Sentences with phrase «so watering down»

So watering down the Gospel to reflect the culture can be an easy trap to fall into.

So they water down their ideas and their efforts so they don't deviate too much from what people expect.

The pasta sauces were so watered down that they were tasteless.

Limbo, for example, was touted by pope after pope as a place where un-baptized babies who die go, until Pope Benedict XVI just eradicated it (or, more accurately, so watered it down as effectively eradicate it in a face saving way).

We need to be careful however, if our rights have been so watered down with this level of Muslims in our country, think what will happen when they get to 10 % or more of the population.

Your version of Judaism is so watered down that you have little if anything, to pass on to the next generation.

I am sure her grandchildren will no nothing of their Jewish heritage which has become so watered down and missing structure that it leaves nothing to pass on.

Everything's so watered down.

The corollary would be that we should not rely heavily on computer ratings when assessing teams, because non-conference schedules are so watered down these days that it's impossible to draw connections between teams from different conferences, and therefore, we can't really compare them.

My daughter won't drink the milk served at school now because it's 1 % and is so watered down.

Foods become more textured, meaning the foods are not so watered down.

They would have preferred no changes at all, but the end result was so watered down and loophole ridden that, according to good government advocates, that it didn't post much of a threat to the G.O.P. majority's many lawyer - lawmakers.

It has a strong licorice taste so I watered it down a lot for sipping.

The fighting engine is so watered down that only geeking Marvel fanboys will elicit any enjoyment out of spending any time with it.

Any serious treatment of man made emissions and global warming would either be so watered down (as in the excerpts above) or accurate enough to unleash attacks from the Inhofes and Lutzs of the world as to be useless or further polarizing.

The agreement of 97 % is for a statement so watered down that Lord Monckton would gladly agree and sign it.

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group (ALDE) said Tuesday that the Council's position is so watered down that it would undermine campaign pledges made by Commission president Jean - Claude Juncker and the Parliament that came in last year.

The white stars were a little too bright so I watered down some black acrylic paint and wiped it in spots with a cotton rag.

Not exact matches

We'll help you understand the legal requirements of hiring staff so you don't hit any rough waters down the line.

A video from a natural water slide in Puerto Rico had so many viewers that after a few minutes commenting was shut down, said John Kearse, creative director at Boston - based Mullen Lowe Group, which worked on the campaign.

Schools can open under a boil water notice — which is currently affecting some parts of Brevard — and Reed said they are prepared to do so if it comes down to that.

One problem is that lobbyists for the vested interests are so powerful that they probably can get Congress to water down any real so much that the economic situation will to keep on getting worse and worse before the needed reforms can be enacted.

Similarly, a savvy business owner required to report earnings to a bank, board, or other outsiders may see some turbulence or rough waters a year or so down the road.

Many of the elderly are having to deal with conditions such as no electricity so they can't take the elevator down from high floors nor can they get water except for a couple hours a day.

This landed them in hot water, so when Green was asked to run the business side of what would become Facebook, he turned it down.

Creed's popularity and massive appeal (selling well over 20 million units so far) owes in large part to its watered - down spirituality — ironically, one that is without one particular creed.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

So what you're saying is anything goes and we should throw what the Bible teaches out the window and go with what feels good and makes everyone happy, thereby watering down the Gospel.

I'd be just as likely to take you on a walk up the mountainside near our house, under the canopy of the trees, so you could listen to the water running in the dozens of creeks dancing down waterfalls of stones, the water bright and cold and clear, heading for the Fraser River, moving towards the fullness of complete ocean.

«O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence — as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil — to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence!

So don't worry that the book will be watered - down version of the blog or a cheesy devotional book with «for women» tacked to the end.

For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And return not thither but water the earth, Making it bring forth and sprout Giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, But it shall accomplish that which I purpose, And prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

10As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither hut water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I propose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

So she clipped and trimmed, making more work of it than it was in order to satisfy him that some change had been accomplished, combing it down a little with water so he would feel sleek and triSo she clipped and trimmed, making more work of it than it was in order to satisfy him that some change had been accomplished, combing it down a little with water so he would feel sleek and triso he would feel sleek and trim.

For as rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall be my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

As water disappears from the sea, and a river becomes parched and dries up, so man lies down and does not rise.

It's as if they are trying to water down God so as to make Him more palatable for people.

By comparison, the Genesis story boils down to In the beginning... the earth was a formless wasteland... Then God said, «Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures... God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of swimming creatures with which the water teems and so on.

@HotAirAce and PraiseTheLard... My comment is being moderated so I will give you a watered down version in case it doesn't make it.

Just as the Egyptians were seeking to flee from the sea (cf. Exodus 14:27), the text says that God instructed Moses to stretch out his hand over the waters so that they might collapse back down upon the army.

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

But this moment is fleeting and so I want to remember how it feels to sing old Anne Murray songs into the cavern of the bathtub while you knock baby toys off the ledge and obediently sit back down into the little well of water when I say «bum down, Mags!»

We should not water down the Gospel, but we also should be very careful in making sure that the LOVE of Christ is what people see in us, so that God may be glorified.

Evangelical Christianity in America has become the «civil» religion of America and has been so watered - down and conformed to society to become «relevant» that it has become «irrelevant» to everyone — it is salt that has lost it's saltiness.

Nothing seemed to «fit» that event, so we had to repair to Amos and be reminded that justice must roll down like waters, and righteousness must flow like a mighty stream.

This kind of watered down Judaism has put us on the edge of an Iran with a bomb, Obama in office and an Israel at risk.Religion is not about compromise that is a bumper sticker far too many have bought into.When the next great history of the Jewish people is written, they will write we did it to ourselves - trying to be oh so tolerant we put ourselves in a state where we ended up being unrecognizable to those who paid so much for us to lamely claim to be Jews in a primarily anti-semitic world pushing us to compromise.

Do you vote to cut down on pollution so that the future generations of humans have water to drink and air to breathe?

Mitt Romney's first job after College was to work for Monsanto and help them improve their Corporate image after getting cuaght dumping known cancer causing PCB's into the rivers and water ways around the Great Lakes... So did the families that came down with cancer from drinking water contaminated by those dumped PCB's chemicals commite a sin against God... or did Monsanto commite the sin by dumping them?

Cares enormously about children in resettlement camps, who must drink water to fill their stomachs because there is no food; he cares about shivering women at Nyanga whose flimsy plastic shelters are being destroyed by police; He cares that the influx control system together with Bantunization are destroying black family life not accidentally but by deliberate government policy; He cares that people die mysteriously in detention; He cares that something horrible is happening in this country when a man will often mow down his family before turning the gun on himself; He cares that life seems so dirt cheap (cited in Maimela 1986:43).