Sentences with phrase «as a circle not»

Instead, think about conflict as a circle not a line.

Not exact matches

«Under Holacracy, authority and decision makers are distributed throughout the company in multiple roles and circles as we move more into self - management and self - organization, and there are clear boundaries of what I can and can not make decisions about.»

He advises job seekers to, as they do in the Valley's money circles, invest in people, not ideas.

This group of successful business people, this circle of successful entrepreneurs (not just socialites as some may think of us) are always bouncing new ventures and ideas off one another and looking to expand into new arenas.

Still, there's also recent history that strongly suggests Trudeau and his inner circle aren't uncomfortable positioning themselves as bent on bringing the well - to - do down a notch or two.

May also called for big changes to who sits on boards so that they include employees, as is the case in some European countries: «In practice, [board members] are drawn from the same, narrow social and professional circles as the executive team and — as we have seen time and time again — the scrutiny they provide is just not good enough.

Get Specific About Foreign Subsidies: Though government activism isn't widely seen as effective in Republican circles, there's plenty of evidence that trade policy has at the very least boosted employment in countries like China and Korea.

All of these are not euphemisms, exactly, but they were powerful signifiers to the Playboy reader: She had been recognized as a perfect physical specimen, and had been rewarded for it in the farm leagues, but while she may have been circling close to the venues where nudity is required, there is very good chance — or at least it was plausible for the consumer to believe — that these Playboy photos were her first experience with the form.

As Woolley told me, «One person controlling a thousand bot accounts is able to not just affect the people in their immediate circle but also potentially the algorithm of the site on which their operating.»

The idea of basic income — in which the government gives all citizens a small monthly stipend — has grown popular in tech circles, not in the least because it's seen as a possible solution to the looming problem of robots, artificial intelligence, and automation taking jobs away from human workers.

Moreover, it's easier to network with those people because the «elite» isn't nearly as well defined so you can make friends and expand your circle, instead of just begging people to vote for you.

In contrast, regional Federal Reserve Presidents were often not in the loop, and they were seen as outside of the Fed Chair's «inner circle.»

A family connection to law enforcement is not the kind of thing that has traditionally been viewed as discrediting in American life — and certainly not as discrediting in conservative political circles — but things are changing in the Trump era.

I know why don't we just all stand in a big circle and point guns at each other and decide as a group who's the biggest sinner until just one person is left.

As a concert promoter my circle of friends is in the thousands and its really not uncommon... Everyones looking for answers and atheism does nt offer anything but negatives or denials.

You can delude yourself as much as you want, but you can not square the circle that is why your critics maintain you are a liar, in our view but probaly not in your brainwashed mind.

I am free in the fact that I do not have to be like the majority to follow God — I can be me with God (as much as I am not the accepted norm and all in Christian circles).

I have spent time in both evangelical and liberal circles in the church and encountered fundamentalist liberals who were just as militant in their views as Phelps (ok, maybe not quite as extreme).

Now that the protests are slowing down, the media circus is slowly dissipating, and the helicopters are not circling every single night, we are dealing with the same questions we've always faced: Why are things here as bad as they are?

The move may be indicative of a much larger shift in evangelical circles (as you may have read) but the new rule is not a major leap.

I think this is the problem with the modern church today... we should not be in «circles» Also, saying that you will acknowledge someone as your brother or sister in Christ based on YOUR perception of whether they are actually saved or not IS sanctimonious.

The long - drawn discussion over the death of art proceeds in a circle so long as it does not examine critically the aesthetic concept on which it is based, so long as it employs criteria which no longer correspond to the state of the productive forces.

And then I went to a tiny Christian college and that's where I lost my faith, surrounded by Christians, with no influence of pop culture and not so much as one atheist in my circle of acquaintances.

I have never been so quickly hated, defamed, cut off from friends and family, lied about in private circles when I am not present in order to alter others» perception of me, etc etc, as when I have threatened the facade of a narcissist.

It is a vicious circle and Satan delights in it as it doesn't reflect well on them and it of course makes you a ball of agony and self - recrimination.

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

Because my husband doesn't speak your politically correct language and instead responds in a knee jerk reaction to what he sees here, you immediately circle around and start wagging your fingers as you did me.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

I my experience the women in circles I mix with are as robust emotionally as I am and not one woman has expressed any approach I advocate as destructive to women.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

From a survey of current German discussion we may conclude that the proposal of a new quest of the historical Jesus, originally made within the context of the «post-Bultmannian» direction of leading pupils of Bultmann, has broadened itself, not only in traditionally conservative circles, but also by support from the Barthian side as well as from Bultmann himself.

The flawed and hackneyed phrase «as long as you're sincere, it doesn't matter what you believe» was heard with maddening monotony in Catholic circles throughout the 1970s and 80s.

The trip was another indicator that some circles within Eastern Orthodoxy are now interested not only in greater pan-Orthodox unity, but in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue as well.

Mantel's early experiences explain not only her richly ambivalent attitude toward her Tudor characters, but also her impressive «negative capability» as their artist — her ability, that is, out of the small circle of her original family, either to play or to cast all the parts.

I honestly have never met a single Christian who believes themselves to be «good» and not sinful / evil, such as yourself, in my years working with Churches and even in theological circles.

Therefore I wish to raise again the question in this final section as to whether Altizer, despite his rejection of Buddhism as definitely different from and lesser than Christianity, has not in the final analysis come full circle and embraced a Buddhist type of radical immanentalism.

We're not thinking so much of Satan's legions as of the hordes struggling to find an accommodating sales clerk in Bloomingdales or the traffic circling the malls in search of a closer parking spot.

As we bring before God in intercession not only the needs of our own people but those of the people of all lands, the circle of our own interest grows larger, and we are moved to service in such ways as are opeAs we bring before God in intercession not only the needs of our own people but those of the people of all lands, the circle of our own interest grows larger, and we are moved to service in such ways as are opeas are open.

One could just as easily say they believed the earth was a flat circle (note they didn't say sphere) that rotated, and the quadrants of the Earth were the North, South, East and West.

Inasmuch as religious communion conversely strengthens religious faith and action, we find a circle — however, not of a vicious nature.

I do not myself agree with the notion found in some circles that it is all part of what is regarded as the God-less materialism of our age.

He also tells how this closed circle of the self was again and again forced outward toward relationship through those times when, despite his will, he found himself confronting his patient not as an analyst but as human being to human being.

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

That's some pretty serious early Christian company, and Euodia and Syntyche were in this very small, significant, influential circle of co-workers... Maybe many today don't know who these women are; but Paul did, and God did, and God used them as gospelers in the church at Philippi, a church founded with Lydia and some God - fearing women (Acts 16:13 - 15).

What these legislators and their religious supporters don't understand is this: Evolution is not controversial within scientific circles, and so it should not be taught as controversial in science classrooms.

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...

I do not think Pentecostals should be so preoccupied with what is going on in these circles as to be distracted from making their own distinct contributions to the body of Christ and set the agenda for theological conversations they are uniquely qualified to further.»

If I remember correctly, it is described as a circle, not a sphere.

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...

Just as the charismatic movement introduced the musical influence of mainstream American Christianity back into Pentecostal circles, the new, respectable Pentecostals could not help absorbing the entertainment tastes of Silent Majority America.