Sentences with phrase «as a boring old»

So don't think that holding preferred shares that pay a nice dividend are as safe as a boring old government bond.

The loads of people who know me as a boring old traditionalist (Turner Prize?!

Nobody wants to be known as the boring old - lady type of driver, but the fact remains that safer drivers cost less to insure.

Not exact matches

While the research has applications for marketers (highlight the ordinary to reach an older demographic and the extraordinary for younger people), it may also come as a comfort to bewildered folks in their mid-30s who are shocked by exactly how much they're enjoying routine experiences that would have bored their younger selves to tears (not to speak too much from personal experience).

Even as the families of 49 victims prepare to bury their loved ones, it's still unclear what confluence of factors led a 29 - year - old Muslim born in New York to open fire in a gay nightclub where he may have been a frequent patron.

In 2012, quarterback Robert Griffin III (better known as RGIII) got the $ 10,000 fine for wearing an Adidas sweatsuit — bearing a big, old - school Adidas trefoil logo on his shirt — to a postgame press conference.

You can't make too many generalizations about the workforce as a whole, but one you can make is that workers who were born in the 1980s and 1990s can't be managed like their older counterparts.

Winnipeg - born Shore, hired in 2013 as a supervising producer following stints at Moving Picture Co., Prime Focus and Frantic Films, was named executive in charge a year later, when ILM Vancouver moved into a 105 - year - old former meat - packing plant in Gastown that had just been vacated by a restructuring Pixar.

If you plan on taking Social Security benefits before you reach your full retirement age — which is currently as old as 67 if you were born in 1960 or later — your benefits might be reduced even if you only work part - time.

Young bulls and old bears is as old as the hills.

He is old enough to have owned the original Mac, and still has his Mac Portable in a cupboard as he can't quite bear to part with it, despite the fact that he has no idea where the power supply is.

At this point, the vast majority of people my age — being honest, the dividing line seems to be around 45 years old — roll their eyes and, in a perfectly rational manner, argue that a currency is usually boring and backed up by meaningful institutions such as central banks.

As each bear market comes to an end, the old mood of resentment evaporates.

As an old mentor told me, it takes a lot of buying to create a bull market; but for a bear market to get started, people don't have to sell; they just have to stop buying.

Douglas head football Coach Willis May described the 37 - year old assistant as a «big ol' teddy bear» in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel.

BOB, a boring old believer, and his friend BEN are sipping their coffees as the autumn breeze ruffles the collars protruding from the necks of their sweater vests.

Somehow both old as the hills and joyful as the sun, his greatest lie is the one he seems (almost) to believe: «My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a white head and something a round belly.»

As a result, while today's 65 - year - olds will receive on average net lifetime benefits of $ 327,400, children born now will suffer net lifetime losses of $ 420,600 as they struggle to pay the bills of aging AmericanAs a result, while today's 65 - year - olds will receive on average net lifetime benefits of $ 327,400, children born now will suffer net lifetime losses of $ 420,600 as they struggle to pay the bills of aging Americanas they struggle to pay the bills of aging Americans.

You are correct in claiming that we could come back as anything... as you decompose your atoms will be absorbed into anything and you may well be a cow horse, or part of a rain drop... in fact you may have been part of those even before you were born... your atoms are as old as the universe..

God did use sickness in the Old Testament as punishment, but in the New Testament, Jesus bore our curse for us (Gal.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Jesus Christ, during the time of His earthly ministry, set up a spiritual kingdom on earth, in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy; He being the King and all born again believers the subjects of the Kingdom, and they are now reigning with Him as Kings and priests on the earth.

As we have seen, the books of the Old Testament, in their complete form, were composed in the prophetic period or later, and bear the stamp of the prophets upon them.

If one wants to create a people as numerous as the sand or the stars, one does not begin with Sarah, a barren woman well past child - bearing age, and Abraham, an old man whom God had commanded to scar his genitalia.

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

In my new book, We Make the Road by Walking, I read the Bible not as a static revelation of God in a system, but as a dynamic narrative of human discovery as old conceptions of God die and new conceptions are born in the vacuum.

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

This is the old faith, just as the last problems of our life remain the old ones: that we should become loving and unselfish, that we should bear the darknesses of existence, that we should finally come to terms with death, that we should do our duty also when we can expect no earthly reward, that we should follow our crucified Lord and Saviour.

For we should certainly be attached to the old ways, but also have courage to approach what is new and as yet untried and thus bear with the uncertainties of a transition period.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

«I grew up feeling like a second - class citizen... As I grew older I really felt I didn't belong in Congo even though that's where I was born.»

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

In those writings most Christians refer to as the Old Testament, we find a God who bears a striking resemblance to the gods of the nations that surrounded ancient Israel.

Why do we struggle so much because its our old nature that fights against our new nature in Christ which ever one we give into is the one that rules us.But as a born again believer sin shall not have dominion over us.The battle has been won by Christ so by believing in him we also walk as he does as a victor not a victim.Its his holy spirit that empowers us to do what is impossible in the flesh.But to do that our old nature or heart must be crucified with Christ.brentnz

Geraldine here we see satans tactics to gain control over our lives and he uses pride as a means to control us if our hearts arent submitted to God we get lured into sin or our need for success or to please others or impress others of our worth.Being born again means to have our new identity in Christ we turn away from our old nature and take on his nature or identity.In the process we are redeemed through the blood of Jesus and our lives are transformed so we become as he is.

Complaints that preaching has become trivial, superficial and downright boring are as old as the pulpit itself.

As we read and interpret, we bring the death and resurrection of Christ to bear on the Old Testment.

Self - compassion and bearing witness are as old as the commandments of Jesus.

From the day my old man hazed the young cadet to now, as I pull on my socks, how many universes have been born?

As a relatively new subscriber, I had not really grown bored with the old design.

ARCHBISHOP RANJITH: When you look at the Old Testament, you see that the people of Israel were born as the expression of the Covenant and the Sacrifice on Mount Sinai and the resultant experience of faith.

Born in 1941, Elshtain started learning about housekeeping and harsh necessity as the oldest of five children growing up in Timnath, Colorado, population about 185 then (and now).

Hi Mark, well I was born in the Falkland Islands or as the people from Argentina prefer to call her the Malvinas I left there with my Mum when I was 7 and came to Old Blighty.

@ the old, retired goat that needs to stop trolling these boards: Being born again is also known as reincarnation.

The first step of getting released from our captivity in the visible world is the death of our flesh (our old man of sin; we as natural born sinners).

Did the Old Testament writers know Jesus as well as a born again believer?

The Golden Rule also has roots in the two old testament edicts, found in Leviticus 19:18 («Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself»; see also Great Commandment)

The Golden Rule also has roots in the two old testament edicts, found in Leviticus 19:18 («Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself»; see also Great Commandment) and Leviticus 19:34 («But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God»).

Wilhelm von Humboldt, born June 22, 1767, into a Prussian noble family (his father had served as a chamberlain to Frederic the Great), was two years older than his famous brother, Alexander.

He takes Psalm 92:14 as his inspiration: «They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green.»