Sentences with phrase «sense of victory»

I also felt a small sense of victory at finding such a clever way to climb the cliff.

What once seemed borderline impossible now seemed shockingly simple, and the sense of victory that arose was well beyond that of beating your average song, but a taste of sweet, sweet vindication.

Yeah, say you never will use it now, but sooner or later you will give in to the temptation when a puzzle or boss just really pisses you off and you will loss the sense of victory.

The idea is that it gives you strength and power — and a sense of victory.

There was a sense of victory Wednesday afternoon in Batavia with the announcement that a $ 700 million solar wafer plant would add 1,000 jobs to Genesee County.

It is, perhaps, a measure of Lord Mandelson's sense of victory that he is so magnanimous about his rival for the Prime Minister's ear.

I wept with pure joy and a sense of victory, but the battle was far from over.

Then it is just a matter of the team feeding on the sense of victory and standing on the enemies throat until they are beaten.

So when I decided to make cheesecake again and used those chocolate wafers in the crust, I felt a small sense of victory.

Not exact matches

In victory and defeat, they witnessed his great strength of character, his high sense of duty, his humility and selflessness.

Yascha Mounk suggests that Donald Trump's victory stemmed in part from his ability to tap into a sense of powerlessness among voters.

VANCOUVER — The Site C dam review panel's decision to include vital independent voices in their environmental review is a victory of common sense over Liberal interference, say the New Democrats.

One used to hear that Vietnam was still awaiting its novelist: meaning that the tangled confused hypertext of millions of disparate defeats and small victories and lies and photo - ops and press conferences make no emotional sense until some Tolstoy can lead us through the emotional and factual jungle to a deeper truth.

After her victory at the 2000 Games, Clark turned to Christ for the sense of «significance» that even her beloved sport couldn't give her.

When one looks for the secret of such goodness in others or in gratitude thanks God for such a measure of victory as has come to his own life, the explanation lies in humility, loving outreach, a sense of divine forgiveness, and power that comes from dwelling in «the secret place of the Most High.»

The winner of patience has in a sense won the greater external victory and yet lost the struggle with quietly festering resentment.

It expresses the victory of economic theory over political common sense.

Everywhere mystery was giving place to love, the aloofness of God to the nearness of Jesus, adoration to communion, repining for the Fall to that sense of Christ's victory which pervaded Gothic Christendom no less than the sense of his divinity.

In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different view.

When, on the contrary, a man desires that the Good shall be victorious, when he will not call the outcome of the battle «victory,» if he wins, but only when the Good is victorious: can he then, in any sense, be called and be double - minded?

It is a moment of sensing both the possibility of political power, whether in an actual Revolution or a McGovernite electoral victory, and the possibility of the whole movement falling apart.

It need not be a sign of individual weakness — rather, it is a sign of communal strength — when an individual can say of the forgiveness of sins or the inevitability of the victory of the proletariat or whatever, «Look, that part of it just doesn't make sense to me right now.

If the authors of Principia Mathematica, both lecturers of Trinity who were members of the secret brotherhood of the Apostles, both rather unworldly dons, improvident in budgetary prudence, both devoted to discovery of truth, can no longer maintain a sense of humor about the wisdom of fighting for victory or negotiating a peace, what hope remains for reason in a world gone mad?

With this view of the universe, this common sense of how it works, it is entirely reasonable to explain a thunderstorm as the anger of God, or a victory in battle as caused by favorable divine intervention.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

But we do know that it means to share in a victory of God over the world in the sense that through faith in Him and His ultimate mercy we are reconciled to the conflict in which we stand.

No other New Testament passage conveys the sense of power and victory over death, sin and evil — everything demonic — as does Paul's appropriation and expansion of a passage from Isaiah:» «Death is swallowed up in victory.»

«The new rule is a victory for common sense,» said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel with Becket, which represents the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order that came to symbolize the religious opposition to the mandate.

The mental picture of the risen and ascended Christ, which the imagination of the Christian believer developed from the memories of the crucified Jesus of history and from the initial apostolic experience, expressed the sense of faith, hope and victory to which the believer had been led.

In a larger sense, however, Berry's work must be counted a failure, As in the effort to get Americans to protect the climate, small victories have been overwhelmed by crushing losses, As Berry points out in the opening essay, America now has half the number of farms it had in 1977.

For him, civilization was the process of humans growing more civilized, the victory of persuasion, not just in the sense of rational arguments but as a manner of living, over brute force.

CLEVELAND — The only thing this NBA Finals was missing, besides a victory by someone other than the Warriors, was a sense of the surreal that had shrouded the two previous meetings between these two teams.

It is a relieve to see that earlier March and we are in potential 4 silverware, potential in the sense that if we repeat our San Sirio or Bayern victories against Monaco and pay Manure back we can be proud of ourselves.

Does victory on Sunday restore that sense of historical significance?

From Pastor Maldonado's outstanding Spanish Grand Prix to Kimi Raikkonen's Abu Dhabi victory for Lotus, there was a much broader sense of unpredictability.

If Castroneves or Montoya can string together a few victories and maintain a sense of consistency, championships could be in their future as well.

Fortunately this proved academic and instead of this being «one of those nights», where a sense of injustice may have previously overcome a young, fragile squad, the team stepped up to the plate and scraped a victory.

I had lost hope in Wenger's sense of direction, but I think he has the resolve to steer arsenal to victory.

Arsenal ended a four - and - a-half year wait for a victory against Spurs earlier in the campaign, and they should come into the derby with a sense of optimism, after the impressive showing from winter signings Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan — against the Toffees.

sensed another statement victory in their pursuit of the title but another defensive lapse enabled Gylfi Sigurdsson to seal Swansea's first league ever win in the Welsh clubs history at Anfield.

Victory for Juventus over Guardiola's side would mean progression in more than the knockout competition sense of the word.

And that's what makes their emphatic victory over Blackburn last Saturday even more poignant, as United's predatory instincts came into play and as soon as they sensed an opportunity to go top of the table for the very first time this season, they didn't just take it but did so with aplomb and with authority.

In a show of resiliency that can seem astonishing to outsiders, many special needs families are able to reclaim a sense of normalcy, finding satisfaction in daily victories or community among others who walk a similar path.

People failing to turn out as they've indicated they will... perhaps due to weather (though it's fairly unlikely this was a big factor in this election), a false sense of security (such as when the polls in the days leading up to and into election day suggest a comfortable victory!)

In fact, the chief engineer of HS2 Ltd, Andrew McNaughton, recently described HS1 to me as «a victory of political will over economic sense».

Under the electoral college it makes no sense for candidates to allocate scarce resources to states they either can not win or are certain to win, in which case, the size of their victory is irrelevant.

These groups of idealistic youngsters, anti-austerity trade unionists, and returning ex-members, can sense that victory is within grasp.

OC: That is an interesting point: in what sense is the Communist victory in 1949 part of the war's aftermath?

What this victory will give May (as well as the chance to crush Labour before it comes to its senses and gets itself a new leader) is a whole bunch of new Tory backbenchers who, whatever their views on Europe and other issues, will know full well that they owe their place on the green benches mainly to her.

This is a victory for common sense, since it halts the prospect of some new body, or group being set at vast amounts of taxpayer's money to take evidence for a long period before reaching the conclusion that some bankers broke the law and others acted against the interests of their customers.