Sentences with phrase «which descends upon»

Chantilly, France is home to a sprawling château, painstakingly manicured gardens, and the Chantilly Arts & Elegance Concours, which descends upon this haven of serenity every September (the 2017 edition runs this weekend), dotting the grounds with an abundance of classic automotive excess, from remarkably preserved turn - of - the - century relics and elegant sleds from the golden age of coach building to 20th century supercars and future concepts.

Not exact matches

All we know is that Namaan descends into the waters seven times, sees his leprous skin «restored like the flesh of a young boy,» acknowledges the full authority of Israel's God and, to ensure that he can render proper thanks to the Lord when he returns to Damascus, gets permission from Elisha to bring back two mule loads of local soil — a piece of Israel upon which to give thanks to the one who washed him clean.

those who say: Our Lord is Allah, and afterward are uptight, the angels descend upon them, saying: Fear not nor grieve, but hear good tidings of the paradise which ye are promised.

Angels, visible in human form, appear as characters in the narrative and address the chief actors; an angel descends from heaven, rolls away the stone which sealed the rock tomb and sits upon it.

The two processes are inevitably linked in their structure, the second requiring the first as the matter upon which it descends in order to super-animate mt.. This view entirely respects the progressive effective concentration of human thought in an increasingly acute consciousness of its unitary destiny.

The author of the Fourth Gospel, at the point at which he is about to launch Out upon his account of the public career of Jesus, tells his readers what they are to look out for: «You will see heaven wide open, and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.»

THE GREAT CONTRAPTION (10:3 - 5) Yea, so it shall come to pass that He will descend to the very earth, and He shall touch the tainted sands with His divine noodly appendage and He shall write in the sand and the writing that He shall scribe upon the sand will be writing that does tell of the means to construct the Great Contraption about which He shall write upon the sand.

It is that personality which manifests in each of us to whatever degree we allow it to «descend upon» us.

In Luke 3:21,22 we read, «21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.»

When an exhausted Jacob encountered God during the night at Bethel (Genesis 28:10 - 17), it came as a vision of the ladder upon which angels were ascending and descending.

Compared with such a noble complexity, in which ascending and descending movements seem in no way to jar upon stability, in which no single item, however humble, is insignificant, because so many august institutions hold it in its place, how flat does evangelical Protestantism appear, how bare the atmosphere of those isolated religious lives whose boast it is that «man in the bush with God may meet.»

It is of itself a sort of spirit which descends seemingly randomly upon our moments, mundane or otherwise.

The convoy turned into a field, at which point around 1,300 police descended upon them and a violent confrontation took place.

So they nastily descend upon the Far Far Away kingdom, which apparently is located on the Paramount Studios lot.

Cooper hits the gas quickly with an opening sequence in which a band of rabid Comanche raiders descend upon a seemingly peaceful family of white settlers.

It's an eloquent moment, and it comes just before the second act of the film, during which a cascade of ridicule and recrimination descends into revelations of adultery, betrayal, and racial invective, laying bare the core of unrest in the hearts of minds of hard - court heroes, once upon a time.

The future looks grim, until alien forces descend upon earth which prompts the government to call upon the services of the monsters.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Historic Rock Concerted Revisited by Bittersweet Bio-Pic On August 15, 1969, over a half - million young people descended upon the Catskills Mountains in upstate New York for a three - day music festival which would come to define the hippie generation.

During a stretch of winter in which there's month - long darkness, a coven of vampires descend upon a town and feast like it's half - off night at the all - you - can - eat buffet.

The award ceremony is the culminating highlight of the network's 4th annual Charter Awareness Day taking place that morning, which will see students, families, educators and representatives from the state's public charter school community descend upon Nathan Hale Hall for a day of celebration and advocacy.

Volunteers on MOnday descended upon the shelter, operated by the Centex Humane Society, to help clean and repair the facility, which is expected to be closed for at least two weeks.

Samana, on the northeast coast, looks over Samana Bay, which hundreds of whales descend upon during mating season.

A drive from one end of the road to the next will guide you past and through a countless stream of interesting and remarkable sites of Dubai — choosing which ones to descend upon will be the most complex aspect of your trip along the strip.

In the six years since I wrote this, I can now strengthen this claim: Zaxxon belongs within the various arcade lineages of the late twentieth century that have tremendous influence upon games but that are radically distinct from the lineages that descend from tabletop role - playing games, which proliferated in the wake of 1974's Dungeons & Dragons.

That may be changing here in Canada, though: we visited Canada's first official tiny house festival over the weekend, along with hundreds of curious people who descended upon Lantier, a small municipality an hour and a half north of Montreal, Quebec, which recently approved a sustainable housing development for small homes under 1000 square feet in size, without basements.

If you know anything about native americans from the southern tip Argentina to the northern tip of Canada, (both which are farther in either direction then Chile and Alaska,) there's two things that are striking very few city civilization like ancient Egypt or ancient India, and very few farmers up until the white men descended upon their poor ar — .

As winter descends upon the Northern Hemisphere, thoughts turn to wintry wonderlands, which can take many forms.

Worse, who knows what rat - infested prison cell fate I might have faced had police descended upon the hut in which I was sleeping in Thailand's golden triangle when only a few feet away from me a few of my fellow trekkers smoked local opium?

If so, and assuming the Realtor population to have shrunk via attrition due to the looming economic world - wide financial crisis that is slowly, but inexorably, descending upon us all, which will leave ORE membership numbers in the 40,000 range (in my opinion), simple arithmetic tells us that each remaining member will pay ($ 39,000,000.