Sentences with phrase «cowering before»

«Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.»

«Al Gore ripped U.S. television coverage of climate change Friday, alleging the media is cowering before industry - funded global warming «deniers.»»

students construct widely disparate scenes — a pupil cowering before a teacher's stick, for example, or a tree being cut down.

«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»

Where others might have cowered before this shooter, or responded with more violence, she prayed, told stories, offered love, made herself vulnerable, and embodied radical grace.

No longer need mankind cower before its ancient enemies in the natural world.

We should all be ashamed to think how we cowered before them for so long.

A fiercely intelligent woman in a world of swaggering men who leer at her like she's an unattended purse, Graham still feels like one of the girls — she cowers before executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as though he's her boss, and maneuvers between the gender - segregated rooms of a cocktail party with an ambidextrousness that alienates her from both sides of the house.

For Mireles, the war is immediate: The Knights Templar gang beheaded his neighbors, and he'd rather die fighting than cower before their blade.

Nature bends to his will, and us mere mortals cower before the awe - inspiring scope of his videogame knowledge.

Good luck to you, friend, and may your relatives and neighbours cower before your technologically impatient majesty.

She is an overpowering force and I cower before her in admiration.

Fear cowers before a plan.

The self - abasement inspired by public perception of the grasping, obfuscating solicitor has reached its apotheosis in the new Solicitors» Code of Conduct which came into force on 1 July 2007 — and we cower before our regulators.

Not exact matches

I was the fat kid and cry - baby who attracted the attention of bullies, before whom I would always cower,» recalls Andrew Wittman.

If we are led to Jesus Christ so that he might offer us access to God, then our relationship with God does not command cowering prostration before the power and might of a distant, omnipotent God; rather, it invites trust, joy and thankfulness in the presence of the fountain of every good thing.

Wenger has more power in our club than we are made to believe they all cower and are spineless before him... if it were other clubs le prof would have gotten the boot... I hope the board will have the spine to enforce a director of football....

If he's going to try it, he might sit in my lap cowering and retching before he fully tastes the thing and declares that it is not bad.

Adam and Evelyn have dinner one night with Philip and his fiancée, Jenny (Gretchen Mol), and before long Philip and Evelyn are at each other's throats as Adam and Jenny cower along the sidelines.

When's the last time you saw a movie studio cower so before an author?

It's only a game and most gamers have seen worse but there were a few moments watching bears vomit with fear or cowering at your sight just before you bludgeon them to death that feels a bit sick.

by Bryant Frazer In the vignette that opens Code Unknown, a young girl in pigtails, maybe 9 or 10 years old, cowers against a plain wall, trembling before director Michael Haneke's static camera.

In other words, Winstone isn't the first guy casting agents should want playing a career criminal who's reduced to cowering meekly before the wiry, diminutive chap who played Gandhi.

But before the end — when she and other children would be forced to cower in terror in dank bomb shelters and wartime deprivations would take a harrowing toll — Irmgard's doubts about the «truths» she had been force - fed increased, fueled by the few brave souls who had not accepted Hitler and his abominations.

Some dogs cower at the sight of a harness before going out for a walk,» he continues.

Before he was neutered he would just cower when he was around other dogs.

I built a website for a co living space chain in Chiang Mai, Bali and Mexico (I still think that's a cool idea) I started building something for cowering adventures around the world (before it became big, but I gave up on it because it seemed so big and scary) and I had an SEO company back in Auckland.

Primary amongst them is that Space Marine has no cover system, as Space Marines aren't cowering little soldiers, instead preferring to stride into battle wielding their trusty Bolters before going to town with their Chainswords.

And, akin to Studio Wildcard's effort, you start your adventure with nothing, cowering away from other potentially hostile players before you can find two sticks to rub together.

You get good at running, sneaking, and cowering fearfully before you ever have the means to fight back.

Face down the most nimble and elusive Champion to ever set foot in the arena, or cower in terror before the awesome might of the mysterious BADGERMANCER!

They cower in fear and hide behind objects, hoping to be saved before ultimately getting harvested and destroyed by the robotic enemies.

Wood and Harrison struggle together through the three minutes of the video to avoid being hit, cowering even after the machine stops firing, and slump to the floor together, exhausted, before self - consciously unknotting their legs.

Children cower in terror before a physically aggressive adult, and that fear destroys the bond with the child.