Sentences with phrase «scourge for»

Local community groups have fought this scourge for many years, and they've found a partner in Mayor Bill DeBlasio.

The grid has been a scourge for people of rank, who would like every hour to be Earth Hour.

Yet other changes, like the proliferation of chain stores, have been a scourge for the many small businesses that, even today, form the majority of our industry.

Once defeated, you can scourge for valuable loot, improving your capabilities even more.

Asthma is a scourge for cat owners, as affected cats usually require treatment for life.

This normally much - loved and sought - after food component can be a veritable scourge for the sick.

It has been a global scourge for millennia.

«Fake drugs are a scourge for public health,» says Lebel.

Poison ivy is a well - known scourge for those who spend time outdoors in the summer.

The finding could help explain why cowbirds are such a scourge for forest - dwelling songbirds, which run themselves ragged trying to feed baby cowbirds.

Simeone's side have been scourge them for years, like kryptonite against Superman.

In her most poignant pleas, O'Connor asks that she might not become a mediocre writer, even though she vows to submit to such a middling fate if this is God's scourge for her lack of discipline.

The critics loved them, but Loving's fellow black artists scourged him for bowing to the white art scene.

Not exact matches

The ongoing American opioid and heroin epidemic is fueling another scourge: hepatitis C infections, according to a new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report.

President Donald Trump's pick to replace former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Dr. Jerome Adams, is getting some bipartisan praise for his efforts to combat opioid addiction and the HIV scourge in Indiana — where, maybe not - so - incidentally, he served under then - Gov.

«We could feed more people, reduce the scourge of plant diseases, minimize the water used in agriculture... the possibilities are really exciting for anyone interested in the environment, sustainability, the future of food and open agriculture.»

Walkaway Canada provides insurance for auto loans and leases — protection, in other words, from the scourge of negative equity.

And with good reason, it turns out: Lego, the danish toy maker and scourge of barefoot parents everywhere, announced this week that The Lego Movie had helped boost the company's revenues by 11 % and profits by 14 % for the first half of 2014.

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

10:17 - 20; «But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.

(Matt 24:9) When choosing his twelve apostles some 2 years earlier, Jesus told them: «Be on your guard against men; for they will deliver you up to local courts, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

For the sake of «conservative values,» they ignore the sufferings of their Protestant brethren in the east of Ukraine and pin their hopes on Putin as the scourge of Western decadence.

Scourging and crucifixion were common, everyday punishments for a large number of «crimes».

-------------- Jews are not damned... They're being scourged and chastened for their repentance.

Nor to honours, for he experienced harsh words and scourgings.

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

Preparations for the scourging are carried out.

That went the same for scourging as the victims were stripped of their clothes.

For in a spiritual sense, place is not something external, to which a slave might come against his will when the overseer uses his scourge.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

This Same man is the man that performed miracles, taught love and forgiveness and when he was beaten, spat upon, scourged and then crucified for who he was he simply said «Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.»

Although valued, like the Jews, for their contribution to the economy, the reconquista spirit still remained at the heart of Spanish society and the Moors were particularly feared for their natural allegiance to the Ottoman Turks, the great scourge of Christendom.

For verily, anti-death penalty liberals obviously had no hand in Jesus Christ's crucifixion, only conservatives were involved in nailing him to a cross, just as anti-torture liberals had nothing at all to do with Jesus Christ's scourging.

Yet on himself he bore our sufferings, our torments he endured, while we counted him smitten by God, struck down by disease and misery; but he was pierced for our transgressions, tortured for our iniquities; the chastisement he bore is health for us and by his scourging we are healed.

But chide those for whose refractoriness ye have cause to fear; remove them into beds apart, and scourge them: but if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them: verily, God is High, Great!

This problem was flagged up for Archbishop Nichols» attention immediately his name had been announced for Westminster, by the redoubtable Daphne McLeod, mild - mannered scourge of the English episcopate, who in a welcoming piece for The Flock brought tohis attention once more an issue he would undoubtedly be glad to be able to ignore:

Isaiah 53:4 - 6 — ... He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well - being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed... > Jesus was pieced by nails and a spear, and He was chastened by scrourging.

Worship me, for I have freed you from the scourge of the giant, man - eating koala bears!

For instance, Matthew 20:18 - 19: «Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.»

I work for the Set Free Movement, a nonprofit that spends about 10 percent of our time talking about the scourge of human trafficking and 90 percent of our time talking about solutions.

Probably half a billion people are alive now who would be dead except for the use of DDT to eradicate malaria, typhus, and other epidemic scourges in the poorer countries.

* Isaiah 28:15 when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: * Isaiah 28:18 when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down.

Isa 53:5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well - being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

Why should His blessings pour out for you and his scourge, for me?

And yet his most recent biographer, David Abulafia (Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor, 1988), shows considerable evidence that Frederick — despite being condemned by some (and praised by others) for being the scourge of the papacy — wished to remain by his own lights an orthodox if rather eccentric Catholic.

I want to thank you for your incredible description of the crucifixion & scourging process.

17 «But beware of the children of men, for they will deliver you to the courts and they will scourge you in their synagogues.»

The scourging produced deep stripelike lacerations and appreciable blood loss, and it probably set the stage for hypovolemic shock, as evidenced by the fact that Jesus was too weakened to carry the crossbar (patibulum) to Golgotha.

The problem is mainstream muslims are clueless about how to stop them, we are doing out best to report them to the authorities but sometimes it is not easy even for US to tell and I think perhaps it is going to take a collective effort of all of us together to rid ourselves of this scourge... rather than a «Its us against the Muslim world» approach which only alienates more people, and is contribute to the problem spreading.

For many years Your Grace has been acquiring relics from every land, but God has now heard Your Grace's request and has sent Your Grace without cost or effort a whole cross, together with nails, spears, and scourges.