Sentences with phrase «where exiles»

Pyre takes place in the Downside, a world where exiles from the Commonwealth are sent when they have broken the law.

The goal of this game is to assemble a group of exiles in a place called the Downside (where exiles go when cast out of the Commonwealth) then you choose three

Some intriguing ideas are stranded by an overarching concept that severely strains credibility in this low - budget drama that takes place in a small town in northern California, where an exiled Afghan journalist (Dominic Rains) gets a job as a freelance crime reporter and settles with a local police officer (Melissa Leo)-- the mother of a friend — allowing him to experience firsthand the town's surprisingly extensive web of corruption and violence.

So begins a dangerous journey that will take Opaline into the darkest corners of wartime Paris and across the English Channel, where the exiled Romanov dowager empress is waiting to discover the fate of her family.

Not exact matches

Where Google and Facebook were sent into exile and Uber conceded defeat to a Chinese rival after a long and costly battle, Apple seemed to be flourishing.

Through Jeremiah, the Lord told them to «seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile... for in its welfare you will find your welfare» (Jeremiah 29:7, ESV).

The scene now shifts from Judaea to Babylonia, where the deported Jews were living in exile.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

He received his education at Deoband and then was sent to Kabul, where he founded the Kabul branch of the Indian National Congress and maintained contacts with Indian fighters for independence who had gone into exile in Moscow and Berlin.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

De te fabula: the story is the story of each one of us, exiled by false self - seeking from the garden of human obedience and hence from human happiness into the strange land where we seek only our own way and hence lose our intended happiness.

I interpret the Genesis story of our exile from the Garden where there was access to the Tree of Life (temporal immortality) not as punishment; but as placing a limit on temporal existence to keep us focused on Eternal values.

He was exiled to Patmos where we received the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

While the prophet was talking of a future after the exile, the words took on a timeless meaning of a peaceable kingdom when all the nations would follow the road that led to the mountain of God, where the creation would dwell in peace.

But under the benevolent rule of Persia, the exiles were finally permitted to return to their homeland where they rebuilt Jerusalem and resumed their way of life.

«This moment was a frightful one; and when towards morning I threw myself exhausted on my bed, I seemed to feel my earlier life, so smiling and so full, go out like a fire, and before me another life opened, sombre and unpeopled, where in future I must live alone, alone with my fatal thought which had exiled me thither, and which I was tempted to curse.

Peter says the same thing (1 Pet 2:13 - 14), and Jeremiah encouraged Jewish exiles to «seek the welfare of Babylon» where they were living in exile (Jer 29:7).

As Winner puts it, «Esther is also a story about exile, about being an exiled Jew, an exiled person of faith, and what it means to live in a place that is foreign, to live in a place where you are foreign, where you and your kinsman are aliens.

As the author Christopher Derrick put it in his book This Strange Divine Sea: «Here, we are still alienated and in exile but are on our way home; we can not yet see the satisfaction of our deepest longings, but we do know where to look; we are still sinners, but we can get our innocence back; we are still going to suffer, but not pointlessly or absurdly; we are still going to «die», but not in the old sense, not permanently.

Bob, yes the law was not met by the people, and therefore this is why they have been driven to strange lands, this is where we get the exile of the 10 tribes until this day who were scattered to the four corners of the earth, warned to the people in Deuteronomy 28 - 30, of the blessings, and then of the curses.

oh i forgot that cain kills adam and gets exiled to the land of NOD east of eden where he met / knew his wife and she bore him kids... how the f - is that possible if its just you, your parents and your dead brother??? o and one more question, if the great flood which covered the earth happened, and Noah saved ALL the animals of the world then why does the bible very clearly describe the animals that would not be making the voyage, as if another one of gods creature wasn't good enough, but i thought this «god» was all knownig and never makes a mistake!

But in between when the land was delivered and the final exile there was maybe 100 years out of 1,000 where they were a Yahwehistic nation.

Is «seventy» Jeremiah's round number, the maximum allotment of time to any man, to encourage the exiles to unpack their bags and prepare to live and die in the «city where I have sent you into exile» (see again his letter to the exiles of 597, ch.

I am going to PUT UP AND SHUT UP as soon as we EXILE YOU BACK TO EUROPE where you BELONG!

Much of his writing was done in the monastery where he had administrative duties and while in exile on the Continent because of his unwillingness to submit, as Archbishop of Canterbury, to the demands of the English Kings William II and Henry I.

this is and was the primary purpose of your MASONIC ORDERS to keep these truths secret UNTIL NOW (SABBATH)... Those who refuse truth shall be exiled back to where they came from...

Once we acquired the distinct feeling that our historical existence has «exiled» us to some degree from the regularities and rhythms of nature, we became restless to find exactly where we do fit in.

When the British invaded in 1824, and eventually took control (after three wars) in 1885, the king escaped to India, where he remained in exile until his death.

On occasion, baseball fields were laid out more or less side by side where we played, and if the game I was taking part in was not sufficiently interesting, I would turn around and watch another or pass the time with my neighboring exile, a forlorn and uncoordinated wretch who had been banished to the right field of his game.

Once they were baseball's biggest heroes, and after too many years in exile, they're now back where they belong

In practice, though, Bull Cyclone would spend almost all of his time working on passing — 7 - on - 8 — exiling the interior linemen to the sidelines, where they could get at it among themselves all day.

No man in a high collar can make the picks swap Exiled to a far away Chipotle is that where you are?

«The persecution that followed forced him into exile where he teamed up with opposition elements struggling for the return of democracy in Nigeria.»

But in cases like the Ivory Coast and Libya — where war crimes have already been committed and the killing is certain to continue if the ruler remains in power — exiling a murderous leader may be the least worst option.

It was also criticised for providing a sanctuary to former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, who earlier this month used his Doha base — where he has lived in exile for several years — to launch a new policy document.

Jammeh was flown to Equatorial Guinea where he will be on exile.»

«But that may have saved his life, because in France, where he chose to go in exile, he was safe from persecution for the time being,» says Scherer.

The Buddhas» demolition drew Tarzi, after 23 years of exile, back to the valley where he began his studies 40 years before.

Certain organisms that we called fungi because they were slimy and repulsive and because we didn't know where else to put them — the slime molds, for example — have been exiled from the kingdom.

Set 18 months where Season 6 of» 24» left off, former government agent Jack Bauer is in a self - imposed exile in the fictitious African country of Sangala where he hopes to escape from a U.S. investigation of him for his past methods, and to run from his past.

Conan Exiles is a game where you make your own experience.

I suppose 10 years in movie - making exile is where antisemitic rants gets you in Hollywood.

But though the film's publicity and advanced buzz focus on Weisz's Ronit Krushka — a woman whose return to the cloistered London Jewish community she exiled herself from causes disturbances in the field — Ronit's story is not where the most involving parts of the drama lie.

Theater of War not only takes us back - stage with one of the greatest actresses of our time, it also takes us back in time, uncovering the story of Brecht's flight from the Nazis, his years in exile, and his eventual return to Germany where he first staged Mother Courage.

An exiled member of the elite assassin group Dead Echo, Graysons blind desire for vengeance finds his crew stranded on Stygia where he can finally

Due to jealousy at the London police force (400 % arrest record over all others on the force), Sergeant Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is exiled to the country town of Sandford where there is no real crime to speak of.

Their characters react to the news by traveling from their native Virginia, where interracial marriage was still outlawed in 1958, and getting hitched in Washington, D.C.. From there, though, they experience arrest, trial, forced exile across state lines, kids and, finally, a return to Virginia and their case being heard before the Supreme Court.

Exiled to a small town in Italy while he waits for the heat to subside after a job in Sweden gone awry he spends the bulk of his time alone confined to his plain apartment pausing between sets of pushups to peer anxiously out his window where scores of invisible enemies no doubt lurk waiting to strike.

With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed... only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg.

Stark joins up with Doctor Strange and later Hulk and Spidey in New York where a massive otherworldly threat has arrived, Steve Rogers, Black Widow and Falcon are in exile and Vision and Scarlet Witch have buggered off to Scotland.