Sentences with phrase «of deserted places»

Driving along, there were plenty of deserted places to try the corner - rotation technique with TC and ESC off, just to see how the car responds in those situations.

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To achieve a nonstop flight between London and Paris, Charles Lindberg's team adopted working methods that wouldn't look out of place in Rutan's factory in the Mojave Desert, where construction of the spaceship Virgin Enterprise is nearing completion.
Not in the sense of being Indiana Jones in the middle of the desert or anything like that, but in the sense that what he believed in was public education and multi-disciplinary programs where you're working with many different groups of scientists, doing expeditions to exotic places, and so on.
The Financial Times also described the events of the weekend as a purge done as part of Crown Prince Mohammed's consolidation of power, noting that it took place days after he hosted a global development conference dubbed «Davos in the Desert» that seems to be part of the crown prince's global investment push.
Translated as «Mirage Place» in English, this resort sits in one of the largest sand deserts in the world.
In recent years the search for yield has left many investors feeling like travelers lost in the Kalahari desert, wandering in the blistering sun, canteen in hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of water.
«The founding families seemed content to reflect the nature of their place, accepting and even embodying the notion that nothing could take root in the desert soil of L.A.,» Gross writes.
From deserted Olympic venues to silent amusement parks to hotels that haven't had guests in centuries, abandoned places continue to capture the imagination of urban explorers and curious people around the world.
Since then, Patti has reunited with her estranged father, was investigated herself for possible illegal kickbacks, got fired from her job at a nonprofit, ate a tarantula on a reality TV show in her husband's place, got her insurance licenses and started her own company selling coverage to business owners, and saw a number of friends desert her.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»
Sounds like when a brother in law once told me that the marijuana plants that were placed around the edges of the Sahara Desert were the only thing stopping the desert from spreading fuDesert were the only thing stopping the desert from spreading fudesert from spreading further.
Richard's teaching is like a voixe in the desert, because he helps keep our eyes on the true, stronger foundation of our lives, what we are supposed to place our hope in, but often forget.
The atheists love calling us sheep and I say... «yes, I am of the flock of the Good Shepherd»; every time I hear them call out «sheep» it reminds me of how Jesus goes out into the desert to find even one lost sheep and to do so He leaves the 99 others... those lost sheep are being found every day... some try to hide in the darkest places but all they need to see is just a little Light and they lose their fear.
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...
In this «Southernness» lies an anthropology beyond both the American and, at least since Descartes, the European species of anthropology» a recognition of the wayfarer as created intellect lost and wandering in the desert until he becomes oriented to reality through such signs as may rest their limited significance in specific time and place, as that complex is governed by the Word.
One regrets that in the interview Percy did not underline more firmly the relation of this fascination with the unreal as if real, this malaise of the modern mind, by turning to that other hero, who once for all rescued sign in relation to place, the Christ on the altar, in Whom the Word is a presence orienting time and place, the abiding Signpost in the desert.
Parents will ransack attics for pieces of fabric — the more brilliant and exotic the better — and someone in the family will create a costume that will be linked to no particular age or time or culture but will somehow speak of far - off places, distant shores, desert sands and starry skies — all at the same time.
But the Gospel tells us that those places, the places of our dry desert and lonely wilderness, will bloom with beauty and richness.
It is your opinion that the account of Jesus in the desert talking with Satan etc is him hallucinating or that his biography is a myth and therefore this event didn't take place.
For he knows, that even if he could with the help of evasions and excuses, get on well in this life, and even if he could by this shady path have gained the whole world, yet there is still a place in the next world where there is no more evasion than there is shade in the scorching desert.
The frequent mentions of the «desert place» that the characters find themselves in allow the audience members to envision a different type of solitary existence, one of wide - open spaces instead of claustrophobic shelter.
It's hard to think of any other reason why this passage would be printed in green: «In the morning, when it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, where he prayed.»
«The mountain, like the desert, is a place of abandonment,» Belden Lane notes.
The beasts may be mentioned simply to accentuate the loneliness of the desert as a place of testing and struggle, but more probably, as D. E. Nineham suggests, «they are thought of as subject and friendly to» Jesus, and, hence, «the passage should be understood against the background of the common Jewish idea that the beasts are subject to the righteous man.»
The desert, as Andrew Louth writes in The wilderness of God, «is a place of beginning, a place where the human is refined and God revealed.»
As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual beadesert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual beaDesert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.
Then he turns back again and now he brings with him» that unclean cleverness, the wisdom of the desert and the empty places, that unclean cleverness — that now drives out the spirit of indolence and of mediocrity «so that the last stage becomes worse than the first.»
The desert is the place of quiet refreshment and prayer (1:35; 6:31); the mountain too is a place of quiet (6:46), but also of election and disclosure (3:13; 9:2).
Pulling back to a deserted place to rethink strategy when faced with failure and the threat of death is logical and intelligent.
It is an acknowledgement that a desert of ignorance exists in the midst of every oasis of understanding... This (approach) is not then some temporary place of uncertainty on the way to spiritual maturity, but rather is something that operates within faith as a type of heat - inducing friction that prevents our liquid images of the divine from cooling and solidifying into idolatrous form.»
Above all, in living the Year of Faith, Benedict wanted the Church and her pastors to recover the courage and zeal «to lead people out of the desert toward the place of life,» toward the God who gives us life in abundance.
In Isaiah 34 God ruins the glory of the nations, turning fertile places into deserts inhabited b a zoo of wild animals who fill the air with a cacophony of noise.
Her quest took her to Antarctica, Greenland, the Mojave Desert the Australian Outback, and all sorts of interesting places.
Perhaps that's why so many of them were present with him in that desert place - leaving jobs, family, friends, to go after him.
We have atheists hanging banners in Times Square, taken prayer out of school, out of the Military, out of gov.. We have seen the 10 Commandments removed from these same places, We have see a simple desert cross taken down and not allowed to be put back up and once the battle had finally been won in courts the O admin would not erect it back.
But as I go into the desert place, the place of hunger, and all the junk starts to surface in my heart, I realize that there is only one sure way to deal with that: the word of God.
It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.
For the novel's real hero, Lancelot, at his worst anyway, they are little more than a near occasion of sin: «I have been away in strange and desert places, sometimes quite alone, sometimes in a boat with nobody but God and the whistling sea,» he tells Arthur after his failure with the Grail.
This unique expression is used in the Old Testament of the Tent of Meeting or Tabernacle in the desert, where Moses and Aaron went to speak with God, the place where God lived among them and beside them.
For the ancient church, the walls of the place of Eucharist, whether these were the walls of a basement or of Hagia Sophia or of an imaginary circle in the desert, enclosed a world.
Remove 4 desert spoonfuls of your active yoghurt and place it in whatever you wish to make your yoghurt in (a jar, the bowl from a yoghurt maker, a wide - neck flask...)
The Sonoran Desert has a beauty all its own and, with the McDowell Mountains as a stunning backdrop, the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Gainey Ranch is a great place for multi-generational family vacationers to experience much of what the American Southwest has to offer.
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However, if you love to sail, snorkel, scuba dive, hike, or just savor miles of gorgeous deserted white sand beaches — this is the place for you!
I used agave syrup in place of honey when I discovered I had no honey and like others, I used a Honeycrisp apple in place of the pear as I was serving poached pears for desert.
An eclectic blend of restaurants, bars and entertainment tucked into rich desert landscaping, The Park will become a central gathering place on The Strip's west side connecting New York - New York and Monte Carlo resorts as well as the new 20,000 - seat world - class T - Mobile Arena.
The biggest week of the year is about to take place in Palm Desert, California.
Sorry to hear Alex, its a doozy to be found in such a desert of a place.
Q: I would LOVE to know more about how people in places like the desert or the arctic have done EC for thousands of years?
It is adorable cowboy bedding with perfect little boy colors of chocolate brown, desert beige and tan, blues and burnt orange in just the right place.
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