It offers religious advice without fire and brimstone, tackling sensitive topics such as sexuality conservatively but straightforwardly.
Beijing, naturally, is breathing fire and brimstone over the proposed sale, which is one reason the transaction should take place.
In Bournemouth, delegates old enough to remember the Powellite fire and brimstone had to endure one worthy speech after another in praise of tolerance and inclusion.
If he sticks to purely moral themes, while also pushing for budget cuts, his brand of Catholic fervor may come across as all fire and brimstone and no heart.
But already the hardliners are breathing fire and brimstone.
Even Jonah, who should have been very self satisfied at saving the entire city of Ninevah from destruction, was petulant because the promised fire and brimstone was thwarted by a repentant population.
She was fire and brimstone, deep anger, screaming.
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Of course, any mention of religion inside the palace of effete secularism would have raised eyebrows, but Ahmadinejad's fire and brimstone must have been particularly confusing to those unaccustomed with the finer points of myopic Shi'ite mysticism.
Readers may recall that this special FDIC power to manage the failure of a financial giant, called "Orderly Liquidation Authority" in Dodd-Frank, was promoted by its backers as a way to rain fire and brimstone upon a failing bank and its creditors.
At the very least, there would be fire-and-brimstone speeches from House and Senate Republicans and GOP presidential candidates denouncing the president and Treasury secretary for borrowing without Congressional approval.
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His fire-and-brimstone words aren't unfounded: UCLA and State University of New York-Stony Brook researchers found that, all things being equal, unemployed job applicants are viewed as less competent, warm and hireable than employed folks -- whether they were fired, laid off or quit voluntarily.
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