Sentences with phrase «ordeal as»

That stopover — originally less than two hours — turns into an overnight ordeal as a snowstorm grounds all flights.

With the fallout still being felt by Capcom and Electronic Arts regarding their decisions in handling DLC, the ordeal as a whole just shows just how much of a tricky area it is to navigate.

Visiting a stall became an ordeal as you had to break free of the currents and then hover around a table, waiting for one person to leave the large cluster in the hopes that you'd be quick enough to occupy the gap and actually get a look at the wares.

As the player you must use the abilities given to you at the start of the level or gained through crates scattered around the environment to ensure as many sheep survive the ordeal as possible.

Getting to station 1 though, where the best beach is, is a bit of an ordeal as it's roughly 3.5 km from Astoria Current.

As the dictionary correctly describes an ordeal as «any extremely severe or trying test,» it left me wondering what great trials these passengers suffered aboard their overpriced Carnival Cruise.

Dr. Clarke and her staff made the whole ordeal as easy as possible with their great care and love for Soleil and us.

The worming process completed, Hoagy shared the food the other dogs ate, and at first seemed to have come through his ordeal as a happy and healthy rescue.

Apart from the fact that a series of comments and articles today have focused on Apple's ruling aftermath, it seems Amazon gets dragged into the entire ordeal as if the company had been conspirators.

The mystery of Shutter Island's structure is exorcised in this way and it never recaptures the sense of dread of its opening reels, making its last two hours something of an ordeal as everything that's aesthetically wonderful about the film is burned off in the crucible of its maddening inconsequence.

Follow the lovely but deadly Rose through her terrifying ordeal as victim by victim, the spreading circle of casualties grows... until no one can escape their grisly fate of becoming... Rabid.»

What must happen now so that others won't have to go through the same ordeal as you?

«Despite a call to respect my family's privacy during this difficult, challenging ordeal as we handle — as a family — a personal situation with our child, the media reports continue to change and promote falsehoods in spite of the facts,» Morse said.

An Adventure Dog Gear Guide & Giveaway Kirby the Trail Dog has been with us through many an adventure (and many an ordeal as well, lol) and today is his 7th birthday!

No matter who you are, it is not uncommon to feel a little bit of anxiety around the joyous ordeal as well.

Jo survives the ordeal as most humans...

It must have been a considerable time after the Feast of the Atonement, say a month or so, that the ship's crew had risked the cruise from Fair Ravens to Phoenix; for after such an ordeal as they had been through, they would not have undertaken to sail again until spring of the next year.

Trejos, 18, described the ordeal as «scary» and said students were crying and trying to comfort one another as they hid inside a closet in a classroom for nearly two hours.

And that's what happens with Jolie's Unbroken, which dramatizes Zamperini's wartime ordeals as his Stations of the Cross.

He weathers the typical teenage indignations and triumphs like a champ but soon faces far more trying ordeals as his home life begins to crumble and decay amidst the suffocating mire of alcoholism on the reservation.

The condo industry across the country is all going through the same ordeals as Toronto, the unit owners picking up the tab for faulty construction practices of the developer and the construction companies they hire for many years after the developers warranties have expired.

Not exact matches

A political source in the Catholics - to - communists ruling coalition expected Prodi to survive the ordeal but said D'Alema, who is also deputy prime minister, would likely resign as foreign minister.

The whole ordeal serves as a microcosm of the Colts» season.

Although Roper's friend died within the year, one thing he remembered most clearly was his friend's unflinching positivity, even as it became clear that she would not survive her ordeal.

«I'm trying to think of what I can say,» said the woman of the hour, sighing and shuddering simultaneously, as if to convey she's been through an ordeal.

The frightening ordeal played out Tuesday morning onboard Southwest flight 1380 as it headed for Dallas.

Please continue to pray for Phyllis as she processes the ordeal she has faced.

Identifying a «chink» in your armor as a reason for the end of the pastoral relationship is IMHO is a thinly veiled act of burden shifting the ordeal to a «you brought this on yourself» rationalization.

When Maine describes Noe's ordeal in traveling through a desert by saying, «Around him the land quivers and ripples as if still just an idea in God's mind,» he is making a decision to admit the Platonic image rather than impoverish the range of language available to him.

As the fifth evening of his ordeal approached, he felt certain he would die that night, probably of hypothermia.

I consider my custody fight to be a pretty serious ordeal, but the public records of your divorce / custody proceedings are 3 times as long as mine (I looked them up before the link was posted).

And one can also pray in this fashion before undertaking some job, «May I do this work as well as I can and in a way pleasing to thee» or «Help me, Lord, in talking to this person who needs my counsel» or «Strengthen me to face this ordeal.»

The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

The text of the modern day Bible has surely gone through a similar ordeal through the passage of time, as many many many men have had their hands on shaping the text that we read today.

Those who must endure such ordeals would do well to recall the words of William Stringfellow which Martin Marty cited as a new Lutheran body began to take shape: «In the face of death, live humanly.

Meanwhile, Hutchinson continued to write books, turning out a dozen or more volumes on such themes as the history of Methodism, world revolution and religion, the ordeal of Western religion, the leaders who made the churches and the modernization of China.

«We have a responsibility to remember as Jesus was a refugee others too are going through similar terrifying ordeals.»

I survived the ordeal, battered and bruised and left as road kill.

I know a lot of you all are atheists and probably think I am making this whole thing up but as fate would have it, someone was recording the entire class and posted the ordeal to youtube.

Let's grieve as a nation and not make this such a huge ordeal.

John Murray Cuddihy in The Ordeal of Civility reminds us how disruptive of Christian unity separation, as in «separation of church and state.»

He came up to me a couple of weeks ago and just loved me — as he has ever since my ordeal began.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA), said: «Living in Pakistan as a Christian is in most cases a gruesome ordeal, you live life on the margins, are severely discriminated against and persecution is only around the corner.

And even if finally the world does make him suffer, on that account neither the Good nor he has lost — for to be too far up in the world is most often, as in the ordeal that is called «trial by water,» a sign of guilt.

Certainly, faith in God as provider and protector is there — but so are the shadowed valleys, surrounding enemies, potential lynch mobs, ordeals and even crucifixion.

The general confession he had to make before his conditional baptism turned out to be a humiliating ordeal («It was like a life photographed as it came to mind, without any order, full of gaps, giving at best a general impression,» he recalls in Journey Without Maps).

I guess in my personal experience people who were religious enough to say «bless you» (outside of the sneeze ordeal which I even say bless you out of childish habit) did it as some kind of display of their awesome religiousness vs other people's sinner ways.

Of course there are devout Catholics of influence in Boston, but, with a few honorable exceptions such as Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School and Raymond Flynn, the former mayor, they were strangely silent throughout this ordeal.

Hi Jeremy, I have been thinking and trying to put all the pieces together... I still believe that Jesus flesh was still struggling through the ordeal but His Spirit was willing... I agree that Jesus wasn't asking to be saved and was in fact saying He is ready to drink the cup but It appears that's Jesus was asking for strength and that God will give Him the power to endure... Such as Heb 5:7 says that Jesus prayer was heard and that God was able to save Him from death meaning Jesus wasn't allowed to die until He fulfilled the prophecy of the cross... I believe Jesus had the power to lay down His life and the strength was given by God the Father.