Sentences with phrase «long wrestling»

Why is the corresponding point in the Jacob cycle the story of the patriarch's violent, night - long wrestling bout with the deity, and his refusal to surrender even to the very end of the struggle (32:22 - 30)?

Open - source software organizations such as those that developed the Linux PC operating system and the Apache Web server program have long wrestled with ways to keep lines of communication open and to distribute decision making among vast communities of mostly software - developer volunteers.

The suit will be closely watched in Silicon Valley, which has long wrestled with its paucity of women.

History shows that NT scholars have long wrestled with the authorship of Peter 2.

We no longer wrestle with whether it is the beauty or the innocence of Snow White that is such a great threat to the wicked queen.

Farmers have long wrestled with the problem of deer trampling and eating their crops.

Scientists have long wrestled with the issues of what they can — and should — do to help colleagues around the world whose human rights are being violated.

Where platforming games have long wrestled with camera woes, Captain Toad cleverly turns the shifting lens into the ultimate weapon.

Yes, say three prominent thinkers who have long wrestled with questions of standards, testing, equity, and excellence.

Many Education Next readers have long wrestled with that burning educational query: «How does one promote multicultural education if all the students in a school are white?»

At the same time, I've long wrestled with the repercussions.

Parents, educators and college administrators have long wrestled with the unintended negative side effects of the admissions process, like the intense focus on personal achievement and the unfair advantages of more affluent students.

Where platforming games have long wrestled with camera woes, Captain Toad cleverly turns the shifting lens into the ultimate weapon.

ECO has long wrestled with this foundational dilemma of the climate talks, but has noticed something different in the negotiating air since Durban.

Climate negotiators who helped craft the new Paris Agreement have long wrestled with language about the long - term goal to give guidance to investors and policymakers on what they need to do and when.

Not exact matches

The best thing I can say about your interactions with most of the media today is the advice I heard long ago about why it makes no sense to wrestle with a pig.

For McMahon, the world of wrestling has been in her life for a long, long time — especially since both her parents have held the position of CEO.

Steve Braccini, the Austin - based president of Pro Fasteners, wrestled with a thorny issue snagging many managers: how to fairly compensate salespeople for bigger, long - term deals.

It's a massive, open - world, third - person adventure game set in the storied land of Hyrule, where you control the Hero of Time, Link, as he wrestles control of the kingdom from long - time antagonist Ganon.

Svetlana Alliluyeva (nee Stalina) wrestled with this fate throughout her long life (1926 - 2011).

In 2003, while running the chain's Michigan operations, he responded to growing competition with better coffee, along with precision milk and sugar dispensers for staff, which meant drivers no longer had to wrestle with sugar packets and creamers in their cars.

Iâ $ ™ ve had the good fortune to live in France for the past 10 months on a year - long sabbatical and therefore been able to witness firsthand the travails of the Socialist government as it wrestles with the countryâ $ ™ s economic woes.

Munday said that while mental health is no longer a taboo subject in the Church, it still a subject the Church and Christians find difficult to «wrestle with».

People like NP (and myself, when I started my long journey away from the beliefs I once held so strongly) have begun to wrestle back control of those areas of the thought process that were off limits for so long.

I would have to wrestle a long time with the anger, frustration, weeping or whatever before I got to the Mystery stage, David.

«As I struggled with that, it dawned on me that the one thing I've always been good at, has been in my heart and I've wanted to do for as long as I can remember, is wrestle.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

No longer is he a boy wrestling with the legalism that hampered his childhood, but an artist delving into a tradition wholly other than what he was brought up in.

she wrote about the social ostracization of orphans and the impact of drunkenness on families, she wrestled with themes of loss and betrayal and innocence, with sex and longing in her way and in her time.

It made me feel a little less alone in how I wrestle not only with prayer but with the performances of prayer or the old habits no longer fitting.

I learned a long time ago to never wrestle with a pig.

It has always struck me as noteworthy that the Jews, who had wrestled with Genesis 800 years longer than Christians had, never found it necessary to speak of — much less found a spiritual theology on — original sin.

We misunderstand even the practical / pastoral thrust of the Bible whenever we compare or equate it with the pastoral concerns of an established religion - with the maintenance of the life of parish and clan in a society where there are no longer any challenges being addressed to the powers that be, no longer any new believers coming in across the boundaries of nation and culture, and no longer any new threatening issues needing to be wrestled with on the missionary frontier.

It is because I believe that while Christians are learning from Buddhists, Buddhists in general, and Pure Land Buddhists in particular can also be enriched as they respond to questions with which Christians may have been wrestling more intensively for a longer period of time.

It has grown out of the wrestlings of ministers with their problems, out of the experiences of the times and the needs of men, yet it has its roots in the Bible and in the long tradition of the Church.

When a preacher understands this and is prepared to wrestle with it in his thinking before he does his actual preaching, he will have a deeper insight into the long - continuing Christian awareness of what God was «up to» in the event of Jesus Christ and hence what God is always and everywhere «up to» in the divine dealings with men and women in any and every culture.

I have blogged for a long time on theology and have wrestled with many of these questions both inside and outside the Church for decades.

This is what it is to be ill: to wrestle through the long night, injured, and if you prevail until the sun rises, to receive a blessing.

Whatever limitations one might find in the work of the Nobel prizewinner, he has wrestled long and well against hopeless odds, and his accounts of the match emerge from a depth not discovered by equally good writers who have not known the blessing.

I'm just wondering where was Mrs Long during all these trips, and why or did she question any of these relationships with young men.Also is it true that she said her husband would wrestle naked with thier sons.Anybody know?

To stand our ground and wrestle for as long as is necessary.

And that process is a long, troubling, beautiful wrestle with a God who slowly peels away the shadows.»

How do we let our guard down long enough to honestly wrestle and learn, without losing our faith entirely?

In The Cute and the Cool, historian Gary Cross of Pennsylvania State University reminds us that parents have wrestled with childhood consumption for a long time.

All of this leaves us with a Bible that includes fissures and tensions, contradictions and questions, a Bible that invites wrestling, conversation, and a variety of interpretations (which Enns is quick to note is a reality that has long been celebrated, rather than glossed over, in the Jewish community).

From Charissa: I have wrestled with the issue of Calvinism for as long as I can remember.

It's the relic of our long theological wrestle with the issue of birth control.

In one sentence he clarified what I sensed was my calling that I had wrestled with for so many long years.

Though it wasn't long before I made my peace with Evolution not being an issue of salvation, these crisis moments ensured that I would wrestle for many years with the ways my faith seemed to clash with science.

Many of us humans like to dress up that law in a long beard blue eyed robe wearing guy who talks of only loving all as he loves himnself or maybe some Sumo Wrestling look alike cat with an iconic beer gut that talks of enlightenment thus giving in to the power of positive thought and stay clear from the negative thinking that some how compels mankind to drop bombs or take by force what never was his in the first place from those who were willing to SHARE!!!! I tell those show me your GOD because I can always show you mine.