Sentences with phrase «of victories and defeats»

When you take the time to really reflect on your marriage, and fully understand the spectrum of victories and defeats, you'll be armed with the insight you need to better engage with a future partner.

I will save an accounting of my victories and defeats for later posts, but I still have a printout of Jay Greene's early email counsel about my school board enthusiasms (expressed in this Education Week essay in 2009) taped to a long - dead computer screen:

Some disagreements are resolvable only by agreements to disagree or acceptance of the provisional nature of victories and defeats.

What is envisaged is an aeon of conflict, of victory and defeat, of achievement and disappointment, of success and failure.

An alternating current of victory and defeat for favorites appears to be the persistent theme of conference play as races gather momentum around the country.

«I think a big challenge for some parents is letting their child experience the ups and downs of victory and defeat and the lessons they can learn from those experiences,» she says.

The universal body language of sports The Olympics are a good place to study the gestures of victory and defeat — raised arms, slumped shoulders — many of which are consistent across sports and cultures.

While the young men from the United States Quartermaster Brigade of the 5th Army, the Italian Monte Rosa Division and the German 362nd Unit confront thoughts of victory and defeat, the locals become embroiled in their own violent struggle as fascist and communist forces clash head - on.

Thousands of players arrived in Las Vegas to showcase their skills in a variety of games, resulting in some intense battles and emotional moments of victory and defeat.

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In Spite of Their Defeat In this the gallery's inaugural group exhibition, artists Heimir Björgúlfsson, Juliana Paciulli, William Ransom, and Amir Zaki offer works that explore the dual existance of victory and defeat.

Not exact matches

Even if they're not going to be involved in the day - to - day operations of your business, they will be involved emotionally as they observe your day - to - day business victories and defeats.

In victory and defeat, they witnessed his great strength of character, his high sense of duty, his humility and selflessness.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know neither victory nor defeat.

We know a thousand items about the day or yesterday, we learn the events and troubles and heartbreaks of a hundred peoples, the policies and pretensions of a dozen capitals, the victories and defeats of causes, armies, athletic teams.

In Chapter four of Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote that «he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.»

As Christ claimed the victory over death by death, so a Christian defeats death and the fear of death with all of its tragic consequences through a mindfulness of death during his life.

Yet when such polarities are vying for our attention, there is no doubt that the chaos of it all threatens to overwhelm us with shouts of victory, eruptions of defeat and visions of rubble.

One used to hear that Vietnam was still awaiting its novelist: meaning that the tangled confused hypertext of millions of disparate defeats and small victories and lies and photo - ops and press conferences make no emotional sense until some Tolstoy can lead us through the emotional and factual jungle to a deeper truth.

Lent leads to a set of powerful and paradoxical realities manifested in Holy Week and the paschal event: death and life, defeat and victory, crucifixion and resurrection.

After felicitously noting that for Soloveitchik «victory and defeat are of equal value,» he succumbs to the natural pull of a more one - sided, hierarchical position, writing that the motion of submissive retreat «is inherently endowed with holiness,» while «the act of advance is not in itself holy,» and so must be «imbued with this quality through the willingness to accept defeat.»

Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.

They have been compulsively afraid of defeat and have preferred to banish «negative thinking» from their consciousness while they magically reiterate the theme of self - confidence and victory.

A good winner has felt, and thereby understands, the funk of defeat; he knows that the best man doesn't always win; and so he is therefore generous in victory.

Obama's margin of victory was much smaller than in 2008 when he defeated John McCain by a 53 % to 46 % margin, and he lost ground among white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics.

I «prayed» to my gods and got what I asked for — Obama victory, approval of same s3x marriage, defeat of Akin and Mourdock — so maybe there is something to «prayer»...

When Israel was defeated and subjugated, many of the Hebrews understood that God had abandoned them and they begged God to return to lead them again to victory over their enemies.

For the true sportsman every contest is a new beginning: he carries no burdens of earlier defeat and wears no garlands of prior victory; he plays each game solely for itself, as if there were no other.

Defeating the proponents of embryonic research on their own utilitarian terms was worth doing, even if it is only a partial and temporary victory.

Religious groups can facilitate or undermine the legitimacy of alliances, and any such alliances may spell victory, defeat, or at least minor alterations in the opportunities of population segments, whose identities are defined by religious commitments.

In the chronicle of any great struggle, there are long spans of waiting punctuated by brief but significant episodes of terror, victory, and defeat.

It is to resist despair, to resist giving in to the terrible prices of the struggle — the loss of friends, the stubbornness of evil, the inevitable weariness — and to resist giving up hope when early victories become clouded by defeat, the way becomes difficult, and the goal seems ever more distant.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, wrote an exuberant review of Science and the Modern World in which he saw Whitehead's philosophy as «exactly the emphasis which modern religion needs to rescue it from defeat on the one hand and from a too costly philosophical victory on the other.

It must live with regenerative awe and wonder in the midst of the strange turnings that transform victory into defeat and defeat into victory; the humbling ironies and the intractable conditions within both people and nature that shatter the best laid plans and destroy the bridges of our hopes.

Until the next world, violence alone ensured the survival of Christendom — and so, after their victory at the great Battle of Lepanto, Spanish and Italians butchered scores of defeated Turkish seamen thrashing in the bloody seas, determined that the sultan would lose all his skilled bowmen and rowers.

Elisha likewise played an active part in the victories over Aram, and Isaiah played a critical role in the defeat of Sennacherib.

18) Edwin Markham, «Victory in Defeat,» from The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1945), p. 347.

Closest to the idea of monergism are stories where the victory itself is won by the power of Yahweh and the role of Israel is to pursue and plunder the already defeated foe.

It is only in recent years that historians have begun to write social and economic histories; before that histories were primarily records of defeats and victories in battle.

And the people of Israel celebrated war with their finest literary efforts, glorying in victory, lamenting in defeat.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Resurrection shows that the death of Jesus was not a shameful defeat, but was a glorious victory over all the forces of evil, over sin, death, and the devil.

This victory of process thinkers begins to look like the victory of the quantum physicists, who accepted history and helped defeat classical physics, but then realized that this was the kind of accomplishment after which «you smile for months and then you weep for years.»

It is the anguish of waiting, the agony of struggle; it is killing and being killed, maiming and being maimed; it is leave - taking, absence, fear and hope, joy and despair, devotion and hatred, escape and death; it is the exultation of victory; it is the bitterness of defeat; it is the incalculable aggregate of all the blood, sweat, and tears the war is costing the thousands who fight and the millions who suffer the war's desolation.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»

And from there it is another short step to «God allows all kinds of prayers» - for victory in battle, for the defeat of enemies, for the smashing of a corrupt political regime, for the removal of a hated social or economic system.

Therein is based our faith on Jesus Christ, in that we CAN NOT (in our sinful nature) obey the whole law of God (or even the first law, imho) without Him, and with Him even when we stumble, he will set us back on the path, because he has defeated sin and death and has won for us a victory.

The story of Jesus, he writes, is «the story of God's kingdom being launched on earth as it is in heaven, generating a new state of affairs in which the power of evil has been decisively defeated, the new creation has been decisively launched, and Jesus» followers have been commissioned and equipped to put that victory and that inaugurated new world into practice.»

I am skeptical of the meaning of «victory» and «defeat» in their relation to modern war between great countries.