Sentences with phrase «potent microelements»

Nonetheless, the affirmation will not be evaded that the biblical influence has been, and is, of a more potent sort; for it strongly grips human emotions, the driving force in achievement, and sets them aflame with a supreme ideal which by its very loftiness thrills and mocks us.

Judging from this record, the weakening of Christianity in some of the areas in which it was most potent in the nineteenth century should not be a cause of dismay.

Our sources do not permit us, finally, to adjudicate this claim, but at least it is clear that local authority was a continuing reality in Israel's life and that the popular assembly was a potent facility for expression of the general will.

At its most potent in this role, language can cause listeners to think afresh about the meaning and organization of their lives.

And certainly nomadic influence continued a potent force in Israel's life, reinforced by the steady infiltration of desert wanderers who entered and lived much as Abraham had done many centuries before.

Once a living thing dies, the dating process begins, and the amount of C - 14 in a dead organism becomes less and less potent over time.

There it functions as a potent expression of superabundance and fertility.

India, Ulster, Bosnia and Sudan serve as potent reminders of just how volatile a mixture moral commitments and political differences can be.

Seems to me that little spot of 30 years when Jesus was purported to have walked around performing miracles was potent enough to start a church full of a billion people that lasted for 2000 more years.

Through the skillful use of voice and gesture, the representation of felt emotional values, and the thorough knowledge of the style and content of a given text, the oral performer in Greco - Roman culture embodied potent voices present in both oral and written material.

The affect of the performance was to re-establish Paul as a potent and powerful voice within the Corinthian community.

While some focus on its potential to inspire a bloody «cycle of violence,» the most potent critique of anger is actually made by those less concerned with drawing attention to its negative political consequences.

And a rattlesnake or any pit viper for that matter that's dehydrated and weak, doesn't have enough water in it's system to manufacture a great deal of venom, and on top of that there are only a very few species of rattlesnake that have venom potent enough to kill a full grown, young, healthy man.

As Business Insider notes, «Based on seven major illegal drug data surveillance systems, the researchers found that heroin, cocaine and marijuana became significantly cheaper and more potent from 1990 to 2007 (the last year for which data is publicly available).»

The peculiar pathologies of our present are rooted in history and maintained by a comprehensive and potent network of cultural agencies.

Long known for potent healing qualities, essential oils from native plants were some of the first medicine.

[His] announcement leaves a huge void among one of the most potent constituencies in the GOP at a time when the race is highly fluid and arguably wide open.

And by means of the living immediacy, the past is felt by God and as potent with possibilities of greater value is passed back into and qualifies the world of living experience.

I look at the record of nature as being much more potent than that.

Some of the most potent elements, however, in Jewish society of the - first century stood outside the official establishment.

In Greece, the myth of Zeus overcoming his monstrous father Kronos by means of intelligence and instituting the new order of the beautiful Olympian gods encapsulates a particularly potent vision of pagan subjectivity.

The Deadly Virus: «I Have Arrived» This disease is so potent that it has the capacity to be terminal and deadly to our spiritual evolution.

But the slurry wall more resembles a gigantic objet trouvé than a potent symbol of resilient democracy.

Universalizing, missionary, monotheistic dynamics were potent features of Charlemagne's Europe.

But it also aims at helping them use «the potent superconscious spiritual energies, which have a transforming and regenerating influence on the whole personality.»

His argument here is potent, clear, and free from verbal quibbling.

The breadth a solitudes bewails prudence while toasty seeds of the opiated freedoms would send «disheartened» souls to the medical infirmaries give rises to more potent dispensations of medical blunders leaving the deadening fields awash with doctor do - little raises.

Such love is the first evidence of obedience to the Gospel, the necessary expression of our submission to Christ's Lordship, and a potent engine of world mission.»

They brewed some very potent wine and dropped water into it, thus bringing the wine back down to drinkable and also getting their liquid somewhat more safely.

«God,» in his various aspects, serves as a potent and hallowed symbol for various features of reality.

She has tamed the savage continent, peopled the solitude, gathered wealth untold, waxed potent, imposing, redoubtable; and now it remains for her to prove, if she can, that the rule of the masses is consistent with the highest growth of the individual; that democracy can give the world a civilization as mature and pregnant, ideas as energetic and vitalizing, and types of manhood as lofty and strong, as any of the systems which it boasts to supplant.

So they brewed themselves some potent brew and poured it into the water.

Hertzke acknowledges that Jackson's sympathy for the left's agenda on the family, gay rights, and abortion has generated tensions among culturally conservative black church leaders, but he argues that racial pride has proved a more potent appeal among Jackson's black constituents.

Unlike Thucydides, Kagan seems not to recognize that in international affairs perception can be as potent as reality.

For Augustine, the most potent justification for using force is to protect the innocent.

«Sanctification» is a potent theological concept in this learning environment.

The universal message of divine empowerment is particularly potent in situations of social injustice and political privilege.

White racism, though pernicious and potent, can not fully explain the socioeconomic position of the majority of black Americans.

Some ideas are so potent as to be world - changing.

Ironically, Lindsell's book may very well prove to be a potent force for undermining the very position he defends.

In classic religious fashion, that which is most dangerous and polluting is transformed by the proper ministrations of members of a holy caste («priests» in this case) into a potent source of sanctity and holiness.

«It took us three hours to retrieve 11 bodies because the mixture of petrol and water is so potent that we just couldn't risk being in that boat for long periods of time,» Michele Telaro, the field coordinator for the Doctors Without Borders rescue missions, told The Independent.

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

More than a third of Schama's book is devoted to another artistic giant, Pieter Paul Rubens, who far surpassed Rembrandt in fame and wealth, and whom Rembrandt must have considered both an archrival and a potent role model.

First, it diminishes a wound by diminishing the situation or person that inflicts the wound — making the victimizer less potent, more easily overcome.

For so potent has the revivalistic image become that anything resembling the word by which it was principally known, «evangelism,» is taboo.

But if it is a supplementary image to the clinical image, then it can be a potent reminder that the pastor goes into the highways, byways, new housing developments, and slums to find and assist with needs, and does not merely call when needs are already known or wait until people call upon him.

Is this a potent reminder that our call is to be more sensitive to those who feel unloved, marginalized, shunned from our society?

The fate of the civil rights movement, its leaders recognized, lay in its ability to convince politicians and administrators in the federal government that it was in their interest to enforce the law and defend the Constitution in the South in the face of the massive resistance by politically potent segregationists.

81 % of survey respondents noted that temptations were more potent when they had neglected their time with God (81 percent) and when they were physically tired (57 percent).