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1. A number of (politically) prominent individuals have achieved historical repute for their providential and skillful management of exceptional events that defined their tenure in (public) office notwithstanding the reluctance of some who were neither willing or able to meet the extraordinary challenges that confronted them; provoked to action, however, by the enlightened examples of others before taking formal or appropriate action in response to such events
2. Roger’s encounter with Lucille came under unexpected and, he says, even providential circumstances
3. To his way of thinking, this was definitely not an accident, but rather a providential event
4. dependent upon you, from expressing His goodness and the wealth of His providential care
5. The will of Judas and Satan was subservient to the providential will of
6. It is providential this hymn was selected for this day and
7. clearly observe that God’s providential hand is in everything
8. � Using that providential help, Nancy transferred her pistol in her left hand, then used her right hand to take out a fresh pistol magazine
9. They are received as providential messiahs precisely because they are unencumbered with a discernible past and, thus, are ostensibly unburdened by prior affiliations and commitments
10. " In spite of occasional cycles of bad times and commercial depression,� in spite of bloody and expensive wars, such as the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny,�in spite of providential visitation, such as cholera and the Irish potato famine,�the progress of the nation and the increase of wealth have been something astounding
11. Anyway, won’t Sathyam’s absence suit me as well, for the same reason? Well, it could be providential, couldn’t it be? Besides, Sathyam’s presence could have devalued me in Raja’s esteem
12. did they know providential circumstances would come to Helga’s
13. providential that for the moment he was intent only on performing his task correctly
14. The arrangement is so mysterious that it must be providential
15. Therefore he found it providential that the mayor had now some reason to request his presence and because he wished to speak at length with the mayor he had put into Martinmon's mind the thought that some time might pass prior to his return
16. It was providential
17. evangelized, and hence the reference must be, we think, to the providential coming to destroy the
18. and hence the reference must be, we think, to the providential coming to destroy the Jewish
19. McGarvey: “It is a coming, which was to take place before all the cities of Israel should be evangelized, and hence the reference must be, we think, to the providential coming to destroy the Jewish nationality” New Testament Commentary, Matthew and Mark, page 92
20. Other providential opportunities for escaping afterwards occurred, of which, it is probable, those who were now left behind availed themselves; for it is a striking act, and such as cannot be contemplated by the pious mind without sentiments of devout admiration, that history does not record that even one Christian perished in the siege of Jerusalem
21. I refer to the providential selection of the Greek language to be the instrument for the revelation of the gospel; the language of mankind which beyond all others assists and encourages the expression of thought in exact terms
22. It does not consist of a series of abstract ideas or propositions which came to the earth from the Eternal Mind; but it has been embodied in a course of providential actions, extending onward from the beginning of the world to the fulness of times
23. Other providential opportunities for escaping afterwards occurred, of which, it is probable, those who were now left behind availed themselves; for it is a striking act, and such as cannot be contemplated by the pious mind without sentiments of devout admiration, THAT HISTORY
24. Other providential opportunities for escaping afterwards occurred, of which, it is probable, those who were now left behind availed themselves; for it is a striking act, and such as cannot be con-templated by the pious mind without sentiments of devout admiration, THAT HIS-
25. Though Pulcheria Alexandrovna felt that the young man was really too eccentric and pinched her hand too much, in her anxiety over her Rodya she looked on his presence as providential, and was unwilling to notice all his peculiarities
26. With this providential supply I have been able to live for two years
27. BLOOM: (Blows) Providential you came on the scene
28. Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before Mr Tobias or, he being the solicitor rather, old Wall, he meant to say, or Mahony which simply spelt ruin for a chap when it got bruited about
29. Dimmesdale's study! Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, who knew that Heaven promotes its purposes without aiming at the stage-effect of what is called miraculous interposition, were inclined to see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth's so opportune arrival
30. But, fortunately, before he has these attacks he always shows certain premonitory symptoms, which are providential danger-signals, warning us to be upon our guard
31. Nostromo's return was providential
32. I’m old, and I don’t understand the rights and wrongs of it, but it’s come as a providential blessing to him
33. And now that the providential occurrence was apparently close at hand, it would have been sheer absurdity to think that the supply would be short of the need: as absurd as a faith that believed in half a miracle for want of
34. Lydgate's passing by was providential, that he was wonderfully clever in fevers, and that Bulstrode was in the right to bring him forward
35. But the balance had been turned against Lydgate by two members, who for some private reasons held that this power of resuscitating persons as good as dead was an equivocal recommendation, and might interfere with providential favors
36. His doubts did not arise from the possible relations of the event to Joshua Rigg's destiny, which belonged to the unmapped regions not taken under the providential government, except perhaps in an imperfect colonial way; but they arose from reflecting that this dispensation too might be a chastisement for himself, as Mr
37. But since providential indications demand a renunciation from me, I renounce
38. The point of departure, like the point of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to some living being, no matter whom
39. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII
40. As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men whom he had been instructed to curse
41. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from falling amiss
42. This presented a providential occasion to eat another apple-turnover before entering the unknown
43. The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book
44. The Brokenheart who had speared Lucas was raising his sword over his shoulder to strike down another fleeing Providential
45. Oh, this was nothing short of providential! I was absolutely furious and deliriously happy at the same time
46. ” “How providential that he had presence of mind to think of the water-jug!” “I wonder he waked nobody!” “It is to be hoped he will not take cold with sleeping on the library sofa,” &c
47. He said that his life had begun and ended with two providential events
48. Their meeting at the memorial Mass was a providential opportunity for her to let Florentino Ariza know that she, too, thanks to his letters of encouragement, was prepared to erase the past
49. But when at last he walked again, his ankle still painful and his back raw, he had more than enough reasons to believe that destiny had rewarded his perseverance with a providential fall
50. In spite of everything, the delay had been a providential accident for them