In casual usage, " miracle " is seen as any event that is statistically unlikely but beneficial, ( such as surviving a natural disaster ), or simply a " wonderful " occurrence, regardless of likelihood, such as a birth.

He made you feel you were involved in a wonderful event that was happening before your eyes.

It is a wonderful family event for all.

" This will be so special for us, staging a reunion for such a wonderful and prestigious event ," said Ronnie Wood when the announcement of the concert was made.

Certainly, the Hong Kong event encapsulates all the really good things that the game has to offer – splendid organisation, wonderful sporting spirit, universal camaraderie, admirable field behaviour, the most enjoyable crowd participation, the chance for emergent rugby nations to lock horns with the mighty men of,,,, and the Barbarians.

As the signature event for the Kellogg PTMBA, the Managers ' Ball provides a wonderful opportunity for PTMBA students, alumni and faculty to come together to enjoy an elegant evening while at the same time also raising money for a student-selected local charity. A wide array of silent auction items is also available for bidding with all proceeds benefiting the selected charity.

After completing his retreat in the early months of 1991, Geshe Kelsang announced the creation of the NKT-IKBU, an event which was celebrated by his students in the NKT-IKBU magazine Full Moon as " a wonderful development in the history of the Buddhadharma.

The World Bodypainting Festival in Pörtschach ( previously held in Seeboden ) in Austria is the biggest art event in the bodypainting theme and thousands of visitors admire the wonderful work of the participants.

In the Spring of that same year, Geshe Kelsang announced the creation of the ' New Kadampa Tradition ', an event which was celebrated in the NKT-Magazine Full Moon as " a wonderful development in the history of the Buddhadharma.

After completing his retreat in the spring of 1991, Geshe Kelsang announced the creation of the NKT-IKBU, an event which was celebrated by his students in the NKT-IKBU magazine Full Moon as " a wonderful development in the history of the Buddhadharma.

But a wonderful event, caused by Providence, prevented the execution of either of those designs for on a sudden, in the presence of the bishop, and Sighard, the son of the king who had turned monk, and who reigned after him jointly with his brother Suefred, and of a considerable number of men, that same coffin was found to answer the length of the body, insomuch that a pillow might also be put in at the head ; and at the feet the coffin was four fingers longer than the body.

This is a wonderful event that is always rewarding for all involved.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

Please do put more pictures and articles in about Liberace, as he is truly one of our greatest entertainers and a really wonderful person.

Thor Hanover ( Adios-Trustful Hanover ) is a wonderful looking prospect and another good individual, with solid, rugged conformation, good, flat bone and excellent feet.

Torrid Freight ( Torrid-Breeze On Hal ) is a very rugged, strong-made colt with a wonderful stride who has done with ease everything asked of him.

or the Love For Three Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful, imaginative, colorful, and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet, The Stone Flower.

Technical knowledge is a wonderful thing, but it's useless unless it eventually feeds the cash register.

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

`` The food is wonderful and it is a lot of fun to be here ''!!

Willie's wonderful walloping Sunday -- four home runs -- served merely to emphasize how happy he is to be playing for Alvin Dark.

But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.

The result is rather wonderful, but so rich as to be indigestible if taken in too thick slices.

The job security enjoyed by Doc Doolittle, and nearly all members of the Armed Forces, is a wonderful thing.

Meanwhile, in the garden, Fredrik and Carl-Magnus reflect on how difficult it is to be annoyed with Desiree, agreeing " It Would Have Been Wonderful " had she not been quite so wonderful.

Classics Professor G. P. Goold at University College, wrote of Housman's scholarly accomplishments: " The legacy of Housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value ; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about Latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work ....

That is a most wonderful thing.

This is He who places prophets in the Church, instructs teachers, directs tongues, gives powers and healings, does wonderful works, often discrimination of spirits, affords powers of government, suggests counsels, and orders and arranges whatever other gifts there are of charismata ; and thus make the Lord ’ s Church everywhere, and in all, perfected and completed.

Writing to Gebhard in February 1945, Margarete said, " How wonderful that he has been called to great tasks and is equal to them.

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

" And then they went to work and elaborated this one principle all through, and it is a most wonderful ideal: how all that we call ethics they simply bring out from that one great principle of non-injury and doing good.

Another example of the textual arguments against the Testimonium is that it uses the Greek term poietes to mean " doer " ( as part of the phrase " doer of wonderful works ") but elsewhere in his works, Josephus only uses the term poietes to mean " poet ," whereas this use of " poietes " seems consistent with the Greek of Eusebius.

" I have had a wonderful life but it is over and my nerves get worse and I am afraid they will have to take me away.

Brandauer is a wonderful actor, and he chooses not to play the villain as a cliché.

However, Wilde advocated non-capitalist individualism: " of course, it might be said that the Individualism generated under conditions of private property is not always, or even as a rule, of a fine or wonderful type " a critique which is " quite true.

These are rare and wonderful to see as they are very delicate and last usually less than a day.

Given the way black music has been named by ( usually ) outsiders ever since the blues, the reaction to the name by artists who ostensibly fit into the ' neo-soul ' category represents a wonderful example of black self-determination in an industry that is still defiantly wedded to narrow definitions and images of black folks ".

A running gag occurred when Peter ( and on one occasion, Harry as well ) shuddered every time " wonderful personality " was used in reference to Mary Jane due to the fact it is usually believed that someone who is described with a " wonderful personality " means they are hideous in appearance.

It is a wonderful family affair that includes a festival, parade, Queen's pageant, and a car show.

Jimmy Witherspoon, Blues singer ( and a good one ), and the Ike Isaacs Trio, which has done such wonderful work for two afternoons now, helping him with the musical examples.

I will show you a great many who have become worse through following it .... The solemn prayers of the Church are abolished, but now there are very many who never pray at all .... I have never entered their conventicles, but I have sometimes seen them returning from their sermons, the countenances of all of them displaying rage, and wonderful ferocity, as though they were animated by the evil spirit .... Who ever beheld in their meetings any one of them shedding tears, smiting his breast, or grieving for his sins ?...

" They now inform him that " at a certain stage of intoxication, no human power could keep from setting out, with impressive unction, to tell about a wonderful adventure which he had once had with his grandfather's old ram — and the mention of the ram in the first sentence was as far as any man had heard him get, concerning it.

In the foreword to a booklet published to commemorate his visit, he wrote, " I have now travelled over most of Canada and have seen many wonderful things, but I have seen nothing more beautiful and more wonderful than the great park which British Columbia has done me the honour to call by my name ".

The now most common meaning of weird, " odd, strange ", is first attested in 1815, originally with a connotation of the supernatural or portentuous ( especially in the collocation weird and wonderful ), but by the early 20th century increasingly applied to everyday situations.

After all these wonderful years working together, we realized that now is the time to pursue our personal goals and solo efforts in earnest ... No matter what happens, we will always love each other as friends and sisters and will always support each other as artists.

We had our day, it was wonderful but it is best to leave it now.

However, the Boatman, a grey old man now, is said to row on the lake to this day, longing to see those wonderful blue eyes again.

" They tell me now — Sony — that they ’ re going to release this on Blu-ray, and it will really look wonderful and sound wonderful.

Overwhelmed that the brother he had lost had now returned to him, Jack begs Steve to go back to Salem, trying to tell him all about the wonderful life he had once had.

The many tributaries to the Great Ouse are now contained by massive flood banks and from these banks wonderful panoramic views of the surrounding countryside can be seen.

Janet is generally believed, however, to have been responsible for a very large number of the wonderful portrait drawings now preserved at Chantilly, and at the Bibliothèque Nationale, and to him is attributed the portrait of an unknown man at Hampton Court, that of the dauphin Francis, son of Francis I at Antwerp, and one other portrait, that of Francis I in the Louvre.

It is a long and wonderful story of the Lord ’ s guidance and provision, but the result is that we have been here since June 2001, Margaret has felt much better, and I also love the seminary where I am now teaching.

This is also the same road that, in the time of the Ptolemies and Romans, led from Coptos in an easterly direction to the harbour of Leucos Limen ( now Qossier ) on the Red Sea ; the great highway and commercial thoroughfare of merchants of all countries, who traded in the wonderful products of Arabia and India ; the bridge of the nations, which of old united Asia and Europe.

My debut should have been later in the Viennese house and now I have to stand in for one of the most wonderful Queens of the Night!

I have a wonderful baby ’ s father and have a great relationship with him, however I ’ ve been single for some time now.

Even though the Mr. and Mrs. North novels now may appear overly deliberate in their pacing, they still prove wonderful reading as mysteries, and the glimpses they provide of our past social history give them a nostalgic and authentic period flavor.

She ultimately breaks free from from the Black Mercy and confides in Barbara that despite the wonderful things she experienced while in the fantasy world, she preferred to live in the here and now.

All the virtues which had begun to grow at different stages of his life now continued their growth in a wonderful way, without any of them impeding the others.

The cool water felt wonderful on Graham's parched lips and his body now feels rejuvenated.

To promote local textile there now is a Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation ( BSCIC ) center in Bandarban together with a wonderful sales centre.