The real miracle is that a military junta was willing to let them do it .” Friedman said the “ Chilean economy did very well, but more important, in the end the central government, the military junta, was replaced by a democratic society.

Modern folk Catholic beliefs and practices include miracle stories about priests in Ireland, stories about apparitions of the Virgin Mary and other saints in Spain, and folk practices surrounding vows to saints in Latin America and Europe.

Finally, since testimonies tend to conflict with one another when it comes to the miraculous — that is, one man's religious miracle may be contradicted by another man's miracle — any testimony relating to the fantastic is self-denunciating.

(“ With So Little to be Sure Of ”) Word comes of a new miracle, two towns over, of a statue with a warm heart.

For example, Lewis said that a miracle is something that comes totally out of the blue.

It is then that Fertility finds Tender and gives him a prediction to make on TV that will seem like a miracle when it comes true.

Other explanation of him wearing a mask was that his face had burned due to his practicing his magic or miracle that would have qualified him as a profit, It is worth of noting that word magician comes from the word Magi that was the name of ancient Iranian priests and they used to perform different ritual like walking through fire ( worth mentioning that all priest wore white attire and north east of Iran mountain are rich source of asbestos that in Parsi it is call fire proof cotton ) and making different elixir for different illness or predicting future through reading the astronomical signs.

The ability comes so naturally that we are apt to forget what a miracle it is.

Wallerstein's idea of a world-economy and world-system originating in Europe also comes through in European miracle theory.

The Rebbe has been often called “ the miracle worker ” because of his gift of successful spiritual advice, blessings, and the high level of prayer he provides for everybody who comes to see him.

That Ribbentrop was able to perform even this miracle only came home to me much later ".

There, Diego's miracle of the roses occurred: he found roses from the region of Castille in Spain, former home of bishop Zumárraga.

After rescuing Madeline, Ernest takes the sign of her " resurrection " as a miracle, returns home with Madeline and uses all his skills to repair the damage to her body.

Legend has it that around AD 1500 the Virgin Mary performed a miracle here, freezing into place a shepherd boy who tried to take home the small statue, thus foiling the theft.

He is called zealot because in seeing this miracle, Simon left his home, his parents and his bride and followed Christ.

Dunstable is convinced that he has seen a miracle, but the doctor dismisses the possibility that Willie was ever dead, and Mrs. Ramsay is upset that the whore Mary Dempster is in her home.

Mount Argus was the official home of Saint Charles of Mount Argus who was a well known Passionist priest in 19th-century Ireland, he was mentioned as a miracle worker in the book Ulysses, Circe chapter.

Meanwhile, Kristy witnesses a miracle when Jackie Rodowsky hits his first home run, hitting Cokie, who is sitting in a tree nearby, in the process.

The last episodes featured a Christmas miracle ( snow fell in Houston as Long's character Ashley and her unborn baby, who had been presumed dead after a flash flood, returned home to loving husband Justin ) and a New Year's series finale where the local TV station was bought out and all the major characters were fired.

The novelist Anthony Burgess, who owned one and used it as a home and means of travelling throughout Western Europe in the late 1960s, described the Bedford Dormobile as " a miracle of British design, although much let down by slipshod British execution — screws missing, bad wood-planing ..."

But barring a miracle, and don't hold your breath for it, Chicago will not see the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet, which stems from the ballet cradle of the Maryinsky and is one of the great companies of the world.

The Independent review of the 1995 National Theatre revival praised the production, writing " For three hours of gloriously barbed bliss and bewitchment, Sean Mathias's production establishes the show as a minor miracle of astringent worldly wisdom and one that is haunted by less earthy intimations.

Fay tries to get Hapgood to expose the miracle, but he warns her no one will believe it is a fake, because it works as a miracle should.

The debate over the credibility of the miracle of Jonah is not simply a modern one.

Augustine responds that if one is to question one miracle, then one should question all miracles as well ( section 31 ).

The relation he there gives of the miracle is as follows: " On the nones ( or 7th ) of May, about the third hour, ( or nine in the morning ,) a vast luminous body, in the form of a cross, appeared in the heavens, just over the holy Golgotha, reaching as far as the holy mount of Olivet, ( that is, almost two English miles in length ,) seen not by one or two persons, but clearly and evidently by the whole city.

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

This Wöhler Myth, as historian of science Peter J. Ramberg called it, originated from a popular history of chemistry published in 1931, which, " ignoring all pretense of historical accuracy, turned Wöhler into a crusader who made attempt after attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute vitalism and lift the veil of ignorance, until ' one afternoon the miracle happened '".

Celestine's remains survived the 2009 L ' Aquila earthquake with one Italian spokesman saying it was " another great miracle by the pope ".

In writing of one miracle associated with Oswald, Bede gives some indication of how Oswald was regarded in conquered lands: years later, when his niece Osthryth moved his bones to Bardney Abbey in Lindsey, its inmates initially refused to accept them, " though they knew him to be a holy man ", because " he was originally of another province, and had reigned over them as a foreign king ", and thus " they retained their ancient aversion to him, even after death ".

John Davies notes that one can scarcely " conceive of any miracle more superfluous " in that part of Wales than the creation of a new hill.

This is also illustrated in one of the miracle windows.

Its successes have caused some to call Southeast Asia an economic miracle and Singapore one of the " Four Asian Tigers ".

This miracle is one of the earliest successful examples of psychological operations in warfare ( psyops ).

They were able to get away with innuendo that would have been unheard of a mere ten years before — in one episode, Sandy refers to Julian and his skill at the piano as: " a miracle of dexterity at the cottage upright "; innocuous in itself, unless one knows that a ' cottage ' was the polari term for a public toilet where men met for anonymous sexual encounters and ' upright ' referred to an erection.

We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.

* The West African Moringa oleifera tree is regarded as a " tree of life " or " miracle tree " by some because it is arguably the most nutritious source of plant-derived food discovered on the planet.

As minister of finance ( 1972 to 1974 ), he gained credit for financial policies that consolidated the Wirtschaffswunder ( economic miracle ), giving Germany the most stable currency and economic position in the world.

This apparent miracle led to the steady growth of Cuthbert's posthumous cultus, to the point where he became the most popular saint of Northern England.

Large gangs of youth around his age were drawn to him, most of whom claimed to possess special gifts of God and thought themselves miracle workers.

In particular, the investigation highlighted the fact that the most desperate miracle seekers who attend a Hinn crusade — the quadriplegics, the brain-damaged, virtually anyone with a visibly obvious physical condition — are never allowed up on stage ; those who attempt to get in the line of possible healings are intercepted and directed to return to their seats.

In the message he thanked the officers and men for their assistance and reminded them that " the singular interpositions of Providence in our feeble condition were such, as could scarcely escape the attention of the most unobserving ; while the unparalleled perseverance of the Armies of the U States, through almost every possible suffering and discouragement for the space of eight long years, was little short of a standing miracle.

John Ross has analysed the long term correlation between the level of investment in the economy, rising from 5-7 % of GDP at the time of the Industrial Revolution in England, to 25 % of GDP in the post-war German ‘ economic miracle ’, to over 35 % of GDP in the world ’ s most rapidly growing contemporary economies of India and China.

After experiencing its Wirtschaftswunder or " economic miracle " in 1950, West Germany became the most prosperous economy of Europe.

With the change of occupation policy, most significantly thanks to the currency reform of 1948, Germany eventually made an impressive recovery, later known as the Wirtschaftswunder (" economic miracle ").

The most notable example was when Helga demanded that Hägar speak the truth at least one time, Hägar agrees and does so, something that pleasantly surprises even God himself, who promptly makes angels playing the trumpets in celebration of this " miracle ".

This apparent miracle led to the steady growth of Cuthbert's posthumous cult, to the point where he became the most popular saint of Northern England.

As an example, Hal Lindsey, one of the most popular American promoters of dispensationalism, has written in The Late Great Planet Earth that per Book of Ezekiel ( 39: 6-8 ) that after Jews fight off a " Russian " invasion, Jews will see this as a miracle and convert to Christianity.

Merlin, jealous of Hank having replaced him both as the king's principal adviser and as the most powerful sorcerer of the realm, begins spreading rumors that Hank is a fake and cannot supply another miracle.

All Houses in the city witnessed this great miracle and knew that House Baenre was the most favored House of the goddess.

In Israel, the fourth side of most dreidels is inscribed with the letter < span style =" font-size: 200 %"> פ </ span > ( Pei ), rendering the acronym, נס גדול היה פה, Nes Gadol Hayah Poh —" A great miracle happened here " referring to the miracle occurring in the land of Israel.

" He stated also that the Hall " remedied its most shameful chapter and the biggest miracle is it took this long to do it.

* Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni: Sam Spiegel: The incredible life and times of Hollywood's most iconoclastic producer, the miracle worker who went from penniless refugee to show biz legend, and made possible The African Queen, On the waterfront, the bridge over the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia, a passage to india.

* The most significant difference is that in the film Matilda's powers are treated more as a conventional superpower and less as a miracle.

In most cases, authors associate each miracle with specific teachings that reflect the message of Jesus.

The Common basilisk, along with the other members of its genus, take the nickname the " Jesus Christ Lizard " or " Jesus Lizard " because when fleeing from predators, they gather sufficient momentum to run across the water for a brief distance while holding most of their body out of the water ( similar to the Biblical miracle of Jesus walking on water ).

The most famous one is that of Nohad El Shami, a 55-year-old woman at the time of the miracle who was healed from a partial paralysis.

" Bob McCann, author of Encyclopedia of African American actresses in film and television ( 2010 ), considered it " simply one of the most haunting R & B records ever made ," while Robert Christgau named it " miraculous " and explained " the miracle being that it's by Diane Warren and you want to hear it again.