Sentences with phrase «many small kingdoms»

In Matthew, a master of a small kingdom is leaving on a journey, and entrusts three servants with «talents.»

The master implicitly renders entrenched social fragments irrelevant — if only in his small kingdom.

They confront us with a bigger picture than we are used to: «God's kingdom» that has the potential to «deconstruct» our false and smaller kingdoms.

The curtain rises upon two small kingdoms of kindred blood and speech, occupying the territory now known as Palestine: the Kingdom of Judah in the south, with its capital at Jerusalem, and the Kingdom of Israel (or of Ephraim) in the north, with its capital at Samaria.

But the growth of independent cities and small kingdoms leads to frontier disputes, intercity rivalries, and warfare.

They break through the small kingdoms of this world to an alternative and much larger world, God's full creation.

The other small kingdoms of the Fertile Crescent have already fallen.

Such Godly domains are upon all life's insides within a realm of such small vestiges that our only way to get back into these very small kingdom domains if by dying!

The nature of the despotic and imperial powers is described throughout the books of the Bible in the stories of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman empires and small kingdoms in the ancient Middle East.

And then, in the background, the officers created small kingdoms, and promoted from within their kingdom.

Just scaled down, backwater petty rulers of small kingdoms.

Despite being surrounded by countries regularly shaken by seismic activity, the small kingdom — nestled between India and China — has been seemingly free of large temblors over the last 500 years.

Griphook (Warwick Davis, who also plays Professor Filius Flitwick) is immaculately coiffed, with long, mud - colored fingernails, and endures the grilling with the imperial balkiness of a king kidnapped from a small kingdom and treated without due respect in a larger one.

When an evil dragon appears in a small kingdom, its ruling monarchs appear to be killed in its destructive path.

The Turks led by Mehmed (Dominic Cooper) want world domination and Prince Vlad wants peace for his small kingdom of Transylvania.

Up until the 9th century AD, Norway consisted of various small kingdoms, which were united for the first time in 872 by King Harald Finehair.

Valkyria Revolution is set in a fictional Europe in 1853 where the Ruzi Empire is threatening the small kingdom of Jutland by an economic blockade.

Originally launched in 2006 for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and known for introducing many landmark features to the Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy XII takes place in the grand world of Ivalice, where the small kingdom of Dalmasca is left in ruin and uncertainty.

About FINAL FANTASY XII: Originally launched in 2006 for the PlayStation ® 2 computer entertainment system and known for introducing many landmark features to the FINAL FANTASY series, FINAL FANTASY XII takes place in the grand world of Ivalice, where the small kingdom of Dalmasca is left in ruin and uncertainty.

The small kingdom of Dalmasca shares their fate.

The starting cards are the same for all players and represent their small kingdom, or dominion.

There's even a plot point in the game where one of the other heroes is randomly chosen to find a Rune and use it to conquer a small kingdom.

While the small kingdom on the edge of the Himalayas has a few human rights ghosts in the closet, the country is making remarkable progress in transitioning to one of the more enlightened places on the planet.

Not exact matches

Spanish state - owned shipbuilder Navantia will sell five small warships, Spain's army will train Saudi military personnel and contractors will build a naval construction center in the kingdom.

Chancellor is on training course to fulfills his borrowing targets as United kingdom data smallest funds deficit for February since 2008 & #thirteen

Like the seeds which fell on the good soil and brought forth abundant harvest, like the mustard seed, though small, which grows into a big bush, the kingdom of God will not fail.

But there was no possibility of real independence for the small nations, as Palestine became once more the cockpit of rival empires, and Josiah died leaving his kingdom a dependency of the Egyptian Crown.

In what sense can God's kingdom be said to have a beginning as small as a mustard seed by comparison with its glorious consummation?

The problem is that this is dangerously different from the heart of Jesus and the kingdom he came to declare: small, on the margins, ordinary, obscure, focused on faithfulness and humility that requires dying to ourselves.

How true this is, if we only have the book and don't hear that still small voice on the inside, from the throne of our heart the center of HIS kingdom!

A small victory for the kingdom of God.

It was a small Persian border kingdom.

In a small, accepting group many persons discover that the kingdom is already among us!

In the early years of Islam, when the Muslim community was small and frequently under attack, the Prophet Mohammed sent a delegation of recent converts from the city of Mecca to the kingdom of Abyssinia.

What one thinks about the kingdom of God depends in no small measure on this issue.

Maybe this isn't the most important moment but all those small moments have a habit of adding up and creating a small outpost for the kingdom of God.

But the cliche was immeasurably reinforced by the small band of» German Christian» theologians of the 1930s who perverted beyond all recognition Luther's doctrine of the two kingdoms.

Of the two resultant kingdoms, Judah was in territory and population much the smaller.

The kingdom of God is lived out as individuals and small groups of Christ - followers practice the enemy - blessing example of Jesus.

Do you really not have the smallest itch that wants to know what this kingdom of God is?

But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it... Not everyone who says to me, «Lord, Lord,» will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.»

By 721, when the Northern kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria, any hopes of political existence independent of Assyria entertained by smaller neighboring states were simply fatuous.

From the age of the «barbarian» invasions Western Europe had been a congeries of hundreds of units, large and small, some of tribal origin, bearing the pattern of feudalism, loosely held together in regional kingdoms, and for the most part recognizing a theoretical association through the Holy Roman Empire.

It's proponents wanted a nation for Slavic people, so after WWI, the Allied Powers created the nation from several small Slavic kingdoms.

After scouring the bacterial kingdom, Zhang discovered the much smaller Cas9 protein of Staphylococcus aureus.

The Ormia ochracea is a small, yellow parasitic fly with an amazing sense of directional hearing that's second to none in the animal kingdom.

We can picture a large oil company, or oil kingdom, for whom $ 50 million dollars a year would be a small amount to buy enough doubt in Western minds that climate legislation or carbon fees never happen, while new drilling and pipelines do.

A small number of large families are essential in all three kingdoms of life, with large numbers of smaller families specific to certain taxa.

These small molecules exhibit fascinating chemical diversity and regulate lifespan, reproduction, behavior and many other traits, often through signaling pathways that are shared throughout the animal kingdom.

It forms the world's smallest and most ecologically diverse plant kingdom.