Sentences with phrase «riddle by»

Nornir chests are unlike any other chest in God of War, as they require you to crack a sort of riddle by finding and interacting with three runes in the environment.

In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age - old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn, have a universally similar particle distribution.

I begin not with the earlier manifestations of proposals that solve the love / power riddle by negating divine omnipotence, thence to move forward in time.

Both the white and Negro press portrayed the Jackson movement as shrunken, listless, riddled by dissension.

That said, Pagano's tricks did not lead to enough big plays in»14 for this defense, which was riddled by injuries.

How badly have the Reds been riddled by injuries?

It didn't hurt that the state legislature was riddled by scandal and Governor Patrick's tax, fiscal, and transportation policies were going nowhere.

In the wasteland of medieval France, riddled by the aftermath of war and the horrors of the Black Death, a trinity of unlikely pilgrims come together: a cynical knight, a fallen priest, and a young girl who is definitely something otherworldly.

To see it as Jacob would, a Jewish man seems to be riddled by the weight of generations of survivor guilt: He studies things he isn't interested in but are «good and worthy and remunerative,» he gets married «Jewishly» and has Jewish kids and lives «Jewishly» in «some demented effort to redeem the suffering that made your increasingly alienating life possible.»

In The Nix, Sam's mother, Faye, takes part in the protests that took place at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, one riddled by unrest and tensions.

Vang Vieng, Laos has a bad boy reputation as being a drug - fuelled party destination, riddled by accidental river / tubing deaths.

Riddled by numerous large caves in shallow depths, this dive is easily accessed from Club Paradise Restaurant by step carved out of the iron shore entering the water.

*** Zombie Catchers is an action adventure game in a world riddled by a zombie invasion!

Rather than a lamentation over or a longing for the past, these pictures operate as metaphorical demarcations of an empowered pathway forward for a country — and a people — riddled by divisions.

One glaciologist said that glacial ice would close any openings during each winter, not get riddled by holes that would persist.

Already riddled by bugs or hardware issues, the first «made by Google» smartphone might end up looking like a rushed disaster, though to a lesser extent than the Galaxy Note 7.

The latter has been riddled by display issues soon after Google launched it.

In the real estate market riddled by the lack of demand...

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According to the official account, Tamerlan died after a shootout with cops, riddled with bullets and shrapnel before being run over by his brother who was fleeing the scene in an SUV.

The path Johnson took was exploring Skywalker as he's riddled with guilt for believing he failed as a master Jedi by trying to show Ben Solo (aka, Kylo Ren) the ways of the force, only to realize his nephew is drawn to the dark side.

At least that's the thinking at Microsoft, where hundreds of job seekers have been asked the bathroom question as part of the legendary «interview loop» — a rigorous ritual in which candidates are grilled by their future colleagues with a barrage of puzzles, riddles, and bizarre hypothetical questions.

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

More importantly, by tracking the data on every loan and providing greater insight on the lender and the property, PeerStreet aims to insert accountability and transparency into a market that has historically been riddled with opaqueness.

Buffett has said the airlines» bankruptcy - riddled «bad 20th Century» is behind them, with U.S. airlines having posted a stretch of profitability, helped by a plunge in fuel prices in mid-2014.

«One of the keys to selling tax reform is the president making the point that tax reform will unrig this economy by stripping out the special - interest deductions and carve - outs that riddle this code,» said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers that is spending heavily to push changes to the tax code.

The island's unions were riddled with communists, many Chinese - educated, inspired by Mao Zedong's rise to power and eager to stage a similar revolution in Singapore.

By Project Coordinator of the Global Opportunity Network Emil Kofoed Braunschweig Here's a fashion riddle — which red carpet dress is black and white, but green all over?

The recent move by Twitter to verify the students is yet another example of how big the current discussion around gun regulation has become, and an example of how the company hopes to add credibility to users who are at the center of a debate riddled with misinformation.

Michelle Hill, Legacy Builder for Sports Professionals: «I have read books about ghostwriting by professional ghostwriters that were so riddled with typos, it was painful to get through.

anyone who has read and understood the mountains of evidence for evolution and compared it to a contradictory, fanciful, error riddled story book written by bronze age desert dwelling goat herders and come up on the side of the bible, clearly hasn't understood the science.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

As Hamann writes, «All philosophical resistance and the entire riddle of our existence, the impenetrable night of its terminus a quo and terminus ad quem, are dissolved by the charter of the Word become flesh.»

And it was known yea verily that a riddle that was not, in the purest sense, and yet by the grace of Iluvatar in the answering shall ye know its truest nature..

As Moore acknowledges in a bit of background included in the error - riddled press kit for the novel, The Statement was inspired by the case of Paul Touvier, a Vichy functionary guilty of wartime crimes, including the murder of seven Jews.

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

The militants were eventually defeated but not before the cathedral was riddled with bullets by militants who also filmed themselves smashing statues inside the place of worship.

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

~ J.K. Rowling, «The Secret Riddle,» Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic by lance banning cornell university press, 543 pages, $ 35 For students of the early American republic, James Madison has long been something of a riddle.

But it is enlivened also by wonderfully imaginative folklore, riddles, oracles, and fables.

The second possibility will be taken seriously by those who can not accept the suggestion that the laws of cause and effect and formal structures expressed in a series of concepts are the answer to the riddle of life and death.

To argue by inference from effect to Cause, from the passive object to the active Subject of change, from transitory, contingent being to a Being who is necessary and eternal, from nature's striving after perfection to a Perfection which is ultimate, from the order observable in creation to a creative Mind - all that (I shall be told) is to approach the great Riddle from one side, and that the most difficult.

This is an attempt to recover the power possessed by words before they were smothered by a scientific and technological culture, words that once rendered immeasurable services to the human spirit, words that danced, sang, teased, lured, probed, wept, judged, and transformed, words that joined hands artfully into analogies, metaphors, riddles, paradoxes, parables, poems, legends, and myths.

Riddles, optical illusions, and types of psychology tests all contend for means by which one can help understand why it might be beneficial to even question what one questions.

Our relationships should be characterised by truth and love, but instead they're riddled with jealousy and the desire to possess.

Humboldt as an empiricist, psychologist, and historian was ever attracted by the riddle of individuality, while his philosophical interest forced him to seek the idea or norm in which reality appears idealized.

This zealot's «work» has been so thoroughly, repeatedly, and authoritatively debunked by so many who have demonstrated it to be riddled with slipshod research, shoddy analysis, and downright dishonestly that I can but wonder how anyone can refer to him as an «authority» on this subject without turning red from embarrassment.

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

Put his The Riddle of the Universe alongside Adams's masterwork and you can see how neatly Haeckel solves Adams's problem about unity by getting rid of free will, religion, and the immortality of the soul (that it is immortal «is the highest point of superstition») and by his theory of spontaneous generation (his zoological Big Bang that needs no Banger).

Rather they have been happy to suggest, - more often by subtle implication and spin than with straightforward candour - that (i) the priesthood is fairly riddled with abusers, (ii) there is an international culture of cover - up in the Church which (iii) goes right to the top of the Church, and (iv) that Catholic institutions such as celibacy and hierarchy are to blame — even that Catholic teaching of children about its sexual morality is a form of intellectual abuse of large numbers of children.