Sentences with phrase «inevitable powers of the world»

By New Testament times the tension between prophecy and politics was expressed in the opposition between pragmatists like the Saduccees and Pharisees, who sought to adapt national life to the inevitable powers of the world, and visionaries like the Essene monks at Qumran or John the Baptist who anticipated the emergence of a new age of holiness after God judged this evil age.

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The existence of such a power becomes possible, even inevitable, in the curvature of a world capable of noogenesis.

If media accounts are to be believed, the inevitable push towards soft power and affective labor — ie the push East and towards female - dominated service labor — make it such that perhaps these are portraits of the world to come.

But this close encounter does provide a teachable moment for Rusty Schweickart, the Apollo astronaut who, through the B612 Foundation, has been on a mission for years to get the world's powers focused on planning for the inevitable day when we have a losing spin in this never - ending game of «Solar System Roulette» — as a smaller, but still cataclysmically dangerous, comet or asteroid is identified as having an earth - intersecting trajectory.

A deluded band of eco-Nazis keep telling us that rocketing power prices and unstable grids are just minor «teething problems» on our way to an inevitable «transition'to a brave new world run entirely on sunshine and breezes.

The Vinyl salesmen are also promoting Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who has been a serial shill for the nuclear industry («there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power»), loggers of the Amazon rainforest («All these save - the - forests arguments are based on bad science...») the lumber industry («clear - cutting is good for forests»), pharmaceuticals in water (it's «inevitable that a small amount of ingested pharmaceuticals will eventually show up at trace levels in wastewater»).