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It is the triumph of rationalism and secular metaphysics which marks the point of no return.
But so convinced of communism's inevitable triumph is Prince Sihanouk that he is ready to throw in the towel.
His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war.
The Pantheon's interior, still in its original form, is truly majestic and an architectural triumph.
It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.
In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).
These principles may flourish and triumph in the schools ; where it is, indeed, difficult, if not impossible, to refute them.
Franklin agrees that Luke ’ s work is apolitical and believes that Luke ’ s main concern was the “ triumph of God in Paul ’ s arrival in Rome.
According to Davis, " It's great triumph was to prove that the sum of two even numbers is even ".
" He noted that " the real triumph belongs to Stephen Sondheim ... the music is a celebration of 3 / 4 time, an orgy of plaintively memorable waltzes, all talking of past loves and lost worlds ... There is a peasant touch here.
The play received glowing reviews in all the British broadsheets, including The Times: " The Tricycle's latest recreation of a major inquiry is its most devastating "; The Daily Telegraph: " I can't praise this enthralling production too highly ... exceptionally gripping courtroom drama "; and The Independent: " A necessary triumph ".
Unlike in most other role-playing games, eventual triumph of the players is not assumed.
This campaign is derided by ancient historians with accounts of Gauls dressed up as Germanic tribesmen at his triumph and Roman troops ordered to collect seashells as " spoils of the sea ".
Contrary to normal practice the book was written after the TV series was produced, although the line " Basis for the acclaimed public television triumph " is written on the front cover, using the program transcripts as reference.
* Edgar Renteria ( 1996 – 1998 ) — Rentería is remembered for his 11th inning two-out RBI single in Game Seven of the 1997 World Series to give Florida a 3 – 2 triumph over the Cleveland Indians.
Jesus enters Jerusalem in triumph and drives the money changers from the temple, holds a last supper, prays to be spared the coming agony, and is betrayed.
John's revelation of divinity is Jesus ' triumph over death, the eighth and greatest sign.
Opponents denounced the law as a triumph of the hated slave power -- that is the political power of the rich slave owners, who would buy up the best lands in Kansas leaving ordinary men with the leftovers.
It is a triumph of poetic genius over unpoetic matter.
However, Lughnasadh itself is a celebration of Lugh's triumph over the spirits of the Other World who had tried to keep the harvest for themselves.
The fate of the menorah used in the Second Temple is recorded by Josephus, who states that it was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph of Vespasian and Titus.
Therefore, the celebration of the Eucharist is the experience of the Lord's triumph over sin.
It is this faith, born of racial experience and wisdom, which gives the oppressed the strength to outlive the oppressors and to endure until the day of ultimate triumph when we shall " be brought forth from bondage unto freedom, from sorrow unto joy, from mourning unto festivity, from darkness unto great light, and from servitude unto redemption.

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For this victory, Plutarch tells us, he was awarded a second triumph that was even more splendid than was the first.
After a few more raids across the Rhine, which resulted in the recovery of two of the three legion's eagles lost in 9, Germanicus was recalled to Rome and informed by Tiberius that he would be given a triumph and reassigned to a different command.
Godwin was a gradualist anarchist rather than a revolutionary anarchist ; he differed from most later anarchists in preferring above revolutionary action the gradual and, as it seemed to him, more natural process of discussion among men of good will, by which he hoped truth would eventually triumph through its own power.
Kreeft says that being all-powerful doesn't mean being able to do what is logically contradictory, e. g., giving freedom with no potentiality for sin, c ) God's own suffering and death on the cross brought about his supreme triumph over the devil, d ) God uses suffering to bring about moral character, quoting apostle Paul in Romans 5, e ) Suffering can bring people closer to God, and f ) The ultimate " answer " to suffering is Jesus himself, who, more than any explanation, is our real need.
Some years later, he resumed composing, and, after one more setback, enjoyed his greatest triumph with Saffò ( Naples, 1840 ).
Equally, he saw that friendship with Prussia and Britain, following its triumph in the Seven Years War, could offer more to aid his plans than either Austria or France.
Crassus was honored only with an ovation ( less than a triumph ), even though the danger to Rome and the destruction to Roman lives and property merited much more.
When Valerian sunk under the weight of shame and grief, his skin, stuffed with straw, and formed into the likeness of a human figure, was preserved for ages in the most celebrated temple of Persia ; a more real monument of triumph, than the fancied trophies of brass and marble so often erected by Roman vanity.
Cleopatra's triumph over her lover is attested to by Caesar himself, who gibes that Antony “ is not more manlike / Than Cleopatra ; nor the queen of Ptolemy / More womanly than he ” ( 1. 4. 5-7 ).
In the Colosseum, in what had been originally prepared for Gordian III ’ s planned Roman triumph over the Persians, more than 1, 000 gladiators were killed along with hundreds of exotic animals including hippos, leopards, lions, giraffes, and one rhinoceros.
Plutarch, Camillus: " Camillus ... assumed more to himself than became a civil and legal magistrate ; among other things, in the pride and haughtiness of his triumph, driving through Rome in a chariot drawn with four white horses, which no general either before or since ever did ; for the Romans consider such a mode of conveyance to be sacred, and especially set apart to the king and father of the gods.
Despite historians such as G. R. Elton, who treated the Acts as merely a triumph of Tudor efficiency, modern British, and particularly Welsh historians are more likely to investigate evidence of the damaging effects of the Acts on Welsh identity, culture, and economy.
In letters written at the time, the author's reaction to the film was positive, saying " The picture is more faithful to the novel than any other adaptation of a novel that Hollywood has ever produced " and " It was a real triumph.
It's undoubtedly distinctive – and it sounds more distinctive with each passing year – but it's strictly an intellectual triumph and, after a pair of albums that were musically and intellectually sound, it's a bit of a letdown, no matter how successful it was ".
Additionally, the timing of Franco's announcement of the decision to create the monument suggests one side is being commemorated more than the other: on 1 April 1940, the day of the victory parade to celebrate the first anniversary of his triumph over the Republic, Franco announced his personal decision to raise a splendid monument to those who had fallen in his cause.
The new Imperial couple had Flavian's remains brought to Constantinople in a way that, in the words of a chronicler, more resembled " a triumph .. than a funeral procession ".
In the second day, Pope Benedict's homily had pronounced in front of more than 500, 000 pilgrims a reference to the Fátima prophecy about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and related it to the final " glory of the Most Holy Trinity ".
Popular belief says the phrase originated in ancient Rome: As a Roman general was parading through the streets during a victory triumph, standing behind him was his slave, tasked with reminding the general that, although at his peak today, tomorrow he could fall, or — more likely — be brought down.
This may seem a cumbrous, slow method to the impatient, but the impatient are more concerned for immediate triumph than for the education of constructive development.
: From the earliest ages of the Catholic Church a Christian people, whether in time of triumph or more especially in time of crisis, has addressed prayers of petition and hymns of praise and veneration to the Queen of Heaven and never has that hope wavered which they placed in the Mother of the Divine King, Jesus Christ ; nor has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen.
Winning this competition was a personal triumph for him because he won out over sculptor J. Q. A. Ward, a much older and more established artist and one whom Borglum had clashed with earlier in regard to the National Sculpture Society.
Informal part-whole reasoning was consciously invoked in metaphysics and ontology from Plato ( in particular, in the second half of the Parmenides ) and Aristotle onwards, and more or less unwittingly in 19th-century mathematics until the triumph of set theory around 1910.
Following her triumph in Captain Jinks, Ethel gave sterling performances in many top-rate productions, and it was in Sunday that she uttered what would be her most famous line, " That's all there is, there isn't any more.
The title triumph was all the more impressive by the fact that Liverpool had entered 1982 in 10th place, with the likes of Manchester United and minnows Swansea City leading the pack then, before a turnaround in Liverpool's fortunes saw the league championship trophy return to Anfield after two years away.

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