Sentences with phrase «than an enemy of»

Blanchett doesn't steal the show as Hela, but she does give Thor a worthy opponent that at least feels different than his enemies of the past.

Not exact matches

«There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,» English literary critic Cyril Connolly declared seventy something years ago.

According to a Kremlin translation (PDF) of Putin's remarks, he said the autonomous drone would quietly travel to «great depths,» move faster than a submarine or boat, «have hardly any vulnerabilities for the enemy to exploit,» and «carry massive nuclear ordnance.»

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

Hatred of the enemy ran deeper in the East than in the West, where atrocities were more commonplace.

In a company whose overarching mantras were «Done is better than perfect» and «Perfect is the enemy of the good,» this represented a course correction, a shift to the concern for quality that typically lost out to the drive to ship.

«If your decision - making loop is more streamlined than your enemy's, then you set the pace and course of the battle,» says Major General John Admire, who commands an infantry division at Camp Pendleton.

Which benefits our enemies more than it does any of us.

This rule had an enemy no less powerful than the current US secretary of state and recent CEO of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson.

There is an enemy, but it is more of a network than an entity.

It's more enjoyable than zombies since there is considerably more variety, both in terms of the types of enemies and the differentiation in character classes.

In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economists.

Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 2: The Moral Imperative of PrivacyChapter 6: Privacy is a Prerequisite of Human Rights Privacy is the Virtue that Sparked the American Revolution, Chapter 6, Segment 2 A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

When you are in debt, and especially when it comes at a high rate of interest — say, anything greater than 5 % — then compound interest is your enemy.

If and when TransCanada seeks official approval for Energy East, they will face a powerful enemy — bigger, perhaps, than even a pod of toothed whales.

Formulations that are less than crystal clear enable enemies to accept language that each can interpret to suit its own needs, thus creating the appearance of agreement — albeit partial agreement — when full agreement is not yet attainable.

You want to look at numbers... they account for less than 2 % of India's population, but account for 30 % of the armed forces, they win a disporportionate share of gallantry medals for currage under enemy fire.

Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

The whole of the law is do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if the midianites (for instance) can wipe out an entire population of their own enemies in warfare, than it is only just that the same can be done to them.

What proved to be the greatest enemy of a traditional approach to the Constitution wasn't just bad precedent, but the experience of moral change: that is, the feeling of one generation that it occupied a different moral universe than did previous generations.

NATURAL more than HISTORICAL determinism is our enemy now, and so the «natural right» of either Aristotle or Darwin aren't enough to account fully for who we are by nature.

The «enemy» or the person on the «wrong side» of an issue is actually more like us than we may have realized.

They will point to a decade of not being attacked as their justification that killing a bunch of enemy is better than letting him kill your friends and family.

Rather than take steps to protect Himself from the angel of death, He goes willingly to the slaughter so that His blood can protect His enemies.

Some time fears and acts of fears leads people to what you fear most to happen... so it is how it will be played that will determine the future... so as BO said that to show good feelings and give a helping hand will make you less enemies than if go on the bases of power and superiority...

Here, the salvation is of the spiritual kind, rather than the salvation from physical enemies, because of the mention of sins in Luke 1:77.

Responding to threats real and imagined — and the report documents both kinds of dangers — we adopted methods «more ruthless than the enemy,» as a major 1950s policy statement advised, and our adversaries became ourselves.

The second is eternal conscious torment rather than conditional immortality (aka anihilationism), and Jesus said «fear him who can DESTROY both body and soul in hell» and Psalm 37:20 «But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.»

The God revealed in Jesus Christ would rather die for the worst of His enemies than seek the death of any one of them.

How challenging it is to even want to pray for one's enemies rather than strike a win for justice in the battle of the moment.

Darryl like you i also know that without him i can do nothing i am weak but in him we are overcomers its a good place to be dependent on him he can use us when we are in that place i believe God has plans for you that is why the enemy is playing mind games i had a season of that he does nt bother me now as i fire scripture back at him.Like greater is the lord in me than he that is in the world.Sin shall not have dominion over me.In my weakness i am strong in Christ.Weakness is not an excuse to give in or give up its our opportunity to trust God and walk in his strength and power.You are a mighty man of God you tell the devil to flee in Jesus name and he will.

Some desires are harder to overcome than others, especially if we believe the lies of the enemy that they are okay and we were born that way and it is our nature and we must live with it.

Concentration camps, racism (and black racism is no more excusable than white racism), torture of enemies, extermination of whole populations — these are used by all regimes today, whether of the right or the left, whether capitalist or socialist.

Or am I contributing to the problem by helping support this institution - one that has some amazing people but are dedicated to teaching students more about how evolution is wrong than in following the call of Jesus to love your enemies.

It was pride on my part that stopped me entering into that deeper walk i wanted to do it in my strength but we can not the more we walk according to the flesh the more of a foothold the enemy has on us so we struggle.When we crucify the flesh and the works of the flesh and draw closer to God and rely on him we become as he is and that is who we are called to be.So we do not fail but continue to overcome in his strength not looking to the flesh at all but to Christ.You and i were called to be overcomers more than conquerers.May the Lord continue to strengthen you in your walk and faith as you grow in him.Your brother in Christ brentnz

The methods of spreading terror ranged from indiscriminate bombings to targeted campaigns such as the Phoenix program through which more than 30,000 civilians thought to be sympathetic to the enemy were assassinated.

And I can recall quite a number of occasions when visiting men in hospital who had never previously been ill in their lives, being told that such a forcible withdrawal from life came to be regarded far more as a friend than as an enemy.

But more than that, Jesus welcomed these outcasts into table - fellowship with himself in the name of the Kingdom of God, in the name of the Jews» ultimate hope, and so both prostituted that hope and also shattered the closed ranks of the community against their enemy.

To Jefferson, Protestant denominations were no better than the Roman Catholic Church: all stood as enemies of mental freedom, and all were therefore anathema to lovers of liberty and - the true Supreme Being for Jefferson - «Reason.»

Such a revitalization of biblical religion in America would find, I believe, an ally rather than an enemy in the highest aspect of the civil tradition.

It would then be an attempt to convey in a vivid pictorial form the truth, or the belief, that self - sacrificing love is so supremely valuable that in comparison with it even death is of small significance; that although the enemies of Jesus won their victory over him, yet in retrospect his life has become a more potent influence than theirs, for his memory has survived as an inspiration and example for all men.

The reenactment of the Eucharist would reclaim the sorry past, but in mercy rather than vengeance; transform the future without deforming the present; and extend charity outward to the needy, the stranger and the enemy, while it presses judgment and mercy inward to that dark comer where self - pity and malice fester.

Anyone who sounds aggrieved or — in the case of Solnit's enemies — more high - minded and principled can always summon an avenging army of supporters from the vast population of Internet - dwellers unwilling to spend more than five seconds trying to understand the dispute at hand, but endlessly willing to get a quick hit of that old self - congratulation.

These qualities are the outcome, rather than the presupposition, of a spiritual journey, sometimes prolonged and always painful, though a void, past an enemy, and into the presence of a companion.

And although no evil is stronger than the will of God, He allows the enemy to work in this world as a test of our failth.

When Christians go to war against their enemies in the name of Jesus Christ, we are not worshipping the God who told us to love our enemies, but are worshipping the demonic being who loves nothing more than to get us to do his bidding while blaming it on God.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

If we fail to love our enemies, Jesus continues (Mt 5:46 - 47; Lk 6:32 - 35), we are no better than the tax collectors and the Gentiles, the two kinds of people most despised by his hearers.