(n.) A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol.
(n.) The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah.
(n.) A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.
(n.) Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power.
(v. t.) To treat as a god; to idolize.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(3) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(4) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(5) If you can get through them, then you are considered a god in the world of cold calling.
(6) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
(7) The characters in the film realise that the “gods are not coming to save us”, he said.
(8) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
(9) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
(10) From the moment God speaks to him until he leaves the ark and steps on to dry land, he never says a word.
(11) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(12) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
(13) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(14) His "Oh God" prayer was actually written after the England team failed in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but is likely to be useful in all future tournaments as well.
(15) OH MY GOD, I just looked it up online,” she wrote.
(16) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
(17) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(18) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
(19) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
(20) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".
Goss
Definition:
(n.) Gorse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients were divided into high and low depression groups using the Zung self-rating depression scale and compared using measures obtained from the Goss-Gerke Inventory on Dental and Psychological Factors.
(2) Jamie Jackson Manchester United’s Ashley Young out for ‘long time’ with serious groin injury Read more Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Old Trafford Last season Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 Referee Mike Jones This season G 15, Y 49, R 1, 3.40 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 7-2 D 5-2 Manchester United Subs from Romero, Pereira, Powell, Rashford, Tuanzebem, Goss, McNair, Varela, Depay, Januzaj, Mata Doubtful None Injured Shaw (broken leg, May), Valencia (ankle, Mar), Rojo (shoulder, unknown), Carrick (unknown), Young (groin, unknown), Schweinsteiger (knee), Jones (match fitness) Suspended None Form LLDWDW Discipline Y37 R0 Leading scorer Rooney 6 Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more Southampton Subs from Stekelenburg, K Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Clasie, Romeu, Tadic, Austin, Pelle, Juanmi Doubtful Stekelenburg (knock) Injured Rodriguez (knee, Mar), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form LWLLWW Discipline Y38 R3 Leading scorer Pellè 6
(3) The singer Elaine Paige, the former Bros star Matt Goss and the DJ Sara Cox will be among the contestants on a festive edition of Strictly Come Dancing.
(4) After the verdict, Ken Goss,a Crown Prosecution Service spokesman, said the defence was baseless.
(5) That way the animals, who have names such as Madde, after Goss’s wife, Fred, Hugo and Polaris, can be followed to see if they’ve strayed into areas at risk of poaching or human conflict.
(6) This sequence, starting at position 4, is completely homologous to the previously published sequence of the tryptic dodecapeptide harboring the catalytically essential (phospho)histidyl residue in the active-site domain of the dikinase from the nonphotosynthetic bacterium, Bacteroides symbiosus (Goss, N.H., Evans, C.T., and Wood, H.G.
(7) CIA talking points prepared for the agency’s then director, Porter Goss, ahead of a 2005 meeting with national security adviser Stephen Hadley said the CIA “urgently” needed George Bush to come up with “a long-term disposition policy for the 12 high-value detainees (HVDs) we hold in overseas detention sites.” In April James Connell, one of al-Baluchi’s attorneys, filed a motion to compel release of the Senate’s full, unredacted, 6,000-page report.
(8) Its three directors when torture took place – George Tenet, Porter Goss and Mike Hayden – blasted it as “marred by errors of fact and interpretation”, in the Wall Street Journal .
(9) Employing a modified Goss-Harris irradiation fusion protocol, we have generated a panel of somatic cell hybrids containing various overlapping fragments of the Xcen-Xp11.4 interval.
(10) The hawks came from Sweden, Germany and Finland: most were huge, pale, taiga forest gosses.
(11) "There has been quite a lot of boasting that unemployment is at less than half the national numbers in Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota – a lot of that is traced to farming," Goss said.
(12) Louis-André Gosse (1791-1873), a liberal-minded Geneva physician, went to Greece in 1827 in order to work, for a couple of years, for the Greek State, which had won its independence just a few years ago.
(13) Therefore I don't agree with Roger Goss of Patient Concern that GPs should "mind their own business".
(14) Other former George W Bush cabinet members or advisers who are working on the Jeb Bush presidential project, according to the Washington Post list, include former homeland security secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, former CIA directors Porter Goss and Michael Hayden, and former attorney general Michael Mukasey.
(15) Even 1989’s edition featured what we are duty-bound to call the “powerhouse stylings” of Bros’s Luke Goss.
(16) Statistical analysis similar to that of Goss and Harris (1975, 1977a, b) has been performed on the segregation data in the hybrid clones.
(17) In this paper we demonstrate a modification of the method first developed by Goss and Harris for generation of irradiation hybrids.
(18) Roger Goss of Patient Concern told the Daily Mail: “This is ludicrous.
(19) 'Drones are a future of conservation' “It’s pretty grim,” Goss, a 28-year-old Kenyan who manages the Mara Elephant Project, said as he stood 50 metres (55 yards) from the carcass.
(20) "You are talking about a real bite out of family budgets," said Ernie Goss, an agricultural economist at Omaha's Creighton University, who was speaking before the release of the government projections.