Sentences with phrase «disaster befalls»

Chapter one writer Brian Michael Bendis opens the story in almost stereotypical big action flick style: we see the Phoenix force destroy a planet before heading toward Earth, we meet our heroes (at least the Avengers appear to be our heroes based on how Cyclops acts later in the book... but we'll get to that in a minute) in the calm before the storm, and then disaster befalls New York City.

Married to a Mexican industrialist, Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony), Lisa apparently endures their stressful existence because she likes to party and have her hair done; though you see none of this during the film's very long - seeming 142 minutes, she expresses remorse about her choices, later, after disaster befalls them.

Married to a Mexican industrialist, Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony), Lisa apparently endures their stressful existence because she likes to party and have her hair done; though you see none of this during the film's 142 minutes, she expresses remorse about her choices, later, after disaster befalls them.

In any event, Hezekiah spreads the written threats of the Assyrians before the LORD in the temple with fervent prayer, Isaiah utters a defiant oracle of victory, a great disaster befalls the Assyrian army, Sennacherib returns to Nineveh, and Jerusalem is saved.

Humanity continues to complain of natural disasters befalling her.

Jesus told his disciples what to expect from society, so that they would not be surprised when disaster befell them.

, you not only earn your scars, you also lengthen the list in your little black book by one more name every time one of these disasters befalls you.

Her power is luck, meaning she can waltz unscathed through a fight, only to have disaster befall everyone around her.

The messages on the pyramid walls can still be viewed thousands of years later and, barring any physical disaster befalling them, may still be readable thousands of years from now.

Despite a total disaster befalling my main marketing plan (Basically I got screwed by a then - new Homeland Security rule about packages over a pound and a politically hostile small town postal manager who evidently sent ALL of my carefully prepared hundred copies of pre-pub review mailings off to a dead - letter office somewhere.

In order to safeguard the city of New York should a serious disaster befall it an unknown amount of sleeper agents known as the Division are seeded around the Big Apple who will be activated with the intention of helping restore order.

Only if a series of disasters befell us and the government still refused to act.

Not exact matches

By no means are these five pitfalls intended to cover every possible disaster that could befall your company.

But as children they believed fervently that they needed to conduct their own rituals and prayers, or else disaster would befall their families.

I've heard dozens of people testify in church and on Christian TV that God did stop plenty of disasters from befalling people.

You might notice cultures that live near mountains / volcanoes have their own set of myths that include why a natural disaster like a volcanic eruption would befall them, vs. christianity / judaism that makes no mention of volcanic activity because that culture didn't have to deal with it.

Disaster (possibly a plague) befell the Assyrian army and Sennacherib withdrew (ch 19; cf. Isaiah 37).2

«More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

So if there are no atheist posts, wouldn't that be right» Yes, atheists don't believe your god exists; but, many of us do believe your religion is one of greatest disasters to ever befall human kind and so we are here to make sure your lies and illogic don't go unchallenged unlike the last 2000 years Your just miffed that christians cant burn heretics at the stake any more

While Zababdeh has averted the huge disasters that have befallen many Palestinian areas during the past seven months, it has not been immune to the occupation's crushing blows.

One of the biggest disasters ever to befall the human race is that too many of us continue to give credence to that book of trash here in the 21st century.

The closing verses here, 21 - 24, are a fine example of the sort of disaster that can befall the biblical text.

Sounds like just the sort of kitchen disaster to befall me!

This is the helpful partner, the man whose business it is to keep you cheerful through the most harrowing disasters which can befall a man with a golf club in his hand.

Instead — unlike the disaster that earlier in the contest befell Chesson Hadley — well, this miracle happened:

Both full - backs should close down balls lobbed into the area — a problem with Milner's transition to full - back from midfield — but the root of all the defensive evils is the panic that sets in when Liverpool try to defend a lead, and the inevitable disaster that befalls a team that should be winning.

Odifuo Tawiah added that a disaster will befall the nation this year, bigger than any ever experienced, due to the activities of politicians.

His comments come after Prophet Bishop Reindolph Oduro Gyebi, General Overseer of God's Crown Chapel in Kumasi said a looming disaster will befall this country.

Spanning from the disaster that befell Spain in the sixteenth century to the 2008 global financial crisis, War and Gold is an ambitious and unique study of money from the acclaimed author of Ghosts of Empire.

They see the creation of Israel as the greatest disaster to befall them, and Arab leaders in both the West Bank and Gaza are encouraging massive turnout.

Reeder wore biohazard gear while performing bat dissections, but that couldn't ward off the string of medical disasters that befell her loved ones.

Based on true events, Deepwater Horizon details the circumstances surrounding the 2010 disaster that befell the title oil rig - with the movie following the various men and women who were working aboard the massive installation when it exploded.

To some extent, Toller's angst is understandable and fair, as part of it originates from a new awareness of the impending environmental disaster that will befall our planet.

Yet the film shows how the collectively irrational populace starts to blame her protest for the disaster which befalls Chief Willoughby himself, an entirely separate situation which is to bleed into her own.

A disaster known as «black miasma» befalls them.

The calamities and natural disasters that have, and will, befall the current age imply the harmonious union of people, wherein physical desires will be curtailed along with the creation of spiritual abundance.

The mysterious Kartik has reappeared, telling Gemma she must find the Temple and bind the magic, else great disaster will befall her.

This is the story of Skip Sands — spy - in - training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong — and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel.

No, it's not fun to think about the disasters that could befall you, but for anyone with a family or property to protect, insurance is a necessity.

Fire or other disasters can befall your home while you are away, and the dog must have a way to escape possible death.

A disaster known as «black miasma» befalls them.

But what if some disaster did befall the world and force PAX East attendees to forever wander the halls of the Boston Convention and Exhibition, feasting on whatever mac and cheese bowls or turkey legs they may find?

After the technical disasters that befell Battlefield 4, it is a relief to report that, well, Battlefield 1 actually works.

Such disasters have befallen the New York City Opera and Long Island College Hospital, two major New York institutions that collapsed in financial disarray in recent years, and the Crystal Cathedral in California, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010 after accusations that its board had imprudently borrowed against the endowment.

Here are the main elements, which focus, naturally, on the extraordinary oil - fire disaster that befell the small Quebec community of Lac - Mégantic in July (there's an excellent video overview, as well):

From war, to civil strife, to natural disasters, seed banks around the world face crises that, with surprising regularity, befall these genetic repositories that are the lifeblood of the international agricultural community.

Guardian: The citizens of Pompeii had no warning of the disaster about to befall them.

If we were somehow able to severely curtail / stop the use of fossil fuels, the developing world would be less able to respond to and recover from the inevitable disasters that will befall them.

In all the recent excitement over the three famous brand options, we sometimes forget that blogs started it all; equally, we can confidently predict that if unforeseen disasters were to befall social... more»

In all the recent excitement over the three famous brand options, we sometimes forget that blogs started it all; equally, we can confidently predict that if unforeseen disasters were to befall social networking, blogs would be the last ones standing.