Sentences with phrase «falls upon his back»

Siegfried bathes in the dragon's blood, but a lime leaf falls upon his back and leaves one unprotected spot.

Not exact matches

Or maybe you won't, and you'll need that offer to fall back upon.

That's the beauty of having the financial cushion to fall back upon — failure doesn't hurt so much, since it's not as far to fall.

Thus when modern philosophy established itself anew as a discipline autonomous from theology, it did so naturally by falling back upon an ever more abyssal subjectivity.

And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us.

To reject this idol may often involve falling back upon skepticism, but sometimes one seems fleetingly to be enabled to reject the idol in the name of a Being who really is Another, who requires one to stop putting words into His mouth, who has the predictable disconcerting quality of the God of the New Testament, who directs one's attention away from oneself, who is relaxed where the idol is grim and immensely awe - inspiring where the idol is puny.

Warning that millions of people already in debt are being left with «nothing to fall back on», Dr John Sentamu called upon minister to reduce the time period.

Finding no convincing, easily comprehended philosophical or theological theory able to relate religion and science to each other, people may fall back upon the mere words of the Bible (or the Koran), read largely without scholarship.

I believe that it is these people who still claim to believe in «the classic idea of God», and I'm reasonably sure that it's only because they need to have something to fall back upon.

Besides missing the mark, as even a cursory survey of the history of religions shows, Harnack's barrage falls back down upon his own head.

Inevitably such a dialectical theology falls back upon a dogmatic and non-dialectical form of faith or belief, thereby foreclosing the possibility of reaching a coincidentia oppositorum.

It removes the necessity for you to question human morals or to make your own moral decisions, because it lays out a set of simple rules upon which you will always fall back if things get a little too confusing or uncomfortable for independent judgment or consideration.

Peace in the family is the consciousness that, under all the strains inevitably incident to the running of a home, there is an unfailing wealth of love and devotion and fidelity to fall back upon.

As I look back on her now, I hate her, and wonder how I could ever have fallen so low as to be worked upon to such an extent by her attractions.

Faced with this mortal threat to their survival, both the United States and the Soviet Union have fallen back upon a time - honored yet thus far ineffectual remedy: Disarmament.

When the mind goes dark, one can with confidence fall back upon acts of kindness toward one's immediate neighbor.

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

It appears that through such actions, God was trying to non-violently warn the Egyptian army that destruction was about to fall upon their heads, and they should turn back while they still had time.

The command of God to Moses in Exodus 14:26 to allow the waters to fall back upon the heads of the Egyptians can be understood as God taking the blame for that which He did not prevent.

A man can not control beforehand the possibilities upon which he must act; he can not in the moment of decision fall back upon principles, upon a general ethical theory which can relieve him of responsibility for the decision; rather, every moment of decision is essentially new.

This faith is shared, but certainly not «read back,» by the ones who recorded the events; it is the faith that the calamities falling with such severity upon Egypt were occasioned and controlled by the Word, God's Word.

This falling back upon the divine, together with the loss of confidence in man himself, was called the apocalyptic hope.

Depay sent an awful header back towards goalkeeper David de Gea, but his attempted pass fell short and was pounced upon by Glen Johnson, who squared the ball to Bojan for the former Barcelona starlet to tap home from close range.

I even discovered that if baby fell asleep during a feeding I could lay her down briefly, and upon picking her back up she would burp.

Upon the second use, while in the airport, the back right wheel fell off.

Whether you're looking for something to put in your back pocket for when the meal - time boredom falls upon you, have a picky eater and you need to be creative, or if you simply just want to give your kid some variety this is a great place to start!

Whether you're looking for something to put in your back pocket for when the meal - time boredom falls upon you, have a picky eater and you need to be creative, or...

When you get to that point when your baby goes through a phase and refuses to eat any fruits or vegetables these are the recipes to fall back upon.

Our household has always been pretty laid back, but a few wobbles recently have made me fall back upon the rules that I've always leant on to give the boys boundaries.

Why do we fall back upon binary code in this debate?

«Legend has it that, back in the 1800s, 11 school teachers went and stumbled upon Nevele Falls, and if you look at Nevele spelled backwards, it's eleven,» said Kathi Meci, chief operating officer of Nevele Investors LLC, which wants to build a $ 640 million casino resort at the former Nevele hotel in Warwarsing.

«From the time that a man brushes his teeth in the morning with a Bakelite - handled brush until the moment when he removes his last cigarette from a Bakelite holder, extinguishes it in a Bakelite ashtray and falls back upon a Bakelite bed, all that he touches, sees, uses will be made of this material of a thousand purposes,» Time magazine enthused in 1924 in an issue that sported Baekeland on the cover.

In «Global wheat: The risks behind the records,» a report published by AHDB in February 2018, Kaur Purewal and colleagues suggest that, despite an unprecedented run of surplus global wheat production in the last four years, there is a relatively small cushion for large - scale importers to fall back upon, if imports become harder to obtain.

It was a great blessing when I stumbled upon your company back in the fall when looking for a quality chia seed that is also affordable.

Plus with the back to school season upon us, something fall inspired sounds great right now!

I stumbled upon this beautifully knitted sweater at Marshalls and totally fell in love with these incredible details on the back.

When I stumbled upon this striped lace back sweater at Nordstrom, I fell head over -LCB- red -RCB- heels in love.

Not only that, it's the perfect look to fall back upon when you're wondering what to wear and you're in a rush.

I mean, if you flew across the world to meet a Sugar Daddy, and plans fell through at the last minute, I do believe he should finance your trip back home; and, if he's a real gentlemen, he'd throw in at least some part of any agreed upon allowance.

It's the first time Johnny has connected with anyone, but, upon returning to civilization, he falls back into his old behavior, and finds there is a price to pay.

The game's ugly as sin but it at least has a fun design to fall back upon — G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is an energetic DS game that's a cool, simplistic diversion.

This fall, to mark the 50th anniversary of Kermit the Frog's first appearance (on NBC's Washington, D.C. - based network WRC - TV's «Sam and Friends») and capitalize upon the holiday season, Disney is re-releasing their two Muppet films (with widescreen DVD presentations to finally appease widely - disappointed fans) and putting their recently - acquired Muppet Movie and Great Muppet Caper back onto the home video market for the first time under the Disney label.

Long - time fans (such as myself) who actually fell in love with the movie upon its initial theatrical release should seriously consider a purchase as this is how the movie should have been released back in 1998.

Since then, I owned and played games from a wide variety of genres but I always fell back upon the survival horror and creepy titles.

Despite a game performance from Fanning, Mary Shelley reportedly falls back upon shopworn biopic conventions, transforming a passionate recounting of lively extremes and bold behavior into a mild - mannered narrative, afraid to get daring — ironic when the film's title character is such an irrepressible rule - breaker.

In the picture, Ben Affleck falls for and brings back to Oklahoma a young European girl, played by Olga Kurylenko, but upon her exit he falls for a girl from town played by Rachel McAdams.

Okay, I don't know what to make of this show, which is apparently an American adaptation of an Israeli series called «Danny Hollywood,» but they had me at the phrase «romantic time - travel musical,» and they kept me when they revealed that it was about a documentary filmmaker who somehow time - travels to the»90s, falls in love with the rock star she's been making a film about, and, upon being thrust back to the present, struggles to find a way to get back to the past and save the rock star's life.

It'd be even better if the RS3 had any real steering feel, but while the rack is consistent in its responses, it can feel overly light at times and you tend to fall back upon trusting the front tyres will grip on turn - in, rather than being able to feel it.

Admittedly, I fell hard for this aluminum - bodied five - door back in late 2010 upon first driving the then - forthcoming 2012 model.

Now, regulations claim that you're not allowed to drift on the German track so this should fall into the «awesome recovery» category, the driver probably claiming upon further investigations from track officials that he just lost control of the car for a brief moment and had to do what he did to gain back its composure.