Sentences with phrase «by being vague»
We do no service to the care of souls by being vague in our language through a desire to «bring us all together.»
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But since it's a stage of life characterized by equal angst and vague boredom (remember when you couldn't drive yet, but could still be grounded?)
Cost, say nearly three - quarters of them, followed by the rather vague concern that their firm «is too small» to offer it.
They don't offer some vague challenge like «surmounting an obstacle» or «seizing upon your dreams» or «surmounting your dreams by seizing upon an obstacle» or whatever the current motivational clichés are.
Step - by - step project management may have been the right approach for Holoubek, but for Allyson Downey, founder of WeeSpring, keeping things deliberately vague worked better.
Surrounded by small - business owners as signed the order, Trump was characteristically grandiose on its impact if vague on the specifics.
Goldman responded by sending a letter to the SEC in January, requesting permission to omit the proposal from its proxy statement because the bank said it was «inherently vague and indefinite.»
Some companies have perfected «the customer is always an inconvenience» message by avoiding phone calls altogether and only providing a form that the customer is expected to fill out with the vague promise that someone might get back to you.
And while being hit in the head by a can could indeed cause substantial harm, and while the statement posted is vague about the policy changes being considered, no plausible alcohol policy is going to be 100 % effective in preventing yahoos from occasionally throwing things onto the field in malicious ways.
Even after the former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, who'd been hired by the board to investigate, issued a scathing report on Uber's culture, Kalanick and his directors initially decided that vague promises of coaching, the hiring of a chief operating officer, and a slap - on - the - wrist «leave of absence» for the CEO were sufficient remedies.
Although a separate chapter is devoted to the impact by department, the language is vague and confusing.
Your business model is to monetize user information, to maximize profit over privacy, and unless there are specific rules and requirements — enforced by an outside agency — I have no assurance that these kinds of vague commitments are going to produce action.
By some estimates, close to a third of all new U.S. patents are of questionable quality, often because the invention claimed is not new or because the patent is vague or overly broad.
After many years of vague talk by governments about fighting global warming, it is encouraging that the debate has finally begun to tackle specific mechanisms to achieve cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.Â
According to the «Austrian school», one of the most basic flaws in the QTM and in many other economic theories is the treatment of the economy as an amorphous blob that shifts one way or the other in response to stimuli provided by the government, the central bank, or a vague and unpredictable force called «animal spirits».
Two forced strip - searches of a child by authorities at a Head Start program prompted by vague claims from an unreliable source could be considered child abuse, argues a friend - of - the - court brief urging the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive a lawsuit.
Regulation is an important tool that allows government agencies to protect their citizens from being cheated by vague brokers who exist only to benefit from the ignorance of the people.
The process by which this fastidious culling process is done is maddeningly vague.
Since then companies have been drawn to CSR, attracted by nice - sounding, if vague notions such as the «triple bottom line» (the idea that companies can simultaneously serve social and environmental goals as well as profits).
By my reckoning, Americans are motivated more by the fear of seeming narrow or intolerant than by a desire for something as vague as «diversity.&raquBy my reckoning, Americans are motivated more by the fear of seeming narrow or intolerant than by a desire for something as vague as «diversity.&raquby the fear of seeming narrow or intolerant than by a desire for something as vague as «diversity.&raquby a desire for something as vague as «diversity.»
«Please do not be deceived by a vague conception of the universal church to which you belong if you're not pursuing that life together with an actual church.»
You can't provide ONE piece of independent (not created by the church) information that isn't vague and can be interpreted numerous ways that proves the catholic church is «the real church».
A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.
Christian churches (at least the fundamental ones I've attended) have been quite adept at deconstructing the ancient jots and tittles of Scripture only to reconstruct vague mottos that everyone repeats and claims to live by but no one can explain to those who ask.
It all seems very vague, where people can make it mean a particular thing, try to figure out what you are saying, feel guilty that they are doing something wrong by being warm, dry, comfortable in their house, enjoying their family, food.
«If the rumors and distrust persist on this campus, it may very well be because these decisions, by being postured on some vague spiritual «high ground,» have actually engendered a culture of fear,» they wrote in an open letter in the student newspaper, The Moody Standard.
A. W. Tozer said, «The idea of the Spirit held by the average church member is so vague as to be nearly nonexistent.
That love is not some vague feeling or looking after people in our community, important though that is; it is by following Christ's teaching, living out as closely as possible the manner of His perfect loving, that we attain heaven: «He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.»
Given the importance of this admittedly vague objective in accreditation standards, we believe that this admission by faculty members is a matter of considerable concern, and we have addressed this issue elsewhere in our research report.
Finally, our vague religiosity faces an insuperable difficulty in that it provides no way by which the precious insights of our religious heritage are to be maintained.
The hopeful side of the picture is that the number of persons who are disturbed by this state of affairs, because they doubt if a vague and tenuous piety can sustain a civilization, is obviously growing.
Even when life after death was a very vague hope, held by only a few, scornfully denied by some, supposed to affect only a selected group of saints and sinners, (E.g., Daniel 12:2.)
What do I mean by inspiring, which is a vague phrase?
Unlike the code, which simply gave or withheld its vague «Approved by» seal, the Legion's strategy was a simple A-B-C: movies rated A were morally unobjectionable; B films were morally objectionable in part; C stood for condemned.
In ordinary usage these concepts are remarkably vague, but as applied to the book's proposal they are to be used only by the analysis given here.
Thanks for trying, Roger, but if Jesus (who is God) was not told by his Father (who is God) the exact date of his own return, I think we should be content with the vague word «generation» and assume it means our own.
«Law - abiding citizens, such as Christians, could be caught by the vague definitions of extremism that get bandied about when ministers are trying to talk tough.
But beyond a vague allusion to «getting things right on broader matters of culture,» he offers not a clue about what that something more might be, by what means we might know it, or how it would cure the defects he sees in natural rights reasoning.
Critics further insist that terms like «commitment,» «vulnerability,» and «care» as used by the new reformers are, when compared to the vows demanded in the marriage rite, both extraordinarily limited in their content and vague in respect to the matter of duration.
Her careful approach, fortified with a keen awareness of just how difficult it can be to distinguish physical needs from vaguer but no less powerful emotional ones, also eschews the fraudulent claims and dangerous practices perpetuated by the «five - day miracle plan» style of American dieting.
They suspected that the speaker was radically relativizing the nuclear mother - father team in order to replace it by some, vague model of the church as a new family surrogate.
And that is aside from the problem that all such short cuts, when lacking a firm and agreed upon definition, are by necessity vague generalizations that can be more of an impediment than a help.
This idea of twoness above is not as vague as it sounds, for we can agree on a certain arbitrary model set containing what we call two things, our cow and rock if we wish, got by counting or other means, and declare that any other set has two things if it can be put in one - to - one correspondence (in modern terminology, bijective correspondence) with our model set.
The generalized aim to spread the love of God and neighbor is too vague.12 The metaphor should also provide a reference by which the minister can strike a satisfying balance between what the congregation wants of the minister and what the minister needs in order to satisfy a sense of calling.
The higher animals have learned to interpret these sense - qualities, thus perceived, as symbols of the actualities in the external world — actualities which are themselves perceived only by vague feelings of their causal agency.
Mühlenberg decided at once that the greatest need of the Lutheran congregations was not for some vague union of all Protestants but for adequate pastoral care by devoted ministers.
But this was a dim and vague affair, presumably taken to be a way in which the «spirit» breathed into human life when God shaped the «dust of the earth,» as the legend in Genesis tells the story, would never be utterly destroyed — after all, it had been breathed by God and hence must be indestructible even if largely irrelevant to whatever the future, beyond death, held for men and women.
But the conceptual formulations by the three German political theologians are so vague that the consequences could be dangerous for the future of Christian faith in God.
'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for ethics, ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries, ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»
However, while this gives us a vague common denominator which we can all use, by virtue of this same vagueness it isn't much help in saying who Jesus is.