Sentences with phrase «stand in the path»

Many are oblivious that a similar fate could befall them if they happen to stand in the path of the equality juggernaut.

It scrambles up and onward always by spiralling round whatever stands in its path — drainpipe, porch pillar, / lawn chair — but then, once anchored, corkscrews round itself, amassing braided cables of self - hugging self - satisfaction, the conquering hero's doublejointed pat on his own back, the unbridled ego trip impelled by the uppity sap from deepest root to farthest outflung tip, ecstatically, imperially quivering toward its vegetal entelechy.

Thankfully the kid driving stopped (since he was standing in her path.)

And «What's the good / Of galloping about doing good / When angels stand in the path / And do not do as they should?»

Only those standing in the path of the black dot will see a total eclipse.

Major economic and institutional obstacles stand in the path of a green - energy revolution, however.

Psalm 1:1 - 2 «Blessed isthe man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.»

She is brave and never has given up no matter how many obstacles stood in her path!

As we're walking down Locust, I notice a blonde girl with a neon pink sign standing in our path down a way, and what looks like two photographers crouching at the ground nearby.

Desperate to protect his daughter and find the killer, Neeson puts his «particular set» of battle skills on display as he dodges the law and dismantles every bad guy who stands in his path.

One can be stealthy and never kill a soul, or violently destroy whatever stands in their path (although this is generally discouraged).

From the film's opening moments, it's obvious that Ray and Emma belong together and that Daniel is an obvious obstacle standing in their path.

Years later, that friendship would give all of them the courage to stand in the path of one of the world's deadliest terrorist organizations.

But with his property standing in the path of a proposed railroad, he now finds himself facing the prospect of foreclosure, due to the shady shenanigans of unscrupulous bankers eyeing his land.

Always carrying a couple of high - powered handguns, she fires first and rarely asks questions later... besides, there's usually not enough time before the next enemy stands in her path.

Bottomless pits, swinging vines, rising lava, and spike - filled traps stand in your path, so don't expect many surprises on this front.

Lady Bird wants to experience culture but standing in her path remains mom (a perfectly subtle Laurie Metcalf), a well - meaning but often overly barbed matriarch.

But when it comes down to it, test scores and Adequate Yearly Progress stand in the paths of schools and students.

Before you start training though, you should be aware of the challenges that might stand in your path.

Lives adjusted to these breaks in rhythm the way a tree adjusts to a metal fence that stands in its path of growth — by growing around it, absorbing it, forming a tumor - like burl at the point of irritation.

What I find odd in some of the comments is the outright animosity toward publishers, and the excitement in the idea of eliminating them as useless figures standing in your path to glory.

Standing in her path however are the six greatest heroes ever, all of which are now monstrous versions of their former selves.

The other characters movements can be a bit stiff at times and if you stand in their path they just stare at you till you move, which was a little annoying.

Mercilessly killing any and all who stand in your path is cool and everything, but do you know what's really fun?

This only served to make the games infinitely better by drawing the player in even further as he screamed out his frustrations at whomever or whatever stood in his path.

So I started my adventure, eager to uncover the secrets of the world and unravel its lore, jumping down from the wall that once stood in my path and heading off towards one of the four stunning areas that make up the game world.

The game, released on Steam today alongside a brand new launch trailer, invites players to use all three of their egos — Yeah, Jam, and Fury — to create blocks, scale walls, and destroy everything that stands in the path of their righteous mango.

A terrifying threat looms on the horizon - a hulking mass of Infestation ready to assimilate all that stands in its path.

Standing in your path are hordes of human enemies wielding guns, bats and riot shields that would love to turn you into scrap metal.

«As the last of the order, the player must shatter the Inquisition as vengeance for their exterminated brethren, as well as anyone else who dares to stand in their path.

Of course, an uninteresting story is by no means a game - ruining experience when playing through Ultimate Evil Edition, as players will be much more concerned with fighting the countless hellspawn that stand in their path.

Unleash your full arsenal of weapons and destroy anything that stands in your path as you battle to protect the free world in any way possible.

«One thousand years ago, Daemons invaded the world and subjugated all that stood in their path.

Not exact matches

Mnangagwa's firing was a seminal event, as it pointed — rather explicitly — to the Mugabes» effort to eliminate from the top levels of the ZANU - PF anyone who stood in the way of Grace Mugabe's path to the presidency.

Sticking to your aces may be safe and profitable, but in a world of change and iteration, you don't want to be Borders in the standing still in the path of Ebooks.

It stands to reason that Trump would seek an aggressive attorney, since all of his other moves in the last week indicate a decision to fight a war against Mueller, rather than seek a negotiated path.

Derek Lidow captures the essence of the leadership qualities needed for success, not just in the formation and early stages of a venture, but along the path to a significant stand - alone business.

«The retailer would take a similar path to Aldi, locating first in strip shopping centers nearby larger retailers, before pursuing stand - alone boxes and stores offering additional brands and services,» Supermarket News reported.

«[The] world of vows is a world of sacred things, in which holy and indefeasible obligations stand athwart our lives and command us along certain paths,» whether we find it convenient at the moment or not.

We clearly teach that it does not matter what path we have followed to faith, or precisely when we came to faith, but it is crucial that we do now stand in faith before God.

Any time we stray from the path of righteousness, we have to repent and get back in good standing with God... remember, God Almighty controls your destiny.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Thus, alongside the lofty and otherworldly flights of Indian mysticism, stands the Zen emphasis upon «nothing special» and «everyday - mindedness» and «just being ordinary,» as in Yun - men's spiritual path described as «pulling a plough in the morning, and carrying a rake home in the evening,» or in Pao - fu's response to the question, «What is the language of the Buddha?»

The significance of the evangelical conviction in this context is that it stands as a granite boulder squarely «in the path of liberal revision and therefore attracts a good deal of anger and contempt.

Quit attempting to stand in the way of God and a path for persons to have happiness and peace through the Grace of Jesus Christ.

The individual stands at a fork in the road and chooses one path.

Today, however, on the day after the Women's March on Washington and on the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I feel, to quote Dostoevsky, that «our fateful troika is racing headlong,» while I stand alone in its path, waiting to be hit.

Any attempt to break loose from the path set out by Schleiermacher and to find a way in which to make the transcendent God our subject, rather than some aspect of ourselves, could be called an apophantic theology, standing as it does in that tradition of paradox or dialectic that marked the Cappadocian theologians and has always been a part of the theological tradition.

Similarly, good and evil appear again and again in the Old Testament, as in the Avesta, as alternative paths before which man stands and which he must choose between as between life and death (Deut.

Thus in the course of building a society «in which the free development of each is the condition for the development of all, «38 one must fight religion because it will inevitably stand in one's path.