Sentences with phrase «about time we acted»

It's about time he acted like one instead of this Harvey Milquetoast routine.

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Even though the planners had, in effect, spent more time thinking about their task, with no progress made on the task itself, as Baumeister and Tierney explain, «their minds had apparently been cleared by the act of writing down a plan.»

«It's definitely ambitious, but it's such an interesting time with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coming about,» says Cyrus Massoumi, CEO and co-founder of ZocDoc.

The promise is that by gathering competitive research over time and in a systematic way you will be able to track trends and / or scenarios and be about to act on the research.

First, on Jan. 31, 2017, Trump fired Sally Yates, acting attorney general, after she informed the White House several times that then National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had lied about his contacts with Russians.

Start to act like an entrepreneur — someone who is clear about what product they provide, who their clients are, what their time is worth, how their product is better than the competition, who the competition is, what makes them competition.

The complete article is chock full of other suggestions, including specifying what type of feedback you're after (so as to avoid your team telling you about things you don't have the time or power to fix) and most importantly, actually acting on at least some of what they tell you.

«It's a mysterious juggling act that requires not only a thorough knowledge of the time - honored laws of the game but also an open heart, a clear mind, and a deep curiosity about the ways of the human spirit.»

There are three important points to make about the complaint that the Justice Department has filed under Section 7 of the Clayton Act to block the AT&T / Time Warner merger: (1) The main theory of the case is relatively straightforward and plausible.

The team injected 86 embryos and then waited 48 hours, enough time for the CRISPR / Cas9 system and the molecules that replace the missing DNA to act — and for the embryos to grow to about eight cells each.

Every time I look at a stock after it reports earnings, I'm mesmerized about how horrendously it invariably acts.

It is really about picking up nearly 2 percentage points more of yield while waiting for Mr. Carney to act on rates, at which time, it would be best to switch to shorter duration holdings.

At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per cent).

The answer is simply that the Williams Act gave the SEC authority to adopt rules regulating tender offers and this rule was adopted in 1980, at a time when tender offers were the principal means of acquisitions and there were concerns about people trading based on advanced knowledge of tender offers.

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act prohibits debt collectors from contacting a consumer about a debt at a time or place they should know is inconvenient.

The act of kicking a member out of the Academy is rare, but the AMPAS board in October did vote to expel Harvey Weinstein after a special emergency meeting in October, following bombshell reports the New York Times and New Yorker about decades of alleged sexual harassment and abuse.

-- Equifax acted recklessly; — Equifax ignored best or even good practices of data security; — Equifax's actions have caused me emotional distress; — Equifax's actions will require me to either pay some company money or take my own personal time to be vigilant about not just my own but at least two other credit accounts for years into the future.

And how much was the timing of Trump's decision shaped by events spiraling out of his control — such as Monday's testimony about Russian interference by former acting attorney general Sally Yates, or the fact that Comey last week requested more resources from the Justice Department to expand the FBI's Russia probe?

Mark - up every time that Jesus acts humbly or teaches about humility.

At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for Human Rights called «crimes against humanity.»

What started tumbling out of the closets at the time of Stonewall [the late sixties protest by which the movement marks its beginning] is profoundly altering the way we all live, form families, think about and act toward one another, manage our health and well - being, and understand the very meaning of identity.

Well it is almost election time Obama seems to be doing a lot of things for the first time like acting like he cares about eh middle class, acting like he supports business and acting like he wants to be bipartisan.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

But as I studied God's letter for myself and began to discipline myself in reading, even before my age was marked with double digits, I found time and time again that this was true; the Bible was constantly reminding me of God's love for me in the words that He said about me and in the great acts of love He displayed.

About a century later another king - to - be, this time Jehu, is confronted by the Word (II Kings 9:6) Elisha and his young man, the prophet» act upon and pronounce what is represented as the Word with, again, radically effective results.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

Otherwise, they just seem to want to wear dark clothes, act intellectual... and spend a lot of time arguing about someone, they say, doesn't exist.

At all times in Israel people spoke much about evil powers, but not about one which, for longer than the purpose of temptation, was allowed to rule in God's stead; never, not even in the most deadly act of requital by God, is the bond of immediacy broken.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how people with my kind of theology, have acted in the past, and I am convinced that splits inevitably diminish the influence of the kind of orthodoxy that I cherish — for at least two reasons.

Speaking only for myself I would judge that the person must not have been concerned enough about the consequences at the time they committed the act to have prevented themselves.

Until that happens, expect us to continue complaining about your imaginary reasons for acting like idiots all the damn time!

In the next place, a purpose of proclamation is to bring about genuine commitment, whether this is for the first time (as with some who are present it very well may be) or is a renewed response in self - dedication to God who in Christ has acted decisively for us humans and for our wholeness.

My argument against ENDA is not based in a moral judgment about homosexual acts, but in the fact that our times are not those times.

Nothing wrong with either — but churches that sing two hymns and three seventies - era choruses on Sunday may have a harder time relating to church plants in Europe that talk about missional incarnational witness, acts of mercy to advance the Kingdom, and planting churches that multiply.

Jesus manifests the divine power by subsuming his will to God's, and at the same time God acted through Jesus to manifest God's will and bring about God's intentions.

My laissez — faire approach to money suits me just fine for now, but it's not exactly a responsible way to think about finances and will probably have some longterm consequences that are going to turn into big time problems if I don't get my act together.

The genius of the Hebrew imagination was that it was able to accept and affirm the witness to God's former acts, even as understood from an older perspective, while at the same time proclaiming what God was about to do as grasped from a newer standpoint.

And what about Judas, locked in for all time to a pathetic act of unnecessary identification of a very well known Jesus to the High priests police?

Funny you should say that since the Tea Billies have accused progressives, Democrats and the President of being exactly that «traitors» and right wing governors have talked about secession which the last time I checked is an act of treason and one for which Americans had a civil war over!

In a way, the 24th chapter of Matthew's Gospel reads like a three - act play about the end time.

As a pastor, I am invited from time to time to come to a person's home and hear stories about spirits, or demons, and to perform acts of cleansing or exorcism.

Questions like these are indeed inescapable; even if most of us do not spend a great deal of time thinking about them, the implicit, unspoken, assumed answers are determinative of how we think and act.

In another scene, the novel scolds men for resisting this liberated view of sex, as Langdon reminisces about a lecture he'd recently given to undergraduates: «The next time you find yourself with a woman, look in your heart and see if you can approach sex as a mystical, spiritual act.

For instance, if you accept the M - theory hypothesis that the universe is an 11 - dimensional place, you could decide (as an act of faith) that God is at least 12 dimensions (or more), which would make everything people say about God being everywhere simultaneously and being outside of time literally (and scientifically!)

In this connection there has been talk about the «Christian paradox»; for to love the enemy and at the same time act cruelly toward him seems impossible.

When challenged about the lawfulness of divorce, Jesus cited Genesis, stating clearly that the human act of joining together in marriage is at the same time God's work.

Jesus is not so much acted on and mistreated by the hands of evil people as he is active in using the deeds of sinners to manifest God's glory and at the same time to bring about their salvation.

When we recognize the original point as that of the contrast between the handful of seed and the bushels of harvest, and when we set the parable finally in the context of the proclamation of God acting as king in the experience of men confronted by the message and ministry of Jesus, what is the significance of a story about a Palestinian peasant who sows handfuls of seed and, despite all the agricultural vicissitudes of that time and place, gathers in bushels of harvest?