Sentences with phrase «to bring someone to one's knees»
I've seen the strongest women brought to their knees in painful situations.
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I have never met a tiny microchip that could not bring me to my knees.
And practicing gratitude for those ordinary moments is what brings us to our knees with true joy.
I was really brought to my knees and made to feel helpless and powerless.
I didn't know attachment disorder even existed until a few years ago — when it finally brought me to my knees.
He needs to be prosecuted and brought to his knees for what he's done and for what he's hiding with his ill - gotten wealth.
What is it about a silly little cold that can just bring you to your knees?
But the truth is that my daughter's first loose tooth brought me to my knees.
Honestly this was one of the choices that almost brought us to our knees.
I learned to be grateful for the most challenging situations I've ever faced — moments that literally brought me to my knees.
Most importantly, your partner can become your biggest ally, chief supporter, and provider of strength when the tough job of parenting brings you to your knees.
Sometimes a marriage can be brought to its knees purely because of finances and money issues.
Some of those moments will cause us to jump for joy in victory, while other moments will bring us to our knees in defeat.
I think it's to be brought to our knees with a love we have no choice over.
«Sometimes a prideful and stubborn man is brought to his knees before God by a high - strung woman pastor who dares to ask if he has the testicular fortitude to follow God.»
as well as a 200 - miler that nearly brought him to his knees.
Cederberg lies bounded by the towns of Citrusdal, Clanwilliam and Wuppertal, a geological mountain wonderland that took hundreds of millions of years to form and left us gazing at rock formations and night skies the likes of which bring us to our knees in gratitude.
Ah, so it was Amber Heard that brought you to your knees once again, subjecting you to another questionable film!
The federal government then propped up AIG, the insurer brought to its knees by the cheap insurance contracts it sold on subprime mortgages.
In other words: don't do anything foolish, just stand aside and let everyone else implode as their own reliance on ever - expanding credit and the U.S. dollar hegemony brings them to their knees.
Chad, I don't want to discourage you from reading on cosmology, but you must on some level suspect that something is amiss since cosmology wasn't brought to its knees years ago by BGV.
Our frailties and our battles bring us to our knees, the homosexual as well as the heterosexual.
But last week these almond apricot scones brought me to my knees and begged to exist.
«Amen Corner brought me to my knees,» he said last week.
«Unite will campaign to have a fairer and progressive tax system which will help working people and inject much needed demand into an economy brought to its knees by the spivs and speculators.
A spiritual crisis was inevitable, and a rip - roaring one brought me to my knees amid a family crisis when three of my kids were in middle school.
She said it is going to continue to be a process, and the healing journey I am on is extremely slow and steady and that is my work at this time to trust in going slow and the true healing that is taking place... but the words «YOUR GUT IS HEALING & YOUR BODY IS SO HAPPY ABOUT IT» basically brought me to my knees.
Red velvet and that little boy smile Red velvet with that slow southern style A new religion that'll bring her to your knees Red velvet if you please
Filmed over six years in the eponymous mining village, a hard - up but minerally rich spot in the remote Colombian Andes brought to its knees by corporate exploitation, the film traces the uncertain, frequently unhappy arcs of selected residents to stirring human effect as their community crumbles around them.
I had always intended to ask Whedon about the rumors that Age of Ultron brought him to his knees, but when I met up with the filmmaker this past weekend at the Walt Disney lot, the answers began to come before I'd even posed the first question.
Gandhi gets some screen time and is absurdly described as «The British Empire brought to its knees by a man in a loincloth».
And Edgar has too many dark secrets in his past to fall in love, until a goddess disguised as a governess brings him to his knees.
«Ragen (The Saturday Wife) brings a bitter intensity to this story of betrayal and a Jewish family brought to its knees by a financial scam to fund overseas terrorism.»
In a country brought to its knees by political and economic problems, SPANA is providing a lifeline for animals in Zimbabwe and their owners.
It's undeniably satisfying to chain hits and kills until you're bopping around between enemies in a gang war, flying along a circle of combatants and systematically bringing them to their knees in one fell swoop.
One thoughtless comment brought him to his knees.
Prospect.1 artists contributed site specific contemporary pieces embedded around the city in a way that powerfully reinforced the unique challenges of rebuilding a historic city brought to its knees by a catastrophic event.
In a recent series of hand - sewn fabric works that debuted at the Untitled art fair in Miami in December, felt silhouettes inspired by photographs of police violence during the 2012 national agrarian strike in Colombia mingle with images of the Cathara women, similarly brought to their knees.
What was built to be a robust blockchain that could handle thousands of dApps (decentralised applications) was eventually brought to its knees by a dApp called cryptokitties.
He's not joking — after announcing the Cyanogen business, the brand new servers were brought to their knees from 38 million downloads in just one month.
Divorced and remarried, I am happy in my new life but as we all know the heartbreak of parental alienation and PTSD can bring us to our knees at any time!