Sentences with phrase «powerful empire at»

The story of Christ, however, unlike many myths and legends, is an historical event, and a whole empire, the wealthiest and most powerful empire at that, invested its resources looking for a dead body that should have been in that empty tomb, but wasn't.

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Some would serve up Donald Trump and Robert Maxwell as examples of powerful men who gambled with their empires at certain points in their business careers in a pathological way.

They are, in fact, a very powerful tool of the Chinese government's industrial policy which is aimed at ruthless expansion (emphasis added) of its global economic empire».

At their best they also knew that no empire, no matter how strong, is all - powerful.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

Christianity conquered the most powerful empire in the world at the time in less than 300 years with no army, based only on a simple message of love and charity for others.

At first this expectation was doubtless emotional in its appeal, as Mussolini stirs Italians now by pictures of a new Roman Empire, but as the centuries passed and the powerful theological conviction that Israel was a chosen people in special covenant relationship with Yahweh blended with the national dream, the coming Messianic age became increasingly a fixed idea and a cherished dogma.

At that time that Empire, although it had suffered serious reverses, was still the most powerful state on the globe and embraced the strongest and most populous center of civilization.

The ethic encapsulated in Christ's immortal warning that «ye can not serve God and Mammon»; in the Book of Deuteronomy's complex provisions for redistributing resources from the rich and powerful to the marginal and dispossessed; and in the Islamic tradition's prohibition of riba — lending money at interest and acquiring it in unjust ways — is the strongest barrier we have to the indefinite expansion of the empire of money.

At the Empire State Development Corporation, the powerful authority that runs the state's economic development programs, Mr. Cuomo nominated Howard Zemsky as president and chief executive in 2015.

From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

Set to enjoy its North American premiere at Doc NYC this coming Saturday, November 12, Letters From Baghdad is a documentary about Gertrude Bell, who became, arguably, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in the days after World...

The freedom you're offered as to how to develop your empire doesn't feel restrictive in any way (you can spend cash increasing the economy, industry or research capability of each star system), but intelligent decisions on the home front aren't anywhere near as powerful as those hard numbers you have at your disposal: how many ships you have, how many you produce every day, how fast your ships move and how hard they hit.

Darth Vader is features as a playable hero for the Empire faction in Star Wars Empire at War, he is controlled like other units in this real time strategy game where a hero unit is a powerful unit that is more powerful that the basic units, can take more damage and has special abilities.

Coinciding with the gallery's fifth anniversary, Shonibare's powerful work explores themes of conflict, empire and migration in the centenary year of The Battle of the Somme, poignantly shown at Turner Contemporary against the dramatic backdrop of the North Sea.

Powerful storms of the nerves rage, gentle breezes of calm laze, and the bustling empires of our thought processes are always working, always busy, always too many things at once.

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