Sentences with phrase «changing course of events»

The plot centers on Amanda, a woman from modern London, who enters the plot of the novel through a portal in her bathroom and finds herself joining the Bennet family and disastrously changing the course of events.

Then the truth is static and the way of coming to that truth is not through the changing course of events but through pure thought or religious experience.

The Butterfly Effect is a theory that is based on a single occurrence that can profoundly change the course of events; no matter how insignificant that occurrence is perceived to be.

At the other extreme, whether from belief that God will not thus change the course of events or that such praying is too clamorous, many draw the line at any petition except that for inner spiritual goods.

People who ask these questions have not been liberated from the concept of God as omnipotent dictator of the universe, who is responsible for everything that happens and who, if he willed, could change the course of events by sheer fiat.

People who ask such questions have not been liberated from the concept of God as omnipotent dictator of the universe, responsible for everything that happens and who, if he willed, could change the course of events by sheer fiat.

If there are moments in history when «the road not taken» might have changed the course of events, the famous «Monkey Trial,» held in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, may have been one of them.

Since taking on the Rockland County beat, Wallace has had the scoop on several major news stories, helping to change the course of events to come.

He felt that this man was violating the ethics of his profession and so, he wrote a letter that eventually made its way to the foreign press and, you know, almost overnight, you know, really within a matter of weeks, the government backed down and ended the cover - up, fired the minister of health, fired the mayor of Beijing and it was really to me an inspiring example of how one person, you know, who had something to believe in can really change the course of events and the course of history really.

An unwanted pregnancy changes the course of events giving her an unexpected confidence via letters to her unborn baby.

- Rewind time to change the course of events.

How does that interaction change the course of events in a country?

Alice has to meet up with Time (Sacha Baron Cohen), steal a magical orb that turns into a time machine and then change the course of events.

For a film that so deftly moves at such a slow clip, one does not particularly detect a stagnancy or yearn for something to change the course of events.

You revive the battles that made History, and maybe change the course of events.

You've got a time - limit though with only a few days to change the course of events, but also plenty of obstacles standing in your way: the biggest of which might just happen to be your own personality...

So each Battle Royale tends to start with everyone ganging up on an poor soul before scrambling to change the course of events after one player has taken a clear lead.

«The Addison's deep holdings in this area provide a forum for discussing the relevance of the lens in capturing critical moments — episodes that may change the course of events.

Not exact matches

She understands and relates to the needs of busy professionals — the transitioning from day to night, the endless meetings, the last minute unexpected changes of plans, the business trips, and of course the cocktail parties, galas, and red carpet events.

Of course, following through on this expectation is conditional on the economy unfolding about as expected, and that unexpected events such as a trade war or a substantial change in the geopolitical situation do not surprise on the downside.

Having explained what's happening to the economy by pointing at seemingly random / unpredictable events or citing unfathomable changes in «aggregate demand», the economist's second job is to recommend a course of action.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

And, of course, all readers will be well aware of the March quarter's world - changing events.

Actually Jesus you're wrong about what Atheism said, prayer changes things by not doing anything and allowing the natural (disastrous) course of events to transpire.

Two events early in college changed the course of my life.

Only someone who overlooks the fact that this answer itself has a real history which is a history of the reality reflected on as well as of the reflection itself, can think that the Church with its principles, because they too can be given concrete form, is always able to follow directly on the heels of what is new in the changing course of history and that only by its own fault and failure could the Church lag behind events in its theological reflection on morals.

Like Sir Walter Scott's historical novels, it takes place amidst events events that changed the course of human affairs, in this case, World War I, but remains vividly focused on one character's fate.

«When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...» But the Declaration then quickly moves, in the very same sentence, to the question of by what right or by what authority such a change is to be made.

On this basis, Eigen maintains that abrupt changes of a quite major sort are to be expected in the normal course of events, as a quasi-species centered on one sequence is rapidly replaced by a rather different successor quasi-species centered quite far away on one of the extensions of the former species.

They often use really old articles to troll for responses, sometimes using an article several times over the course of a year or two... long after the events have died away or changed.

Though we can not change the course of external events, since these are collectively created, we can change our inner experience of them.

So much is this the case that both the observer's questions and observations continue to change themselves in the natural course of events.

Such decisions can change the whole course of events in a country and so change the lives of millions of people.

Using these as an explanation would only risk doing what John Dewey urged us to renounce — the kind of pseudo-explanation that «only abstracts some aspect of the existing course of events in order to reduplicate it as a petrified eternal principle by which to explain the very changes of which it is the formalization» (4:11).

Its not the first time seismic events have changed the course of water...

Of course, this change was also inspired by the burgeoning of the Equal Rights movement and the realization that birth was a completely natural event that did not need to be managed by meOf course, this change was also inspired by the burgeoning of the Equal Rights movement and the realization that birth was a completely natural event that did not need to be managed by meof the Equal Rights movement and the realization that birth was a completely natural event that did not need to be managed by men.

In the normal course of events, your milk will change and increase in volume even if you don't breastfeed your baby.

Proximity of the infant potentially permits the parents to respond to changes in the baby's status - such as if it were choking or struggling to breathe - and, of course, proximity makes it more likely that if a baby was fighting to rid itself of blankets over it's head, the parent might here the event and intercede.

Of course, we have had to make same - day modifications due to inclement weather or unexpected events, but I find the kids are now better equipped to handle changes in routine.»

Unless any events come along to change things Westminster politics will have a bit of a quite period until conference season — punctuated, of course, by the extremely major event of the Scottish referendum in seven weeks time....

If you've ever wondered how being in the military has changed over the course of time, Old Fort Niagara is sponsoring a series of events that begin Saturday.

This does not mean, of course, that individual extreme events (such as the 2003 European heat wave) can be said to be simply «caused» by human - induced climate change — usually such events are complex, with many causes.

These events often completely change the course of evolution.

Of course, parenthood is a life - changing event, so it should not be surprising that it molds Mom's brain — and Dad's, too.

By careful measurements of the population of two species on one tiny island over the course of major weather changes such as El Niño events and droughts, the Grants were able to show that evolutionary changes in beak size and body size can occur in as little as a couple of years.

Yam: One thing I do want to mention [is] though, you know, we featured 12 events, but of course, you can come up with several others; you can say that, for instance, a supervolcano or even just life elsewhere in the solar system could also be considered and that could change everything.

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Wiping out an estimated nine of every ten species, this event drastically changed the course of life on Earth.

I got serious about my outfits for my wedding week in Napa and you are seeing my favorite outfit of the week, besides of course my wedding dress and the one I changed into for dancing which were obviously the main event.

But when an assassination plot goes awry Elizabeth shifts her energies back to her country setting off a chain of events that will change the course of history.