Sentences with phrase «in sheer power»

«Battle with Gilgamesh» is my favorite, and is an unbelievable hard rock song that is beyond any other in sheer power.

Bottom Line: Nvidia's gaming - oriented Shield Tablet is one of the first mobile devices to use the Tegra K1 CPU, and in sheer power it blows other tablets out of the water.

The competition really doesn't offer what you can get in this Ford — either lagging in sheer power or in features or in ease of use.

For the rest, we affirm enthusiastically the judgment which ranks this brief utterance in its sheer power and skill of articulation with the best of the age of classical Hebrew — a piece toward the end of that epoch to be classed with David's Lament (II Sam.

Not exact matches

Between moms» influence and their sheer purchasing power (moms in the U.S. command $ 2.1 trillion in spending power), companies in a wide variety of industries should explore the possibility of tailoring their offerings to the specific needs of this vast market.

In the case of Wal - Mart, for example, there's the sheer power of numbers that goes along with exposure to the world's largest market.

He agreed to pay a $ 300,000 fine for misleading the committee during the investigation, and in the process dodged conviction on the actual charges through a combination of finessing some legal definitions, sheer self - confidence and raw political power (as Speaker of the House at the time of the complaints, he appointed the ethics committee.

Uncle David: If there are more God - believers in the population, and more of them are attracted to AA because of their belief in the higher power in the first place... it does not necessarily follow that AA's approach is more successful than any other program because of sheer numbers.

Doctrine and personal appeal — sheer radiant power to attract men and women and to hold them in love — this was one thing and one force in Jesus Christ.

The evils that men do to one another spring in complex fashion both out of the fear that they have of losing their own being (defensive actions to lower anxiety) and fascination with the power that they might possess for themselves (aggressiveness rooted in sheer perversity).

But in pure logic it is not true that there is sheer contradiction between the joint admission of divine perfection of goodness and divine perfection of power, on the one hand, and the fact of real evil on the other, for the simple reason that the greatest possible power (which by definition is «perfect» power) may not be the same as «all the power that exists united into one individual power.»

Those who think God can not mean well toward us because he «sends» us suffering can prove their point only by showing that there is a way to run the universe, compatible with the existence of other real powers than just the supreme power, which would be more fully in accord with the totality of interests, or by showing that God sends us the suffering while himself remaining simply outside it, in the enjoyment of sheer bliss.

Listen to these lines for their chasteness, their descriptive power, or their sheer beauty — and this is in translation!

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in human satisfactions.

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Ruth Wisse's Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

Concerning these he said, «I count everything sheer loss, because all is far outweighed by the gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I did in fact lose everything... All I care for is to know Christ, to experience the power of his resurrection, and to share his sufferings, in growing conformity with his death, if only I may finally arrive at the resurrection from the dead.

(430) This tension between the sheer power of poetry and the responsibility of genuine wisdom is still sometimes maintained in our fine arts, but rock, with its overt rejection of the fine, is usually unaware of the PWP.

if any of these things going on in my life actually help take me somewhere and help me to become a self supporting, productive person, I guess I'd have to say it was more luck and sheer will power more than anything?

In primitive man, sheer power may well have been dominant in his conception of the meaning of the sacreIn primitive man, sheer power may well have been dominant in his conception of the meaning of the sacrein his conception of the meaning of the sacred.

In God's good time, the gospel takes the world by storm, and there comes a tipping point when the power structures become ours by sheer weight of numbers, as once happened in EuropIn God's good time, the gospel takes the world by storm, and there comes a tipping point when the power structures become ours by sheer weight of numbers, as once happened in Europin Europe.

John Webster writes, «To confess is to cry out in acknowledgement of the sheer gratuity of what the gospel declares, that in and as the man Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit, God's glory is the glory of his self - giving, his radiant generosity.

He at least feels that the «calling in question», the denials, the stark affirmation of the «end of sheer transcendence, sheer moralism, sheer power» (as I like to put it), has been accomplished.

If you mean in terms of sheer muscle power, perhaps (though there are individual exceptions).

Third, the cosmos is kept in order more by lure and persuasion than by the exercise of sheer coercive power.

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

Yet many church groups conduct programs of «public affairs» as if persons are autonomous units, isolated from the influence of power entities in their communities and able to regulate their behavior under all circumstances by dint of sheer moral will.

It is a result of the sheer energy that it has taken for Catholics to improve their position in a new country and in an alien culture, and it also reflects some social resentment for past disabilities on the part of people who have won social power.

The simple pages of Genesis reveal in sheer majesty both the original plan of God, and the qualities of human nature in that beginning, and what could, and did befall if man ate of the tree of the experience of sin: the harmony with God is destroyed, and the tyrannical power of the soul in man, if man adores himself as his sole centre of life and meaning, is to bring into the flesh a storm of unruly desire and addictive greed.

Rather obviously these are unlikely to be highly skilled fighters but they'd give Cyborg opponents who might be more of a match in size and power, both in terms of striking power and sheer physicality.

Regarding the article I disagree, we have pace and power in abundance in our attack but we have no ST with guile, poise, moments of magic, and sheer class.

The sheer wave and power of negative press towards Arsenal has whipped up such a frenzy that our own fans are now joining in with the condemnations of the club.

I have deeply resented this mans sheer selfishness in putting his own lust for power and huge wages above what is right and necessary for OUR club.

They are two players capable of getting fans up off their seats in anticipation whenever they have the ball, and their powers of invention and sheer audacity when played in to run at defences may yet inspire United to land a spot in the top four before the season is out.

Because of his power in the air, his ability as an attacking pivot, good movement and a sheer hunger for goals, Morata often has been compared to former Real Madrid and Spain centre - forward Fernando Morientes.

Ranked 4th in the world (according the latest FIFA world rankings), the sheer star power and ability of captain Cristiano Ronaldo should make them second favourites to advance to the knockout stages from Group G.

On running downs, he has the sheer power to take on double teams in the interior part of the defensive line and keep his ground.

When it comes to sheer punching power nothing comes close to a super heavyweight boxer and Joe Joyce showed he has plenty in the tank as he boxed his was to European Games gold.

However, they are also one of only two sides yet to keep a clean sheer, along with second from bottom Wigan, which I suppose isn't to be surprised: Lambert likes his team to play on the front foot but also to get forward in numbers, which, evidentially, leaves them vulnerable at the back − especially against teams the like of Liverpool, who offensively have a wealth of creativity and fire - power.

Every birth moment is incredible and a miracle but some are more amazing for the sheer power they invoke in our lives.

Woyome had no case to answer; it was only sheer hatred for him from within the NDC that led to the whole saga in the first place and the NPP, like a hyena that has seen a carcass, fed gluttonously on it thinking it will help them come to power.

Predictably, what seemed to impress those in power in the immediate wake of the tragedy was the sheer dominance of the natural world.

«These initial images demonstrate the sheer light - gathering power of this instrument,» says Peter Martinez, one of the 15 South African astronomers who are working on the project at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town.

The sheer observing power of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such as this.

«That sheer power you apply to get the extra pull uses a bit more momentum, which targets the fast twitch muscle fibers in your traps and leads to more growth.»

According to one researcher, the sheer power of the brain - protective food used in the study granted the subjects the cognitive benefit of being 11 years younger.

But I decide to power on nonetheless, in part out of sheer curiosity.

The version of a power suit: a crocodile embossed long - sleeve leather Gucci top with sheer netting at the décolletage and a matching Gucci skirt, which she teams with Casadei pumps at the Chime for Change concert in London.

in a sexy black Sally LaPointe dress with sheer panels and a feather hem plus Kurt Geiger London heels at the Power of Colors Maybelline New York runway event during Mercedes - Benz Fashion Week in Berlin.

Hailey, on the other hand, proved the power of the logo after hours, wearing a sheer T - shirt dress to an event in London.