Sentences with phrase «placed in command»

XCOM 2 follows the events of the first XCOM release of the new era, placing you in command of an XCOM team living on the run in a world controlled by the alien forces.

Not exact matches

«As each natural disaster goes by, we hone our processes already in place so we can react quicker and faster the next time this happens,» said Pete Capel, a 26 - year Home Depot veteran and merchandising executive in charge of the hurricane command center.

Just one head's up, though, if you're the guys being bought: Keep your bags packed, because once you're inside the place, you'll quickly find that you'll have no more ability to command additional resources than the guys who were there in the first place.

Latency, or the amount of time taken for devices to communicate with one another, can be a problem on a wireless network, resulting in a time lag between the command input and its effect taking place.

Marine lawyers are given infantry units to command; infantry commanders are placed in charge of supply units.

For increased bargaining power to result in better terms with suppliers or customers, those suppliers or customer must have enough bargaining power to command margins or surplus in the first place.

Taking his place was Margaret Wente, the magazine's 30 - year - old second - in - command, and Ross's handpicked successor.

DJI, which commands 70 percent of the global commercial and consumer drone market, wants to finalize the deal in the coming months while a stock market listing either in Hong Kong or mainland China would likely take place next year, they added.

Amazon has steadily expanded its reach into places long considered no - go zones for most people outside of the immediate family, starting with smart speakers in the home that await voice commands to come to life.

Retirement saving and planning did make the First Command list, but only in eighth place.

The Nvidia Spot can be placed anywhere in the house to facilitate voice commands, but it needs the main Shield TV to work.

The reason for choosing the hotels market as the first place to offer large - scale commercialisation of its own smart speaker is because hotel guests are likely to have more demand for such services, according to Du Haitao, product director of Alibaba's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Labs... A «Westin» branded hotel in Sanya in China's southern island province Hainan — part of the Marriott Group — is already testing the voice - command service.

The company gave Alexa a woman's voice and name in the first place, and then set it up for ire and abuse by giving Alexa the impossible task of responding accurately to an infinity of requests and commands.

Also, it is a «sin'to not take in account the context of each book, the people and time to which certain things were directed, the reasons why such things which seem unreasonable and some times unfair, were in the first place commanded; and so on.

It was really eye opening for me — simple insights like the fact that the first wound most men receive in being circumcised is an intentional act of violence commanded by God — the goal of which is to place his mark upon us, reminding us that we are set apart and specially chosen by him.

I light the ring of candles on Maundy Thursday, maundatam Thursday, Thursday of the new mandate, and it burns in all the dark places, that command that Jesus gives of the Last supper:

Scripture backs this up as well, for there is not one place in the Bible that commands us to attend church.

63 When bloody flooding killed the human race And brand - new oceans put man in his place, Except for those who carried mankind's seed, I, first of creatures, snubbed what law decreed, While I mocked yielding to the Lord's command, For which, I think, a poet would declare, «The sin....

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

Despite their God's commands to be humble, they still are certain of their own special place in the Creator's eyes and therefore feel justified in looking down on everyone else.

In economic thought, the nonhuman world has value only as it commands a price in the market placIn economic thought, the nonhuman world has value only as it commands a price in the market placin the market place.

A concluding dimension of piety that commands a large place in theological learning is service.

«And they have built the high places of Topheth... in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.»

«And they built the high places of the Ba`al, which are in the valley of Ben - hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire l'Molech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.»

When one fully realizes that economic theory values the natural world only in terms of the price its elements command in the market place, one will understand why present economic practice degrades the world.

This is not the place to go into the complexities of what used to be called «stratification theory,» but ever since Marx gave a prominent place to «class» in his interpretation of history, there has been general agreement to use this term to refer to a system of ranking in which the command of economic resources is the prevailing criterion.

«The mass media - especially television - have taken command of the power of myth... One role of myth is to situate us, to define the world and our place in it.»

In the command to sacrifice his son, a barrier is placed between Abraham and Isaac.

I've never once heard a sermon preached on the passage in which Paul tells Titus «Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons» (Titus 1:12 — 13), and yet, if these words are truly the inerrant and unchanging words of God intended as universal commands for all people in all places at all times, then the Christian community needs to do a better job of mobilizing against the Cretan people, perhaps constructing some «God Hates Cretans» signs!

When they can give «secret codes» to their cult members to kill on command from their cult leader, then they are the «American Taliban» and have no place in the military at all.

Make us to love; move in upon us, work through us, put pressure on our little selfish lives, so that we may love «that which thou dost command» — the things, the places, the times, the persons, the circumstances in which God has sent us, the whole realm of the divine ordering of things.

Nor does natural law have a place in the Bible just because Cain knew that the murder of his brother Abel made him guilty eons before the Decalogue's command «thou shalt not kill.»

Unlike adherents to some of the other religions which have commanded the allegiance of men, Christian believers are gathered together as a fellowship, meeting at specific times and in specific places to engage in the action of divine worship.

He claims no responsibility for a church that continues to break people — even though he claims membership in this group (a group that continues to burden those who are trying desperately to find their place in Christ's body with burdens God does not command.)

Newman counseled that the man earnestly seeking to hear the conscience «must vanquish that mean, ungenerous, selfish, vulgar spirit of his nature, which, at the very first rumour of a command, places itself in opposition to the Superior who gives it, asks itself whether he is not exceeding his right, and rejoices, in a moral and practical matter to commence with skepticism.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say women in the church for all time and places are commanded to be silent.

In reality both the commands are expressed in terms of customs current in biblical times and placeIn reality both the commands are expressed in terms of customs current in biblical times and placein terms of customs current in biblical times and placein biblical times and places.

To be sure, individuals are commanded to cultivate the holiness breathing in scripture; but that striving takes place in a context larger, longer, more diverse and more vital than the small precinct of a private soul.

But to see in them the fulfillment of God's command to love is to falsify this command and to set self - love in the place of obedient love of neighbor.

After all, as we are informed in The Five Gospels, «the Christ of creed and dogma, who had been firmly in place in the Middle Ages, can no longer command the assent of those who have seen the heavens through Galileo's telescope....

Those who know their place as servants in Gods economy here in this life, and their responsibility as priests and kings before God, will heed these not often preached commands of our Lord, following him in the paths of righteousness and peace.

I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their fellow human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it is better to do than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

In the second place, this anonymous book says, that this slaughter was done by the express command of God: but all our ideas of the justice and goodness of God give the lie to the book, and as I never will believe any book that ascribes cruelty and injustice to God, I therefore reject the Bible as unworthy of credit.

We must acknowledge the real measure of divine revelation and grace which is to be found in the non-Christian religions and in any other place where men meet that which commands their fullest and purest allegiance.

Archbishop Puente had an uncertain command of the English language; but he had — or so, at times it almost seemed — an unerring instinct for disloyalty to Rome, and rewarded it where he could, so blatantly, indeed, that in the end Rome cottoned on to what was happening: the last straw, it seems, was when he placed Bishop Crispian Hollis at the head of the terna for Southwark.

He takes a ship in the opposite direction to escape God's command, is thrown overboard during a storm, is swallowed by «a great fish,» and regurgitated at the very place he was trying to avoid.

Such a higher value perception has placed many offerings firmly in the arena of gourmet products, as consumers look to store - bought foods and beverages for high - quality options, but without the higher prices these items would command in foodservice.

In 1814, Captain Maunsel White, at the age of 31, was placed in charge of a white mens militia regiment, named the Louisiana Blues, under the command of Major Jean Baptiste Plauch, who reported directly to Major General Andrew Jackson, commander of the Seventh Military District and the United States forces in the Gulf campaign against Britains blockade of American portIn 1814, Captain Maunsel White, at the age of 31, was placed in charge of a white mens militia regiment, named the Louisiana Blues, under the command of Major Jean Baptiste Plauch, who reported directly to Major General Andrew Jackson, commander of the Seventh Military District and the United States forces in the Gulf campaign against Britains blockade of American portin charge of a white mens militia regiment, named the Louisiana Blues, under the command of Major Jean Baptiste Plauch, who reported directly to Major General Andrew Jackson, commander of the Seventh Military District and the United States forces in the Gulf campaign against Britains blockade of American portin the Gulf campaign against Britains blockade of American ports.