Sentences with phrase «destructive powers of our world»

As theologian and bioethicist William F. May has often noted, we are preoccupied with death and the destructive powers of our world.

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Confronting the ideas of H.G. Wells, he suggests that the aliens we find on other planets may not be the destructive, inhuman powers of The War of the Worlds.

5) The destructive power of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has penetrated the world's consciousness.

Because he opened out an everlasting communion with the Father that made the Romans, the conventional powers and authorities, all the destructive and craven impulses of the world, even death itself, seem paltry and pitiful.

The League of Nations was established by the victorious Allied powers at the end of World War I for the purpose of preventing another destructive global conflict.

The divine omnipotence does not know the destructive facets of the human exercising of power, but in this world becomes «defenseless» and vulnerable.

Indeed, the world of the early Christians and the world of today tends to favor the destructive patterns of power over humility, materialism over generosity, retribution over forgiveness.

«Nuclear war is rejected in Church teaching because nuclear weapons can not ensure noncombatant immunity and their awesome destructive power and lingering radiation can not be meaningfully proportionate,» he said, citing Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 World Day of Peace message, in which the pope said, «In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.»

Catastrophe as such is the result of destructive causal forces existent in the world; its power derives from past actuality as it impinges upon us, and not directly from God.

Since that time also, the emergence of the atomic and hydrogen bombs has vastly increased the peril to the total world that racial conflict might fan to hideously destructive power.

The detonation unleashed the colossally destructive power of a fission chain reaction and changed the world forever.

According to the film, those who can control the world of computers can hold power more destructive than any nuclear weapon.

Jarecki uses Presley's career and influence to help us make sense of fame, power, corruption, self - destructive behaviour and pretty much all the other ills of the world, like why in hell poor people voted for Donald Trump.

Instead of wielding innately destructive powers, Ruth's gifts — manifested in stunning bursts of mesmerizing visuals in the purposefully ordinary world of «Fast Color» — are forceful and yet uniquely feminine in nature.

The Poppy War enthralls readers with a textured, well - crafted world inspired by both 20th - century and Song Dynasty China, before growing steadily darker and more mature as Rin and her companions encounter the brutality of war outside the classroom and Rin tries to come to terms with her destructive power.

Please join us tonight for an Opening reception 6 - 8 pm Altered TM Davy, Hayden Dunham, Ayana Evans, Raúl de Nieves, Jasmine Nyende, Lila de Magalhaes, Will Sheldon, Fin Simonetti, Keijaun Thomas, Sarah Zapata, Cajsa von Zeipel May 13 - June 23, 2018 Boundaries that define us And the holding we give to others A concept in hand Liquid in practice Material in knowledge I imagine my experiences as much as they are created Asking an artist about reality is asking smoke to rise Gravity will tell it better than words Or ashes in the wind The flame doesn't have the same language as the smoke But the border of burning releases something tangible For however long it dances Gives in a world that accepts through learning in a reality that won't Under the light of the destructive loop A harsh power that gets to the root The substance of choice made physical in the opulence of darkness of everything we touch - Jasmine Nyende Company Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition entitled Altered, from May 13 through June 23, 2018, with an opening reception Sunday, May 13th, 6 - 8 pm.

That, coupled with the increased urgency which will (or might) arise if climate becomes more obviously destructive, should, in my view, eventually open the eyes of enough of the power brokers of the world so that meaningful policy actions will begin to be implemented.

As Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org says: «It's astonishing that by 2017 there's anyone left in the world who wants to keep building coal - fired power plants — there really isn't a more destructive path they could be taking.

In the world of trust, Dr. Gottman has found that it translates as follows: unprocessed negative events between partners have an enormously destructive power — through an ongoing erosion of trust, they gradually screw - up and ultimately destroy our most intimate relationships.