Sentences with phrase «from gird»

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Dollar General plans to speed up its expansion of storefronts across the U.S. as it looks to gird itself from its newly beefed - up competitor.

Old - fashioned inversions like «visions girt» are in a realm of discourse centuries removed from the word «dirt.»

I also forgot to add Isaiah 45:5, I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: Isaiah 45:6 also, That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me.

But there is a significant passage, the content of which precedes and undergirds Jesus» actions: «Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel.»

But this is not merely an example of humility (girding with a towel is the action of a slave, 13:4); the deeper point is that the disciple's real cleansing from sin will be consummated in an even greater act of humility than this one — in the death of Christ itself.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus acts out this idea, rising from the table, girding himself with a towel, and washing the disciples» feet (13:3 - 17).

«Then Jesus, knowing that He came from God and went to God, took a towel and girded Himself and began to wash the disciples» feet.»

It does not come in the first instance as a summons to take heart, and to gird up our moral wills, but rather as an invitation to confess our inability to release ourselves from bondage, a call to open ourselves to a love which is freely given, which has never let us go, and which is ours on the sole condition that we are willing to trust the God who so loves us.

In 13:3 - 35 the author writes that «Jesus, knowing... that he had come from God and was going to God... girded himself with a towel... and began to wash the disciples» feet.»

The bows of the mighty are broken but the feeble gird on strength... [The Lord] raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts up the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor.

There's a famous wartime cartoon by David Low, drawn after we were thrown off the Continent in 1940, of a British soldier shaking his fist at wind and waves from a sea - girt rock and proclaiming, «Very well, alone.»

35q «Gird your loins and light your lamps 36and be like servants who await their master's return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.r 37Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.

Estimates suggest it could cost the state government $ 2.3 billion a year, even as the state girds for a loss of billions from the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and deep cuts to a variety of social service agencies outlined in the president's budget.

Robin Canup came to the moon problem from studies of planetary rings such as those girding the gas giants.

When health officials realized in April 2009 that an unusual number of people in Mexico were being hospitalized and dying from a novel strain of the influenza virus, global health experts girded for the worst: the possibility of a devastating pandemic like the 1918 one that killed up to 100 million people.

Girding myself for potentially indecipherable jokes, I'm here to see Lackner's potentially world - saving technology: a plastic resin that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.

Elected officials and advocates routinely cite the United States» mediocre standing, and what they know of the educational practices of high - performing nations, to gird their arguments for their favored changes to American education — from encouraging greater parental involvement to revamping school curricula and standards to paying teachers more.

Only by girding your skill and courage and nudging ever closer to the point where you feel your inputs harmonise with the chassis» behaviour can you begin to extract the best from the GT, and even then it feels like you're dancing on a knife edge.

Leaner of back it was, flanked by more profound abysses, deeplier gashed, too treacherous and too sudden in its changes from sure rock to rotten and perilous: piled with tottering crags, hung about with cornices of uncertain snow, girt with cliffs smooth and holdless as a castle wall.

Second, gird yourself, 88 % of authors who succeeded with facebook advertising price their books from free to $ 3.99.

Mary Oliver's poem «Wild Geese,» a gift from my mother some decades back, has girded me through many a dark hour.

[return][return] From the Paks books (Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance, Oath of Gold), some is already known of Gird - that he was a farmer who trained fellow farmers to be soldiers and together they overthrew an oppressive government.

While the stock market is experiencing a record setting «Trump bump,» the U.S. travel industry is girding for a big slowdown in visitors from other countries resulting in a «Trump slump.»

By studying the game's raw files, the veteran Wii modder discovered a wealth of unused content begging to be played, from a bolt - controlled elevator to a spinning platform girded by fireballs.

What's more, Grabner exhibited some very bad manners, writing in the catalogue that «as an artist, I am liberated from the stratagems girding today's curatorial industry, so in short, I am attempting to assemble an exhibition that is principally for me and other artists».

The museum is girded by a park which harbours about 30 large sculptures (from Wilhelm Lehmbruck to Eduardo Paolozzi, Hans - Peter Feldmann and Stefan Sous).

Fish present particular challenges, with the Great Lakes girding for the arrival of Asian carp and lionfish, escapees from the tropical fish trade that sport fans of toxin - tipped spines, spreading in the Caribbean and up the East Coast as far as Long Island.

But will this shift in perceptions and evidence affect prospects for meaningful action on greenhouse gases — which of course is a much tougher challenge than the near - term imperative of girding against future damage from such storms?

Kathy Goetz with Ocean Pointe Realty in Sea Girt, N.J. rides with essentials like a lockbox, tape measure and hammer, as well as a few tokens of good luck: a St. Jude prayer card and eagle feathers from an Indian reservation.