Sentences with phrase «points at the hands of»

A 1 - 1 draw meant Barcelona surrendered yet another valuable two points at the hands of their local rivals Espanyol on Monday night making it already their fifth draw of the domestic season with four of them being away from home.

Not exact matches

When Emily first told Marge of her intuition, which she'd realized had been present at so many points in her life, including meeting her husband, she said that Marge told her of the house's history of being handed down from fortune tellers to psychics, beginning in the early 1900s.

«If all it takes is a fingerprint swipe by an employee, at that point the control of the information is out of the hands of the company,» Bond says.

Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand.

Whether Viacom eventually folds its hand as well remains to be seen, but at this point Dish holds most of the cards.

While thought provoking, the real value of the book comes from the practical, templated framework the authors provide for designing your own category that includes a clear articulation of the problem at hand, creating a memorable name for a category, and developing a unique point of view about the current and future of the category.

Some of the blame has been pointed at federal regulations that force banks to have more cash on hand.

Executive presence begins, but does not end, with the ability to understand the topic at hand, articulate a point of view, and do so in a manner that is clear and emotionally compelling.

«We're at a point where people want things in the palm of their hand, easy to get to, and on demand,» Hoyt says.

In hindsight, she remembers little other than her co-host, at one point, guiding her trembling hand out of a close - up shot, whereupon a producer in her ear coached her to «take deep breaths.»

«At this point, I am very confident that we now clearly understand and have our hands placed securely on the practical levers that we believe will enable us to continue to drive double - digit rates of unit and revenue growth for some time,» said Chip Perry, TrueCar's president and CEO, in a press release on Thursday.

At what point do we conclude that this relentless public mauling at the hands of government MPs and their private sector proxies is intended not merely to expose the CBC to proper scrutiny as a public agency, but to intimidate it in its function as a news organizatioAt what point do we conclude that this relentless public mauling at the hands of government MPs and their private sector proxies is intended not merely to expose the CBC to proper scrutiny as a public agency, but to intimidate it in its function as a news organizatioat the hands of government MPs and their private sector proxies is intended not merely to expose the CBC to proper scrutiny as a public agency, but to intimidate it in its function as a news organization?

While 2016 was a banner year of the country's live streaming, a turning point may be at hand for the sector in 2017.

In my opinion, at that point the repurchases are a part of their normal operating business as they basically go hand in hand with how they're paying their executives.

They are going to need capital at some point and the recent death that was at the hands of an autonomous car isn't helping.

On the other hand, Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Jaffray said: «I feel even stronger about our year - end call of 3, 3.25 [percent] in the 10 - year bond yield at this point.»

On the other hand, the median score for consumers whose accounts closed before reaching two - year maturity is at least 42 points lower than at the time of the account opening.

«All historical evidence points to horrific persecution of christians at the hands of the Romans.»

You cut through the modern politics and hand waving and what you have is that for at LEAST 200 years and probably more (longer than we've been around as a country) Christians were «held in contempt» to the point that for about 10 of those years several emperors pursued active policies of extermination (that's what the «actually persecuting» statement refers to - think holocaust type policies) that included some of the worst type of tortures known to humanity.

The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is sneaking up on mankind without his self - conscious realization that a crisis is at hand.

Here at the outset let us take care to make it clear that the question of an historical point of departure arises even for a contemporary disciple; for if we are not careful here, we shall meet with an insuperable difficulty later (in Chapter V), when we come to deal with the case of the disciple whom we call the disciple at second hand.

By observing of the world stage on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science, yet such corruption of human character, it only points to the fact that the time for the «man of sin» is at hand and his army is being prepared, for time of his arrival.

Finally, to complete the task immediately at hand, let me point out that Whitehead has also made abundantly clear the synonymity of the terms «being», «entity» and «thing»»... «potentiality for process» is the meaning of the more general term «entity» or «thing»» (PR 68).

6 [Editor's note: In his hand - written notes, Bohm mentioned at this place that the point event is the limit of Whitehead's actual occasion.]

One of the best example in Buddisum is; «The Hand pointing at the Moon is not the Moon.»

Here's the pattern at hand: a) discouragement or disgust with radical politics or the undeniable impact of some conservatism - friendly facts, results in a move away from political statements and activism, a retreat, into counter-culturalism, self - discovery, and artistry - for - artistry's sake, b) shifts in the political situation, or disgust at «apathy,» provoke a passionate recommittment to the leftist cause or a new articulation of it, and then, at some point, the rock - bohemian returns back to a).

Child, hammer, tiger, tail... it's out of my hands at this point.

It's possible — and I may defend this at some point — that he was using the philosophical vocabulary at hand to explain some of the same phenomena that Mr. Morton is attempting to solve, albeit in very different ways and with very different presuppositions.

Hundreds of worshipers waved their hands at the high points in the eucharistic liturgy, giving the worship an almost Pentecostal quality.

Even if at this point God in heaven and all his angels were to offer to help him out of it — no, now he doesn't want it, now it is too late, he once would have given everything to be rid of this torment but was made to wait, now that's all past, now he would rather rage against everything, he, the one man in the whole of existence who is the most unjustly treated, to whom it is especially important to have his torment at hand, important that no one should take it from him — for thus he can convince himself that he is in the right.

On the other hand, there is capitalism which, in its practical aspect, at the level of its basic principles, would be acceptable from the point of view of the Church's social teaching, since in various ways it is in conformity with the natural law....

So when eternal conscious torment is the very question at hand, what biblical evidence would you point to as teaching that the resurrected bodies of the lost will likewise be made immortal?

At first even Adam is given the eminent role of being the meeting point between created reality and space, where sight dominates, on the one hand, and the creator, on the other.

At age five I raised my good left hand in Sunday school and used a month's ration of words to point out this problem to Miss Betty Nagy.

With her right hand, she points to a group of sinners huddled at her feet, for whose salvation she pleads.

We have looked at the testimony of Paul, whose first - hand witness meets the historical tests, but we have found a view of resurrection which points away from the raising of a physical body to that of a spiritual body.

«To exalt the crucified Jesus to the right hand of God» was a statement which implied another, namely, «to raise from the dead», and the two seem to have been used almost synonymously at first.49 At this point we must take note of the widespread belief in the resurrection of the dead at the end - time, already described in the previous two chapterat first.49 At this point we must take note of the widespread belief in the resurrection of the dead at the end - time, already described in the previous two chapterAt this point we must take note of the widespread belief in the resurrection of the dead at the end - time, already described in the previous two chapterat the end - time, already described in the previous two chapters.

At one point, Hand led classes on «gifts of the Holy Spirit» and a charismatic praise service one Sunday night each month.

Observant decoders noticed that at one point during her half - time performance, Beyonce flashed a hand sign that looked eerily similar to the mysterious sign of the Illuminati.

The point I am trying to make is that the hand of God, if it is visible at all, is visible in all things, even in the ramblings of madmen and the prophets of other religions.

Yet I believe his metaphysics allows for this understanding and that his cosmology, not only with respect to the problem now at hand — the locus of the soul — but at other points as well, is more intelligible if we affirm this principle.

The books andwebsites on pregnancy cheerfully describe the development of «the baby», my midwife talks about listening to the baby's heartbeat and at the 12 - week scan, the time at which the majority of abortions are carried out, I lay in a darkened room and watched as my baby's head and spine and tiny hands were pointed out on a screen.

Wilson bristles at the example - and yet it appears that he still hasn't taken hold of the point: the fact that 95 percent of the people in the country «loved their children» would still not establish why the law is justified in protecting those children at the hands of those parents.

And also it would not be a weighty argument that Jesus does not, like other religious Jews, look in suspense and anxious longing into the uncertain future, but is convinced that even now the turning point of the times is at hand, and the powers of the imminent Kingdom can already be discerned.

C. H. Dodd has pointed out that among early Christians there were evidently men who, like the writer of I John, did not move forward from an experience of Christ rising from death to the Christ seated at the right hand of power, but backward from their acknowledgment of the latter to the conclusion that therefore he had risen from the dead.

It bears repeating that a preaching event is a sharing in the Word, a trip not just a destination, an arriving at a point for drawing conclusions and not handing over of a conclusion.

This leads him to his key point: «Let us make no mistake; the data we now have at hand should serve as a dire warning: Unless we act decisively, many of today's converts will be one - generation Jews — Jews with non-Jewish parents and non-Jewish children,» But Sarna concludes on a note that most Jews would find more hopeful: «Learned Jews and non-Jews have been making dire predictions about the future (or end) of the Jewish people for literally thousands of years — long before William Wirt and long after him — and, as we have seen, their predictions have proved consistently wrong.

We all in practice assume that, when speakers raise their hands, thereby (among other things) changing the spatial location of the electrons in them, they do so because they decided to do so; or, if we take the speaker's hand gestures to be involuntary, we at least assume that they occurred because of points the speaker had decided to make.

The point I am making about pointing the finger at ourselves (or myself at least) is that it seems out of place that we, who are all sinners, would so quickly judge others, whose motives and hearts we can not see, when we have complete access to our own hearts, and all too often know first - hand that we are in the wrong.

On the other hand, at this point it might seem more cogent to dismiss the entire genealogy with all of its idiosyncrasies as the work of earlier tradition.