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blessing English

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What does blessing mean?
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blessing

A blessing is something that you are grateful for. If someone gives you their blessing to do something, they support you. A blessing is help from God, or words asking for it.

blessing

(= approval, approving) the formal act of approving he gave the project his blessing his decision merited the approval of any sensible person the act of praying for divine protection (= boon) a desirable state enjoy the blessings of peace a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors (= grace) a short prayer of thanks before a meal their youngest son said grace (= benediction) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection

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Simple sentences

Good health is a great blessing.
What a blessing it is that they did not come.
Children are a blessing.
You have my blessing.
As you have a kind heart, and have been willing to share everything with me, I will send a blessing upon you.
Let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Tom's divorce was a blessing in disguise.
If a young man wants to marry a young woman, he may want to first get her family's blessing.
Being really beautiful can be a mixed blessing.
Poverty is, in a sense, a blessing.
Abraham then immediately returned to his servants and so they went home with heavenly blessing.
What a blessing!

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The beef will seem less tough when she has invoked a blessing upon it.
Well, Mr. Hammond, if you'll put down that paper, I'll say a blessing.
Let God's blessing be upon these swords.
By what authority do you, John Lackland, Prince of England.. claimtobe crownedthisday, sovereign of the realm.. andasdefenderoftheHolySepulcher, to receive the blessing of the church?
If I know my granddaughter, she isn't going to marry Tony without your blessing.
The death of your daughter would have been a blessing compared to this. Mr. Collins!
From her heart has come an ever-increasing flow of virtue and moral blessing.
I give thanks for all I have, and I do give thanks for this new blessing.
Wait a minute. For a big thing, we always ask a blessing.
I was sure you'd approve my choice, and I intended to ask for your blessing.
All we want is your blessing.
Late on, you may conside that a blessing.
I gave them both my blessing.
Lord, let thy most benevolent blessing fall upon these, thy children. and through thy grace, bring to them peace and contentment. to the end of their days. Thank you.
My blessing on all of you.
Hammond. Well, Mr. Hammond, if you'll put down that paper, I'll say a blessing.
Mr. Bligh, we'd be pleased if you'd ask God's blessing on our journey.
By what authority do you, John Lackland, Prince of England claim to be crowned this day, sovereign of the realm and as defender of the Holy Sepulcher, to receive the blessing of the church?
My blessing.
Before it was a pleasure to be here, but this time it's a blessing.
It may be a great blessing to France if people can get books and learn to read.
For a big thing, we always ask a blessing.
The field is clear, and you have my blessing.
So if you want this young lady to read to you, go ahead with my blessing.
Later on, you may consider that a blessing.
If she will consent. you have my blessing.
He has my blessing, too.
Begin a meal with a good blessing, Johnny.
Prince, you'll address your compliments after the blessing.
You're distressed now, but in time you'll become accustomed to the idea. You'll give us your blessing.
Well, that's one blessing, anyway.
You have my blessing.
The way I see it. gold can be as much of a blessing as a curse.
Here, son, here's a present for you with my blessing.
Maybe it's a blessing.

News and current affairs

Turkey's seeming fall from grace with the US may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
Though Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution in 1979 disrupted Israel's old alliance with Iran, the two countries continued to conduct business with America's blessing.
Europe's relatively newfound fiscal discipline probably was a blessing in maintaining market confidence, and thus in immunizing the Continent, during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian financial panics.
It has been correctly said over and again that Arafat was a mixed blessing for his people.
For Sino-Russian relations, such fundamental uncertainties may be a blessing.
Indeed, with the main exception of France, the euro does not seem to have been a blessing for the countries that adopted it.
Good health is a blessing.
Judging by the criticism, one might consider zero inflation a blessing.
But opening those markets to foreign investors, which has been the dominant strategy for developing them, was a mixed blessing.
Why do oil riches turn out to be a curse as often as they are a blessing?
What can countries do to ensure that natural resources are a blessing rather than a curse?
If Russia does veto the Ahtisaari plan, the EU's united facade will likely fracture, with many European countries refusing either to join the US in recognizing an independent Kosovo without the UN's blessing or to send a supervisory mission there.
In retrospect, German reunification was more a curse than a blessing.
Are GMOs a blessing or a curse for these people and the farmers among them?
For these countries, globalization is a mixed blessing.
Resources should be a blessing, not a curse.
Greenwood and Scharfstein argue that increased financialization was a mixed blessing.
The equivocal nature of Iran's alliances, however, can be a mixed blessing.
Still, there is an upside here. Europe's relatively newfound fiscal discipline probably was a blessing in maintaining market confidence, and thus in immunizing the Continent, during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian financial panics.
The best that can be said is that farm reform in rich countries would be a mixed blessing for the world's poor.

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