Sentences with phrase «years before his death saw»

Dominic was about forty - five years old by then, and had only six more years to live, but all his life and experience up until then had been preparing him for this moment, and the six years before his death saw the Order increase at a phenomenal rate, a testimony to the divine inspiration behind it.

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In the midst of all the writing Buckley did before his death last year at the age of eighty - two, in the midst of television shows and the politics and the leadership of the conservative movement, we tend to forget that there was a time through the 1950s and 1960s when he was also seen as one of the nation's leading Catholic laymen.

According to this view, God is glorified in seeing swords driven through the chests of curly - haired toddlers, in pregnant women being stabbed in the belly before being murdered themselves, and in old men and women begging for mercy but being denied it — just as God was glorified in the death of all the firstborn Egyptian males (Exodus) and in the taking of twelve and thirteen year old girls as spoils of war (Numbers).

So you can see how such a parinoid man could have made such predictions known to the empire and lead john while tripping on a path of preconceived thought... have you ever tripped out before — it happens like this, your thoughts at the time of the trip make your trip... if the year of prediction of the death of Domitian was 96 and the year john wrote it was 96... he could have been thinking of the prediciton made by the astro - dude seconds before enhaling the fumes that enduced the trip, afterall he was in a cave!

Bowie was a popular boy's first name even before the Let's Dance singer's death and as we have lost so many national treasures this year we may see Alan (Rickman), Terry (Wogan), and even Prince make their way back to the fore.

There were more deaths in custody last year than ever before, staffing levels have seen deep cuts, there's a shortage of places and violence against prison staff is up sharply.

Rothe standouts as she transforms her character's spitefulness into a determination to find out who is killing her, and allowing us to see her true character beneath the damage wrought by her mother's death three years before.

It only looked at Jackie immediately after the death of JFK; I went in hoping that we'd see glimpses of her life before becoming a Kennedy, how she handled his affair (s), and how she continued to live months or years later.

June 2, 1897 — Upon seeing his obituary prematurely published in the New York Herald (almost 13 years before he died) Mark Twain penned his famous quip, «Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.»

Death was decidedly overworked during the war, but he informs the reader that he saw young Liesel Meminger three times in those years before he finally took her much later.

Every now and then we have moments in a game series that take our breath away, 20 years ago, it was taking that first step onto Hyrule Field in Ocarina of Time and seeing a vast world open up before us, seeing Death Mountain in the distance and knowing that...

These sculptures on view at Annely Juda, some of the very last that the Academician produced before his death last year, honestly had me in thrall when I saw them last night, especially for the way they integrated sheets of coloured, translucent perspex with his characteristic metal shapes.

Krasner is one of the few artists on this list who saw a retrospective of her work mounted during her lifetime (in 1983, a year before her death).

The exhibition consists of 105 drawings — comprising nearly one acre of wall surface — that LeWitt created over 40 years from 1968 to 2007 and includes [citation needed] several drawings never before seen, some of which LeWitt created for the project shortly before his death.

Bringing together nineteen paintings, this exhibition is a rare occasion to see many of Alberto Burri's masterpieces, and it charts a course from his early work, at the beginning of the 1950s, to that from a few years before his death, in 1995.