Sentences with phrase «mean destruction»

For example, although a small change to the project may seem insignificant, the diversion of a road by 50 metres to the right may mean the destruction of a sacred site.

Divorce doesn't necessarily mean the destruction of a family business 28 - Apr - 2016 Contested, litigated divorces can be devastating to a closely - held family business and their employees.

Or perhaps you mean destruction of industry in bombing, but this was replaced quite quickly from what I read about war history, amazing what they did under pressure, and was confined to just a few countries.

But beware: One hit from an opposite - polarity bullet will mean the destruction of your ship.

Basically Devastation boils down to Megatron activating some ancient bit of Cybertronian tech that will Cyberform Earth (yes, really), and naturally the Autobots are against this since it will mean the destruction of the human race, which isn't cool.

End, however, does not mean destruction, of concrete actuality.

Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body can not mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.

This phrase must be taken poetically (and Niebuhr's explication was poetic) because it does not literally mean the destruction of the self.

The binding of Satan does not mean the destruction of the demonic force, but it does mean that his power is now significantly curtailed, since he is unable to block the advancement of the gospel in the world.

Going to war, Morrison felt, would mean the destruction of democracy and morality at home; America would no longer be true to itself, would no longer be the Promised Land: «We have discovered that our goodness, our moralism, is in large measure the expression of our relative detachment....

The carry trade, derivatives and massive injections of money created out of thin air are but nails in our coffins and if we do not stop these evil people it will mean destruction.

Peter — For Peter also, hell means destruction or perishing, as in the destruction by the Flood or of Sodom (2 Pet.

«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the book.

In order to receive the same funds that are given to every other group, I have to allow them membership, even if it means the destruction of the organization.

For pro-life campaigners, this means the destruction of two lives for the creation of another.

Royal orders in the 16th century meant the destruction of all prayers and images to Thomas Becket so as to destroy the cult of this former Archbishop of Canterbury.

A former forester turned conservationist, Hadwin meant his destruction as a protest against irresponsible logging practices.

I don't understand why going hard on digital comics means the destruction of Brick and Mortar stores.

But this time, Adam is after something more than just Eve's power — he desires her too, body and soul, even if it means the destruction of the world.

So demolition means destruction of $ 5 million to $ 10 million worth of real estate, not to mention the additional cost of reconstruction for a new user.

Not exact matches

That means it could be anywhere from a light shake to one that could cause some major destruction to bridges, railways, electric lines, and buildings.

«This shows an implied norm that theft or destruction of data is not as significant as causing physical destruction via cyber means,» he says.

«When the war is over, then there will be in all countries a pursuit of secret war preparations with technological means which will lead inevitably to preventative wars and to destruction even more terrible than the present destruction of life,» Einstein wrote.

Legally reducing your tax bill means putting less money in the hands of people who have an uninterrupted track record of destruction and failure.

Explaining the relation between the Fed's creation (or destruction) of bank reserves and banks» creation (or destruction) of deposits takes a little effort, not in the least because doing so means confronting the different ways in which economists on one hand and bankers and banking consultants on the other look at the process, and deciding whether the difference is due to substantive disagreement, or mere semantics.

It is so sad that Islam is marked today by terrorists that I can tell you for sure they are NOT Muslims by any means; any one who harms any person or thinks of destruction to others is simply not a Muslim — Islam = Peace and not hate and those who practice islam as God want to be practiced know that God sai «Love for your brother what your love for thy self».

The Arab spring is not a random event in history, a means to an end; the ultimate aim being joining forces for the destruction of Israel.

destruction means to destroy the thing itself.

That does not necessarily mean that the destruction of the regime is not worth it.

Does this mean that anyone who has given their lives to Christ and rejects Him to live a life of sin and open destruction to Christ will be absent from the body, and in the next breath praising the very God they say they do not believe?

The destruction of the voting assemblies of the eastern cities, which came about as a consequence of their inclusion in the empire, effectively left competition in the practice of benefactions as the only means by which the civic elites could compete for power in their localities; and success in this was dependent upon attaining the patronage of the man who sat at the top of the social pyramid.

And their destruction must consist in showing their inconsistency or lack of definite meaning.

This means that if proponents can modify agreements so as to reduce the pain and destruction, opposition melts away.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

Their cherished expectations of what it meant to be the covenant people had crumbled along with the destruction of Jerusalem.

By an irresistible vision I mean an ideal goal for mankind that is (1) intrinsically desirable, (2) possible of actual achievement, and (3) set forth in a situation where to reject it (or some qualitatively equivalent alternative) would be to court misery and / or destruction.

As a representative of MST, I hope that we will be able to develop some lines of action, to find the means to put an end to this process of destruction engendered by the globalisation phenomenon..»

Divinization means not destruction but supercreation.

To violate this fidelity in marriage is to run incredible and enormous risks of destruction of essential human meaning.

All, walking the same wide path to destruction though because whatever trauma is bothering them, that's what blinds them, preventing them from getting to know Jesus (meaning, to read the Bible daily, for the rest of their lives).

God can not appear in the present order in his total glory and majesty, for this would mean the total destruction of the present.

In these closing chapters of Revelation, the word «torment» itself sometimes means a total destruction and death.

Process doctrines can go the whole way with existentialism in recognizing that man in his freedom may plunge into self - worship, or self - destruction; but this is because the real world has this risk within it, not because God wills that any creature should lose the meaning of life or decrees that any person should lose his possibility of knowing the good and doing it.

The U.S. low - intensity - conflict strategy of terror, death, and destruction is meant to demonstrate to third - world peoples the high costs of embarking upon a road to self - determination.

In the years since, as the means of human destruction have grown ever greater, and the extent of humanity's willingness to deny the world has become ever more apparent, the profound truth of the analogy has also become increasingly evident, and its connection with democratic aspirations even stronger.

War means a contest, he told a friend, but what kind of contest is it when «the outlook comes close to destruction of the enemy and suicide for ourselves?»

If there is a particular correspondence in Abraham to the first Israel (Exodus and Settlement) and in Jacob to the second (the period of the Kingdoms), something of the same correspondence is to be seen in Joseph to the third Israel, to her profound hope that out of willful intention of evil, out of the consequent judgment of destruction and tragedy, God would yet through human means raise up the tribes of Jacob and bring his light of redemption to all the earth.

The Greek word Gehenna has the meaning of everlasting destruction (Matt 5:22; 10:28), and in which a person is placed in this position by God, will never return to life, but is dead forever.

I don't want to take that so literally that we assume God will go around collecting swords and bending them, but this kind of passage does seem to indicate that our creations which we meant for destruction, God will transform somehow in the new city.

Endorsing ESCR means endorsing an elaborate, systematic, routine industry of embryo production and destruction, an industry not likely to limit itself to therapies for chronic disease.