Sentences with phrase «acts bring to a close»

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The struggles, risks, discomforts ARE what bring us closer to that clarity if we can believe in ourselves enough (cultivate deep self worthiness) to act on them.

Thomas Aquinas thought that knowledge is in and of itself always good, since any act of knowing «feeds» truth to the intellect, which brings the intellect, and hence the soul, ever closer to perfection.

The act of praying, with all of my beauty and ugliness exposed, brings me closer to the truth of my life and the reality of God's transformative grace.

After reading the book «So You Don't Want to go to Church Anymore» it seems the reason this was happening was because the church tries to teach you to have «precepts» which doesn't help you get closer to God, but instead teachs you to live by acts, as if acts are going to bring you into a closer relationship with God.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

One thing is for sure: If this act of terrorism was supposed to divide the people of London, I know for a fact that all something like this does is bring them closer together as one.

Other times it's the very act of searching online and finding resources that will bring you closer to your dream; like planning out your Europe road trip, or buying less dresses and putting that money away for the day you'll buy your plane ticket.

Arsene Wenger met with Higuain's father, who also acts as the forward's agent, last week and after a positive discussion it seems that the Arsenal manager is close to completing a deal to bring in the talented Bernabeu marksman.

It is going to be a bit of a balancing act for Arsene Wenger, as the Arsenal boss needs to negotiate the middle ground between spending big and bringing in more top quality players to the Arsenal squad and disrupting the close knit feel and balance that we now have.

I'd heard from family members and other moms that the way their partners acted while they gave birth had either helped bring them closer together, or in a few cases, led to lifelong resentment.

Until the close of 30 September 2010, the new Electoral Commission may perform only those functions that are necessary or desirable to bring, or in connection with bringing, the principal Act as amended by this Act into operation.

Today's ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and overruled Prop 8 brought months of anticipation to a close.

In a last major act as president, Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes, bringing his bid to correct what he's called a systematic injustice to a climactic close.

Caroline Spelman by all accounts acted correctly but wanted to make sure she was fully within the rules so brought the arrangement to a close having consulted within the Party.

This acted as a probe, interacting with a wave packet each time its elliptical orbit brought it close to the nucleus.

U.S. Congress Passes Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: House Approval Brings Historic Bill One Step Closer to Signing Coalition for Genetic Fairness / ASHG Press Release - May 1, 2008

We hope that this special issue may help to bring the different actors of nanomedicine closer together and encourage scientists to better understand other actors which act outside their own comfort zone.

The act is pure and brings both beings closer to the origin of human bliss.

Having a clear intention of what you want to do, where you want to go, and how you want to live your life, allows you to act accordingly every day so that you're only bringing yourself closer to that «dream life» in your mind.

When the movement is reversed, the Rectus Abdominis acts to bring the pelvis closer to the rib cage (e.g. with a leg raise movement).

The act of writing down your thoughts brings this process one step closer to reality as it directly transfers your desires into something you can see, touch and feel.

In its vision of the push - and - pull of rehearsal and the revelation of how a play comes to breathing, snorting life onstage, Almereyda's video brings us close to the act of creation.

If you focus on the acting alone, it's fun to watch these two circle each other — but the movie around them doesn't bring us any closer to the heart of this aggrieved city.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

McHale, very funny on «The Soup», proves again that acting isn't his thing, and in a Disney animated movie subplot gone horribly wrong, Terry Crews plays a resort entertainer with his own troupe who show - up every five minutes to try to bring the couple closer together.

Despite some strong acting, a handful of funny beats, and a passing similarity to another ensemble movie where characters who were formerly close are brought back together by a funeral, this movie is less Big Chill and more «Big Shrill.»

When a violent act brings Toller closer to that parishioner's wife (Seyfried), the story goes really deep, diving into issues of personal responsibility, punishment and the possibility — or impossibility — of salvation.

The acting categories brought Brie Larson one step closer to a clean sweep of the season, as she rated Best Female Lead for «Room.»

Bushes to develop policies and programs — especially successive iterations of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — that would bring the country closer to attaining those goals.

Congress finally passed the ESSA, bringing the era of President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) to its much deserved close.

But in all seriousness, the act of experiencing and surviving fictional horror together, well, it's bound to bring you closer!

The exhibition is curated by Barry Schwabsky and brings together paintings by close to fifty artists in an effort to illuminate how the act of making a representational painting became redefined over the past century, following the emergence of abstraction as a competing proposition.

The article itself ended with a second religious homily, specifically implying that we have a soul and that using reason well brings us «closer» to an invisible sky - god that at one time acted as an uncaused first cause.

Yet the US House of Representatives just acted to bring this abomination one step closer to reality.

Act Local For example, in direct contrast to most apparel firms, Finisterre are striving to bring as much of their product's production as close to home as possible.

The Senate held a cloture vote this morning to bring to a close debate on the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act, a vote that would have allowed the amendment process to begin.

Justice Mosley did find that the Act's penalty provisions, ss 54 (1)(c) & (1.1) were unconstitutional, saying they «fundamentally altered the nature of the section 13 process and brought it uncomfortably close to the state's ultimate control measure, criminal prosecution.»

A court in Massachusetts last month refused to dismiss a case brought by the National Association of the Deaf against Netflix, claiming that Netflix is required by the Americans with Disabilities Act to provide closed - captioning on all its products, including streaming of broadcasts.

PRODECON has gained increased relevance and has acted autonomously (as required by law) in its review and analysis of matters brought to its attention, and helped to a great degree in favourably closing audit processes.

In his closing remarks, Representative Issa — who owns 37 patents from his days as an entrepreneur — discussed the Innovation Act, a bill intended to cut down on lawsuits brought by patent trolls.

Jason Nemes, acting director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, said 12 judges will leave the program at the end of the year, bringing the number of participants closer to the original projection.

A close relative can sometimes bring a claim pursuant to the Family Law Act which has its own set of risks and rewards that should be discussed with a lawyer.

This token will act as the base unit of our loyalty and rewards program, and bring us one step closer to creating the world's largest decentralized bank.

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Soooooo frustrating that they can mess up peoples lives when the clients and agents have acted in good faith that the bank would be responsive to bring this to a successful closing.