Sentences with phrase «if only practicing»

Alas, if only the practice of law was that simple.

The fact that we practice in each of these areas makes us better than we would be if we only practiced in one of them.

Not exact matches

For example, if you were a basketball coach and you ignored your goal to win a championship and focused only on what your team does at practice each day, would you still get results?

So it only makes sense that if they practice excellence every day, then they will eventually achieve excellence.

Even if your session only lasts 10 or 15 minutes, with regular practice you can go about your day with your brain ready to engage in creative tasks.

The only way to go in front of an audience and to present in a way that isn't simply miming is to practice again and again, pretending (if need be) that you're talking to a room full of your closest friends.

But when you get down to it, Facebook ads do work — only if you follow certain best practices for reaching your target audience.

Their interest is piqued only if harsh management practices run the risk of leading to one of two outcomes: an exodus of customers or an inability to hire workers the company needs.

All of which involve silence, which is one of the hardest things for a manager to practice, if only because it seems like the opposite of leadership.

In practice, this means that the protocol tokenizes real - world assets and uses ethereum smart contracts to ensure that investors can execute trades only if they satisfy pertinent regulations, such as know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.

Several members, including Reps. Diana DeGette (D - CO) and Debbie Dingell (D - MI), pointed out that FTC consent decrees — settlement orders companies enter into when the FTC finds that they have engaged in unfair or deceptive practices — lack teeth because the FTC can only assess fines if the company subsequently violates the order.

There is more to this than the long - held Liberal practice — if only for the time of a re-election campaign — of borrowing a few choice NDP promises.

If being able to more easily purchase meat and poultry raised without antibiotics is important to you, Halloran has this advice: «Wherever you eat, ask restaurant managers about their meat sourcing policies and practices and make sure they know that you're looking for options that are healthier not only for you but for the animals and the environment, too — including meat produced without the routine use of antibiotics.»

In previous installments of this primer I've tried to convince you, first, that monetary policy is ultimately about keeping the available quantity of money from differing substantially, if only temporarily, from the quantity demanded and, second, that doing this boils down in practice to having a money...

According to U.S. best practices, nonprofit boards should be comprised of at least five people who have little overlap with an organization's staff or other related parties.70 However, there is only weak evidence that following these best practices is correlated with success, and if they are correlated, that may be because more competent organizations are more likely to both follow best practices and to succeed — rather than because following best practices leads to success.

What that means in practice is the TPP agreement as currently structured and finalized can only come into force if it is ratified by the United States,» Ms. Freeland told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill on Tuesday.

The gospel of God's grace in Jesus Christ frees the Christian from both these erroneous tendencies but only if Christians respectfully strive to follow God's commandments and practice agape love.

If this seems to lack in «inclusiveness» or in sensitivity to «other living faiths,» perhaps it is only part of the offense that has always come when the gospel is truly preached and practiced.

Too bad you practice your god faith in any ole way and it doesn't matter, but there's only one right way to do chemistry and math and real world practice lets you know if you got the chemistry or math correct.

Instead in order to get noticed we Americans as you call us who are fat and dumb only value what we believe as truth even if we contradict it and say someone's beliefs are justified as long as they practice toleration of others.

As for the suggestion by the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation that an interfaith committee advise on revisions, he referred me to a statement by the burgomaster of Oberammergau dated May 13, 1960, which asserted that all matters pertaining to the play are entirely the business of the community of Oberammergau, that the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation had overstepped its bounds, and that if revisions became necessary Oberammergau would consult only the church, the poets and the experts in theater practice.

If mental health enjoys such esteem in Catholic thought and practice, it is only right that the Church looks with satisfaction at the new path being opened by psychiatry... all that Sacred Scripture says in praise of human wisdom is an implicit affirmation of the importance of mental health.

On the other hand, many adult Christians not only tolerate but participate with no sense of guilt in practices of race discrimination which, if Jesus was right, must surely be wrong.

If the practice of missiology is only theoretical, it leads to a stale discipline.

I am willing to «suffer for my faith» if the only other option is to compromise my faith; but I see no reason not to practice strategies to lessen the chance of unproductive suffering.

Still, the case against teleological ethics may here offer this response: Granting the difference between direct and indirect applications, this yields only the familiar distinction between «act - teleology» and «rule - teleology, «3 is problematic for the following reason: Social practices or patterns of social cooperation can not be validated teleologically without a comparative assessment of the good and evil consequences differing possible systems of rules or norms (for instance, differing sets of rights) are likely, if adopted, to produce.

But such would have to be Arkes» outlook: if indeed there are fundamental principles of natural law and natural right, discernible to the human mind generally (as Arkes thinks), then policies or practices that effectively deny these can only be supported for the short term, or in the long term only by continuing fraud and force.

Only a God who in some way transcends the world, who has special care for the downtrodden, who calls humans (if among the oppressors) to practice justice, and who calls humans (if among the oppressed) to demand their rights — only this God can or will say no to oppression and invite others to do as wOnly a God who in some way transcends the world, who has special care for the downtrodden, who calls humans (if among the oppressors) to practice justice, and who calls humans (if among the oppressed) to demand their rights — only this God can or will say no to oppression and invite others to do as wonly this God can or will say no to oppression and invite others to do as well.

In practice, we only positively accept someone's authority if we recognise them as operating in the good authority given by God.

The cultivation of Christian practices and ways of thinking is a virtue of Rod Dreher's Benedict Option, if only because it provides a solid anchor that enables believers to engage a culture that holds us, whether Chinese Indonesian or American Christians, in such contempt.

Some Catholics insist that both men are heretics, to be suffered within the community only if they mute their voices; others say that they represent more authentic versions of the faith than the various beliefs and practices they are challenging, and that it is the institution rather than the individual that is heretical.

There seems to be a tacit agreement on both sides that, in practice, if not in theory, Catholicism and art no longer mix — a consensus that would have surprised not only Dante but also Jack Kerouac.

If only right - wing Christians were more concerned with PRACTICING Christ's teachings than spouting off about them.

The belief that certainty is attainable, if only the right method can be found and consistently practiced, has fostered a climate in which «speculation» has been negatively appraised.

This view of practice, closer to the classical view, necessarily (if often only implicitly) associates practice with theory or «metaphysics,» even if it does not exactly subordinate one to the other.

In the Conservative mind, it seems that the only being that approaches the concept of respect or reverence is Ronald Reagan... and he would be nailed to a cross by conservatives if he were alive and practicing his brand of politics in this era.

If we only put them into practice, along the lines previously discussed, most of the problems that trouble human life would be eliminated.

Dependence on welfare is never good in theory but is sometimes required, if only for brief periods, in practice.

Another tenet of secularism is that someone's «life is valuable only if society sees it as valuable,» a statement that 13 percent of practicing Christians strongly agreed with overall.

Very shortly into the sermon I realized 3 things: 1) although my practice would tolerate any of the people in the congregation (welcome them even), if they knew anything about me, I'd be tarred and feathered — and certainly NOT welcome; 2) redemption & heaven were the only reason for good deeds, not simply because strive (in this lifetime) for compassion and truth; and 3) the guy really believed there was a place in the sky made of gold, and that living there was desirable.

If the quality of terrestrial life is to attain a level which makes it worth the effort of living it, this achievement is possible only in terms of the practice of relational power.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

There is only One GOD and there are no other Gods to worship other than GOD... all the rest are his servants... if you worship the One GOD Only doing which ever you know would please him as Good deeds then fear no other... what ever punishment would come as; «It will be for what you knew was wrong but insisted in doing or practicing» then again for which ever «you knew was Right but still you insisted on avoiding or rejecting»only One GOD and there are no other Gods to worship other than GOD... all the rest are his servants... if you worship the One GOD Only doing which ever you know would please him as Good deeds then fear no other... what ever punishment would come as; «It will be for what you knew was wrong but insisted in doing or practicing» then again for which ever «you knew was Right but still you insisted on avoiding or rejecting»Only doing which ever you know would please him as Good deeds then fear no other... what ever punishment would come as; «It will be for what you knew was wrong but insisted in doing or practicing» then again for which ever «you knew was Right but still you insisted on avoiding or rejecting»...!

What has been said means in practice that we Christians must seek the dialogue with others, if only because the one social sphere must also be the sphere of the freedom of all men, which compels us to communicate with all men so that there may be a place for all.

[7] In the aftermath of the conquests of Alexander the Great, however, Greek dislike of circu - mcision (they regarded a man as truly «naked» only if his prepuce was retracted) led to a decline in its incidence among many peoples that had previously practiced it.

If our retelling is selective, being told in systematic terms appropriate to our own age, we are only following the practice of the judges and the prophets themselves.7

But if I tell you to stop practicing your gift and start practicing mine because if you don't, you are not a good Christian, you will only end up frustrated.

Only practicing Protestants (those who identify as Protestant, attend church at least once a month, and say their faith is very important to them) thought the Bible was especially needed this year: 86 percent said politicians would be more civil if they read their Bible regularly, up from 81 percent in 2015.

, that those who think they must think for themselves will need to undergo a transformation amounting to a conversion if they are to understand «that it is only by participation in a rational practice - based community that one becomes rational.»

If members of a confirmation class join church and then «drop out,» it is because present practice only ritualizes their right to decide whether they will go to church or not.