Sentences with phrase «as anything close to»

The P20 and P20 Pro look like great phones that are unfair to simply dismiss as anything close to iPhone clones.

Only 10 % of members had races that could be described as anything close to competitive (defined as a margin of less than 10 %).

The odds that Egypt will come out of this as anything close to a free country are somewhere between slim and none.

But I never considered «not pumping» as anything close to «weaning.»

The presser went down a treat with most United fans with the «Special One» declaring that he wanted to win everything at the club while also stating that he would not see a fourth place finish as anything close to success.

They'll be playing in a division without a patsy, and that's part of the problem, but this doesn't strike me as anything close to a 90 - loss team, which is what the over-under is hinting at.

Not exact matches

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.

That is, political and realistic constraints mean that the Fed won't implement anything close to what we think of as a helicopter drop.

But if the story told by the film - makers is even close to accurate, the world the workers live in is anything but sane, and they're struggling, after all, to feed their families without the help of the power - brokers who see them as mere pawns in a very high - stakes game.

Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

However, until the closing has completed, it's your duty as the borrower to not change anything which could affect your mortgage application.

«On the one hand, she didn't have to deal with anything as difficult as Ben Bernanke did, not even close,» Blinder said.

In the last article, I discussed why, despite the very strong recovery in gold and silver prices that have occurred ytd in 2016, that the uptrend has been just that — a recovery — and not anything close to one resembling a breakout as of yet.

Combined with Daly's own murky vocals, the effect is engulfing, and comes as close as anything can to those brief seconds of peaceful submersion before getting pulled back out again.

The only ones I have seen are either unrecognizable as anything, or are too close to the anarchist A.

It's as close to proven as anything in science can be.

These rather general remarks do not prove anything, of course; they only suggest one must live in an Aristotelian world to draw genetic successiveness so close to physical time as to call both time.

We know too that the memory, without which man could have no sense of continuity, is dependent upon the storage capacity of the unbelievably large number of brain cells, so that to the lay mind the brain is as close to an electronic computer as anything could be.

I trust in Jesus and what he did, so I trust anything in the bible, regarding him, is as close to fact as it can be.

We discovered that Sunday mornings were completely insufficient to create anything close to what the Bible describes as koinonia.

to «The Church as Mission,» they have come very close to gagging the lowbrows altogether from ever saying anything to anybody about Jesus Christ unless it is passive, pious, and programmed in advance.

I do agree that the Church does keep their cards close to their chest as they see us lot as to weak to receive the truth, to me it always have been a form of control and I wont have anything to do with it, so I don't blame you for having a pop at them.

If your choice of Till He Comes has anything to do with working this all out until he returns, considering what Daniel wrote about in the increase of knowledge as we get closer, this site you have orchestrated fits in quite well.

As the plate got closer to me, I took out my wallet, thinking that I had to put some money in the plate, but the man who invited me whispered to me that I didn't have to give anything since this was my first time.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

I know, let's just close the schools down — all together — and move quicker to third world status; because, 1) It's a burden on the economy as we, clearly, don't have the money to continue educating future generations; and 2) It doesn't appear they're learning anything anyway, except how to harass little children and make their lives as miserable as possible for writing on their desks.

This concept can not mean anything close to «unique coherence» which would undermine his pluralism, though he occasionally sneaks in other adjectives like «simplicity», «elegance», and «most satisfying» (p. 79) as well as implying a uniqueness to the «meaningfulness» of Christian living (p. 204).

I am not perfect, but their teachings are as close to anything that I have found anywhere.

The Revised English Bible of 1989 is, if anything, more literary than the NRSV, and a truly excellent version; but it is less close in its - renderings to the originals and a bit, well, British — as it should be.

What Peter said to his Lord comes as close to bedrock as anything I know, and comes nearer to stating my bare belief than the more elaborate affirmations I make week after week.

There is little if anything else in the Old Testament which comes so close to the spirit of the New as these words he represents Yahweh as speaking:

Surely we can never think of Christian teaching about faith and morals, or about anything else, as a kind of closed enterprise, at the end of which the job is done and we have finally got our people «fixed» where we should like them to be.

National Prayer Day is for «every one» to include «all reilgions», all non reiligious groups and even the non belivers of anything close to religion.It is a time as a Nation to jointly fall to our knees and to seek guidance from a «Power» that we accept is greater than us as individuals or as a group and that we accept has created us.

yet theyll use that as a means to not believe in anything remotely close to the concept of god.

Since I do not believe it is possible to genuinely describe God (Though I believe 1 Corinthians 13 comes the closest) and I do not accept any scripture as fully authoritative, I find it impossible to accept an argument as anything more than incomplete human perspective.

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

I was kind of thinking the same thing and I too am as liberal as it gets... but she is still in no way anything close he to a presidential reality.

But as the post also makes clear, Lewis himself never wrote anything even close to these words.

As I said, you make your own point far better — there are far too many closed minded idiots (like you) that don't learn anything about what they're trying to talk about, but instead see the world only through their own experiences — discounting all others.

If you read anything that is written by spiritual leaders on Lent, you would have found out that typically, one gives up something as a sacrifice (and something that I would have a hard time doing), to bring one's self closer to God.

He described the «hand of God» reference as a «bad taste joke», adding: «These are light - hearted remarks made to a close colleague, it doesn't mean anything.

«I will listen to anything, and would even consider selling the operation as a whole if that meant that it did not have to close for good.»

Starting to feel like a broken record, but the song's almost over as the Season comes to a close, so it's worth saying one more time, it doesn't seem like anything can stop Team Lazarov.

just for the fact that as far as i know none of our targets agents said anything close to this even 10 mins before any announcement.

Still, it remains to be seen if anything is close to being done, as Arsenal will likely only move for Lemar if Sanchez leaves.

As for the «without sin» part, just speaking for myself, I haven't done anything remotely close to what McG did last week.

There are NO other teams in the league that have accomplished anything close to what the Sixers did this year who had their best players be a rookie and a 2nd year player, some of the teams that Philly is most often compared to in regards to young talent are Minnesota (they won less games than Philly, Wiggins sucks, and they were buoyed by Jimmy Butler as a veteran star) and the Lakers (most people don't view anybody on the Lakers on the same level as Embiid or Simmons and they only won 35 games this year).

When it became clear last winter that Desmond would not be receiving anything close to an equivalent offer, it was viewed by some as a financial blunder.

The seven minutes of injury time were notable for their utter lack of anything remotely resembling real quality as the match petered out leaving Stuttgart facing another week closer to the inevitability of relegation though the visitors also suffered the ignominy of a red card for Schulz after picking up his second caution after a foul on Tim Leibold.