Sentences with phrase «while followers of»

While the followers of ISIS want the whole of America destroyed, the followers of Hillary seek the more modest goal of seeing one of Trump's homes reduced to rubble.

The tribulation: While the followers of Jesus are safe in heaven, things on earth will get unpleasant.

Followers of Rabbi Hillel held that the Law allowed a man to divorce his wife for almost anything that displeased him --- burning the toast, a wart on her chin, growing obese — while the followers of Rabbi Shammai held that the offense must be serious, like committing adultery.

Not exact matches

While Twitter and Periscope will notify you of new followers and messages, other popular networks like Facebook offer no real details on notifications.

While there are exceptions — a certain president comes to mind — hardcore violations of Twitter's terms of service are usually the work of so - called eggs (i.e., users who have the default avatar because they never bothered to choose one) and other anonymous trolls with follower counts in the dozens.

While the company amassed an army of fanboy followers over much of its history as the underdog in the epic struggle against the «evil empire» (Microsoft), it's perhaps understandable that haters are now popping out of the woodwork.

While it may look good to say you have thousands of followers or likes, those fake follows aren't going to offer any kind of measurable engagement.

The Italian novelist Umberto Eco famously said in the 1990s that Apple was like Catholicism in that its followers had to adhere to one way of doing things, while Microsoft (you could say Google nowadays) was more akin to Protestantism, which gave followers more latitude to reach their own conclusions and organize themselves accordingly.

While Merkel's Facebook page has 2.4 million followers, the posts aren't very personal, and some of the site's most popular comments slam her for her refugee policy.

While social platforms have established themselves as incredibly powerful resources for building that sort of relationship with fans, followers, readers, and loyalists, we've seen over the past few years that many of those platforms become pay - to - play.

And while most of us may not update our online followers every half hour like Sullivan did in his heyday, fiending for a Facebook fix 85 times a day is still obviously a good way down the road towards online life crowding out real - world experience.

You can post easily to Google + (and I did, for a while), but few of us have time to manage Facebook posts, LinkedIn updates, our Twitter activity, and then jump over to see who has liked (er, plus one'd) a message, let alone track followers (er, circles).

Hinton's gorgeous travel photography has earned him more than 150,000 followers on Instagram — a follower count that has helped land him a variety of paid gigs while on the road.

These organizations are gaining followers and raising awareness of their brand, while also providing some key lessons in how to market with social media.

As entrepreneurs, we should be thinking of platforms that captivate this new sense of social awareness and moral duty, while helping our consumers rebuild their online communities based on shared values and genuine interest rather than likes and followers.

Famed astrophysicists and director of the Hayden Planetarium, took the time to remind his 3.96 million Twitter followers that while Pluto is great, it's still a dwarf planet.

While Vaynerchuk's Twitter following of roughly 1.13 million is a far cry from Katy Perry or Justin Bieber's (who each clock in at more than 60 million followers), Garst says winning at social media can't solely be measured in follower - count.

EMH followers say this is due to the laws of probability: at any given time in a market with a large number of investors, some will outperform while others will underperform.

While Twitter and other platforms prohibit buying followers, Devumi and dozens of other sites openly sell them.

While Subway's current mobile order and pay app gets tens of thousands of users each day, its Facebook page has more than 25.4 million likes, giving the brand a chance of converting its followers into customers.

Followers of Lady Gaga were most probably extroverts, while those who «liked» philosophy tended to be introverts.

«While these numbers can serve as great reference points, it's important to remember that your ideal posting frequency will depend on how many overall posts are filling the feeds of your social followers and subscribers.

While each of the four fund types Dave «recommends» to his followers are not exactly identical, they are too similar to provide the kind of diversification that is necessary to spread risk, or to successfully «put your eggs into different baskets.»

While laziness is not a characteristic of a Christ - follower, the Lord hasn't called you to be a workaholic either.

To ignore them publicly and judge them privately, while at the same time proclaiming to be a follower of God, is a disservice to your Christian brothers and sisters struggling to proclaim God's Good News to the world.

While the importance of «community» is preached in churches across the nation, most of the time, we feel like we've aced this tenant of our faith simply because we're constantly building a tribe of followers online.

Gays are not safe while the att - itude of the church and it followers take guidance from a book and a supernatural being.

Little did Augustine realize he was doing his followers a grave disservice by viewing parts of the Bible as allegorical while simultaneously incorporating into his teaching the views of the Greek philosophers.

This is a movie that posits extra dimensions and spiritual warfare so it makes sense that some Christ - followers are wary of the ideas and practices they might be exposed to while watching this film.

While the statement made about government welfare during the time of Christ has some merit, I believe that Republicans should take a good look at themselves and ask are they doing anything to stop poverty around the world, as I believe Christ would want his followers to do.

While it's true that mega churches do a good job of creating excitement and enthusiasm, even they admit they don't do the best at developing devoted followers of Jesus who are able to spread the Kingdom of God.

Here I am, an old guy, living on my pension, social security, and 401 (k) that I've set aside for my old age, and I'm asking myself how to explain all that while claiming to be a follower of Jesus who said, «Lay not up for yourself treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, where thieves break through and steal» (Matthew 6:19 KJV), I did exactly what Jesus told me not to do.

But what if there were a more efficient way of providing all of this, while at the same time, seeing more people become followers of Jesus?

While news media like Time and 60 Minutes cast Grey in the role of David fighting the Goliath of the gambling industry, he prefers a different Old Testament story, comparing himself and his followers to Gideon and his unlikely band of soldiers handpicked to do God's will.

i think in 2002, the pope wrote that while other religions are nice, none of their followers will get into heaven.

Even while awaiting trial in two small county jails in Texas, authorities said Jeffs was able to effectively remain in charge of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by using jail telephones to communicate with followers.

While Jesus resisted the allure of power and privilege, it has long been a snare to his followers, and the Religious Right sold its soul long ago.

Thus a man born in Indonesia is usually a follower of Shafi'i law, while a man born in Turkey will be a Hanafite.

I could much more easily go with «Christian» as «follower of Christ» but... the term is so loaded, and everyone thinks you mean one of the other three versions of what «Christian» is, and besides, while there is a lot about Jesus that works for me, there is some that doesn't and I believe it is likely stuff inserted in after the fact to make things fit, but... * shrugs *... then that is speculation as well.

More and more, I find myself wondering if church sprung out the minds / needs / traditions of the early Christ followers who needed community while facing persecution.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

Despite legitimate efforts of believers to reserve a place in the public square, the followers of the secularizing ideologies have historically found ways to thwart such efforts, while, paradoxically, accusing the believers of trying to launch a theocratic takeover.

In the New Testamen, Paul refers to himself several times as a follower of the «way», while he never once refers to himself as a Christian and appears to deliberately avoid using the name when asked by a Roman ruler in Acts if he is a Christian.

Much of your work is Christian - themed, and while I appreciate it, I don't think most of my followers do.

So if one person is thinking only about the parts of the gospel that tell a person how to go to heaven when they die or receive eternal life (faith alone in Christ alone), while another person is thinking about the parts of the gospel which tell followers of Jesus how to live on this earth (discipleship, obedience, faithful living), but both persons keep using the term «gospel,» the argument quickly becomes quite messy.

Damascus, a great trading center on the western border of the Fertile Crescent, is a very ancient city — perhaps the oldest anywhere in the world which still exists — while Antioch is famous for the fact that here the followers of Christ were first called Christians.

It's just sad that only the bad ones are recognized while millions of good Christ followers are forgotten.

If I may offer a slightly different take, while deeply respecting the thought process you have gone through in this article, I think a lot of the «is it wrong to call the Christian God «Allah»» questions are rooted in a pretty hostile and ignorant attitude of Christians toward Islam, that ill - suits followers of Jesus.

While there are many christians of many denominations in this country, there are also muslims, jews, buddhists, hindus, wiccans, pagans, agnostic, atheists and followers of many other faiths.

The difference of course is that the Christian listened to CCM and wore a tie, while the Christ - follower wore jeans and listened to U2.