Sentences with phrase «powers in her former life»

It begins with promise and verve, though, as we see Dominika at the height of her powers in her former life, performing as a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet.

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The former is in keeping with what is perhaps the distinctive mark of our age — the quantum leap in human power to affect all of life in truly fundamental and unprecedented ways.

In this way, we inherit our lived world along routes of physical prehension which convey the energy of former valuations to us as vectorial power demanding our conformity with it.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

While it would be foolish to give up the meteorological explanation for the theological one, it should be said that there may be important aspects of the storm, such as its relation to the powers of nature on which life is dependent and the sense of awe inspired by it, which are present in the latter interpretation but wholly lacking in the former.

The former is more likely — which says a lot about the power of players in modern football — and, despite playing a Norwich side fighting for their lives who nearly claimed a draw against Liverpool, United will come away with a victory.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

Already, the former head of CNNC, Kang Rixin, will spend the rest of his life in prison due to corruption related to the unparalleled nuclear power plant expansion, which may call into question the safety of the materials used.

A former sales leader for a Fortune 500 company, she inspires and educates women to live the lives they imagined by tuning in to their authentic power and unlocking the confidence to get what they really, really want.

Among the latter are a treasured colleague (William Fichtner) who helps her transmit and receive radio signals and whose name, Kent Clark, irrelevantly suggests an inverted Superman; a bad father (read: villain) and former mentor (Tom Skerritt) who briefly becomes her boss, then her competitor, and who kowtows shamelessly to the power structure; a religious scholar named Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) who gives her a Cracker Jack compass, virtually repeats her father's tag line («If there wasn't anyone else out there [in the cosmos], it'd be an awful waste of space»), and goes to bed with her; and an eccentric billionaire (John Hurt) who lives on a well - appointed plane (recalling Jules Verne's Captain Nemo) and comes up with the funding.

In the «we are women, hear us roar» category, the eternally ageless animal - rights activist Betty White will host NBC's «Saturday Night Live» on May 8 at the head of a glittering cast of former SNL GRRR - L power.

In this much - anticipated DC comics CW series, a former superhero returns to a normal life with his family, but during his time away, a local gang has gained power.

Living off the grid for 10 years, former CIA operative Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) finds himself back in action battling a sinister network that utilizes terror and technology to maintain unchecked power.

«The former insurance executive shares what she saw and endured as she struggled down 36 floors in a doomed and dying building and away from a life focused on perks, prestige, and power,» reads the book's description.

The artist created a 20 - ton replica of the former HSBC Bank in Shanghai, built in 1923 by the British architecture firm Palmer & Turner, contemplating the troubling history this building has lived through while questioning the power of ruling institutions.

So, in 2011, he opened the Power Station, an experimental kunsthalle in a former Dallas Power & Light building that brings new life to his hometown's museum - driven art scene.

In her family law practice, she encourages her clients to take control of their own lives and work together with their former partner to make decisions about their family's future, rather than giving that power to a stranger in a courtrooIn her family law practice, she encourages her clients to take control of their own lives and work together with their former partner to make decisions about their family's future, rather than giving that power to a stranger in a courtrooin a courtroom.