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He appears again to Macbeth in a vision granted by the Three Witches, wherein Macbeth sees a long line of kings descended from Banquo.
( XXI: 73 ) Jacob is further described as being resourceful and a possessor of great vision ( XXXVIII: 45 ) and is further spoken of as being granted a " tongue of truthfulness to be heard ".
Twice in the series, Geordi refused to be granted natural vision, first by Commander Riker who had been given extraordinary amounts of power by Q and later by Doctor Katherine Pulaski.
In a vision, David's wish was granted and told that from then on, people who lived in the land of Dewi Sant ( Saint David ) " would be forewarned by the dim light of mysterious tapers when and where the death might be expected.
Disney's vision was not realized as funding and permission to start work on his Florida property would not be granted until he agreed to build the Magic Kingdom first.
But she spoke to the hero without any disguise in Book V where he could see her in the true divine form ( a special vision was granted to him ).
In 1976, the accreditation evaluation team from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools said the 19 senior and 20 assistant faculty were " creative in their vision for higher education and eminently qualified ", and the university was granted " candidate for accreditation " status.
Given what later came to light, however, Wooden granted that he may have had " tunnel vision " and that he perhaps " trusted too much ".
The Apocalypse of Peter is framed as a discourse of the Risen Christ to his faithful, offering a vision first of heaven, and then of hell, granted to Peter, the favourite figure of the emerging mainstream Church ( as opposed to James the Just, favourite of the Jewish Christians ).
The game similarly provided a potion that granted the ability to see in darkness as a trap for players who forgot that the main purpose of a light source in the Zork games is not to preserve one's own vision but to repel grues ; taking the night vision potion and turning off one's light source results in the almost immediate encounter with, and subsequent devouring by, a grue.
In chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna is granted a vision of God ( trans.
" He alone was granted the vision denied to all who came before him.
The angels explain to one devil eager to take Laisrén from them that their guest is granted the vision in order that " he will give warning before us to his friends.
The International Documentary Association named its Pare Lorentz Film Festival and its grand prize in honor of Lorentz, granted to individuals whose work best represents the " democratic sensibility, activist spirit and lyrical vision " of Lorentz.
He could see kundalini iconography in cultures worldwide, from ancient Egypt to Quetzalcoatl to the caduceus of Mercury, and believed there was a common basis, and that he had been granted entry to this vision.
These considerations question the current relevance of technoscience, seeing its critique as belonging perhaps to a 1970s view of science, its philosophical foundations having been superseded by post-structuralism, and its vision as merely descriptive of what most contemporary scientists and technologists take for granted.
As of issue 12 in the comic continuation, Angel: After the Fall, Angel's true role in the Apocalypse is ( seemingly ) revealed to him through a vision granted by Wesley ( which he claims comes from the higher ups at Wolfram and Hart ).
Its reference to " Alighieri's vision " is an allusion to Dante Alighieri marking Italy's borders on the Quarnaro River, thus including the province of Istria, a territory granted to Italy after World War I.
* The DC Comics superhero Miss America was originally granted her powers by the Statue in a vision.
A month after she was granted her final divorce decree on July 29, 1944, she married Dr. Kurt " Curtis " Arthur Grotter, a Hollywood insurance broker and former correspondent for a group of Czechoslovakian newspapers and active with the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, as he had a substantial loss of vision.
While in the mortal form of Donald Velez he wore enchanted glasses which granted him super-enhanced vision.

vision and is
What they are after is the beatific vision.
Lincoln's slow progress towards the several marking his achievement is even now unrecognizable as such, and loosely interpreted as the alternation of inconsistency with vision.
On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.
Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.
Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.
This new vision of man that the narrator acquires is also accompanied by a re-vision of his previous view.
He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.
A work so broad, even when it is directed by a leading idea and informed by a moral vision, must necessarily `` fail ''.
The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.
They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.
if it is somber, it is also precise, and the precision lends authority to the vision.
He often spoke of them as his `` ecumenical '' glasses and used them as a symbol of the kind of vision that is required in the church.
It is, he said, a bifocal vision, which can see both the near-at-hand and the distant and keep a Christian in right relation to both.
And yet there is a note of hope, because this same science that is giving us the power of the atom is also giving us atomic vision.
And it is in this new vision of the atom that we find an affirmation and an invigoration of our faith.
The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.
`` All platforms are meaningless: the program of either party is what lies in the vision and conscience of the candidate the party chooses to lead it ''.
The albedo is an important concept in climatology and astronomy, as well as in calculating reflectivity of surfaces in LEED sustainable rating systems for buildings, computer graphics and computer vision.
The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.
Eyes and legs grow quickly, a tongue is formed, and all this is accompanied by associated changes in the neural networks ( development of stereoscopic vision, loss of the lateral line system, etc .).

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