Sentences with phrase «someone in high place»

Not everyone has friends (or family) in high places, but it is important to look at the back - story and social proof of the core team, and make any interesting differences obvious to journalists.

With friends in high places, Wall Street may have less reason to be as outspoken about the new restrictions.

One was that there were some performers, some people in high places, that were there because somebody knew them or they knew someone else.

Deluce has friends in high places: the former CEO of the Port Authority who helped him get Porter off the ground, Lisa Raitt, is now the federal minister of transport.

And fortunately for General Fusion, it has friends in high places.

The most successful people in business often have friends in high places.

However, I have had four long - term secular jobs (three in schools, one in a publishing house), and in three of the four places of employment there were control freaks in high places, and they made the atmosphere unpleasant.

In these cultural circumstances, people in high places in both the government and Church see that, with an imperial outlook of her own, Orthodoxy might be able to fill the vacuum left by the defunct Communist Party in the system of post-Soviet administration.

Healing is spiritual warfare... For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Jesus had one or two things to say about «the hypocrites» who were motivated by being greeted in the marketplace and being seated in high places.

By the time the full - blown doctrine was in place and creedal, the hope was that Christians would be respectful of those in high places.

Nothing but such madness will do battle with malignant power and «spiritual wickedness in high places.»

Not only was it dangerous to have a significant body of Americans giving virtual support to an imminent nuclear war but, worse than that, these beliefs were to be found among people in high places.

Rather, it follows the flawed efforts of terrified people who, out of faith and love, willingly «wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places» (Eph.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Hence the frequent prophetic diatribes against altars in high places, the Canaanite cult of Baal, and «whoring after other gods.»

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places Eph 6:12; Matt 10:28.

More threatening still are the activities of two Idaho Republicans, Helen Chenoweth, a freshman congresswoman, and Senator Larry Craig, whom Stern depicts as primary examples of the militia's influence in high places.

Lancaster also says that one of the men who arranged for officers to rape her was a police chaplain: «He knew people in high places — that's how they got away with it.»

-LSB-...] about fighting the power of evil in high places, and fighting institutions with a Gospel message, this is what I'm talking about.

The next world,... go ahead and try... I got a friend in high places...

With human exceptionalism cast aside, our new prime directive is to eliminate suffering, and eliminating the sufferer is now advocated in high places as a moral good rather than a pernicious harm.

Nothing but such madness will do battle with the malignant power and «spiritual wickedness in high places,» The illusion is dangerous because it encourages terrible fanaticisms.

But it is finding favour in high places in the Church.

Though the principles of risk - taking and adventurous entrepreneurship were publicly lauded as fueling the engines of wealth in the «80s and «90s, the creation and protection of corporate wealth owed more to the influence of «friends in high places» than to the inveterate courage of entrepreneurs.

«For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.»

The last time they were in Bethany, Jesus had made some enemies in high places who were now plotting to kill him.

He is a man of ability and resourcefulness, meets people well, has a keen business mind, and has contacts in high places.

He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.

That being said, this moment happens to be a very good time to bring out a book that contains such documents as Leo XIII's Libertas Praestantissimum, Pius XI's Casti Connubii, and John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor, since the doctrine of these and other classic encyclicals is being contradicted regularly nowadays, even by those in high places in the Church.

We are shocked to learn of corruption in high places in government.

For the relief seems to have come down to the will of the decision makers in high places.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

This being postulated, do those in high places realize the revolutionary power of so novel a concept (it would be better to use the word «doctrine») in its effect on religious Faith?

The holy one dwells in the high places, yet comes down to the contrite and humble (Isa.

Anyway Jonathan was a prime example of loyalty which sounds like royalty, but has nothing to do with Kings and Queens as loyalty is not high on their agenda, that can also be said for people in high places who lose their sense of direction through their elevation, ending up with their heads in the clouds as did Gods chosen Kings Saul and David.

And You can not not be a Christian and do the many, many, many, many, many things that are sanctioned daily, in high places in the name of «equality», fairness, «rights», Political Correctness and other «isms» that has long repaced simple, honest - to - goodness the right thing to do.

Jesus didn't know that the world was spherical when he told the story of being tempted by the devil and put in a high place where he could see all the world's empires.

Is it not a pitiable prudence, shrewdness, faintheartedness, it has found, which sits in high places and cravenly makes men believe they have accomplished the greatest things and insidiously withholds them from attempting to do even the lesser things?

The churches in Canada and the United States were still full (at least by contemporary standards); bishops and moderators had influence in high places; and the clergy were the bright, affable, well - spoken and of course (ostensibly) heterosexual young men (yes of course, men) who had chosen theology over law and medicine.

This population still worshipped gods in high places and shrines; the gods were the baalim, who were responsible for the fertility of the rich land which they inhabited but were also the gods concerned with human fertility.

These enormous trends toward centralization and homogeneity still do permit room for the occasional «auteur» film of individual artistry, the profoundly critical television documentary, the journalistic exposé of corruption in high places, and other examples of independent thinking or original art.

We didn't buy into the «Apostolic» message about «taking spiritual ground in the high places» above our community.

Since there are those in high places in our administration who are both sincere Christians and sincere environmentalist, such a debate could affect national policy.

And when we love others not as «projects» or potential converts or friends in high places, but with the love Jesus modeled, our circle of friends begins to look less like the segregated cafeteria of days gone past, and more like the Kingdom.

Staupitz hinted at displeasure in the highest places.

«Walt Disney's evil twin,» John Leonard called King, and sure enough the psychic powers that Johnny Smith acquires in The Dead Zone carry him to a moment «as American as The Wonderful World of Disney... the politician and the man in the high place with a gun.»

And for those you don't save, you've got friends in high places.

This next one I have voted the most ridiculous comment I have EVER seen on here, let's see if you agree... «What you all don't know now is that Wenger is not happy with us (fans), it's whispered in high places that he has sworn to deal with us by even missing out on 4th position.

«What you all don't know now is that Wenger is not happy with us (fans), it's whispered in high places that he has sworn to deal with us by even missing out on 4th position.