Sentences with phrase «as appeasing»

As another example, the neural - activation patterns elicited by White female faces were more similar to those elicited by objectively happy faces, even when such faces did not display any actual happy features (e.g., due to stereotypes of women as appeasing).

Offerings are plays a significant role in Balinese life as they appease the spirits thus bring prosperity and good health to the family.

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Meanwhile, the ability to effectively police abusive behavior could prove essential to the company's financial health, as Twitter needs to show regular, significant user growth in order to appease investors who are concerned that the company is lagging behind social media rivals like Facebook and Instagram.

The internal campaign emails from August 2015 reveal the difficulty Clinton had in appeasing both unions and environmentalists as she fought for her party's nomination ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

The shifting accounts of the decision to fire Comey, whom Trump derided as a «showboat» and «grandstander,» added to a mounting sense of uncertainty and chaos in the West Wing, as aides scrambled to get their stories straight and appease an angry president.

Ma, who has created a database of polluting factories in China, shaming them to clean up their act, says more transparency is needed to appease the public as awareness spreads.

Given its areas of specialization, Gilead wouldn't benefit as much from consolidation as, say, a generic - drug company would, but it still faces pricing pressure: To appease Medicaid and other insurers, Gilead is already steeply discounting its hep - C drugs, which can cost more than $ 80,000 for a 12 - week course.

The FDA's intent with Canada Drugs could be to restrict sales of erectile dysfunction drugs, appeasing the pharmaceutical lobby angry about lost sales of popular products, without targeting the sale of heart medication and similar life - saving drugs so as not to punish low - income Americans.

Kirby's decision comes at a particularly challenging time for United Airlines as the carrier grapples to reassure shareholders and appease employees amid lagging financial performance compared with rivals» and demands for better wages and benefits.

Conceived as a device for appeasing government censors and uneasy retailers, shifting public morals and a changing market finally made it obsolete.

As such, the share price of Anadarko has sagged, and in fact, the company just decided buy back shares as a way of appeasing restless investorAs such, the share price of Anadarko has sagged, and in fact, the company just decided buy back shares as a way of appeasing restless investoras a way of appeasing restless investors.

To be clear, China and the U.S. continue to indicate publicly that negotiations will occur even as both posture with tough talk to appease their domestic constituents.

Unilever posted better - than - expected first quarter revenues and increased its quarterly dividend by 12 % as it continues to appease shareholders after a failed takeover attempt by Kraft Heinz.

As conversations have multiplied, especially in recent months, about the gendered expectations that pressure women into engaging in unwanted sexual behaviour to appease men, Daniels's inner monologue sounds painfully familiar.

That may be difficult as negotiators try to appease GOP lawmakers without losing the support of the core group of Democratic senators who backed Crapo's legislation.

In an attempt to appease those who think Messenger is too complicated, Facebook rolled out Messenger Lite for Android in 2016, a slimmed - down version of the original app that contains just the bare necessities: users only get primary messaging features and none of the bells and whistles such as GIFs, reactions, and Stories.

Republicans such as Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and James Lankford (Okla.) have said they would not support a tax plan that adds too much to the debt, creating a bloc of votes that would be able to kill the bill if they aren't appeased.

The move likely appeased Whole Foods» shareholders, who had been laying siege to the company's executives for relatively poor performance, but moreover it served as a harbinger of significant disruption in the grocery market.

New advertising strategies, such as improved video advertisements on YouTube and Product listing ads, have been implemented by Google to appease worried advertisers.

• Cooperating with Beijing to develop social services in China as the country faces growing social pressures to bridge the rural - urban divide and appease a burgeoning middle class.

In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

That mercy is only found in Jesus Christ who lived the perfect life we failed to live and died the death we deserve as a means of appeasing the wrath of God towards us.

Well, one thing we can say with certainty (and in full agreement with Paul), is that the Law was never given as a way to gain eternal life, or a means of pleasing and appeasing God.

The Greeks believed (as do the people of most religions) that the gods are angry and need to be appeased (aka bribed) in order to act nicely toward humans.

To appease the gods, we need to do great things for them or offer valuable possession to then, such as our prize cow, firstborn son, or virgin daughter.

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

Until all of that happens we will not appease you, we will see you as barbarians.

I won't shut up to appease a vocal and rude minority, neither will I engage them except to describe them as they are... trolls.

To appease the atheist, how about leaving an empty space beside the cross so that they too have an equal amount of exhibit space as Christians?

Ah, but if you take Pascal's wager then you must live your life trying to appease myriad other Gods because THEY might be correct as well.

I suppose that pagan gods use blood as appeasement so men believe through this appease the pagan gods will smile on them.

If atheists are correct then you have wasted a good portion of your limited life attempting to appease as non-existent being.

I would never act to appease a being such as that, in life or death, if that means I burn, then I do it proudly, but I'm pretty confident that there either is no god, or the gods there are are NOTHING like what religions of today think.

oh right it does... it allows innocent children to die; it allows braindead pukes like you and just sayin to appease yourselves by thinking you are doing something when in fact you are being lazy goofs and wasting valuable oxygen that could be used for animals that are not as stupid as the two of you.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

But once a pertinent change of character has been obtained, Hartshorne feels that further punishment of a particular man is ethically unjustified — even though it may have some political justification as society's best means of appeasing the anger of those who have been victimized by the «guilty party.

Well for one sacrifices don't appease God, as Hebrews 10 explains.

And, indeed, how can it possibly fail to steady the nerves, to cool the fever, and appease the fret, if one be sensibly conscious that, no matter what one's difficulties for the moment may appear to be, one's life as a whole is in the keeping of a power whom one can absolutely trust?

On the whole, however, the Congress, helped greatly by the moral prestige of Gandhi and Nehru, succeeded in becoming a truly pan-Indian party in the first two decades after independence, able to appease the potentially conflicting interests of Muslims and low - caste Dalits as well as upper - caste Brahmins.

He's a politician, I'd expect him to adjust his position to appease a large enough fraction of his audience to get as close as he can to the outcome that he truly desires.

Then caricatures of divine wrath proliferate: God having a temper tantrum or acting like a big bully who needs to be «appeased» before he can forgive or, as is often alleged with reference to the atonement, practicing cosmic child abuse.

When I heard that God sent himself As a sacrifice to himself, To appease himself, Of sins invented by himself, Committed by people he created himself, I knew he loved me and turned to Jesus.

First came the sellout of Czechoslovakia at Munich as fearful nations attempted to appease the German wrath.

The cord running through Western theology, from Ambrose to Anselm and beyond, that only the violent sacrifice of a perfect and sinless Jesus could appease a God whose honor has been affronted and whose anger has been aroused is, as Michael Welker says, «nothing less than destructive of faith.»

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

The reason we need «full - time» anythings is because the majority of believers aren't doing «any time»; just paying other guys (that responded to Christ's commission: «As you go your way make disciples of all...» - Mt28: 19) to appease their consciences whilst they carry on with their lifestyles.

Aside from the fact that this is an example of that penal substitution view rearing it's head, for in this view, God hates sin, and is angry at sinners, and so must kill His Son as a way to appease His own wrath against sin (which doesn't make much biblical or theological sense), the real reason I was shocked to read this statement is because it is the exact opposite of what Paul actually says in Romans 8:32!

The funds crunch triggered by things as well as speedy credit score development, the regulatory deposit reserve prerequisite in addition to a crackdown on very hot dough inflows is abating subsequent to the central bank signaled its readiness to appease marketplace volatility.

Furthermore, there is a kind of embarrassment in talking about sacrifice in catechesis, not only because it is seen as something negative in itself but also because it can conjure up what is often seen as the Protestant view of the angry God who seeks blood to be appeased and is only fully appeased when Jesus dies on the cross, shedding His blood in our stead.