Sentences with phrase «light of the world around»

An inveterate draughtsman, he chose a path that was in keeping with his personal vision, a desire to record the radiant color and light of the world around him.

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Several recent high - profile cases of questionable corporate behaviour that have come to light here, and around the world, have a common element — whistleblowers.

The ability to take pictures in low light or to capture professional - looking HDR images has been achieved through software developments, like Almalence's own super sensor, which is used on millions of smartphones around the world today.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg sheds light on various reasons why women are missing from the top roles of all professions around the world.

Meanwhile, his live CNBC brawl with Ackman, who's on the other side of his position in controversial vitamin company Herbalife, lit up trading floors around the world.

There is such beauty in this world in the simplest acts of kindness that its light pushes aside the darkness that some use to injure those around them.

So have I also grown by sharing the Light of Jesus in my community and around the world.

He is the Light of the world, and I won't stumble around in darkness, Jesus provides plenty of light in which to Light of the world, and I won't stumble around in darkness, Jesus provides plenty of light in which to light in which to live.

This coming Sunday, Christians all around the world — in churches and in homes and in refugee camps and on the streets — will light the first candle, the Hope candle, to open Advent, the traditional season of preparation for the coming of the Christ - child as well as the reminder that Christ is coming again.

One of the problems with religion is their incapability to describe their world around them accurately without resorting to meaningless faith - based semantic terms like light, glory, faith.

To speak of a leap into the light suggests that there are continuities of faith with the other ways in which we know the world around us, that it is this same world, which we already know in part, which is now seen for what it truly and ultimately is by reason of the light which is eternal.

When I asked what that meant in light of my circumstances, they said they would pray that «God will provide for my needs» while they went out to dinner and a movie with friends, bought new cars, and embarked on vacations around the world.

Allen told CNN that the idea of the family has been a major concern for the church around the world, especially in light of the growing push for legal recognition of same - sex marriage.

As Christians, we are to be the salt of the earth, the lights of the world, enhancing the lives of those around them and brining light to dark places.

i have a painting at home which i did 5 or 6 years ago of a figure standing behind golden bars of light the painting depicts i mysef as christ bringing to surface the ideas of cosmic conciousness to to the world around us there is great symmetry in the simplicity of both paintings if christ was alive today he might well be looking at the world though caged iron bars

Jews around the world tend to be very light with the exception of Israeli's and Sephardics.

Roman nobility as Nietzsche means it wasn't exactly a product of philosophy, but Nietzsche's conviction that preserving nobility was only possible in the contemporary world via philosophy ought to be considered, I think, in light of his profound uneasiness and careful treading around the problem of the «actor's faith» that characterizes «really democratic ages.»

Whether in emails the sender thought would never see the light of day, or tweets heard around the world in the middle of the night, we've been exposed to some of America's basest instincts and darkest thoughts.

Many times I have laughed about the holiness feeling, the candles, the dim light, the smell of incense, accompanied by the art and expression of great painters who were more atheist that many of us here yet their work of art are hung on famous temples or cathedrals around the world.

Religion has been loosing ground to science for hundreds of years now, and so with information moving freely at the speed of light i suspect religious leaders around the world are feeling a little overwhelmed and desperate now.

The report highlighted the point that «it's now or never to save Christians from persecution» and it's vital to share light on the plight of Christians around the world.

Ethics in this paradigm is to live in this relationship, to trust its promise, to repent and be transformed by the renewal of our minds (Romans 12:2) In response to the one who calls and forgives us, and to discern our responsibilities to the world around us in the light of this creator and redeemer.

Even as Jesus himself stuck around to help the blind man in John 9 adjust to a world of light and sight, so now the community to whom Christ entrusts the newly raised in baptism, that group we call the body of Christ, assists us daily in stripping off the binding remnants of the old life in death's dominion.

You can't beat the combination of the birds chirping, the sun rising, a light breeze, and the world around you coming back to life.

In light of recent food safety scandals, food brands around the world are having on - going

And while this sauce has a light green appearance that isn't the most appealing to me, it takes off on a mojo - induced, solo green sauce flight around the world, landing right in the center of my flavor runway!

Cities around the world have been using UV light to make water safe to drink for over 100 years, since this kind of light destroys germs» ability to reproduce and make you sick.

With so many eyes on the Champions League season after season, experience under the competition's bright lights should serve players well when the World Cup roles around, already accustomed to the intense scrutiny of millions of TV viewers and a high - pressure environment.

Following on from all this success, UEFA have named the 20 - year - old in their ’50 for the future» list, which includes some of the best young players around Europe, including Under - 17 World Cup winner with England Phil Foden, who currently plays for Manchester City, as well as Ryan Sessegnon, who has been lighting up the Championship at full - back with Fulham.

I'm pretty sure they'd do some of the things we do if they ruled the world it's natural you dumb monkey bitch... I'll tell you what since you think animals are better why don't you stop using technology of any sort tv, car, phone, computer, please oh please traffic lights run around in the wild don't even eat human prepared food just go out and eat leaves and shit off the trees go to the jungle I guarantee you these animals would kill you at some point then at least at the end of the day you would know you did the world a favor....

Babies learn from the stimulation of the world around them, but sometimes they have a hard time processing it all — the lights, the noise, being passed from hand to hand.

In honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, Bear suggests on her website that grieving parents light a candle at 7 p.m. in their respective time zones to create a wave of light around the world in memory of babies lost to pregnancy and infant loss.

During Earth Hour, cities, towns and individual families from around the world were encouraged to turn off all non-essential lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. People in more than 92 countries participated in a global call to action for, and to demonstrate the urgency of, climate change.

In light of recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world I want to encourage citizens of Ulster County who are licensed to carry a firearm to PLEASE DO SO.

Our democracy is a light, a beacon, around the world because we affect change at the ballot box and not because of these... outbursts of violence in certain cases.

More seismic events in Ghana's history played a part in Adom - Otchere's world view as they shed some light on the social strata around the then - six - year - old son of a young army officer.

«In light of recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world I want to encourage citizens of Ulster County who are licensed to carry a firearm to [sic] PLEASE DO SO,» read Van Blarcum's Thursday morning Facebook post.

Under normal conditions, such as without perfect lighting, a perfectly still camera and the person in the perfect pose — in other words, the real world in which we use our phones, publicly tested algorithms have only managed to get below an overall error rate of around 5 per cent.

In light of such data, including Lu's new paper, Benbrook concludes that «there's strong evidence that [neonicotinoid] seed treatments are putting pollinators at risk around the world.»

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

As you read this, physicists around the world are slamming millions of subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light, creating conditions that mimic the universe shortly after the Big Bang.

As we rotate our heads and as the world around us moves, two ocular reflexes kick in to offset this movement and stabilize images projected onto our retinas, the light - sensitive tissue at the back of our eyes.

Physicists around the world are working on the realization of large scale quantum networks in which single light quanta transfer (secret) quantum information to stationary nodes at large distances.

One way that awareness about the importance of energy conservation is being promoted around the world is through «Earth Hour,» which began in 2007 when two million individuals and 2,000 businesses in Sydney, Australia turned their lights off for one hour to make a statement about the need to fight climate change.

Kepler 452 b is estimated to be 1.6 times the size of our own world, and resides in a clement, life - friendly orbit around a star in the constellation of Cygnus some 1,400 light - years away that is eerily similar to our own sun.

But there are lots of initiatives around the world, little beacons of light.

Ash and aerosol particles suspended in the atmosphere scatter light of red wavelengths, often resulting in brilliantly colored sunsets and sunrises around the world.

How geneticists around the world struggled to bring the foundation of life's building blocks to light.

On Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., wherever they are, millions of people around the world will turn off their lights as part of Earth Hour, the third annual international effort to lower carbon emissions.

In Adventures in the Anthropocene, Gaia Vince spins rigorous science deftly into an absorbing, and occasionally even light - hearted around - the - world travelogue that attempts to convince the reader that we are not only the cause, but also the potential cure for the declining state of our planet.