Sentences with word «crumbling»

It is as if something were crumbling, decaying and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble.»

That's why the twin towers came crumbling down, the pentagon got hit and another plane crashed in PA..

The very cornerstone of naturalistic evolutionary theory is crumbling.

They will make your crumbling shack into a sparkling mansion — so that Christ can comfortably dwell in it.

I can either express this directly by using an expression like «momentary selves,» supplemented by a speculative device designed to give some sort of unity to the otherwise unacceptable implication of a crumbling of each «momentary self» into a dust of pure momentary «events,» or I can go the way of many neurologists who see the «momentary self» as the result of successive integrations of the nervous system in its constant reactions to internal and external stimuli.

When the world seems to be crumbling, when churches seem to be failing, when natural disaster after natural disaster ravages our world and every day we hear of a new disease or terror that is about to strip us of our health, we sometimes are tempted to ask, «Where are you, God?

In the face of society's crumbling morality the National Church, divided against itself, had little to offer, and has clearly become part of the problem.

Father Lombardi said Benedict XVI recalled «above all the cultural crisis of the West that exploded in «68, with the fascination for Marxism and the illusion of creating a new world, and the crumbling of the communist regimes in «89: the fall of the ideologies that did not give room to faith but rather to scepticism.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

Yet whilst the imperial power of Rome in the West was crumbling, Christianity was conquering the new rulers and the see of Rome was becoming the moral leader of the West.

He retreats into proposing coercion as a solution to the crumbling of authority of society.

It is crumbling before our eyes and, like Humpty Dumpty, all the king's horses and all the king's men will never put it together again.

The variety of concerns and issues finding expression in these counter-testimonies contributes each in its own way to chipping away at a crumbling and increasingly uninhabitable edifice, suggesting valuable alternatives that merit consideration as attempts at a new resolution are explored.

Beginning with the latter part of the fourth century invasion after invasion penetrated the weakened defenses and wrought havoc in the crumbling world.

This crumbling away, which is the mark of the corruptible and the precarious, is to be seen everywhere.

The traditional ethic of women staying in the home is crumbling.

Historically, eschatological faith was born in the reform prophetic movement of the Old Testament prophets, at a time when the world of ancient Israel was crumbling.

And while the religious foundations for such an orientation are crumbling, the ethical superstructure has remained.

It is no surprise that a crumbling of the institutional support for marriage accompanied society's change of attitude about divorce.

Not when they sleep on a cold pavement, or in a crumbling shanty.

Part One is entitled The Crumbling of the City of God, and the primary disintegrative force is science as presented by Locke and other more recent representatives of Polanyi's critical philosophy movement.

That wonderful life I'd once had was crumbling.

The unresolved issue of Marxism lives on: the crumbling of man's original uncertainties about God, himself, and the universe.

In this world, the Finest and Darkest Hours were in fact reluctant but necessary steps down the crumbling staircase of national decline.

Evolution is a crumbling theory with no substantial evidence in any corner... from microbiology to the astrophysics... our understanding is primitive.

The church is crumbling, one stone at a time.

Even in a song like «Ruby's Arms,» about a tough soldier crumbling under the weight of apocalyptic sadness, there's a sliver of hope.

One of the fundamental mistakes that Mr. Colson makes is his assumption that one can not confront our culture's crumbling moral consensus while at the same time advocating criminal justice reform of the kind I favor.

Crumbling urban schools yet those white liberals shot down the voucher progran giving black parents a chance to send their child to a private school for a better education.

However, for others to entertain even the presence of «questions» is to sense all parts of the foundation crumbling and being removed by a bull - dozer.

I just see various crumbling sin the foundation.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)-- As Congress debates how to help Puerto Rico with its $ 70 billion debt, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is trying to prod lawmakers into action with stories of crumbling infrastructure on the island and a lack of basic...

With literally thousands of crumbling dorm facilities across the U.S. it looks like these two REITs have a lot more runway to put up impressive growth numbers.

The fantasy built on oil is crumbling, showing that its benefits were barely felt outside privileged sites of elite -LSB-...]

But the game is always evolving and «iron - clad» rules are constantly crumbling.

While it's true that Notley won with the Alberta Tory dynasty and other opposition parties crumbling all around her, the Alberta NDP platform for 2015 had blanched out many past pledges to slash university tuition fees, regulate the electricity network or tightly control the pace of oil sands expansions.

«The roads that are crumbling, these are roads that needed attention five years ago, 10 years ago,» she said.

Hmmm, falling wages, higher unemployment, rising poverty, an unstable economy, a crumbling infrastructure, income inequality we haven't seen since the gilded age, and America losing ground as the world's economic superpower and builder of the world's best products.

Economic growth is crumbling.

Coral Gables is proceeding with plans to move out of its leaking, crumbling police and fire station headquarters and into a new, state - of - the - art building.

One former worker at the Genesis plant is 32 - year - old Marie - Bénie Clerjo, a mother of three sons who lives in Solino, a slum of tottering shacks and crumbling apartment blocks.

The kingdom's pact with OPEC to damp output is crumbling and has failed to drain inventories, or boost prices, fast enough.

After Puerto Rico declared a form of bankruptcy May 3, The New York Times used these words to describe the U.S. territory's fiscal woes: «borrowing to pay operating expenses, year after year»; «unable to provide its citizens effective services»; and «rising pension costs, crumbling infrastructure, departing taxpayers and credit downgrades.»

Below: Brad Wall, the crumbling Colossus of the Prairies (Photo: Daniel Paquet), and Stephen Harper, the former prime minister of Canada, snapped in Calgary's Blackfoot Diner truck stop restaurant as a bemused customer who only slightly resembles your blogger looks on.

But behind the scenes, Chen's empire was already crumbling.

Although the world remains heavily dependent on oil, coal and natural gas — which today supply around 80 percent of our primary energy needs — the industry is rapidly crumbling.

Looking inside our City limits, we have seen serious investment in our crumbling infrastructure and public spaces for the first time in decades.

With China's currency crumbling, oil prices collapsing and the U.S. stock market brushing its low for the year earlier this past week, you shouldn't panic.

Politicians in Athens will have to show some serious guts to enforce the austerity measures demanded by its European creditors in the face of a crumbling economy and an angry populace.

CNN Money's Matt Egan: «Main Street's confidence in the stock market is crumbling at the fastest pace since at least 1987.