzer, Sherry Levine, and Richard Prince — what we now call «The Pictures Generation.»

In truth, since the Beautiful Inside My Head Forever sale in 2008, Hirst has made several attempts to move on with new art work — there was the ill - fated attempt at painting like Francis Bacon sponsored by Victor Pinchuk and shown at London's Wallace collection — and revive his market with stunts like the global Gagosian show of spot paintings.

Dressed like soccer referees, the trinity is also, for Roccasalva, a depiction of Zurvan, the Persian god of infinite time, space, and fate, father of twin brothers, who are the personification of good and evil.Finally, all the elements are held together by a text in violet neon that can only be read by looking at it in the mirror.