Sentences with phrase «own kind of victory»

So long, any kind of victory for Americans.

Choosing different means, seeking another kind of victory, renouncing the marks of victory — this is the only possible way of breaking the chain of violence, of rupturing the circle of fear and hate.

But when the one kind of victory — compromise — that a Christian can count on was in sight, he resigned.

They are not ultimately autonomous... but they have a relative autonomy, an autonomy always threatened by demonic forces precisely because God wills to preserve here a sphere for the free decision of faith which is the only kind of victory he wills to have....

That kind of victory has been won so often in history that you can not deny your faith that it can happen again.

That kind of victory is hard to achieve at home with less fan support.

With Theresa May's social care implosion demolishing her lead in a seemingly nailed - on election, attention is turning not to how large her landslide will be - ahem - but what kind of victory, if any, she can escape with.

Those kinds of victories helped grow the conference over Silver's two decades in power, extending its power into the suburbs and rural areas of New York, solidifying a virtually veto - proof two - thirds majority in the chamber.

He'll have to orchestrate a deal where he can declare some kind of victory.»

Neither cracks a smile, which is its own kind of victory, but nor do they crack the code of these «characters,» two men united by circumstances that look, in movie form, not so stranger than fiction after all.

If, in the process of attempting to achieve greatness, we instead redefine the parameters of what greatness means, doesn't that constitute its own kind of victory?

Of course, if your team puts all of its energy into achieving one kind of victory, it leaves the door open for the other team to push for the other.

[lx] «What kind of victory is it when no one buys your art?

With mid-term elections approaching, having a government agency proclaim a kind of victory over the oil now is what you might term a fairly slick piece of business.

In itself, this is a kind of victory, especially given the tendency of most main - stream media science commentators to be mere echo - chambers for the consensus.

I see you are trying to give up and claim some kind of victory by not having a response, but that's not how it works in science.

I know the warmists are so desperate for any kind of victory that Michael Mann winning a simple procedural decision in court is somehow now some giant victory portending imminent defeat for all «deniers,» but that's ridiculous.

But there's something even more curious about the Observer's commentary — that Holdren's appointment is supposed to be some kind of victory for «science» after the Bush administration.

i think sometimes it's ok if we don't get a win personally... in fact, watching other good people get a win may be the kind of victory we can * all * share:)

But that kind of victory inevitably leaves the vanquished wounded and sore, and this wound only widens the emotional gap and only makes living together more difficult.

Not exact matches

Individuals who have worked alongside one another through many campaigns forge a kind of group or company reputation, based on past victories and the quality of the work delivered.

Written down between stories of his victories with the Lakers and Bulls, some of Jackson's leadership gimmicks feel cheesy — the kind of leadership - seminar tactics espoused by the likes of The Office's Michael Scott.

These kinds of initiatives can offer early, fast victories for the delivery unit, showing stakeholders that it can produce results.

While not a complete victory for the company, Ken Winston, a lawyer representing environmental groups against the pipeline, explained that the alternative route presents the same kind of environmental problems as the preferred one.

And if you go to any of the message boards at the time it was one of the ones that everybody was kind of riding to victory.

In Edmonton, Mayor Don Iveson is expected to coast to victory, with none of his twelve challenger mounting the kind of campaign needed to unseat a popular incumbent mayor.

Trump's tariff announcement and Cohn's subsequent departure represent a kind of double victory for Navarro, as well as others in the White House advocating for erecting big trade barriers around the US economy.

While I don't care about Will Wilkinson as such, I will agree with Pete that he is representative of a trend among sophisticated young people: A kind of individualism that might be more evidence still of the victory of....

It's the kind of faith that has people believing God will ensure victory in war and leads to the death of people who rely on faith healing instead modern medicine.

You are «a good soldier» for the rebels, now: beating against a a section of seemingly dead institution which nevertheless apparently holds great influence of a manipulative and brainwashing kind — still caught up in the battle like Libyans after Gaddafi: shooting side arms and even heavy artillery up in the air out of car windows and trucks in victory and defiance.

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

There is a necessary dimension of the tragic in our creaturehood (yes, I think it is a necessary dimension), because any kind of freedom or victory of the good without it would be shallow and unworthy of both God and humanity as they are viewed in Scripture.

The current wave of dystopian young adult fiction, for example, serves the same kind of public liturgical function for progressive individualism as the New Year liturgy of Marduk's victory over Tiamat once did for a strong Babylonian kingship.

Niebuhr warned that the poor, the weak, and the despised of yesterday might, on gaining a social victory over their oppressors, exhibit the same kind of prideful arrogance.

A dialogue of this kind has only one necessary presupposition, a common conviction of the essential oneness and final victory of truth; and therefore openness, expectation and readiness to learn.

And a symbolic victory in this kind of war is a real victory.

How to be the kind of person who can stand up to life, face its difficult challenges and hardships, and carry off a victory in quality of character and useful living — that central problem confronts us all.

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.»

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.

It sprang from a desire not to emphasize the Messianic realm but to circumscribe it; it originated in a more spiritual conception of the world's finale than could be satisfied by a nationalistic victory or by any kind of social order imaginable on earth.

The best thing I can do is continue to love — love my partner of almost 11 years, love my neighbors and try to be good to them, love my family and friends, and love this pastor, and those in North Carolina — and all states and countries — who see suppressing our rights as some kind of «victory» to celebrate.

For Jesus Christ has set in motion the power of freedom, and he has done this very concretely in the course of history, though this does not mean that history has become a kind of triumphal march, stage by stage, of victories for freedom.

The Lord's astounding victory over Pharaoh is the dominant theme of Exodus, and brings together the exiled Moses with the suffering slaves, from which Moses emerges as a kind of God - like man.

While we spontaneously react in revulsion to the theology of this kind of vow (by no means in principle a thing of the past), we must understand the character of that epoch: this is Jephthah; this is premonarchic Canaan and preprophetic Yahwism; the victory, dear to Jephthah, is only Yahweh's to give, and if he gives it, he must receive in return some commensurate sacrifice.

And so I did a victory slide across the floor in those mismatched socks (one of which I'm pretty sure I pulled from the dirty laundry because that's what happens when it's 5AM and your feet are cold and you can't find the match to the sock you had on when you fell asleep) and then I cleaned up the house, got out of my pajamas, and went on a trail run with one of the most kind and generous and hilarious human beings I've ever known.

Since taking the helm in late 2007, she has led the Association to several major legislative victories and has launched the first - of - its - kind children's menu initiative — Kids LiveWell.

«I'm not a morning person; it's a victory for me to get out the door kind of on time.

The other wonderful thing about Small Victories is that you don't need to be an expert to enjoy it; if you're more of a «one recipe kind of a cook» the book features creative ways to reuse recipes, turning your single mastered meal into a multitude of delicious moments.

Seeing Matt Kenseth stand on the roof of his No. 20 car, fist raised in the air celebrating victory followed by a tearful interview to a national viewing audience, gave the impression his win Sunday at Phoenix Raceway carried some kind of championship implication.