Sentences with phrase «extraordinary acts of»

I am constantly humbled by the raw courage of those who can find a way to reach out and make peace with their opponents, and the extraordinary acts of generosity and humanity that even those in deep dispute can show to each other.

But above all, our FOTAS volunteers are caring, generous people who express extraordinary acts of kindness, and scientists now know what the great spiritual masters have known for centuries: that acts of kindness promote happiness and a sense of well - being.

In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey RatnerSimon & Schuster • $ 25 • ISBN 9781451657708On sale August 7, 2012Vaddey Ratner's debut novel caught my attention when I read this effusive recommendation from author Chris Cleave: «In the Shadow of the Banyan is one of the most extraordinary acts of storytelling I have ever encountered.»

Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope - filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a «frozen ark,» equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us.

Vaddey Ratner's debut novel caught my attention when I read this effusive recommendation from author Chris Cleave: «In the Shadow of the Banyan is one of the most extraordinary acts of storytelling I have ever encountered.»

Complete jerks are capable of extraordinary acts of kindness and compassion.

Six years ago, while researching the history of the atrocities at Facing History and Ourselves as an intern, I noted the tension between these extraordinary acts of violence and how utterly ordinary the perpetrators were.

Those men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale.

Before a bell rung 42 times to commemorate the dead, Giordano and other officials praised the ordinary and extraordinary acts of heroism by first responders and community members as the firefight raged on for more than a week.

The veteran women's rights campaigner has also said that trans people who undergo sex - change surgery are «inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on [themselves]».

Only an extraordinary act of will could recall to us our former, living selves and our contexts in matter and time.

To pull out the single market would be an extraordinary act of national self - harm.

Nonetheless it is an extraordinary act of protest - I would say ill discipline - from a former Chairman of the Conservative Party.

ConservativeHome had been pressing to see membership data but in a extraordinary act of secrecy, CCHQ refused to publish the necessary numbers.

It took an extraordinary act of bravery for Lili to act on her gender identity, but we never feel the inner turmoil that she must have experienced in deciding to be true to herself.

Particular kudos must go to Wahlberg whose Marcus is put through quite the ordeal but who finds his faith in humanity rewarded by an extraordinary act of compassion from a seemingly unlikely source.

His engagement with German national identity at a time when many artists were shying away from so difficult a subject was an extraordinary act of self - assertion.

Now, through an extraordinary act of generosity from ICA Trustee Tristin Mannion and her husband Martin Mannion, the ICA will be able to share the experience of Ashes with our audiences for generations to come,» said Medvedow.

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The government, through paragraph 10, section 6 of the Citizenship Act, can confer citizenship «because of the services already provided by the foreigner and the extraordinary achievements still to be expected of him in the special interest of the Republic.»

Trudeau must act because last Sunday, Kinder Morgan announced that it was suspending construction work on its pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby because of «extraordinary political risks that are completely outside of our control and that could prevent completion of the project.»

The fact that the Street has BAC with a up 9 % revenue estimate for Q1 «17 can only be interpreted as an act of extraordinary generosity, especially when you consider that the full year estimate is just half that number.

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The previous government implemented the Balanced Budget Act, which precluded the running of deficits, except in extraordinary circumstances.

Thus the activity proper to purity (in scholastic terms, its formal effect) is the unification of the inner powers of the soul in a single act of appetition of extraordinary richness and intensity.

Again: how extraordinary is a power that is gentle and confident enough to enter into the practical consequences of a human act of interpretation?

He did not miraculously heal me from my anxiety in one instant act of extraordinary intervention.

Never - the-less, without accepting the work at face value, it is possible to regard the Book of Mormon as the product of an extraordinary and profound act of the religious imagination.

Something of extraordinary magnitude has transpired: the ugliness of Itzik's unilateral act of vengeance has been replaced by reciprocated acts of love and caring.

He is merely engaged in a shell game of his own, giving his non-existant supernatural being extraordinary powers so that it can maintain its centuries old disappearing act.

By reserving the act of sexual union solely for procreation, intercourse gains extraordinary symbolic power.

Some of the miracles related in the Bible — perhaps most of them — were not actual events at all, but legendary acts and manifestations whose real significance is their testimony to the Impression made by an extraordinary personality on the people who encountered and observed him.

To say this is also to imply that the tendency of philosophy, religion, and common sense to ascribe evil acts to the moral inferiority of the individual — summed up for all time in the extraordinary metaphor of «original sin» — is not a fundamental explanation.

We envisioned the liturgy as providing something like a rite of passage for the students, a kind of leave - taking from an extraordinary experience, a corporate act of closure.

The dead must be called into the world of life before it is too late.11 When the crunch is on, we must act quickly, and decisively, taking extraordinary measures.

We usually think that faith must precede every act of God, but sometimes God surprised the Israelites with an extraordinary act to win them back.

Measuring a foot thick, the «extraordinary object» was described by the British Library's chief executive Roly Keating as «one of the great acts of creative book production of the entire millennium».

As for the uncritical adoption of «secular» styles, there is no denying that the act of giving ordinary, secular - sounding expression to extraordinary reality can transform the ordinary and secular into something sacred.

The extraordinary acts that are told of Jesus are accordingly not something that was imposed on his portrait later on; from the beginning they formed an essential part of the tradition about him.

«The increased CHIP funding that was part of the Affordable Care Act is critical to maintaining this extraordinary success story.»

But eventually Brown and Alistair Darling were forced to act in extraordinary and unprecedented ways by the sheer scale of the crisis, which threatened the viability of the whole banking system and the economy.

Given the many constraints the US Constitution places on the acts that simple majorities can take — like the extraordinary representation of small states in the Senate, and the power of the filibuster to thwart majorities — it strains credulity to argue that certain geographically concentrated interests require added protection from the majority of Americans.

For example, the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were doing something quite ordinary, signing a document but, because they did so in an extraordinary setting, with a revolution begun but not yet won, their act was extraordinary.

It would be an extraordinary act to gear up the constitutional machinery to punish or oust the 57 - year - old, third - term representative of the 4th House District.

The extraordinary appointment of Schwartz included granting him civil subpoena power, the first time since the Moreland Commission's demise that the century - old Moreland Act has been wielded.

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Visiting Jerusalem, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday decried the recent wave of anti-Semitic acts in the United States as «reprehensible» and vowed his state was employing «extraordinary measures» to combat the phenomenon.

Her claims that her government's negotiating position on Brexit was being misrepresented, that the Commission had hardened its own stance and that threats had been issued against Britain were mere buildup to her most extraordinary accusation: «All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election that will take place on 8 June.»

Visiting Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum, Gov. Andrew Cuomo today decried the recent wave of anti-Semitic acts in the United States as «reprehensible» and vowed his state was employing «extraordinary measures» to combat the phenomenon.

The Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has called on delegates to ensure that they resolve any lingering issues they might have before they leave the party's Extraordinary National Delegates» Conference in Kumasi Mr. Blay said the NPP can take a step closer to retaining power in the 2020 general elections if Sunday's Delegates» Conference...

The program was the subject of an extraordinary showdown last week as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sparred with upstate House Republicans over an amendment to the now - dead American Health Care Act that would have stopped the state from charging county governments for Medicaid costs.