Sentences with phrase «of abortive attempts»

It is not at all impossible that Numbers 14 preserves the memory of an abortive attempt to occupy Canaan by approach directly from the south (vv.

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The Daily, an abortive attempt at a tablet newspaper launched by News Corp. in 2011 (at an estimated cost of more than $ 60 million) was updated several times a day.

Sin is not possible without freedom, but it does not necessarily follow from it.4 The issue in Niebuhr's doctrine of sin is not man's finiteness in nature, but his abortive attempts to escape that finiteness.

9 - 20 is continued and concluded in I Kings 1 - 2, with an account of David's last days, Adonijah's abortive attempt to take the throne, and Solomon's accession.

The attempt by a minister who is new in a church to introduce the distribution of leadership principle quickly is usually abortive.

The arc of the show, over six seasons, has traced their attempts to leave their sins behind — Tony's dialogues with his therapist and halting steps toward self - knowledge; Carmela's religious forays, adulterous fantasies, and abortive quest for a divorce.

I was in the mood for burgers and discovered we were out of ground beef, but we do have a ton of quinoa in the freezer (from an abortive attempt at a special diet for our puppy — long story), so I thought I would search for a quinoa burger recipe, and found this.

Attempt to reach anyone that could possibly identify with her proved abortive as none of her relatives could be traced prior to the arrival of the medical personnel.

This came after attempt to reach Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the commission through his phone line proved abortive.

Attempts to speak with the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Lekan Fadeyi, proved abortive as his phone kept ringing.

He recalled the detention of incoming passengers from Muslim nations, all of them cleared to enter the country under President Barack Obama, at John F. Kennedy Airport in January after Trump made his first abortive attempt at a travel ban.

However, soon after arriving things began to go wrong for her with an abortive attempt to cast her in Message To Garcia with Wallace Beery, during the filming of which she was hospitalized.

In the meantime, Crichton delivers a swell feature - length commentary full of auto - analysis («I live in the future,» he confesses) and seldom - heard production anecdotes that encompass his abortive attempt to bring Congo to the silver screen long before Frank Marshall came along.

Mesrine cut quite a swash of murder and mayhem across Europe and North America in the 1960s and 1970s, languishing in several jails including Quebec's Special Corrections Unit (St. Vincent de Paul prison) from which he first escaped and later returned to in an abortive attempt to free some fellow inmates.

Cecil is only himself when privately and ineptly attempting to woo Lucy, in which his mock - confident stance falls and he shows a more nervous, halting manner, with his abortive kiss of Lucy serving as his most human moment in the film.

Set amid the icy old - world charm of Vienna, the fragmentary romantic drama builds into a hallucinatory thriller, as Harvey Keitel's police detective — sans accent but with killer shoulder - length John the Baptist locks — begins to question Garfunkel over Russell's abortive suicide attempt and forces us to reconsider all that's gone before.