Sentences with phrase «such turns of events»

Have you ever thought about such turns of events?

The owner wanted to prosecute the church, for he knew that members had prayed for just such a turn of events.

I think God is innovative and would not have been stopped or thwarted by such a turn of events.

The sedentary lifestyles could be blamed for such turn of events.

Some industry watchers are predicting the company is under a high risk of being hit with heavy - handed regulations in the near future, with such a turn of events having the potential to impact the rest of the tech industry relying on data harvesting, including giants like Google.

Such a turn of events could potentially propel Spotify to greater heights than a traditional listing but also comes with an added risk of its shares crumbling due to a lack of protections from underwriters and the fact that insiders aren't restricted in regards to when they're allowed to sell their stakes.

The firmware development for the Galaxy Note 9 started two weeks before Samsung initiated the same process for the Galaxy Note 8 last year which may impact the phablet's release schedule and see it debut in early August, though there are no guarantees for such a turn of events.

Not exact matches

The company is betting that live video of events, such as Thursday night NFL games, can turn its fate around, but that remains to be seen.

They also have a lot of different types of trades that many brokers don't offer, such as an ability to predict economic events, such as what the Federal Reserve will do with upcoming announcements, what the jobs reports will say, and how political events will turn out.

«Any such event could in turn result in a large number of identity - related events that we must address, placing severe strain on our operations,» according to LifeLock's most recent quarterly filing.

How such a spirit of sobriety expresses itself, not simply in literary or philosophic reading lists, but in platforms and party rhetoric that can resonate with 21st century Americans, I to a large degree leave to others (our Pete comes to mind), even if my turning here to the example of Solzhenitsyn reminds me that faith in God's promises will be necessary to sustain us in the quite possible event that even our grasping and steadfastly acting upon the «most precise» political prudence might yet fail to stop catastrophe.

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

Attempting to be loyal to the Bible by turning the creation accounts into a kind of science or history is like trying to be loyal to the teachings of Jesus by arguing that the parables are actual historical events, and only reliable and trustworthy when taken literally as such.

When Creationists pick any inconsistency in science as proofs that sciences are wrong, but provide no proofs of any kind about the «magic» events happened in the bible such as virgin birth, walking on water, turning water to wine, and parting the red sea.

While he is surely right in affirming that the God of Israel and of the Christian faith is identified by temporal events such as the Exodus and the Resurrection, as well as by Jesus addressing Him as Father (which in turn identifies Jesus as Son), this does not clarify the meaning of the predicate «God» as it is applied to the God of Israel.

Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.

However, a fortunate turn of events has landed one such opportunity (not ideal but still one that can be argued as optimum) in our laps to take a verifiable judgment call on the efficacy and effectiveness of Arsenal's manager.

Despite Assini's loss, the fact that only 869 votes separated the two candidates was a shocking turn of events after various publications, such as The Cook Political Report, FairVote's Monopoly Politics and Sabato's Crystal Ball, all rated the race as solidly Democratic and non-competitive.

On October 13th the Observer ran a story titled, «NYPD Deputy Commissioner: Gun Buybacks Don't Work for NYC» which quoted NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Collaborative Policing Susan Herman telling a crowd of antigun advocates at an event at Hunter College that such turn - in programs have «minimal impact.»

Commonsense notions at the very heart of our everyday perceptions of reality turn out to be violated: contradictory alternatives can coexist, such as an object following two different paths at the same time; objects do not simultaneously have precise positions and velocities; and the properties of objects and events we observe can be subject to an ineradicable randomness that has nothing to do with the imperfection of our tools or our eyesight.

But the collaboration saw six such events, evidence that some of the missing muon neutrinos had turned into electron neutrinos.»

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

In turn, he distills maximum feeling from seemingly minor events (the loss of a baking contest) and more profound ones, such as the death of Dickinson's mother (Joanna Bacon), which is harrowing in its unflinching intensity.

It's a head - scratching turn of events, and for the life of me I can't quite figure out what anyone involved was thinking, all of it leaving such a bad taste in my mouth I'm finding it difficult to talk about the movie at all even though there was quite a bit about it I did find worthy of complimenting.

This is not the film the trailers have done their job selling it to be, and as such I assume there will be those who will be so upset by this turn of events they'll fail to notice just how witty, thought - provoking and richly character - driven the film turns out to be.

In typical Animal Crossing fashion, almost everything that there is to do is simple to learn, simple to do and extremely compelling, which means just because you logged on to play it for a couple of minutes to collect a log - in bonus or see what news has been posted in the notifications such as an announcement of a Christmas event, the couple of minutes can easily turn into a half hour.

Some, of course, will object on principle to the mere act of turning events such as the Iraq War and the 9/11 attacks — two of Greengrass's previous subjects — into pulse - pounding thrills in the first place, arguing that he's exploiting real - world trauma for the sake of shallow entertainment.

Dark Night is already being compared to Gus Van Sant's Elephant (03), which begs the question, however, of the difference between our response to the mass shooting of kids at the turn of the century, when we could still think of such events as rare, and our response today, when that particular «what if» crosses our minds often enough that it has become part of a permanent undercurrent of anxiety.

Such a schmaltzy turn is not only forced but rather insulting, as not only don't the two come off as particularly deserving of a happy ending (and certainly not one together)-- other characters» behavior and other events end up betraying much of what preceded it.

Relevant driver and vehicle performance data is collected by the camera when a trigger event — such as excessive braking, lane changes without a turn signal, excessive curve speed and extended loss of tracking — occurs.

Sure, there are darker elements such as the humans» struggle for survival after whatever curse or virus has been unleashed, turning all people who die into zombies, and the Gothic horror element of «debraining,» in which your close friends will remove your brain in the event of your death, just to keep you from becoming one of the undead.

On the first day of the show, congressional candidate turned bestselling political author, Kevin Powell, signed copies of his 11th book «Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and the Ghost of Dr. King,» which explores modern politics and pop culture through recent events such as the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin.

Or, it might change renditions each time a significant event such a change in orientation occurs, or it might never change renditions for those kinds of events, or it might give the user the option to turn on or off what kind of changes trigger swapping.

In a positive turn of events for Android manufacturers, the court has denied Apple's claims, ruling that the XOOM does not copy elements of the iPad's design, which covers such aesthetic aspects as the tablet's bezel and shape.

Outside of experiencing a life event such as retiring, changing jobs or turning 59 1/2, there are few options other than to work within the existing investment opportunities provided by an employer.

Naturally occurring events such as famine or even fire can also alter the value of any given item, and thus you can seize the opportunity during such events to turn a quick profit.

What is most surprising about this turn of events is that a site on the Curse network was hacked in such a manner.

Lex is understandably upset about this turn of events and so, like anybody would, he teams up with the Joker to get himself elected as president using the Jokers special gas (errr), causing all sorts of carnage on the way, such as unleashing Arkham Asylum's inmates, flying a giant Joker robot across the city and disintegrating the Batmobile.

Though most of the employees had temporary contracts, it's still a sad turn of events that people had to be laid off in such huge numbers at a time.

In typical Animal Crossing fashion, almost everything that there is to do is simple to learn, simple to do and extremely compelling, which means just because you logged on to play it for a couple of minutes to collect a log - in bonus or see what news has been posted in the notifications such as an announcement of a Christmas event, the couple of minutes can easily turn into a half hour.

As Gitaroo Man, he battles the alien as his bedroom turns into this warping, quasi music video of a child's nightmare world featuring random events such a giant dancing pig and a berserk flying train.

Dramatic situations like the heroic mutt Shiro putting his life on the line against a billion giant bear mecha... funny sketches like the one during which Kabuki and his rival inexplicably turn themselves into various beasts, weapons, and structures in a hilarious game of one - up... tragic events like allies taking arrows in the back or crumbling buildings to the head in order to save your party... we don't need cinemas for such material to make a significant impact...

«With recurring events such as police brutality against people of color, the mistreatment of Native Americans, and of course, the election my art has taken a political turn,» she wrote.

Referencing martyred saints, current events, and contemporary and historical fashion practices, Stoller utilizes otherwise forgotten processes, such as china painting and lace draping (turning fabric into clay) in unconventional ways, both of which have varied roots, from European monarchs to ceramic hobbyists.

It was a turning point for him, and his recollection of the event influenced younger artists, such as Robert Smithson, too.

The Arab Spring surprised many people, including some who had expertise, and while attribution of such an event to a particular cause is probably impossible, there are people (as written up in The Economist, for example) who link at least some of the causation to food prices, and there in turn people who link at least some of the food - price swings to climate change.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

The result turned out to be precisely a sawtooth, which struck me as both a simple way of accounting for this three - way coincidence (frequency, amplitude, and phase) and one that (as Greg himself has pointed out) naturally occurs in geophysics as a result of sudden events perturbing equilibrium followed a return to equilibrium that may be far from complete when the next such event occurs.

But events such as the «big melt» in the Arctic summer of 2007 are non-linear and unpredicted events that can turn climate science knowledge on its head and demand that the whole question of what needs to be done and what are appropriate targets be urgently re-assessed in light of new data, including evidence that carbon cycle feedbacks are kicking in sooner than expected.

Biochar and hugelkultur, planting deep - rooting trees in windbreaks, terracing, discouraging planting of shallow - rooting species, dredging, turning the watershed from canal to sponge, can produce such buffers, and they are preferrable in any event as they are more productive uses of land and create drought - tolerance.