Sentences with phrase «are meaningless from»

IRAs are meaningless from a tax standpoint because you don't get a deduction.

Such a view is meaningless from the point of view of experiential understanding.

If I was sold a home for $ 400,000 and I have clear title to it and a year later I could only sell it for $ 300,000, title security is meaningless from a capital preservation / growth perspective.

Not exact matches

Unless Zuckerberg is prepared to commit to «meaningful groups» as the default mode of experience on Facebook — versus the decidedly meaningless and unmodulated but oh - so - addictive free - for - all of the News Feed — the difference in the experience of the average user 12 months from now is likely to be negligible.

Purvin agrees that research that lumps together thousands of unrelated business concepts, from gyros to muffler repair, into one statistic is ultimately meaningless.

That's because most of the data they get from brands is more or less meaningless.

Complementary research from academics Xavier Drèze and Joseph C. Nunes conclusively shows that airline miles incentivize customers even when they are meaningless (taking into account that 90 percent of airline miles never get used, they are essentially meaningless).

However, what is clear from the IMF analysis is that without some form of debt relief, the reforms agreed this week, and even decades more of austerity, could prove meaningless, and costly for both creditors and the Greek economy.

If Trump is in constant contact with Eric and receiving updates on his businesses from his sons, it renders the trust they created effectively meaningless — and validates the concerns watchdog groups raised when Trump first unveiled his plan in January.

To that list, add the fact that a P / E based on operating earnings is meaningless unless one adds the total debt of the S&P 500 companies to the numerator, or subtracts the total debt service on S&P 500 companies from the denominator.

The decision to not release detailed documents could signal a desire for the government to shift away from the public quarterly budget updates, which are meaningless in terms of fiscal planning due to the province's dependence on fluctuating natural resource commodity prices and have become little more than public relations exercises for the government over the past two decades.

It turns the universe from a meaningless chaos into a designed place in which there is justice and there is hope and, therefore, we all have a duty to discover the nature of that justice and work towards that hope.

The problem for me was that the idea of tikkun olam has become so hackneyed an idea, filled with the eisegetical meaning from well - intentioned political activists, that it has become meaningless.

Prayer would be meaningless apart from the existence of human freedom.

Actually, it is meaningless (let's ignore that biblical morality is quite possibly the worst foundation, with competi.tion only from the Koran).

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

Each is meaningless and unreal apart from the other, and it is only the conjunction or coincidentia of both together that creates or is the ground of what appears to us as meaning and reality.

Moreover, if all the formal possibilities are not controlled, we not only run the risk of fallaciously inferring the truth of one view from the difficulties of some only of its possible rivals, hut also we run the risk of trying to answer a perhaps meaningless question, namely, Which of two falsehoods (or absurdities) is more false?

The claim of knowing Christ is meaningless apart from obedience to his commands.

The elements are meaningless in isolation from one another.

Apart from the eschatological situation of the triumph of the New Creation, Paul's theology is simply meaningless.

It can not mean «other than» nor «separate from» nor even «an alteration of» the old, since without the old (as the old is) to contrast with the newness, newness is meaningless; the «actual [ized] world is not destroyed.

This is nevertheless a meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.

And from Christ's perspective, whether or not we think she is meaningful and relevant is probably either completely meaningless or mildly insulting.

Fourth, the old - style shepherding image shows, if it is rightly set forth, that our culture's movement from an agricultural to an industrial civilization need not render the metaphor irrelevant or meaningless, and that the basic needs that pastoral care tries to meet remain the same from age to age.

Some basic statement like, «Accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior and you will be saved from your sins» is meaningless in any real sense unless the preacher says something about what he means by Jesus Christ.

It's more important to God that we be able to choose between good and evil (if he chooses for us, the choice is meaningless) than that he prevent us from doing evil.

The principal advantage of accepting initially the assumptions of the historical consciousness in religious or theological discourse is that one is not committed from the outset to possibly meaningless language regarding some realm of the supernatural.

I also know that wearing a cross is meaningless, unless I come to the cross and seek forgiveness from the Christ who died on that cross.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

Here «transcendence» is always and everywhere synonymous with the abstract, the empty, the meaningless, the past, the distant, and the dead in everlasting opposition to and separation from the concrete, the significant, the present, the near at hand, and the living.4

These are not systematic judgments and, from the point of view of the Buddhist for whom the events of history are meaningless, they are without importance.

From the liberal standpoint, modernity is not the desert of meaningless lifestyle - chasing Hauerwas implies it is (he appears to endorse Wendell Berry's judgment that the «dominant story of our age, undoubtedly, is that of adultery and divorce»).

It is also to be a value for others I. Intrinsic Value as Subjectivity For Whitehead, it would be meaningless to speak of a value apart from a...

Generally, as news anchors and the news itself, more and more become the products of popular culture and consumers» desire to see the handsome and the beautiful, and the dramatic and alluring, television viewers will suffer more and more from inaccurate reporting, inane and nearly meaningless stories, outright stupidity, and a complete decline in journalistic integrity (of which this story on CNN is a part).

One of the signs that a bureaucratic organization is in serious trouble is that its priorities become displaced from carrying out its original function to protecting the symbols, even if they have become largely meaningless, of its authority (as distinct from real power).

The concept of operation and becoming as self - transcendence gives no warrant for causally linking anything with everything, and negative statements such as «This can not produce that», or, «From this that can not come», are not to be rejected out of hand as meaningless.

In that case it is hard to see why such a created entity, communicated to the faculty of the finite being, could not lastingly belong to it, and why, therefore, we may not consider as conceivable the very thing that defenders of physical premotion attack as metaphysically meaningless, namely, that a faculty or power, understood to be an active power, could bring itself from potency to act, of itself, of course on the basis of conservatio and concursus, which latter, however, would not create some intermediary between potency and act but simply posit potency and act.

For some scientists, continuing absorption in the laboratory may be a sign of total dedication to their work; for others it may be in part an escape from impoverished human relationships or a drab and meaningless everyday life.

Equally meaningless is a discussion of Word of God fixed at one pole, the Bible, apart from the other, the Church.

No names were mentioned, and even if they did, it would be meaningless since for most people these aren't their real names and we wouldn't know them from Christ if we passed them on the streets tomorrow.

Who you are is meaningless apart from God and you know that.

as Keller pointed out: if one claims to live in an existence that is — from inception — meaningless, then ALL of life is meaningless.

Deception is evil and Satan is existed in your whole life that through our obedience to the government we serve make the sacrifice from YWHY putting his child through death for our sake meaningless.

We are so far removed from the reality that undergirds our own physical structure that a judgement of the meaninglessness of it all is, well, meaningless.

It is no accident that the basic roots of democracy are in human brotherhood, and brotherhood is meaningless apart from the divine fatherhood.

The concept of «something not being able to come from nothing» is nothing but a simplistic and ultimately meaningless assertion.

Since the ignorant fundiots are so fond of posting random meaningless verses from their bible, here are some random verses from the Primewonk bible.

«The concept of «something not being able to come from nothing» is nothing but a simplistic and ultimately meaningless assertion» ----- Yeah, no kidding.

It is notable that no biological science has been able to express itself apart from phraseology which is meaningless unless it refers to ideals proper to the organism in question.