Sentences with phrase «over the face of»

Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

And they said, «Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.»

Suppose, in a kind of contented abstinence, we were to refrain from trying to understand more of the landscape before us than the landscape cared to display for us, that we were willing to follow the bend of bough and straggle of gravel and tilt of pole wherever the bend and the straggle and the tilt chanced to take us, that we concerned ourselves not with pattern or profit or even pleasure but merely with watching like a token sentinel in safe country, that we gave our eyes a quiet carte blanche and permitted our minds to play at liberty over the face of an untouched terrain?

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

For there went forth a stream, and it became a river great and broad, indeed it carried away everything... For it spread over the face of all the earth and it filled everything Then all the thirsty upon the earth drank and the thirst was relieved and quenched.

His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.

Finally, several hundred thousand years ago, our direct human ancestors appeared and began to spread out over the face of the earth.

This wound is passed on by the laws of inheritance and ripens in bitterness and destructive potential as a tragic consequence of the very progress of humanity towards the adulthood of control over the face of the earth which God originally intended for our blessing.

And the Spirit of God swept over the face of the waters like a whirlwind.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Always it was transcendent to the world, always it was involved in the world, drawing the world to itself, brooding over the face of the earth (Robinson, 98).

In an age when nations are fragmenting» with some thirty «five civil wars underway over the face of the globe and cultural hatreds dormant sometimes for centuries now reawakening» Hungary seems to display a truly remarkable degree of cosmopolitan tolerance.

In the end these people are arguing over the face of a man whose teachings are more important than his skin tone.

Mostly we are caught up with what is going on in our own little neck of the woods, and are not even aware of the diversity of the human situation scattered over the face of the globe, let alone the staggering immensity of the universe.

The earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep; and the spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters [Gen. 1:1 - 2].

Because first it rose from creation and stored itself in clouds and moved over the face of the earth to unlatch itself from the heavens and fall upon from whence it came.

As any modern traveler in Egypt and the Near East is perforce constantly reminded, this proud monarch left his stone monuments in size and profusion over the face of his lands as none before him and none after.

The drama doesn't stop with the speculation however, and in recent matches we have seen a distinct problem plastered over the face of our top goalscorer, while the German playmaker has been missing from action in recent weeks with various excuses.

The look of disappointment and, frankly, a deep and familiar hurt that washes over the face of Kevin Love really plucks your heartstrings.

Terror was all over the face of her apprentice who had just arrived; she stood in the doorway, white as a ghost, shaking.

The effort is hardly covert, with the front cover emblazoned with the words «THIS IS OUR ENGLAND» superimposed over the faces of 117 individuals the Sun deems personal embodiments of «the essence of England today».

While digging in Tebtunis in northern Egypt in the winter of 1899 — 1900, British archaeologists stumbled upon portraits of affluent Greco - Egyptians placed over the faces of mummies.

Then a sick look of worry swept over the faces of engineers in the control room.

Once you remove your bread from the toaster, drag your garlic clove over the face of the bread so that the heat lets the clove melt into the bread.

Online dating has barged into the universe of the Internet and seems to be making over the face of modern relationships.

The underused Skurge waddles in his arc of a guilt - stricken traitor, who gains agency too late, but the emotional impact needs a lot more than brief shots over faces of desperate, helpless Asgardians.

The other two, which lay the same design over the faces of Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassell, offer taglines pertaining to personal security (i.e. «Do You Feel Safe?»).

Something like Ed Lachmann's Carol could not be further on the other side of the spectrum, with his inspired choice of shooting it on Super 16 mm film stock creating that hazy historical feel while lavishing over the faces of his two stars as they traverse 1950's a 1950's New York City resplendent with hats (so many hats!).

One of his signature tricks was to zoom, in rapid succession, over the faces of the chorus line, but far from individualising the women it simply confirmed their conformity to type (usually blond and china - doll cute).

• In Stepmom, the range of expressions that pass over the face of a woman (Susan Sarandon) just diagnosed with cancer as her ex-husband (Ed Harris) tells his news first: he's marrying the younger woman (Julia Roberts) she loathes...

In My Amazon bestseller made me nothing at Salon, Wensink doesn't just burst the bubble, he smears the soap all over that face of mystical anticipation.

Now the earth was astonishingly empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

In many ways, it is the problem newspaper and magazine publishers have been facing for a long time, writing itself all over the face of book publishing.

«Start by cleaning the joints, and then go over the face of the tiles to get the fog off.

Only a mad woman drags three small dogs all over the face of a mountain looking for a film canister.

Wearing time like a stain - Its leafless branches dressed in hollow vessels sweating nervously like the pores on a belly pushing outward As leather yolks seep out from behind their lemon shells Forming a wet mask over the face of what was.

I liked leaving the dates all over the face of the paintings because they have to represent time and space.

For this piece, Hannes Larusson built a viewing shelter in which «the spirit of Icelandic culture moves over the face of the waters.»

And yet there seems an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that makes the day dark, and that is due to the absence of sun when day breaks cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray.

25 years of collecting unreliable (at best) and «noisy» temperature data from all over the face of the world, computer modeling over an even smaller span of years by people working on government grants and there you have it folks, predictions of gloom and doom for our planet with «information» extrapolated from 1850 to 2300 with all sorts of «modeled» graphs and pretty «manufactured» pictures offered as proof.

With the screen over the face of the iPhone, there is a slight adjustment period.

Not exact matches

StubHub faced backlash from fans over the inflated price of tickets for the Tragically Hip's farewell tour.

Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill this week to face a barrage of questions from lawmakers looking to probe the tech giant over concerns about privacy, data collection, and more.

Facing pressure over allegations that Kevin Spacey forced himself on an underage actor in 1986, Netflix has announced that is is ending one of its most popular series, House of Cards, in 2018.

The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients and facing mounting legal fees resulting from the scandal over reports the company harvested personal data about millions of Facebook users beginning in 2014.

Under Kalanick, Uber had run roughshod over regulators, faced accusations of rampant sexual harassment, and allegedly obtained medical records of a woman in who said an Uber driver in India had raped her (Uber recently settled a U.S. lawsuit that the woman had filed against the company).

Millennials now face the bleakest financial future of any generation in over a century.

If you're not afraid of facing the really difficult — and really meaningful — questions over your holiday break, professor Jeffrey Pfeffer suggests this title: «It's an old book that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974.