Sentences with phrase «achieve anything of»

While I marvel at the ability of regulatory committees to achieve anything of value, The Bar Standards Board, enthused, possibly, by that great festival of corporatism The Olympic games, have gone for Gold with their proposals to introduce a Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT).

Jim Prentice was the only one of Harper's environment ministers to achieve anything of consequence.

After a severe drought of Xbox exclusives due to Microsoft seemingly not really giving a shit about them, in comes a brand new IP and from the likes of Rare no less; a once legendary studio that released some of the best games in history on the Nintendo 64, but having completely failed to achieve anything of note (comparatively at least) on the Xbox consoles.

The cars rigidly stick to the track, brake when there's no need to and outright make it impossible to achieve anything of substance without turning the difficulty down to «baby's first racer».

Our plight as humans is to go against great internal resistance to achieve anything of value.

Now, to be fair, there are those out there who will tell you that you have every right to feel the way you do about yourself and will say that it is not your fault you can't achieve anything of significance.

Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but this squad really needs a reality check & some serious kicking in the head if they are to achieve anything of greatness.

A huge amount of productivity is lost every year by companies whose workers are putting a percentage of their creative minds into flirting rather than into achieving anything of value for their employers.

The worst part being, he'll probably leave it in shambles without really achieving anything of note despite being given a significant war chest and he will probably offload assets too.

The twist being that the protagonists (John Cusack, Craig Robinson and Corddry), once best friends eager to conquer the world together, are now pushing 40, they've more or less drifted apart from each other and they've never really achieved anything of importance.

and so you will be most likely IGNORED and will remain UNSUCCESSFUL in achieving anything of sustainable Value.

In a speech given just 48 hours before his retirement, Jackson LJ, the architect of civil justice costs reforms introduced in April 2013 (known as «the Jackson reforms»), reviewed whether he had «achieved anything of lasting value».

Team alignment is absolutely essential to achieving anything of real significance, and agility has quickly become the most critical ingredient of success in turbulent times.

Not exact matches

Nobody ever achieved anything without the support of a great team.

Two years later, it's hard to see Occupy as having achieved much of anything, other than a lot of overtime for police and a few weeks» fodder for the nightly news.

Although Periscope has attracted a certain number of passionate users — and has been cited in the past by influential users such as Deray McKesson, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement — it hasn't really achieved anything close to mainstream acceptance.

He also said, «If you've got a happy, motivated group of people you're working with, you can achieve anything.»

They say you can achieve anything if you work hard and dedicate the appropriate amount of time and energy to professional development and career pursuits.

With boundless energy and moments of quiet introspection, he talks about teamwork and the potential each of us has to achieve anything we set our minds to.

In this dynamic and energizing keynote drawing from his experiences in sport, business and philanthropy, Clemons will talk with unabashed passion about teamwork, about the potential in each of us to achieve anything we set our minds to, and about how putting your heart, fully, into everything you do can make you a better leader — and your organization exponentially more successful.

«People struggle to define unique identities - with no apparent reason to develop a talent, practice creativity, engage their intellectual curiosity, or achieve much of anything, many people are left feeling purposeless, unmotivated, unfulfilled and alone,» says Bolton.

In summary, we have not seen anything to give us any confidence that Tribune on its own, with the resources and competitive position it has today, can achieve over any reasonable period of time the value for shareholders that we believe can likely be achieved through a transaction with Gannett

With a nearly endless supply of apps designed to cross-post anything we can enter into a digital device, you'd think the impossible had finally been achieved.

Some may think that he truly believes everything he says and that he holds deep political convictions that he hopes to achieve with his campaign; others may think he's willing to say anything in order to stay at the center of attention.

The inflation target was achieved, the average rate of unemployment was low and the variability of both real GDP and unemployment were if anything slightly lower than in the past.

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The question arises - if indeed we experience a period of rising interest rates or low and stagnant interest rates in the years ahead, how could we position ourselves to achieve anything but similarly low returns?

In a world in which, after inflation, even an average long - term return of 4 % annually might be hard to achieve, your own performance chasing could take a bigger bite out of your returns than anything else.

«We have not seen anything to give us any confidence that Tribune on its own, with the resources and competitive position it has today, can achieve over any reasonable period of time the value for shareholders that we believe can likely be achieved through a transaction with Gannett,» Frank said.

This didn't really do anything profitable for the bank, but it allowed bank managers and other employees to achieve bonuses based on a certain amount of products being «sold» to customers.

justsayin, you have failed repeatedly to produce any single shred of proof that your drivel is worth the bandwidth it consumes or that prayer achieves anything.

Yeah, go back to your X-Box and let the real thinkers like DumbG there conjecture about all the things no one can disprove, for to truly disprove anything you need complete knowledge of everything in the universe, and since no human will ever achieve that, people like DumbG can tell as many unproven «truths» as they want.

Much that is anything but true democracy may hide behind the fagade of representative democracy; on the other hand, a society which is not democratically constituted in the normal sense of the word may sometimes achieve what a democracy aims at.

Too great an attachment to the datum self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the existence of anything beyond the datum self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that human beings are social all the way down, resistance to a literal participation in the being of a person by others (including their literal purposes) is also a form of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's analysis — a charge from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.

Such men who want to make it through the therapeutic gauntlet must keep their cool, resist any temptation to criticize the system, and, above all, learn how to achieve the psychobabble goal of «transparency» while being anything but transparent about who they are and what they really believe.

Philosophy succeeds in rendering me... help in its individual disciplines precisely through each of these disciplines not reflecting, and not being able to reflect, on the wholeness of man... in every one of these disciplines the possibility of its achieving anything in thought rests precisely on its objectification, on what may be termed its «de-humanization.»

All he says is: «I am continually astonished by those theists who... seem to rejoice in natural selection as God's way of achieving his creation... God wouldn't need to do anything at all» (ch.

«When Americans are able to live by their convictions, to speak openly of their faith, and to teach their children what is right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all.»

How can the freedom of anything be achieved when your only goal is to silence any and all opposition to your selected claims.

Second, I suggest that the talk about «resurrection of the body» is an assertion that the totality of the material world and of human history, as well as of every man in that history who, with his brethren, has achieved good in his existence in the world, is usable by God who through it has been enriched in His own experience without changing in His supremely worshipful deity — the God unsurpassable by anything not Himself, but open to enrichment in being what He is and in terms of what He does.

But we have no understanding of anything if we think that this is normal, that we have achieved it ourselves, that we deserve it.

It will be a good while yet before anything is achieved on the level of interreligious communication and dialogue, let alone on that of multireligious consciousness, that can be compared for quality to the impressive monologue of the Encyclopaedia.

The failure to achieve anything at Heidelberg, and the failure to quieten Tetzel with a Doctorate of Theology presented to him by the University of Frankfort - am - Oder, founded in 1506 was irritating.

Story and Photos by Dave DeWitt «One bellyful don» fatten de hog,» goes a proverb in Barbados, meaning that it takes bit of an effort to achieve anything worthwhile.

Therefore, if this book is to be anything more than information on interesting occurrences in the past, more than a walk through a museum of antiquities, if it is really to lead to our seeing Jesus as a part of the history in which we have our being, or in which by critical conflict we achieve being, then this book must be in the nature of a continuous dialogue with history.

«One bellyful don» fatten de hog,» goes a proverb in Barbados, meaning that it takes bit of an effort to achieve anything worthwhile.

Again, I went with a homemade version, if anything, just to test the limits of my skills and see if I could achieve that perfectly crunchy, salty fried onion that grace green bean casseroles all across America.

The wine adds a nice depth of flavor which can't be achieved with anything else.

I truly believe that each human being is capable of achieving anything they dream about, as long as they put their mind to it.

I didn't want anything too rich or chocolately but more along the oatmeal raisin type of cookie... I don't eat oats anymore so that chewy texture is sometimes a challenge to achieve in a cookie but this recipe does the trick perfectly!