Sentences with phrase «as old hands»

In an increasingly crowded field, though, it can be difficult for those new to credit card points as well as old hands to understand which credit card might best suit their needs, and whether such a card is worth the annual fee it charges.

In an increasingly crowded field, though, it can be difficult for those new to credit card points as well as old hands to understand which credit card might best suit their needs, and whether such a card is worth the annual fee it charges.

Upstarts like Betterment and Wealthfront (as well as old hands like Vanguard) can build decent traditional stock and bond portfolios that perform every bit as well as the average man - made portfolio.

Jones feels wonderfully cast as the old hand who can't seem to make sense of this new world, and Brolin serves up the right combination of common everyman and grit.

As an old hand she has been around the block a few times, and knows good practice from bad.

Not exact matches

Legal issues aside, the tweet could be viewed as a heavy - handed move for a company already under scrutiny after an earlier Medium post by a 25 - year - old employee identifying herself as Talia Jane, who complained of low wages and poor treatment in her customer service role at Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

Based on my short hands - on time with the OnePlus 5T, anyone looking to upgrade from an older smartphone should pay seriously close attention to OnePlus» new device as a potential candidate.

It will initially allow customers to trade in old Audemars Piguet watches as part - exchange for new ones, and then sell on the second - hand watches.

On the other hand, 69 percent of millennials say it's a good thing for parents to encourage young boys to play with toys and pursue activities normally associated with girls, while older generations don't support such a move as much.

Former Canadian Tire CEO Michael Medline has been handed the duty of steering Sobeys onto stronger footing as the grocer struggles to digest its three - year - old $ 5.8 - billion takeover of Canada Safeway.

The only reason more people weren't shot: Shaw reportedly rushed the gunman while he reloaded, «grabbed the gun's barrel, pulled it away and threw it over the Waffle House counter,» suffering a gunshot wound and second - degree burns on his right hand from the weapon's barrel while disarming the shooter, later identified by police as 29 - year - old Travis Reinking.

While decentralized coiners will do what they can to reduce trust and rely on the protocol (in my opinion), the old - fashioned crowd - sourcers will approach their business as an intermediary company and take a hands - off approach.

There are some non-financial issues with being in equities in late retirement — although there's a case to be made that staying on top of this helps retain intellectual facilities a bit if we look at Warren Buffet and his dreadful diet, looking at the state some people get into as they get older I'm not sure they should be licensed to drive an equity portfolio unless they can sit on their hands and let that nice Mr Vanguard sort out the rebalancing shenanigans...

Now whenever I begin to get frustrated in my cushy, well paid office job I just look at old scars on my hands as a reminder of that past.

It's obvious that the Old Testament rules were made up by the community leaders — some for good reasons particular to that situation and others as a rather heavy - handed means of control.

As we tell Kweller goodbye, he hugs my wife like an old friend, grasps my hand, and smiles.

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

We may not have a ceremony through which to grieve them, but it is our responsibility as women of faith to guard the dark stories for our own daughters, and when they are old enough, to hold their faces between our hands and make them promise to remember.

And at the same time, I see our homes and our travels, our tears and our laughter, I see him standing in the room and weeping over tea - towels with never - babies inside, and I see us holding the now - growing - up babies as they learn to walk, and I see him looking at me across our old bed that he built with his own hands and I see us as kids and I see us as lovers and I see us as best friends, and I see us just last night as we staggered through a sleepless night with lanky kids who couldn't sleep well and I think, God, we grew up together.

And the way we used to hold hands as we wandered through Gruene, listening to Americana music through clapboard walls of an old dance hall.

Ahmad Khan was also involved in a controversy with the Christian missionaries which led him to write a commentary on the Bible, in which he showed that many Muslim religious scholars, such as Bukhari, did not believe that the words of the Old Testament and the New Testament had suffered from interpolation at the hands of the Jews and the Christians.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

There have been reactionary times when the past laid its dead hand oppressively upon the present, when all old things were glorified and all new things were hated, when the new iron plowshares were preached against as sacrilegious.

It is young men and women such as these that encourage me in my conviction that the world is much safer in the hands of the newer generation than it ever was with those of my own older generation or of the generation between me and those former students.

To this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarx).

Age - old methods of education and the cultivation of established sciences went on as before because of the large endowments which learned scholars had received at the hands of the Mughal emperors.

But, in a dream, as we know from his Confessio, which he wrote in his old age, one Victoricus handed Patrick a letter headed «The Voice of the Irish».

Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures [Old and New Testament] were given as believe in neither God nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His apostle [Muhammad] have forbidden, and do not embrace the true Faith [Islam], until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.

The word you want is THAN, which is used in comparisons, such as other THAN, rather THAN, older THAN, younger THAN On the other hand, THEN is used in conditional statements, which usually have an IF in them... such as IF I were not so drunk, THEN I might be able to think more clearly.

It's only after we're older once we've had notions pounded into our heads that we can't or shouldn't learn from this or that, that we lose our ability to appreciate all of God's creations and see God's hand (poetic term not literal) in all things (or worse, some have been so blinded as to see it in nothing, as they hide behind their cold scientific idols, losing the same wonder that got the scientists there to start with)

Since the Syriac fathers see the old order of sacrifices as having lost its former value, it is curious how firmly both Aphrahat and Ephrem held a tradition which is strange to the New Testament, namely, that Christ as High Priest «according to the order of Melchizedek», actually received the Aaronic priesthood by unbroken succession of imposition of hands through John the Baptist, who was of priestly family; when the former priesthood was repudiated, the power continued in Christ and he passed it on to the Apostles.

Nationalization, whether in the form of a monolithic public corporation, as in the old British system, or through so called «workers» control,» as in Yugoslavia, for example, merely puts the business firmly into the hands of bureaucratic or union elites, or indeed both.

Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower - bell, some one's death, A chorus - ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again — The grand PerhapAs old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again — The grand Perhapas nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again — The grand Perhaps!

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

The Old Testament properly so called is the corpus of books, written and handed down in Hebrew (or in the kindred Aramaic), which were received as Scripture in the first century of our era by Hebrew - speaking Jews, representing the central tradition of Hebrew and Jewish religion.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

Rick the more i think about it we are to live as overcomers not strugglers since the day i decided to turn away from the sin that was controlling my life i never fell back into old sinful patterns not once, was i tempted many many times.The Lord will work in our lives one area at a time he needs us to give him full control so if an area is taking control we do need to hand it to him so he can change us.How do we do it immediately we say Lord you know i am weak but in you i am strong i leaned on him and overcame time and time again.We all have areas of weakness that we struggle in so do nt feel bad.Struggling is us trying to do it in our own strength before this process i was so stubborn i refused to let God help me i wanted to do it in my own strength and so it was a roller coaster ride in my christian walk if the day went well i was on a high if it did nt i would would be down.Not any more now when things do nt go to plan i still thank the Lord and when it goes well i thank the Lord.Because i know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.The main area he is wanting is our hearts he wants all our heart not only some until we come to that place we will continue to struggle in our faith.The only reason to tell you this is not to boast because of what i have done in myself because i have nothing to boast about but if i did i would brag that Christ has empowered me by his holy spirit to be an overcomer just as he would want you to be.As Christians we are all called to be overcomers more than conquerers.Make a decision today to turn all your hearts to the Lord to acknowledge the areas you are holding onto that are controlling your flesh life hand them to the Lord and walk according to the spirit and not the flesh and he will give you the victory.That can be a reality starting today merry christmas everyone and may the new year be an exciting one as we put all our trust in Christ our Lord and savior.Brentnz

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

There is only one God... human imagine or uses their thoughts to come up with multiple Gods... which i think is lake of understanding about the definition of God... i also think the reason we see this is mostly because the teaching of these faiths are showing God as an old dude with white long beard and extended hands... its all human imaginations...

On the other hand, and most emphatically, I have tried here not to reduce the Old Testament — as it never should be — simply to an introduction to the New Testament.

In an old - fashioned Chinese home, the girl from her twelfth year on did not go outside her father's house until she went to her husband's, and a Japanese girl when grown could say that she had never come so near a man, even her own brother, as to touch his hand.

But no, the hoary old liberal standard - bearer mawkishly burbled, «Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical confirms him as a man of humour, warmth, humility and compassion, eager to share the love that God «lavishes» on humanity and display it as the answer to the world's deepest needs... This is a document that presents the most attractive face of the Catholic faith and could be put without hesitation into the hands of any inquirer.»

Hand - written on old - fashioned four-fold notepaper, it revealed an extraordinary vision that the children had seen, involving a «Bishop dressed in white» whom they took to be the Holy Father, who was shot and fell to the ground as he climbed over a ruined city filled with corpses.

I have been (as the old blues lyric goes) «fixin'to die» now for more than two years... and perhaps have had too much time on my hands to think and rethink the whole thing.»

In the midst of our celebrations we also listen to Rachel's lament because today her children and her neighbors» children are still dying with their hands on each other's throats in blind rage over disagreements as old as her own jealousy of Leah.

He said as much when the Pharisees had the audacity to ask him why he didn't wash his hands before he ate, and he asked them why they didn't follow his father's old laws and kill their unruly children.

In my (abandoned) theory, I argued that the Old Testament portrays God holding back disasters upon people until, as a result of their great evil, they departed from God's protective hand.

I suggest that a reading of scripture gives us the clues, that John was in fact the last Levitical priest whose task was to inaugurate the» handing over» of the priesthood to the new High Priest, in the new order of Melchizedek (as the writer of the Letter to Hebrews explains it) So Jesus came to John the Levite, John gave Jesus the ritual bath of the High Priest, then Jesus emerged from the bath not to be anointed with oil as the old Levites, but to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and then Jesus» distinction was announced to the people by the voice of God Himself.

In the midst of our celebrations we also listen to Rachel's lament because today her children and her neighbors» children are still dying with their hands on each other's throats in blind rage over disagreements old as her own jealousy of Leah.