Sentences with phrase «than a tear in»

Not exact matches

Having seen the interior of the new X-Class, it's one that's definitely geared more toward surviving wear and tear than the cosseting leather - lined cocoons we are used to seeing in Mercedes» passenger cars.

Though somewhat tattered, the book, which has sold for more than $ 2 million in mint condition, was still worth about $ 200,000 - at least until he showed it to his aunt and the pair tore the back cover in a scuffle, reducing the value to a mere $ 137,000.

In the long run, that will win you more public approval than an ocean of CEO crocodile tears.

Bitcoin began 2017 at less than $ 1,000 per token, but it has been on an absolute tear in recent months: It crossed $ 5,000 in October and touched above $ 11,000 for the first time less than two months later, according to CoinDesk data.

The company has been on a tear since announcing better - than - expected quarterly earnings on January 31; its stock price has shot up more than 10 % in the last two weeks.

Yes, that's crisis - torn Somalia, although the gains seem to have more to do with expatriates sending gobs of money home than anything fundamental in the domestic economy, and are a repeat of the shilling's 2013 performance against its foreign - exchange peers.)

These cars, however, will also rack up more miles and consequently wear and tear much faster than today's cars, which in turn might mean Uber will have to replace them faster.

More than five years after the Great Recession tore a giant hole in their budgets, most states have made big progress in stabilizing their finances.

This was the case even as the price of the yellow metal was on a tear, rising from $ 270 in 2001 to more than $ 830 an ounce by the end of 2007.

Mr. Trump's promises about Mexico — deporting millions back to the country, building a border wall, rewriting or tearing up NAFTA — are far greater cause for anxiety in Mexico City than Ottawa.

The market started off the year as it ended 2017, on a tear higher, then the brief crash in early February, which led to a nice calm recovery during the remainder of the month just to run into what I'm calling «Whipsaw March» with the market jumping higher and lower by more than 1 % nearly every other day.

It's not a brand new approach in Alberta politics, but it is refreshing to see a government focus on building rather than tearing down.

When there's a need in the course of such obstruction for government servants, whether Democratic or Republican, to be «verbally abused» and «reduced to tears,» that's of course not Barry's role, no more than it was back in his Cook County days.

That horrific tragedy brought tears to my eyes... Other than this, all I can say to the Jewish Community in Borough Park (Brooklyn), NY is L'Shanah Tovah, although, I realize I am a couple of weeks early.

Similarly, when this tent of our mortal lives is torn down in death, God has made for us a temple far more splendorous than this mortal body could ever be.

But how can you deny the significance of a 4 inch veil being torn at the time of Jesus» death?!?! Surely, you will respond trying to refute this or nitpick at the details (as if that takes away from the miracle that it was), but in doing so please note that there is significantly more evidence to support this event than there is to refute it.

Rather than working to tearing down this wall and making the world a better place, American society and the media continually shore up this separation between «faith» and reason, hence the comparitively sorry state of science and research in our country today.

I picture my mother years and years ago — younger than I am now by ten years at least — sitting in the corner of the couch, her first real bible in her lap, underlining practically the entire book of John with tears in her eyes, like she can't believe her luck.

More than half (54 %) of the 1.3 million refugees applying for asylum in Europe in 2015 came from the war - torn, Muslim - majority countries of Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

He wanted to know how anyone could call God good, and he stayed in the conversation — sometimes with anger and other times through tears — until he heard something other than silence.

And if my eyes were more filled with tears than those of a repentant woman, and if each tear were more precious than a pardoned woman's many tears; if I could find a place more humble than the place at his feet, and if I could sit there more humbly than a woman whose heart's sole choice was this one thing needful; if I loved him more sincerely than the most loyal of his servants, eager to shed the last drop of his life - blood in his service; if I had found greater favor in his eyes than the purest among women — nevertheless, if I asked him to alter his purpose, to reveal himself differently, to be more lenient with himself, he would doubtless look at me and say: Man, what have I to do with thee?

And each time, I peered into the face of the one receiving the gift: a lanky boy with pimples and bangs avoiding my gaze; a pretty girl, no more than 13, tears brimming in eager, thankful eyes; a guy wearing his Bama cap because he heard I was a fan, whispering «Roll Tide» as he dipped his bread in the cup; adults receiving with a grateful familiarity, mouthing «thanks be to God» and folding their hands in prayer.

Well find some more ammo in your tear ducts, friend, because this story is gonna move you more than Han going down into the pit of carbonite.

I would try to gently point out that I had 32 more years of experience in the word than she, & shed a tear for the trials I knew she soon would face... beginning the journey to become less certain of WHAT I know & fare more certain of WHO I know.

Henry is torn between the emerging parties, insisting on the one hand that he is closer to Lindsell than to Fuller Seminary (where he once taught) but on the other hand scrambling in a number of interviews, articles and reviews to counteract the book's threat to the evangelical unity to which he has given so much of himself.

When we were kids in Maidstone, SharonI went to every wedding in that little townTo see the tears and the kissesAnd the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gownAnd walking home on the railroad tracksOr swinging on the playground swingLove stimulated my illusionsMore than anything.

The understanding is clear for those who believe and when God says I will wipe away every tear and create a new heaven and earth we will see that the missing limb had a purpose greater than what is observable in the physical or measurable by earthly standards (scientific method).

She added that in the long run, the war - torn garden would probably have been more peaceful than the religious academy.

Knives, forks, and spoons permit greater finesse in the handling of food than is possible by tearing, grasping, or sucking.

Mary's tears and Thomas» doubts are parallel; in both parts, the problem of touching Jesus is raised; in the first part, Mary's tears are less important than the faith of the beloved disciple; in the second, Thomas» doubt is less important than the commission of the disciples.

To place this piece of steel in a place of prominence, to hang on it all of the emotional response, all of the tears and gut - wrenching loss of a large number of people who believe, without also acknowledging the other faiths, and those of no faith, who lost their lives, does, in fact, send the message that this was US vs THEM, Islam against Christianity, rather than the truth... that it was an attack against US, the United States of America, melting pot that we are... at least that's the way I see it.

I saw more than one small shepherd sit on his hay bale, cowboy hat pulled down over his eyes as he buried a tear - stained face in his arms.

Loved more fiercely and deeply than I love these two kids strapped in car seats, eager to tear up the library.»

Less than one hundred years later, Jewish children were torn from the arms of their parents and murdered in the Holocaust.

Ivan, like the old man, «rejects the world and wishes to tear it from the hands of God, since he made it badly, with the pretension of organizing it differently and in a superior manner than its original author.»

Spend the time and money on fixing the problems in the world rather than this non-sensical bs to use later to tear someone down.

I've read the bible more than 5 times and never heard jesus preach hate, the closest he got was when he tore the tables apart in the temple when they were selling trinkets (like the stuff schueller sells) and they turned the house of GOD into a rummage sale instead of healing and feeding the poor, disabled, elderly and so on... God says you will know a man by his works, so if your preacher sounds alot like hitler you may want to change church's, that is if you care about your soul!

«Nothing expresses more unequivocally the profound failure of [theologies that separate the Christ of faith and the Jesus of history] than their deeply anguished, joyless, and cheerless tone: torn between knowing and believing, they are no longer able to see anything, nor can they be convincing in any visible way.»

We tend to project our own sensitivity here, said this friend, who went on to tell me (to my surprise) that when a crab tears away the claw of another crab, as I had reported to him, the probability is that what the latter feels is more like a twinge than like the anguish that the tearing away of a limb would cause in us.

People too often talk about Jesus aside from his words, about his compassion towards all, while they fail to wrestle with some of his steepest moral teachings: «Whoever divorces his wife... and marries another, commits adultery; Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart; If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; I have come to bring not peace but the sword; Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Mt 19:9, 5:28, 5:30, 10:14, 10:37).

That prayer - as Augustine's saintly mother Monica so powerfully attested - manifests itself more often than not in tears.

«More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones,» Truman Capote wrote in his unfinished novel, Answered Prayers.

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»

French deconstructive philosophy resonated with this mood of tearing down, and today the deconstructionist thinkers are cited in theological circles more frequently than are European theologians.

Less than two months later, Tim Farron resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats, saying he felt «torn» between his faith and job; he also admitted failings in his handling of the interest in him.

Face to face with one who is stronger than he in the good, the demoniac, when one would picture to him the good in its blissful sublimity, might beg for himself, beg him with tears in his eyes, that he would not talk to him, would not, as he expresses it, make him weak.

AIDS spreads more easily from men to women than in the opposite direction, and traumatic sex, with the tearing of tissues, is the easiest route to sexual transmission.

While I appreciate Cessario's discussion of the dilemma facing Pope Pius IX, torn between his religious obligation to raise the child as a Catholic and the humanitarian plight of the child's parents, Cessario seems more interested in the PR impact of the event than in the parents» loss of their child.

The protest blocked Interstate 94 in St. Paul for more than five hours before officers were able to move them off of the highway by beginning arrests after tear gas, inert smoke and marking rounds failed to get the crowd to disperse.

The dough was quite delicate to work with and tore easily after I folded the fruit in (probably too much moisture), so the shape is less than perfect, but that's immaterial once you take a bite!