Sentences with phrase «so powerful she held»

The legend told of a queen so powerful she held the power of life and death in the palm of her hand.

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Even in its division Windows remains the best thing Microsoft has going — it had such a powerful hold on Microsoft's culture precisely because it was so successful.

Someone who thinks relativity and string theory are childish compared to his knowledge of what he designed thinks that you are worth dying for, and that he is so powerful that even death can not hold him, he can bring himself back to life, just to save you.

So great is the hold of race prejudice on men's minds that it must be counteracted by something powerful and revolutionary.

We hold that the saints are not simply gone but are ever alive to God, and so we ought also consider them to be available as intercessors, and powerful ones at that.

Seriously, we don't need people in powerful positions making decisions on the fate of millions based on fairy tales — Because Atheists who have held power positions are so compassionate like chairman Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot.

We are speaking of something less like the erosion of an earthen dike so that it fails to hold the water back, than like the compression of a powerful spring so that it buckles to the side.

He said: «Doing so in such a coordinated way will, we hope, send a powerful message that whatever our political disagreements, we really do hold more in common and show a united front against hatred and extremism in all its forms.

But God's Word is so powerful that it can even grab a hold of someone who is mired in all that «religious» stuff.

he has very good body balance and he's quite strong so can hold his own against powerful defenders.

The Baggies have only managed the one clean sheet in their last ten league matches now in the top flight and so there will be concerns about them holding out against the powerful Blues attack.

I still feel like every single incidental glance that we exchanged during Monica's labors, and every single time we held hands or laughed out loud or rubbed feet (OK, I never got my feet rubbed) or just lay there beside each other on the same bed, breathing quietly, knowing that we were in for something so magical and powerful that it was impossible to even get our heads around the child we were about to meet, I still feel like those were some of the greatest moments in my life, hands down.

In a powerful speech in January 2011 the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, pledged that the new Government would «restore the hard - won liberties that we in Britain hold so dear» and which under Labour had been «undermined, eroded, lost».

Percy described the move as a» pretty transparent» maneuver to insure his defeat so that Republican conservatives could install Senator Jesse Helms, an arch-conservative Republican of North Carolina, as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee — a post held by Percy in the Republican - controlled Senate since 1981 when he succeeded Idaho's Frank Church.

The registry is a powerful tool for both homeowners and local officials and we encourage all New Yorkers living near «zombie» properties to call DFS so that we can take appropriate action to make sure those responsible are held accountable.»

In doing so, we note the powerful words in your impressive inaugural address as Speaker, to the effect that, for Members of Parliament, holding a Diplomatic Passport is both a privilege and responsibility which should not be abused: and that those who abused that trust would be appropriately dealt with.

Downstate Democrats hold a powerful sway over the Legislature's lower chamber though, so it may be difficult for him to hold onto the post.

Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown defends the Liberal Democrats, who did so badly in yesterday's general election - and says that the party has received applications for membership from 1,000 people «because they see what is at risk now if we are not a powerful liberal force holding the central ground».

Like water, it is held together by the powerful bonds between hydrogen and oxygen atoms, so ethanol can not travel through most petroleum pipelines.

Push to hold industry accountable The oil and gas industry, one of the state's most powerful political forces, has acknowledged some role in the damages, but so far has defeated efforts to force companies to pay for it.

Imagine a telescope so powerful that it would let you see a loonie coin being held by someone in Calgary - from Victoria.

It is so powerful that it can hold a guy who weighs 200 lbs while he has strapped a 45 lbs weight around the waist as he exercises.

Written and directed by Dee Rees from a labyrinthine novel by Hillary Jordan, it's the kind of movie they rarely make any more — heavy on plot and character development and more literary than cinematic — but so skillfully directed, photographed and acted that it sucks you into its powerful emotional storyline from the start and holds interest to the finish.

As «Infinity War» opens, Thanos is already setting his sights on Earth, which holds two much - coveted, enormously powerful Infinity Stones (they have names like the Soul Stone, the Time Stone, the Reality Stone and so on).

The Collector goes on to say that the gems are so powerful, the people who hold them eventually blow up and die.

In fact, they're so powerful that Thanos has created a glove known as the Infinity Gauntlet (which was glimpsed in the post-credits scene for Avengers: Age of Ultron) to hold them all.

These moments of friction are acted and written so incredibly well and are so powerful that it becomes a herculean task to hold back tears as you watch.

Every diesel Alfa Romeo Giulia manages the same economy figures, so the only thing holding you back from choosing the more powerful 178bhp option is the list price.

While it's not quite as quick and powerful as some of the serious entry - level sports sedans out there, it can definitely hold its own, and it does so in a stylish, luxurious way that serious, but fun - loving, drivers will definitely be able to appreciate.

The fact that this was the site of the greatest explosion in modern recorded history was truly awe - inspiring — that I was just a few miles away from the center of so vast a cataclysm was a simple fact that exerted a powerful hold on me, and has ever since.

So far the model appears to be working, but devices like the Galaxy Tab still hold an important place in the tablet world for those looking for a powerful device with greater functionality

No one wants to poison their own prosperity, and so the rich and powerful hold back from being too rapacious.

The third and most powerful level of focus attack automatically triggers after a second or so of holding the buttons down.

Players take direct control of the Vanargand, a powerful team of ragnite specialist soldiers selected to take out the Valkyria that the Ruzi Empire holds so dear.

Regardless of how powerful the next set of consoles are going to be, the internet speeds can only hold so many players before it becomes unbearable.

The character animations are powerful and defined, but still hold subtle aspects, like the Monk's robe swaying while he runs, that made me sit back appreciate this game so much more.

Jap developers will prefer Nintendo handheld, look at Dragon Quest sales on the 3ds, and the original DS... look at monster hunter sales on the 3ds... every game you seen for the 3ds will now have newer versions with newer hd graphics so now when jap developers make a ps4 game they do not have to think about how they will downgrade it to fit on the NX... with the NX being more powerful than the Vita, and Wii U.... if it use the Tegra 2 chip it will be right next to ps4 1.8 teraflops or higher, but most likely if they use that, Nintendo might underclock it to increase battery power, but lets say they lock it to ps4 1.8 teraflops... every game for ps4 will be on the NX... and this is where the fear comes from... the 3ds have many exclusives, only thing that hold it back was graphics, now that wont be the issue in the NX... look how they announce Dragon quest 11 for NX already... Square Enix is thinking about money... and which console sold most of their games... the 3ds... so do not be surprised every big game from Square Enix and other Japanese developers come to the NX... and if they are anything like CAPCOM they will rather save money and make their game for one console aka the NX like they do with Monster Hunter... me personally I can not wait to see all my favorite games on the 3ds in better graphics... i am a RPG lover and the 3ds have some classics that I love... only thing Nintendo have to worry about is how Western and European side of the world will feel about the new handheld... Japan will love it, handheld sell the most, so it wont take long for NX to pass ps4 sales... but if they can get the attention of western and european... then Sony have reasons to worry and their fans

New ships have more powerful defense and offensive capabilities, and also can hold more quests so you can earn XP even faster!

During combat you are given a set number of points, each gundam takes up either 1000, 2000 or 3000 points, the more powerful the gundam the higher the points, meaning you can't die as many times as the stronger gundams, this is a way of balancing the game so everyone has an even chance, even the Guncannon can hold it's own again Wing Zero if you are skilled enough.

Holding the points is all that matters because it doesn't take long to amass 200 points, so you'll see players racing to take the points with cheap units early in a game and try to swap them out with more powerful things as they can afford them.

Though his first published essays dealt mainly with literature and theatre, art still held a powerful attraction for Greenberg, so in 1939, he made a sudden name as a visual art writer with possibly his most well - known and oft - quoted essay, «Avant - Garde and Kitsch», first published in the journal Partisan Review.

Some of the world's most powerful belief systems are at odds, some of which openly seek the dissolution of the material world and all things in it, while others hold the exact opposite view; some place a divine premium on achieving the overarching ambitions of the faithful to the extent of utterly disdaining truth or fact, while others hold no regard for the ambitions of any person or people so long as fact is held supreme.

Five major ones are: • Having opposed the candidate who ends up winning appointment as one's dean or chair (thereby looking stupid, wicked, or crazy in the latter's eyes); • Being a ratebuster, achieving so much success in teaching or research that colleagues» envy is aroused; • Publicly dissenting from politically correct ideas (meaning those held sacred by campus elites); • Defending a pariah in campus politics or the larger cultural arena; • Blowing the whistle on or even having knowledge of serious wrongdoing by locally powerful workmates.

Either way, if I've got this right, the message is: people who hold stations of power like the one he did can't or won't cut it on the climate problem, so maybe the humbler, less - powerful institutions of the world can do it instead.

A stated objective of Public Justice is to fight interests aimed at «closing the courthouse doors so victims can't hold the powerful accountable,» including fighting «class action bans and abuses.»

Although this novel approach in Darby had no impact on the husband so long as he remained in Costa Rica, if a similar order were made against a spouse who resided within Canada and held assets in a foreign jurisdiction, it could prove to be a powerful tool in ensuring that the other spouse received their fair portion of any matrimonial assets held outside of the country.

Even in its division Windows remains the best thing Microsoft has going — it had such a powerful hold on Microsoft's culture precisely because it was so successful.

This statement is tremendously powerful because it holds so much truth.

Provide only that information that holds relevance to the job being applied for and make sure you quantify it so that it is able to make a powerful impact at first glance.

Empathy is a powerful way of holding mindful space with and for another person, without trying to problem solve, fix or change anything: It is the ability to deeply witness and feel moved by another person's experience, so much so that it stirs in the witness similar feelings.