In this holy cycle spanning a decade, Taliban and their sectarian cousins bombed us in order to make us better Muslims.
He speaks of a "holy cycle" of applications, data and analytics: build the first, extract the second, apply the third, improve the first, and so on.Consumer-internet giants such as Google and Facebook, Mr Maritz says, have found ways of going through this cycle at greater scale and speed and at lower cost than most enterprises can, using enormous numbers of computers working in parallel.
Benjamin Britten composed the hauntingly powerful song cycle "Holy Sonnets of John Donne" in 1945, after visiting German concentration camps and performing for Holocaust survivors with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
At the conclusion of many of these cycles, the Holy Grail, often in the image of the chalice of salvation in Christ, is transported to a fabulous mythical location in the Orient.
There is a rich cycle of Jewish holy days -- Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Hanukah, Purim, Pesach, Shavuot and Tisha B'Av.
Like Antichrist Superstar Holy Wood uses a song cycle structure, dividing the album into four movements A: In the Shadow, D: The Androgyne, A: Of Red Earth and M: The Fallen to frame Kadmon's story.
I cycled across the causeway to Holy Island, my GPS showing me cycling on water, which seemed quite apposite.
Ms. Tharp explained: "I looked at it, put the choreography to the symphony's second movement, and I said, 'Holy Toledo, Beethoven's meter, cycles and thinking were exactly the same in both.' " Some observers found that Ms. Tharp had ignored Beethoven.
A 2006 attack widely attributed to al-Qaeda in Iraq destroyed the golden dome of Al-ʿAskariyyah Mosque in Sāmarrāʾ, one of Shīʿism's holiest mosques, amplifying the existing cycle of violent retribution and provoking some of the worst sectarian violence of the post-invasion period.
These are the lost tribes of the Holy Land, engaged in the endless cycle of exile and return, destruction and rebuilding.
Today the cycle repeats with none other than the holy grail of Android handsets, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus?
