Sentences with phrase «who descended upon»

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.

Kalinichenko was among the more than 1,000 UFT members who descended upon Albany on March 9 to advocate for the city's public schools.

Actor Debra Winger and Gasland filmmaker Josh Fox were among hundreds of anti fracking protesters who descended upon the State Capitol Monday, in one of the largest demonstrations against the natural gas drilling process to date.

The vacationers who descend upon Hawaii find that, on these graceful islands, all the dreams spun in the travel ads do indeed come true.

Colleagues at the end - of - term party who descend upon the appetizer platter like hyenas gathering around a kill.

High in the Alps north of Monte Carlo lies the Col de Turini, a 5273 - foot peak dotted with two small guest houses and a pair of ski lifts that serve the skiers who descend upon this tranquil spot as soon as the snow falls.

Started in 1950 as a local fundraiser, the Concours has become the ultimate event for those into classic cars, routinely attracting some of the world's most respected collectors and thousands of fans who descend upon the 18th green at the tony Pebble Beach Golf Course where the show takes place in California.

In contrast, during the months of July, August and the beginning of September the town is busy with clubbers from Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and of course, the UK, who descend upon the town in their tens of thousands.

• Intriguing main character — Assume the role of the sun god, Amaterasu, who descends upon the earth in the form of a wolf.

The shifting surface of «Blue Devils» reveals a black man in a hooded sweatshirt inset with a design that almost resembles a medieval suit of armor, standing in the center of the frame surrounded by indistinct policemen, who descend upon him in an anonymous, hostile mass.

Not exact matches

Patients who had received CTL019 and their families descended upon the panel meeting en masse Wednesday to urge an approval recommendation.

When the zombie apocalypse descended upon Earth, all Bill Murray (who plays himself) wanted to do was continue to play golf in peace.

Pray for His love to descend upon the battlefields, so that understanding and enlightenment causes those who were harming families and communities to set down their instruments of war in favor of seeds and plows and bricks and mortar in an effort to rebuild.

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.

There has been talk of God as a moral tyrant, ready to descend with punishment upon those who violate what is supposed to be divine law.

45So that you will become the children of your Father who is in Heaven, for his sun rises on the good and upon the evil and his rain descends on the just and on the unjust.

That's a wise and consoling lesson for kids who are feeling besieged or tormented by their peers, or uncertain what to do when the bullies descend upon the class scapegoat.

Here an eternal divine order prevails, here it does not rain both upon the just and upon the unjust, here the sun does not shine both upon the good and upon the evil, here it holds good that only he who works gets the bread, only he who was in anguish finds repose, only he who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved, only he who draws the knife gets Isaac.

This one who had descended (v. 13), who had humbled himself, was «lifted up,» first, upon a cross (12:33), being obedient to the point of death, and then into glory (cf. Phil.

Let's all pray that a plague descends upon those who lie to us about who is to blame for this economy.That means you - Tea Party.

Sometimes they held that, since the true God can never suffer, the spiritual Christ descended upon the man Jesus in the form of a dove at his baptism; Jesus then perfected his virtues and announced the Father; but before his sufferings and death the Christ withdrew again from the man Jesus, and it was only the man Jesus who suffered and died and rose again.

Anyway, the «Lull» continues and with England playing tomorrow night it means I have a horrible journey ahead of me home as thousands of England fans descend upon Wembley with their boring chants and pointless conversations about who will play.

There were about 60 Chelsea fans, and about 60 Arsenal fans who had descended upon Dugout Sports Bar, in Bangalore for the screening of the big encounter between two Premier League giants.

While Dorothy struggles with the revelation, she is forced to confront The Wicked Witch of the West, who has descended upon the Big Apple, determined to settle an old score.

Every year, those who don't already live in Montreal descend upon the city for what I like to call «summer movie camp.»

Jesse Eisenberg (in his second festival appearance, the first being The Double) and Dakota Fanning play Josh and Dena, a pair of environmental activists who, with the help of an ex-Marine accomplice named Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard), blow up a dam in Oregon, and then wade through the dark world of paranoia, guilt, and suspicion that descends upon them following their extreme, costly actions.

Coralie Fargeat's aptly - named feature film debut follows Matilda Lutz as Jen, initially drawn as a shy wallflower who is desperate to be loved (especially by her boyfriend, played by Kevin Jannsens), who is pushed to wild extremes when she's violated by the man she loves and his loutish group of friends who unexpectedly descend upon what was meant to be a quiet weekend away.

Full credit to Adam Scott and Toni Collette as Max's parents for maintaining a fine tone of repressed anger while dealing with the relatives who have descended upon them en masse with their assorted jibes, smells, and condescension.

Five - time Oscar nominee Amy Adams (American Hustle) gives the top performance of her already formidable career as top - flight linguist Louise Banks, who is recruited by a hardnosed military colonel (Forest Whitaker) to figure out how to communicate with an enigmatic alien race that has descended upon Earth.

The tens of thousands of industry leaders who will descend upon the Las Vegas Convention Center beginning on Tuesday, November 3, can expect all the traditional amenities associated with this world - class trade event.

For BlackBerry Addicts it's like going to heaven, but for those who haven't experienced the BB lifestyle it looks like a bunch of aliens have descended upon the joint.

Liability coverage defends you against the army of lawyers who will descend upon you like a plague of locusts.

She's fallen in with the Vamp Kids of South Park, who have descended upon Cartman's favorite restaurant, Casa Bonita.

She's fallen in with the Vamp Kids of South Park, who have descended upon Cartman's favourite restaurant, Casa Bonita.

In that game, you controlled a spaceship at the bottom of the screen, confronting waves of invading aliens arranged in rows and columns who slowly descended upon your ship.

New game - exclusive characters will descend onto the scene and unexpected plot twists are revealed as players discover who seeks vengeance upon Naruto.

Dan Colen is a mainstay of the New York art world who creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that dissect the precise moment an artwork descends upon an artist for creation.

Stand out works for us were those of Charles Clary (pictured above) who builds layer upon layer of meticulously hand cut and measured descending levels to build his structural compositions; Crystal Wagner — whose elaborate terrariums evoke a sense of wonder not just for the end result, but they carry an immediate level of «how does she do that?»

The same can be said for attorneys who are proficient in construction law and can provide perspectives on the many predatory construction companies that descend upon area residents and businesses following a natural or manmade disaster.

For those of us who were there, the consensus seemed to be that if ABS was allowed in Ontario the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse would not descend upon our province.

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?

For those of us who were there, the consensus seemed to be that if ABS was allowed in Ontario the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse would not descend upon our... [more]