Sentences with phrase «from falling upon»

This would prevent disproportionate costs from falling upon consumers who live in regions heavily dependent on coal for power generation.

Not exact matches

Apple's mounting woes have made some warn that the company could face a similar fog of irrelevance that is shrouding both Microsoft and Yahoo! — both companies that, once upon a time, enjoyed dominant market share before falling from grace into an extended period of decline.

Upon the surface, the latest fall in the US Core inflation rate, from 2.3 %, four months ago to 1.9 %, and the latest surge in US housing prices (as reflected by the Case - Shiller Index) present a somewhat puzzling divergence between the US inflation outlook and housing prices.

Humans are looked upon as survivors of a prehistoric «fall» — a fall from grace and a fall from undistorted human communication and interaction.

Fulfillment: Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.

The seed fell upon this loosened soil in its deepest crevice at which point, unexplainable to me, a tear drop fell from the sky above borrowing that seed within its new home whilst giving it its birth.

When intoned on Ash Wednesday, the sound of these passages is somber, as if made to fall from pursed lips upon faces pained and drawn.

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

I've received countless emails from women who, upon reading about the original intent of Proverbs 31 in A Year of Biblical Womanhood, report that for the first time in their lives, they no longer feel that they are falling short of some sort of impossible standard of womanhood.

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.

Many clergymen say in despair that their sermons seem to fall upon deaf ears; that people are able to compartmentalize their lives so that prejudice, hatred and selfishness remain unaffected by messages from the pulpit.

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.

Yet if the record in the Synoptic Gospels is to be trusted, he did not, like Paul, look upon sin as an enveloping state of evil resulting from Adam's fall and corrupting man's whole being.

The unworldly thinker is a figure of ancient legend: Socrates himself, of course, losing himself in thought at the threshold of a dinner party, as described in Plato's Symposium; or Thales, who reportedly fell into a well from looking at the stars; or Diogenes the Cynic, whose only request to Alexander the Great upon meeting him was that he get out of his sunlight.

That tradition is premised upon the understanding that we live in a «fallen» creation that is far from the best of all possible worlds.

Space itself is the Constant that bonds all matter together and holds all Life Formations from falling in upon otherly spaces.

Whenever we come upon these matters in secular writers, let that admirable light of truth shining in them teach us that the mind of man, though fallen and perverted from its wholeness, is nevertheless clothed and ornamented with God's excellent gifts.18

From those recesses came Narnia — that wonderful land upon which night must finally fall when Aslan says «now make an end.»

Pedistals or pedastals or pedestals are ever upon pompous humanistic allegations ever bewailing to be knocked and mocked by the many who enmass upon their ownliness adornments to be positioned in such a mannerism so not to be fallen from one's perch!

If the doctrine of sin received a strong emphasis in his writings, it was because he was attempting to save modern Christianity and culture from the sentimentality into which it had fallen «by its absurd insistence upon the natural goodness of man.

From Luke 19:41 - 44 we gather that he did expect destruction to fall upon his people because they knew not «the things that make for peace,» but there is no likelihood that he knew just when or how this would happen as it did in A.D. 70.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

He had fallen upon the earth a weak youth, but he rose from it a resolute fighter for the rest of his life, and he realized and felt it suddenly, at the very moment of his rapture.

It often seemed to him as if he were lying upon an ant - hill, from the torture caused by the insects; for if he wished to sleep, or when he had fallen asleep, they vied with one another.

In the parable, the seed in one case fell upon ground having a rocky bottom, covered over with a thin layer of earth; when the seed began to take root, its downward growth was hindered by the hard stone and therefore it spent its strength in pushing its green shoot aloft as high as it could, but having no inward moisture derived from root nourishment, it withered away.

That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

All three writers tend to look upon modernity as a «fall» from the pristine purity of some «primordial tradition.»

In Genesis 2:21, God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam so that God could take a rib from Adam's side and fashion a woman from it.

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»

(It is utterly gratuitous to deduce from the words «I fell upon my face» and the prophet's occasional trances that Ezekiel was a cataleptic.)

Because first it rose from creation and stored itself in clouds and moved over the face of the earth to unlatch itself from the heavens and fall upon from whence it came.

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

In other words, all the positive blessings of the Incarnation which can be expressed, quite apart from the redemption, would hinge upon sin - our divinisation in Christ, our adoption as sons of God, our eternal predestination in Christ... are all these blessings really because of Adam's fall?»

It says a great deal about the depths to which America's values have fallen that Tim Tebow — who, once upon a time, would have been the wholesome, women - and - mom - respecting, clean - playing, fresh - faced and faithful Hollywood ideal of a football hero» is the target of such deep derision from so many sources, and in an era of such vaunted «tolerance.»

This morning, as I gazed upon the light, fluffy snow that was once again falling from the sky (can you tell that I'm so over winter now?)

They are so easy to make that the kids have taken it upon themselves to start breakfast when my husband and I are feeling a little lazy or we're sitting in our reclining chairs outside, recuperating from a run (and trying our best not to fall into a late morning slumber).

On special days like my birthday or Christmas or New Year's in particular, the weight of my re-location and a life far away from Singapore falls hard upon my shoulders, and it is in those moments that I wish hard for friends to be closer, both physically and emotionally.

-LSB-...] report from an activist group called Safe Food Foundation (SFF) came out last fall that caused a minor stir upon it's first -LSB-...]

Winter is upon us and we are harvesting the last of our fall root vegetables from the garden.

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 love AW as much as the next Gooner and that's why it hurts me to see him falling from grace but he's bringing it upon himself!

One summer not a single apple fell from a tree that customarily yielded bushel upon bushel of them.

In place of the delirium and ecstasy that he had expected upon returning from Argentina, MacLeod was instead received by just a handful of angered Scots who had fallen heavily under his spell of disillusion.

He's fallen down the food chain from the super-funded environment of Penske Racing to cash - strapped Phoenix Racing, which will rely upon purse earnings to make it from race to race because it doesn't have a full - season sponsor.

People may vary on how they define «outlier» depending upon their specific industry — in my work I typically view outliers as things more than 3 standard deviations from the mean (standard in many industries because 99.7 % of data falls within + / - 3 standard deviations)-- but nobody in his right mind calls 1.1 standard deviations an outlier because that would exclude over 25 % of the data.

January needs to be acted upon like we are going to be relegated — that doesn't mean signing an injured midfielder!!!! A season or 3 ago we were in for Phil jagielka and Mark Schwarzer but tight arse refused to pay the # 12 m and # 2m respective asking price — and we fell away from competing without a whimper... well the spine I've been bleating on about for so long needs creating so go and get petr Czech now and shore up our diabolical defence..

Much of the limelight this weekend will once again fall upon Wayne Rooney's lap, with the United striker making his return from injury in last weekend's routine win over Wigan Athletic.

Now that spring is upon us, Leeds have fallen away from the heights of late summer and early autumn, and once again are staring mid-table mediocrity in the face.

Upon investigation I found there were 20,000 flags, one for every fallen soldier and sailor hailing from Massachusetts that died since World War 1.

Among them are the littlest survivors upon whom the water from the sky fell harder and for whom the water from the earth rose higher.