"Through the mothers' group, bless it, we made all these friends.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said his group "blesses the heroic operation in Jerusalem, which was a natural reaction to the Zionist massacre" – a reference to the death of Palestinians in heavy fighting in Gaza last week.
The fourth segment contains seven groups blessed in Jesus' Beatitudes ("Meek, Poor in Spirit, Mourn") and — opposite each — their rewards ("Inherit the Earth," "Kingdom of Heaven," "Be Comforted").
Leonie St. Pierre, 42, a missionary from Port-au-Prince who lost her brother in the quake, considers the group a blessing.
The association is the government-endorsed regulator of law schools and without the group's blessing, Duncan students face severely limited career options.
Sunnis have long accused the government of targeting only Sunni militant groups while blessing Shiite ones.
The Mayor, a hospitable woman who has a reputation for being open-minded to a fault, not only agreed to sign it but welcomed the covern members and their children's group, the Blessed Bees, to the city-council chambers.
Members of this group are blessed with the divine gift of making those with well-reasoned points of view feel like naive clods.
On the surface, The Soft Hills is a group both blessed and cursed by the artistic milieu it occupies, and irrevocably so.
It is unclear whether the C.I.A. officials have concluded that contacts between the ISI and militant groups are blessed at the highest levels of Pakistan's spy service and military, or are carried out by rogue elements of Pakistan's security apparatus.
