Sentences with phrase «of city on a hill»

-- Richard M. Gamble is director of the honors program at Hillsdale College and author of In Search of the City on a Hill.

She received her B.A in Communication and Media Studies from Fisher College, and is also an alumna of City on a Hill Charter School in Boston, MA.

Erica Brown, executive director of City on a Hill Charter Public School, said the school was thrilled to expand.

If America once borrowed the Biblical image of a city on a hill, this is a small hill indeed.

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«If you go to the corner of Sixth Street and Mission, you see venture capitalists who used to be on Sand Hill Road [in Silicon Valley] but have moved up to the city,» Foley says.

Sir Winston Churchill didn't just ask his countrymen to battle the Germans, he exhorted them to «fight them on the beaches... [and] fight them on the landing grounds...» Ronald Reagan was a master of this tactic too from his «Shining City on a Hill» to the Berlin Wall.

On barren hills and swamps at the outskirts of the city, Lee's government over the past twelve years has built the satellite town of Jurong, which in addition to housing and retail stores is crammed with 510 factories; another hundred will be completed this year.

Many people in the world's largest cities already live in tiny apartments, and one way to save on costs for a space similar to Hill's is to cut down on the number of alternatives needed, says Lloyd Alter, managing editor of Treehugger.

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This systemic usurpation of Jesus complete headship and right to His people, by a worldwide cabal of homo lupus is the backbone of the culture that hides the light under the bushel and shrouds the city on the hill, so that the world remains in darkness.

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Now, there were two aspects to the night life of Shady Hill; there were the parties, of course, and then there was another side — a regular Santa Claus's workshop of madrigal singers, political discussion groups, recorder groups, dancing schools, confirmation classes, committee meetings, and lectures on literature, philosophy, city planning, and pest control.

We want to be a beacon, a city on a hill, an outpost for the Kingdom of God.

Forcibly ejecting Jesus from the synagogue, they took him «to the brow of the hill on which their city was built,» intending to throw him down into the valley.

One might even suggest that world - view thinking on the Evangelical side, especially its wedding of politics with divine law to create a city on a hill, reveals a hand tilted toward the creational mandate.

The film challenges the conceit of Wakanda as an affluent city on a hill, and when you see it surrounded by a world in preventable peril, it feels uncomfortable.

Barkun's theorists, intent on smoking out the evil that threatens our beloved city on a hill, are a part of this deep - rooted tradition.

When the sun is shining these bright limestone cities set on top of hills dominate the landscape.

Reagan, it must be conceded, flirted with it in his biblically informed vision of America as a «city on a hill» providentially established by God as example to the nations.

In the opening pages of Star Maker the narrator, a quiet, introspective, suburban Londoner, stands on a hill overlooking his city at night, oppressed by the «tumultuous and bitter currents of the world» (SM 255).

But increasing numbers of evangelical as well as liberal Christians realize that the price required to build Reconstructionism's «city on a hill» is too high: it would mean the scrapping of their own hard - won religious and civil freedoms.

Reconstructionists leave little doubt that they are consciously imitating the Puritans of the early 17th century in establishing «a city on a hill» and calling on the New Testament (e.g., Matt.

The Puritan city on the hill, the Declaration's natural law, and the Federalist's «new science of politics,» make one's own foundations as one of innovation, and such innovation needs the latest of data driven information.

«44 At the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries Americans had wavered about claiming to be a city set on a hill with the eyes of the world upon it.

Someone in one of the churches here had a «prophecy» that on the seven hills around Bath there are seven angels protecting the city.

I don't know about you, but this is the kind of «city on a hill» I want to live in.

Building up the waste places of the wilderness and creating a city on a hill were definitely seen as part of God's commandment to the Massachusetts Bay colonists.

The tension between building the city set on a hill and the land fever noted by Increase Mather had not diminished by the time of the Revolution.

And the people of God are salt, and light, a city on a hill.

Too many of the most favored and powerful have abandoned the Puritan ideal of the «city built on a hill» (language to which Ronald Reagan once appealed) and aspire to living in a mansion behind walls, where they can act out the anarchic fantasy of doing what pleases them.

The road that he had followed through the winding hills and valleys of Galilee now led up a hill outside the city of Jerusalem, where Jesus was put to death on a cross.

Anthony Walton wrote in the Atlantic Monthly that the «glittering cybercities on the hill, the latest manifestation of the American Dream,» actually «shed the past and learn to exist without contemplating or encouraging the tragedy of the inner city.»

Being a healer, a bridge builder, a truth - teller, a peace maker, a joyful subversive, a celebration disciple, an expectant prophet who dares to show up as a light on a lamp stand, a city on a hill of this world.

American dominance and isolation and perfect security ended with the launching of Sputnik and the rise of a third world with its commitment to neutrality rather than to either communist or capitalist ideologies, and it challenged your notion and mine of this country's manifest destiny to be the city on the hill, the new Eden, the covenanted people — as never before in U.S. history.

America is not a «shining city on a hill,» though we should let our light of freedom be a shining example for the entire world.

I'm not sure what shining hill your city is on, but you are about as delusional as comes out of the fundamental, evangelical church!

This new kingdom would be «a city on a hill» and its power would come from contrasting itself with the kingdoms of this world — not by taking them over or improving upon them.

He possessed the wisdom and strategic sense — and the resources — to purchase and begin construction of a capital city on the shrewdly chosen hill of Samaria.

occupied a territory in the sparsely settled central hill country of Canaan bounded on the cast by the Jordan, on the west by the coastal plains, and on the north and south by strong Canaanite city - states.

Thus he gave to the Hebrews the city which was to become not only their political capital, but idealized, the very center for the rule of God himself — not finally, or always, on the Palestinian hills, but high and lifted up in the heavens — «Zion, city of our God.»

On 13 May this year, Oxford City Council approved their application to have the Kassam Stadium, home of the League Two club, declared an asset of community value; since then, the stadiums of teams from every level of the pyramid — from Champion Hill, home of Isthmian Premier high - flyers Dulwich Hamlet, to Old Trafford, home of Premier League mid-table stalwarts Manchester United — have been similarly listed.

Saturday 30 September 2017 12:30 13 Ashton Athletic FC 0 — 1 Chorley FC Live on BBC Sport 15:00 1 1874 Northwich FC 2 — 2 Ossett Town FC 15:00 2 AFC Mansfield 0 — 2 Boston United FC 15:00 3 Stafford Rangers FC 1 — 1 AFC Telford United 15:00 4 Newcastle Benfield FC 0 — 1 Kidderminster Harriers FC 15:00 5 Nantwich Town FC 3 — 1 Nuneaton Town FC 15:00 6 Boston Town FC 2 — 3 Hyde United FC 15:00 7 Banbury United FC 2 — 3 Shildon FC 15:00 8 Scarborough Athletic FC 2 — 2 Stratford Town FC 15:00 9 Basford United FC 2 — 3 Kettering Town FC 15:00 10 Shaw Lane 2 — 1 Lancaster City FC 15:00 11 Buxton FC 2 — 1 Alvechurch FC 15:00 12 Stockport County FC 3 — 3 FC United Of Manchester 15:00 14 Leamington FC 0 — 0 Gainsborough Trinity FC 15:00 15 Stourbridge FC 3 — 1 Alfreton Town FC 15:00 16 South Shields FC 3 — 2 York City FC 15:00 17 Harrogate Town FC 0 — 0 Bradford (Park Avenue) FC 15:00 18 Swindon Supermarine FC 2 — 3 Paulton Rovers FC 15:00 19 Enfield Town FC 3 — 0 Phoenix Sports FC 15:00 20 Hayes & Yeading United FC 0 — 4 Havant & Waterlooville 15:00 21 Hereford FC 2 — 0 AFC Hornchurch 15:00 22 Slough Town FC 2 — 1 Poole Town FC 15:00 23 Brackley Town FC 4 — 1 Braintree Town FC 15:00 24 Concord Rangers FC 3 — 0 Dorking Wanderers FC 15:00 25 East Thurrock United FC 2 — 2 Harlow Town FC 15:00 26 Chelmsford City FC 2 — 1 Weymouth FC 15:00 27 Cinderford Town FC 2 — 3 Hampton & Richmond Borough FC 15:00 28 Oxford City FC 4 — 2 Leiston FC 15:00 29 Margate FC 2 — 0 Herne Bay FC 15:00 30 St Albans City FC 2 — 1 Bridport FC 15:00 31 Heybridge Swifts FC 2 — 1 Frome Town FC 15:00 32 Truro City FC 4 — 1 AFC Sudbury 15:00 33 Eastbourne Borough FC 0 — 2 Bognor Regis Town FC 15:00 34 Bath City FC 3 — 0 Hemel Hempstead Town FC 15:00 35 Needham Market FC 1 — 6 Dartford FC 15:00 36 Haringey Borough FC 4 — 1 Bideford AFC 15:00 37 Folkestone Invicta FC 2 — 1 Aylesbury United FC 15:00 38 Hungerford Town FC 1 — 1 Billericay Town FC 15:00 39 Burgess Hill Town FC 1 — 0 Wealdstone FC 15:00 40 Ashford Town (Middx) FC 1 — 2 Leatherhead FC

Saturday 14 October 2017 12:30 28 St Albans City FC 1 — 3 Boreham Wood FC Live on BBC Sport 15:00 1 FC Halifax Town 1 — 3 Tranmere Rovers FC 15:00 2 Solihull Moors FC 1 — 1 Ossett Town FC 15:00 3 South Shields FC 1 — 2 Hartlepool United FC 15:00 5 Chorley FC 0 — 0 Boston United FC 15:00 6 AFC Telford United 3 — 1 FC United Of Manchester 15:00 7 Harrogate Town FC 1 — 2 Gainsborough Trinity FC 15:00 8 Nantwich Town FC 1 — 1 Kettering Town FC 15:00 9 Buxton FC 1 — 2 Gateshead FC 15:00 10 Guiseley AFC 6 — 0 Shildon FC 15:00 11 AFC Fylde 1 — 0 Wrexham FC 15:00 12 Kidderminster Harriers FC 2 — 0 Chester FC 15:00 13 Scarborough Athletic FC 0 — 2 Hyde United FC 15:00 14 Stourbridge FC 0 — 5 Macclesfield Town FC 15:00 15 Brackley Town FC 3 — 3 Billericay Town FC 15:00 16 Dagenham & Redbridge FC 0 — 0 Leyton Orient FC 15:00 17 Eastleigh FC 1 — 2 Hereford FC 15:00 18 Aldershot Town FC 1 — 0 Torquay United FC 15:00 19 Bath City FC 0 — 0 Chelmsford City FC 15:00 20 Oxford City FC 1 — 0 Bognor Regis Town FC 15:00 21 Maidenhead United FC 2 — 1 Havant & Waterlooville FC 15:00 22 Haringey Borough FC 2 — 4 Heybridge Swifts FC 15:00 23 Woking FC 1 — 1 Concord Rangers FC 15:00 24 Hampton & Richmond Borough FC 0 — 2 Truro City FC 15:00 25 Dover Athletic FC 0 — 0 Bromley FC 15:00 26 Slough Town FC 1 — 0 Folkestone Invicta FC 15:00 27 Burgess Hill Town FC 0 — 1 Dartford FC 15:00 29 Maidstone United FC 2 — 2 Enfield Town FC 15:00 30 Margate FC 1 — 2 Leatherhead FC 15:00 31 Paulton Rovers FC 2 — 3 Sutton United FC 15:00 32 East Thurrock United FC 0 — 0 Ebbsfleet United FC

In the William Hill Correct Score market there is a quote of 15/2 on a Man City 2 - 1 and 10/1 on a City 2 - 0.

The rolling green hills of the Plains of Abraham demand to be frolicked on, and the centrepiece of the city, the beautiful Chateau Frontenac, sits atop the city like a princess» crown.Most of our trips have involved sand and sea, not cobblestones and cannons, but our daughter had a wonderful time.

Regardless of whether you live on a grand estate in the hills of California or a small apartment in the heart of New York City, setting up a nursery for two can be quite a challenge.

After eight years of George W Bush, America is in a similar emotional state and nowhere does Schama seek to draw the parallel and provide an insight as to how Barack Obama can heal those wounds, unite the country and — in Ronald Reagan's words — turn America back into a shining city on the hill.

The trip became the focus of intense media scrutiny after the Albany Times Union reported Hill, who's also Warren's uncle, was stopped on the Thruway for going 97 miles per hour on the in the city owned SUV.

Brad was elected to the City Council in 2009, and reelected in 2013, running on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, to represent the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Columbia Waterfront, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, and Kensington.