Sentences with phrase «victory in»

In another sense, if Jesus had been sinful the way we are, there would have been no real victory in his life.

For example, consider this analogy: a master chess player may not be able to predict or coerce the moves of an erratic, unskilled opponent and yet by greater insight and knowledge be able to guarantee victory in the long run.

All the pious pro «Communist statues that the Soviets erected in Hungary» Marx, Lenin, Stalin, heroic Soviet soldiers, Bela Kun (leader of a Soviet «style revolutionary regime that ruled Hungary for six months in 1919 following the Bolshevik victory in Russia)» have been gathered together in a morgue «like place Budapest residents refer to as «Statue Park.»

The exigent needs of the primitive community — rain, fertility of soil and herd, victory in war — were not obviously associated with ethical quality and behavior.

However, Christian charities have warned the future of Iraqi Christians remains uncertain despite the Iraqi government declaring victory in the war against so - called Islamic State (IS).

In my home state of Pennsylvania, for instance, despite a strong Democratic victory in the governor's race, every Planned Parenthood - endorsed legislative candidate in a reasonably contested race was defeated.

With the hope of victory in the final consummation of the kingdom, he rejoiced in suffering and could challenge death.

Here, as in the Book of Job, the problem of evil is left an intellectual mystery but with a triumphant soul transcending it and carrying off a victory in the face of it through the inward awareness of a divine fellowship and the experience of an unconquerable hope.

(John 16:33) The bestowal of interior power thus to rise above trouble and carry off a victory in spite of it seemed to the early Christians a supremely vital function of religion, and this power they found through their faith in, and experience with, an availably present Spirit.

JUDGES 11:29 - 39 Jepthah sacrificed his beloved daughter as a burnt offering after God gave him victory in battle.

It was a singing assurance of present victory in the spirit, with all future triumphs presaged in immediate experience, and the result was positive jubilance in the face of even extreme disaster.

Donald Trump owes his victory in large part to historic participation by evangelicals.

But papers like the American National Catholic Reporter (which has been on the warpath against Fr Degollado for years) have undoubtedly seen this not simply as a vindication of their stance in that particular battle, but as a victory in their general campaign against the way authority is exercised in the Church, and in particular against Pope John Paul II and his legacy.

The notion of victory in warfare, like the ideas of an apocalyptic triumph, seems to have meaning only within the historical contexts which produce them.

And from there it is another short step to «God allows all kinds of prayers» - for victory in battle, for the defeat of enemies, for the smashing of a corrupt political regime, for the removal of a hated social or economic system.

Barak recognized God speaking to Deborah of the Israelite's victory in battle — and they won.

General Andrew Jackson's overwhelming victory in the Battle of New Orleans was not due to guns, most of which arrived after the battle was over.

3:29) sharing the glories of Christ's victory in the Kingdom that was to come?

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

How to be the kind of person who can stand up to life, face its difficult challenges and hardships, and carry off a victory in quality of character and useful living — that central problem confronts us all.

From all appearances, for example, he appears set to take a huge victory in New York state's primary election.

Moreover, since Menachem Begin led the Likud to victory in the 1977 elections, conservative or center - right governments have been the rule in Israel.

This in essence is adventist belief, though elaborated else where with accounts of the anticipated divine victory in the last great battle with Satan at Armageddon.

In later writings in what we refer to as the Old Testament we find the ancients attributing victory in battle to God telling them to slay their enemies.

You will hear «he had aspergers, kids picked on him, he had a break with reality... just take the guns away...» You will hear and hear it again — and the devil will declare victory in this way over the United States --

This working must be renewed day by day; the new life has its times of waning energy and loss of courage, its times of decision, and its times of victory in the whole - souled response to need.

Interpreted in purely mystical terms, testimony is reduced to the confession of the truth; interpreted in juridical terms, it is the attestation which yields victory in the contest.

In a few stories, Yahweh grants victory in response to a vow: the victory over the king of Arad (Num.

The struggle between flesh and spirit is a big one; winning one little battle over genetic expression of MAOA does not in itself indicate that we are ready to declare total victory in the war against the flesh.

18) Edwin Markham, «Victory in Defeat,» from The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1945), p. 347.

Roosevelt's margin of victory in 1932 was so large that he was not beholden to William Randolph Hearst or anyone else.

And a symbolic victory in this kind of war is a real victory.

Each of us is a five billion year old success story steeped in more struggle and victory in the face of enormous odds than any of us can fathom.

The high point of ideological ferment following Allied victory in World War II provoked furious reaction.

Unlike in the civil courts, a victory in Congress does not necessarily result in an award for damages.

Victory in the creation - evolution dispute therefore belongs to the party with the cultural authority to establish the ground rules that govern the discourse.

There is a chance that these blocks would aim more at economic self - sufficiency than at victory in global competition.

They fueled Santorum's wins in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado - and his earlier victory in the Iowa caucuses.

Despair isn't consistent with resistance, much less victory in the long run.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who rode evangelical support to victory in the first - in - the - nation Iowa caucuses earlier this month, each got 21 % of the evangelical vote in South Carolina.

But Professor Ogden's criticisms of Bultmann rest upon so substantial an agreement with the alternative he presents that one must view this final maneuver at the goal line, not as that of negating Bultmann, but of carrying his theological method to a surer victory in establishing a basis for a postliberal theology.

Yes, I agree that the celebration is not just about the murder of Osama, but also about USA's victory in the Middle East, and I agree that the celebration of war is ok.

With this view of the universe, this common sense of how it works, it is entirely reasonable to explain a thunderstorm as the anger of God, or a victory in battle as caused by favorable divine intervention.

With Obama's historic victory in November, I began to dream of a new order — of acres of new wind turbines silently generating clean energy, of sleek bullet trains seamlessly linking our great metropolises, and of a modernized tax system under which the rich would finally pay their fair share.

Both countries have already declared victory in the fight against the group, after almost all of the territory taken over by the their so - called caliphate had been recaptured.

Thus the biblical language of myth sets out the victory in altruistic hope.

It seems to me that the MSM is exaggerating the scope — if probably not the significance — of Romney's victory in Illinois.

for victory in battle.

Marx takes over Hegel's cosmological time to provide the proletariat the security of an assured victory in the future.

For example, when people pray for success, prosperity, or victory in battle, they are indistinguishable from persons who are centrally concerned with promoting their own interests in other ways.