Sentences with phrase «more promising lands»

Following the Revolutionary War, New England farmers who had traveled and fought along the Mohawk River, came back to clear and settle more promising lands.

Not exact matches

But the Land Trust Alliance lobbied hard, promising it would do more to prevent misuse of the deduction.

The more I work with her, the more I sit back and let her take the reins and take me to the promise land.

This can be verified in Jerimiah 7:21, as well as by noting that G - d reduced access to sacrifices all through the entire Tanach; originally each man was a priest in his own home, offering sacrifices whenever and wherever (Cain, Abel, Abraham), but at Mt. Sinai it was reduced to a single place (the tabernacle / temple) and to assigned priests; this was fine for 40 years of wandering, but as soon as they entered «the promised land», the tabernacle traveled with the army, and those left behind as settlers in the new land had no more access to it.

For instance, in the case of Moses, when he confronted God in Exodus 32:11 - 13 after God had threatened to destroy Israel for their sins, Moses confronts God and recounts the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to multiply them and give them the land as an inheritance forever — and this was exactly what God intended him to do, intercede for God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousness.

America has been more like Babylon than the promised land of freedom and brotherhood.

Once more the promise is stated: «I will bring you into the land... I will give it to you for a possession,» and the renewal of the promise is secured by the identity of the one promising — «I am the Lord» (6:8) In Matthew 16:13 - 20, Jesus, now identified by Peter as «Messiah, the Son of the Living God,» delivers another promise.

I bet many young ministers preparing sermons on these texts are more embarrassed by the word about the kingdom of heaven than they are by those promising possession of the land.

More immediately important for his development were the lectures at Heidelberg by the Old Testament scholar Gerhard von Rad, who emphasized how for the Old Testament God is revealed in his acts in history: the Exodus, the reception of the Promised Land, the return from exile in Babylon.

When we recall what was promised in the Genesis stories — the holding back of chaos, land, posterity — the possibility emerges that shalom, which embraces all that and more, may be the quintessential promise, the epitome of all Yahweh's promises.

In Ruth's bold faith, in her journey to the new land, in her embrace of the covenant, in her marriage and motherhood, God's promises to Abraham were once more confirmed.

I prefer a more primitive conception of heaven, a heaven that is concrete, peopled, concatenated, hierarchical and symphonic; as lush as the pure land of the celestial Buddha Amitabha, as visceral as the Islamic garden of the houris, as engrossing to an academic like me as the rabbinic vision of heaven as a Talmudic house of study, and as immediate as the paradise that Christ promised to the good thief dying at his side.

These same people were constantly being conquered and subjugated by more advanced nations, despite their odious belief that they were divinely chosen to rule the world and that their land was somehow promised to them by their deity.

Depth, goaltending and middle - of - the - pack special teams lead Winnipeg to the postseason promised land once more.

Now we're here in that promised land, more than a few years ahead of schedule, where both teams are fighting for the AL West.

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And nobody epitomized that spirit more than Roy Keane, who dragged his side through a journey that ended, in Barcelona — otherwise the promised land.

Two more wins, against Newcastle and QPR, and they will reach the promised land.

Supporters of West Brom won't be too pleased to see the back of 2010, after their team produced something extraordinary when clinching their biggest accumulation of points in the Championship en route to promotion back to the promised land, where they plan on making their stay more than just a brief visit.

Ken Kutska, Wheaton Park District superintendent of parks and planning, has sought to allay county officials» concerns by seeking to lease the land instead of buying it, and by promising that if the skate park is not successful, «we'll restore it to a more passive park,» he said.

An automated system for detecting when a punch has landed promises to make judging the sport more objective.

Yet as the industry lifts its eyes toward these promised and mostly tropical lands, the view is marred by an old nemesis: heat, or more specifically, heat shock.

Promised Land will expand to more theaters in January, though an exact date has not been announced.

«Promised Land» is more effective as an anti-fracking screed than as a drama.

It promises to be absolutely bonkers, but crucially, the excellent Lenny Abrahamson (the much - praised «What Richard Did,» the film that landed up - and - comer Jack Reynor the lead in «Transformers 4 «-RRB- is at the helm, so there should be more than going on than just madness.

The star of «In Search Of A Midnight Kiss» finally turned heads in a big way with Gareth Edwards «2010 low - budget spectacular «Monsters,» and ever since then he's been the toast of the town: he met for roles in «Prometheus» and «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,» but ended up going down more grounded routes, with parts in Ben Affleck «s «Argo ``; in Gus Van Sant «s «Promised Land «with Matt Damon; in Lynn Shelton «s «Touchy Feely ``; and in Andrew Dominik «s «Killing Them Softly,» for which McNairy earned rave reviews at Cannes this morning (read ours right here).

Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, towards a promised land and a more perfect society.

Adapted by Damon and co-star John Krasinski from a story by Dave Eggers and directed by the wildly inconsistent Gus Van Sant, Promised Land employs endless screeds and silly plot maneuvers to push a scenario that would have benefitted from more depth.

Farkas doesn't exactly contradict Rothstein, but he offers a more hopeful and actionable scenario instead of, in effect, suggesting that we sit on our hands until the Promised Land arrives.

Despite promises to be internationally benchmarked, Common Core reneged on its promise and placed Algebra 1 firmly into the high school, reversing a decade of progress across the land and putting us one or more years behind our international competitors.

With the concepts presented in 11th AutoEXPO viz: «Defender Concept 100» and «Defender Concept 100 Sport» Land Rover promises the future to be more exciting and true to its origin.

But the photos do make the RRS look even more appealing than those from the window tinter, and if Land Rover have managed to deliver a new Sport that goes as well as it looks, the new Range Rover Sport should finally be the car it always promised to be.

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It promises years of rejections and, if one does finally land a contract, it will still take another three years or more for the book to actually go into production.

After all, you're purchasing more than just a structure or a plot of land: You're purchasing a promise.

Bonamanzi Game Park is a great alternative to the bigger and more popular parks in the vicinity — the Hluhluwe - Imfolozi and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park — and is itself a 4000 hectare park that promises savannah grasslands, dense sand forests, swamp lands and a fever tree forest.

Of course, they would also have a graphical tech demo, a game tech demo (a la wii sports or nintendo land) and then a reveal of a Mario game with the promise of more games at their E3 event.

The adventure included lets you experience more than 30 hours of role - playing gameplay, complete with minigames, multiple endings, and secret pathsIn Riviera: The Promised Land, you'll follow two fierce warriors — each armed with godly weapons — in a mission to defeat demons once and for all.

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There's not much more to add than I've previously said over here, but, as promised, Terry Cavanagh's super vital space - disco arcade game Super Hexagon has officially landed on PC & Mac following its iPhone debut, and can now be found on Steam at a discounted price, with a special dual - pack option so you can instantly start a leaderboard rivalry with a friend.

Narrated by a Moth Priest, the game promises a nearly endless amount of strategies to take down your foes while learning more about the history of the land of Tamriel.

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What was once our beloved American West, the promised land of adventurers and sleepyheads at the end of the motorized Oregon Trail that was Route 66, where an explorer's spirit was put to good use by way of burning rubber and gasoline whiffs, is now a less magical place that somehow glows more fascinating because you only catch it in cracks of structure and moments of conversation, so it's never been more important; a rare, practically exotic essence drenched in seemingly endless sunshine.

ROYAL DANISH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, Copenhagen, Denmark 2011 «Some Structures; drawing, writing, finance» AARHUS, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Aarhus, Denmark 2011 «Hunting Life in an Open Book» «Arts, Letters and Numbers: An expanded disciplinary geography» PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN, New York, NY 2010 «Design and Existential Risk» Fall Lecture series «Risk Distribution: Why I teach algorithmic trading in an art school» GLASS HOUSE CONVERSATIONS; Dialogue in the Digital Age 2010 Invited Participant by Geoff Manaugh philipjohnsonglasshouse.org ACADIA 2010 Conference LIFE in: formation, New York, NY 2010 Lecture: «Time Promise Land: Notes on our current geographies» COOPER UNION, New York, NY 2010, «Hejduk, Hamlet and the Ghost Promise» with response from David Shapiro (poet) Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2010, National Science Foundation, Making Science Visible Conference «Embodied Knowledge Navigating Disciplinary Geographies» COOPER UNION Panel discussion, New York, NY 2010, «Light is Calling» Participant and moderator Bill Morrison, Kyna Leski, Chris Rose CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES, Madrid, Spain Conference on John Hejduk 2009, «Hejduk, Hamlet and the Ghost Promise» COOPER UNION, New York, NY Public Art lectures with Dennis Adams 2009, «No More Shall We Part» HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GSD, Cambridge, MA Critical Digital Conference 2009, «Creative Imagination In the Shadow of Oppenhiemer» Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI How Do We Look to the Outside?

For more background on how «Promised Land» came about (the initial scenario centered on wind turbine developers in upstate New York) and the views of its creators, watch the recent Times Talks discussion with Van Sant, Damon and Krasinski and read the recent Times feature on the film.

Not only does this leasing portend more greenhouse gases, the prospect of more mining promises more air pollution, more water contamination, diminished wildlife, and more barren, unreclaimed land.

Currently only 4 % of the area is legally - owned private land, though many more people moved into the area when the government promised them legal titles in the future.

Bottom line: blink and you will be out of the promised land, your salary will shrink by a third, perhaps more, and the doors to ground - breaking rs to ground - breaking work will be increasingly closed to you.