Sentences with phrase «like exile»

Being banned is a lot like exile: your investment is still there, but now the fruit of that labor is inaccessible, all at the whim of the game's administrators.

The past 10 days seemed like 10 years, kind of like an exile from this world into a completely different planet.

After three years away, returning to California seemed to Royce like an exile.

Her husband felt like he had come home, she felt like an exile.

Like the exiles in Babylon, we try to numb the spiritual pain by making life more comfortable.

Like these exiled children of Abraham who have no prospect of returning, her children are no more.

Not exact matches

Despite the scary name, a shadowban is more like a time out than exile.

Because it is rarely advertised, the Filet - O - Fish may seem like a second - class citizen of McDonaldland, and one now headed for exile thanks to salads, wraps and other modern fare.

You can be like those guys living in exile that I mentioned earlier or be like this guy who has some serious balls to walk around in default.

Bitcoin core no longer has people like Mike Hearn and Gavin Andersen because they were bullied, trolled, and exiled from the community.

And thus questions like «How much fun would Peru be as worshipful as their girls in exile are of my gringoness» have to get tabled.

Although disliking Jews go further back, such as their exile, one of the reasons is that the Pope made a rule that Christians can't loan money (but accepting a loan is ok) so Jews end up taking the job and so long as things are going well, people probably like jews because they received money (though they probably didn't like paying them back with interest).

I do not just mean in terms of themes like exodus and exile, but in terms of the actual document itself: the tension of James vs. Ephesians, the polemic of Yahweh vs. Elohim accounts, the priesthoods of Aaron vs. the priesthoods of Moses... Carthage, Trent and 95 Theses.

Although she never reveals her real name (effaced now under the patronymic «Offred»), the Handmaid begins her tale in the old high school gymnasium by recalling youthful «expectation, of something without a shape or name» (p. 3), preserving, like Israel in exile, the time of hope, and returning in memory to the sources of existence as the only way forward.

Like Rachel smuggling out the family gods under her voluminous garments, this Handmaid has secretly brought remnants of the word with her into exile.

That day, as he stood behind the speaker's lectern, he felt like an Israelite in exile called upon to sing for his Babylonian captors.

Isolated from our countrymen, like the Irish monks of the early Middle Ages, we have discovered that exile can be spiritually fruitful.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea - washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.

Raphael, exiled to rustic parishes for speaking truth to power, whose fatal attraction to speedy cars hangs over his many delightful escapades like a pall.

The exiled Rushdie in the secular West, then, must, like the candle, provide illumination by consuming his own heritage.

Why not voluntary exile like countless others?

People like you should have their citizenship revoked by exile or death.

The «biography» of Job is like the «biography» of the Servant of Second Isaiah: both are created and conditioned out of Israel's anguished existence through destruction and exile.

When you feel like you have been abandoned in the wilderness, or have been exiled to a foreign land, read through this Psalm and give thanks to God for the ways He has delivered you in the past.

Like any author worth his salt, the writer in Jeremiah begins by stating the subject of the passage: «This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon... «(Jeremiah 29:4).

Their relatives, like thousands of Jews, had been taken captive by an invading army and exiled there in decades past.

«This moment was a frightful one; and when towards morning I threw myself exhausted on my bed, I seemed to feel my earlier life, so smiling and so full, go out like a fire, and before me another life opened, sombre and unpeopled, where in future I must live alone, alone with my fatal thought which had exiled me thither, and which I was tempted to curse.

Christians in America are more like Israelite exiles living in Babylon than Jewish kings reigning in Israel.

Although we may have found ourselves exiled into the wilderness quite involuntarily, like the young Moses, we've now made a life for ourselves, and don't really want to go back.

Jail will not shut in your young years as it does mine; and you will not die in exile with your eyes trembling, longing for the landscape of your homeland, like my father died.

The likes of Hosea, Jeremiah and Isaiah in exile mattered little.

It was under the leadership of men like Ezekiel and the exiled Temple priesthood that two customs were resurrected and made the very marks of Judaism.

The Lord's astounding victory over Pharaoh is the dominant theme of Exodus, and brings together the exiled Moses with the suffering slaves, from which Moses emerges as a kind of God - like man.

the bible has lists of many sins that are punishable by death some that are punishable by exile and some that are punishable by tribunal and taking of property when the bible refers to all sins being the same it is they are all an abomination to the lord not a reference to how serious a sin they are do you really believe that murdering a 2 year old with acid is the same kind of sin as calling in sick to work when your not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG it is unbelievable how ignorant you all are and how you think you can turn the bible on itself a true Christian that has read thoroughly and has no agenda like ms cnn here does knows the difference

Like Napoleon at Elba, he spent his years in exile mapping the campaign for his return.

As can be seen by the ecstatic welcome afforded his return, like many exiles his reputation has swollen in his absence.

For a moment in the NLCS, Cubs fans seemed more like Red Sox fans, forcing into exile, Buckner - style, a 26 - year - old fan named Steve Bartman, who inadvertently kept the Cubs from catching a foul ball in Game 6.

If 2018 is more like 2017 than 2016 despite the focus on improving the offense, especially the WR corp, then Sir Clap - A-Lot and Little Or No Plan will be exiled and the search for another QB will commence.

As we skimmed the morning news, the chatter and laughter of the women exiled to the porch caused Rex to look up from his paper and snap, «They sound like a bunch of parrots!»

MPs voted to ban tax exiles like Lord Ashcroft from making large donations to political parties last like, after a U-turn from Jack Straw.

But in cases like the Ivory Coast and Libya — where war crimes have already been committed and the killing is certain to continue if the ruler remains in power — exiling a murderous leader may be the least worst option.

That Ukip is, in Peter Oborne's words, essentially «the Conservative party in exile» has been the conventional wisdom of the commentariat, including those Tories who'd like their leadership to listen less to Clegg.

It feels like a life in exile.

But like thousands of other exiled Yezidis, they are still dealing with the psychological aftermath of a forced migration that tore families apart.

Much like Minecraft, Exiles will have you exploring, creating, and building, while also providing a fully immersive game set in the world of Conan the Barbarian.

Even though some of its major aspects, like the battle system and the tiresome grinding, are keeping it from being great, Conan Exiles is a promising and unique survival game that - with the proper attention from the developer - could soon become a must - have for enthusiasts of the genre.

On the surface, that sounds like just as bleak a prospect as what's offered in similar online survival games, but what I discovered during my time with Conan Exiles is that, depending on your personal tastes, the game can be has tame or as hardcore as you want it to be.

The combat is mediocre and in some ways this still feels like it needs more time in the oven, but those who forgive these shortcomings can have a lot of fun in Conan Exiles.

While some games like to tantalise you with a bit of skin, Conan Exiles goes the whole way.

Played by Creed and Fruitvale Station's Michael B. Jordan, the Killmonger in the film seems like a fairly accurate take on the character: a disgraced and exiled Wakandan on a quest to take back the throne and take down the royal family, «rightfully» reclaiming his spot in society.