Sentences with phrase «dead hand of»

The dead hand of guvuhmint Jest when we were gettin» somewhere.
The ash - grey plaster installation, complete with a grand piano, an art library, drawing room and neo-classical sculptures set around a lotus pond, resembles a petrified villa of a Pompeii nobleman in what could be seen as a critique of the dead hand of the global elite on the art world.
«This agreement, which will create over 7,000 new jobs in Stansted, proves how UK airports can flourish when released from the dead hand of the BAA monopoly.»
Then we have the dead hand of Ned Sullivan, the current Chairman, who is / was also on the boards of such successes as Anglo Irish Bank, McInerney Properties and Eircom... And yes, he returned the Anglo favour, with Sean Fitzpatrick appointed to the Greencore board for a number of years.
The Golf had the cold, dead hand of bean - counters all over it.
You will not be surprised to find I see the dead hand of the treasury behind this.
The dead hand of the past has created problems for these rational planners to solve, preferably quickly.
And it was unclear how far Labour will go in the critical issue of lifting the dead hand of local authority control from state schools that choose not to be academies.
It will also bring the dawning of a new era in which education politics is more open, productive changes are more readily embraced, and learning is liberated from the dead hand of the past.
Some wish to escape the dead hand of their local authority.
Is Captain America's team the face of the libertarian right, scorning the dead hand of big government and the nanny state?
«Instead of an «ever closer union» demanded by Euro - fanatics, Britain needs an «ever LOOSER union» so that we can continue to prosper and grow without the dead hand of Brussels round our necks.»
That is one of the problems the Tories have, they talk eurosceptic, but that is all, when push comes to shove they will do nothing about controlling the dead hand of the EU.
You must be freed from the dead hand of Whitehall to innovate, to use your judgement, and to deliver in the way you know best.
The Tories are now strangled by the dead hand of Thatcher.
Even as it becomes ever clearer that austerity has failed in Britain as it has across Europe, so the dead hand of the Balls office kills off any flicker of delivering change.
«We have long detected the dead hand of the Government interfering to stop us reaching negotiated settlements in the current disputes and it's about time Chris Grayling stopped playing politics with passenger safety and started taking the issue seriously.
Science could go nowhere until the dead hand of the Greek sage was lifted from it.
To accept the Bible as the authority of the Christian faith, therefore, is not to accept merely some static dogma that lays the dead hand of the past on the fresh life of the present.
Yet paradoxically the post-conciliar reforms were sometimes implemented in a spirit of philistine dismissal of «tradition» as nothing more than the dead hand of the past.

Not exact matches

Detailed reports and allegedly leaked audio paint a picture of an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the US military, and how the remains of dead Russian mercenaries are being held until after Russia's presidential election in March.
«A chef pulled a dead fly from the gravy of someone's meal and then handed it to waitstaff to take out to customers.»
Some 50 dead at the hands of a self - declared ISIS supporter with an automatic assault weapon, in the midst of the most polarized presidential election the country has experienced in the post-war period.
Buncombe County Sheriff's candidate R. Daryl Fisher has apologized for joking about taking guns out of residents» «cold, dead hands
CMIT was just transitioning into the business IT services model, so I secured a tremendous territory, the entire city of Boston, which now you'd have to pry out of someone's cold, dead hands.
For all its track record of innovation and investment the US has created for its tech businesses some interesting competitive disadvantages: high noise levels of spam and marketing, erosion of trust and degraded value of personal data, laws like Patriot Act and FISAAA which justifiably piss non-USians off, programs like PRISM which seriously undermine the credibility of the companies affected, the dead hand and zombie brain of an out of control military - industrial complex.
«The fact that dead coins were relegated to oblivion by the invisible hand of the market, doesn't mean that they should remain forgotten, at the fringe.
A few weeks ago, I read «Finance Pros Say You'll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands» in the Wall Street Journal and I've been thinking about...
The Pope drops a hand grenade into a sea of Catholics and then watches their dead bodies float to the surface.
More than 750 people wound up dead — some strangled, some poisoned, many dead by their own hands — and almost all of them burned in various structure fires.
On the other hand, you could get a fentanyl - intensive pinch — in which case you will be found dead soon thereafter with the needle still sticking out of your arm.
Not to mention early Christians had first - hand eyewitnesses of Christ being risen from the dead among them.
18:15, 19 Matthew 21:11 John 6:14 John 1:45 Acts 3:22 - 23 Messiah to be the Son of God Psalm 2:7 Proverbs 30:4 Luke 1:32 Matthew 3:17 Messiah to be raised from the dead Psalm 16:10 Acts 13:35 - 37 Messiah to experience crucifixion Psalm 22 Psalm 69:21 Matthew 27:34 - 50 John 19:28 - 30 Messiah to be betrayed by a friend Psalm 41:9 John 13:18, 21 Messiah to ascend to heaven Psalm 68:18 Luke 24:51 Acts 1:9 Homage and tribute paid to Messiah by great kings Psalm 72:10 - 11 Matthew 2:1 - 11 Messiah to be a priest like Melchizedek Psalm 110:4 Hebrews 5:5 - 6 Messiah to be at the right hand of God Psalm 110:1 Matthew 26:64 Hebrews 1:3 Messiah, the stone which the builders rejected, to become the head cornerstone Psalm 118:22 - 23 Isaiah 8:14 - 15 Isaiah 28:16 Matthew 21:42 - 43 Acts 4:11 Romans 9:32 - 33 Ephesians 2:20 1 Peter 2:6 - 8 Messiah to be born of a virgin Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:18 - 25 Luke 1:26 - 35 Galilee to be the first area of Messiah's ministry Isaiah 9:1 - 8 Matthew 4:12 - 16 Messiah will be meek and mild Isaiah 42:2 - 3 Isaiah 53:7 Matthew 12:18 - 20 Matthew 26:62 - 63
In one dead hand he holds a crucifix, on which is hung the body of a child.
That's not about doctrines of «repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.»
There is the youtube video in which a bunch of villagers were asked whether the want the woman dead, and I saw all hands up.
Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»
(Isaiah 57:8, NASB) And the Dead Sea scrolls refer to a member of the Hebrew religious community at Qumran being fined for exposing his «hand
If some of those lying dead in the street had exercised a right to defend themselves with a gun in their own hands... the madman would be lying dead with far fewer bodies.
For example, in the last part of chapter 1, Paul told us that Christ was given new life, and raised from the dead, and seated at God's right hand in the heavenly places, so that everything, both now and in the ages to come might be placed under Christ's authority.
Logion 51, on the other hand, is clearly a development from logion 113: it has the same expression, gosht ebol, which, indeed, has become the central theme, the original affirmation having disappeared and the Kingdom question having been replaced by that of the «repose of the dead».
So in I Corinthians, having asked how the dead are raised, he attempts to answer the question by saying, on the one hand, that there is some kind of real, though indefinable, continuity between our present bodily mode of existence and the life beyond death, and, on the other, that there is discontinuity also.
Because the story is an allegory; Jesus speaks in parables, because he is a parable, for his alter ego, Judas, who for the last 2,000 years has been in the hands of self - confessed sinners (Christians), who have indeed entreated him spitefully, and have done every thing in their power to have you believe that he is dead, (although it's never written that he has died, or that he was ever buried, either).
The power that raised Christ from the dead, that seated Christ at the right hand of God, that gave Christ supremacy over all rulers and authorities, over all powers and dominions, over ever title that can be given throughout all eternity, that placed all things under Christ and that appointed Christ as the head over everything,... this power, is for the church.
Obama has the blood of millions of babies on his vile hands and want's more dead!
If you find a dead body and don't know the cause of death, then get all the elders together, cut off the head of a heifer, wash your hands over its body, and say our hands have not shed this blood.
And yet you can not rise from the dead, turn water into wine or heal people by laying on of hands.
i confess with my mouth to ALL the WORLD i believe in JESUS CHRIST who was crucified and GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD he now lives sitting on the right hand of the father I AWAIT HIS RETURN even if the WHOLE WORLD DOES NOT FOLLOW HIM AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST
We refuse to listen to what they have to say as there is nothing they have to say thats of any value to us as we say «yes dear» and hand them another biscuit, thinking of the thousands they are going to leave us when they are dead.
But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.
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