Sentences with phrase «not much destruction»

Not exact matches

22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?»

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

The destruction of millions of species through extinction — what Deane - Drummond calls «amoral suffering» — can not be merely ascribed to the Fall of Man since much of it predates man's existence, and continues to occur independently of man's activity.

Given the range of pressing moral issues that Küng takes up (including war genocide and ecological destruction), I would not make so much of this issue except for two things.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

To halt and reverse this destruction of natural beauty, not only must standards of individual taste be raised, but much stricter social controls must be exercised.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

In these critical years before Jerusalem's final destruction, the proverb is much in vogue: we are not responsible for this debacle, people are saving, but the generations that preceded us.

My hope is not so much for the ultimate destruction of evil as its redemption.

They can not join with those vociferous persons, often associated with conservative religious groups, who seek to go back to what are often styled «the good old days»: on the other hand, they do not have much sympathy for the wildly radical people who assume that there must be a total destruction of our inheritance, in the naive confidence that surely «something» will then appear that is entirely good and sound and right.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

Not sure why so much destruction has to follow football fans.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

However, the baby doesn't need much time to wreak havoc, a few seconds of lapsed attention on the baby are all he needs to do major destruction around your the home you have worked so hard to make.

Between chasing that little person away from sure danger and cleaning up the path of destruction they leave behind, you find you don't have much time for anything else.

Not that I want to make a habit of it — too much potential for destruction.

Hans Blix was realising - as we would all soon realise - that «perhaps there was not much WMD [weapons of mass destruction] in Iraq after all».

Sturgeon said: «The SNP opposes Trident, not just in principle, but at a time when our public services and the vulnerable in our society are under so much pressure, spending tens of billions of pounds on weapons of mass destruction is the wrong choice.

Most deaths and much of the destruction from last week's powerful earthquake in Japan were the handiwork of the tsunami: Many victims knew the waves were coming but could not escape or didn't try until it was too late.

Because terrorists like getting as much bang for their buck as anyone else, which is why conventional explosives, not exotic weapons of mass destruction, will probably continue to be their primary weapon of choice.

«It's not so much the destruction of the buildings, because you can see destruction of buildings in other places.

With time many Hashimoto's patients do not see much difference compared to being on T4 - only medication, using desiccated thyroid or a combined T4 and T3 therapy because the autoimmune attack and destruction of the thyroid gland remain in progress and put them at the additional risk to develop another autoimmune disease.

The rate of protein use or destruction in the body is about 0.33 grams of protein for each kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight per day.4 The RDA amounts in Table 1 refer to the protein itself, not the food it is found in — the actual weight of the protein - containing food needs to be much higher since foods containing protein also contain other nutrients.

I know how bad hurricanes can get, so hopefully this one won't cause too much destruction!

Contra is here, with its destruction, challenging gameplay and devastating fun: perfect for those who can appreciate it, the others could as well seek for something else, but not without knowing that they're throwing away an option to see how much fun a good game can deliver.

I don't know why this movie didn't get much box office loving, it's truly a masterpiece of carnage, destruction, and it's genuinely funny.

The story is much the same as in past games: you're stuck in a zombie - infested city, under threat by weapons of mass destruction that will hit in a set number of days (though, that's really handled by chapter progression now and not an actual countdown).

As depicted here, NASCAR isn't so much a race as a high - speed destruction derby, where the object isn't seeing who can get to the finish line the fastest, but who can be the last car able to be driven across the finish line.

It's not so much that it's very aggressive (it is, but this is a destruction racer).

But between its top - notch visual effects and the indefatigable charisma of the only man who can dwarf not one but three giant mutated animals, Rampage provides so much destruction that audiences indisputably get their money's worth, even if afterward they'll probably feel as leveled as the cities on screen.

Yet for all the hype, we actually haven't been told very much about Thanos beyond his penchant for universe destruction.

Well OK, maybe you don't learn that much because if there was any reference to the war I don't remember it, and there certainly was no attention paid to the equivocal shot in the arm that the destruction of European economies gave to the American GNP.

Surprisingly, I haven't seen that much destruction with the Star / Golden Shroom war.

Even creator Stan Lee makes his patented hilarious cameo we've come to expect in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but overall, the blended elements of hilarity and possible ultimate destruction is lost in a blur of exhilarating, yet sometimes confusing action which focuses not so much on destroying the bad guys, but evacuating a group of civilian bystanders from an Eastern European metropolis.

Third, please introduce the notion of «radical hope» by daring to speak of the possibility and necessity of a much more ethical economy that does not rely on fossil fuels (national or foreign), rampant consumerism (and unrestrained waste production), profitable militarism, (subsidized) competition, the commodification of life, the financialization of the globe, the relentless destruction of the environment, the exploitative division of labor at home and abroad, siege consciousness, or the elimination of dissent.

«Too much disruption and not enough improvement will validate critics» claims that the reform movement is more interested in destruction than creation,» wrote Time magazine columnist Andrew Rotherham.

There's not much space between the two, and a just beyond the ditch is a drop that would test the Bentley Bentayga prototype's aluminium - intensive body shell to destruction.

His prose is functional, the minutiae of life dwelled upon with as much attention as his views on writing, which he believes is an act of destruction, not creation.

Tsugio's parents are typical Tezuka comedy types: his father is an inventor who doesn't invent so much as create weapons of mass destruction and his mother who defines a loving, cheerful, crushing, husband basher.

When people think to themselves «I'm only risk 2 % per trade, that's not too much, and it will decrease my position size as I lose», it literally makes them less sensitive to the risk in the market and to the threat of account - destruction that results from over-trading.

It contains all the elements of the Buy - and - Hold Model that have stood the test of time but deletes the Get Rich Quick element (the idea that investors need not engage in long - term timing) that has caused so much economic destruction.

One should not expect those conditions — an exceptionally long and peaceful economic expansion following the destruction of much of the world's industrial capacity — to repeat themselves either.

bird feeders and nesting boxes — but as much to compensate for the destruction of habitat caused by the creation of the plot on which their home stands than for the occasional kill that their cat makes.

You didn't know that a dog was capable of that much destruction!

Though the developers don't plan to go the open - world route, the chance exists that the Joker will escape his island prison in the next game — the teaser trailer debuted at this year's Spike Video Game Awards basically promises as much, revealing a still recovering Joker admiring the willful destruction of private property from an abandoned building within the besieged city.

With those weapons of, er, light destruction, you'll simply go from area to area battling small groups of the same enemy grunts over and over, with the occasional big guy thrown in for good measure, although he doesn't really add much of a dynamic to the combat.

The multiplayer hasn't changed very much since Battlefield 3, but it's still as awesome as ever, providing a playground of destruction that few other titles can match.

If that wasn't enough to whet your appetite for destruction and RTS goodness, the open beta will begin much sooner on Jan. 28th.

I hate the Wii motion controls too, but isn't acting like the controller itself is a catalyst for mass destruction a bit much?

This time, it's much more about controls as you not only create your own courses - including ramps, loops and explosive barrels - but will also drive the vehicles yourself afterward, leaving a trail of destruction.