Example sentences of "god 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | each one in his god 's name |
| 2 | A decree of the Senate was passed in 186 BC , ordering the destruction of sanctuaries of Bacchus , the god of wine ( Greek , Dionysos ) , and banning his worship , but the growth of the Italian wine trade and the personal involvement in it of many of Rome 's leading senators ensured the god 's recovery . |
| 3 | The artist conveys in the strain reflected in the god 's features the physical effort of rising from the ground with his heavy load . |
| 4 | Each god 's burden came to signify the particular omen of the division of time in question . |
| 5 | ‘ Busy , darling ? ’ or ‘ Turn that down , for god 's sake ! ’ |
| 6 | the god 's acceptance and its own acquiescence — and the ā gri stoops down and saws through its throat . |
| 7 | Then the god 's voice came again and Kalchu leaned forward , straining to hear . |
| 8 | When one dhāmi died the god chose another and was embodied in him so that , although dhāmis came and went , the god 's reputation endured . |
| 9 | If they did n't make the offering — if they plundered the god 's territory without his permission — he 'd punish their families with sickness or even death . |
| 10 | It ’ s an act of solidarity with every woman who 's under pressure to have a baby , or have a boy or have a girl or who knows , for god 's sake , have a puppy or a kitten or a goddamned foal . |
| 11 | As a child he touched the god 's magic salmon and , upon sucking his thumb , became possessor of all knowledge . |
| 12 | This god 's symbol was a two-pronged fork , which popular folklore adapted as the Devil 's pitchfork . |
| 13 | Milton described the god 's mishap as follows : |
| 14 | The Romans tell that Isis appropriated a portion of the sun god 's power when she grew weary of worldly affairs and thereafter adorned the heavens as the constellation of Sirius . |
| 15 | A gem from Kydonia shows the Master of Animals grasping two lions as they apparently sit upright , just as if he was holding a pair of pups by the scruff of the neck ; the image speaks clearly of the god 's dominion over wild beasts . |
| 16 | In the Egyptian myth of Osiris , the dead body of a vegetation god was enclosed in a tree trunk ; at the palace of Byblos in Syria , a tree trunk allegedly containing the god 's corpse was used as a pillar . |
| 17 | The equally odd banner which the god is holding may also contain a symbolic reference to the god 's domain ; the large terminal shape appears to be a stylized fish . |
| 18 | The river is sometimes called Taal 's River , and the surrounding land of Talabecland is the heartland of the god 's worship . |
| 19 | Another acceptable substitute is the wild cucumber , the full-scale slaughter of an ox being reserved for occasions of serious distress when , as in some intractable illness , god 's help is urgently sought . |
| 20 | But if the Messiah was not divine , he would certainly have had God 's particular and unique blessing . |
| 21 | This was all the more important , by virtue of the fact that he was , in some sense , a usurper — he had toppled a descendant of Hercules and needed some rival god 's support for his own assertions of legitimacy . |
| 22 | — god 's six " days " of creative activity followed by a " day " of rest , sets the pattern for man 's working life . |
| 23 | The celebration of the temple ritual , based on the form of worship accorded to the sun god Re at Heliopolis , was a dramatisation of the god 's daily life . |
| 24 | The great festivals represented the god 's social life , when he was taken in procession to visit another deity in his house or received such a visit . |
| 25 | The early animal links were therefore retained either in the god 's shape , in the attributes assigned to him , or in his association with certain animals deemed to be sacred to him . |
| 26 | That year nine student has got quite a lot to say , has written a very nice letter of complaint to god , bending god 's ear , say just one minute god . |
| 27 | I say real progress has been made but today I am asking you to think about the next step a step that I am sure we all feel is at the heart of the matter a transforming step perhaps the critical step that will guarantee ultimate success in fulfilling god 's loving will for his church . |
| 28 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 29 | With the god 's gesture and the seers ' reaction to it , this emphasises the designer 's Pindaric approach to the story . |
| 30 | This then is Theseus ; the other , under the god 's right arm , the bridegroom . |