Sentences with phrase «spared from flooding»

While my home was spared from flooding, many of my close friends, neighbors, and colleagues were not so lucky.

Builders in Houston are allowed to construct new homes in the flood plain as long as the homes are elevated to or above flood levels — a tactic that doesn't always spare them from flooding.

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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

Only Noah and his family were spared from death by the great flood and the world again populated, but it was not by incest

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

One hundred - fifty Syracuse homeowners are being spared by the federal government from having to buy flood insurance.

Shocking as it was, Nerissa probably thought she was just hastening a death that would happen anyway, and sparing Placidia the further anguish of having to witness the child's suffering, its failure to thrive or recover from the flood.

Like Archer, he shows spare interiors in hauntingly asymmetric compositions flooded from behind with light.

The United States has not been spared from weather extremes, notably deluges like the disastrous downpour in Tennessee that led to extensive flooding in May.