Sentences with phrase «like kings»

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The great public institutions like Kings College, the Government Colleges at Umuahia, Ibadan, Zaria or Ughelli — once the great national pride of Nigeria — are as a result underfunded and abandoned, so that the private, for profit secondary schools, may now thrive.

To look at it from another angle, it wouldn't be fair (or legal) for Upstate's Fulton County with a 2009 estimated population of 55,053 to have one NYS senator just like Kings County (i.e. Brooklyn) which has a 2009 estimated population of 2,567,098.

After riding to victory on a wave of public revulsion against state lawmakers, Mr. Cuomo courted them like kings.

So you see, we live in an arrangement of rulers and subjects, just like Kings and their subjects back in the day.

They've taken care of us like kings.

The Penguins of the past couple years have never quite been an elite possession team like the Kings, Bruins, or Capitals.

Ducks play dirty as well, but not with intent to injure like the Kings.

The other six games — starring teams like the Kings, Suns, and Hawks — should be simple victories.

How will he handle the inevitable mistakes of a basically young team like the Kings?

Squads like the Kings (picking No. 5, about $ 11.8 million in cap room this year before holds), Raptors (No. 8, $ 10.3 million), Hornets (No. 10, $ 20.3 million) and Suns (No. 13, $ 25.7 million) make more sense as trading partners for the Bulls, due to their combination of a lottery pick and cap space to absorb Deng's salary and provide the Bulls with instant savings.

We thought we had been treated like kings at the first three places we played, but Jim Dooley, the Tiger Woods of club captains, topped them all at Tralee.

11:30 a.m. Treating customers like kings may be a priority for Silverman, but the guy has serious cooking cred, too.

«They're not as rich as some species, like kings, so they're a good choice for someone who hasn't eaten a lot of salmon.»

«We treat them like kings and queens.

My quest to conquer all things cheesy and shiny just means that we've spent the past few days eating like kings.

When they entered those front doors, they needed to be treated like kings and queens!

The Rich are screwing us BAD and cleverly getting away with it by BLAMING US while they live like kings.

His modern rock style incorporates pop influences, at times sounding like Coldplay, at others more like Kings of Leon.

It is a call for all of us in the West — who live like kings — to be just as prodigal with what we have.

They are like kings in invisible clothes, and once laughed at can never again be revered.

Presidents and Supreme Court Justices, like Kings and Emperors, want to be obeyed; they want the people, without resistance, to pay their taxes and obey their laws and fight their wars, even where those people supported a different leader or disagree with a particular policy.

Tell that to the Catholic bishops and priests who are living in luxury like kings and abusing children.

Many of us have aspirations of building up a passive income large enough to quit our jobs someday and retire like kings.

And if you invested what's left in real estate, equities, and other relatively safe investments that provide a modest yield, you'd still have around $ 500 - 700k of passive income to live like kings.

They have found they can live like kings on that budget in many low - cost countries.

Besides leadership in the style of great Americans like King, I consider great Americans like Henry Thoreau, Ralph Emerson, and Rachel Carson role models.

Similarly, you need to act like a king before you get the crown.

Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, lives like a king.

If your plan is to work your day job until you're 65, then you'll most likely not even live like the King's 3rd cousin.

Their reasoning is that like King David, Donald Trump has committed adultery, and like King David (or President Franklin Roosevelt, as one columnist wrote), Trump can be a great (and moral) leader even after having committed adultery.

Anytime a Christian uses the «Trump is like King David» argument, I know that they have never opened a Bible in their lives.

Spotify's business model may give it a chance to stand out from companies like King Digital Entertainment — makers of popular mobile game Candy Crush — which received a less - than - sweet reception in its public stock debut yesterday.

I want the bible taught just like King Aurther and Homer's the Oddessy.

why wasn't he off at war (like a king is supposed to do when his armies are fighting), but instead not only checks Bathsheba out, but then calls for her to come over... if that's not «intentional» in your book, then what would be?

This is blantant disrespect to every one of those women on the part of the «husband», and simply so that he can feel like king of the rock cause «God said so».

It looks like King had views about gays that were fairly conventional for his time, and he was unfortunately assassinated before he was forced to confront the modern gay liberation movement for equal rights.

He was kind of like a king or an emperor.

But there was another minister, not famous like King, who also influenced her views on social justice and stoked an intensity for action.

Sitting with his scones and coffee and being treated like a king.

Prophets like King often become weary, tired and destitute because of their visceral connection to the work they believed God has for them.

But this servant - form is no mere outer garment, like the king's beggar - cloak, which therefore flutters loosely about him and betrays the king; it is not like the filmy summer - cloak of Socrates, which though woven of nothing yet both conceals and reveals.

A public renewed by the text stands a chance of connecting to speakers and writers like King and Lincoln.

But one could say that the movement had never been other than «religiocified» «-- though it was the «Reverend» prefixing names like King, Young, Shuttlesworth, Fauntroy, Abernathy and Bevel that made the public aware of the deep religious roots of the civil rights movement and of black rhetoric.

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

Wisdom is the opposite of being self - absorbed, but old people can, like King Lear, be narcissistic.

Pray like King David.

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Like King David, I suppose.

However much I have against him as a person, though, I have to remind myself that even a man after God's own heart like King David can fall, and fall HARD.