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Examples of bless

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He looked forward to ' ' a new world blessed with plenty, purified with justice, and sweetened with brotherly kindness.
Thus, if some cities are better governed and richer than others, it is because they are ' blessed ' with substantial stocks of social capital.
Christians might be persecuted but, while the persecuted were blessed, the persecutors certainly were not.
Let us start with the blessing scene from the first act, and consider the background to this scene.
When this was over, the head lama blessed all the monks.
On the contrary, he is quite clear that one of the characteristics of the blessed is that their happiness would be diminished by tragic news.
If the judgement associated with the supreme happiness of the blessed is a false judgement, then the eternally blessed are, in effect, living an eternal mistake.
If the fellow was good, his children will be blessed and have a lot of success, but if he was bad, a lot of evil can hit his offspring.
More important, because child psychology is blessed, or cursed, with so many different methodologies, some good, some bad, a chapter setting these out and evaluating them would have been useful.
In the life of the modern woman, blessed with an almost inexhaustible supply of strings, love is no less episodical than in the life of a man.
Industry, in a great measure, depends on property; and a much greater blessing depends on it, which is the gratification of the most dignified natural affections.
With this book, the growing field of opera-cinema studies is simultaneously burdened and blessed with a wealth of stimulating questions to engage us for some time to come.
When they passed a church along the route, the workers leading the column of demonstrators knelt down and received a blessing from two priests standing on the steps.
He can do this and appear blessed.
Both developments were auspiciously blessed in the 1990s by the good fortune of economic stability, but now face the less favourable climate of the early 2000s.
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