Sentences with phrase «sent hands waving»

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The president's announcement of steel and aluminum tariffs last week sent shock waves across Washington, with internal White House divisions coming to a head, prompting the resignation of economic advisor Gary Cohn and strengthening the hand of trade advisor and economic nationalist Peter Navarro.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Here is where our theology becomes cold hard fact that can heartlessly call itself right and with a wave of the hand send all those who differ in thought and life to eternal torment.

And then, with a wave of his hand, he sends them off.

«The alderman can wave his hand and, in a blink of an eye, change our landscape and erase our history,» said Paddy Lauber, who for almost 25 years has owned a home on Kedzie Boulevard and is a member of Logan Square Preservation, which plans to send a letter to Colon this week asking him to back off his plan.

As passengers stand still with their hands up, two rotating antennas send out radio waves.

An ultrasound is a machine that operates by sending sound waves out through a hand - held probe or transducer.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

Sending waves of gratitude to my inspiring colleagues, and everyone who has — and is — lending their generous hand in the charity: water cause.