She leans forward to restrain the Christ Child as he plays roughly with a lamb, the sign of his own impending sacrifice.

God would send his own fire to consume the sacrifice as a sign of his presence.

Excavators also found the remains of what may have been ritual fires, animal and human bones, and a headless skeleton near the southeastern gate, possibly a sign of consecration sacrifice.

As the inclusion of expensive grave goods and of slaves or retainers became a sign of high status in the Bronze Age, the prohibitive cost led to the development of " fake " grave goods or funerary art, where artwork meant to depict grave goods or retainers is produced for the burial and deposited in the grave in place of the actual sacrifice.

Manager Danny Murtaugh issued the sign to Robertson, who had no sacrifice bunts on the season.

* 400 Iranian volunteers sign up to sacrifice their lives in " occupied Islamic countries ", particularly Israel, after being inspired by a fatwa from a top hardline cleric giving religious backing to suicide missions.

They demand a sacrifice from him to prove his loyalty: he is forced to sign away his potential claim to Shanshu, in his own blood, the Circle unable to understand that Angel would do good just for the sake of it rather than for any reward.

Aigeus had said that the god would have a message for him with the painted sail, and Theseus thinks that if he paints it then his father will read it as a sign to sacrifice himself to the god.

He and his brothers disputed who should rule, and he prayed to Poseidon to send a sign from the sea that he was the chosen of the gods, which he promised to immediately sacrifice to the god.

In the end, she sacrifice her life to protect Maya as a sign of their friendship.

The plagues and arrival of foreigners were taken as a sign that their god, Camaxtli, who demanded human sacrifice, wanted the Tlaxcala to embark on more wars of conquest.

In Hellenistic astrology, the sign of the ram was mythologically associated with the golden winged ram that rescued Phrixos and his sister Helle from the altar where they were to be offered as a sacrifice to Zeus.

Blood sacrifice to the Maya gods was vigorously opposed by the Spanish clergy as the most visible sign of native apostasy, as De Landa, who was later to become the second bishop of the Yucatán, makes clear:

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

the art of preprinting in distortion was similarly perfected by the sign makers ; ;

Sustaining members may sign up at $25 for the ten-concert season ; ;

The lack of financial benefit can also be seen as a sign of commitment to an activity ; and until the 1970s the Olympic rules required that competitors be amateurs.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

Johnson said he would sooner sever his right arm from his body than sign the law, and vetoed it ; and Congress overrode his veto.

Article 25 of the Thirty-Nine Articles, speaking of the sacraments, says: " Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures ; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.

The numbers of AD / CE years are not changed and are written with either no sign or a positive sign ; thus in general n AD / CE is simply n or + n.

where θ < sub > r, p </ sub > is the angle between r and p measured from r to p ; an important distinction because without it, the sign of the cross product would be meaningless.

His motto was Simplex sigillum veri ; Simplicity is the sign of truth.

The apparent setting of Joshua is the 13th century ; this was a time of widespread city-destruction, but with a few exceptions ( Hazor, Lachish ) the destroyed cities are not the ones the Bible associates with Joshua, and the ones it does associate with him show little or no sign of even being occupied at the time.

Of notable importance is Isaiah 7: 14, where the prophet is assuring king Ahaz that God will save Judah from the invading armies of Israel and Syria ; the sign that will prove this is the forthcoming birth of a child called Emmanuel, " God With Us ".

Notes were originally hand-written ; although they were partially printed from 1725 onwards, cashiers still had to sign each note and make them payable to someone.

Capricornus () is one of the constellations of the zodiac ; it is often called Capricorn, especially when referring to the corresponding astrological sign.

It is a sign of this new life to the service of which the Church's minister is consecrated ; accepted with a joyous heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the Reign of God.

Columba then saves a swimmer from the monster with the sign of the Cross and the imprecation, " Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man ; go back with all speed.

One crucial sign of this is that one need not believe, or even do, anything to be Jewish ; the historic definition of ' Jewishness ' requires only that one be born of a Jewish mother, or that one convert to Judaism in accord with Jewish law.

Around the same time, East Bay Ray had tried to pressure the rest of the band to sign to the major record label Polydor Records ; Biafra stated that he was prepared to leave the group if the rest of the band wanted to sign to the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor.

The sign originated in a superscript e ; a handwritten Sütterlin e resembles two parallel vertical lines, like an umlaut.

This manifestation may be an early sign of multiple sclerosis or the beginning of sewer's cramp.

If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.

If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

Both man and wife should be aware of the fact that a lack of climax, and even the absence of the anticipated keen pleasure are not a sign that the wife may be cold or frigid.

A sign that may be lowered to the cheek level by an ASL speaker is more likely to be produced by a Black Sign Language speaker on the forehead, for example: teacher.

Typically, young children will make an ASL sign in the correct location and use the correct hand motion, but may be able only to approximate the hand shape, for example, using one finger instead of three in signing water.

It may be an actual helmet or a magical sign with a rather poetic name.

If ADH production is excessive in heart failure, Na < sup >+</ sup > level in the plasma may fall ( hyponatremia ), and this is a sign of increased risk of death in heart failure patients.

As a minimum many countries require that a bus carrying students displays a sign, and may also adopt yellow liveries.

The writers of the study had initially speculated that the reason for this is due to endocrinology with larger breasts indicating higher levels of estrogen and a sign of greater fertility, but the researchers said that " Men may be looking more often at the breasts because they are simply aesthetically pleasing, regardless of the size.

A Venerable has as of yet no feast day, no churches may be built in his or her honor, and the church has made no statement on the person's probable or certain presence in heaven, but prayer cards and other materials may be printed to encourage the faithful to pray for a miracle wrought by his or her intercession as a sign of God's will that the person be canonized.

As a procedural alternative, plaintiff's counsel may attempt to sign up every similarly-situated person that counsel can find as a client.

The myth in Catasterismi may be derived from the fact that a set of constellations appear close together in the sky, in and near the Zodiac sign of Libra, namely Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Boötes, and Virgo.

Beyond the calorimetric fact noted above that the latent heats and are always of opposite sign, it may be shown, using the thermodynamic concept of work, that also

If divers are scoring 8 or 9 on most dives, it may be a sign of their extreme skill, or it may be a sign that their dive list is not competitive, and they may lose the meet to a diver with higher DDs and lower scores.