Sentences with phrase «camel on a camel»

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Once you've seen the sites, you can head over to the camel racing track and gamble on something truly exotic.

OAS «will be one more handful of straw on the back of the camel that's going to be carrying a much, much heavier load, mainly because of health - care spending,» says William Robson, CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, a thinktank on the opposite end of the political spectrum from the CCPA.

Berger used the Geico «hump day» camel ad, that features a snarky camel walking around an office asking people on a Wednesday what the day was.

I've also crossed three small countries on foot (Vatican City, San Marino, and Liechtenstein), and parts of others by horse, camel, elephant, llama, and donkey.

On the other hand, if you need to work long hours at your current full - time job, you commute 60 miles round - trip, and you have two - year - old triplets, piling a part - time business on top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's bacOn the other hand, if you need to work long hours at your current full - time job, you commute 60 miles round - trip, and you have two - year - old triplets, piling a part - time business on top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's bacon top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Just as suddenly, you're on the bone - dry plains of Somalia where camels graze and where your guide sadly comments how, «We used to have four seasons,» because what is now below your feet isn't a fertile field, but sand and endless drought.

While it's certainly unfortunate that it took mishandling user data on a large scale to do so, the incident has become the straw that broke the Facebook camel's back when it comes to privacy — and that appears to be catalyzing change.

Tony and Sage Robbins join the Platinum Partners on selected trips as they learn, network, and play in such diverse situations as a private palazzo in Venice, the cascading beaches of Bora Bora, a private session on top of the Great Wall of China, 100 mph boat races in South Beach, a private invitation to Scotland's Skibo Castle and even camel riding through the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

So it moves in baby steps, wondering if the next straw will break some camel's back where lending has been going on terms that were too favorable.

On the other side (geographically), Egypt doesn't have records of camel use until around 500BC.

This led to a big split among those that latched on to the words that having faith in Jesus is what is needed to get to heaven vs words that say things like how it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven or help the poor.

If you read the original story this article is based on it says, «The archaeologists, Erez Ben - Yosef and Lidar Sapir - Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.

Considering that most believers in the bible claim that it is the «divinely inspired word of god» and that it is inerrant, how can this article claim that it was merely a mistaken assumption on the part of the authors to falsely claim camels were domesticated and used for transportation and cartage centuries before that actually happened?

And NO DOUBT there will be literalists here claiming there are camels protrayed on royal tombs, and temples earlier.

7) «The period is marked by technological advances in pottery production, including the introduction and dominant utilization of the fast wheel and the appearance of efficient, tow - tiered pottery kilns; metallurgy with deliberate alloying and evidence for local production in the form of copper smelting furnaces on the outskirts of Khapuz - depe; stone working; and a development of wheeled vehicles drawn by Bactrian camels and possible bulls as indicated by terra - cotta models.»

It specifically said that other tests were run which examined the wear and stress on the bones to see if the camels routinely carried more weight than their won.

If the Torah is inaccurate on this camel issue, either God made a mistake (unlikely) or the carbon dating evidence is fundamentally flawed.

However, the correctness of the Bible is supported by the representation of camel riding on seal cylinders of precisely this period from northern Mesopotamia» See The Bible and the Ancient Near East Gordon / Rendsburg pp 120 - 122

But according to the traditional biblical chronology, the patriarchs were schlepping around Canaan on camels over a millennium earlier, all the way back in 2100 BCE

We can hear those dreaded words on Jesus» lips even before the man approaches: «It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.»

Then, just because Abraham had relations with a woman on it or tied a camel to it, you are not ashamed to kiss it, yet you blame us for venerating the cross of Christ by which the power of the demons and the deceit of the Devil was destroyed.»

The silliest of these is the old myth — which I used to think was the invention of some nineteenth - century Protestant clergyman, but which is in fact considerably older — that the «Needle's Eye» was a particularly low gate in the walls of Jerusalem, through which a laden camel could not pass without being unburdened or even (as one zoologically illiterate version has it) crawling through on its knees.

My money is on the camel, and not only because I am fond of both camels and outlandish metaphors; but it is a very old question what Jesus really said had a better chance of passing through a needle's eye than a rich man had of entering God's Kingdom.

He never had any idea of what the camel is leading to now, yet you did not even ask him, when he held forth to you with his dreams on the subject of the three rivers.

Occupied Camels All gratitude to David Bentley Hart for his spirited meditation on Matthew 19:24 («The Back Page,» February).

«O my Lord,» said an Arab on a robber - raid, «I say unto Thee, except Thou give me a camel today with a water - skin, I would as it were beat Thee with this camel stick!»

If one is crossing the desert on a camel and a blinding sandstorm comes up, the thing to do is to dismount, lie face downward on the sand with his cloak over his head, and wait an hour, three hours, half a day, until the storm abates and he can go on his way as before.

On the contrary, his most stinging words are directed toward those who «preach, but do not practice»; to those who «bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger»; to those who «devour widows» houses and for a pretense... make long prayers»; to those who are «blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel» (MatOn the contrary, his most stinging words are directed toward those who «preach, but do not practice»; to those who «bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger»; to those who «devour widows» houses and for a pretense... make long prayers»; to those who are «blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel» (Maton men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger»; to those who «devour widows» houses and for a pretense... make long prayers»; to those who are «blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel» (Matt.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

Poor thing was running around on some island and crashed his camel into a lake of bath salts or worse to come up with that mess he called Revelation.

It feels like going mad, this following - The voice from the starry night, the tent pegs pulled, Camels tracking through a dusty haze, The dawn on unknown dunes - the hollowing Out of normal, ordinary days, Like meal poured from a sack, till now we hold Only the echoes of a voice.

Founded on Christian principles, that's why we celebrate Christmas, sorry go back to your camels.

He lived in the desert for years and wore camel skin while snackin» on locusts.

Both have camels represented, and one literally has humans riding on a camel back.

One can almost see the stately procession of those oriental women, dignified as queens, in the peace of the oriental evening coming down the slope from the little city, each with her graceful water - jar on her shoulder, while around the tree - sheltered well lie the ten great hulking beasts still saddled with their baggage and gaudy with the beads and trinkets that camel - drivers have always loved.

For example a century ago, the only transportation was the horse riding or camel or donkey and so on... you can not imagine at that time people would be thinking about travelling the globe in a day or two... and we do not know what is coming as every scientists theory is being abrogated by a new scientist and the old one becomes obsolete... these also proves that human theory can not be perfect and will never be perfect... there will always be modifications...

Don't even get my camel - toe started on beach sand and cracks.

(Gen. 12:16) When Abraham's servant went on a long journey to Mesopotamia, he «took ten camels from the camels of his master.»

I can not get my head around how a person can be so morally bankrupt to make these comments» = > If you and your family were stranded on a desert without hope, water and food then someone puts you on their camel taking you out of that desert you just hit the lottery.

We settled on meatloaf, thinking that you could make it look sort of like a camel's hump... you know... if he was wearing a girdle of camel's hair, he had to have done something with the rest of the camel... I modified the linked recipe by adding Worcestershire sauce, garlic and onion, and I thought it turned out a bit dry, but it wasn't bad, especially with a topping of vidalia onions browned in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and a little more honey.

One text had a unit on Islam that began with a picture of a camel; he got it thrown out.

But I supposed he could have crashed his camel into a field of poppies on short notice or something similar... ----------------- — There were poppies on the Isle of Patmos in the 1st Century?

But I supposed he could have crashed his camel into a field of poppies on short notice or something similar...

Church - growth theorists have discovered what Jesus alluded to long ago in his comment on the camel going through the eye of the needle.

They will come unto thee on foot and on every lean camel; they will come from every deep ravine, (27) That they may witness things that are of benefit to them, and mention the name of Allah on appointed days over the be-ast of cattle that He hath bestowed upon them.

@ ken, u r right, jus bcus they wer afraid of the evil that will happen after, thats exactly what those camel jockies wanted n r sitting in their tents right now laughn at the U.S.A for falling on our knees to their feet... bunch of pu $ $ ies...

Since this obedience is obedience to a purely formal authority, in the late Jewish ethic there appears the commingling of moral and ritual laws, and the overemphasis on ritual and ceremonial rules, which Jesus denounces in the statement that the Pharisees strain out gnats and swallow camels.

It's a name as old as the storied shepherdess of Paddan Aram — a woman so captivating her husband pledged seven years of service in exchange for her hand, a woman whose determination to bear children sent her digging for mandrakes and bargaining with God, a woman brazen enough to steal her father's idols and hide them in a camel saddle, a woman who took her last breath on the side of the road, giving birth, a woman whose tomb survived obscurity, conquest, earthquakes, and riots to become one of the most venerated and contested sites of the Holy Land.

i love this section of what you wrote because the other article on this site named» prosperity preachers of l.a.» i think they should read what you wrote along with the bible passage about «a camel can walk through the head of a needle easier than a rich man can make it into heaven»

The video of the fall was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday by user pbalacrosse.The camel is seen being led through the church in the video when it appears to become startled, stops moving and pulls back.