Sentences with phrase «hands stood at»

I remember the mayor of Bethlehem's telling a group of us in 1982 that the clock's hands stood at nearly midnight; soon it would be too late to reverse Israel's control of the West Bank.

Battery life on the other hand stands at 6 hours so users might not expect just as much as what other people would get on an iPad.

Not exact matches

He stood at over six feet tall, with a scraggly beard and circles under his eyes; Newell, on the other hand, was clean - shaven and came across as the more buttoned - down of the two.

When Joan Babcock of GlobalArt Ltd. wanted to stand out, she put all of her art examples and services on a DVD, added some great packaging and handed out the DVD with a business card at trade shows, sales meetings and any chance she could get to show off her talents.

In support of the idea, Braccini and her colleagues» looked at handedness in chimpanzees, and found that when the apes stand on all fours, they displayed no real hand preferences.

CEO Travis Kalanick teared up at the company's all - hands meeting shortly after the blog published, calling Fowler's experience at the company «abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in.»

On the other hand, HCP stands still at a great price even today.

Earlier that morning, Cook had stood in front of employees at Apple headquarters and held up the phone, which a staffer had hand - delivered from a store in Beijing to commemorate a notable occasion: Apple had sold its billionth iPhone.

«My suggestion: Before even discussing repurchases, a CEO and his or her Board should stand, join hands and in unison declare, «What is smart at one price is stupid at another.»»

You may be lucky enough to pick a short term top that will make you feel smart for a day or even a week; then suddenly you will be left standing at the station with your hands and money in your pockets, watching as the Gold Rocket Ship takes off and you will not have the courage to jump back in at accelerating new highs.

* Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, to use divination: * Psalm 109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

«reality» forgot to mention that it's us «johnny come lately» christians that are the only thing standing between jews and irradication at the hands of islam.

Imports / Exports are stand still, the banks have stopped taking any fixed assests and lands as bank guarantee towards taking loans to over come this situations where you can not find buyers paying good towards what you sell when you need financial liquidity... but these time you can not sell unless you will sell it at the lowest ever in the market...!?! Honestly tired of that now more than was tired before all that started but at least things were stable although many were deprived but managed to live by those upper hands / classes giving charity..

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

At its period of fullest development the book to some extent usurped the place of the more primitive but generally more accessible methods of production of the past; on the other hand, it was a stand - in for future methods which make it possible for everyone to become a producer.

The theology and philosophy of Edward Holloway stands alone as a contemporary synthesis which on the one hand rejects any dialectical tension at the heart of being and at the same time upholds the real distinction between matter and spirit.

And at the same time, I see our homes and our travels, our tears and our laughter, I see him standing in the room and weeping over tea - towels with never - babies inside, and I see us holding the now - growing - up babies as they learn to walk, and I see him looking at me across our old bed that he built with his own hands and I see us as kids and I see us as lovers and I see us as best friends, and I see us just last night as we staggered through a sleepless night with lanky kids who couldn't sleep well and I think, God, we grew up together.

I tell them about standing up with my husband's arms under my arms, a total stranger kneeling at my feet to make sure that the baby didn't hit the cement floor, and how I delivered that nearly 9 lbs baby boy into my own hands.

Julie's story obviously stands out, but each story of pain and suffering at the hands of men and women who claim to be «called by God» contributes to a narrative whole that must never be forgotten.

On Sundays, Pell arrived at the cathedral fifteen minutes before the eleven o'clock Mass; was met at the door by this priest and attended by him constantly thereafter; vested for Mass; celebrated Mass, which ended shortly after noon; stood at the door of the cathedral, shaking hands with exiting Massgoers; removed his vestments; and departed the cathedral, to have lunch at a restaurant or visit a parish, still accompanied by the priest.

«The world stands really malleable, waiting to receive its final touches at our hands.

Some commentators think that the words with which John records Jesus» death, «He bowed his head and gave up his spirit», were also intended to mean that as he died he handed over the Spirit to the few representative believers who stood at the foot of the cross (John 19:30).10 Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, separates chronologically what John holds together theologically.

While monasticism in modern times has been deeply influenced by Dom Paul Delatte's rather rigorous interpretation of the Holy Rule (he was Abbot of Solesmes from 1890 to 1921) we find in Hugh Gilbert's firm but gentle hands a rather more humane understanding of the contemporary mind, particularly in his substantial treatment of the concept of obedience (a minefield for any Christian apologist) which stands at the centre of this present work.

For several minutes he stands in that deafening silence, staring at the broken loaf in his hands.

Micah was the first to prophesy its destruction at the hands of YHWH himself, declaring that Jerusalem would be leveled to the ground, and the very hill on which the temple stood would become a forest slope.

And when he stood silent in Yad Vashem» whose plain and stark memorialization of the horrors that befell the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis positively begs for silence» he left a drop of the kind of healing balm on the hearts of Jews that the Church had never before found the means (assuming the desire) to do.

It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.»

Although not articulated in technical terms, the Calvinist doctrine of divine providence is at the heart of numerous spirituals and gospel hymns such as «His Eye is on the Sparrow» and «Precious Lord, Take My Hand, Lead Me On, Let Me Stand.»

On a GoFundMe page, organizers say they are «calling for [their] fellow veterans to assemble as a peaceful, unarmed militia at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation... and defend the water protectors from assault and intimidation at the hands of the militarized police force and DAPL security.»

You are the reason we atheists can't stand reiligious people, TCB: in the comments section of an article about the religious knowledge of the general public, you waste all of your time talking about heaven and hell instead of the topic at hand.

Cyprian's stand was that the Church in Carthage would only survive if his hand remained at the helm, even if from a distance.

The metaphor for ministry we seek should stand up at every time of career, clarifying and encouraging the ministry at hand.

a knee - level view from your bit of pavement; a battered, upturned cooking pot and countable ribs, coughing from your steel - banded lungs, alone, with your face to the wall; shrunken breasts and a three year old who can not stand; the ringed fingers, the eyes averted and a five - paise piece in your palm; smoking the babus» cigarette butts to quieten the fiend in your belly; a husband without a job, without a square meal a day, without energy, without hope; being at the mercy of everyone further up the ladder because you are a threat to their self - respect; a hut of tins and rags and plastic bags, in a warren of huts you can not stand up in, where your neighbors live at one arm's length across the lane; a man who cries out in silence; nobody listening, for everyone's talking; the prayer withheld, the heart withheld, the hand withheld; yours and mine Lord teach us to hate our poverty of spirit.

If we would glance back at where we are, we might see in order to have rubbernecked so hard and so far we've been standing with high heels ground down on top of the hand painted, one - of - a-kind life art crafted for us.»

In contrast, while the priests in the Jerusalem temple were standing and offering daily the sacrifices of bulls and goats, Jesus Christ offered for all times a single sacrifice for sills and he sat down at the right hand of God.

He had thought of nature as the world of things, present at hand, which stand at our disposal.

I watched Joseph hold his little sister's hand as she toddled along the lake edge, his big sister picked wild flowers, Brian stood behind me, we talked about what to make for supper that night, and every once in a while, when I fell silent, he chuckled, he knew exactly what I was really thinking about there at the water's edge.

Whitehead, on the other hand, stands at the forefront of a movement that was destined to debunk absolutes in both philosophy and science, in order to grasp the nature of reality with more subtle and flexible intellectual tools.

Whitehead's theology, on the other hand, stood at the forefront of the attack on the very naive positivism that Kaplan learned from Comte through Ginzberg.

For the billions who have suffered at the hands of organized religions and those who believe in them, and all that they have always stood for, my heart goes out to you.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

As things stood at mid-century, however, the «even - handed» POAU soon took on the image of an anti-Catholic group.

Martin, the Afghan veteran, was standing on the edge of the pond, a couple of ghost koi already bagged up at his feet and a broken net in his hand.

They used to start to dhikr loudly all together under the direction of their Shaikh, then stand up and, holding each others» hands, turn around in a circle, at the same time leaning forward and backward or to the right and left, keeping up this movement in an intermittent and harmonious rhythm.

Traina: «Though Ruether's Christian ecofeminism may stand on shifting ground and yield no new strategies, this book presents her theology at its most ambitious... [She] proves that in the proper hands the movement for earth renewal is not a threat to genuine Christianity but a comprehensive tool for a necessary overhaul of Western theology.»

How convenient for man to create something he'll never have to face, while making everyone believe no matter how much abuse they receive at the hands of the man, it'll never be as bad as what will happen to the man when he stand before his maker.

You might try your hand as a stand - up comic, you'll have at least one joke ready.

In this way the things of nature are ordered such that they are at the ready for more orders and more constricted control - the things of nature at the hands of modern technology become the «standing - reserve.»

One can ask that question standing on the edge of Yosemite Valley, as naturalist John Muir did, or standing in awe on the rim of the Grand Canyon and reaching out for the hand of someone next to you as you look at — as the first episode of my series The National Parks describes it — «the scripture of nature.»

«It stands or fills according to its success (or otherwise) in harmonizing whatever events are at hand.