Sentences with phrase «death struggle against»

Who's up for a little light bondage play, possibly followed by a harrowing life - or - death struggle against seemingly impossible odds?

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Other parts of the plan include «Help Those Struggling with Addiction» and «Cut off the Supply of Illicit Drugs,» which is the section that includes seeking the death penalty against certain drug traffickers.

Some experts said Emwazi's death would be symbolically important but unlikely to make much difference to Islamic State or to the struggle against radicalisation among some young British Muslims.

It was the spiritual guide, the moral and legal code, the political system, the sustenance of life, whether that meant endurance of hardship, the endless struggle against nature, battle with enemies, or the inevitable processes of life and death.

First of all, the death that Jesus endured was the consequence of the struggle he waged against those who wielded religious and political power.

In Evangelium Vitae, Blessed John Paul II says Mary is the «living word of comfort for the Church in her struggle against death».

We should «never abandon care» — and such abandonment can come either through hastening death, or through struggling daily against death when its time has come, a struggle that will deflect us from giving the care really needed at that point.

It chooses and sets in order... [Creation is the] conflict of energy and resistance, a struggle of life against death, from which the word takes its impetus....

He struggles the entire film against his physical limitations and eventually submits to death, but not before the film asks «is death the end?»

One can almost feel the confusion of Satan in the end the Gospel accounts as Jesus, who has struggled and taught and healed against all the death and destruction and lies of the devil throughout His entire three years of ministry, now goes silently to the cross, like a lamb to the slaughter.

Cullmann finds a New Testament Christ who has no time for trivialities at the moment of death, a Christ who struggles to the end against a terrifying enemy, crying out from the cross, «My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?»

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Think of all the wrongs crying to be righted, all the pain needing relief, all the illnesses requiring cures, all the evil that ought to be conquered and destroyed, all the sins that should be forgiven and obliterated, even life itself struggling against death and needing his divine intervention to survive.

This is a cultural struggle against the culture of violence and death of the Roman Empire.

Or it may be the social project or the struggle against the powers that is the real work of Christ, and so the death draws its meaning as the last measure of devotion to that struggle.

It is natural for them to struggle against death until there is nothing left to fight with, and anyone watching the struggle is going to be upset.

The Memorial, a 1,600 - square - foot corner of the park, commemorates the shattering struggle against the epidemic that wreaked widespread death among gay and bisexual men and many other New Yorkers beginning in the early 1980s.

Along the way, players experience the heat of gunfights and battles, meet a host of unique characters, struggle against the harshness of one of the world's last remaining wildernesses, and ultimately pick their own precarious path through an epic story about the death of the Wild West and the gunslingers that inhabited it.

It is up to Rune Knudsen, a Norwegian biologist, to take on a desperate struggle against fear and death, and to face the primordial force lurking beyond the veiled sky.

James White tells the turbulent story of a young man coping with grief in the wake of his father's death and the resurgence of his mother's cancer, and his struggle to go on against all odds.

Lucian is joined by his secret lover, Sonja, in his battle against the Death Dealer army and his struggle for Lycan freedom.

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

The Death of Stalin: Hilarious, but not in a laugh - out - loud way, this comic retelling of Stalin's death and the ensuing power struggle is told from the standpoint of the Central Committee, with a fretting, befuddled Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi) going up against the ruthless, depraved Beria (Simon Russell BeDeath of Stalin: Hilarious, but not in a laugh - out - loud way, this comic retelling of Stalin's death and the ensuing power struggle is told from the standpoint of the Central Committee, with a fretting, befuddled Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi) going up against the ruthless, depraved Beria (Simon Russell Bedeath and the ensuing power struggle is told from the standpoint of the Central Committee, with a fretting, befuddled Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi) going up against the ruthless, depraved Beria (Simon Russell Beale).

Life becomes a struggle for life or death against those evils in the interior and exterior dimensions, that we by nature straddle as physical yet spiritual beings.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

This time, he is a beautiful female swashbuckler named Cindella the sailor, and as he undertakes a dangerous struggle against the committee, he is threatened by death in both the fantasy world and hardscrabble reality.

Many of these courageous thinkers struggled against persecution by dogmatic, narrow - minded authorities, suffering poverty, imprisonment, and death through their efforts to bring the light of truth to th...

State of Decay 2's survival RPG struggle against zombies is fun thanks to strong combat and fear of permanent death but repetitive and buggy, especially in co-op.

Pixelated blood gushed out as it took a moment for the man to stop struggling against death.

The artist, in the 19th - century Saints» Legend, struggles against the most determined parental and social opposition, suffering the slings and arrows of social opprobrium like any Christian martyr, and ultimately succeeds against all odds — generally, alas, after his death — because from deep within himself radiates that mysterious, holy effulgence: Genius.

Gillian Wearing protests against a serious recession, Andres Serrano photographs AIDS - related death rather than his struggles with piss and Christianity, and (thankfully) Chris Ofili or Damien Hirst does not appear at all.

Beckmann referred to the painting as «Penelope's Shirt,» from the Odyssey, investing the hard work of painting with temporary power to struggle against death.

Guest curator Kamin Rapaport positions sixty - six sculptures and installations — antihierarchical juxtapositions of appropriated materials, such as ornamental molding, fabric, and discarded timber — and works on paper, all made between 1928 and 1988 (the year of the artist's death), against an archival backdrop in which Nevelson's struggles as a Russian Jew growing up in WASP - y Rockland, Maine, figure prominently.