Sentences with phrase «of national calamity»

This sense of inconclusiveness grows, partly through the shock of a series of national calamities and their challenge to faith, and partly through deepening apprehension of what is implied in the idea of a covenant between God and man.

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Canadian real - estate prices are being driven by local conditions, making a national calamity of the type that afflicted the U.S. highly unlikely.

Alexander Hamilton, believing a strong national government needed strong credit, viewed the destruction of our credit as a calamity.

This sense of corporate disobedience involving both present and past generations became more acute as national calamities increased.

It's always dangerous when preachers, (especially on national TV) make dubious connections between particular acts of particular groups of people, and calamities and natural disasters.

In Old Testament times the problem of subsistence was frequently so difficult and national calamities fell with such repeated dreadfulness that much of the supplication recorded was motived by crisis and was aimed at material recovery.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

He likely became a national god for all of the Jewish tribes when Saul created the United Monarchy sometime between 1020 and 930 B.C.E.. Later, after the Assyrians conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel and the Babylonians conquered the southern Kingdom of Judah and took the royal family and the kingdom's elite to Babylon starting in 597 B.C.E, when the Jews had to re-evaluate their religious beliefs, because of the calamity that befell them, there was a shift to view their god as a universal god in works such as the Book of Isaiah, which were composed after the Exile.

Chairman, National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro on Wednesday described the abduction of 110 Dapchi schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgents as a national calNational Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro on Wednesday described the abduction of 110 Dapchi schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgents as a national calnational calamity...

According to the 2015 National Financial Capability Study (NFCS), less than half of American consumers have put aside three months worth of emergency funds to deal with potential calamities.

This massive stream of investment dollars is downright paradoxical considering the impending calamity that surrounds Southern Florida: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that the sea level could likely increase almost 35 inches (0.89 meters) by mid-century.

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