Sentences with phrase «hill upon hill»

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Upon her return, Olick was reassigned to CBS» Washington bureau and the Capitol Hill beat.

On Saturday, March 26, Caspersen, a former managing director at PJT Partners» private - equity arm, Park Hill Group, was arrested at New York's LaGuardia Airport upon returning from a family vacation in Florida.

Upon the announcement of Britain's Prince Philip retiring at 95, Alessandra Malito joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to discuss the main considerations we take into account before retirement and the one key question we can all ask ourselves - should we ever really retire?

Upon his death in 1970 at the age of 87, Annie Lou Hill appointed W. Clement Stone the executive director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation.

The following remarks were delivered last night at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC upon reception of the Young Conservatives Coalition's annual Buckley Award.

wherefrom transplanted upon the Golgotha Hill, shall make of Its and its limbs a trancept to silhouette the twilight Friday sky for all the world to Know thus saith the Lord

Actually, I happened upon this site due to some studying I was doing regarding Mars Hill Church and Mark Driscoll.

When reading about the birth of Jesus in Scripture, many people do not realize that Bethlehem was situated within a mile or two of the Herodium, a huge palace fortress built upon a hill for King Herod, who had set himself up as the King of the Jews.

Undoubtedly, as Joseph and Mary worked their way toward Bethlehem, their eyes looked frequently to this fortress upon a hill, reminding them of King Herod's power, glory, and might.

The church people then might become like the «city upon the hill» that can not be hidden... instead of the «candle light under the bushel basket».

Camus believes that the source for sane behavior is not found in unruly cities, but in the sea, the hills and in evening meditations upon natural beauty.

In the shadow of its snow - covered mountains are hundreds of arid rocky hills, where horses and cows perch as skillfully as mountain goats upon the steep slopes where people too make their homes.

Then Moses went up a hill and returned with God's word written upon stone tablets.

For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills.

They framed prime views of the steeply raked farm fields in back of the sanctuary — one showed rows of dusty - leaved olive trees climbing a hill, the other rank upon rank of grapevines in their neat rows.

The David - Zion event was also given expression in the cultus, that is, in the liturgies of the Jerusalem temple which Solomon built upon the hill of Zion.

The hill that formed the backdrop for Wintbrop's speech now has a city upon it, but it bears little resemblance to his vision.

Just before landing in the New World in 1630, John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, delivered a sermon describing what he and his fellow Puritans intended to found: «a city upon a hill.»

But folded into her narrative are small prose - hymns to Oxford, «an old - fashioned city, with inconvenient buildings and narrow streets...; but her foundations were set upon the holy hills and her spires touched heaven.»

As followers of Christ, it is our moral responsibility to urge you to support and protect the International Affairs Budget, and avoid disproportionate cuts to these vital programs that ensure that our country continues to be the «shining city upon a hill.»

«44 At the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries Americans had wavered about claiming to be a city set on a hill with the eyes of the world upon it.

Wee shall finde that the God of IsraelI is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us: soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion of Moses, that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, Deut.

It is amply documented, by Hill and others, that Acton took the side of the Protestant establishment in England, that the same establishment was fulsome in its expression of gratitude to Acton and, among other gifts, bestowed upon him the Regius professorship.

«We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world... till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going.»

The land where you arc going over to take possession is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water from the rain of the heavens, a land which the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning to the end of the year (Deut.

Then the fields of Esdraelon slope up toward Galilee in an immense checkerboard of green and brown, while through a break in the hills distant Hermon looks down from its snows upon the idyllic scene.

We may pause to ponder, that while these royal morons disported themselves in beastly passion in Antioch and Alexandria, a petty hill town of their domains, age - old Jerusalem, followed its Temple services that went their quiet way, day after day, year in and year out; and there, groups of thoughtful men reflected upon the nature of human life, reasoning that «The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,» that «The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul,» or fervently ejaculated, «Oh, how I love thy law!

In short, were we dependent upon the epigraphical sources alone for information about ancient Israel, we would know little more than that an entity known as Israel existed toward the end of the 13th century BC, and that two minor kingdoms, called Israel and Judah, existed alongside each other in the central Palestinian hill country after the mid-ninth century BC.

In the very speech in which he spoke about the «City upon a hill,» Winthrop qualified it by cautioning that «if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.»

But they came to see Boston as the new Jerusalem, a divinely ordained «city upon a hill,» a phrase Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop used in a sermon at sea en route from England in 1630.

«We Will be a City Upon a Hill,» Ronald Reagan, Speech of January 25, 1974, to the First Annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

To update John Winthrop's famous line, we shall be as a laboratory upon a hill.

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.

While traveling to settle the New World, Massachusetts Bay Colony governor and preacher John Winthrop wrote, «We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.»

In 1831, Joseph prophesied that «Zion shall flourish upon the hills and rejoice upon the mountains, and shall be assembled together unto the place which I have appointed».

«As followers of Christ, it is our moral responsibility to urge you to support and protect the International Affairs Budget, and avoid disproportionate cuts to these vital programs that ensure that our country continues to be the «shining city upon a hill,»» they stated.

This new kingdom would be «a city on a hill» and its power would come from contrasting itself with the kingdoms of this world — not by taking them over or improving upon them.

Chalk Hill has built a legacy upon their consistent, California style creamy, oaky, buttery and bold Chardonnays, the 2015 Estate Chardonnay lives up to the legacy, and then some.

Anna Krien's award - winning book, Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport, details the sinister side of sport — centring upon the rape trial of a young Australian Rules footballer, and went on to win the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

Climbing into the redclay hills, the Toyota's deeply lugged tires slip - sliding as if in grease, we came upon a herd of elephants.

Many assumed the Kings were out of the market for a point guard upon drafting Fox, but Hill is a nice fit in that he can also play with Fox off the ball.

Some kind of funk seemed to permeate LSU's pitchers, because immediately upon taking the hill, Bush was having trouble collecting throws from his catcher.

It occurs to any hunter who has trod upon the tails of barred doves on the pavements of Waikiki that there must be game in the hills.

He understands that hills can be climbed, and he isn'teven depressed when, upon reaching the summit of one, he sees a larger one [ahead].

And yet Rosa Prince documents how she had leadership ambitions and relied upon a very small group of supporters, including her Spads Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill who are ruthlessly proactively protective.

Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green & Bow); Graham Allen (Nottingham North); Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West); Margaret Beckett (Derby South); Clive Betts (Sheffield South East); Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath); Nick Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East); Chris Bryant (Rhondda); Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield); Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill); Stella Creasy (Walthamstow); Tony Cunningham (Workington); Nick Dakin (Scunthorpe); Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West); Brian Donohoe (Central Ayrshire); Frank Doran (Aberdeen North); Jack Dromey (Birmingham Erdington); Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood); Angela Eagle (Wallasey); Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East); Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green); Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South); Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham); Mark Hendrick (Preston); David Heyes (Ashton - Under - Lyne); Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch); Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley); Huw Irranca - Davies (Ogmore); Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn); Sian James (Swansea East); Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun); Graham Jones (Hyndburn); Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central); Denis MacShane (Rotherham); Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham Ladywood); Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East); David Miliband (South Shields); Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby); Dawn Primarolo (Bristol South); Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield); Gavin Shuker (Luton South); Jack Straw (Blackburn); Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton); Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston); Stephen Twigg (Liverpool West Derby); David Winnick (Walsall North); Phil Woolas (Oldham East and Saddleworth).

That is a polite way of saying that Congress frowns upon unilateral proposals that originate outside of Capitol Hill.

Even if you are trying to replace like with like, it is far from clear if, for instance, the nightingales of Lodge Hill will, upon returning from overwintering in Africa, find their way to any new habitat created for them, still less whether they will find it to their liking.

Webster then left the company for a position at Duke University where he was the library management network guru, and building upon his experience there, he eventually landed his latest position with «Skip» Bollenbacher's CELL group at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, last September.