Sentences with phrase «controlled by some supernatural being»

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The Caliph, in Islamic practice, is subject to control by the nation; he has no authority other than that given to him as a representative of the people and that which is required of him as the enforcer of supernatural laws.

Why then, in the present order of God's supernatural salvific will, should it be impossible for a man's acceptance of the inalienable endlessness of his transcendence — an acceptance of it not as it is explicitly grasped by us but as beyond any control of ours it comprises us — to be more than simply and solely the transcendence of the created spiritual nature as such?

History does not follow a smooth unbroken course; it is set in motion and controlled by these supernatural powers.

The inclination is controlled and directed by grace, so that... it is the supernatural condition of being grace - controlled and therefore God controlled.»

Lucy's condition — in which her brain power gradually increases, granting her supernatural powers like telekinesis, and the ability to control time and matter — is explained at painful length by Morgan Freeman throughout the movie.

By doing away with the majority of the supernatural, time - controlling elements, and focusing on the complexities of being a teenage girl in love for the first time, and dealing with the death of a parent, it feels like a purer experience.