Sentences with phrase «own little empires»

The Spirit seems to be bringing us to our knees, and calling us to cooperate in new ways for a kingdom beyond our own little empires.

Even in church, people are mostly only interested in building their own little empires.

Perhaps the one thing I fear more than completely failing to make an impact in this industry is making such an impact that I become a slave to my own little empire.

What was clear for all to see was that Tory councillors will pay lip service to the ideas of freedom of choice, lower taxes and smaller government, only as long as these things relate to central government and not to their own little empires in local government.

That is why Essex County leader Lord Hanningfield - one of the prime culprits behind the scenes in the destruction of the Free Schools policy - was able recently to draw the breathtaking conclusion, for a Tory, that «this is exactly what local government should be doing» as he proposed to add a chain of post offices to his own little empire.

He's created his own little empire on the misery of others, and he's doing quite well for himself.

While not infuriating the piss out of me, Little Empire is actually a rather lovely little free - to - play empire builder, with a little bit of tower defense tossed in for flavor.

Camel Games» high - polished «massively multiplayer online» empire building game Little Empires neatly demonstrates why we should never open ourselves up to the inevitable pain that friendship brings.

Little known One of the more noteworthy ones is Little Empire by Camel Games, which surfaced on Android weeks before it debuted on iOS devices.

If you like to hoard your friends, you can build up your own mini little empire and instead of checking into a location, you can check into Wired or Fastcompany.

To take the approach of a pitch for a Hollywood movie: Midnight in Peking is The Black Dahlia meets Inspector Morse, with a little Empire of the Sun thrown in.

Nathan Jurevicius has managed to carve himself a nice little empire with Scarygirl, a multimedia project about a young girl who was abandoned in a swamp only to be rescued and befriended by an octopus.

push -LRB--LCB--RCB--RRB-; The description of Little Empire The ultimate strategy game.

WANGECHI MUTU, «Try Dismantling the Little Empire Inside You,» 2007 (ink, Mylar, pigment and photo collage, in 2 parts).

And it's interesting that the clients for this house have a bit of drama themselves, running popular Brooklyn restaurants that our Brooklyn - dwelling editor and photographer describes as a «total little empire that is almost too rustic - hipster - cool, but the quality is undeniable and they were there early so it doesn't feel painfully trendy.»

And to preserve the life they lead, residents need to protect their own little empire.

In Canada, it's like each province is its own little empire.

I feel many boards and various organizations Realtors have to belong to have turned into little empires that are more concerned with serving themselves than serving the members.

* swoon * my god I could really see me running my little empire in there.

When I saw this funny little empire chest of drawers (on original casters), I just knew it had to go a fun color.

Not exact matches

Many prominent businesspeople like Donald Trump and Martha Stewart brag about getting by on as little as four hours a night to stay on top of their empires.

«I figured, if Mark Zuckerberg could read one book every two weeks, and he's running [an] almost a trillion - dollar empire, then one thing that little old me could do is read one book every two weeks.»

A container of Trump's Empire perfume costs $ 52, but Empire - scented deodorant can be had for as little as $ 14.

Now, the empire that Denton built — which at least theoretically was once worth as much as $ 250 million — has been sold for a little over half that amount.

Or Amazon Echo users realize Jeff Bezos» ecommerce empire has amassed audio recordings of every single interaction they've had with their cute little smart speaker.

To fuel your small business dreams and grow it into the empire you dream of, you need capital — sometimes just a little but others, well, others need a lot more.

Whether you've got your sights set on running a global empire or you just want to make a little more cash each month, there are plenty of ways to emulate the rich and famous so that you can attract the same kind of success.

Add a little bit of politics and the fractured Roman Empire to the mix, and Voila!

Early Christians in the Roman Empire showed little or no sympathy for other religions, even judiaism..

And conveniently ignore that everything that they enjoy, including their christianity and this neat little thing that allows them to transmit their ideas all over the world from their keyboard, is a product of empire.

When someone doesn't fit in and suggests leaving, even a pastor cares little for their well being, only that they are leaving his empire and how that will make it look to anyone who takes a peek.

In the dark days which followed, while the new Babylonian empire threatened the little nations ever more nearly, another of the great prophets came upon the scene.

Frankly, I am a little skeptical of some of the elements in these creeds since they were developed after Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire, and I fear that some of the statements of these creeds were politically motivated, and were heavily influenced by Roman Emperors, rather than by honestly dealing with the text of Scripture.

The Muslim culture in Sind did not receive much influence from its Arab rulers since the center of the Arab Empire was in Damascus and then in Baghdad, so far from the Sind that the Arabs paid little attention to their distant eastern provinces.

Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or media empire.

How, given the Whiteheadian account of subjective aims adumbrated above, would God operate in the context of our little drama playing itself out at the foot of the Empire State Building?

I feel that God has something more for me than the tiny little blogging and book publishing empire I have built for myself (Which is not an empire at all, but more like a cool - aid stand on the corner...)

Queen Victoria, the Empress of India among many other things, was eight years from her death, but it was evident that Indians were no longer, could no longer be, simply colonial subjects: Gandhi was arriving in South Africa after completing his studies in London, and Indian independence, which stands as the very paradigm of the end of empire, was only a little more than fifty years in the future.

Maybe as a public official within the Roman Empire, he was a little bit nervous.

I sat in a church service last night where the congregation continually gushed with a joyous noise over a sermon that, to me, was founded on little more than the pastor's «vision» of a church empire....

Had Constantine chosen to locate his capital in one of these, there can be little doubt that the Byzantine Empire would have come to an end in the seventh century, as did the Persian Empire to the east.

like Mussolini said» If not for the Roman empire this little jewish religion would have disappear»

Everybody is interested in prophecy and the Book of Revelation, but Buackham's book is sparking controversy, because he says that the book of Revelation contains very little prophecy, and is instead, a book which uses coded imagery to criticize the Roman Empire and retell the story of the Fall of Jerusalem in AD 70.

As we have seen and will remind ourselves a little later, on entering the Empire many of the Germanic peoples were Arian Christians, and were separated from the Roman population, which was Catholic.

There were still slaves who were treated little better than cattle — those with little or no skills — who did a significant portion of manual labor in the days of the Empire.

Perhaps we learn a little more than absolutely necessary about the foundations and rules of the Carolingian Empire, but otherwise the book is also an excellent, and possibly unique, comprehensive history of the secular clergy.

One site that I've pinned quite a bit but haven't talked about yet is Serious Eats, the little meat - centric food - writing empire with columns ranging from Daily Slice and A Hamburger a Day to Food Lab and conversations with bartenders, chefs, and food - lovers alike.

in Lubeck, Germany who knit a little hat for a child sometime around when Chaucer was taking his first breath in England or the Ottoman Empire was beginning to take hold.

But in the 1970s no one was bigger (if you were little) than Robert Craig (Evel) Knievel, and I coveted every item in the Evel empire: the lunch box and thermos, the AMF dirt bike and — from the Ideal Toy Company — the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle and action figure («It's Ideal!»).

A gorgeous print dress with a skinny little belt that creates a beautiful empire waistline.