Sentences with phrase «destruction upon»

Gonococci have been evolving with us for thousands of years, and the advent of antibiotics brought destruction upon many of these organisms, but also culled the herd so the strongest could survive.

The path, as you ascend higher, is intersected by ravines of snow, down which stones continually roll from above; one of them is particularly dangerous, as the slightest sound, such as even speaking in a loud voice, produces a concussion of air sufficient to draw destruction upon the head of the speaker.

Another neat feature in The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game is the on - rail vehicle sections that see you parading through different environments and wreaking destruction upon your foes (and pretty much everything else) in the Ninja's giant mechs.

Just Cause 2 (PC / PS3 / XBox 360)-- March 23 — Website: www.justcause.com In the original «Just Cause,» Rico Rodriguez rained chaos and destruction upon the island of San Esperito in his mission to overthrow its dictator, and «Just Cause 2» will unleash Rico upon another tropical island in need of a change in leadership.

A direct sequel to 2011's Rayman Origins, Legends finds Rayman and chums awaking after a 100 - year nap to discover the Bubble Dreamers have been busy reigning chaos and destruction upon the land.

You can also spend cash to get inanimate objects in the environment to work for you, in turn making little traps that'll unleash destruction upon your foes.

The single player campaign will feature expansive environments in which to wreak havoc and destruction upon enemies and bosses alike.

Dance with a slime... pet a dog... whisper your favorite secret to a knight... or ignore all of that and rain destruction upon your foes.

Or, ignore this choice and rain destruction upon your foes.

The trailer also shows various weapons for Gladio and a huge dragon - like creature that he can ride to unleash more destruction upon his monster enemies.

The story — you are a wandering hero, and the evil bad - guy is casting a spell of destruction upon the world... the catch: the spell only takes 30 seconds to cast.

Then it should used loudly and with conviction as if the «Dog God» has descended from the clouds to bring death and destruction upon him.

Where once they warred openly, raining unimaginable destruction upon the world, the centuries have seen their conflict shift to the shadows in the hope of gaining victory through the manipulation of the mundane instead of open, devastating conflict.

 Full of desperation, Rick dons the «Mayan Terror Mask» and is transformed into a raging juggernaut, unleashing unadulterated violence and destruction upon anything that stands in his way.

He's determined to do what he sets his mind to (usually bring death and destruction upon wherever he may land).

-- Ganon's Fury: Play as Ganon, rain chaos and destruction upon the battlefield, and unlock new costumes for Ganondorf and Cia.

All of the Marvel heroes must band together in an attempt to stop the mad titan Thanos, who is looking to collect all six of the Infinity Stones and unleash destruction upon the universe.

«We can do better to keep the American people safe from these kinds of individuals that perpetrate death and destruction upon so many people,» he said.

God did not bring the destruction upon Judah, but removed the protection from Judah when they departed from His protective hand.

In other words, if all that God could do in the flood event was rescue as many people as possible from the waters when they threatened to take the life of everything that breathes, how can God guarantee that humanity will never be so sinful as to invite the same destruction upon their heads again?

It seems that according to Hosea 11:8, the destruction that came upon the four cities in the plain was not directly by the hand of God, but was because the people departed from the protective hand of God, and brought their destruction upon themselves.

These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon themselves.

If there is one thing we learn from Isaiah 54 about the flood, it is that although it appears as if God sent the flood as punishment, it actually came as a result of humanities departure from the protective hand of God, and because the destroyer had set out to bring destruction upon the people of the earth as the just consequence for their great sin.

After talking about how the false teachers are bringing destruction upon themselves, Peter is going to give several examples from biblical history about other groups of people who were destroyed.

Since sin cannibalizes itself, the sin of the people at the time of the flood brought the waters of destruction upon themselves.

Just as Peter wrote in 2 Peter 2:1, the actions of the false teachers are bringing this destruction upon themselves.

When Peter writes in 2 Peter 2:5 that the flood was brought upon the people at the time of Noah, Peter uses the exact same word he uses in 2:1 to write about how the false teachers brought destruction upon themselves (Gk., epagō, «to bring upon»).

In 2 Peter 2, Peter is clearly revealing the idea that sin cannibalizes itself and when sin takes root and leads us further away from God, there comes a point when we depart from God's protective hand, and invite ruin and destruction upon ourselves.

This is all quite sweet, of course, but it does totally obfuscate one essential part of the Deluge account, namely, that God is not willing to tolerate human depravity indefinitely and that human evil will bring destruction upon nature and upon innocent bystanders as well as on the evildoers themselves — a message that might seem particularly appropriate in an age of terrorism and environmental pollution.»

If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, precipitate the race for armaments, and prejudice the possibility of reaching an international agreement on the future control of such weapons.

Verse 49 reveals that those who are disobedient invite destruction upon themselves.

BTW... the «babies» Jesus drowned in the flood were nephilim: angel (or celestial beings in general) and human hybrid which created a race of barbaric giants wreaking destruction upon the earth.

God sent this [fill in the blank catastrophe here] to warn us that if we don't return to God, he will send more death and destruction upon us all until our nation is no more!

But for that reason the God has reserved it to himself, this unfathomable grief: to know that he may repel the learner, that he does not need him, that the learner has brought destruction upon himself by his own guilt, that he can leave the learner to his fate; to know also how well - nigh impossible it is to keep the learner's courage and confidence alive, without which the purposed understanding and equality will fail, and the love become unhappy.

He will return and He will bring destruction upon the earth.

This prompted Chinese officials to counter U.S. attempts to blame it for running a trade surplus by retorting that U.S. financial aggression «risked bringing mutual destruction upon the great economic powers.»

There are few other figures than the monarchs and their satellites — but that only reflects the character of the age — Roman history, Mediterranean history generally, in that century, was a history of Führers and Duces, strutting about imperiously and wreaking their destructions upon the earth.

Not exact matches

The crash resulted in local destruction of wealth, and imparted upon him the dangers of leverage at a very early age.

God's love is what saves us from this destruction, not places it upon us.

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

«The destruction of the firstborn sons of Egypt was something that the previous Pharaoh had visited upon the people of Israel 80 years earlier when the Egyptian army killed all the newborn sons of Israel two years old and younger»

Even Barth, upon whom I have relied here, can not keep from saying that the discontinuity «is not a question of the destruction but of the radical renewal of the child - parent relationship.»

The destruction of the voting assemblies of the eastern cities, which came about as a consequence of their inclusion in the empire, effectively left competition in the practice of benefactions as the only means by which the civic elites could compete for power in their localities; and success in this was dependent upon attaining the patronage of the man who sat at the top of the social pyramid.

And so it was a pleasant surprise to stumble upon the Rev. Kelvin Croom amid the destruction left by Tuscaloosa's recent tornado.

Jeremiah, pouring out before God everything he felt, poured out his vindictiveness: «Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction»; (Jeremiah 17:18) «Deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle....

Human beings have brought much evil on the earth, God judges through a flood, Noah's family is saved from the destruction through the ark, and the human race begins again upon a renewed earth.

Not only, were the poor more liable to disease and to the destruction of their homes by floods, but they were looked upon by society as being potential criminals.

Of believers / the godly / the just to whom he is writing, he uses the pronoun «you» (v. 1,3,13) But of the ungodly / the wicked / those who are reserved by God for judgment / the ungodly / etc the writer always designates such by the pronouns «them», «these», «their» and «they» (v. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,2021,22) So your theory that the false teachers of verse 1 who bring upon themselves swift destruction / perdition are believers is entirely a fabrication divorced from the context!

3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

The U.S. low - intensity - conflict strategy of terror, death, and destruction is meant to demonstrate to third - world peoples the high costs of embarking upon a road to self - determination.