Sentences with phrase «so this point merely»

So this point merely leaves us with two competing national claims.

Not exact matches

The point now has been reached where new credit merely covers the interest charges on past loans, so that the debt grows exponentially.

So at which point in evolution, then, is a person «human», and bound for heaven, or merely a slug with no afterlife?

My point is merely that the analysis required to confirm Ogden's claim — even if the analysis can not fail to do so — itself mediates access to the allegedly primal phenomenon, and thus leaves Ogden with a «phenomenon» which is not epistemically «primal,» and access to which is neither epistemically immediate nor privileged nor error - free in principle.

In addition to his advice to the young ruler, there was his clear injunction to store up treasure not on earth but only in heaven, his rather pointed remarks on the impossibility of dual service to both God and Mammon, his parable about the rich man and Lazarus (which was not, I think we can grant, merely a warning against dissipation), and so on.

For it is not merely that at that privileged point all the external springs of the world are co-ordinated and harmonized: there is the further, complementary marvel that the man who surrenders himself to the divine milieu feels his own inward powers directed and enlarged by it with a sureness which enables him effortlessly to avoid the all too numerous reefs on which mystical quests have so often foundered.

I merely want to point out that even so moralized and Christianized a society, a society that holds to an admirable ideology of law and justice, and conducts psychological research on adaptation, etc. — even such a society is basically violent, like every other.

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

So this is where I go back to the original article and my original point - if we are merely a random function of the universe, made for no real purpose in a universe which is destined to burn out and effectively die, why bother??

If it does not stay at that point, merely marking time, and if on the other hand there does not occur a radical change in the despairer so that he gets on the right path to faith, then such despair will either potentiate itself to a higher form and continue to be introversion, or it breaks through to the outside and demolishes the outward disguise under which the despairing man has been living in his incognito.

But without pursuing the thought to this extremest point, we here merely call attention to the fact that, although the degree of consciousness as to what despair is may be very various, so also may be the degree of consciousness touching one's own condition, the consciousness that it is despair.

From the merely biological point of view, so to call it, this is a conclusion to which, so far as I can now see, we shall inevitably be led, and led moreover by following the purely empirical method of demonstration which I sketched to you in the first lecture.

I believe it was some of you who acted like no one follows the Bible they believe, so I was merely pointing out that you're quite wrong.

I was merely pointing out in your «first» posting, the difference between just because it «says so» in the Bible doesn't * mean * that it actually «will» occur in * reality.

One wonders if Zechariah knew the quality of the man his child would become, a person who would not merely point to the coming of one greater then himself; but would live so magnificently as to prepare us for him who would live perfectly.

Two things the story shows: first, that man can not maintain the cause of God merely up to a certain point, so far as may be without disturbing himself; rather the will of God claims the man completely.

So the LCWR orders are becoming greyer and greyer, to the point where their demise is, from a demographic point of view, merely a matter of time: perhaps a few decades down the road, absent truly radical renewal.

If the physics and mathematics of strings and quarks begin to point to that sort of sky wizard, we won't turn away, but to insist that particular brand of sky wizard is somehow behind all the quarks and strings (that are themselves just mathematical probabilities) is akin to saying that «Okay, so the leaves are blown by wind, instead of moved by the hand of fairy wings, but the wind is merely caused by the hands of fairies.»

A good man would not claim to return to earth from heaven at a later time (as you pointed out Jesus claimed) so that people would continue in faithfulness to him if he was merely a human being and not capable of fulfilling that promise.

I was merely making a point that we can be so cruel to one another, and that seems pretty counter-productive.

So you're merely pointing out all players have a price, even though you started this whole thing by saying:

He wasn't slated — it was merely pointed out that TR7 is very poor compared to MO11 in terms of end product ie: goals and assists — so the question was posed as to why all the anti-Ozil hysteria?

You skewed my words regarding «managing» my birth... the whole point of the midwife is to alert the mother of the possibility of a problem, just like an OB so then a proper course of action can be taken... I was merely saying that they don't think of birth as a medical emergency from the beginning, requiring things that are unnecessary, like constant monitoring because it's easier than intermittent monitoring, or restricting maternal intake because the doctor could get puked on, or have fecal matter excreted during delivery is selfish (and yes, I know, the mother could aspirate, but the rate of that is low too... and I'm not saying they need to eat a steak dinner... but denying a drink of water, or a popsicle during a long labor is just ridiculous, as is rushing a natural process for convenience sake.)

The so called «repeal» bill being scrutinised in parliament for the first time will itself be repealed at certain key points against her will, merely the beginning of a stormy parliamentary journey over which she has limited control.

It's easy to say that it merely succeeds as a technical exercise, but to do so misses one of the film's key points.

It's just so uneven and mostly off - mark, emulating cheesy»80s sincerity at points and merely aspiring to present - day bathroom humor at others.

There is no «weighting» of points (as in the Village Voice list), merely a simple hierarchy: a first place pick receives 10 points, a second place pick 9, and so on to a tenth place pick of 1 point.

Alison Bagnall's Funny Bunny is a shaggy buddy dramedy about a road trip that doesn't seem to take its characters much of anywhere, in the tradition of the low - budget American road movie that must often elide the potentially money - burning trip undertaken by the protagonists so as to emphasize merely the embarking point and the destination.

The comment could merely be a lame dominance metaphor that appeals to Paul's occupation, but it could also point to what makes movies about writers and writing so consistently fascinating.

It's not so much that there are bad points: merely things to bear in mind.

It's not so much that there are bad points with the Polo: merely areas in which it plays second fiddle to rivals.

So we can not see the point of criticising the introduction of an EPS system merely because it is not hydraulic.

You can turn the gestures off if you end up using them accidentally though, so the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 loses no points for what's merely an attempt to distinguish itself from the competition.

A «hard pull» on your credit report is part of how a provider determines whether to take you on as a borrower, so merely applying for a balance transfer card can shave anywhere from 5 to 20 points off your score.

But you can qualify for the card with a merely average credit score, so it may be a good starting point if you can't qualify for any other American Express card.

@ 4Sh0w i was not saying it was not good or clever i was merely pointing out that it has been done before so getting annoyed wont win you anything sorry if i hurt your feelings:)

In fact, the story is so good at times that it gets to the point that you may be merely rushing through the other parts of the game to see the next cut scene.

There comes a point where the hype train runs out of steam, and No Man's Sky had tried to be so loud for so long that by the time it actually arrived, I was merely curious and hopeful rather than frothing with rabid anticipation.

So an article which illustrates its points with relevant in game screenshots is much more appealing than one that's merely a giant wall of text with nothing to really break it up.

For instance, when I did the piece For J.C., I merely thought of it as somewhat tricky, in the sense that there is a vertical - horizontal square, and then there is another square on a diagonal, then the four triangles are also a square, so they come to the same point.

[Response: Motl is so wrong on almost every conceivable point he tries to make regarding climate that my restraint is merely a reflection of my unwillingness to venture into his Augean stables for fear of what a herculean task it would be to try and set him straight.

And so far, you still have not replied to my points in 156 and 231 that explain where the heat increase in the total system of ocean and atmosphere comes from and that demonstrates the physically impossibility of your main causal claim that all the ocean heat content increase since 2000 is merely due to a transfer of heat from the atmosphere, where you claim that all this heat was in the atmosphere in 1979.

So I think it's rather obvious that you used it merely as a jump - in point to start your little spacer campaign.

My point was that I'm guessing a lot more than 440ppm is locked in - I'm not sure how This David Mills character came up with his numbers so I am of course merely guessing / being potentially paranoid... the IPCC reports are known to be conservative by nature for instance and there was an article just recently on Sterling Engines being tested in South Africa over the last 4 years... combining this with the new phenomenons of formula - e racing and possibly Virgin competing with Tesla for the electric car market and Tesla itself saying it may just go into producing batteries the world does seem to be displaying something of a turn!

Once again you are merely citing AGW, so my point stands.

DS's point is that it is fallacious to argue that CO2 can't have an effect merely because there is so little of it.

Once China does so, it will no longer have the luxury of pointing the finger at other countries merely because they are even - worse greenhouse - gas polluters.

Your statements a week or so ago on snowfall were merely stating the former, drifts in the data points, not confidence in continuation of a trend (and for this you need at least two points!).

So from the wind to the point where the electricity is used we could say that the energy has merely been transported.

It wasn't aimed at doing so, merely at understanding those who imagine that well - established scientific research can be overturned by debates in blog comments threads, based on talking points rather than evidence.