Sentences with phrase «by the horns of»

Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to warn each other, so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them.

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If you're uncomfortable tooting your own horn, Mueller also suggests doing pro bono work or working with non-profits, to let other people spread your corporate values by word of mouth.
According to The Local, guests at a wedding in France will sometimes be so carried away by the joy of their loved ones» nuptials that they will beep their car horns for the entire journey from the ceremony to the reception.
Those looking to gain a hiring and retention advantage with generous paid personal leave programs are already light years ahead of companies that would simply abide by a federal mandate, says Lisa Horn, SHRM's director of congressional affairs.
Characterized by sharp beaks and flamboyant horns and frills, these herbivores almost all lived in what is now Western North America right at the end of the Cretaceous period, 100 to 66 million years ago.
A great example of Innovation By All is another Best Workplace in Consulting and Professional Services, Kimley - Horn.
Instead of tracking the animals, The Rhino Rescue Project wants to discourage poachers from killing them by injecting dye and possibly even poison into the rhino's horns.
She has also secured a book deal for her own account of the financial crisis, «Bull by the Horns: What Main Street Must Do To Fix Wall Street.»
Located off of the Horn of Africa and Somalia, the Arabian Sea has had a history of being plagued by piracy.
The concept was born in Germany and brought to New York by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart, a pair of restaurant entrepreneurs.
Distinguished by Fortune magazine as one of the «100 Best Companies to Work For» and «100 Best Workplaces for Millennials,» Kimley - Horn compensates its staff with competitive salaries.
There are strange songs about anthropomorphic animals («The Fox, the Crow and the Cookie» and «Fig with a Bellyache») and spiritual ruminations (most of the songs, but especially «Allah, Allah, Allah» and «The Angel of Death Came to David's Room»), but all of them are matched by whirling folk guitars, blaring horns, and interesting percussion.
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You aren't obliged to adopt a horn of the dilemma, but you do so nonetheless by the manner in which you frame your argument.
The critical method finds its way between the horns of a dilemma: It rejects restraint from without upon liberty of interpretation, and at the same time excludes an arbitrary or capricious use of liberty by accepting the intrinsic control of the historical movement within the Bible itself.
A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»
Gnarls Barkley's song Crazy, one of the lines is «you really think you're in control» preceded by the image of a horned gnarls barkley representing the devil.
Though most, if not all, humans are guilty of thinking judgmental and hypocritical thoughts, those making up roughly 60 % 0f the population who are truly ignorant, narrowminded, with lack of a personal identity (easily manipulated by peers) tend to go to the extreme of blowing the horn of self - righteousness by pointing out the flaws in other groups instead of focusing on their own flaws, which is an increased epidemic in this day in age especially in the age groups of 15 to 33.
The first horn is of primary interest in this debate, because Professor Cobb has shown a strong penchant for the notion of regional inclusion, a notion he acknowledges to be, at least explicitly, unrecognized by Whitehead, but which he, Cobb, finds (1) quite compatible with the Whiteheadian conceptuality and (2) of great philosophical usefulness.
The commentator also put forward that since Yom Teruah is announced by the blowing of the trumpets (it is known as the feast of trumpets, actually shofar or rams horn) then Jesus appearing again could happen on Rosh Hashanah because Paul wrote about Jesus and the resurrection appearing at the sound of the trumpet.
The «Antichrist» is described by many names... the man of sin, son of perdition, little horn, and many others.
How could the African American man walk around with a bull horn after all the horror that his race of people suffered by American people.
Thus are you commanded: the moment you hear the sound of horn, pipe, lyre, zither, harp, bagpipe and every other kind of instrument, you will prostrate yourselves and worship the golden statue set up by King Nebuchadnezzar [Dan.
«Warmth in the veins, lead in the core,» she murmurs, backed by a series of beautifully ominous horns and strings, before building to the hair - raising zenith «I want to sing over you and into you, that which can't be unsung.»
I am at last impaled on the horns of the old dilemma, pithily expressed by Nickles's repeated jingle in Archibald MacLeish's play J. B.:
The boasting horn of the male goat is broken, not by human hands (ch.
Instead, she exhorted us to leap over the horns of the dilemma by vaulting to a very different sort of «second stage.»
68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Horn in an Italian papal state in 1225, Aquinas was shipped off by his family to a nearby monastery when he was only five years of age.
Zechariah realized Mary's Davidic origins when he said: «Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began» (Luke 1:68 - 70).
I remember before JWBush got into presidency, the ole slick weasel, Carl Rowe advised him to play «Jesus» card and blow his «religious» horn, telling him this is the sure way to win, since American Evangelical Christians are so gullible and they'll back up anyone who mentions the Name of Jesus and says that he / she is a Christian... «You shall know them by their fruit.
No doubt to many of them he is, as Denis De Rougemont puts it in The Devil's Share, «a leering and horned demon skulking in the dark, animated by the worst intentions.»
The second horn of Neville's dilemma errs by depicting eternal Thirdness as wholly dependent on the instances of final causality which contain it and which happen to have emerged thus far in cosmic history.
The more we ponder these matters the more must we realize that, scientifically speaking, the real difficulty presented by Man is not the problem of whether he is a center of constant progress: it is far more the question of how long this progress can continue, at the speed at which it is going, without Life blowing up upon itself or causing the earth on which it was horn to explode.
These references depict a society still in touch with its roots, old men and old women renewed in the shade of Jesse's ancient stock, their old frames, matured by godly fear and faith, now become the polished horn for the spirit's eloquence: «The people who have walked in the dark have seen a wonderful light... for unto us a child is born.»
Al - Maeda sura 05: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and blood and swine - flesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful (by the death - stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols.
Speedily cause the offspring of David, thy servant, to flourish, And let his horn be exalted by thy salvation, Because we wait for thy salvation all the day.
# 2 the next night I dreamed that i was being attacked by a motorcycle gang and that the leader of the gang had a huge animal horn, att.atched to his seat.
He says: «Do horses run on the rock, or does one plow the sea, that you should turn justice into gall and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood; you who rejoice in a thing of naught and say, «Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?»»
Moroni was a «pretty horn blowing fictional thingie» or would a better description be «one of the many hallucinations seen by founders of the major religions» or» a clone of the fictional Gabriel» or «son of Mormon, the propheteer / profiteer», or «actually Nephi», or «good buds with John the Baptist, Peter, James, John, Moses, Elijah, and Elias all who ministered to Joseph Smith as angels»???.
The largest number of horns crowned the fifty great gods of the Sumerian pantheon, headed by the primal four: An, the Sky Father; Enlil, his son, god of winds; Enki, patron of wisdom and sweet water; and Ninhursag, «Lady of the Womb»» mother of animals and men, form giver, birth giver, «Midwife of the Gods.»
This year's Spirit of Innovation Award — Foodservice winner took the bull by the horns to craft a line of deli meats that is both natural and has less sodium than its regular sliced meats.
By TREVOR HORN Contributor CLOVIS — In the year the California Interscholastic Federation celebrated 100 years of athletics, the 2015 CIF State Track and Field Championships will go down as one of the finest over the past century.
In terms of raw yardage, the Horns were outgained by 110.
This past summer Keith Van Horn, the two - time WAC player of the year, married classmate Amy Sida at a ceremony attended by nearly all of his coaches and teammates.
The evening I attended, with maybe a third of the 25,000 - seat capacity of Ventas occupied — mainly by tourists armed to the gills with selfie - sticks — five horns got wet with matador blood.
With each pass, Tomás displays increasingly less cape to Ungrateful until he keeps it entirely concealed behind his back, urging death to charge, only to offer a few feet of cloth that billow gracefully in the air, carried by the force of the bull's horns as Tomás pirouettes and spins the cape back into a curtain.
Getting schooled by the Bulls is just part of Van Horn's continuing NBA education.
The other similarity, one I'm sure neither guy is proud of, was Campbell's relatively quiet second half also coincided with the Seahawks extending their lead to 19 - 3 by the time the final horn blew.
But always take the bull by the horns in all their remaining matches of the season and beat their opponent teams by every lawful means against every referring odds that may be against them.
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