Sentences with word «usurper»

They are: unbelief, or lack of trust in God; hybris, man's elevation of himself as usurper of God's place; and concupiscence, the turning of the self upon itself to feed upon its own gratifications.

When I read the book I already owned by own BBS with three telephone lines and it connected up to other computers with FIDONET for email and participated in networked door games, such as USURPER DND and Solar Realms Elite.

By analyzing hieroglyphic inscriptions and illustrations of costumed queens, poring over evidence from royal tombs and reconstructing royal dynasties, Reese - Taylor and her colleagues have revealed for the first time how some Maya queens ruled alone in turbulent times, securing their dynasties and their kingdoms from usurpers, while others led their subjects to war, presiding over battles of attrition against enemy kings.

They should overcome the tendency to conform and acknowledge that rampant censorship has placed bitcoin in the hands of usurpers who possess motivations that are suspect.

10:20 pm — Sundance — Looking for Richard Part performance of Shakespeare's Richard III (one of Shakespeare's more enduring history plays, about the deformed usurper king who many believe murdered the young heirs to the throne) and part documentary about the production of such a play and indeed the relationship of Shakespeare to modern culture in general.

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In this video we watch as Corvo Attano enacts his vengeance on Delilah, the otherworldly usurper who has seized the throne from his daughter,... [Read More]

Be alert to turncoats and deceivers being herded into the Tea Party by usurpers from the weakened Republican Party for the sole purpose of capturing our populist movement.

The newest trailer for Black Panther provides more of a focus on Erik Killmonger, the potential usurper to the Wakandan throne that T'Challa (Black Panther) sits on.

Hawaiiguest: I'm guessing that you won't mind, then, when usurpers come into your country, co-opt your culture with their own, have the bleeding - hearts in government reward them with more rights and privileges than you have (freely given to them from the taxes YOU pay), and make you feel like a stranger in your own country, although your ancestors called it home for centuries.

USURPER Mozambique's coal prospects are attracting significant foreign investment and its coal sector may outstrip South Africa's in the near future

By declaring and conducting jihad on their own, al - Qaeda, IS, Boko Haram, and other such groups act as heretical usurpers.

607 a. D. the Roman See was made the highest See on earth by the criminal emperor or usurper Phocas.

He is the Heir of the vineyard of Creation who reclaims His ruined inheritance from murderous usurpers.

What usurper church god are you talking about, you moronic babbling idiot?

He won't bow to these new usurpers, but he could very well end his career with the same number of rings that he now.

But also relinquishing top spot in the Bundesliga table to the newly - promoted usurpers of RB Leipzig.

The reverend praised as «giants» the two black Harlemites, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Rangel, who have held the upper Manhattan seat throughout its entire existence — and warned of a potential racial usurper.

Hero of last year's conference, party president Tim Farron is hailed by many as the successor or possible usurper to Nick Clegg's beleaguered throne.

Sure enough, some of the workers developed into aggressive reproductive usurpers.

Meanwhile, scientists are busy studying coyote behavior to learn how altering human behavior might help us get along with these alleged usurpers.

The invasive usurpers from South America have proved difficult to fight with insecticides and other traditional measures.

Opponents of the PhyloCode have dismissed its advocates as spinmeisters, arrogant usurpers, and practitioners of «Orwellian antilogic.»

The true goal of the mysterious stranger, the daughter of the deceased usurper King and now Princess (Mira Sorvino) is the rightful King, Agis who, once upon a time, she saw as naked as the day he was born, as he stepped out of a pond.

Their common enemy is Jeanine, an Erudite usurper played by Kate Winslet with ice - cold eyes and a knowing smile.

In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.

In 2010 Redford himself admitted that Hollywood usurpers had «kind of engulfed what we did - you end up with parties and celebrities and Paris Hilton and that's not us.»

The vulgar usurpers of the Zucker - Abrahams - Zucker throne are the team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, having launched their first offensive as the writers of Scary Movie (along with I'm Gon na Git You Sucka director Keenen Ivory Wayans, who has apparently united with his brother Marlon, director of Fifty Shades Of Black, in a vast conspiracy to destroy what little legitimacy this genre has left) before expanding their influence to the whole of moviedom.

The only fun to be had was in the campy, flashy performance of Jude Law, as an evil usurper, who combined casual physical elegance with the facial expressions of a man coming apart.

Now hints of 4K TVs and Red - Ray threaten to give this latest usurper but half the life of the thing it displaced, and streaming / cloud storage may cut the legs from under Red - Ray before it even gets its footing.

According to Moore, at one point in the movie, there's a scene before the battle in which Okoye and W'Kabi discuss their conflicting views about the Wakandan usurper that would have both emphasized their relationship and foreshadowed their showdown.

Chuck's reputation among the staff evolves from that of an joyless gadfly to that of a mean - spirited usurper when he steps into the editor job vacated by the well - liked Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria).

Opening this week at a few screens around town (the Uptown, the Seven Gables, along with the Grand in Tacoma) is the latest high - profile adaptation of a Shakespeare play, with Michael Fassbender as the Scottish usurper and Marion Cotillard as his ambitious wife.

Chapter two is about a nasty usurper, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), who marries Mary.

Will Patton co-stars as the white coach whose position was given away, and who is now expected to act as an assistant to the black usurper.

by Ian Pugh The title The Uninvited doesn't refer to the diabolical nanny / usurper driving the plot or to the undead spirits that torture our heroine, but rather to the damning intrusiveness of memory: inadequate, incomplete, and weighting down its victims with the guilt of bad decisions and lives ill - spent.

We all like to talk about Oscar's bias against comedy... but when one does emerge as a contender, many of us immediately see it as some lightweight usurper: I still can't believe The Artist was the film to beat for Best Picture in 2011.

Conversations can be overheard discussing whether Queen ADDIE should stay on the throne or if an Agile usurper like SAM would be a more effective monarch.

Meanwhile, the Toyota Corolla, Kia Forte, Hyundai Elantra, Dodge Dart, Chevy Cruze, Ford Focus (and others) all became worthy usurpers to the Civic.

More's history formed the basis for Shakespeare's later play about Richard III, which cast the Plantagenet king as a scheming hunchbacked usurper who murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, so he could steal their throne for himself.

They never learned Spanish or else deliberately refused to speak it as they hate the Spanish usurpers of their lands, and by extension their Guatemalan successors.

After the events of Mask of Deception, the Yamato Empire is now ruled with an iron fist by a ruthless usurper who seeks to subjugate all before him.

Swipe left, swipe right, and rule your kingdom as you see fit while finding balance between the most influential groups and avoiding usurpers at every turn!

Strategies could involve dividing the team into tower defenders and tower usurpers, or if the situation demands, put more effort into defense.

In a totally rare occurrence Bowser, Mario and Luigi fight (unknowingly) against a Mushroom Kingdom usurper.