It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.

Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and potency of that which came over Salem.

Other residents of the Oxford Apartments complex noticed terrible smells coming from Apartment 213, as well as the thumps of falling objects and the occasional buzzing of a power saw.

But he agreed with the Left Communists that a separate peace treaty with an imperialist power would be a terrible morale and material blow to the Soviet government, negate all its military and political successes of 1917 and 1918, resurrect the notion that the Bolsheviks secretly allied with the German government, and cause an upsurge of internal resistance.

It is hidden in Viper Manor — the home of a terrible and powerful aristocrat named Lynx, who gained control of the estate after usurping power from and killing the Acacia Dragoons, a familial unit of warriors.

In reviewing the film's sequel twenty-three years later, Variety noted that though the original film was " Intended as a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of unchecked ambition and greed, Stone's 1987 original instead had the effect of turning Douglas ' hugely charismatic ( and Oscar-winning ) villain into a household name and boardroom icon -- an inspiration to the very power players and Wall Street wannabes for whom he set such a terrible example.

Ungoliant had grown great, and less by the power that had gone out of him ; and she rose against him ... Then Morgoth sent forth a terrible cry, that echoed in the mountains.

: " Just as cold arose out of Niflheim, and all terrible things, so also all that looked toward Múspellheim became hot and glowing ; but Ginnungagap was as mild as windless air, and when the breath of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dripped, life was quickened from the yeast-drops, by the power of that which sent the heat, and became a man's form.

* State of Revolution ( 1977 )-An in-depth political depiction of the Russian Revolution of 1917, focusing on Vladimir Lenin as " a great man possessed by a terrible idea ", and the struggles of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin to gain power under him.

However rather than become discouraged Chávez remained relentless in his pursuit of Taylor and due to his greater punching power Chávez made sure that Taylor had to pay a terrible toll in order to win rounds.

At the start of the novel, Leto is not prescient to the degree that his father Paul had been, but he senses the test his father had faced — to embrace a prescient vision of the universe is to set the universe on that path, a terrible responsibility that comes with terrible power.

There he faces the test his father had refused to take, and embraces prescience, its visions, its attendant power, and the terrible price it will extract — to follow his vision, Leto will become a symbiote with the sandworm, setting the universe on the Golden Path, a future in which humanity's survival is assured.

The survivors of the terrible destruction built a floating " Tower " to prevent any future cataclysms, as its occupants would have the power to govern the world due to the Tower's weapons systems.

Ward's most popular novel by far was the religious " novel with a purpose " Robert Elsmere, which portrayed the emotional conflict between the young pastor Elsmere and his wife, whose over-narrow orthodoxy brings her religious faith and their mutual love to a terrible impasse ; but it was the detailed discussion of the " higher criticism " of the day, and its influence on Christian belief, rather than its power as a piece of dramatic fiction, that gave the book its exceptional vogue.

It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use.

And Christ replied to them, ' The term of years of Satan's power has been fulfilled, but other terrible things draw near.

The Dweller reveals that the original Aquaman was " transformed into one akin to a great and terrible enemy of your people and became the vessel of power strange, ancient and terrible.

Doctor Octopus is then able to escape ( still holding power over his octobots ) and vows a " terrible revenge ".

The terrible trio took up refuge in an old, abandoned temple and have only managed to survive because of Shung's power crystal.

Reportedly attractive by Glukkon standards, and having terrible cigar breath, Molluck is obsessed with success, doing anything within his power and cunning to achieve ever more wealth.

During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills, the three guns fired a total of 18, 000. 30 Army rounds in eight and one-half minutes ( an average of over 700 rpm per gun ) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.

As he watched the disaster across the harbor unfold with terrible fury, a spent. 50 caliber machine gun bullet crashed through the glass.

Accurate American rifle and machine gun fire inflicted terrible losses on the enemy, while the Filipinos, many armed with motley firearms or bolos, did not have the firepower to successfully retaliate on most occasions.

`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` It was a terrible thing to do.

What a terrible thing, that `` wailing wall '' in Berlin!!

That ’ s the terrible thing: my inner support has been taken away.

President Clinton spoke to the nation three days after the bombing, saying: " I don't want our children to believe something terrible about life and the future and grownups in general because of this awful thing ... most adults are good people who want to protect our children in their childhood and we are going to get through this ".

About African Americans, Roosevelt said, " I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.

JACK: Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

Of one thing I am, and always have been, convinced — it is not by the State that man can be regenerated, and the terrible woes of this darkened world effectually dealt with.

In 1972, the UNCF adopted, as its motto, the maxim, " A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

For instance, Alabama-born Major Henry Hitchcock, who served in Sherman's staff, declared that " it is a terrible thing to consume and destroy the sustenance of thousands of people ", but if the scorched earth strategy served " to paralyze their husbands and fathers who are fighting ... it is mercy in the end.

I was burrowing ahead trying to get to the park as quickly as possible and then the next thing I knew, I turned around and I saw he'd gone white, gray really, and he fell and his hand brushed me as he fell and he hit the pavement with the most terrible crack and I thought he'd fractured his skull.

The barter of labors of love is confirmed by Gene Roddenberry himself, who said the following during his interview in Yvonne Fern's book, The Last Conversation: " Money is a terrible thing.

It's a terrible, ugly thing, and yet there's a certain response that you get from it, an excitement, because we're all violent people.

Homer's brief description in the Iliad is the earliest surviving literary reference: " a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire ".

* Arthur Fletcher, First Black Pasco Councilmember, Head of the United Negro College Fund and coined term, " A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Hey, try and deal with this terrible thing.

Dickens wrote that it must have " shrivelled " Scroggie ’ s soul to carry " such a terrible thing to eternity ".

: Soviet people well know what a terrible thing war is.

* FieldNotes: A mind is a terrible thing to waste, by Lou Jacobson ( Lingua Franca )

Rock Power was not fond of Hellhammer either-they considered it " the most terrible, abhorrent, and atrocious thing ‘ musicians ’ were ever allowed to record ".

* United Negro College Fund-A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Accordingly, the very first thing that he saw, on entering a village of Hyrcania, was the carcase of a, large wolf, which had been shot just half an hour before his arrival, and which looked terrible in death, " grinning horribly a ghastly grin ;" thus proving the truth of the poet, that, " every where the pleasures of the chase may be enjoyed ," if such may be termed pleasures.

The entire matter was called " a terrible thing to do to the American people " by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.