Sentences with phrase «ruler whose»

By stopping the shipments of slaves to the neighboring kingdom of Mortmesne, she crossed the Red Queen, a brutal ruler whose power derives from dark magic, who is sending her fearsome army into the Tearling to take what is hers.

It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula.

Depending on your own political views of Hirohito, you may or may not appreciate the sympathy this film elicits for a ruler whose minions were responsible for heinous war crimes comparable to the German Nazis.

Often monks were supported by civil rulers whose motives were of mixed origin and quality.

These events help to explain Jesus» subsequent attitude toward «that fox» Antipas (Lk 13:32), and to the Roman rulers whose vassal he was.

Not exact matches

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past.»

2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

The Armenians were a minority community that excelled in the arts, academia, and the professional classes; successful, intelligent, and very much «the other» in a Turkey whose young rulers were influenced by the racialist ideologies then prominent in Europe.

There were usually two religious departments under the pre-Mughal rulers, each of them headed by an officer of the highest rank whose authority came directly from the monarch.

There their mission began to succeed, for they won the attention and respect of the Roman ruler of the island, Sergius Paulus, whose heart was hungry for the word of God.

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

When Gregory wrote his Pastoral Rule there was present to his mind the immature and sinful yet immortal race whose members needed the service of the pastoral ruler on their wayward course of life that they might escape hell and enter into heaven's joy.

«In assuming responsibilities so vast I fervently invoke the aid of that Almighty Ruler of the Universe in whose hands are the destinies of nations and of men to guard this Heaven - favored land against the mischiefs...

But you, 0 Bethlehem Ephrathah [Birthplace of David: the reference is to the David - Zion covenant, characteristic of Isaiah]... from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, Whose origin is from of old... Therefore he [Yahweh] shall give them [Judah] up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth....

A God who at first glance is comparable to the picture of the Oriental ruler, who governs his people with complete arbitrariness, bound by no rational law; but a God who is conceived as wholly different from an Oriental ruler, since all physical traits are lacking, all tyrannical desires alien; a God who desires justice and righteousness and punishes sin, a God who loves His people as a father his first - born son, a God to whom the religious man ills as to his father, and in whose help he trusts in all situations of life.

(17) This Augustus was the very ruler by whose reign Luke located Jesus» birth.

When scientists frame human beings as neural machines, recall the hyper - rational rulers of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels, whose instruments of measurement fail utterly to capture the whole person and turn the rationalists themselves into twisted souls.

He also continued to invite people to become members of God's Kingdom; that is, to become citizens whose ruler is God.

Some of them, however, come to life for us: Condanna, the confessor; Sariputta, one of the disciples who is allowed to hear a word similar to that spoken by the Lord to Peter: he compares him to the eldest son of a world ruler, who, following the king, together with him sets in motion the wheel of rulership which this king lets roll over the earth; his friend Maha - Moggallana, the possessor of mysterious miraculous power, whose beautiful account of being called is passed on to us in the Mahavagga.

Among those who also collected monetary compensations were traditional rulers, whose farms were also affected by construction.

For the past three days we have been indoors for fear of been attacked by the military just because of one man whose father is our traditional ruler.

The portraits were originally drawn for Vanity Fair, whose editor commissioned Ward to depict «the numerous foreign rulers, who have visited our islands from time to time».

During that period, our rulers created cities whose essential workers can not afford to live in them, cities full of ugly buildings and drably uniform centres and angry frightened neighbourhoods where people do not know their neighbours.

Contemporary Nigeria has a class of traditional notables whose titles are tied to those of its reigning monarchs, the Nigerian traditional rulers.

The traditional ruler who commended Governor Aregbesola for repositioning the state to the path of greatness among its peers in spite the challenges posed by the present economic situation, said Aregbesola has proven his weight as a true leader whose passion for development of his state can never be distorted.

Venerated by the Aztecs and Mayans, whose rulers wore headdresses made out of its long tail feathers, the bird has a bright green body, a red breast, and green upper tail feathers that conceal its tail; in males, these feathers are longer than its body.

For early states, whose rulers were consolidating power, ritual sacrifice seems to have been one way to discourage outside attacks and internal revolt by sowing fear.

The new data also put the nail in the coffin of another, highly controversial, hypothesis about Jewish ancestry: that the Ashkenazim actually descend from the Khazars, a Turkic people in Western Asia's Caucasus region whose rulers are known to have converted to Judaism in the 8th century C.E..

When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were «But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose

Establishments in the borough early in the twentieth century «But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose

The new ruler is T'Challa, played by Chadwick Boseman (whose excellent turn as James Brown fueled Get on Up).

Far from rejecting Black Panther's «pro-black» message, white racists have endorsed its depiction of a feudal African monarchy whose rulers have sealed the borders.

Crowned at age three, he's a prisoner of his own palace, a puppet ruler manipulated by both the Western powers and the occupying Chinese, and finally a project for re-education by the Communist Regime, Pu Yi is a man buffeted by history, a figurehead whose power ends at the walls of the Forbidden City.

At the start, he is the arrogant, spoiled son of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), ruler of Asgard whose metallic eye - patch, earned in a battle for humanity against the conquering Frost Giants, seems an entirely organic part of him.

The natives are of Kakchiquel and Tzutuhil descent, whose roots stem back to the ancient Maya, rulers of Mesoamerica before the arrival of the Spaniards.

The climax of such rituals was the sacrifice of a captured nobleman, ideally a ruler, whose blood was believed to be especially powerful.

So why isn't Russia tripping all over itself producing and selling cheap nuclear power technology to all the countries in world whose rulers aren't constrained by inconvenient mobs of green protesters and lobby groups?

Much of our fuel comes from countries whose rulers do nt like us, yet we have hundreds of years worth of coal locked in our land.