Sentences with phrase «as if no progress»

Going into the program, I had already made meditation a daily routine, but I felt as if my progress was plateauing.

Unfortunately, some of the things that Vermintide has tried to do to separate itself from games like L4D only serve to slow things down and made me feel as if my progress was being actively hampered.

Of course, just losing a match shouldn't be fun, but a recent article dissects why the game's Battle Pass structure ensures that even losses and free players get to feel as if progress is made.

It certainly seems as if progress is being made to reach that level as the New York Comic Con event demo shows a bit more zest to the presentation — the effects have never looked more beautiful!

Not exact matches

If political leaders and lawyers in the United States try to stop progress — as is very likely — other countries will still adopt the new technologies and take the lead.

«And the president has been briefed and will continue to be updated as the storm progresses and certainly something he's very aware of and will keep a very watchful eye on and stands ready to provide resources if needed.»

Rosling encourages people to use this framework, rather than use labels like «developed» and «developing,» because, as Gates explains, «It's hard to pick up on progress if you divide the world into rich countries and poor countries.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

They act as if name - calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate, as if anger and intolerance should be our default state rather than the optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress... And here in America, we don't give in to our fears.

As planet Uranus makes a move, travel is in the stars and if you have a chance to mix and mingle with people from different cultures, you can progress in some way.

If you're thinking about one of these campaigns, keep in mind that your progress might be interesting to reporters in your area as well as reporters who are specific to your sector, and you ought to be ready for them to follow the success of your campaign and the growth of your business, as well as be ready to answer all questions they'll have.

As the police investigation progresses, and if any charges are brought against those arrested, the situation should become slowly clearer.

If you're not working in the same building as your colleague or manager, how do you stay connected, brainstorm, resolve problems and progress towards your individual and business goals?

If Pinterest fails to meet its goals, it will be difficult for them to spin the numbers as «progress.»

«If you look at the space of media measurement, as it relates to e-commerce, there is a lot of progress to be made,» he said.

I will publish the entire list in a future column, and will begin tracking its progress (or lack thereof) in order to determine if the concept of buying dividend growers can bear fruit as the Fed raises rates, and investors have other, seemingly safer choices for yield.

From what I've read, it sounds as if the two leaders managed to make some progress on Syria, with both sides agreeing to cooperate in maintaining «safe zones.»

On a final note, if you are a B2B marketer who is helping customers progress through a complex buying cycle, Ardath Albee has a must - read post on editorial calendars, where she suggests that you track additional details such as the following:

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

Accordingly, a year - over-year increase in new claims of about 20 % (which would currently equate to a level of about 340,000 weekly new claims) would create a significant concern of a new recession in progress, particularly if coupled with other evidence such as equity market weakness and slowing growth in real personal income.

If and when NAFTA negotiations will bear fruit is unclear, as Mexico's presidential election in July is likely to slow progress.

In my personal opinion, if we ever actually come into contact with other alien species and it is they, with superior technology, who contact us, the idea that a religion were pervade their society seems unlikely as I'm sure you and I are both aware that religion is mostly divisive and an impediment to progress.

We learned it as if it wasn't so bad, it was the price of progress, it was something long ago, it was no longer relevant.

If, as I believe, we are choking on our own progress, perhaps we can agree with Max Horkheimer that what we need «is no longer the acceleration of progress, but rather the jumping out of progress [der Sprung aus dem Fortschritt heraus].»

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our desires, wants, needs.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

As Etienne Gilson once said, «If theological progress is sometimes necessary, it is never possible unless you go back to the beginning and start over.»

Deep down, for some whites they truly see themselves as the chosen race and that what the world has progressed to these days would not be here if not for them.

If as a Christian you favor continued progress in that direction, then you will view the Christian task as that of full support for the university's ideals and the attempt to implement them more and more fully.

i truly believe that if humans can give up the magic stories they were taught to cling to, we may just be able to progress forward as a species.

Hey young people out there, if you want to live on the margins as the 21st century progresses then this is the religion for you.

He believed, and acted as if he believed, that progress in philosophy is possible, if only philosophers honestly face each other's arguments and not simply try to defend their own «castle of ideas» (Auxier and Davies 62).

When the Chinese regime was at the nadir of its brutality, the religious left was hailing it as a bastion of social progress, if not the very kingdom of God on earth.»

If we articulate ones who do not embrace the idea of «progress» as limitless liberation from all authoritative practices and structures do not soon do a better job of countering this cultural and intellectual intimidation, there will before long be few left to cheer another Miss California who would dare to stand up for an anti-progressive view.

In order to anticipate for the reader the line of argument to be followed and so to facilitate progress, it will first be urged that the concept of God's operation as an enduring, active support of cosmic reality, must be elaborated in such a way that this divine operation itself is envisaged as actively enabling finite beings themselves by their own activity to transcend themselves, and this in such a way that if the concept holds good in general, it will also hold good for the «creation of the spiritual soul» (see below, section 3a).

I approved of my atheism precisely on the grounds of epistemic progress, as if not seeing or believing in God signified a more incisive and capacious mind than did the faithful one.

Unfortunately, Louise, if gay people have to wait until the majority has experienced what we experience (as is the case with those who are divorced) in order to see progress on this issue, we could be waiting forever.

The theory can also mean that a divine being intervenes to micromanage or introduce specific designs into a world that would otherwise fail to achieve key steps of progress — as if to say: you've got a bicycle, but some intelligent intervention is required to turn it into a motorcycle, since this won't happen automatically; or, you've got a light - sensitive spot, but an external operation of considerable dexterity is required to transform this into a functional eye.

If we concede this the whole of human history appears as a progress between two critical points: from the lowest point of elementary consciousness to the ultimate, noospherical point of Reflection.

As the series progresses, you will see that I am all for people getting baptized and taking communion, if they understand the meaning and significance of what they are doing.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

But if the Space - Time continuum is now generally accepted as the only framework within which our thought can continue to progress, it becomes the more necessary that we should agree upon the nature and general direction of the flow on which we are borne.

If you saw huge crowds of people hopping and leaping down the street so as to not step on a crack and break their mothers» backs, and this was causing great problems for everyone's progress, wouldn't you say something?

If, as the first interview progresses, the counselor finds that he is not getting clear answers to questions of motivation such as these, it is appropriate to ask enough of them to gain a picture of the alcoholic's reason for coming and the help he expects.

If you can not distinguish between them as the game progresses, you are much more likely to get caught.

Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.

Yes, I know... lots a verbage about Dad being a real meany back in the day... (He's getting counseling for that, and is progressing well)... but, hey, I'm perfect... I can't be disappointed with human actions, if I am, then I sure as hell ain't what I...

If we resist regarding disagreements on such questions as a moral failing, and instead look more carefully at the data together, we will make more progress.

Once these people have reached «moderate poverty» — average income between one and two dollars a day — then the worst is over; as long as the rich countries do not «advertently or inadvertently set snares along the lower rungs» with protectionist trade barriers and the like, these people should make steady progress, «even if it is uneven and sometimes painfully slow.»