Sentences with phrase «as an escape hatch»

Rather than using Jesus as an escape hatch for fear, we need an understanding of redemption that will allow us to engage our fears in their most terrifying dimensions.

It is one of the ironies of Christian history that followers of Jesus should present the message not as a wonderful, fulfilling way of life, but as an escape hatch through which people flee from fears created by the misinterpreted message.

Even if we lose Mars as an escape hatch, maybe NASA science will give us the tools to keep Earth habitable — which, when you think about it, is a pretty sane trade - off.

Mars as an escape hatch is a fantasy.

Too often this year, I used the movie theater as an escape hatch, instead of an opportunity to enrich myself.

Likewise, in «Finishing Touches,» Robert Maranto states, «The animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

For the animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

An off - road trail let us push the Sport's 4 - wheel - drive setup to the limit as we ventured over rutted English back roads, through deep bogs and into water deep enough to make us wonder if we'd be using the sunroof as an escape hatch; ultimately it was drama - free, with the Range Rover Sport pulling through with flying colors.

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So I think the idea that the [appeal to] conscience [can be used as a] kind of an escape hatch is really not what the church teaches.

Ross: But the way you're describing it, it ends up functioning [as] an escape hatch.

And he can use the escape hatch «as somebody has said» only so many times in each sermon — the fewer times, the better.

It has been said that whenever some older theologians got to a hard place they simply quoted a few lines of Wordsworth or Tennyson, thinking that ended the matter; or they made a few biblical citations as if that were the complete answer; or (at worst), when the attack was most fierce, they used the word «mystery» as a kind of «escape - hatch».

But in conclusion, he offers an escape hatch: It may be permissible for married couples to use barrier methods as long as they do so with the intent of «responsible parenthood» as that concept is defined, paradoxically, in Humanae Vitae itself.

Gridlock, as its name suggests is the state where you feel completely stuck desperately seeking an escape hatch to avoid using the open door, because to go through the door means going through the crucible, and the crucible requires change.

Another state lawmaker is looking for an escape hatch from Albany as Republican Assemblyman Chad Lupinacci is picked by local GOP leaders to run for Huntington town supervisor.

► An astronaut removes six large canisters of genetic research materials from a drifting space station with lights flashing and sirens blaring; a giant spiny rat chases her and pounds on the escape hatch window with paws and tentacles, cracking it (we can not see its face) as the escape pod launches and we see the space station explode into fireballs that fill the screen and soon after we see the cracked pod hatch window break apart and the pod explodes into chunks of flaming debris (the astronaut is certainly dead although we do not see her after the explosion).

But even within the artifice of the second life Baby Doll leads, she escapes into her thoughts one more time by concocting violent scenarios where the girls go on missions as part of a super team of kick - ass heroines, trying to gather the tools for which they will hatch their escape.

Miller adds that Spellings has not allowed states to use growth models as an «escape hatch.»

For those in the charter movement who have viewed chartering as a systemic reform strategy (not just an escape hatch for some kids), the prevalent theory of action for the last ten to fifteen years has been a «tipping point» strategy.

Apparently, the AP program hasn't so much raised the level of the curriculum in the American high school as it has created an escape hatch that lets a small number of ambitious students get out of the low - demand environment for a few hours.

Others offer interdistrict choice, such as the controversial busing plan currently under debate in St. Louis, which allows students to attend schools in neighboring districts to alleviate segregation concerns or to offer students an escape hatch from failing schools.

«DC has created so many escape hatches — you don't have to invest,» one mother told the Washington Post as she was about to switch her four - year - old from her neighborhood elementary school in Logan Circle to a sought - after bilingual charter.

TRUTH: Rather than being an «escape hatch,» performance assessment tasks, as used by the New York Performance Standards Consortium, are more challenging than Regents exams.

If that happens Bank points always have an escape hatch — statement credits, but I airline miles can be sold as well in a pinch.

The show is most compelling when it asks the viewer to see earlier works — often outliers in the field of individual careers — in light of new trajectories, or when it pushes blackness beyond the associational and into deeper psychic channels, as in William Pope L's unsettling Blind (2015), a dark window cut from the gallery wall, like a literal aperture or escape hatch.

February 19, 2014 • The National Gallery of Art is named as a potential escape hatch for the oldest private art museum in Washington.

-- As it turns out, nature has provided humanity with an «escape hatch» from this conundrum, which is a means to cool the surface of the planet with the same techniques as nature uses to cool overheated tropical sea wateAs it turns out, nature has provided humanity with an «escape hatch» from this conundrum, which is a means to cool the surface of the planet with the same techniques as nature uses to cool overheated tropical sea wateas nature uses to cool overheated tropical sea water.

Ned Sullivan, who heads Scenic Hudson, a Poughkeepsie - based environmental advocacy group, characterizes the review and litigation as «escape hatches» consciously constructed by the corporation as potential outs from its obligation.

John Howard was widely seen as Tony Abbott's mentor and now, 18 years later, Abbott has jumped through the escape hatch that Howard inserted into the Kyoto Protocol to proclaim that Australia is the only nation taking its commitment seriously.

So even as an additional clause in the contract, it doesn't afford you a clear escape hatch.

If you tell an interviewer that you're looking for a new job because of a toxic workplace, this answer may be honest, but no employer is going to give you a job if they think you see it as just an escape hatch from your current problems.

In other words, «these types» of people are actually encouraged to lie (or simply shrug their shoulders, figuratively) by the current SPIS with its many loopholes and psychological / philosophical escape hatches as «they» regard them within «their» individually, creatively filtered «who cares about the buyer / Realtor» so - called «shrewd» business - like mind - sets.